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Julia Preston / New York Times:
Obama to Push Immigration Bill Despite the Risks — While acknowledging that the recession makes the political battle more difficult, President Obama plans to begin addressing the country's immigration system this year, including looking for a path for illegal immigrants to become legal …
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Bloggers Urge That Organizations To Which They Give “Free Publicity” Advertise on Their Sites: The Plum Line, Greg Sargent's blog on the Washington Post's whorunsgov.com, reports: … The post then goes on to give more details, including this quote from a blogger: “They come to us …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Big Liberal Bloggers Tee Off On Progressive Groups For Not Sharing Ad Wealth — Some of the leading liberal bloggers are privately furious with the major progressive groups — and in some cases, the Democratic Party committees — for failing to spend money advertising on their sites …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
White House: No bow to Saudi — The White House is denying that the president bowed to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at a G-20 meeting in London, a scene that drew criticism on the right and praise from some Arab outlets. — “It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands …
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
The curious case of 200 nearly identical MSM headlines — The following headlines have appeared in newspapers within the last 24 hours. This is not an inclusive list. — • Third of Illinoisans went without health insurance in last 2 years: Sun-Times
Anita Kumar / Washington Post:
Assembly Rejects $125 Million for Expanded Jobless Benefits — A divided General Assembly narrowly rejected $125 million in federal stimulus money Wednesday that would have provided additional unemployment benefits to thousands of jobless Virginians. — The defeat was a blow to Gov. Timothy M. Kaine …
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The Huffington Post:
Men's Underwear Sales, Greenspan's Economic Metric, Reveal Crisis — As chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan was known for using quirky, proletariat metrics to judge the temperature of the economy. The most famous of these, as recounted by NPR's Robert Krulwich in January 2008, were the sales of men's underwear.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
A.P. Exec Doesn't Know It Has A YouTube Channel: Threatens Affiliate For Embedding Videos — Here is another great moment in A.P. history. In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.'s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness.
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.
Eric Dash / New York Times:
Banks Holding Up in Tests, but May Still Need Aid — For the last eight weeks, nearly 200 federal examiners have labored inside some of the nation's biggest banks to determine how those institutions would hold up if the recession deepened. — What they are discovering may come as a relief …
Matt Lewis / Political Machine:
Top 3 Conservatives Who Deserve a Biopic — One of the most controversial Hollywood films last year was “Milk”. It was praised by liberals and gay-rights supporters — and simultaneously labeled leftist propaganda by many conservatives. — Personally, I am opposed to the brand …
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Israel Cries Wolf — ISTANBUL — “Iran is the center of terrorism, fundamentalism and subversion and is in my view more dangerous than Nazism, because Hitler did not possess a nuclear bomb, whereas the Iranians are trying to perfect a nuclear option.” — Benjamin Netanyahu 2009? Try again.
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Eamon Javers / The Politico:
Pentagon preps for economic warfare — The Pentagon sponsored a first-of-its-kind war game last month focused not on bullets and bombs — but on how hostile nations might seek to cripple the U.S. economy, a scenario made all the more real by the global financial crisis.
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Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
How Bernanke Staged a Revolution — This chairman set out to lead as a civil servant rather than a celebrity economist. Facing a thundering financial collapse, he has reinvented the Federal Reserve. — Every six weeks or so, around a giant mahogany table in an ornate room overlooking the National Mall …
Washington Post:
Taliban Using U.S. Firms to Host Web Sites — Ease and Anonymity Draw Taliban, al-Qaeda — On March 25, a Taliban Web site claiming to be the voice of the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” boasted of a deadly new attack on coalition forces in that country.
Washington Post:
Congress Ready to Slow Pace, Face Long-Term Issues — After approving more than $1.5 trillion to bail out Wall Street and stimulate the economy and nearly passing a $3.5 billion budget blueprint in its initial legislative sprint, Congress will return from a two-week break later this month …
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Washington Post:
Why Do Americans Befriending the Castros Ignore Cuba's Pro-Democracy Movement? — HALF A DOZEN members of the Congressional Black Caucus spent hours huddling with Fidel and Raúl Castro in Havana this week as part of a swelling campaign to normalize relations with Cuba.
National Review:
The Future of Marriage — One of the great coups of the movement for same-sex marriage has been to plant the premise that it represents the inevitable future. This sense has inhibited even some who know perfectly well that marriage is by nature the union of a man and a woman.
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Doug Feaver / Washington Post:
Listening to the Dot-Comments — I am writing in defense of the anonymous, unmoderated, often appallingly inaccurate, sometimes profane, frequently off point and occasionally racist reader comments that washingtonpost.com allows to be published at the end of articles and blogs.
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Leslie Eaton / Wall Street Journal:
More States Look to Raise Taxes — A free fall in tax revenue is driving more state lawmakers to turn to broad-based tax increases in a bid to close widening budget gaps. — At least 10 states are considering some kind of major increase in sales or income taxes: Arizona, Connecticut …
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Aman Batheja / Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
At emotional hearing, relatives finally hear man's name cleared — AUSTIN — Twenty-two years ago, Ruby Session listened in disbelief as a Lubbock jury convicted her son, Timothy Cole, of rape. She promised herself that one day she would make sure this injustice was corrected.
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Obama administration ‘anti-religious,’ Gingrich says — (CNN) — Newt Gingrich said Tuesday the Obama administration is “intensely secular” and “anti-religious,” the former House Speaker's second hard-hitting criticism of the new administration this week. — In an interview with FOX News …
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JONATHAN TURLEY:
Lost in Translation: Turkish Anchor Appears in Blackface on Air in Coverage of President Obama — There is a great deal of chatter on the Internet today about an anchor who appears in blackface in the coverage of President Obama's trip to Turkey. The rough translation from the appearance is “Welcome, Mr. Obama.