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2:10 PM ET, April 6, 2009

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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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Aaron Blake / The Hill:
Gillibrand raises $2.3 million in two months
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Elizabeth Benjamin / NY Daily News:
Benjamin: Clock ticking on Dave to shape up
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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Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Obama tells Turks that US is not at war with Islam
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Despite Promise, No Recognition Of Genocide From Obama
Discussion: Fox News and Ben Smith's Blog
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
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 …
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Robert Farley / American Prospect:
NORTH KOREA MISSILE TEST: F+.
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.
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 …
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Bill Moyers Journal:
William K. Black on The Prompt Corrective Action Law
Discussion: TalkLeft
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.
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.
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Special panel set to do last count in Minn. Senate race  —  The Minnesota Senate race has been undecided for so long that “it's sort of like the Iraq war,” says Bruce Carlson of Brooklyn Park, Minn. “People almost forget that it's still going on.”  —  A sharp reminder will come Tuesday …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Franken-Coleman gravy train rides on
Discussion: PoliGazette
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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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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Oliver Willis:
Truth Stings  —  The conservative blogs are enraged that people are pointing out that they have and are stoking the fires of an atmosphere of hate that leads to police officers getting killed.  As I've written for years, this is part of their pattern of behavior in America and for too long we've accepted …
Stanley Fish / New York Times:
Ward Churchill Redux  —  Last Thursday, a jury in Denver ruled that the termination of activist-teacher Ward Churchill by the University of Colorado had been wrongful (a term of art) even though a committee of his faculty peers had found him guilty of a variety of sins.
Associated Press:
Exonerated Miss. men sue over bite mark testimony  —  JACKSON — Two Mississippi men wrongfully sent to prison have filed federal lawsuits against the medical experts who testified the men left bite marks on two slain children.  —  Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks, both of Noxubee County …
Discussion: Reason and The Agitator
Jessie Pounds / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Cultural divide: Mosque doesn't agree with restaurant's plan to serve alcohol  —  Editors Note: Comments were sadly disabled on this story due to issues overnight Sunday with commenters.  Please be respectful of others in commenting.  —  It's a Fort Sanders clash of cultures and good intentions.
Discussion: Right Wing News and Stop The ACLU
beliefnet:
Why Didn't Ashcroft-the-Christian Stop The Torture?  —  When George W. Bush was running for President, Christians hoped that having a devout man in the White House would lead to more a more moral government..  —  But Bush wasn't the most interesting test of the theory.
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
 
 
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Associated Press:
High court lets Abu-Jamal's conviction stand
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and On Deadline
Justin Fox / The Curious Capitalist:
Dutch finance minister Wouter Bos gives Tim Geithner some advice on bonuses
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Felix Salmon
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Some voluntary confessions still out
Discussion: TalkLeft
Robert Reich / TPMCafe:
Will Geithner Fire Corporate America?
Discussion: Capital Journal and D-Day
Hugh Hewit / www.washingtonexaminer.com:
Voting to kill and injure kids: A congressional CYA endangers children
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Roger Altman / Financial Times:
Why this will not be a normal cyclical recovery
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Fox News:
Families Bury Binghamton, N.Y. Shooting Victims; New Details Emerge About Gunman
Discussion: Townhall.com
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Obama's Grass-Roots ‘Organizing for America’ Isn't a Factor in Budget Battle
Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Pentagon lets media see return of US war dead
Wendy Koch / USA Today:
Homelessness up as families on the edge lose hold
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