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12:55 PM ET, June 22, 2010

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Michael Hastings / Rolling Stone:
The Runaway General  —  Stanley McChrystal, Obama's top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House  —  'How'd I get screwed into going to this dinner?" demands Gen. Stanley McChrystal.
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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Gen. Stanley McChrystal summoned to Washington following magazine profile  —  KABUL — The top U.S. general in Afghanistan was headed to Washington early Tuesday for an impromptu White House meeting, after apologizing for an upcoming magazine article that portrays him and his staff as flippant …
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
The Night Beat: What the Heck Was McChrystal Thinking?  —  Good evening.  —  ROLLING STAN: What in the heck was Gen. Stanley McChrystal thinking?  I mean, I know what he was thinking: he was tired of being the victim of what he believes is a concerted effort on behalf of Ambassador …
Gordon Lubold / The Politico:
Furious Obama summons McChrystal to explain W.H. slams  —  The top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has been summoned to the White House to explain biting and unflattering remarks he made to a freelance writer about President Barack Obama and others in the Obama administration.
Associated Press:
McChrystal Says U.S. Ambassador ‘Betrayed’ Him With Criticism of Afghan War Strategy  —  May 10: Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry brief reporters ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit at the White House.
Dexter Filkins / New York Times:
McChrystal Is Summoned to Washington Over Remarks  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — An angry President Obama summoned his top commander in Afghanistan to Washington on Tuesday after a magazine article portrayed the general and his staff as openly contemptuous of some senior members of the Obama administration.
The Atlantic Online:
The Rolling Stone Article's Juiciest Bits  —  Read the full Rolling Stone article here.  —  Here are the most interesting paragraphs:
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Editor: McChrystal didn't push back  —  Rolling Stone's executive editor on Tuesday said that Gen. Stanley McChrystal did not raise any objections to a new article that repeatedly quotes him criticizing the administration.  —  Eric Bates, the magazine's editor, said during an interview on MSNBC's …
Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Civilian press aide resigns amid flap over McChrystal's ‘Rolling Stone’ profile  —  KABUL — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal's civilian press aide resigned Tuesday over an upcoming magazine story that portrayed the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan and some of his aides as derisive toward Obama administration officials.
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Rolling Stone editor: There was more we didn't publish
Discussion: The Politico
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
McChrystal: An accident waiting to happen
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Military Law Expert: McChrystal Wasn't Insubordinate.
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Obama Has to Fire McChrystal
Discussion: The Politico and The Daily Dish
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Oh boy: “Rolling Stone” …
Jules Crittenden:
Advanced Petard Hoistmanship
Discussion: Instapundit
Thomas Sowell / Investor's Business Daily:
Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny?  —  When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics.  —  Such people were a valuable addition …
Robert Bluey / Fox News:
Why Won't Obama Waive the Jones Act?  —  Five years ago, in the midst of another crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, the Bush administration waived the Jones Act, easing the way for foreign vessels to move in U.S. waters and between ports.  The decision came with the administration under duress for its handling of Hurricane Katrina.
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Paul H. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
A Tale of Two Disasters  —  Bush was blamed for local failures after Katrina.
Discussion: Right Wing News and Commentary
Joel S. Gehrke Jr / Beltway Confidential:
Pelosi's lame blame game: No ‘burrowed-in’ Bush appointees oversaw Deepwater Horizon
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Dems won't pass budget in 2010  —  House Democrats will not pass a budget blueprint in 2010, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) will confirm in a speech on Tuesday.  —  But Hoyer will vow to crack down on government spending, saying Democrats will enforce spending limits that are lower than what President Barack Obama has called for.
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Rep. Steny Hoyer says middle-class tax breaks may not be affordable long-term
Discussion: RedState and Cato @ Liberty
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Most Say Obama Lacks Clear Plans on the Oil Spill, Energy or Jobs  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.  —  Most Americans do not believe President Obama has a clear plan to deal with the oil spill in the Gulf …
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That  —  One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average.  —  But it's not because they are all working harder.  —  The school is retroactively inflating its grades, tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years.
New York Times:
As Law Takes Effect, Obama Gives Insurers a Warning  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama, whose vilification of insurers helped push a landmark health care overhaul through Congress, plans to sternly warn industry executives at a White House meeting on Tuesday against imposing hefty rate increases …
Associated Press:
SC's Sanford vacations without briefing lt. gov.  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford is back in the office after again taking a vacation without telling the lieutenant governor where he was.  —  Sanford spokesman Ben Fox would not say Tuesday where the governor was, except to say he's been off.
Discussion: The Hill and Gawker
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Gina Smith / The State:
Where's Gov. Sanford?  —  Nearly one year after his disappearance …
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Sources: Justice Department to File Lawsuit Against Arizona Immigration Law, Likely Next Week  —  Obama administration sources tell ABC News that Attorney General Eric Holder is expected to file a lawsuit against the state of Arizona for its immigration law, likely next week.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:   GOPfacing dilemma on Arizona law
Anne Barnard / New York Times:
Prosecutors Make Use of Broader Vision on Hate Crimes  —  In the public's imagination, the classic hate crime is an assault born of animus against a particular ethnicity or sexual orientation, like the case of the Long Island man convicted last month of killing an Ecuadorean immigrant after hunting for Hispanics to beat up.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Whopping 31% of Americans still Not Angry yet at the nation's news media  —  Some very disturbing poll news out the other day.  Shocking too.  It seems that some professional polling outfit named Rasmussen Reports surveyed a whole bunch of obviously subversive people.
realtor.org:
May Shows a Continued Strong Pace for Existing-Home Sales  —  Existing-home sales remained at elevated levels in May on buyer response to the tax credit, characterized by stabilizing home prices and historically low mortgage interest rates, according to the National Association of Realtors®.
Blurgh:
OFFICIALLY OUR BEST-EVER CEASE AND DESIST  —  Recently we got the best-ever cease and desist letter.  We're no stranger to the genre, so what could possibly make this one stand out from the rest?  —  First, it's 12 pages long and very well-researched (except on one point); …
Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Schiff qualifies for Senate primary  —  Connecticut investor Peter Schiff filed enough signatures to qualify for the Republican Senate primary, local officials confirmed Monday, setting up a contested primary between the libertarian-leaning underdog and state GOP-endorsed wrestling executive Linda McMahon.
Discussion: CNN and Hit & Run
 
 
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
White House suggestion of narrow climate bill hits political headwinds
Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
Dutch police use ‘decoy Jews’ to stop anti-Semitic attacks
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Crisis of the Welfare State?
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Rove's 527 far short of $52M goal
Discussion: ColoradoPols.com and TPMMuckraker
Pew Research Center:
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Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Politics Daily
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Texas Governor: Tied
Discussion: TPMDC
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Arizona Republican Primary for Senate
 Earlier Items: 
Manu Raju / The Politico:
GOP may boycott Kagan hearings
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Punch
Wall Street Journal:
The Obama Speech We're Waiting For
Townhall.com:
Five Reasons Moderates Are Wrong About Bipartisanship
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
President Obama's enigmatic intellectualism
David Brooks / New York Times:
Faustus Makes a Deal
Discussion: Commentary
Jackie Calmes / The Caucus:
Orszag Leaving as Budget Director
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
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