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10:30 PM ET, June 13, 2006

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TalkLeft:
EXCLUSIVE: No Deal for Karl Rove  —  Sometimes people just don't know when to cry "uncle."  I do.  I asked Robert Luskin this morning if Karl Rove has made a deal with Fitzgerald.  His response: … Which is exactly what Luskin told me weeks ago.  It's over, folks.  Karl Rove will not be charged with a crime.
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David Johnston / New York Times:
Rove Won't Be Charged in C.I.A. Leak Case  —  WASHINGTON, June 13 — The prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case on Monday advised Karl Rove, the senior White House adviser, that he would not be charged with any wrongdoing, effectively ending the nearly three-year criminal investigation that had at times focused intensely on Mr. Rove.
senatemajority.com:
Karl Rove Taking Bullets?  —  Shot:  —  "They may be with you for the first few bullets but they won't be there for the last tough battles."  — Karl Rove, on John Kerry and John Murtha, Reuters, 6/13  —  Chaser:  —  "Except for a lapse of several months, Selective Service records …
TalkLeft:
Sealed Case 06cr00128 and Outing Sources  —  Truthout seems to be using Sealed Case 128 to justify not revealing Jason Leopold's sources for his May 13 article reporting Karl Rove had been indicted.  —  Yes, there has been a sealed case 06cr00128 styled Sealed v. Sealed on the District Court's docket …
CNN:
Lawyer: Rove won't be charged in CIA leak case  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — White House senior adviser Karl Rove has been told by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald that he will not be charged in the CIA leak case, according to Robert Luskin, Rove's lawyer.  —  "In deference to the pending case …
Mike Allen / Time:
Rove: Glad the Burden Is Lifted
Discussion: The Horse's Mouth and Decision '08
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Hey Bob, Where's Your Letter?
Terence Hunt / Associated Press:
Bush Meets With Iraqi PM in Surprise Trip  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq — President Bush, seeking to bolster support for Iraq's burgeoning goverment and U.S. war policy at home, made a surprise visit to Iraq on Tuesday to meet newly named Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and discuss the next steps in the troubled 3-year-old war.
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White House:
President Bush Visits Troops in Iraq  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all.  Thank you for the warm welcome.  Thought I'd stop in to say "hello."  (Laughter and applause.)  I bring greetings from a grateful nation.  (Applause.)  I thank you for your sacrifice, I thank you for your service, I thank you for making history.
Discussion: Hot Air and AMERICAblog
New York Times:
Bush Lands in Baghdad for Surprise Visit  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 13 — President Bush arrived in Iraq today on an unannounced visit intended to chart the best way forward after the formation of the unity government there and after the killing last week of the most-wanted terrorist inthe country.
Reuters:
Bush makes surprise visit to Iraq
Discussion: Macsmind
Jed Graham / Investor's Business Daily:
Bush May Meet Vow To Halve The Deficit Three Years Early  —  Aided by surging tax receipts, President Bush may make good on his pledge to cut the deficit in half in 2006 — three years early.  —  Tax revenues are running $176 billion, or 12.9%, over last year, the Treasury Department said Monday.
Dan Elliott / Associated Press:
Panel: Churchill should be fired  —  Ward Churchill, the professor who called some of the World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns," should be fired because of "repeated and deliberate" infractions of scholarship rules, a University of Colorado committee said today.
Reuters:
U.S. court tosses lawsuit over "In God We Trust"  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A U.S. district court judge on Monday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a California atheist against the U.S. government for its use of the phrase "In God We Trust" on its coins and currency.
NathanNewman / dailykos.com:
Why Unions?  Labor 101  —  With the interest shown and questions raised in yesterday's post about labor and YearlyKos, I thought I'd follow up with this adaptation of a series of posts I wrote on my own blog a number of years ago.  It starts with a personal story from my first job …
Discussion: Bradford Plumer and Ezra Klein
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Ezra Klein / TAPPED:
LABOR 101, PLUS SOME EXTRA CREDIT.  You owe it to yourself …
Discussion: Unfogged
Arizona Republic:
Letters policy  —  Here is the policy that Editorial Board editors use in selecting letters to the editor for publication in The Arizona Republic:  —  1. Letters must be signed.  All letters must be verified prior to publication.  We don't publish unsigned letters.  —  2. Clarity, conciseness of language.
Discussion: BLACKFIVE and Small Town Veteran
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Trevor Bothwell / Townhall.com:
Sadistic iron  —  In the June 7 edition of its newspaper …
Discussion: Flopping Aces
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
A Bush Aide's Blunt Words  —  New Adviser Pulled No Punches in His Magazine Pieces  —  Bill Clinton is a "virtuoso deceiver" and Hillary Rodham Clinton a "true chameleon" guilty of "self-serving behavior, comparative radicalism, and dubious personal morality."  —  Al Gore is a "mad dog" known to "foam at the mouth."
Greg Jaffe / Wall Street Journal:
To Make a Point, An Army Officer Helps Iraqi Convict  —  Rule of Law Should Apply  —  To All, Capt. Carter Says;  —  Confessions Won by Cable  —  'Grudge' of the 'Fat Woman'?  —  BAQUBAH, Iraq — Capt. Phillip Carter visits the filthy, overcrowded prison here at least twice a week …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Ana Marie Cox / Time:
Among the Believers: Beating Up on Big Media  —  Dispatch: At the Yearly Kos convention, bloggers schmooze like the big-leaguers but haven't lost their attitude  —  Mark Warner kept referring to the party he threw last weekend for the attendees of the Yearly Kos convention as the "first date" …
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Patterico / Patterico's Pontifications:
Help the Family of an LAPD Officer Paralyzed in the Line of Duty  —  As regular readers know, I generally do not actively solicit donations or hold pledge drives.  But I'd like to ask you to consider making a donation today — not to me, but to the family of an LAPD officer who has been shot and paralyzed.
 
 
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Hastert Deals Blow to Immigration Bill
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CNN:
Atlanta's former mayor sentenced to prison
Steven Goff / Washington Post:
Changes Ahead for U.S. Team Lineup, Arena Says
Discussion: Attytood
Scott Rasmussen / The RCP Blog:
Bush Bounce: Statistical Noise or a Modest Uptick? - by Scott Rasmussen
Gallup:
Slightly More Positive Views of War, Bush Following al-Zarqawi Death
Max / MaxSpeak:
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Hawking Says Humans Must Go Into Space
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Patrick / FishBowlDC:
"The Good Fight"'s Good Party  —  DC's VIPs came out last night …
Discussion: Hotline On Call and Wonkette
David Weigel / Hit and Run:
Hillarymania!  —  There's a definite tension at Take Back …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
ALBERTO'S DEVASTATION: One of several chairs blown over on our deck.
Discussion: Gut Rumbles
wkyc.com:
Ohio poll: Strickland, Brown lead GOP contenders
Associated Press:
Leno to Host Carlin, Coulter on Wednesday
New York Times:
Oil, Politics and Bloodshed Corrupt an Iraqi City
Discussion: Rantingprofs and AMERICAblog