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12:40 PM ET, June 25, 2009

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John O'Connor / The State:
Exclusive: E-mails between Sanford, woman  —  Woman in affair declines interview  —  Below are excerpts of e-mails, obtained by The State newspaper in December, between Gov. Mark Sanford's personal e-mail account and Maria, a woman in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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John Dickerson / Slate:
The disturbing glee at Mark Sanford's downfall.  —  Mark Sanford is no longer missing, but he's obviously lost.  The South Carolina governor's press conference was excruciating: apology, followed by self-flagellation, followed by apology.  It was like watching a man light himself on fire.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Sanford Case a New Dose of Bad News for Republicans  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans were just starting to breathe a little easier.  —  The news that Senator John Ensign had had an affair with a former aide who was married to another former aide was fading.  Polls showed some voter impatience …
S.A. Miller / Washington Times:
Social conservatives fall from moral high ground  —  Republicans retreat from values claims  —  Social conservatives, the once-powerful force that focused the Republican agenda on moral virtue and family values, have suffered a diminished brand on the national political landscape …
New York Times:
For Press, Rumors but No Evidence of Straying  —  About six months ago, an anonymous tipster sent The State newspaper in Columbia, S.C., copies of e-mail messages supposedly exchanged between Gov. Mark Sanford and a woman named Maria in Argentina.  —  Reporters sent e-mail …
Discussion: The State, Newsweek Blogs and Romenesko
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Extramarital Affairs, Like Sanford's, Morally Taboo
Washington Wire:
Inglis to GOP: ‘Lose Stinking Rot of Self-Righteousness’
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama's Michael Dukakis moment  —  Barack Obama got ABC to move their news division into the White House in order to make the big pitch for his egalitarian, everyone-gets-treated-equally ObamaCare push.  Instead, Obama fumbled into a Michael Dukakis moment that exposed him as a hypocrite.
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Obama discusses deathbed measures  —  At a healthcare town hall, he says stopping futile procedures for the terminally ill can lower costs.  —  Reporting from Washington — President Obama suggested at a town hall event Wednesday night that one way to shave medical costs is to stop expensive …
ABCNEWS:
Fact Check: The Truth Behind Obama's Health Care Plan  —  Fact or Fiction?  Decoding the President's Prescription for American Health Care  —  President Obama took his health care reform plan to the American people in a forum at the White House Wednesday night broadcast live on ABC.
Jeff Poor / The Business & Media Institute:
ABC ObamaCare Special Turns Into Presidential Filibuster
Discussion: Flopping Aces
Michael McAuliff / NY Daily News:
President Obama tries to remedy health care worries
Discussion: Say Anything, Fox News and Reason
Michelle Malkin:
The Obamacare Show: Two dissenting docs challenge Dear Leader
Discussion: Washington Post and Stop The ACLU
BBC:
MPs ‘snub’ Ahmadinejad party  —  More than 100 MPs appear to have snubbed an invitation to celebrate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election win, local press reports say.  —  All 290 MPs were invited to the victory party on Wednesday night but 105 did not turn up, the reports say.
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New York Times:
Ahmadinejad Assails Obama as Opposition Urges Defiance  —  TEHRAN — As Iran's embattled opposition leader renewed a call for protests against the disputed presidential elections, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad assailed President Obama on Thursday, telling him to stop interfering in Iran's affairs …
News: News blog:
Iran crisis: live  —  Another opposition protest is planned today amid signs of behind-the-scenes manoeuvring to calm anger about Iran's disputed election and reports that Britons have been arrested in the latest crackdown.  Follow live updates  —  4.58pm:
Discussion: BBC, The Daily Dish and JoeTrippi.com
Eli Lake / Washington Times:
Iran protesters alter tactics to avoid death
IBTimes.co.uk:
Rafsanjani has enough support to remove Khamenei: reports
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
No Rally Reported  —  Despite the tweets below, so far there's …
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN
Lisa Lerer / The Politico:
Gore not coming to D.C.  —  Former Vice President Al Gore canceled plans to fly to Washington for a news conference with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, and instead was working the phones from Tennessee to help push a landmark climate bill to passage.
Discussion: American Solutions
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Elliott Abrams / Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Is Wrong About the Settlements  —  The U.S. and Israel reached a clear understanding about natural growth.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Despite fervent denials by Obama administration officials, there were indeed agreements between Israel and the United States regarding the growth of Israeli settlements on the West Bank.
Discussion: Commentary
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Marc Lynch:
Stand Firm on Settlements
Eddie Wrenn / Daily Mail:
Stunning pictures of the volcano that blew a hole in the sky as astronauts witness eruption from International Space Station  —  Framed by a circle of clouds, this is a stunning illustration of Nature's powerful force.  —  A plume of smoke, ash and steam soars five miles into the sky from an erupting volcano.
Discussion: Doug Ross
Murray Waas / The Hill:
Bush administration leaks bolstered Rick Renzi's reelection bid  —  In the fall of 2006, one day after the Justice Department granted permission to a U.S. attorney to place a wiretap on a Republican congressman suspected of corruption, existence of the investigation was leaked to the press …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
NY Times Bashes Obama's HuffPo Question As “Staged,” But Hailed Bush's “Mission Accomplished” Moment  —  The New York Times has now weighed in on the battle over President Obama's question from a Huffington Post reporter, and Times writer Kate Phillips, like other reporters …
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Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Iran opposition leader blasts rulers; 70 professors arrested  —  Mousavi says the supreme leader's actions are not ‘in the interests of the country,’ and the crackdown imperils the Islamic Republic.  —  Reporting from Tehran — Iran's leading opposition figurehead, Mir-Hossein Mousavi …
Discussion: Payvand Iran News and presstv.ir
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin blasts Alaska blogger over Trig photo  —  Sarah Palin is again responding forcefully to a perceived attack on one of her children, this time attacking an Alaska blogger who edited a picture of her and her baby son, Trig, to replace Trig's face with the image of a conservative Alaska talk show host, Eddie Burke.
Frank J. Fleming / Pajamas Media:
Beware the Christians!  —  Comparing the Christian right with the brutal ayatollahs in Iran is childish nonsense.  —  As we watch the horrors in Iran, it makes us wonder if anything like that could happen in America.  In Iran, the mullahs control everything and feel justified in any injustice …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
James Hibberd / Hollywood Reporter:
Fox News set for best year yet  —  Viewership solid as rivals take post-election hits  —  Fox News is on track to have its most-watched year ever, showing significant ratings growth despite having just come off a highflying election year.  —  With the second quarter coming to a close …
Discussion: Democracy in America
ABCNEWS:
Court: School Strip Search Violated Teen's Rights  —  Supreme Court Finds Search of Savana Redding Unconstitutional, But Determines That School Officials are Protected from Liability  —  The Supreme Court ruled today that school officials' strip search of a then-13-year-old Arizona teen suspected …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Raw Story
 
 
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