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3:00 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
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....  John Edwards followed Coulter a day later and said that we need to fight back against attacks like Ann's on Hardball.  —  Download (1488) |  Play (1764) Download (797) |  Play (1167) … MATTHEWS: OK.  Yes, Senator Edwards now, I guess the question last night …
Discussion: 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
MSNBC:   'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for June 27
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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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: Redstate, The Belmont Club and QandO
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Michelle Malkin:
A new attack ad: Meet Senator Switchback  —  Bryan and I cooked up another Kaus-inspired shamnesty Hot Air ad just for Senator Switchback.  Thanks to Allahpundit for clipping the switchback moments that will live in infamy.  Enjoy:  —  Script:
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Wall Street Journal morons wonder: Who's behind Hot Air's attack ads?
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
Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Specter: Let's Get What We Can Get  —  So what does Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, have to say about the White House's invocation of executive privilege?  —  Sen. Specter has supported the Democrats' rejection of the White House's offer …
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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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Taipei Times:
Taiwan Quick Take  —  A new laboratory to study animals …
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Mark Leon Goldberg / UN Dispatch:
Budget Crunch at IAEA = Scary
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Charles / Pollster.com:
WHAT TO DO ABOUT AL GORE?  —  Despite his repeated assertions …
Kathryn Jean Lopez / National Review:
Do Idiots Run Washington?
Discussion: alicublog and TBogg
BBC:
Cynon Valley soldier killed in Iraq
Discussion: The Belmont Club
The Politico:
Around the filter Mitt goes
Discussion: Patrick Ruffini
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Friedman Forever
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
Bush Imagines Cuba After Castro's Death
Eric Kleefeld / Election Central:
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Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Europe's Beleaguered Drug Companies
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs and The RBC
National Review:
Today in History  —  Today's defeat of the Senate amnesty bill …
Discussion: Instapundit.com
Klaus Marre / The Hill:
46-53, immigration bill goes down in defeat
 

 
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