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6:55 PM ET, June 17, 2008

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Zzaki / Political Punch:
McCain Camp Pounces on Obama Comments From ABC News Interview  —  The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tonight pounced on comments Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made in an interview today with ABC News.  —  This was the exchange in question.  —  TAPPER: Speaking of the Supreme Court …
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Contempt Of Courts  —  The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas corpus hearings, John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”  Well.  —  Does it rank with Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) …
Julia Hoppock / Political Punch:
Obama Pushes Back on McCain Camp Terrorism Attacks  —  Responding to attacks from the campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, saying that comments he made to ABC News indicate he has a “naive” pre-9/11 view of terrorism, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, told reporters Tuesday that Republicans …
John Yoo / Wall Street Journal:
The Supreme Court Goes to War  —  Last week's Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush has been painted as a stinging rebuke of the administration's antiterrorism policies.  From the celebrations on most U.S. editorial pages, one might think that the court had stopped a dictator from trampling civil liberties.
Michael Goldfarb / John McCain Report blog:
Barack Obama, Esquire: The 9/10 Candidate
Marc Ambinder:
Kerry Blasts McCain's “Iraq War mindset”
Associated Press:
Obama rebukes McCain camp on terrorism criticism
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Andy McCarthy / The Corner:   Re: Paging Andy McCarthy
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
WOULD BIN LADEN GET HABEAS RIGHTS?
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Pin at the GOP state convention in Texas: “If Obama is President... will we still call it the White House?”  —  Expect the Republican party to do absolutely nothing about the racists in its own midst.  The national Republican party in Washington has contacts all the time with its state parties.
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Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG:   If You Lose the White House Do the Rest of Us Have to Allow …
Francis De Luca / John W. Pope Civitas Institute:
N.C. Poll: McCain Leads Obama 45-41  —  Both Candidates Improve Standing with Base  —  Raleigh, NC - After solidifying the Democratic nomination for President, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has pulled to within four points of Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) in North Carolina according …
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Nate Silver / The New Republic:
Today's Polls: Yes, Obama's Still Bouncing
Discussion: Daily Kos
Tim Conneally / BetaNews:
AP sets up a toll booth for bloggers citing its stories  —  The AP's disharmony with bloggers may have only just begun, as the alternative it's now offering to being served with takedown notices involves paying an up-front sum for excerpting online articles — as few as five words.
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Rasmussen Reports:
67% Support Offshore Drilling, 64% Expect it Will Lower Prices  —  Most voters favor the resumption of offshore drilling in the United States and expect it to lower prices at the pump, even as John McCain has announced his support for states that want to explore for oil and gas off their coasts.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Put Your Right Wing In, Take Your Left Wing Out  —  If John McCain keeps dancing like this, he's liable to break a hip.  —  Last month, he shimmied to the left on energy policy, infuriating conservatives with a plan to cap carbon emissions.  Yesterday, he shuffled back to the right …
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New York Times:
Where They Mostly Agree
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Targeting Steny Hoyer for his contempt for the rule of law  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  It is now definitively clear that House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is the driving force behind a bill — written by GOP Sen. Kit Bond — to vest the President with vast new warrantless eavesdropping powers …
Michelle Malkin:
Haditha Watch: Charges dismissed against Lt. Col. Chessani  —  Fight the smears.  Call John “Cold-blooded” Murtha for comment: 202-225-2065.  —  Note: As of 1:40pm Eastern, you will not find the Haditha story on the front page of the NYTimes website.  —  Told you to watch out for this yesterday.
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Are Dems talking about McCain's age in ‘code’?  —  In a campaign year marked by flare-ups surrounding comments that have offended one group or another, John McCain and Barack Obama have moved on to the next sensitive battleground: the question of McCain's advanced age.
NY Daily News:
Hil and Obama, together again: First joint appearance to rally her donors  —  Hil and Obama, together again  —  Hillary Clinton will join Barack Obama for a joint appearance in Washington next week to persuade her donors to begin giving to the Democrats' nominee, the Daily News has learned.
Edward Cody / Washington Post:
In China, Fascination With Obama's Skin Color  —  America may be discussing whether Barack Obama is tough enough to field a 3 a.m. phone call, but for the Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper, the real issue is his race.  —  “Obama's skin color is the biggest focal point of this year's U.S. election …
CNN:
Fifth severed foot found on Canadian coast  —  (CNN) — A severed human foot was found washed up on an island on the western coast of Canada this week, the fifth detached foot found in the area in the past 11 months, according to local police and media reports.
 
 
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Jessica Peres / KGO-TV:
Some counties refuse same-sex marriages
Anne E. Kornblut / The Trail:
Obama Accuses McCain of Playing Politics with National Security
Tennessee Center for Policy Research:
For Immediate Release: June 17, 2008
Discussion: Stop The ACLU
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
HOW COULD I FORGET?  —  Back on the topic of using Jim Woolsey …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Dear Chuck Todd and NBC: Iraq Matters
New York Times:
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Megan McArdle:
Culture matters  —  Kerry Howley has a fascinating piece in Reason on fertility panics.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Guilty of Experience  —  In 1981, Prince Charles had a problem.
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The Canonization of Saint Russert
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New MoveOn ad: Don't take my baby, John McCain!
Christian Science Monitor:
THE DEATH OF U.S. STRATEGY IN IRAQ
Tony Horwitz / New York Times:
Leader of the Pack  —  AS the Democratic primaries revealed …
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McCain's Secret, Questionable Record
 

 
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Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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