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2:55 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 …
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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
John M. Broder / New York Times:
House Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate Change
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
Wall Street Journal:
House Passes Climate Bill
Ari Melber / The Nation:
Obama Courts Disaster With New Detention Plan
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 …
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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 …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ELITE EIGHT.... House Republicans wanted to put up a united front against the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), but eight GOP lawmakers — Reps. Mary Bono Mack (Calif.), Mike Castle (Del.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Leonard Lance (N.J.), Frank LoBiondo (N.J.), John McHugh (N.Y.), Dave Reichert …
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.
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.
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
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 …
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
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
 
 
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New York Times:
Little Hope for G.O.P. to Support Health Bill
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Congressman Dennis Kucinich:
Kucinich: “Passing a weak bill today gives us weak environmental policy tomorrow”
Discussion: Raw Story
Peter Feaver / Shadow Government:
Iraq on the knife's edge
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Nikita Stewart / Washington Post:
D.C. Summer Jobs Contractor Fired for Posts on Twitter