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7:05 PM ET, April 3, 2009

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Des Moines Register:
Unanimous ruling: Iowa marriage no longer limited to one man, one woman  —  REGISTER STAFF REPORTS  —  The Iowa Supreme Court this morning unanimously upheld gays' right to marry.  —  “The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates the equal protection clause …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
King warns of ‘gay marriage Mecca’  —  Western Iowa Rep. Steve King:  —  This is an unconstitutional ruling and another example of activist judges molding the Constitution to achieve their personal political ends.  Iowa law says that marriage is between one man and one woman.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and TIME.com
Desmoinesdem / Bleeding Heartland:
Iowa Supreme Court strikes down Defense of Marriage Act  —  The Iowa Supreme Court unanimously affirmed a lower-court ruling that struck down Iowa's 1998 Defense of Marriage Act.  Various legal experts who watched the oral arguments in December expected the plaintiffs in Varnum v Brien to prevail …
New York Times:
Iowa Court Voids Gay Marriage Ban  —  DES MOINES — Iowa became the first state in the Midwest to approve same-sex marriage on Friday, after the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously decided that a 1998 law limiting marriage to a man and a woman was unconstitutional.
Ed Whelan / The Corner:
The Iowa Supreme Court's Attack on Marriage  —  The lawless judicial attack on traditional marriage and on representative government continues.  Today the Iowa supreme court ruled unanimously (7-) that a “state statute limiting civil marriage to a union between a man and a woman violates …
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
King: Allowing Gay Marriage Will Make Iowa The ‘Gay Marriage Mecca’
Discussion: #gay
Ann Friedman / American Prospect:   MARRIAGE EQUALITY IN IOWA.
CNN:
Gunman believed to be among 14 dead in N.Y.  —  (CNN) — A gunman barricaded the back door of an immigration services center with his car and burst through the front door on a shooting rampage, killing 13 people and then, apparently, himself, police said.  —  Four more were wounded in the attack …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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New York Times:
At Least 12 Slain in Binghamton, N.Y.
Discussion: The Lede and Crooks and Liars
Press & Sun-Bulletin:
Binghamton shooting leaves 13 dead
Discussion: Don Surber
Eamon Javers / The Politico:
Inside Obama's bank CEOs meeting  —  The bankers struggled to make themselves clear to the president of the United States.  —  Arrayed around a long mahogany table in the White House state dining room last week, the CEOs of the most powerful financial institutions in the world offered several explanations …
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Ted Stevens should run against Palin, Alaska Republican says  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - Now that the corruption case against former Sen. Ted Stevens has been dropped, Alaska Rep. Don Young wants Stevens to run for governor — a move that would set up a Republican primary between the veteran lawmaker …
Discussion: Think Progress, TPMDC and MyDD
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Economist.com l WASHINGTON / Democracy in America:
New frontiers in sore loserdom
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
The Hill:
Palin, GOP split over special election
Discussion: Swing State Project
New York Times:
Mr. Holder and the Ted Stevens Case
Discussion: Commentary and At-Largely
The Tyra Banks Show:
Levi Johnston Breaks His Silence  —  For the first time, Levi Johnston, the former fiancé of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol, breaks his silence and sits down exclusively with the “Tyra Show.”  —  Levi talks about his relationship with Bristol, what it was like to be thrust …
John Crace / Guardian:
Question that flummoxed great orator  —  Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis.
Rachel Holmes / Guardian:
Michelle's fashion face-off with Carla  —  It was the moment the fashion world was waiting for: stylish Michelle Obama and chic Carla Bruni-Sarkozy came face-to-face in Strasbourg.  Who came out on top?  —  Last year, we avidly followed the wardrobe manoeuvres of Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Discussion: The Swamp, TIME.com and The Impolitic
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Michelle Obama, Carla Bruni ‘smackdown’
Discussion: Telegraph, The Politico and TIME.com
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Journalists Give The First Lady Full Marks at G-20
Discussion: Vanity Fair, Townhall.com and Hot Air
Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog:
It's a Depression  —  The March employment numbers, out this morning, are bleak: 8.5 percent of Americans officially unemployed, 663,000 more jobs lost.  But if you include people who are out of work and have given up trying to find a job, the real unemployment rate is 9 percent.
Discussion: Liberty Street and NewsBusters.org
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
THE STRANGE CASE OF EVAN BAYH.  —  Ben Nelson genuinely is a conservative Democrat.  The Poole-Rosenthal rankings — which most consider the leading measure of a congressman's relative ideology — have, for years, ranked Nelson as the most conservative member of the Congress.  Call him Democrat #1.
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Michael J. Boskin / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's $163,000 Tax Bomb  —  Families well below the president's ‘no-tax’ threshold will get a six-figure bill.  —  The House and Senate are preparing to pass President Barack Obama's radical budget blueprint, with only minor modifications, by using (abusing would be more accurate) the budget “reconciliation” process.
Discussion: Ross Douthat
James M. Odato / Albany Times Union:
Tedisco faces revolt over Assembly leadership  —  ALBANY — Assembly Minority Leader James Tedisco will either step aside or face a vote of no confidence next week as he awaits the outcome of his deadlocked House race, Assembly sources say.  —  An unhappy Republican conference is set …
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Tatiana Zarnowski / The Daily Gazette:
It's 77,225 apiece: Murphy, Tedisco now in a dead heat
Discussion: TPMDC, City Room and the albany project
The Week Magazine:
I smoke pot, and I like it  —  “The answer is no, I don't think that is a good strategy to grow our economy.”  President Obama said it with a chuckle last week at a town hall-style forum.  The idea was for Obama to answer some questions about the economy submitted to the White House website.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
I Have Smoked Pot and Don't Really Care for It
Discussion: Overruled
Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
Obama Loses Place On Teleprompter.  Ouch!  —  Different setting, different Obama.  Gone are the constant “ahhhhs,” long blank pauses and stiffness that we saw earlier this morning.  I thought the teleprompter was his savior until this little glitch happened at his...
Discussion: Pundit & Pundette
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama's Ultimate Agenda  —  Five minutes of explanation to James Madison, and he'll have a pretty good idea what a motorcar is (basically a steamboat on wheels; the internal combustion engine might take a few minutes more).  Then try to explain to Madison how the Constitution he fathered allows …
Deirdre Walsh / CNN:
Reporters' hair irks Boehner  —  (CNN) — House Republican Leader John Boehner is known for regularly poking fun at reporters about their hairstyles.  But at his weekly press conference on Thursday he couldn't contain himself.  —  As he launched into his regular refrain about the Democrats' budget …
Kirk Victor / National Journal Online:
McCain Rebukes Hispanic Voters  —  STUNG OVER THE VOTING BLOC'S 2-TO-1 SUPPORT OF OBAMA IN NOVEMBER, THE SENATOR SAYS TO LOOK TO THE NEW PRESIDENT FOR IMMIGRATION LEADERSHIP.  —  John McCain sounds angry and frustrated that, despite the risks he took in pushing immigration reform …
Discussion: Think Progress, Salon, Hot Air and RedState
Wall Street Journal:
Cap and Tax Collapse  —  Congress balks at one more bad Obama idea.  —  Please pass Al Gore a Valium — and better make it a double — because his cap-and-trade dreams just took a dive in the U.S. Senate.  In a vote late Wednesday, no fewer than 26 Democrats joined all 41 Republicans …
 
 
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Congress backs off AIG crackdown
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Cynthia Dizikes / MinnPost:
Coleman travels to Washington and talks - a little
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Nicole Carter / NY Daily News:
Michelle Obama J.Crew outfits in London prompt shopping frenzy stateside
Laura Strickler / CBS News:
Rep. Murtha Wants $134M In Earmarks
BBC:
Israel cabinet picture doctored to remove women
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Obama offers tough love to Europe
Discussion: The Swamp and Guardian
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Michael Wolff / Newser:
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James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
Fannie, Freddie Set to Pay $210 Million in Retention Bonuses
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Hot Air
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Kristol: A Must Read
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Little Change in Negative Images of Bush and Cheney
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and TPMDC
John McCormick / Chicago Tribune:
‘Congressman A’: Rahm Emanuel
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