Top Items:
DefenseLINK:
Budget Press Briefing (Arlington, VA) — As Prepared for Delivery by Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates, Arlington, VA, Monday, April 06, 2009 — Today, I am announcing the key decisions I will recommend to the president with respect to the fiscal year 2010 defense budget.
RELATED:
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Pentagon Chief Rips Heart Out of Army's ‘Future’ — In 2003, the U.S. Army introduced its plan to wage the wars of tomorrow. A fleet of light, networked, electric-powered combat vehicles would speed American forces into battle against another superpower military — and win the fight almost instantly …
Discussion:
Fox News
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:Bipartisan Call for Obama to Reverse Missile Defense Cuts
Discussion:
Commentary
ABCNEWS:
Stolen Cessna Pursued by Jet Fighters Lands on Highway — Pilot Took Off Running After Landing Plane, Officials Say — A Cessna stolen from a Canadian flight school landed on a Missouri highway late today, after being pursued for hours across the Midwest by fighter jets ready to shoot it down if it was determined to be a threat.
RELATED:
Robert Imrie / Associated Press:
Man nabbed after plane taken from Canada to Mo. — WAUSAU, Wis. - A single-engine airplane flown away from an airport in Canada by a student pilot Monday was intercepted by jet fighters over Wisconsin but kept flying south through two more states. It finally landed on a road in southeastern Missouri and the pilot was apprehended.
Discussion:
Chicago Breaking News
Ernest Luning / Colorado Independent:
Focus on the Family narrator arrested for luring teenage girl for sex on Net — A Colorado Springs man who narrates the Bible in Spanish on CDs and works in the Spanish broadcasting department of Focus on the Family appeared in court Monday in Golden on two felony counts of using the Internet …
RELATED:
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
New and worse secrecy and immunity claims from the Obama DOJ — When Congress immunized telecoms last August for their illegal participation in Bush's warrantless eavesdropping program, Senate Democratic apologists for telecom immunity repeatedly justified that action by pointing …
Discussion:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
RELATED:
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Administration defends Bush wire-taps — (04-06) 15:26 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — The Obama administration is again invoking government secrecy in defending the Bush administration's wiretapping program, this time against a lawsuit by AT&T customers who claim federal agents illegally intercepted …
Jerusalem Post:
‘Turkey foils plot to assassinate Obama’ — Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian descent who was planning to assassinate US President Barack Obama during his current trip to Turkey, the Saudi daily Al Watan reported Monday. — According to the report, the man …
RELATED:
Khaled Wassef / CBS News:Saudis Report Plot To Assassinate Obama
Discussion:
Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Political Byline, Dinah Lord, The College Politico and Political Machine
CBS News:
Poll: Obama Approval Hits New High - 66% — CBS/NY Times Survey Finds Most Believe World Leaders Respect President, Though They Maintain U.S. Is Not Respected Overall — (CBS) As President Obama concludes his well-publicized trip to Europe, Americans are more positive about the respect accorded …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Report Outlines Medical Workers' Role in Torture — WASHINGTON — Medical personnel were deeply involved in the abusive interrogation of terrorist suspects held overseas by the Central Intelligence Agency, including torture, and their participation was a “gross breach of medical ethics,” …
RELATED:
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Frank 'I'm A Member Of Dick Cheney's Fan Club' Gaffney: Obama's ‘Respect’ For Muslims Is Code For Submission — The right wing has been apoplectic over President Obama's words and actions while in Europe. A large amount of their outrage has been over the fact that Obama briefly bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
John / Power Line:
The Apology Tour: Will It Ever End? — Earlier today, President Obama addressed the Parliament of Turkey. What made news were his positive references to Islam: … This is, of course, indistinguishable from many similar pronouncements that were made by President Bush.
RELATED:
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
A.P. Seeks to Rein in Sites Using Its Content — Taking aim at the way news is spread across the Internet, The Associated Press said on Monday that Web sites that used the work of news organizations must obtain permission and share revenue with them, and that it would take legal action against those that did not.
Jimmy Vielkind / politickerny.com:
Murphy Leads by 83; Judge Says Start Counting Paper Ballots on Wednesday, Finish Machine Recanvass ASAP — ALBANY—The most up-to-date figures we can muster in the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress now has Democrat Scott Murphy leading by 83 votes over Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, state and county elections officials said.
Bill Whittle / Pajamas Media:
A MESSAGE TO THE RICH — The Washington Post ran a column a few days ago, in which a Mr. Joel Berg applauds the Obama Administration for reducing the amount of charitable deduction that The Rich are allowed to take when they write a check to charity. — Mr. Berg - who runs a charitable foundation …
Discussion:
Redhot
New York Times:
Poll Finds New Optimism on Economy Since Inauguration — Americans have grown more optimistic about the economy and the direction of the country in the 11 weeks since President Obama was inaugurated, suggesting that he is enjoying some success in his critical task of rebuilding the nation's confidence …
Barry Eichengreen / voxeu.org:
A Tale of Two Depressions — Often cited comparisons - which look only at the US - find that today's crisis is milder than the Great Depression. In this column, two leading economic historians show that the world economy is now plummeting as it did in the Great Depression; indeed …
ArkansasBusiness.com:
Lincoln Says She Will Vote Against Employee Free Choice Act — Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., told a Monday meeting of the Little Rock Political Animals Club that she will oppose the Employee Free Choice Act. — Lincoln's office said the senator will release a statement on the legislation this afternoon.
CNBC:
US Recovery Is Far Off, Banks Are ‘Basically Insolvent’: Soros — The U.S. economy is in for a “lasting slowdown” and could face a Japan-style period of relatively low growth coupled with high inflation, billionaire investor George Soros said on Monday. — Soros, speaking to Reuters …
Times of London:
Bob Dylan on Barack Obama, Ulysses Grant and American Civil War ghosts — Listen to an exclusive track from Bob Dylan's new album, and read his views on US politics and history, exclusively on Times Online — Exclusive track: Listen to Feel A Change Comin' On
Kevin Drum / MoJo Blog Posts:
Fun With Phosphates — The blogosphere had a few laughs last week at the expense of RedState head honcho Eric Erickson, who warned that revolution was coming and told residents of Washington state, “I'd be cleaning my gun right about now waiting to protect my property from the coming riots …
John Carney / Clusterstock:
Geithner Wrong, Crap Assets Correctly Priced, Say Harvard And Princeton Profs — The government's official view that toxic assets are incorrectly priced due to illiquidity “fire sales” is wrong, a new study by Harvard and Princeton finance professors suggests.
Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Raul Castro meets with 6 visiting US lawmakers — HAVANA - President Raul Castro met with six visiting members of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than four hours, his first face-to-face discussions with U.S. leaders since he became Cuba's president last year.
Discussion:
The Washington Note
Fred Barbash / The Politico:
Newt: U.S. at greater risk under Obama — The U.S. is at greater risk of terrorist attack because of the Obama administration's actions, Newt Gingrich said Monday. — In a chat with POLITICO readers, Gingrich also called the administration's response to the North Korean missile launch a …
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Scenes From the Real America — I spent Saturday at the bi-annual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, right outside of Louisville, Ky. Gun enthusiasts of all stripes were there — from the National Rifle Association and sportsmen to militia members to white supremacists and Obama birthers.
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
