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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Scenes From the DC Tea Party: More Photos! — Here's a supplement to Aaron's great photo spread from this afternoon's rally. — Remember: Fox News reported on these rallies. It didn't promote them! — This was a popular theme, along with references to images of President Obama's bow to the King of Saudi Arabia.
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
In Defense Of The Tax-Day Tea Parties — The of tea-party enthusiasm on the American right has provoked a fairly typical reaction from the organized American left. It's a fake. It involves tea bags and (a) Dick Armey. It's got the consistency of astroturf, not natural grass.
Jim Iovino / NBC Washington:
1 Million Tea Bags, But No Place to Dump — Permits end dumping before it starts — WASHINGTON — It was a great idea, really. Take a million tea bags and dump them in Lafayette Park to protest government spending. Hip, hip, hoo-ray! — But a funny thing happened en route to a visually pleasing Tax Day protest.
Founding Bloggers:
BREAKING! Chicago Tax Day Tea Party Pictures! — UPDATE: Exclusive Video! Today, there was a brief and minor drama involving a CNN reporter and some Tea Partiers. We have posted our footage of what went down after CNN's camera's signed off. — Here are some shots from the tax day tea party in Chicago.
The Huffington Post:
DC Tea Party Protest Shut Down By Secret Service, Package Thrown Over White House Fence (VIDEO) — HuffPost has comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos and video. — UPDATE 2:15 P.M. The tea party protest in Washington, D.C., outside the White House was just shut down by police.
Liz Robbins / New York Times:Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Gov. Perry Talks Secession for Texas at Tea Party: “Texas Can Leave Union If It Wants To” — All the insane talk coming from the Limbaugh National Convention is spreading into the fabric of the entire GOP. Listen to Texas Gov. Rick Perry say: … These republicans are talking treason in my mind.
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Texas Politics:
Perry says Texas can leave the union if it wants to — Note to commenters: The comments do not post automatically. I have to read them and post them. Since it is dinner time here, I may be away from the computer for a bit. — Speaking with reporters after a tea party rally in Austin today …
Wayne Slater / Associated Press:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry gets crowd boiling at Austin ‘tea party’ — wslater@dallasnews.com — AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry told an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday the federal government is “rampaging through the halls of Congress” with big-spending programs and only states' rights can stop it.
New York Times:
N.S.A.'s Intercepts Exceed Limits Set by Congress — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year, according to government officials.
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
CNN's Roesgen grills tea party protestor who calls Obama a “fascist,” says protest “highly promoted by the right-wing conservative network Fox” — This whole FARCE is custom made for cable news, not the MSM of network TV. The MSM cant cover something 24/7 like CNN or FOX can.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Limbaugh defends the teenage pirates of Somalia while a US Cargo ship evaded another pirate attack — Without comment: … (h/t Mark Nicholas) — Last night there was a report that another attack had happened on a US Cargo ship:
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RushLimbaugh.com:
President Obama Ordered the Killing of Three Black Muslim Kids — BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — RUSH: You know what we have learned about the Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers that were wiped out at the order of Barack Obama, you know what we learned about them? They were teenagers.
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Jimmy Vielkind / Politicker NY:
NY-20 Judge: Most Objections Invalid — ALBANY—Judge James Brands just ruled that most of the over 1,200 contested absentee ballots in the race to replace Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress were objected to improperly based on discrepancies in their applications. This means many more ballots will be counted.
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Casey Seiler / Capitol Confidential:At last: final numbers from Saratoga County
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Department of Homeland Security:
Statement by U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on the Threat of Right-Wing Extremism — The primary mission of this department is to prevent terrorist attacks on our nation. The document on right-wing extremism sent last week by this department's Office …
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
World's Stupidest Argument — Bush flunkies trying to argue that Obama is more polarizing than Bush was. Given the fact that Obama had to take dramatic action, at home and abroad, to start lifting the country from the mess Bush made almost everywhere—and also begin to turn the country away …
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Peter Wehner / Commentary:Yes, but . . . Obama Is Still the Most Polarizing
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The New Ledger
William Yardley / New York Times:
For Gov. Palin, a Rough Return to the Day Job — JUNEAU, Alaska — Before Tina Fey and “Drill, baby, drill,” there was mud season here in the Alaskan capital. This soggy, socked-in spring has been no exception, but it sure has been different in other ways.
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Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Minn. Senate flashpoint: the judges — Norm Coleman's campaign hasn't yet filed its expected appeal to the Minnesota Supreme Court, but partisans are already gearing up for what could be the next flashpoint in the Coleman-Al Franken Senate contest — the backgrounds of Minnesota's high court justices.
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The White House:
Release of the President and Vice President's Tax Returns — As another demonstration of the President's commitment to openness and transparency, today the White House issued the following releases making the President and Vice President's tax returns public: — For the President: — THE WHITE HOUSE
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Hillary took in $5.6M in 1st quarter — In the first three months of the year, Hillary Clinton paid off $3.7 million in bills left over from her failed presidential campaign, according to a report her campaign filed Wednesday afternoon with the Federal Election Commission.
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