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11:15 AM ET, June 17, 2008

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Zzaki / Political Punch:
McCain Camp Pounces on Obama Comments From ABC News Interview  —  The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., tonight pounced on comments Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made in an interview today with ABC News.  —  This was the exchange in question.  —  TAPPER: Speaking of the Supreme Court …
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John Yoo / Wall Street Journal:
The Supreme Court Goes to War  —  Last week's Supreme Court decision in Boumediene v. Bush has been painted as a stinging rebuke of the administration's antiterrorism policies.  From the celebrations on most U.S. editorial pages, one might think that the court had stopped a dictator from trampling civil liberties.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Contempt Of Courts  —  The day after the Supreme Court ruled that detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo are entitled to seek habeas corpus hearings, John McCain called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”  Well.  —  Does it rank with Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
John Yoo's ongoing falsehoods in service of limitless government power  —  One of the most reliable methods for knowing that a position is unsustainable is that its advocates must employ outright falsehoods in order to support it.  In a Wall St. Journal Op-Ed today, John Yoo defends the right …
Washington Post:
Poll Finds Independent Voters Split Between McCain, Obama  —  Buoyed by a public mood favoring Democrats, Sen. Barack Obama begins the general-election campaign holding a narrow advantage over Sen. John McCain, with independent voters emerging as a constituency critical to the Republican's hopes of winning the presidency in November.
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Rasmussen Reports:
67% Support Offshore Drilling, 64% Expect it Will Lower Prices  —  Most voters favor the resumption of offshore drilling in the United States and expect it to lower prices at the pump, even as John McCain has announced his support for states that want to explore for oil and gas off their coasts.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Put Your Right Wing In, Take Your Left Wing Out
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Jeffrey Klein / The Huffington Post:
McCain's Secret, Questionable Record  —  “At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined the prospect of his first admiral's star …
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Report Questions Pentagon Accounts  —  Officials Looked Into Interrogation Methods Early On  —  A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay …
James Risen / New York Times:
Lost Army Job Tied to Doubts on Contractor  —  WASHINGTON — The Army official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than $1 billion in questionable charges to KBR, the Houston-based company that has provided food …
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
TELL THE TRUTH, GOV  —  ABSOLUTELY NO DENYING YOU CALLED MIKE LIAR  —  The laughable nature of Gov. Paterson's half-hearted denials that he called Mayor Bloomberg a tantrum-prone liar wouldn't be significant if New York's accidental governor hadn't vowed from the start to be different …
Martin Kady II / The Politico:
GOP member calls for mortgage inquiry  —  A leading House Republican called Monday for hearings to determine which lawmakers received discount mortgage deals from Countrywide Financial Corp., but his colleagues in the House and the Senate don't seem particularly eager to start turning over rocks.
Discussion: The Swamp and NPR
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   Downturn hits House assets and income
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Plans Spending Boost, Possible Cut in Business Tax  —  FLINT, Mich. — Sen. Barack Obama shed new light on his economic plans for the country, saying he would rely on a heavy dose of government spending to spur growth, use the tax code to narrow the widening gap between winners and losers …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Obama Gets “The” Endorsement: The Lousy Timing of Al Gore  —  Perhaps one day someone will write a chapter about Al Gore in a new book titled “Profiles In Uncourage.”  —  Democratic presumptive Presidential nominee Barack Obama finally got what he and former rival Senator Hillary Clinton …
Marc Ambinder:
Your Electorate, Folks  —  ABC News and the Washington Post are out with their first post-primary poll, and, as should not be surprising, it is fairly identical to the results found by CNN, Fox, USA Today, Gallup, CBS News, NBC News.  (These polls are the gold standard; with Gallup tracking daily …
Discussion: The Corner
Washington Post:
California Weddings Make History  —  State-Sanctioned Unions for Same-Sex Partners Begin  —  She said, “I do,” and she said, “Absolutely.”  —  With those words, Robin Tyler and Diane Olson, both dressed in ivory-colored suits, were pronounced “spouses for life” on the steps of the town courthouse …
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David Keene / The Hill:
Many a child left behind
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New York Times:
R.I.P. to the S.U.V.  —  It's hard to convince most Americans …
Kim McLarin / TheRoot:
Whiteygate  —  What black people call white people...and it ain't ‘whitey.’
Discussion: Gawker
John Tierney / TierneyLab:
Malthus v. the Singularity
William McGurn / Wall Street Journal:
School Choice Is Change You Can Believe In
Discussion: The Corner
Roger Vincent / Los Angeles Times:
Gas prices latest worry for real estate market
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Matthew Yglesias:
A Question of Priorities  —  A lot of separate questions …
Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
Big Penalty Set for Law Firm, but Not a Trial
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Associated Press:
Judge Backs White House in Dispute Over E-Mail
Martin Nolan / The Huffington Post:
How Tim Russert Got His Start
Jon Cohen / The Trail:
Obama Has 20 Point Lead on Lowering Gas Prices
Discussion: The Swamp and MyDD
Alexander Marquardt / CNN:
“Yes We Can” Obama video wins Emmy
Discussion: Expressio Unius
Matt / Think Progress:
Fox anchor claims Iranian missile could possibly 'hit some military …
Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
AP Badly Mistaken on Drudge Retort
Tim Shipman / Telegraph:
Barack Obama aide: Why Winnie the Pooh should shape US foreign policy