Bush has commuted Libby’s sentence.

Some animals are more equal than others.

Story here.

Steyn also writes:

The second-quarter fundraising numbers are somewhere between bad and disastrous.

Campaign is set to announce their second-quarter numbers at 2 p.m. The over-under between “bad” and “disastrous” appears to be somewhere in the neighborhood of $10 million.

UPDATE: Campaign just announced it raised $11.2 million, but …

[Concept stolen from the inventive Ryan Sager.]

The Corner’s Mark Levin Steyn gets suggestive: “I’ve had a couple of ostensibly well-informed e-mails suggesting that John McCain will quit the race in the next few days.”

Oooh, I get emails, too! And I’ve had a couple of actually well-informed ones suggesting that Levin Steyn’s emails …

Joe Lieberman (Connecticut for Lieberman-Connecticut) on ABC’s “The Week”: “I hope these terrorist attacks in London wake us up here in America to stop the petty partisan fighting going on about…electronic surveillance.”

You know, I’ve never really considered debate over the abdication of civil liberties “petty” or “partisan.” No …

This past Saturday morning, the hundreds of reporters subscribed to the White House press release service received something they should have already read: a full text copy of the NYT article about the Supreme Court’s decision to “hear claims of Guantanamo detainees that they have a right to challenge their detentions in American …

I’d be happy to make this my last word on the subject, but Romney can’t seem to shut up about it:

Romney said, “sometimes when the stories come out in the media they don’t quite get it accurate. The kennel that my family pet used to ride in is enclosed. It’s not an open aired kennel. It’s enclosed and there are air vents of course at

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Yesterday, Mitt told Pittsburgh reporters that Seamus the Setter “loved” his 12 hour open-air thrill ride on top of the family station wagon and that he “liked fresh air.” If all the Romneys express their love for fresh air the same way as Seamus, I think his administration might have a more immediate enivornmental pollution problem than …

WARNING LABEL FOR CRANKY SWAMPLAND COMMENTERS (You know who you are): This is an inside-the-beltway, horserace post. Move along, folks. Nothing to see here.

UPDATE ALREADY: Obama is well past 250,000 donors. I can’t keep up.

Elsewhere on TIME.com, Reynolds Holding takes a look at today’s decision. He does not agree with those who see it as the end of Brown v. Board of Education, but says it complicates the picture for school districts across the country:

Justice Stephen Breyer led Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg in dissent,

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The first big news from the second quarter fundraising race is in. Barack Obama has built a fundraising base that is approaching 250,000 donors–a stunning total. (By comparison, Howard Dean’s campaign, which had set a new standard for grassroots fundraising, claimed about 70,000 for the first two quarters of 2003.) Political …