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Sandy Levinson / Balkinization:
Some preliminary reflections on Heller — There are many things that one can say about today's today's decision in the Heller case from both “external” political perspectives or from a more “internal” legal one. No doubt I (and others) will have more to say about Heller in coming days.
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Randy E. Barnett / Wall Street Journal:
News Flash: The Constitution Means What It Says — Justice Antonin Scalia's majority opinion in yesterday's Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia v. Heller is historic in its implications and exemplary in its reasoning. — A federal ban on an entire class of guns in ordinary use …
New York Times:
Lock and Load — Thirty-thousand Americans are killed by guns every year — on the job, walking to school, at the shopping mall. The Supreme Court on Thursday all but ensured that even more Americans will die senselessly with its wrongheaded and dangerous ruling striking down key parts of the District of Columbia's gun-control law.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:Supreme Court Strikes Down 'Millionaire's Amendment'
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:Americans in Agreement With Supreme Court on Gun Rights
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Jay Newton-Small / Time:
Obama Lead Tight Over McCain — Illinois Senator Barack Obama enters the General Election with a tight lead, 43% to 38%, over Arizona Senator John McCain, according to a new TIME Magazine poll of registered voters. The poll shows Obama gaining only a slight bounce from Hillary Clinton's departure from the campaign early this month.
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Destroys Tower at Nuclear Site — SEOUL, South Korea — In a gesture demonstrating its commitment to halt its nuclear weapons program, North Korea blew up the most prominent symbol of its plutonium production Friday. — The 60-foot cooling tower at the North's main nuclear power plant collapsed …
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:A Diplomatic Success That Defies the Critics
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
When Anonymity Fails, Be Nasty, Brutish and Short — Throughout the Bush presidency, he toiled in secrecy deep within the White House, a mysterious and feared presence who never stepped into the sunlight of public disclosure. — Until yesterday. — There he sat, hunched and scowling …
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Sara Just / Political Radar:
Tensions Remain Among Clinton Donors — ABC's Kate Snow reports: The crowd's mood was but strained but supportive at Thursday's meeting between Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and about 150 of Clinton's top donors at a Washington hotel. — The former rivals appeared upbeat …
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:Obama Gives $2,300 for Clinton Debt
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Gerard Baker / Times of London:
Cheer up. We're winning this War on Terror — Al-Qaeda and the Taleban are in retreat, the surge has worked in Iraq and Islamism is discredited. Not a bad haul — “My centre is giving way. My right is in retreat. Situation excellent. I shall attack!”
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Let McCain Be McCain — The big political headline this week, of course, involves John McCain's endless and humiliating attempts to placate Mitt Romney by bowing to demands he hire his operatives and pay his campaign debt. So far all he's got is a grudging one-sentence endorsement from that rampaging rage-aholic Ann Romney.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Fuels on the Hill — Congress has always had a soft spot for “experts” who tell members what they want to hear, whether it's supply-side economists declaring that tax cuts increase revenue or climate-change skeptics insisting that global warming is a myth. — Right now, the welcome mat …
Dan Frosch / New York Times:
Citing Need for Assessments, U.S. Freezes Solar Energy Projects — DENVER — Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land until it studies their environmental impact, which is expected to take about two years.
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Fox News:
Congressman Meant ‘No Ill’ With Al Qaeda Comment to Cheney Aide — A Democratic congressman who was accused of suggesting that Al Qaeda may want to harm a prominent White House official told FOX News he meant “no ill” by the comment. — Massachusetts Rep. Bill Delahunt made the remark Thursday …
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 …
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Patrick Poole / Pajamas Media:
Virginia's Islamic Academy on Shaky Legal Ground — The controversial school funded by the Saudi Embassy had its corporate charter revoked in 2004 and has never filed required tax forms with the IRS. — An investigation by Pajamas Media has found that more trouble may be on the horizon …
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