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David Stout / New York Times:
Justices Rule for Individual Gun Rights — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court declared for the first time on Thursday that the Constitution protects an individual's right to have a gun, not just the right of the states to maintain militias. — Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for the majority …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Strikes Down 'Millionaire's Amendment' — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law meant to level the financial playing field when rich candidates pay for their own political campaigns. — The 5-to-4 decision, legal experts said, was significant for rejecting …
Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
The Thugs Win the Case — There's one group of District residents absolutely unfazed by today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling shooting down the District's strict handgun ban: the dudes who have been blowing away their fellow citizens with abandon since the law was put on the books 32 years ago.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans in Agreement With Supreme Court on Gun Rights — Nearly three in four say Second Amendment guarantees right of Americans to own guns — PRINCETON, NJ — The Supreme Court's ruling on Thursday that a District of Columbia ban on handgun ownership is unconstitutional appears to be solidly in step with public opinion.
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Betsy Rothstein / The Hill:
Obama: ‘I bit my tongue’ against Clinton — Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said he bit his tongue “many times” during the fierce primary battle with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). — Two sources said that Obama's comments came after Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.), a Clinton backer …
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The Hill:
Housing bill, FISA delayed until after July recess — The Senate hit impasses over legislation aimed at helping struggling homeowners and a rewrite of spying laws, forcing Democratic leaders to push back consideration of those measures until next month. — Leaders had hoped to finish …
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Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Under debate plan, Obama loses height advantage — WASHINGTON — Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama would sit at a table at two of three presidential debates this fall, according to a formal proposal unveiled Thursday, which, perhaps unintentionally, would neutralize Obama's height advantage.
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Iraq Bombings Kill at Least 30; Three Marines Dead — BAGHDAD — Two insurgent bomb blasts struck at pro-American Iraqi targets in Anbar province just west of Baghdad and in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, and the police said at least 30 people were killed and 80 wounded.
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
A Diplomatic Success That Defies the Critics — WASHINGTON — North Korea's declaration of its nuclear activities is a triumph of the sort of diplomacy — complicated, plodding, often frustrating — that President Bush and his aides once eschewed as American weakness.
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
The Anti-Defamation League and Joe Klein — Fulfilling its historic role as a nonpartisan watchdog against anti-Semitism, the Anti-Defamation League has acted quickly in the case of Joe Klein and his jaw-dropping use, on the Time Magazine blog Swampland, of the anti-Semitic argument of …
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Steve Connor / The Independent:
Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole — Polar scientists reveal dramatic new evidence of climate change — It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole this year. — The disappearance of the Arctic sea ice …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
SO SAD — It's sad to see articulate and intelligent, if terribly misguided, writers still trying to justify their Iraq catastrophe by claiming its no different from World War II and our decades' long stationing of troops in Germany and Japan. — Today we have the instance of Max Boot ...
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The Daily Dish
Todd Venezia / New York Post:
NEWS BABE'S ‘IRAQI TRYST’ — IN-BEDDED REPORTER ‘TOOK MY HUBBY’ — Sexy CBS siren Lara Logan spent her days covering the heat of the Iraq war - but that was nothing compared to the heat of her nights. — The “60 Minutes” reporter and former swimsuit model apparently courted two beaus …
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Nate / FiveThirtyEight.com:
Which Candidate has a Base Problem? — That title is not meant to be read rhetorically or sarcastically. But the correct answer is “both of them”. The thing, however, is that they are somewhat opposite problems. — The below is data compiled from Rasmussen Reports …
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Matthew Yglesias
Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
Lieberman on His Private Chat with Obama, Rev. Wright, and How McCain is Picking Up the Gore-Lieberman Foreign Policy Mantle — In an interview on the ABC News Shuffle Podcast today (listen HERE) Sen. Joe Lieberman, the independent Democrat from Connecticut, made his case for the presidential campaign …
Ali / Think Progress:
Yoo Won't Answer Whether President Can Bury Detainees Alive — Today, the authors of the Bush administration's torture policies, David Addington and John Yoo, are testifying before the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) asked Yoo whether the president could bury a detainee alive …