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12:10 PM ET, July 2, 2007

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John Solomon / Washington Post:
Obama Takes Lead In Money Raised  —  Pressure on Clinton Is Expected to Grow  —  Sen. Barack Obama raised $31 million for his presidential primary campaign over the past three months, surging past Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's fundraising machine by nearly $10 million for the quarter …
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Kristin Jensen / Bloomberg:
Obama Taps Internet, Small Donors to Top Clinton's Fundraising  —  Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is dominating presidential fundraising, raising the most money and bringing in far more contributors than rivals such as Hillary Clinton, who leads in national polls.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and MSNBC
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Obama leads — in cash
Ben Smith / The Politico:   Primary money  —  The money that counts in a Democratic primary …
The Atlantic Online:
Annotating Plouffe's Memo
Discussion: The Newshoggers
New York Times:
In Hunt for Bomb Plotters, Britain Sees a Qaeda Link  —  With their investigation moving at breakneck speed, the police expanded their hunt on Sunday for the plotters of attempted car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow that the British government called the work of terrorists linked to Al Qaeda.
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Aaron Klein / WorldNetDaily:
More London bombings on way, warns Muslim
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Telegraph:
Britain's terror crackdown
Discussion: Sky News and Tim Worstall
Peter Baker / Washington Post:
A President Besieged and Isolated, Yet at Ease  —  Bush, Grasping for Answers and Fixated on Iraq, Remains Resolute  —  At the nadir of his presidency, George W. Bush is looking for answers.  One at a time or in small groups, he summons leading authors, historians, philosophers and theologians …
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Presidential Pity Party
Discussion: Eschaton
ABCNEWS:
Secret Document: U.S. Fears Terror 'Spectacular' Planned  —  Official Cites Resemblance to Warnings and Intelligence Before 9/11  —  A secret U.S. law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security, warns that al Qaeda is planning a terror "spectacular" this summer …
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:   Al Qaeda Terror 'Spectacular' This Summer
John O'Callaghan / Reuters:
U.S. plays down report of imminent al Qaeda attack
Associated Press:   GI's illegal immigrant wife gets amnesty
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s  —  Iranian operatives helped plan a January raid in Karbala in which five American soldiers were killed, an American military spokesman in Iraq said today.  —  Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Bergner, the military spokesman, also said that Iran's …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Michael Gordon trains his stenographer weapons on Iran  —  The Bush administration's most reliable pro-surge "reporter," Michael Gordon of The New York Times, this morning filed an article — headlined: "U.S. Ties Iranians to Iraq Attack That Killed G.I.'s" — that might be the most war-fueling article yet with regard to Iran.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Michael Ware / CNN:
Officials: Hezbollah agent helped plan Iraq raid
Discussion: Defense Tech
isna.ir:
ISNA - Tehran  —  TEHRAN, July 02 (ISNA)-Writer, producer and director, Michael Moore is to come to Iran for the screening of his new production SICKO in the first international documentary film festival held here.  —  This festival will be held from the 15th to the 19th of October in Tehran.
Discussion: Hot Air and theneweditor.com
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Austan Goolsbee / Slate:
Michael Moore and the Beige Bomber  —  HE'S GOT THE INDICTMENT OF HEALTH CARE RIGHT, BUT NOT THE FIX.  —  Michael Moore's shtick cracks me up.  As entertainment, most of his movies are great fun.  In Sicko, though, he goes beyond his usual ranting.  After spending the first half …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and EconLog
Sharon Waxman / New York Times:
Al Gore's Top-Secret Access for the Final 'Sopranos' Episode  —  Who knew that tree-hugging ex-politicians loved "The Sopranos"?  It turns out that Al Gore is a die-hard fan, but when the series finale loomed in early June, he and his wife, Tipper, had to be on a plane for an appearance in Istanbul.
Discussion: Think Progress and PrawfsBlawg
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Just Getting Warmed Up  —  MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Scarborough, Undiluted in the A.M.  —  SECAUCUS, N.J. — At a horseshoe-shaped desk in an aircraft hangar of a studio, Joe Scarborough jokes with his sidekicks during the commercial breaks, and when the red light comes on, keeps chatting without so much as a "welcome back."
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
As Senator Rose, Lobbying Became Family Affair  —  On Christmas Eve 1994, Fred D. Thompson Jr. was out of a job.  A 34-year-old self-described late bloomer, Mr. Thompson had graduated from law school just two years before and practiced law only for his father, Fred D. Thompson Sr. …
Don Kaplan / New York Post:
TALKING UP IMUS  —  RADIO SIGNALS OF A WFAN COMEBACK  —  Imus may be hitting the FAN again.  —  The radio rumor mill has turned the volume way up on reports that the return of Don Imus to WFAN is just around the corner.  —  And WFAN itself is fueling the reports.
Discussion: On Deadline and Cliff Schecter
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey; Commanded Submarine Attacks on Japanese Shipping  —  Rear Adm. Eugene B. Fluckey, one of the greatest naval heroes of World War II who was awarded the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses for his daring submarine attacks on Japanese shipping, died June 28 at Anne Arundel Medical Center.
Discussion: QandO and Outside The Beltway
 
 
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New York Times:
A Much-Needed Second Chance
Mark Steyn / The Corner:
Requiem for a maverick?
Discussion: All Spin Zone
Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
Leahy Says He May Seek Charge Of Contempt Against President
Houston Chronicle:
Spring teen who survived pipe attack dies after leap from cruise ship
Salam Faraj / Agence France Presse:
Iraqi civilian deaths sharply lower in June
Ana Marie Cox / TIME: Swampland:
Mitt Romney Loves His "Family Pets"
Discussion: WHOTV
Susan Kuczka / Chicago Tribune:
Wife, husband might be rivals in U.S. House race
Michael Hirsh / Washington Post:
Iran Has a Message. Are We Listening?
Discussion: The Corner and Booman Tribune
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Little Green Footballs:
Death Cult Mickey Beatdown
Discussion: Daimnation!
Angelo M. Codevilla / New York Post:
THE REAL SINS OF THE CIA
Andrew Martin / New York Times:
Labels Lack Food's Origin Despite Law
Walter Shapiro / Salon:
Florida election mayhem for 2008
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
A Victory For Free Speech
Discussion: Betsy's Page and Don Surber
Washington Times:
Virginia isn't for drivers  —  Starting today, Virginia drivers …
Michael Tomasky / New York Review of Books:
Can We Know Her?  —  A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton
Discussion: Corrente
 

 
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Rick Edmonds / Poynter:
Gannett fires an experienced editor overseeing 26 community newspapers for “sharing proprietary information” with a “competing media company”, which was Poynter

Georg Szalai / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Vice Media plans to create a joint venture with Savage Ventures, which will invest “tens of millions of dollars”, to relaunch its sites, including Vice.com

 
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