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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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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama's huge test today: do we believe in secret law? — (updated below - Update II) — 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 …
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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Chris Good / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Tea Pary Turnout: A Rundown of Estimates
Tea Pary Turnout: A Rundown of Estimates
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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
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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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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Spainmas a bust — Earlier this week, news that Spain intended …
Spainmas a bust — Earlier this week, news that Spain intended …
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Moe Lane
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.
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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 …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama Is Just Not Their Cup of Tea — As a tea party, what happened in Lafayette Square across from the White House yesterday was a washout. — There were no buttered scones, none of those dainty cucumber sandwiches and, as it happens, not a spot of tea.
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Fox News, MSNBC prejudge ‘tea parties’
Fox News, MSNBC prejudge ‘tea parties’
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Associated Press:
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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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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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 …
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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Elizabeth Hester / Bloomberg:
Dimon Says He's Eager to Repay ‘Scarlet Letter’ TARP — JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, who today reported first-quarter profit that beat analysts' expectations, said his firm could repay U.S. government rescue funds “tomorrow.” — Dimon, calling money received through …
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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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?
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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Matthew Yglesias