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12:55 PM ET, May 2, 2007

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New York Times:
Bush Vetoes Bill Tying Iraq Funds to Exit  —  President Bush vetoed a $124 billion war spending bill on Tuesday, setting up a second round in his long battle with Congressional Democrats who are determined to use the financing measure to force the White House to shift course in Iraq.
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New York Times:
Citing 'Rigid' Deadline, Bush Vetoes Iraq Bill  —  President Bush vetoed the Iraq-war spending bill this evening, calling it a blueprint for failure and defeat and intensifying a showdown with the Democratic-controlled Congress.  —  Mr. Bush said the bill was unacceptable because it set …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Parsing the Polls: No Room For Compromise on Iraq
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and CJR Daily
Jerome Armstrong / MyDD:
Obama blows into MySpace  —  This seems like it was bound to happen with Obama's top-down campaign structure as it grows by leaps and bounds.  With much of that energy coming from a bottom up movement that's responsible for that growth, the campaign moves in to take control of the decentralized action.
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Micah L. Sifry / techPresident:
The Battle to Control Obama's Myspace  —  In November 2004, Joe Anthony, a paralegal living in Los Angeles, started a unofficial fan page for then-newly-elected Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) on MySpace.com.  Inspired by Obama's keynote address at that summer's Democratic convention, Anthony had never been politically active before.
Discussion: PrezVid and Hotline On Call
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Surrenders to Mob
Discussion: Digg the Blog, Valleywag and Althouse
Alan Schwarz / New York Times:
Study of N.B.A. Sees Racial Bias in Calling Fouls  —  An academic study of the National Basketball Association, whose playoffs continue tonight, suggests that a racial bias found in other parts of American society has existed on the basketball court as well.
Howard Fineman / Newsweek:
Obama's Talking Points  —  A leaked document shows how staffers prep the Democratic presidential hopeful as he courts support among party leaders.  —  May 1, 2007 - Here's the private advice Sen. Barack Obama's staff gave him the other day as he prepared to make a series of phone calls in search of support:
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Ben Evans / Associated Press:
Edwards dominates money race in South
Carpetbagger / The Carpetbagger Report:
Is Rice engaging in 'bad behavior'?  —  I can't wait to hear the noise machine blather endlessly about how Condoleezza Rice is undermining U.S. policy by chatting with Syrian officials.  (thanks to L.J. for the tip) … Ah yes, the Pelosi meeting.  As I recall, when the Speaker …
Discussion: Think Progress
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:   Rice Meets with Iraq's Prime Minister on Eve of Conference
Noah Shachtman / Wired News:
Army Squeezes Soldier Blogs, Maybe to Death  —  The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned.  The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Ronald Reagan, In His Own Words  —  Ronald Reagan thought Alexander Haig was "utterly paranoid," considered former senator Lowell Weicker "a pompous, no good fathead" and was "surprised at how shy" Michael Jackson was.  —  Reagan also refused to talk to his son after Ron Reagan hung up on him …
Russ Buettner / New York Times:
Giuliani's Tie to Texas Law Firm May Pose Risk  —  For a native New Yorker mounting a first bid for national office, Rudolph W. Giuliani has shown an impressive ability to raise money in Texas, where his Republican presidential campaign collected $2.2 million in the first quarter of the year, far more than any other candidate.
Los Angeles Times:
Small turnout, big questions  —  Rallies draw a fraction of last year's crowd as activists ponder the movement's future.  Clash erupts in evening.  —  Waving U.S. flags and demanding citizenship for undocumented immigrants, tens of thousands of jubilant protesters marched through the streets …
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Nico / Think Progress:
Immigration rally disrupted by police.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Sun:
Mr. Broder Goes to Washington  —  So the entire Democratic caucus in the United States Senate — 50 senators — has sent a letter to the Washington Post attacking the dean of the Washington press corps, David Broder, for a column in which Mr. Broder dared to criticize their leader for his preemptive surrender to the terrorists in Iraq.
Matthew Yglesias:
Sowell's Coup  —  This is interesting.  Utterly without further context or elaboration, Thomas Sowell writes: … I could feign outrage, but I've got to admit that, I, too, have had this thought from time to time especially during moments (see, e.g., 2005) when my political preferences weren't faring well …
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Jessica Heslam / Boston Herald:
Mitt's new flip-flop is out of this world  —  Already under scrutiny for shifting positions on key issues and his Mormon faith, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has made a bizarre new flip flop - saying on national TV his favorite novel is Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's "Battlefield Earth."
James Risen / New York Times:
Administration Pulls Back on Surveillance Agreement  —  Senior Bush administration officials told Congress on Tuesday that they could not pledge that the administration would continue to seek warrants from a secret court for a domestic wiretapping program, as it agreed to do in January.
Atrios / Eschaton:
The Most Stupendous Trolling Effort Yet  —  On the cover of a magazine, no less!  —  A not insignificant columnist once asked me who my favorite columnist was.  As with the "favorite movie" or "favorite book" question that answer would vary depending on what popped into my head …
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Michael Calderone / New York Observer:
Times Withdraws From Chummy Galas, Leaving Rove Dateless  —  "This is a moment when people already think the press is too cozy with government," said Dean Baquet, The New York Times' Washington, D.C., bureau chief.  "And I think these events confirm that."  —  Mr. Baquet was on the phone …
Discussion: Media Blog
 
 
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Radley Balko / Reason Magazine:
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup Poll:
Americans Favor Iraq Timetable, But Not Necessarily a Speedy Withdrawal
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Kelly Thornton / San Diego Union-Tribune:
Separate trial, transfer of venue sought for ex-CIA official
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Graeme Wilson / Telegraph:
Brown to be PM in weeks, says Blair
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Politics / Washington Post:
Edwards Ads Take Aim At Veto
The Blotter:
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Interior official quits ahead of hearing
Arizona Republic:
Renzi's taxes telling
Media Matters for America:
Beck said Gore using "same tactic" …
Discussion: Daily Kos
New York Times:
News Corp. Makes a $5 Billion Bid for Dow Jones
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Biden on Iraq bill: "We're going to shove it down his throat."
Discussion: TIME, Betsy's Page and On Deadline