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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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Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Rove: Biden a ‘blowhard’ and ‘liar’ — Karl Rove called Joe Biden a “blowhard” and a “liar” in response to some of the vice president's comments about the Bush administration. — “He's a serial exaggerator. If I was being unkind I would say he's a liar, but it's a habit he ought to drop,” Rove said on FOX News.
Ben Smith / The Politico:
GOP govs get dose of stimulus reality — The list of governors threatening to decline federal stimulus money last month read like a list of Republicans considering running for president in 2012: Governors Mark Sanford, Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin led the anti-stimulus charge.
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Bloomberg:
Fed Said to Order Banks to Stay Mum on ‘Stress Test’ Results — The U.S. Federal Reserve has told Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Citigroup Inc. and other banks to keep mum on the results of “stress tests” that will gauge their ability to weather the recession, people familiar with the matter said.
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Wall Street Journal:
Economic Meeting Sets Stage for More Aggressive Action
Economic Meeting Sets Stage for More Aggressive Action
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
It's Your Country Too, Mr. President — In his major foreign policy address in Prague committing the United States to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama took note of North Korea's missile launch just hours earlier and then grandiloquently proclaimed: — “Rules must be binding.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Only 27% See the U.N. As America's Ally — Just 27% of U.S. voters regard the United Nations as an ally of the United States, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. — Seventeen percent (17%) say the U.N. is an enemy of the United States, and 49% see it as somewhere in between an ally and an enemy.
Gretchen Metz / Daily Local News:
Breeder regrets dog sale to Biden — EAST COVENTRY — It was a proud moment for Linda Brown when then-Vice President-elect Joe Biden selected her kennel to purchase his new German shepherd puppy. — That was in mid-December. — For Brown, that proud moment was short-lived.
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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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Making Banking Boring — Thirty-plus years ago, when I was a graduate student in economics, only the least ambitious of my classmates sought careers in the financial world. Even then, investment banks paid more than teaching or public service — but not that much more, and anyway, everyone knew that banking was, well, boring.
Deborah Haynes / Times of London:
General Ray Odierno: we may miss Iraq deadline to halt al-Qaeda terror — The activities of al-Qaeda in two of Iraq's most troubled cities could keep US combat troops engaged beyond the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, the top US commander in the country has warned.
Wyatt Shev / Examiner:
Tea Party movement aims to inspire revolution — April 15th. — Write that date down; people- it could very well mark the beginning of the end. With the notoriously conservative Tea Party movement gaining steam, is it time to take the ‘United’ out of ‘United States’?
Eric Hobsbawm / Guardian:
Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next? — Whatever ideological logo we adopt, the shift from free market to public action needs to be bigger than politicians grasp — The 20th century is well behind us, but we have not yet learned to live in the 21st, or at least to think in a way that fits it.
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 …
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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.)
Times of London:
Scramble to find the Easter bomb factory — A desperate search was under way last night for the terrorist bomb factory from which a suspected al-Qaeda cell planned to launch a devastating attack in Manchester. — Hours after Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer resigned in disgrace …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Politics of the ‘bow’ — The reason Obama's alleged, denied bow to King Abdullah — it was, however one describes it, a warm gesture — has been the source of controversy is the general American enmity to Saudi Arabia, one that has survived friendly relations between a generation of presidents of both parties and the Saudi rulers.
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New York Times:
Both U.S. and Pirates Sending More Ships to Standoff — MOGADISHU, Somalia — American naval reinforcements moved toward the scene of a pirate hostage standoff in the Indian Ocean on Friday, and there were reports that the Somali pirates, desperate to get back to shore with their American captive …
CNN:
White House hit by swarm of bees — (CNN) - The Secret Service is always on the alert for aerial assaults — but on Thursday, White House grounds were hit by one unexpected airborne threat. — A swarm of honey bees took over a bush located between the Northwest security gate of the White House …
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama signs PLO office waiver — President Obama signed a waiver Thursday that will allow the Palestinian Liberation Organization to retain its office in Washington D.C. — A law passed in 1987 barred the operation of such an office, but legislation has permitted presidents to waive the requirement for six months at a time.
Lynette Rice / EW.com:
Aaron Sorkin: Come back to TV! — In case you haven't noticed, NBC is pulling out all the stops for Southland, John Wells' latest contribution to the cops-and-robbers genre. And I'm certainly tuning in tonight — if only to see whether Wells still has the magic touch for creating shows that everyone wants to watch.
BBC:
Water cut off in Mexican capital — Mexico City officials have shut down a main pipeline providing fresh water to millions of residents because reserves have fallen to record low levels. — The closure, due to last 36 hours, will affect five million people, or a quarter of the city's population.
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