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11:40 AM ET, June 27, 2007

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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Cheney Aide Explains Stance on Classified Material  —  Vice President Cheney's office offered its first public written explanation yesterday for its refusal to comply with an executive order regulating the handling of classified material, arguing that the order makes clear that the vice president …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Dems force Cheney flip-flop on secret docs  —  Dick Cheney's office is abandoning a justification for keeping the Vice-President's secret papers out of the hands of the National Archives.  —  Officials working for Cheney had tried to claim he is separate from the executive branch …
White House:
Press Briefing by Tony Snow  —  White House Conference Center Briefing Room  —  MR. SNOW: Hello.  How may I help you?  (Laughter.)  —  Q Good morning.  How are you doing?  —  MR. SNOW: Good afternoon.  I'm feeling well, thank you.  —  Q Did the President watch the vote?
Discussion: First Draft
Washington Post:
GOP Skepticism On Iraq Growing  —  Key Republican senators, signaling increasing GOP skepticism about President Bush's strategy in Iraq, have called for a reduction in U.S. forces and launched preemptive efforts to counter a much-awaited administration progress report due in September.
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Manu Raju / The Hill:   Lugar's words reverberate
New York Times:
New Poll Finds That Young Americans Are Leaning Left  —  Young Americans are more likely than the general public to favor a government-run universal health care insurance system, an open-door policy on immigration and the legalization of gay marriage, according to a New York Times/CBS News/MTV poll.
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Glenn Thrush / Newsday:
Clinton's pushy pollsters?
Discussion: MSNBC and Betsy's Page
Mike Baker / Associated Press:
Ms. Edwards asks Coulter to stop attacks  —  RALEIGH, N.C. - Elizabeth Edwards pleaded Tuesday with Ann Coulter to "stop the personal attacks," a day after the conservative commentator said she wished Edwards' husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, had been killed by terrorists.
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Nico / Think Progress:
Elizabeth Edwards Confronts Coulter During Live Television Appearance
blog.washingtonpost.com:
Leaving No Tracks  —  Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the 19th-ranking Interior Department official, arrived at her desk in Room 6140 a few months after Inauguration Day 2001.  A phone message awaited her.  —  "This is Dick Cheney," said the man on her voice mail, Wooldridge recalled in an interview.
Ben Quinn / Telegraph:
Protests rage over petrol rationing in Iran  —  Angry Iranians have torched petrol stations in protests against the sudden imposition of fuel rationing in one of the world's most oil rich nations.  —  The rationing was announced on Tuesday only three hours before it was due to begin at midnight …
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John Leo / City Journal:
Bowling With Our Own  —  Robert Putnam's sobering new diversity research scares its author.  —  Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam, author of Bowling Alone, is very nervous about releasing his new research, and understandably so.  His five-year study shows that immigration …
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Beliefnet: Crunchy Con:
Bad news on the diversity front
Discussion: alicublog
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
[TS] Op-Ed Columnist: The Whole World Is Watching  —  The blogosphere has made the global discussion so much richer — and each of us so much more transparent.
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Bob Lewis / Associated Press:
Giuliani Slams Bill Clinton on Terrorism  —  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday accused former President Clinton of not responding forcefully enough to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or later terrorist attacks.
Agence France Presse:
Blair not my poodle, Bush says  —  Outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair, often caricatured as US President George W. Bush's poodle, is no such thing, Bush said in an interview published Wednesday.  —  In comments printed the day Blair is set to vacate his Downing Street offices …
Discussion: Shakespeare's Sister
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP preps for talk radio confrontation  —  House Republican lawmakers are preparing to fight anticipated Democratic efforts to regulate talk radio by reviving rules requiring stations to balance conservative hosts such as Rush Limbaugh with liberals such as Al Franken.
Betsy Rothstein / The Hill:
Hyphengate: Wasserman Schultz calls CQ sexist  —  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) is raising hell these days, and it concerns what she claims is Congressional Quarterly's sexist policy of hyphenating names.  For months, Wasserman Schultz has been angered over the fact that CQ repeatedly hyphenates …
Discussion: On Deadline and mediabistro.com
 
 
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USA Today:
Under new Baghdad plan, U.S. is a careful referee
Discussion: National Review
Juan / Informed Comment:
Sunni Minister Arrested for Alleged Hit;  —  Khamenei Pledges …
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Ex-Senator Returns Home but Is Quiet on Candidacy
Discussion: MSNBC and Tennessean.com
Russell Berman / New York Sun:
Giuliani Gets a Standing Ovation At a Christian College
Elana Schor / The Hill:
Legislators consider fixes to Supreme Court rulings
David Horovitz / Jerusalem Post:
Bolton: I'm 'very worried' for Israel
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
An Exit to Disaster  —  History seems to be settling …
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Jonah Goldberg / Townhall.com:
The Cheney Irony  —  I'm a longtime member of a pretty select group …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Senate Takes Up a Revised Immigration Bill, but Obstacles Remain
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Tomoeh Murakami Tse / Washington Post:
Buffett Slams Tax System Disparities
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Immigration and the GOP  —  How to make Republicans a minority party once again.
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Yaakov Katz / Jerusalem Post:
Israel lets Hamas member enter Gaza
Jonathan D. Salant / Bloomberg:
Clinton and Obama, Romney and Giuliani Seek Bragging Rights
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New York Times:
Files on Illegal Spying Show C.I.A. Skeletons From Cold War
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