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3:21 AM ET, June 18, 2006

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Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
2 Missing U.S. Soldiers Are Sought in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 17 — American soldiers on Saturday went house to house, scanned the streets from helicopters and dove into irrigation canals to try to find two of their comrades who had been reported captured by insurgents in an ambush south of the capital.
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Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Forward Together faces a serious challenge.  —  The first time I checked on Iraq's news this morning I read about several violent incidents in Baghdad that included roadside bombs and car-bombs that left dozens of civilians and ISF members dead or injured.  I even did pass by close to the scene …
Discussion: TigerHawk and Blue Crab Boulevard
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Carter Eskew and Democratic K-Street Culture  —  This Lieberman-Lamont race is becoming exceptionally important, because it's the most high-profile of a series of clashes between two different ways of doing politics.  The bear ad, and the ad man named Carter Eskew who is the consultant behind it …
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
U.S. Muslim Clerics Seek a Modern Middle Ground  —  Every seat in the auditorium at the University of Houston was taken, and the crowd was standing in the back and spilling out into the lobby, straining to hear.  The two men onstage began to speak to the crowd in Arabic …
Discussion: Riehl World View, Jihad Watch and lgf
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Obama's Profile Has Democrats Taking Notice  —  Popular Senator Is Mentioned as 2008 Contender  —  EAST ORANGE, N.J. — Barack Obama was standing before a packed high school auditorium when he noticed a familiar face in the crowd — none other than singer Dionne Warwick.
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
HOMELAND SECURITY INC.  —  Contractor Pay Lures Counterterror Officials  —  WASHINGTON, June 17 — Dozens of members of the Bush administration's domestic security team, assembled after the 2001 terrorist attacks, are now collecting bigger paychecks in different roles …
Discussion: Amygdala and The Left Coaster
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush: Iraq must know it won't be abandoned  —  CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush, reminding listeners of his surprise trip to Baghdad, said Saturday it was important for the Iraqi people to know after three years of war that "America will not abandon them after we have come this far."
Discussion: pakistantimes.net
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William M. Arkin / Early Warning:
Baghdad Acts Like a Real Government
Discussion: Firedoglake
Joe Lauria / Washington Post:
My Unwitting Role in the Rove 'Scoop'  —  The May 13 story on the Web site Truthout.org was explosive: Presidential adviser Karl Rove had been indicted by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald in connection with his role in leaking CIA officer Valerie Plame's name to the media, it blared.
Discussion: AMERICAblog, TalkLeft and THE NEWS BLOG
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Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
Karl Rove Laughs Last
Discussion: Power Line and PrairiePundit
Sylvia Moreno / Washington Post:
Along Part of the Border, A Zero-Tolerance Zone  —  Tough Program Is Discouraging Illegal Crossings  —  DEL RIO, Tex. — On June 1, the three Ordaz-Valtierra brothers from Mexico illegally crossed the Rio Grande with the same dream that so many other Latin American immigrants have …
Los Angeles Times:
A hurricane of fraud?  —  FEMA did mismanage Katrina relief, but it's wrong to blame victims for spending irresponsibly.  —  MOVE OVER, RECKLESS CONSUMERS.  The Federal Emergency Management Agency has outdone your irresponsible spending by racking up a debit card bill so outrageous it could have been created using Mad Libs.
Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Democrats offer a 'new direction'  —  Congressional Democrats announced "a new direction for America" yesterday, outlining a litany of promises to raise the minimum wage and lower gas prices, college tuition and the cost of health care.  —  "Democrats are united in presenting a new direction for America …
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Michelle Malkin:
DIXIE CHICKS QUESTION YOUR PATRIOTISM  —  But don't question theirs (gallon-sized hat tip: Coalition of the Swilling)...  Here are country singers who aren't sickened by their country.  —  Support "ultra-patriotism" through Project Prayer Flag.  —  More photos of soldiers and American flags to turn Natalie Maines' stomach:
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Garance Franke-Ruta / American Prospect:
Hard Sell  —  Warner flops with the Kossaks, gets a bounce with the MSM, and learns that courting the Democratic netroots is no simple thing.  —  LAS VEGAS — The YearlyKos convention that took place at the end of last week wasn't a bit like the bar scene in Star Wars.
Discussion: Majikthise and Pacific Views
Editor and Publisher:
Newspaper Clients, and Syndicate, Stick With Coulter  —  NEW YORK Ann Coulter hasn't lost any of her 100-plus newspaper clients, or the support of her syndicate, Universal Press Syndicate, despite her nasty remarks in her new book about 9/11 widows and her comment in an online interview implying that …
Josh White / Washington Post:
Bad Advice Blamed For Banned Tactics  —  A secretive military Special Operations group in Iraq used several unauthorized interrogation tactics on detainees in early 2004 after it erroneously received an outdated policy from commanders in Baghdad, according to a high-level military investigative report released yesterday at the Pentagon.
Discussion: Needlenose and Left I on the News
Franklin Foer / The New Republic:
DIVERS AND CHUMPS:  —  I love the country of Italy, love it—the people, the food, the aesthetics, the San Siro, Serie A. But it suffers from an undeniable pathology.  This pathology has lead its civil society to tolerate ungodly levels of corruption among its politicians.
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner
 
 
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Nadya Labi / The Atlantic Online:
Jihad 2.0  —  The story of one pioneer of this effort …
Sharon Solo / Jerusalem Post:
From Ghana with love  —  The national soccer team failed …
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Josh Gohlke / NorthJersey.com:
Kean ducks confrontation
Jim Romenesko / poynter.org:
Coulter and Moore aren't the same
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Tammy Bruce:
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGED MUSLIM MOB?
BBC:
Italy 1-1 USA  —  USA held on for most of the second half …
Brad Friedman / The Huffington Post:
No Confidence in the Busby/Bilbray Election
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Roger Ailes:
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Bob Geiger / Democrats.com:
The Saturday Cartoons  —  Democrats.com shows some of the best …
TigerHawk:
Juan Cole and argument by motive
Ray Robison / Fox News:
Documents Support Saddam-Taliban Connection
Guardian:
Police may let Muslims see terrorism intelligence
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
Betting on Defeat?  —  It's far from a safe bet.  —  National Review Online
MSNBC:
'Scarborough Country' for June 5
Discussion: MyDD and The American Street