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3:00 PM ET, June 27, 2009

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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges — (updated below) — When Obama first unveiled his “preventive detention” policy, many defenders praised him (and claimed he was different than Bush) because of his vow that — as he put it — “my Administration will work …

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Unqualified Offerings, ATTACKERMAN, The Washington Independent and TalkLeft

Washington Post:

White House Drafts Executive Order to Allow Indefinite Detention of Terror Suspects — The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely …

Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:

Obama Considering Unconstitutional Imposition Of Preventive Detention Policy — (See also Prof. Darren Hutchinson.) Glenn Greenwald: … (Emphasis supplied.) Outside of a theater of war, the President has no such Constitutional authority as the Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly in the last decade.

Discussion: NPR

Stan Collender / Capital Gains and Games blogs:

Climate Vote Shows White House Still Really Knows How To Work The Hill — You don't have to like the climate bill that was approved last night by the House to be impressed by the White House's ability to get it passed. The bill 219-212, with eight Republican votes in favor.

Jonathan Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
The End of Transparency (Before It Ever Began): Earlier this week …

Discussion: The Confluence and Moe_Lane's blog

New York Times: Shift Possible on Terror Suspects' Detention

Silla Brush / The Hill:
Executive order might keep Gitmo inmates indefinitely

Discussion: Power Line

Washington Post:
In Close Vote, House Passes Climate Bill

Discussion: QandO

Ari Melber / The Nation:
Obama Courts Disaster With New Detention Plan

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, Hot Air and The Politico

Michael O'Brien / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Obama signs war bill — with caveats

Discussion: Jules Crittenden and Weekly Standard

Vinod Sreeharsha / New York Times:

Argentine Man Is Said to Be Source of Sanford E-Mail — BUENOS AIRES — The mystery of who revealed Gov. Mark Sanford's e-mail messages may finally be solved. A business associate of Mr. Sanford's Argentine mistress said Friday that private messages between the two lovers had been sent anonymously …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, DemConWatch, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, FITSNews, Fausta's Blog, Taylor Marsh and Emptywheel

Orange County Register:

Mark Steyn: Jackson, Sanford and weirdness — Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits. — Recommend — In a lousy week, Mark Sanford had one stroke of luck: Michael Jackson chose the day after the governor's news conference to moonwalk into eternity …

Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog

Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Sanford's trade mission to Argentina contradicted U.S. policy

Discussion: Hullabaloo and American Street

Associated Press:
Jenny Sanford: I Learned Of Affair In Jan.

Discussion: PoliBlog, Washington Examiner, The Politico, The Reaction and Hot Air

Michelle Malkin:

The 8 cap-and-tax Republicans...and the 44 Democrats who voted no — Introducing the GOP's Cap-And-Tax 8... I listed them earlier tonight, but am breaking out a separate post to spotlight them again. — The 8 cap-and-tax Republican turncoats again are: — Bono Mack (CA) (202) 225-5330

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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ELITE EIGHT.... House Republicans wanted to put up a united front …

Discussion: streiff's blog, The Other McCain and MyDD

Lachlan Markay / Washington Examiner:
Climate bill clears House in close vote

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin and Patterico's Pontifications

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

THIS WEEK IN GOD.... First up from the God Machine this week is the resolution of a recent controversy involving the late Jerry Falwell's college in Virginia, which no longer wanted to allow its students to organize an official Democratic student group on campus.

Discussion: Examiner, Prairie Weather and Washington Post

David Freddoso / Washington Examiner:

On the House floor — By all appearances, the House is about to vote on a very long bill of which it has no completed official copy. — Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Louie Gohmert have just asked the chair whether there exists a complete, updated copy of the Waxman-Markey carbon-cap bill.

Discussion: Power Line, Flopping Aces, Sweetness & Light and Vox Popoli

Paul Blumenthal / Sunlight Foundation:
300 Pages Out of Thin Air

Discussion: Sister Toldjah, Weekly Standard and The Huffington Post

John M. Broder / New York Times:

House Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate Change — WASHINGTON — Overcoming deep divisions within its Democratic majority, the House passed legislation on Friday intended to address the threat of global warming and transform the way the United States produces and uses energy.

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, The Caucus, Obsidian Wings, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly, The American Scene, New York Times, Atlantic Correspondents, Worldchanging, Gawker, MoJo Blog Posts, Yale Environment 360, Green Inc. and RADAMISTO

Wall Street Journal:
House Passes Climate Bill

Discussion: Wake up America, PoliGazette and NewsBusters.org

Los Angeles Times:
House climate bill passes by slim margin

Discussion: The Swamp, The New Republic, The Nation, Power Line and Truthdig

Lawrence M. Krauss / Wall Street Journal:

God and Science Don't Mix — A scientist can be a believer. But professionally, at least, he can't act like one. — Printer — Friendly — My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel or devil is going to interfere …

Discussion: PoliGazette, Macsmind and Pharyngula

Chris Frates / The Politico:

Baucus ups pressure on health groups — The Senate Finance Committee is pressuring hospitals and insurers to follow the lead of the pharmaceutical industry and pony up to help pay for health reform, industry insiders say. — With the Democrats' high-stakes gambit to overhaul …

Discussion: Balloon Juice and Donklephant

Alexis Stevens / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Naked ex-mayor arrested at campsite — Gainesville's Musselwhite denies causing earlier trouble — A former mayor found sitting naked and holding a beer at a Rabun County campsite told police he wasn't the same naked man seen walking around earlier. — Mark Musselwhite, 43 …

Michael Yon:

The Road to Hell: Part II — 27 June 2009 — With so many contractors, journalists, and even tourists floating around Afghanistan, some are bound to be kidnapped. The recent escape by David Rohde provides a happy conclusion, though these things often end up with a bullet in the head, or a head sawed off for all to see.

Discussion: Hot Air