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1:25 PM ET, June 24, 2008

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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Bush Paradox  —  Let's go back and consider how the world looked in the winter of 2006-2007.  Iraq was in free fall, with horrific massacres and ethnic cleansing that sent a steady stream of bad news across the world media.  The American public delivered a stunning electoral judgment …
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Report Sees Illegal Hiring Practices at Justice Dept.  —  WASHINGTON — Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Law Blog
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Carrie Johnson / Washington Post:
Report Says Partisanship Reigned in Justice Department Hiring Program  —  High-ranking political appointees at the Justice Department labored to stock a prestigious hiring program with young conservatives in a five-year-long attempt to reshape the department's ranks, according to an inspector general's report to be released today.
John Bresnahan / The Crypt's Blogs:   IG Report: DOJ under Gonzales favored GOP-conservative job candidates
Andy Zajac / The Swamp:
Watchdogs whack DOJ for cronyism
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:   Breaking: OIG And OPR Confirms Politicization Of Hiring At DOJ
Ryan Grim / The Politico:
Retiring GOP reps frustrate leadership  —  House Republican leaders might be forgiven for thinking that retiring rank-and-file Republicans would soften the blow caused by their departures by casting some cost-free votes down the party line.  —  But they would be mistaken.
Discussion: The New Republic
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The Politico:
How Hoyer got the deal done  —  In a tense moment during negotiations over the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Act, Sen. Kit Bond — the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee — said that his side of the aisle could never accept one of the proposals the Democrats were pushing.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and The Moderate Voice
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
McCain's Core Advantage  —  In politics, we're having a Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr kind of year.  It was Karr, a French writer, who coined the phrase plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, which means, as Barack Obama has shown, that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
GAO Report Faults Post-'Surge' Planning  —  Lack of Comprehensive Strategy Cited, but Pentagon Study Sees Gains in Iraq  —  The administration lacks an updated and comprehensive Iraq strategy to move beyond the “surge” of combat troops President Bush launched in January 2007 as an 18-month effort …
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James Glanz / New York Times:
Government Study Criticizes Bush Administration's Measures of Progress in Iraq  —  Beyond the declines in overall violence in Iraq, several crucial measures the Bush administration uses to demonstrate economic, political and security progress are either incorrect or far more mixed …
Kathryn Jean Lopez / The Corner:
What's Wrong With the Kansas City Star?  —  A disgraceful contribution from their house cartoonist:
Lynn Sweet:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says —"I'm a victim of sexism myself all the time."  —  WASHINGTON—"I'm a victim of sexism myself all the time," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) discussing Tuesday morning whether sexism played a significant role in the defeat of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blogs and TIME.com
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Paul West / The Swamp:
Pelosi: Clinton was victim of sexism
Discussion: Top of the Ticket
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Obama tacks away from his left-wing base  —  Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is shifting to the center after months of battling Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) for the hearts of the Democratic Party's liberal base.  —  His recent strategy of political triangulation has already sparked a fight …
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CNN:
Imus says he's defending, not offending ‘Pacman’ Jones  —  NEW YORK (CNN) — Radio host Don Imus said Tuesday he was making “a sarcastic point” that police often unfairly target blacks when he asked about Adam “Pacman” Jones' race on his show.  —  Imus, who lost his job last year after comments …
Discussion: Donklephant
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Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Roosting Chickens  —  Don Imus has now got himself in hot water again …
Discussion: alicublog
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown: Gas Pain, John McCain And The $300 Million Battery  —  Republican Presidential Candidate, John McCain, proposed a gas tax holiday which turned out to be a non-starter with the American people, then he flip flopped on offshore drilling, and now, with his latest proposal to help end …
Discussion: Shakesville
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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Ad showing men kissing pulled  —  Heinz has withdrawn its Deli Mayo TV ad that featured two men sharing a kiss and apologised to viewers after the advertising regulator received about 200 complaints that it was offensive and inappropriate.  —  The Heinz Deli Mayo ad has been pulled after less …
Discussion: Shakesville and Towleroad.com
Alan Ehrenhalt / Newsweek:
Are You Experienced?  —  Why a U.S. senator might not trump a state legislator  —  Obama during his days in the Illinois Senate  —  We are in the opening days of a presidential campaign that pits youth against age, the virtues of experience against the freshness and riskiness of the new arrival.
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
WJC on board — if not enthused just yet  —  Bill Clinton has issued a one-sentence endorsement for Obama via spokesman Matt McKenna:  —  “President Clinton is obviously committed to doing whatever he can and is asked to do to ensure Senator Obama is the next president of the United States,” McKenna said.
Discussion: The Swamp
Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Iran's ‘Nightmare Scenarios’ Are Mulled in Washington  —  American Intelligence Analysts Work Overtime as Israel Sends Signals  —  WASHINGTON — An attack on the U.S. 5th Fleet, exploding Saudi oil refineries, and a Hezbollah operation against a soft target in the Americas, Asia, or Europe.
 
 
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Nedra Pickler / Time:
Bill Clinton Offers Support to Obama
CNBC.com:
Consumer Confidence Tumbles to 16-Year Low
CNN:
Interview with Bill Richardson; Interview with Tim Pawlenty
Wall Street Journal:
Home-Price Gains Are Erased, Now Stand at 2004-2005 Levels
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
OBAMA/MCCAIN: ‘PSYCHOLOGICAL’ BENEFIT?
Discussion: Wonk Room and Matthew Yglesias
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda's Growing Online Offensive
The Politico:
Senators' mortgages under microscope
Amy Sullivan / Time:
Will Pro-Choice Women Back McCain?
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
 Earlier Items: 
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:
Obama on wrong side of Elian Gonzalez saga
Discussion: Hot Air
Sam Anderson / New York Magazine:
Raise High the Rafters
Financial Times:
Chinese agree 96% jump in ore prices
Haaretz:
IDF soldier dies from self-inflicted gunshot at Sarkozy farewell
Washington Post:
Appeals Court Invalidates Detainee's ‘Enemy’ Status
Discussion: Bang the Drum
Bonnie Erbe / US News:
Barack Obama, Serial Flip-Flopper
Discussion: American Power
Ted Johnson / Wilshire & Washington:
Obama's Hollywood Night
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

 
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