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Greg Sargent / Election Central:
Exclusive: Senator Chris Dodd Will Put A Hold On Telecom Immunity Bill  —  Senator Chris Dodd plans to put a hold on the Senate FISA renewal bill because it reportedly grants retroactive immunity to telephone companies for any role they played in the Bush administration's warrantless eavesdropping program, Election Central has learned.
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Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
CQ: Surveillance Bill Will Go to Senate Floor Next Month
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Atrios / Eschaton:   Doddmania  —  While Senate rules are confusing to mere mortals …
MSNBC:
Blasts aimed at Bhutto kill more than 100  —  Ex-prime minister not hurt, but at least 115 others killed, 248 injured  —  DEVELOPING STORY  —  KARACHI, Pakistan - A suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto killed at least 115 people Thursday night …
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Sky News:
Bhutto's Return Rocked By Explosions  —  Dozens of people have been killed in two explosions near to where former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was being welcomed home.  —  Ms Bhutto's truck had just passed when the blasts happened in Karachi, only hours after she ended her eight-year exile.
CNN:
Bombing kills 124 at Bhutto homecoming  —  KARACHI, Pakistan (CNN) — A suicide bombing killed at least 124 people and injured more than 320 around midnight Thursday in Karachi, Pakistan, near the motorcade of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, who returned to the country earlier …
New York Times:
House Fails to Override Child Health Bill Veto  —  Supporters of a bill to provide health insurance for 10 million children failed this afternoon, as expected, to muster enough support in the House to override President Bush's veto.  —  The vote to override the veto was 273 to 156 …
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Martin Kady II / The Politico:
House fails to muster SCHIP veto override
Discussion: The Swamp and Truthdig
Houston Chronicle:
Paul, Obama draw support from military voters  —  WASHINGTON — Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, the congressman from the Houston area who opposes the Iraq war, has gotten more contributions than any other White House contender from donors identified as affiliated with the military.
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:   The Fantasy of Ron Paul's Military Support
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
Mukasey: President Can Break Some Laws  —  While Mukasey doesn't think there's an inherent presidential right to torture — which he said is explicitly prohibited by the Constitution — that's not to say he doesn't take a broad interpretation of the president's Article II authority.
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Paul Kiel / TPMmuckraker:
Is Waterboarding Torture?  Mukasey: Yes, if It's Torture  —  Mukasey has firmly established that he's against torture — yesterday he even compared it to the Holocaust (see also here).  —  But what exactly does that mean?  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) asked Mukasey if he thought waterboarding was Constitutional.
CNN Political Ticker:
Clinton blasted over 'hippie museum'  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hippies used to say if you remember Woodstock, you weren't really there.  Republicans say presidential contender Hillary Clinton can forget about getting $1 million in taxpayer funds for a Woodstock museum.
Mike Potemra / The Corner:
Does Israel Have to Be a Convent?  —  Anti-Iraq War blogger Mark Shea is trying to drive a wedge between U.S. evangelicals and Israel, by posting a video on his website that he hopes will shock us into realizing that Israel is just another "secular nation-state."
Discussion: BitsBlog
Ideas Primary:
ENDING THE STALEMATE ON IRAQ  —  President Bush's approval rating is in the low 30s.  Congress's is even lower.  Voters want a new strategy in Iraq, and they are clearly disgusted at the inability of the President and Congress to agree on one.  —  The logjam in Congress on the most pressing issue …
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14  —  We're not used to thinking of them this way.  But many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger.  Most of the time.
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Rush Limbaugh eBay Auction, Anti-Conservative Smear Campaign  —  SMASHING EXPECTATIONS  —  Reid Smear Letter Bidding Reaches Shocking Level  —  *** FLASH - $2,000,200!  When bidding reached $10,000, we were amazed.  And when it ratcheted up to $45,000, many were astounded.
Scott Shepard / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Clinton Pollster Predicts Defection Of GOP Women  —  Mark Penn, the pollster and senior strategist of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, predicted Thursday that nearly a quarter of Republican women would defect from the GOP if the New York senator is the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008.
 
 
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Brian Beutler / American Prospect:
Senate Caves on Wiretapping
Discussion: Washington Monthly
New York Times:
Panel Approves Eavesdropping Compromise
Naomi Wolf / The Huffington Post:
Finally, Action! Ron Paul Introduces Bill to Defend Constitution!
Kristin Bender / Contra Costa Times:
Recruiting facility at center of storm
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Colbert Consulted Parties Before Announcing Run
Discussion: Open Left
John Derbyshire / Media Matters for America:
NRO's Derbyshire on percentages of Hispanics enrolled in school …
Discussion: culturekitchen
Chris Bowers / Open Left:
Splitting The Pringle  —  Sam Brownback, we hardly knew ye:
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
McCain Back at Scene of Collapse in S. Carolina
Discussion: Amygdala
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When Mediocrity Attacks!
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Townhall.com:
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Discussion: Think Progress
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Lawmakers blast DHS for building border fence with Chinese steel
Michelle Malkin:
Stark raving mad: Diary of an unhinged Democrat
Jennifer Parker / Political Punch:
Yee-haw  —  So later this month, according to THIS INVITATION …
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Murdoch has drastic plans for WSJ
Discussion: Wake up America
Multi-National Force:
72-year-old concerned citizen takes down suicide bomber
Discussion: Gates of Vienna