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Gov. Rick Perry: Texas Could Secede, Leave Union — HuffPost has comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. Click here for the latest photos and video. — AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday with his stance against the federal government …
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Texas Politics:
Perry says Texas can leave the union if it wants to
Perry says Texas can leave the union if it wants to
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Gov. Perry Talks Secession for Texas at Tea Party: “Texas …
Gov. Perry Talks Secession for Texas at Tea Party: “Texas …
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Wayne Slater / Associated Press:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry gets crowd boiling at Austin ‘tea party’
Texas Gov. Rick Perry gets crowd boiling at Austin ‘tea party’
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans and the Tea Parties — The U.S. went 15 years without a federal tax increase. — Yesterday was Tax Day, and it was marked by large numbers of Americans turning out for an estimated 2,000 tea parties across the country. This movement is significant.
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New York Times:
Officials Say U.S. Wiretaps Exceeded Law — 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, government officials said in recent interviews.
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Paul Haven / Associated Press:
Spanish AG says no torture probe of US officials — MADRID - Spanish prosecutors will recommend against opening an investigation into whether six Bush administration officials sanctioned torture against terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, the country's attorney-general said Thursday.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama's huge test today: do we believe in secret law? — Today is the most significant test yet determining the sincerity of Barack Obama's commitment to restore the Constitution, transparency and the rule of law. After seeking and obtaining multiple extensions of the deadline …
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Wall Street Journal:
Portions of CIA Memos Expected to Be Released — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expected to release some operational details of a Central Intelligence Agency interrogation program and its legal rationale, while seeking to keep secret the names of detainees and the way techniques …
Michelle Malkin:
CNN beclowns itself — Call the wah-mbulance. — So, the Tea Party protests are “not fit for family viewing” according to one very unhappy CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen, who also fumes over what she calls an “offensive” anti-Obama sign that compares Obama to a fascist. (And yes, I told you this was going to happen.)
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Julia A. Seymour / NewsBusters.org:
CNN Correspondent Claims Tea Parties ‘Anti-Government,’ ‘Anti-CNN’
CNN Correspondent Claims Tea Parties ‘Anti-Government,’ ‘Anti-CNN’
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Mike Madden / Salon:
“On 9/11, I think they hit the wrong building” — A woman participates in a Tax Day rally in Lafayette Park in Washington Wednesday. — WASHINGTON — The gathering in Lafayette Square, in honor both of tax day and of a generalized fury at Barack Obama, his budget, the Federal Reserve …
Sinfonian / Blast Off!:
DFH blogger speaks at Pensacola Tea Party ... and lives to tell the tale — If you were following my livetweeting today from the Pensacola Tea Party, then you already know: I gave a little speech. Hey, I'm a sucker for Open Mic Night ... what can I say? — Seriously — I didn't realize …
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Edwin Mora / CNSNews:
Georgetown Says It Covered Over Name of Jesus to Comply With White House Request — (CNSNews.com) - Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram “IHS”—symbolizing the name of Jesus Christ—because it was inscribed on a pediment on the stage where President Obama spoke at the university …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
America's Bad Jeans — On any American street, or in any airport or mall, you see the same sad tableau: A 10-year-old boy is walking with his father, whose development was evidently arrested when he was that age, judging by his clothes. Father and son are dressed identically — running shoes, T-shirts.
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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Fox News:
Napolitano Apologizes for Offending Veterans After DHS Eyes Them for ‘Rightwing Extremism’ — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized to veterans in a FOX News interview after a DHS report labeled returning troops at risk for embracing right-wing extremism. — FOXNews.com
Carl Schreck / themoscowtimes.com:
Hair Stylist Keeps Armed Robber as Sex Slave — In what is either the weirdest Russian crime story of the year so far or a new low in yellow crime journalism, a female hair stylist in the Kaluga region is suspected of holding an armed robber in captivity as a sex slave for two days …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Obama's High-Speed Rail Plan — I'm watching Barack Obama's remarks on high-speed rail, which I think are excellent, but I'm more interested in the fact sheet I've gotten in the old inbox from the White House since it sheds some light on something that I and others have been wondering about—how is this money supposed to be spent?
JammieWearingFool:
‘The Whole Meeting Was Really Kind of Creepy’ — Hard to believe, but an NBC outlet is actually worried someone might be mean to the Dear Leader. — Can't have any of that. — When you think about it, the endless slobbering over Obama at MSNBC should more than make up for it, no?
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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ginandtacos.com:
ED GOES UNDERCOVER TEABAGGIN' — So my good friend Scott pointed out that for all of my talk about Teabaggin', I was strangely ambivalent about the opportunity to see one in the flesh. Well, my inner anthropologist and innate love of freaks won out in the end.
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Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Pentagon Closes Office Accused of Issuing Propaganda Under Bush — WASHINGTON — A Pentagon office responsible for coordinating Defense Department information campaigns overseas has been abolished in an effort by the Obama administration to distance itself from past practices …
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