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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.
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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.
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
John / Power Line:
Did He Bow? The Last Word — Some people think that President Obama's bow to King Abdullah was significant, not only because it was a naive breach of protocol, but because such signs of submission are taken seriously in the Arab world. (In fact, Obama's bow received approving coverage in the Arab press.)
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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 …
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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Don Surber
Julian Ku / Opinio Juris:
Ten Questions for Legal Advisor-Nominee Harold Hongju Koh — I have tried to stay quiet in the ongoing “Koh Wars” in the blogosphere, where Ed Whelan seems to be taking on the entire legal academic blogosphere himself and getting in a bad mood about it. I am also conflicted.
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Conservative Coalition Takes Aim at Obama Legal Nominee
Conservative Coalition Takes Aim at Obama Legal Nominee
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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.
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
C.I.A. to Close Secret Prisons, Scenes of Harsh Interrogations
C.I.A. to Close Secret Prisons, Scenes of Harsh Interrogations
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Bill Sammon / Fox News:
Rove Calls Biden ‘Liar’ After VP Boasts of Scolding Bush — 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 — Republican strategist Karl Rove called Vice President Biden a …
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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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Jon / Exurban League:
Obama Reaches Out to ‘Moderate’ Pirate Community — After maintaining his silence for two days, President Obama will soon make his first public statement about the pirate attack upon an U.S.-flagged vessel off the Horn of Africa. After several inquiries and a few well-placed bribes …
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Obama Offers Plan to Improve Care for Veterans — President Obama announced plans on Thursday to computerize the medical records of veterans into a unified system, a move that is expected to ease the now-cumbersome process that results in confusion, lost records and bureaucratic delays.
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 …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Sabotage attacks knock out phone service — (04-09) 17:16 PDT SAN JOSE — Vandals cut fiber-optic cable lines belonging to AT&T at two locations early today, knocking out phones and access to 911 emergency services to thousands of residential customers and businesses in southern Santa Clara County …
Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
Schumer: ‘The Hard Right, Which Still Believes’ in ‘Traditional Values’...'All That Is Over.' — Thank you Jillian Bandes for posting on this. — Schumer also says this in the clip: — “I think President Obama has a pretty smart strategy. He is going to talk bipartisanship to the American people.
Martin Kady II / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Bachus says there's 17 ‘socialists’ in House — Rep. Spencer Bachus, the top Republican on the Financial Services Committee, told a hometown crowd in Alabama today he believes there are several socialists in the House. — Actually, he says there are exactly 17 socialists in the House …
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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.
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:
Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:
AlQaeda terror plot to bomb Easter shoppers — An al-Qaeda cell was days away from carrying out an “Easter spectacular” of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on shopping centres in Manchester, police believe. — Sources told The Daily Telegraph that the arrests of 12 men in the north west …