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2:45 PM ET, April 24, 2009

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Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Pennsylvania Republican Senate Primary  —  Pennsylvania Senate Primary: Toomey 51% Specter 30%  —  Incumbent Senator Arlen Specter trails former Congressman Pat Toomey by 21 points in an early look at Pennsylvania's 2010 Republican Primary.  Fifty-one percent (51%) …
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Washington Post:
In Obama's Inner Circle, Debate Over Memos' Release Was Intense  —  Some Feared That a Partisan Outcry Could Obstruct Larger Agenda  —  As President Obama met with top advisers on the evening of April 15, he faced one of the sharpest policy divides of his young administration.
Washington Post:
Obama Rejects Truth Panel  —  Commission Would Have Investigated Abuses in Terrorism Fight  —  President Obama rebuffed calls for a commission to investigate alleged abuses under the Bush administration in fighting terrorism, telling congressional leaders at a White House meeting yesterday …
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Budget deal includes fast-track for health reform
New York Times:
Obama Resisting Push for Interrogation Panel
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Dems press anew for budget reconciliation
Discussion: TPMDC and AMERICAblog News
John / Power Line:   Voters Unimpressed By Dems' “Torture” Theme
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Key Dem Senator Likely To Vote Against Top Obama Legal Nominee  —  Uh oh.  This could signal real trouble for a key Obama nominee under assault by the right: Office of Legal Counsel chief Dawn Johnsen, a fierce Bush critic who would be at the center of the war over whether Obama …
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:   White House Worried About Johnsen Nomination
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Democratic complicity and what “politicizing justice” really means
Discussion: TalkLeft and Capital J | JTA
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obtained: Cheney's Request Form Detailing The Two CIA Torture Docs He Wants  —  I've just obtained from the National Archives the actual request form that Dick Cheney submitted for CIA documents he claims will prove that torture worked.  —  Cheney requested all of two CIA documents, a total of 21 pages.
Discussion: Emptywheel and Daily Kos
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
A Glimpse of the Dark Side
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN and The Plum Line
Josh Gerstein / Josh Gerstein's Blog:
Hot doc: Cheney's request to declassify intel from ‘torture’
Discussion: The Page
USA Today:
Poll: Public thinks highly of Obama  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama's opening months in the Oval Office have fortified his standing with the American public, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, giving him political capital for battles ahead.  —  As his 100th day as president approaches next Wednesday …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
In First 100 Days, Obama Meets or Exceeds Expectations
Bob Von Sternberg / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesotans won't know second Senator until at least June  —  The state Supreme Court set the schedule today for the legal showdown between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman over the Senate seat that has been vacant since January.  —  Minnesotans won't know who will be their second U.S. Senator until at least June.
Discussion: The Page, Hotline On Call and MSNBC
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Martin Kady II / The Politico:
No Minn. senator until at least June
Discussion: The Swamp
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Frank in 2005 — Bubble?  What bubble?  —  Barney Frank argued this week that he had always warned about the excesses of pushing home ownership and had advocated for rentals instead.  Our friends at Verum Serum couldn't believe their ears, because Frank has long been one of the loudest …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Reclaiming America's Soul  —  “Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.”  So declared President Obama, after his commendable decision to release the legal memos that his predecessor used to justify torture.  Some people in the political and media establishments have echoed his position.
John Cook / Gawker:
Ambushing Bill O'Reilly's Ambusher  —  Gawker has some questions for Jesse B. Watters, the Fox News producer that Bill O'Reilly likes to send out to ambush his enemies.  So we're outside his building in Long Island.  Right now.  (Hi, Jesse!)  —  This apartment building is the last known address …
Mike Soraghan / The Hill:
Gingrich vs. Gore in global warming showdown  —  It's Gingrich vs. Gore at Friday's global warming hearing.  —  The House Energy and Commerce subcommittee has added former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) to the roster of witnesses for its hearing on a climate bill Friday.
Discussion: The Swamp and Michelle Malkin
WORLDMag.com:
On the road again  —  Giving speeches, taping television shows, and making music with his friends: a day in the life of Mike Huckabee, once and (maybe) future presidential candidate |  Marvin Olasky  —  NEW YORK—"Is accompanying Willie a little scary?"  I was kidding Mike Huckabee …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Palin, Fundraising Firm Part Ways  —  Campaign Solutions, a Republican consulting firm advising Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee, has parted ways with the former Republican vice presidential nominee.  —  The group had been working with the Palin operation to raise money …
Huma Khan / Political Punch:
Actor Forest Whitaker Comes to White House to Talk Malaria  —  No, that wasn't Idi Amin you saw entering the White House grounds Friday.  It was noted actor Forest Whitaker, who won a Best Actor Academy Award for his portrayal of Amin in the 2006 film “The Last King of Scotland.”
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
BANANA REPUBLICS.... To paraphrase Inigo Montoya, Republicans keep using this phrase, but I don't think it means what they think it means.  —  On Tuesday, Karl Rove argued on Fox News that accountability for Bush administration officials who broke the law would make United States …
www.washingtonexaminer.com:
Chris Matthews changes book title Jon Stewart mocked  —  Could the interview Chris Matthews called “the worst he's ever had” have something to do with his decision to change the title of his most recent book before its paperback edition is released?  —  In 2007, the “Hardball” host went on …
Washington Post:
Getting Real on Wind and Solar  —  Why are we ignoring things we know?  We know that the sun doesn't always shine and that the wind doesn't always blow.  That means that solar cells and wind energy systems don't always provide electric power.  Nevertheless, solar and wind energy seem …
John Leo / Wall Street Journal:
A Limited Love of Liberty  —  A former ACLU board member says that the organization has lost its way.  —  When the American Civil Liberties Union comes under attack, the salvos are often launched from the right.  The ACLU, after all, is as enthusiastic about protecting the interests of feminists …
Forbes:
A Banking System We Can Trust  —  Turn all financial firms into mutual funds.  —  Before throwing more money at Wall Street, let's understand what our financial system was supposed to deliver, what it did deliver and what price it charged.  —  The system was supposed to channel …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
David Brooks / New York Times:
Yanks in Crisis  —  We're in the middle of the biggest crisis of capitalism in 70 years.  We've got a new administration in Washington active on every front.  What's all this done to the public mind?  —  A poll to be released today by The National Journal and Allstate gives a pretty good view.
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Interior Designers Have the Right to Call Themselves “Interior Designers,” even if they don't have a state license, the Fifth Circuit held yesterday in Byrum v. Landreth.  Texas doesn't require interior designers to be licensed, but forbids unlicensed designers from calling themselves “interior designers.”
Discussion: Reason and Lawyers, Guns and Money
 
 
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: Armenian slaughter ‘reckoning’
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Brad / Think Progress:
Bachmann: CO2 ‘is a natural byproduct of nature.’
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Mark Sherman / News Talk Radio 77 WABC-AM:
Obama legal team wants to limit defendants' rights
Discussion: TalkLeft and JammieWearingFool
Bruce Alpert / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Vitter opposes prosecutions of terror interrogators; Cao …
Discussion: Think Progress
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Re: Not Pro-Torture, Just Pro-Facts
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ENSIGN KEEPS PUSHING IT.... I'd hoped we were past this nonsense by now.
Discussion: The Anonymous Liberal
Washington Times:
MADD about regulation  —  Obama chauffeurs the nanny state at NHTSA
Turcopolier / Sic Semper Tyrannis:
Nuremberg and American Exceptionalism
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