Illegals bill loses support in Senate  —  The Senate immigration bill lost supporters yesterday and hangs on by a thread heading into this morning's showdown vote, after lawmakers voted down amendments making illegal aliens show roots to get legal status and cutting off their path to citizenship.

Impeach Cheney  —  THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS RUN UTTERLY AMOK AND MUST BE STOPPED.  —  Under Dick Cheney, the office of the vice president has been transformed from a tiny acorn into an unprecedented giant oak.  In grasping and exercising presidential powers, Cheney has dulled political accountability …

White House Is Subpoenaed on Wiretapping  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday issued subpoenas to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney's office and the Justice Department after what the panel's chairman called "stonewalling of the worst kind" of efforts to investigate …

Romney's Cruel Canine Vacation  —  The reporter intended the anecdote that opened part four of the Boston Globe's profile of Mitt Romney to illustrate, as the story said, "emotion-free crisis management": Father deals with minor — but gross — incident during a 1983 family vacation, and saves the day.

First Read: Edwards says Coulter's 'crazy'  —  From NBC's Domenico Montanaro  —  A day after his wife Elizabeth called in to MSNBC's "Hardball" to confront conservative commentator Ann Coulter, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards made his own appearance on the show.

Bloomberg: Neither party 'stands for anything'  —  NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who became an independent last week, showed his non-partisan colors Wednesday by criticizing both political parties.  —  Bloomberg, who left the GOP and is asked almost daily about running for president …

Even in Agreement, Scalia Puts Roberts to Lash  —  It's not every day that one Supreme Court justice, even one as rhetorically unrestrained as Justice Antonin Scalia, characterizes another justice, let alone the chief justice of the United States, as a wimp and a hypocrite.

New York Times Covers Indoctrinate U  —  27 June 2007 @ 8:28AM >> Today's New York Times contains a discussion of Indoctrinate U and the issue of free speech on campus.  —  Most of the article was spent addressing cases that weren't in the film, rather than addressing what was in the film.

Cloture Tomorrow  —  A Senate source with well-established good instincts predicts: "Vote should be close... I'll be very surprised if this bill lives beyond tomorrow morning.  Not certain, but four of the 64 are now on record as changing to "no" votes.  One more and it's over—assuming none of the "no" votes flip."

How your brain makes political decisions  —  Ever wonder why fear-mongering seems to work so well at the polls—while appeals to reason often leave the electorate cold?  A new book applies neuroscience to politics to figure out why the Democrats struggle to push the buttons in voters' brains.

Costs Skyrocket As DHS Runs Up No-Bid Contracts  —  $2 Million Security Project Balloons to $124 Million  —  The project started in 2003 with a $2 million contract to help the new Department of Homeland Security quickly get an intelligence operation up and running.

Fired Prosecutor Says Gonzales Pushed Death Penalty  —  Figures Show Attorney General Often Overrules U.S. Attorneys' Arguments Against Capital Charges  —  Paul K. Charlton, one of nine U.S. attorneys fired last year, told members of Congress yesterday that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales …

Fla. sheriff targets illegals  —  PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - The sheriff's department has developed a remarkably effective — and controversial — way of catching illegal immigrants: Deputies in patrol cars pull up to a construction site in force, and watch and see who runs.