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3:40 AM ET, June 29, 2007

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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Justices End 96-Year-Old Ban on Price Floors  —  Striking down an antitrust rule nearly a century old, the Supreme Court ruled today that it is no longer automatically unlawful for manufacturers and distributors to agree on setting minimum retail prices.  —  The decision will give producers …
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New York Times:
Resegregation Now  —  The Supreme Court ruled 53 years ago in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated education is inherently unequal, and it ordered the nation's schools to integrate.  Yesterday, the court switched sides and told two cities that they cannot take modest steps …
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
Death Penalty for Delusional Murderer Blocked
Discussion: TalkLeft
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:   Justices Limit the Use of Race in School Plans for Integration
Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Ann Coulter Loses It, Calls Elizabeth Edwards A "Harridan"  —  Boy, it looks like the pressure from Elizabeth Edwards is really getting to Ann Coulter.  Seems to be really rattling her badly.  Give this a watch, from MSNBC this morning:  —  Woah.  —  Incidentally, the Coulter column …
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
John Edwards responds....
Discussion: MSNBC and The Impolitic
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Press Release by C&L concerning Brent Bozell's attack on Elizabeth Edwards
Discussion: The Radio Equalizer and The Fix
TRex / Firedoglake:
Late Nite FDL: Crashing
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
House votes to ban FCC on 'fairness'  —  The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from using taxpayer dollars to impose the Fairness Doctrine on broadcasters who feature conservative radio hosts such as Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity.
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Michelle Malkin:
Fairness Doctrine Watch: Pence on the House floor...amendment accepted...Rep. Obey derides talk radio and "yap-yap TV;" "Let right-wing talk radio go on just as it is now.  Rush and Sean are just about as important in the scheme of things as Paris Hilton."  Update: Amendment passes!
Ramesh Ponnuru / National Review:   The "Fairness Doctrine" Loses
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Immigration Bill Dies in Senate  —  Bipartisan Compromise Fails To Satisfy the Right or the Left  —  The most dramatic overhaul of the nation's immigration laws in a generation was crushed yesterday in the Senate, with the forces of the political right and left overwhelming a bipartisan compromise …
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review:
Do Idiots Run Washington?
Discussion: alicublog and TBogg
New York Times:   Immigrant Bill Dies in Senate; Defeat for Bush
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Wall Street Journal morons wonder: Who's behind Hot Air's attack ads?  Update: WSJ issues correction  —  It's come to this, my friends.  Having been routed this morning on the Senate floor, the open-borders shills at the WSJ turn, as they must, to vengeful, vintage-nutroots conspiracy smears.
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Pelosi, Reid plan new push to end war  —  Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) are expected tomorrow to announce a new coordinated effort to force votes in July to end the Iraq war, according to Democratic insiders.
Discussion: The Belmont Club, Redstate and QandO
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Mark Murray / MSNBC:
BROWNBACK'S VOTE SWITCH  —  From NBC's Carrie Dann  —  GOP presidential hopeful Sam Brownback was very nervous for 11 minutes this morning.  That's the time that elapsed between his initial "Aye" vote for cloture on the Senate's immigration bill today — essentially an expression of support …
Discussion: TIME
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
The amnesty cloture vote — in order
Jim Romenesko / Poynter Online:
Why WSJ reporters didn't show up for work Thursday  —  A statement from Wall Street Journal reporters:  —  Wall Street Journal reporters across the country chose not to show up to work this morning.  —  We did so for two reasons.  —  First, The Wall Street Journal's long tradition of independence …
Media Matters for America:
Smiley confirms that Luntz — and only Luntz — will provide analysis of PBS' Democratic presidential forum  —  On the June 28 edition of New York Public Radio station WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show, PBS host Tavis Smiley, who was scheduled to moderate a Democratic presidential forum later that day …
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX News Poll: Bush Approval Rating Hits New Low  —  NEW YORK — Americans are giving bad grades all around.  President Bush's job approval rating now stands at 31 percent, the lowest ever in the FOX News poll, and almost twice as many Americans say they disapprove of the president's job performance.
Fred File:
A Good Day  —  This has been a good day for America.  —  For a while, it didn't look like Washington was going to listen to us regarding real immigration reform.  Thankfully, we've been spared a serious mistake, but I wonder if things would have turned out the way they did without the work done …
Discussion: IMAO, Instapundit.com and Hot Air
 
 
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National Review:
Today in History  —  Today's defeat of the Senate amnesty bill …
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