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11:55 AM ET, July 3, 2008

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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Judge Rejects Bush's View on Wiretaps  —  WASHINGTON — A federal judge in California said Wednesday that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the “exclusive” means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, and he rejected the government's claim that the president's constitutional authority …
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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2008: Montana Presidential Election  —  Montana: Obama Leads McCain By Five  —  Barack Obama is leading John McCain by five percentage points in Montana.  The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows Obama attracting 48% of the vote while McCain earns 43%.
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Hostage Rescue Is Happy Coincidence for McCain in Colombia  —  Senator John McCain, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, and his wife, Cindy, visited a Colombian Navy drug interdiction boat off Cartagena on Wednesday.  Mr. McCain cited both progress and work to be done in stemming the flow of drugs into the United States.
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Nitya / Political Radar:
Jeb Bush to Join McCain in Mexico City
Discussion: Spin Cycle and TIME.com
Juan Forero / Washington Post:
15 Hostages Rescued in Colombia
CNN:
Officer injured guarding Obama  —  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) — It's been a rough week for the motorcycle unit of the Colorado Springs Police Department.  —  First, two officers were hurt last week when lightning struck between their motorcycles while on a training exercise.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Obama Calls for National Service
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Can Barack Buy the Presidency?  —  On the money front, how do Sens. Obama and McCain stack up?  No contest, it seems.  Since the campaign began, Mr. Obama has raised a staggering $295-plus million, versus Mr. McCain's almost $122 million.  But that's misleading.  —  Mr. Obama spent a lot to win the nomination.
Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Iraq Hints at Delay in U.S. Security Deal  —  BAGHDAD — Declaring that there will not be “another colonization of Iraq,” Iraq's foreign minister raised the possibility on Wednesday that a full security agreement with the United States might not be reached this year, and that if one was, it would be a short-term pact.
Discussion: Think Progress
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Progress Cited on U.S.-Iraq Pacts
Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Employment Situation Summary  —  Technical information:  —  Household data: (202) 691-6378 USDL 08-0928  —  Establishment data: (202) 691-6555 Transmission of material in this release  —  http://www.bls.gov/ces/ is embargoed until 8:30 A.M. (EDT), Media contact: (202) 691-5902 Thursday, July 3, 2008.
Wall Street Journal:
McCain Allies Find Finance-Law Holes  —  Governors' Fund Recruits Big Donors; Bid to Catch Obama  —  Allies of Sen. John McCain have found new loopholes in the campaign-finance law he helped write — and they're using them to reel in huge contributions to help him compete with Sen. Barack Obama.
BBC:
Google must divulge YouTube log  —  Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.  —  The ruling comes as part of Google's legal battle with Viacom over allegations of copyright infringement.
Discussion: Blogs of War
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Admits Error in Not Briefing Court  —  WASHINGTON — In a highly unusual admission of error, the Justice Department acknowledged on Wednesday that government lawyers should have known that Congress had recently made the rape of a child a capital offense in the military …
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CNN:
Deputy Chief of Staff to leave White House  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin will be leaving his job this month, according to White House spokesperson Dana Perino.  —  Perino says Hagin's last day will be July 20th.  —  “The President said that he thanks Joe …
Discussion: Think Progress
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
YOU AND YOUR CELL....All modern cell phones are equipped with GPS capability that allows your location to be tracked within a few meters at all times.  Question: does the federal government have access to this tracking information without a warrant?  The ACLU filed a Freedom of Information request …
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Lewis Page / The Register:
Research: Wind power pricier, emits more CO2 than thought  —  'Windfarm output is never zero.  Sometimes it's less'  —  Fresh contenders have entered the UK wind power debate, as a turbines expert funded by the Renewable Energy Foundation publishes an investigation into a hotly-disputed subject …
Discussion: QandO
Thomas F. Madden / Wall Street Journal:
America's Days Aren't Numbered  —  I have a simple request.  As we celebrate the birth of the American Republic, can we all stop predicting its death?  It's getting depressing.  —  The last time I strolled through the local Barnes & Noble, there were so many books announcing the end of American power …
Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
A short but sweet gathering  —  Barack Obama's campaign and the Democratic National Committee are toying with a convention scheduling change that has been broached before in theory but never seriously considered: cutting the party's conclave in Denver short by one day to give Obama an extra …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
YOUR WORLD IN CHARTS: UNDERINSURED EDITION.  —  One of the tricky questions in health policy is how to delineate between different types of the insured.  We talk a lot about those without any coverage, but a fair portion are hurtling through life with all the protection afforded by a rusted, rattling Kia.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
One Nation No More?  —  Civics Needs a Boost, but Our Identity Endures  —  Just in time for Independence Day, a conservative think tank has delivered a controversial report asking whether America's national identity is eroding under the pressure of population diversity and educational slackness.
MoJoBlog:
MoJo Convo: Iran Panic?  A Follow Up Question for the Experts  —  Earlier this week MoJo writer Laura Rozen asked an Israeli intel correspondent, an Iranian American activist, an arms expert, a former peace negotiator, and an anti-war intellectual:  —  How likely is a scenario in which the US …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
 
 
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
What We Learned in the War  —  As we slink off into the long …
Discussion: Commentary
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
The New York Times rewrites its Swift Boat history
Patricia Cohen / New York Times:
The '60s Begin to Fade as Liberal Professors Retire
Discussion: The Jawa Report and ParaPundit
Mark Magnier / Los Angeles Times:
Add locusts to China's list of calamities
Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
The ‘mushy middle’ hard to reach for Obama, McCain
Discussion: Donklephant
Mathew N. Schmalz / Washington Post:
Manson, Murder and Mercy
CNN:
Fist bump not gone?
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Obama's Chicago Campaign
WRAL-TV:
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(Updated) Why Are Right-of-Center Bloggers So Silent On Torture?
New York Times:
Panel Questions State Dept. Role in Iraq Oil Deal
Mike Madden / Salon:
Losing the mullet, angling for veep
Discussion: TIME.com
Jeff Poor / The Business & Media Institute:
CNBC Contributor Blasts Limbaugh Deal: ‘What Are These People Smoking?’
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Bush to Close Guantanamo?
 

 
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