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Chris Steller / Minnesota Independent:
Bachmann fears ‘politically correct re-education camps for young people’ — U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she fears the Obama administration will create “re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward …
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Andy Birkey / Minnesota Independent:
Bachmann's district has Minnesota's highest foreclosure rates — Source: Housing Link 2008 foreclosure report — Foreclosures have hit Minnesota's economy hard, leading to a debate among policymakers over how best to provide relief to the state's families.
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.
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Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
2006 Israel-Lebanon War Looms Large in Pentagon Debate on Future
2006 Israel-Lebanon War Looms Large in Pentagon Debate on Future
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Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Gates Proposes Radical Overhaul of Pentagon Arsenal
Gates Proposes Radical Overhaul of Pentagon Arsenal
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Quinnipiac University:
Voters Say 3-1 Paterson Does Not Deserve Election, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Most Say He Should Announce Now He Won't Run — New York State voters disapprove 60 - 28 percent of the job Gov. David Paterson is doing, the lowest approval ever for a New York Governor, and say 63 …
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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
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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.
Washington Post:
Americans Support Goal of Improved Relations With Muslim World — Most Americans think President Obama's pledge to “seek a new way forward” with the Muslim world is an important goal, even as nearly half hold negative views about Islam and a sizable number say that even mainstream adherents …
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
THE BUSH SIX — About a year ago, a book came out in England that made a fascinating prediction: at some point in the future, the author wrote, six top officials in the Bush Administration would get a tap on the shoulder announcing that they were being arrested on international charges of torture.
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Jeffrey Sachs / The Huffington Post:
The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought — Two weeks ago, I posted an article showing how the Geithner-Summers banking plan could potentially and unnecessarily transfer hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth from taxpayers to banks. The same basic arithmetic was later described …
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The New Republic:
Let Obama Sleep! — It's a small thing but did Robert Gibbs really need to wake Obama at 4:30 am with news of the North Korean missile launch? We knew the launch was coming and Obama had no imminent decision to make. Waking the president to tell him things so he can return to a troubled sleep …
Gary Andres / Weekly Standard:
Pew: Partisan Gap in Obama's Approval Largest in Modern History — Pew released a poll last week showing the partisan gap in President Obama's approval numbers is the largest in modern history. Like many recent surveys, Pew finds Obama's overall approval rating at 59 percent.
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Peter Wehner / Commentary:
Obama's Partisan Divide
Obama's Partisan Divide
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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 …
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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
No one is trying to silence right-wing fearmongers — but it is time to stand up to them — John Amato's virtual online magazine...OK, It's a blog! — Advertising- Commenting- General Problems- Media Problems- Supported Browsers- User Registration — Blogs » David Neiwert's blog
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.
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.
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Gavin Jones / Reuters:
Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake — Source: Reuters — An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population.
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Mark Hemingway / National Review:
Jake Tapper Isn't Letting Go — Jake Tapper isn't the easiest guy to interview. After all, when your interview subject is a competent journalist, he or she already knows all the tricks of the trade — the subtle flatteries, the ever-so-slightly leading questions — so Tapper …
Financial Times:
The fiscal hole that must be filled — While Barack Obama was in Europe last week, Congress was voting on his budget. Because of the administration's surpassing ambitions, and because of the colossal demands its budget will place on domestic and international capital markets …
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Roger Altman / Financial Times:
Why this will not be a normal cyclical recovery
Why this will not be a normal cyclical recovery
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Franken-Coleman gravy train rides on — At least one constituency was thrilled by recent reports suggesting that the seemingly endless Minnesota Senate race could drag out even longer, perhaps for years — Washington fundraisers. — The epic Senate recount battle between Republican Norm Coleman …
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Khaled Wassef / CBS News:
Saudis Report Plot To Assassinate Obama — The Saudi Arabian newspaper al-Watan reported today that Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian origins Friday in connection with a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama during his current visit to Turkey.
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.
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 …