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1:25 PM ET, June 23, 2010

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Eliot A. Cohen / Wall Street Journal:
Why McChrystal Has to Go  —  It is intolerable for military officers to mock senior political officials, including ambassadors and the vice president.  —  Gen. Stanley McChrystal is a hero—a selfless, fearless and inspiring soldier.  He is also something of a military genius.
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
McChrystal to Administration Official: 'I've Compromised the Mission'  —  During his round of phone calls to top officials of the Obama administration whom he and his team disparaged to a Rolling Stone reporter, Gen. Stanley McChrystal said, “I've compromised the mission,” a senior administration source tells ABC News.
New York Times:
McChrystal's Fate Unclear After Brief Meeting With Obama  —  WASHINGTON — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal left the White House after meeting with President Obama for about 20 minutes, departing ahead of a meeting on the war in Afghanistan later Wednesday morning, but there was no immediate word …
msnbc.com:
Obama to make statement on McChrystal  —  General's fate still unclear after 30-minute session with president  —  General Stanley McChrystal arrives at the White House in Washington on Wednesday.  —  WASHINGTON - Afghanistan war commander Stanley McChrystal discussed his blistering interview remarks …
Peter Beinart / The Daily Beast:
Gen. McChrystal's Firing Offense  —  Blogs and Stories  —  The press is turning a story about policy into a story about penises.  What matters isn't what McChrystal said about Obama—it's what he believes about Afghanistan.  —  It's not the insubordination, stupid.  It's the war.
Washington Post:
McChrystal's fate unclear after brief White House meeting with Obama  —  Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the embattled commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, met one-on-one with President Obama at the White House on Wednesday morning to apologize personally for derogatory comments …
ABCNEWS:
McChrystal's Fate Remains Uncertain After Obama Meeting
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
What's Second Prize?
Discussion: Ezra Klein
blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Breaking: General Stanley McChrystal tenders his resignation
WDSU-TV:
Federal Gov't Halts Sand Berm Dredging  —  Nungesser Pleads With President To Allow Work To Continue  —  NEW ORLEANS — The federal government is shutting down the dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico.  —  The berms are meant to protect the Louisiana coastline from oil.
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Pat Austin / And So it Goes in Shreveport:
The Feds Latest Attempt to Kill Louisiana: Dredging Stopped
Peter Hannaford / American Spectator:
Joe Barton Was Right  —  Rep. Joe Barton of Texas broke an iron law of Washington last week.  He described the elephant in the room that no one was supposed to see.  In this case, it was the strong-arming Obama & Co. applied to BP to get it to “voluntarily” set up a $20 billion fund …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Barton will keep top GOP spot on Energy and Commerce panel
Discussion: Wonkette, USA Today and Balloon Juice
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:   Boehner report claims health reform failed on promises after three months
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Associated Press:
Vitter aide resigns amid report of run-in with law  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Louisiana Sen. David Vitter accepted the resignation of a longtime aide Wednesday after a news report disclosed repeated brushes with the law dating to the 1990s, the Republican's office said Wednesday.
CNN:
Spitzer, Parker to host primetime CNN show  —  CNN announced Wednesday that Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer will host its new 8 p.m. program.  —  Washington (CNN) - Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Kathleen Parker will co-host …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
CNN teams Spitzer, Parker at 8  —  CNN announced Wednesday that Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor, and Kathleen Parker, who won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in April for her conservative newspaper columns, are teaming up in September for a newsy conversation show at 8 p.m., replacing “Campbell Brown.”
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:   Spitzer gets CNN show
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Nikki Haley wins South Carolina primary, Rep. Bob Inglis loses  —  South Carolina state Rep. Nikki Haley cruised to the Republican nomination for governor tonight, a victory that makes her not just the frontrunner for the office this fall but a likely national GOP star.
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Palin racks up two more wins
Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Nikki Fever
Discussion: No More Mister Nice Blog and sisu
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Son of one-time segregationist loses to black Republican
Discussion: The Nation and msnbc.com
Michelle Malkin:
The threat of illegal alien amnesty-by-executive order  —  NumbersUSA posted a letter on Monday from GOP Sen. Grassley and seven other Republican Senators challenging the White House on rumors of illegal alien-amnesty-by-executive order.  The gist of it:
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John / Power Line:
Sharia Comes to Michigan  —  Under Sharia law, it is forbidden to proselytize to Muslims, and no Muslim can leave the faith.  Dearborn, Michigan, is home to a substantial Muslim population, and there is strong evidence that local authorities now enforce sharia in preference to the Constitution of the United States.
Matt Bai / New York Times:
For Jeb Bush, Life Defending the Family Name  —  CORAL GABLES, Fla. — For months now, Jeb Bush has been listening as President Obama blasts his older brother's administration for the battered economy, budget deficits and even the lax oversight of oil wells.
Sean J. Miller / The Hill:
Arizona Democrats urge Obama not to sue over controversial immigration law  —  Arizona Democrats facing tough reelection races are distancing themselves from the Obama administration as it prepares to file a lawsuit against the state over its controversial immigration law.
Harold Meyerson / Washington Post:
Centrist and clueless  —  Liberal Democrats know what they're for: a second stimulus to create more investment and jobs at a time when the economy is still dangerously weak.  Republicans ("conservative Republicans" is redundant) know what they're against: anything the Democrats are for.
Discussion: Open Left and Grasping Reality …
iowahawk:
I'm Beginning to Believe This Obama Fellow Is Unequal to the Task  —  by T. Coddington Van Voorhees VII  —  Intellectual Conservative At-Large  —  Summer once again tiptoes in on crepe soles to the eastern extremities of Long Island; affording, as is its wont, fresh opportunities to enjoy …
 
 
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Associated Press:
More Oil Gushing Into Gulf After Problem With Cap
Discussion: Runnin' Scared
Thomas Sowell / Investor's Business Daily:
Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny?
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Right Now
Yeganeh June Torbati / New York Times:
Bookstore in Capital Seeks Its Next Chapter
Discussion: Tablet Magazine
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Graphic Sex Ed Class Under Fire
Karen Davis / The Commonwealth Fund:
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: How the Performance of the U.S. Health …
Social Security Works / Firedoglake:
Livestreaming the Closed Door Fiscal Commission (Part 5) …
Discussion: Money & Company, Angry Bear and CJR
Wall Street Journal:
Orszag Adieu  —  The ‘cost curve’ bent the budget director.
Discussion: The New Republic and Commentary
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Another rhetorical strikeout from Al Franken
Discussion: The New Republic
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Sebastian Mallaby / The Atlantic Online:
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty
Discussion: Global Guerrillas
Megan Carpentier / TPM LiveWire:
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Reza Kahlili / Forbes:
There Will Be War  —  Last week, Iran's opposition leaders Mir …
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Gene Healy / Washington Examiner:
It's time America had a fat president
Discussion: Pundit & Pundette and Hit & Run
 

 
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