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9:35 AM ET, June 13, 2008

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Michael D. Shear / The Trail:
Obama, McCain Respond to Guantanamo Bay Ruling  —  The presidential candidates reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision today to grant terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay access to the federal courts.  —  Republican John McCain told reporters in Boston that he had not yet read the opinion …
Discussion: TalkLeft, Open Left and Spin Cycle
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Administration Strategy for Detention Now in Disarray  —  In the days following the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush and his advisers sought to create an unprecedented parallel system to detain suspected terrorists far from the normal scrutiny of the U.S. judiciary.
Discussion: Think Progress
John Scalzi / Whatever:
Fox News Would Like To Take a Moment To Remind You That the Obamas Are As Black As Satan's Festering, Baby-Eating Soul  —  Back in the day - you know, when presidential candidates were respectably white - news organizations called potential First Ladies “wives.”
Discussion: Macsmind and Daily Kos
New York Times:
Media and Critics Split Over Sexism in Clinton Coverage  —  Angered by what they consider sexist news coverage of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, many women and erstwhile Clinton supporters are proposing boycotts of the cable networks …
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
The Sex Speech
Pew Global Attitudes Project:
Global Economic Gloom - China and India Notable Exceptions  —  Some Positive Signs for U.S. Image  —  Overview  —  Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, the image of the United States abroad remains far less positive than it was before the war and at the beginning of the century.
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Daniel Nasaw / Guardian:
US elections: International community rooting for Obama, survey says
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Keith Olbermann / MSNBC:
McCain should know better  —  Context and decency elude the GOP presidential nominee  —  SPECIAL COMMENT  —  Tonight, a Special Comment on Sen. John McCain's conclusion that it's “not too important” when American forces come home from Iraq.  —  Thoughts, offered more in sorrow, than in anger.
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:   Countdown Special Comment: The Unimportance of Being John McCain
CNN:
Why won't Congress consider impeaching Pres. Bush?  —  FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:  —  The House of Representatives has voted to send an impeachment resolution against President Bush to committee - where it's likely to die.  —  Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced the 35 articles of impeachment this week.
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and The Raw Story
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Donna Smith / Reuters:
House Republicans vow push on oil drilling
Discussion: Hot Air and Gateway Pundit
Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:   Drill!  Drill!  Drill!  —  Charles de Gaulle once wrote off …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Bad Cow Disease  —  “Mary had a little lamb / And when she saw it sicken / She shipped it off to Packingtown / And now it's labeled chicken.”  —  That little ditty famously summarized the message of “The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair's 1906 exposé of conditions in America's meat-packing industry.
Discussion: The Confluence
The Politico:
Obama moves quickly to reshape DNC  —  Barack Obama's move to merge key elements of the Democratic National Committee into his own campaign's Chicago headquarters appears aimed at the goal of a centralized and united Democratic Party.  —  The shift of the DNC's political and field organizing operations …
Discussion: TownHall Blog
Borys Krawczeniuk / The Times-Tribune:
Kanjorski caught in another ‘gotcha’ moment  —  U.S. Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski is getting a first-hand lesson in the hazards of the digital age.  —  For the second time in a month, a clip on the wildly popular video-posting Web site, YouTube, is earning him election-year attention he'd probably rather avoid.
David Brooks / New York Times:
Obama, Liberalism and the Challenge of Reform  —  Is Barack Obama really a force for change, or is he just a traditional Democrat with a patina of postpartisan rhetoric?  —  That question is surprisingly hard to answer.  When you listen to his best speeches, you see a person who really could herald a new political era.
Discussion: Real Clear Politics and marbury
Washington Post:
Town Hall: McCain's Comfort Zone  —  Campaign Banks On Meetings to Give Best Forum for Republican  —  Microphone in hand and surrounded on all sides by friendly inquisitors, Republican Sen. John McCain called on a man in the back row of New York's Federal Hall on Thursday night and waited …
Discussion: Firedoglake and TIME.com
Teddy Davis / ABCNEWS:
Gun Control Group Braces for Court Loss  —  'We've Lost the Battle on What the 2nd Amendment Means,' Brady Campaign Head Says  —  The nation's leading gun control group filed a “friend of the court” brief back in January defending the gun ban in Washington, D.C. But with the Supreme Court poised …
Discussion: Below The Beltway
Robert O'Harrow Jr / Washington Post:
Earmark Spending Makes a Comeback  —  More than a year after Congress pledged to curb pork barrel funding known as earmarks, lawmakers are gearing up for another spending binge, directing billions toward organizations and companies in their home districts.  —  Earmark spending …
Atrios / Eschaton:
That's Mavericky  —  McCain lies to Fox about who is going to attend his town hall.  Funny.
Discussion: rubber hose and Shakesville
Shawn Pogatchnik / Associated Press:
Ireland holds key vote on EU treaty  —  DUBLIN, Ireland - Irish citizens voted Thursday on whether to accept or reject the European Union's new reform treaty, and the result could damage or destroy the painstakingly negotiated pact.  —  The Lisbon Treaty seeks to reshape EU institutions …
Discussion: Hot Air
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Is Right, Words Matter  —  “Don't tell me words don't matter!”  Sen. Barack Obama thundered at a Wisconsin Democratic Party dinner in February.  He should have remembered that at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference last week.
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Gregg Krupa / Detroit News:
Obama aides grilled in Dearborn
 
 
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Make the Election About Iraq  —  In his St. Paul victory speech …
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
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Dareh Gregorian / New York Post:
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Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Clearwire promises a fully-open, “third pipe” WiMAX network
Discussion: Engadget
RushLimbaugh.com:
Senator McCain Could Save His Campaign with Energy Policy Flip-Flop
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com
Steven Stark / Real Clear Politics:
Will the Election Be All About Obama?
Discussion: Eunomia and Achenblog
 Earlier Items: 
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Clinton's campaign debt as an asset?
Discussion: Wonkette
Bill Scher / The Huffington Post:
McCain Lies About Social Security Privatization
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
In California, a House Divided Stands Strong
Discussion: TIME.com
Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
Getting to Know Him  —  What Obama's selection—and termination …
Kyle E. Moore / Comments from Left Field:
A Quick Remedial Course In Racist Iconography
BJ Bjornson / Newshoggers.com:
Those Crazy Europeans  —  For some odd reason, the EU seems …
 

 
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