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9:40 AM ET, April 6, 2009

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Attaturk / Firedoglake:
Letting Stupid beget Stupid  —  Newt Gingrich — with all his Boss Hogg gravitas — prattled on FoxNews Sunday about the “recklessness” of Obama's foreign policy, while proclaiming we should attack North Korea with ‘frickin’ lasers.  Meanwhile, Obama was making a speech in front …
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Wall Street Journal:
Satellite Proposals Gain Traction After North Korea's Launch  —  U.S. intelligence agencies are capitalizing on North Korea's weekend rocket launch to advance proposals to deploy two new spy satellite systems estimated to cost a total of about $10 billion, according to government and industry officials.
Los Angeles Times:
U.N. Security Council fails to agree on North Korea reaction  —  A U.S.-led effort to issue a joint condemnation of the rocket launch founders amid reports of Russian and Chinese reluctance to antagonize the volatile regime and endanger talks.  —  Reporting from Washington and The United Nations …
Discussion: Washington Post and Pajamas Media
Wall Street Journal:
From Bubble to Depression?  —  Bubbles have been frequent in economic history, and they occur in the laboratories of experimental economics under conditions which — when first studied in the 1980s — were considered so transparent that bubbles would not be observed.
Discussion: Reason, Economist's View and EconLog
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Geithner Says Government Would Remove Bank Chiefs if Needed  —  WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the federal government might remove top bank executives or board members if “exceptional” assistance is required to keep the banks operating in the future.
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Andrew Rosenfield / New York Times:
How to Clean a Dirty Bank  —  COMMERCIAL banks in the United States are not subject to the bankruptcy statute — when they become insolvent they are simply acquired by the government.  This is what banks sign on for in return for a charter, deposit insurance and direct access …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Bill Moyers Journal
Little Green Footballs:
Bush Bowed Too  —  More than a few people on the right are screaming that Barack Obama should be impeached for bowing to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.  —  Those of you who are buying into this hyperventilating nonsense need to see this video.  (Click the image to watch.)
Louise Story / New York Times:
A Rich Education for Summers (After Harvard)  —  Lawrence H. Summers plays down his stint in the hedge fund business as a mere part-time job — but the financial and intellectual rewards that he gained there would make even most full-time workers envious.  —  Mr. Summers, the former Treasury secretary …
Discussion: Clusterstock
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
Even Rick Wagoner's Firing Got Lousy Mileage
Iain Martin / Iain Martin's blog listings:
Barack Obama really does go on a bit  —  Isn't it time for him to go home yet?  It is good, in theory, that the new President of the United States is taking so much time to tour Europe.  He arrived in London last Tuesday, has been to Strasbourg, Prague yesterday and now he's off to Turkey.
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Wendy Koch / USA Today:
Homelessness up as families on the edge lose hold  —  Cities and counties are reporting a sharp increase in homeless families as the economic crisis leads to job loss and makes housing unaffordable.  —  In Seattle, 40% more people are living on suburban streets.
Discussion: Think Progress
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Life After Newspapers  —  Few industries in this country have been as coddled as newspapers.  The government doesn't actually write them checks, as it does to farmers and now to banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers.  But politicians routinely pay court to local newspapers …
Discussion: The Opinionator and Sister Toldjah
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obamateurism of the Day  —  George Bush's critics rightly roasted him for his tortured syntax and waterboarded grammar, and used it to make the claim that the graduate of both Harvard and Yale was an idiot.  Well, perhaps, but I don't recall him ever claiming that Austrian was a language.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and RedState
The Daily Beast:
Are Republicans Blackmailing Obama?  —  Amanda Knox Co-Ed Murder Trial: The Convicted Rapist Speaks  —  Blogs and Stories  —  If the president releases the Bush torture memos, Republicans are promising to “go nuclear” and filibuster his legal appointments.  Scott Horton reports on a serious threat to Obama's transparency.
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Hannity: Obama ‘Harbors Deep Resentment’ Of America, Just Like Dixie Chicks  —  On Friday, President Obama told a town hall audience in Strasbourg, France, that America's tendency to dismiss Europe — as well as Europe's tendency to blame America for every problem — had to end.
Charles Piller / Sacramento Bee:
Billionaire Buffett benefits from bailout he promoted  —  Financier Warren Buffett has been lauded for his plain-spoken denunciation of the greed and foolishness behind the economic crisis.  He has pushed the massive federal bailout of imploding banks as the essential response to an “economic Pearl Harbor.”
Discussion: Don Surber
Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Good News: First U.S. Based Pro-al Qaeda Magazine Released  —  It's called Jihad Recollections and is a production of Charlotte, NC al Qaeda supporter Samir Khan's self-styled jihad media company, as-Fursan.  You can download a PDF version at the links provided by Sammy here.
Discussion: Anonymouse.org and Flopping Aces
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
2006 Israel-Lebanon War Looms Large in Pentagon Debate on Future  —  Leaders Divided on Whether to Focus On Conventional or Irregular Combat  —  A war that ended three years ago and involved not a single U.S. soldier has become the subject of an increasingly heated debate inside the Pentagon …
Discussion: Soccer Dad
 
 
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BBC:
Mecca mosques ‘wrongly aligned’
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Real Clear Politics:
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Salena Zito / Real Clear Politics:
Card Check, Plan B, and 2010
Discussion: Commentary, Kausfiles and GayPatriot
Jimmie / The Sundries Shack:
Hate Speech from the Democrats Online Golden Boy
Nikki Finke / Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily:
EXCLUSIVE: Fox News Fires Showbiz Columnist For “Promoting” Piracy
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Scott Waldman / Albany Times Union:
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Ben Pershing / Washington Post:
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Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
David Gregory Tries To Union Bust Auto Companies; GM CEO Refuses To Play Along
Discussion: The Raw Story
Mohammed Tawfeeq CNN / CNN:
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The Atlantic Online:
How the Crash Will Reshape America
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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40 per cent of Australian women wear a bra with a cup size DD or bigger
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