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Transcript from just now on MSNBC:

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Bob Novak’s going to go on television tomorrow and give away one of the sources in the infamous Valerie Plame leak story. It’s going to be Bill Harlow, the spokesman for the CIA all those years. He’s going to identify him as one of his sources, apparently the other source is still maintaining his deep background sourcing role here. … Bob Novak’s office has just now confirmed to Hardball that his confirming source — that’s the one that said, “So you heard,” and backed up the initial source — in learning about Valerie Plame’s identity with the CIA, her undercover identity, was Bill Harlow, the former CIA Public Information Officer. Bill Harlow himself hasn’t commented so far.

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Tom DeLay's own hand-picked judge has handed him another blow. Texas Republicans have been fighting to keep DeLay off the ballot and handpick his successor. But they lost. DeLay withdrew from the race after being indicted for violating Texas campaign finance laws. But since he withdrew after the primary elections and filing deadlines, Democrats filed suit when Republicans tried to replace DeLay. The GOP made a motion to move the case from state court to federal court, hoping to find a sympathetic friend in Judge Sam Sparks, who was nominated to his position by George H. W. Bush in 1991.

A decorated Ohio Active Duty Marine who has been serving in Iraq is returning one of his medals out of protest. A modern day version of throwing your medal over the fence:

A local Marine who service in Iraq earned several medals for serving his country, but he's giving back one of the medals to the White House as a form of protest.

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The election year issue of gay marriage can't seem to stay out of the press:

New York's highest court ruled Thursday that gay marriage is not allowed under state law, rejecting arguments by same-sex couples who said the law violates their constitutional rights.

The Court of Appeals, in a 4-2 decision, said New York's marriage law is constitutional and clearly limits marriage to between a man and a woman.

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Despite all the Bush administration's rhetoric about "never forgetting" the attacks of 9/11, the CIA has given up efforts to catch the mastermind of those terrorist attacks:

The Central Intelligence Agency has closed a unit that for a decade had the mission of hunting Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, intelligence officials confirmed Monday.

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North Korea has gone through with its test missile launch.

North Korea test-fired several missiles in the early hours of Wednesday, July 5 (Tuesday afternoon Eastern time), apparently including the Taepodong-2, the long-range missile at the heart of diplomatic tensions with the United States and its allies, according to reports by Reuters, The Associated Press, CNN and other agencies, citing sources in Japan and Washington.

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One of my favorite Indpendence Day speeches, by Franklin Roosevelt: 

For 166 years this Fourth Day of July has been a symbol to the people of our country of the democratic freedom which our citizens claim as their precious birthright. On this grim anniversary its meaning has spread over the entire globe--focusing the attention of the world upon the modern freedoms for which all the United Nations are now engaged in deadly war.

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After two scheduled launches were delayed, NASA has decided to move forward with an Independence Day launch of the Shuttle Discovery at 2:38 EDT at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A small piece of foam fell off the external fuel tank over the weekend, and engineers conisdered halting the launch again. A panel of NASA scientists, however, concluded unanimously that their was little conern and to move forward with the scheduled launch. The luanch had been delayed on Saturday and Sunday due to weather concerns. CNN: