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3:00 PM ET, June 1, 2006

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Jed Babbin / Real Clear Politics:
The Haditha Story  —  The accelerating media feeding frenzy over the alleged killings of twenty-four Iraqi civilians in Haditha by US Marines last November is about to overwhelm American politics.  Propelled by their most irresponsible war critics, the left will try use Haditha as it used …
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
In First Comments on Case, Bush Promises Justice in Military Investigation of Civilian Deaths  —  WASHINGTON, May 31 — President Bush said Wednesday that he was troubled by the allegations that American marines killed 24 Iraqi civilians in an unprovoked attack, and he vowed that …
Los Angeles Times:
A Town Awoke to Slaughter  —  Iraqis say Marines went house to house killing Haditha residents.  'I wish I had died with them,' says a child who saw her family slain.  —  BAGHDAD — The killing began shortly after sunrise on a November day.  As a U.S. patrol rolled through Haditha …
USA Today:
Baseball's Rockies seek revival on two levels  —  DENVER — No copies of Playboy or Penthouse are in the clubhouse of baseball's Colorado Rockies.  There's not even a Maxim.  The only reading materials are daily newspapers, sports and car magazines and the Bible.
Discussion: The World Wide Rant
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Troy E. Renck / Denver Post:
Team takes issue with portrayal  —  Christian clubhouse story "over the top"  —  San Diego - Character, not religion, is the critical factor in the Rockies' chemistry, according to the players.  That explains why so many players reacted negatively to the portrayal of their clubhouse …
Peter Beinart / Washington Post:
Hijacking Harry Truman  —  No matter how polarized Washington becomes, there is still one Democrat Republicans love: Harry Truman.  Last December, on this page, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared the Bush administration's democracy promotion efforts "consistent with the proud tradition …
Discussion: TAPPED
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Richard Esposito Reports / The Blotter:
No Icons, No Monuments Worth Protecting  —  Richard Esposito Reports:  —  New York has no national monuments or icons, according to the Department of Homeland Security form obtained by ABC News.  (Click here for the actual document.)  That was a key factor used to determine that New York City …
Discussion: The Left Coaster
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NY Daily News:
Feds to city: drop dead
Discussion: Gawker
Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
Third Time  —  America may be ready for a new political party.  —  Something's happening.  I have a feeling we're at some new beginning, that a big breakup's coming, and that though it isn't and will not be immediately apparent, we'll someday look back on this era as the time when a shift began.
Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll: Americans Support Searches  —  Public Sides With FBI in Congress Search Issue  —  June 1, 2006 — In the rift between Congress and the Justice Department, Americans side overwhelmingly with law enforcement: Regardless of precedent and the separation of powers, 86 percent say the FBI …
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
AP's Solomon Takes One Step Forward, Two Steps Back  —  Oh my.  John Solomon just keeps it comin'.  —  Via Greg Sargent, I see that John Solomon has rewritten the lead to his follow-up piece on Harry Reid.  The distorting lead I pointed out yesterday has been replaced by a more narrative approach.
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Kate Phillips / New York Times:
Election Panel Won't Issue Donation Rules  —  WASHINGTON, May 31 — The Federal Election Commission has decided not to issue rules to regulate so-called 527 organizations that used millions of dollars in private donations to become powerful voices in the 2004 presidential election.
Discussion: Cato-at-liberty
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Thomas B. Edsall / Washington Post:
FEC Adopts Hands-Off Stance on '527' Spending
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Is Criticized by Ex-Official on Subpoenas  —  Subpoenas issued last month to reporters for The San Francisco Chronicle were criticized yesterday by a former chief spokesman for Attorney General John Ashcroft as a "reckless abuse of power."  —  The former spokesman, Mark Corallo …
Baltimore Examiner:
The politics of the Internet  —  WASHINGTON - Q We've heard so much about how differently Republicans and Democrats view the world nowadays, as if one could argue that "Republicans Were From Mars, and Democrats Are From Venus."  If this sharp political polarization is to be believed, does it also translate to the Internet?
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
LIBERAL WORDS, ILLIBERAL ENDS....I have a few more things I want to say about Peter Beinart's The Good Fight, and now's as good a time as any.  —  First: it's a pretty good book.  Most of it is an intellectual history of the "anti-imperialist" left in America, a subject that dominates …
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
Studies Portray Tropical Arctic in Distant Past  —  The first detailed analysis of an extraordinary climatic and biological record from the seabed near the North Pole shows that 55 million years ago the Arctic Ocean was much warmer than scientists imagined — a Floridian year-round average of 74 degrees.
Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Big Bonuses Still Flow, Even if Bosses Miss Goals  —  It was the kind of mistake that wage slaves can only dream of.  Because of what the company called an "improper interpretation" of his employment contract, Sheldon G. Adelson, chairman, chief executive and treasurer of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation …
Larry McShane / Associated Press:
Batwoman is back as a lesbian  —  NEW YORK - Years after she first emerged from the Batcave, Batwoman is coming out of the closet.  DC Comics is resurrecting the classic comic book character as a lesbian, unveiling the new Batwoman in July as part of an ongoing weekly series that began this year.
 
 
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Michael A. Ledeen / American Enterprise Institute:
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Lindsay Beyerstein / Majikthise:
Internships, reprise  —  Ezra defends internships against the …
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Fear of Failing  —  How can the Democrats win if the party is scared of its own shadow?
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Timothy Egan / New York Times:
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Michael Scherer / Salon:
The Blogfather  —  Netroots guru Jerome Armstrong says he's a freethinking pragmatist.
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