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Rick Santorum / Philly.com:
The Elephant in the Room: Obama vs. United States — The president is contemptuous of American values. And one key nominee prefers the judgment of other countries and global elites. — Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes …
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The President Has Become a Divisive Figure — Compare his start with George W. Bush's. — The Pew Research Center reported last week that President Barack Obama “has the most polarized early job approval of any president” since surveys began tracking this 40 years ago.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Polarization Meme — I was scarfing a Five Guys burger yesterday late in the afternoon - good times - when I glanced over the op-ed page of the Washington Post. I read this piece by Michael Gerson, chuckled and scoffed a little and then went on my merry way to the gym.
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Santorum: Obama has ‘deep-seated antipathy toward American values.’
Santorum: Obama has ‘deep-seated antipathy toward American values.’
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Arizona State: Obama unready for degree — President Barack Obama may be delivering a commencement address at Arizona State University this Spring - one of three campuses where the president will send off the graduating classes of 2009 - but he won't be coming home with any degree.
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Adam Sneed / ASU Web Devil:
Obama won't receive ASU honorary degree — President Obama speaks at Mesa's Dobson High School earlier this year. ASU announced that President Obama will not receive an honorary degree when he visits ASU for the spring commencement ceremony. (Matt Pavelek | The State Press)
Dawn Teo / The Huffington Post:
ASU Stiffs Obama, Claims Too Inexperienced For Honorary Degree — TEMPE, ARIZONA - Universities typically confer an honorary degree on commencement speakers, particularly those who have reached the pinnacle of their career or achieved the top of their field.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Post Reporter Says It's Not His Job to Check the Accuracy of People He's Quoting — You rarely see the kind of full-throated defense of journalism-as-stenography that The Washington Post's Paul Kane offers up here: … This is fairly simple. What we want is that if you're …
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
You Can Lead A Reporter to Water, But You Can't Make Him Call It A Spending Increase
You Can Lead A Reporter to Water, But You Can't Make Him Call It A Spending Increase
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Facing South
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Kerry calls for pirate hearings as drama continues — The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee called for hearings on the mounting piracy threat as the fate of an American cargo-ship captain remained in limbo Thursday. — “These acts of piracy off of Somalia's coastline may seem surreal …
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James Gordon Meek / NY Daily News:
Special ops ‘itching’ to fight pirates, just waiting for Obama to say go
Special ops ‘itching’ to fight pirates, just waiting for Obama to say go
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Robert Peters / Christian Newswire:
Connecting the Dots: The Link Between Gay Marriage and Mass Murders — On April 4 the NY Times ran adjacent front-page articles on the Iowa Supreme Court decision legalizing ‘gay marriage’ and the gunman who murdered 13 people in New York. That day the Times also ran an op ed article …
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Eric Schumacher / Baptist Press News:
‘Gay marriage’ in Iowa more damaging than a 500-year flood
‘Gay marriage’ in Iowa more damaging than a 500-year flood
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Rasmussen Reports:
Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism — Only 53% of American adults believe capitalism is better than socialism. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 20% disagree and say socialism is better. Twenty-seven percent (27%) are not sure which is better.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
POLL OF THE DAY.... For a couple of months, every sentence …
POLL OF THE DAY.... For a couple of months, every sentence …
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Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer:
Meghan McCain's Book Sold to Hyperion For High Six Figures — John McCain's 24-year-old daughter Meghan has a book deal! Sources say Hyperion has prevailed over at least three other publishers in an auction that began earlier this week, following a round of meetings during …
Bill Sammon / Fox News:
Bush Aides Challenge Biden's Boasts of Oval Office Slapdowns — Aides to former President George W. Bush are challenging the veracity of Vice President Joe Biden's claim this week of having privately castigated Bush. — FOXNews.com — Aides to former President George W. Bush are challenging …
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Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
HILARIOUS PIRATE SOLUTION. — The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a conservative think tank that regularly blasts out press releases condemning the Obama administration's various economic depredations, but today they demonstrate their intellectual consistency by wandering into the pirates debate:
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R.G. Ratcliffe / Houston Chronicle:
Lawmaker defends comment on Asians — Call for voters to simplify their names not racially motivated, Terrell Republican says — AUSTIN — A North Texas legislator during House testimony on voter identification legislation said Asian-descent voters should adopt names that are “easier for Americans to deal with.”
CNN:
Oops! Obama's press office has an e-mail snafu — (CNN) — The White House Press Office accidentally e-mailed a draft version of President Obama's Thursday schedule on Wednesday night that included the back-and-forth between White House staffers. — The e-mail, sent on a daily basis …
The Huffington Post:
Obama “Bow” To Saudis: CNN Reporter Asks White House To Clarify — The White House briefing room grew a bit chilly on Thursday after CNN reporter Dan Lothian asked press secretary Robert Gibbs to explain the current cause célèbre of the conservative movement …
Phil Izzo / Wall Street Journal:
Economists See a Rebound in September — Economists in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey expect the recession to end in September, though most say it won't be until the second half of 2010 that the economy recovers enough to bring down unemployment.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Palins, The Johnstons, And Republican Class Politics — Now it gets more interesting, doesn't it? In the Judge Judy world Sarah Palin lives in, there is always the risk of turning into Jerry Springer. And so an already very messy family situation - the two pregnancies, Trig's and Tripp's …
James Freeman / Wall Street Journal:
Is Silicon Valley a Systemic Risk? — Treasury decides to treat venture capitalists like hedge funds. — The Obama administration wants to regulate venture capital firms to prevent systemic risks. Silicon Valley residents are scratching their heads and asking: What risks?
Scott Shane / New York Times:
C.I.A. Closing Secret Overseas Sites for Terror Detainees — WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency announced on Thursday that it will no longer use contractors to conduct interrogations, and that it is decommissioning the secret overseas sites where for years it held high-level Al Qaeda prisoners.
Steve Kornacki / Politicker NY:
The Tragic Democratic Class of '08 — It made headlines a few days ago when word leaked that Oprah Winfrey had been in North Carolina to tape an interview with Elizabeth Edwards that will air in early May—just as Edwards' new book, which will supposedly address her husband's extramarital affair, is released.
Rosa Brooks / Los Angeles Times:
Bail out journalism — Other democracies pay for accurate reporting, so why shouldn't the U.S.? — » Discuss Article This will be my last column for the L.A. Times. After four years, I'll soon be starting a stint at the Pentagon as an advisor to the undersecretary of Defense for policy.
Mallory Simon / CNN:
Island DIY: Residents repair road themselves — (CNN) — Their livelihood was being threatened, and they were tired of waiting for government help, so business owners and residents on Hawaii's Kauai island pulled together and completed a $4 million repair job to a state park — for free.
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
Sweet, Lawrence join AOL politics site — Melinda Henneberger, editor of PoliticsDaily.com, AOL's forthcoming politics site, continues scooping up talent from the struggling newspaper and magazine industries — Jill Lawrence, a national political correspondent at USA Today …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Wells Fargo Posts Record Profit — When you hear about something like Wells Fargo posting record profits, I think you should resist the temptation to do what I saw some TV anchors doing this morning and start wondering if banks are in better shape than you thought.
Katherine Bouma / al.com:
Bachus tells city and county officials he's worried about socialists in Congress — Touring his Birmingham-area district today, U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus started the day in Trussville, where he treated a breakfast of municipal and county leaders to his thoughts on guns, socialists and the federal budget.