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4:40 PM ET, June 27, 2009

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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:

Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges — (updated below) — When Obama first unveiled his “preventive detention” policy, many defenders praised him (and claimed he was different than Bush) because of his vow that — as he put it — “my Administration will work …

Discussion: Hullabaloo, PoliGazette, Unqualified Offerings, The Politico, ATTACKERMAN and The Washington Independent

Washington Post:

White House Drafts Executive Order to Allow Indefinite Detention of Terror Suspects — The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, has drafted an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely …

Stan Collender / Capital Gains and Games blogs: Climate Vote Shows White House Still Really Knows How To Work The Hill

Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Obama Considering Unconstitutional Imposition Of Preventive Detention Policy

Discussion: NPR

Darren Hutchinson / DISSENTING JUSTICE:
Indefinite Detention By Executive Order: Another Looming Disapp …

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, TalkLeft and Hot Air

New York Times: Shift Possible on Terror Suspects' Detention

Silla Brush / The Hill:
Executive order might keep Gitmo inmates indefinitely

Discussion: Power Line

Washington Post:
In Close Vote, House Passes Climate Bill

Discussion: QandO

Michelle Malkin:

The 8 cap-and-tax Republicans...and the 44 Democrats who voted no — Introducing the GOP's Cap-And-Tax 8... I listed them earlier tonight, but am breaking out a separate post to spotlight them again. — The 8 cap-and-tax Republican turncoats again are: — Bono Mack (CA) (202) 225-5330

Discussion: Commentary, Right Wing News, Pundit & Pundette, Stop The ACLU, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, The Other McCain, JammieWearingFool, The Hill, Flopping Aces, Wizbang, Scared Monkeys and AmSpecBlog

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

ELITE EIGHT.... House Republicans wanted to put up a united front against the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES), but eight GOP lawmakers — Reps. Mary Bono Mack (Calif.), Mike Castle (Del.), Mark Kirk (Ill.), Leonard Lance (N.J.), Frank LoBiondo (N.J.), John McHugh (N.Y.), Dave Reichert …

Discussion: streiff's blog, The Other McCain and MyDD

Lachlan Markay / Washington Examiner:
Climate bill clears House in close vote

Discussion: Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malkin and Patterico's Pontifications

Orange County Register:

Mark Steyn: Jackson, Sanford and weirdness — Big government more or less guarantees rule by creeps and misfits. — Recommend — In a lousy week, Mark Sanford had one stroke of luck: Michael Jackson chose the day after the governor's news conference to moonwalk into eternity …

Discussion: Pundit & Pundette and No More Mister Nice Blog

David Freddoso / Washington Examiner:

On the House floor — By all appearances, the House is about to vote on a very long bill of which it has no completed official copy. — Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Louie Gohmert have just asked the chair whether there exists a complete, updated copy of the Waxman-Markey carbon-cap bill.

Discussion: Wonkette, Sweetness & Light and Vox Popoli

John / Power Line:

Bill? What Bill? — At The Examiner, David Freddoso adds a coda to the bizarre story of the cap-and-trade energy tax that passed the House yesterday. The bill that the House voted on doesn't, strictly speaking, exist: … I can answer that question: none. There hasn't been time to do so.

Discussion: The Corner, Flopping Aces and Dr. Sanity

Vinod Sreeharsha / New York Times:

Argentine Man Is Said to Be Source of Sanford E-Mail — BUENOS AIRES — The mystery of who revealed Gov. Mark Sanford's e-mail messages may finally be solved. A business associate of Mr. Sanford's Argentine mistress said Friday that private messages between the two lovers had been sent anonymously …

Discussion: DemConWatch, Wall Street Journal, Taylor Marsh, Fausta's Blog, FITSNews, Emptywheel and The Hill's Blog Briefing Room

Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Sanford's trade mission to Argentina contradicted U.S. policy

Discussion: Hullabaloo and American Street

Andy Alexander / Ombudsman Blog:

Froomkin Departs, Leaving Angry Loyalists And Questions — Dan Froomkin's online White House Watch ended today in The Post, leaving an army of angry followers and a string of unanswered questions about the decision to terminate his contract. — His release sparked an outcry from a loyal audience built after five and a half years.

Discussion: Matthew Yglesias, Grasping Reality …, Emptywheel, Washington Post, City Desk, Michael Calderone's Blog and Gawker

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

THIS WEEK IN GOD.... First up from the God Machine this week is the resolution of a recent controversy involving the late Jerry Falwell's college in Virginia, which no longer wanted to allow its students to organize an official Democratic student group on campus.

Discussion: Examiner, The Reaction and Prairie Weather

Chris Frates / The Politico:

Baucus ups pressure on health groups — The Senate Finance Committee is pressuring hospitals and insurers to follow the lead of the pharmaceutical industry and pony up to help pay for health reform, industry insiders say. — With the Democrats' high-stakes gambit to overhaul …

Discussion: Balloon Juice and Donklephant

Alexis Stevens / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

Naked ex-mayor arrested at campsite — Gainesville's Musselwhite denies causing earlier trouble — A former mayor found sitting naked and holding a beer at a Rabun County campsite told police he wasn't the same naked man seen walking around earlier. — Mark Musselwhite, 43 …

Discussion: Roger Ailes

Lawrence M. Krauss / Wall Street Journal:

God and Science Don't Mix — A scientist can be a believer. But professionally, at least, he can't act like one. — Printer — Friendly — My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel or devil is going to interfere …

Discussion: Liberal Values, PoliGazette, Macsmind and Pharyngula

John M. Broder / New York Times:

House Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate Change — WASHINGTON — Overcoming deep divisions within its Democratic majority, the House passed legislation on Friday intended to address the threat of global warming and transform the way the United States produces and uses energy.