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6:50 AM ET, June 10, 2007

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Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Military Envisions Longer Stay in Iraq  —  Officers Anticipate Small 'Post-Occupation' Force  —  BAGHDAD — U.S. military officials here are increasingly envisioning a "post-occupation" troop presence in Iraq that neither maintains current levels nor leads to a complete pullout …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
News24:
Bush in holy gaffe  —  Vatican City - US President George W Bush drew gasps at the Vatican on Saturday by referring to Pope Benedict XVI as "sir" instead of the expected "His Holiness", pool reporters said.  —  They could clearly hear the US leader say "Yes, sir" when the pope asked …
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:   Bush Violates Papal Protocol
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Judge Walton's Lesson  —  Years ago, when campaigns were drowning in political rhetoric on the crime issue, I got The Post to reassign me temporarily to the District of Columbia courthouse so I could learn from front-line law enforcement what worked — and what didn't — to keep the streets safe.
Discussion: Mercury Rising and TalkLeft
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
5 Myths About Scooter and the Slammer  —  Judge Reggie B. Walton, who sentenced I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to 30 months in prison last week for lying to federal investigators about his role in the leak of a CIA officer's identity, received 373 pages of letters about the high-profile convict whose fate he had to decide.
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
Tim Golden / New York Times:
Chinese Leave Guantánamo for Albanian Limbo  —  TIRANA, Albania — Ahktar Qassim Basit says he is not angry about the four years he spent as an American prisoner at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, before his captors mumbled a brief apology and flew him to this drab Balkan capital to begin a new life as a refugee.
Hank Plante / KPIX-TV:
Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'  —  (CBS 5) BERKELEY A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.
Jon Swift:
I Am Paris Hilton  —  At the end of the film Spartacus a Roman general stands before a great multitude of slaves captured after their failed rebellion and demands that their leader, Spartacus, identify himself to face execution.  Spartacus steps forward and says, "I am Spartacus!" …
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Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Instahoglets June 9th 2007
Discussion: The Agonist
George F. Will / New York Times:
Land of Plenty  —  AFTER the privations of the Depression and war years, Congress passed and President Harry Truman signed the Employment Act of 1946, which made it federal policy to maintain "the propensity to consume."  The choice of the word "propensity" would have seemed droll, were any Congress capable of drollery.
Deborah Haynes / Times of London:
Amid death and chaos, the Scouts revive an idea of fun for children  —  A cordon at the camp protects them from unexploded bombs but the tradition lives on 80 years after it was introduced by the British  —  Armed with rakes and wheelbarrows, a group of Iraqi Scouts and Guides is clearing a patch of Baghdad woodland.
Discussion: The Impolitic
Bruce Kesler / Democracy Project:
Haditha Cases Continue To Crumble  —  The Associated Press reports that according to the attorney for Captain Randy Stone, legal officer for the 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, charged with failing to report or investigate the deaths at Haditha, the investigating officer, Major Thomas McCann …
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Grass Roots Roared and Immigration Plan Collapsed  —  The undoing of the immigration bill in the Senate this week had many players, but none more effective than angry voters like Monique Thibodeaux, who joined a nationwide campaign to derail it.  —  Mrs. Thibodeaux, an office manager …
Discussion: Lonewacko and Let Freedom Ring
Gary Farber / Amygdala:
BANG YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE WALL SLOWLY. the Bush administration has been following through on their brilliant "pro-democracy" programs in Iran, so naturally we're all in a lot of trouble.  But most of all, the Iranian reform movement is.  —  Scott MacLeod at Time asks "Did the U.S. Incite Iran's Crackdown?"
Discussion: Unqualified Offerings
Tim Blair / NEWS.com.au:
Lingo lessons in mateship  —  MANDARIN is a tonal language, as fluent Mandarin tonalist Kevin Rudd will tell you.  This means words that are spelled identically may have entirely different meanings according to the way they are pronounced.  —  Sounds complicated, but it ain't.
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Right message, wrong messenger  —  Take a wild guess who shared these words of wisdom during a recent commencement address (via Jonathan Schwarz): … The words of Al Gore?  Bill Moyers?  Eric Alterman?  —  Try Katie Couric, anchor of the CBS Evening News, who would appear to have some power …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Andrew Ferguson / Washington Post:
What Al Wishes Abe Said  —  You can't really blame Al Gore for not using footnotes in his new book, "The Assault on Reason."  It's a sprawling, untidy blast of indignation, and annotating it with footnotes would be like trying to slip rubber bands around a puddle of quicksilver.
 
 
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Peter Pace's Political Gaming on Libby and Gays Ends His Reign
Telos Press:
Richard Rorty, 1931-2007  —  Richard Rorty, the leading American …
Washington Post:
Cities Take Lead On Environment As Debate Drags At Federal Level
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
For U.S. Unit in Baghdad, An Alliance of Last Resort
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Uncured Bork  —  Reading Emptywheel's post about that horrible …
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Romney Brothers Dish on Dad
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Natasha T. Metzler / Associated Press:
Dean: Democratic president would end war
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