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Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Tedisco concedes to Murphy — Republican state Assemblyman Jim Tedisco conceded the New York special election this afternoon to Democratic businessman Scott Murphy, giving the Democrats a key off-year victory in a race that both parties aggressively contested.
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Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Democrat Murphy Wins, GOPer Tedisco Concedes NY-20 Special Election — The NY-20 special election is now officially over, with Democrat Scott Murphy the winner. — GOP candidate Jim Tedisco, who trailed by 401 votes as of yesterday's vote count, has called Murphy to concede, according to Murphy spokesman Ryan Rudominer.
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City Room:
Democrat Wins Upstate House Seat — The Democratic candidate for the 20th Congressional District, Scott Murphy, has won the race nearly a month after the special election. — The Republican, James N. Tedisco, a state Assemblyman from Saratoga, conceded the race in a statement released Friday afternoon.
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Lindsey Ellerson / The Note:
GOP Suffers Tough Loss in NY — ABC News' David Chalian Reports: It hasn't dragged on for as long as the Franken vs. Coleman Senate battle in Minnesota, but the special House election in upstate New York has finally come to a conclusion 24 days after voters went to the polls to elect …
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Jonathan Cohn / The Treatment:
Reconciliation Now Has a Date: October 15 — It's been in the works for a while and now, according to senior Captiol Hill staffers, it's a done deal: The final budget resolution will include a “reconciliation instruction” for health care. That means the Democrats can pass health care reform …
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:WAS SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM PART OF THE DEAL FOR RECONCILIATION?
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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
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:Democratic complicity and what “politicizing justice” really means
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Blackburn challenges Gore's motives — Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) challenged Al Gore's motives for supporting climate change legislation when the former VP appeared before a House panel today. — Blackburn noted Gore's role as partner in Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers …
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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 …
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Nick Gillespie / Reason:Barney Frank's Meatloaf Impersonation When it Comes to Freedom …
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Matt Cover / CNSNews:Barney Frank: Marijuana, Internet Gambling O.K. for Americans …
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Morgen / Verum Serum:Exclusive Video: Barney Frank Impales Self Using Own Words
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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.
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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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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
‘A person who can actually be trusted’ — OK, I promise to get off the Armenian genocide story soon, as it's obviously not the most important issue of the moment. — But the reason it's a worth noting is captured in this campaign video from Samantha Power, which made a big impression …
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Paul Begala / The Huffington Post:
Yes, National Review, We Did Execute Japanese for Waterboarding — In a CNN debate with Ari Fleischer, I said the United States executed Japanese war criminals for waterboarding. My point was that it is disingenuous for Bush Republicans to argue that waterboarding is not torture and thus illegal.
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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.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama ‘wrapped around the axle’ — The Bush administration “kept the country safe” with its tactics in the interrogation of suspected terrorists, says Dana Perino, the former press secretary for ex-President George W. Bush. — And the Obama administration has “made a mess of the whole thing” …
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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.
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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 …
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Eric Dash / New York Times:
Regulators Disclose Criteria for Bank ‘Stress Tests’ — Federal regulators released the criteria they used to assess the financial health of the nation's 19 biggest banks on Friday, but provided little new information for investors to distinguish the industry's weak players from the strong.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates:
Why Don't We All Focus On “Looking Forward” — There's a bar in the East Village that offers five shots of anything for ten bucks. I'm going there tonight, and taking 10 shots of anything the crowd reccommends. Then I'm going to stand on the street soliciting random women for sex.
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Robert Mackey / The Lede:
Taliban Spokesman Blames American Women — Update | 1:25 p.m. Britain's Channel 4 News aired a video report on Thursday night showing Taliban forces on the streets of the strategically important Pakistani town of Buner, just 70 miles from the country's capital, Islamabad.
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