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4:20 PM ET, May 6, 2009

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Maine.gov:
Governor Signs LD 1020, An Act to End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom  —  AUGUSTA - Governor John E. Baldacci today signed into law LD 1020, An Act to End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom.  —  “I have followed closely the debate on this issue.
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Matt Wickenheiser / pressherald.mainetoday.com:
Baldacci signs same-sex marriage into law  —  Maine becomes the fifth state to allow same-sex marriage.  The law will take effect 90 days after the end of the legislative session in June.  —  AUGUSTA - Democratic Gov. John Baldacci today signed into law a bill allowing gay marriage …
Bangor Daily News:
Maine governor signs same-sex marriage bill  —  AUGUSTA, Maine - Gov. John Baldacci on Wednesday signed a gay marriage bill passed just hours before by the Maine Legislature.  —  Baldacci made his announcement within an hour of the Maine Senate giving its final approval to LD 1020.
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
MAINE, FIFTH STATE TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
Discussion: Firedoglake, SFist and The BRAD BLOG
CNN:
Maine legalizes same-sex marriage
Discussion: Reason
The Politico:
Meltdown: Specter stands alone  —  Arlen Specter infuriated Senate Republicans when he bolted from their party last week.  Now he's alienated just about everybody in the Senate Democratic caucus, too.  —  Since declaring himself a Democrat last Tuesday, Specter has defied Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
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J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
Sessions would consider gay SCOTUS nominee  —  Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday he could consider a gay nominee for the nation's highest court.  —  “I'm not inclined to think that's an automatic disqualification,” Sessions said of a gay nominee.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
A Complicated Question  —  I had dinner once with John and Elizabeth Edwards, when he first burst onto the national scene.  —  Looking across the booth at her grinning, boyish husband, she told me that it was irritating to be married to someone so comely who looked so much younger.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton / US Department of State:
U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Consultations II  —  Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari  —  Benjamin Franklin Room  —  Washington, DC  —  SECRETARY CLINTON: Good morning, and welcome to the State Department.  This is what's called the Benjamin Franklin Room …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
With Taliban Threat Rising, Obama Presses Visiting Allies
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Nick Gillespie / Reason:
Obama's Brave Burger Run; Even Takes Biden Along (And You Know How Risky That Can Be)  —  All D.C. is a-twitter with yesterday's big burger run by the White House's answer to the Venture Bros.  —  President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden jaunted off to an Arlington …
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Eli Lake / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Secret U.S.-Israel nuclear accord in jeopardy  —  President Obama's efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons threaten to expose and derail a 40-year-old secret U.S. agreement to shield Israel's nuclear weapons from international scrutiny, former and current U.S. and Israeli officials and nuclear specialists say.
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Tortured Logic  —  Hit me Bybee, one more time.  —  Remember the Rule of Law?  In the late 1990s, it was all the rage in conservative circles.  Having maneuvered Bill Clinton into a position where he could either lie under oath or suffer massive personal and political embarrassment …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Confederate Legacy  —  Ed Kilgore has a very interesting post on a new trend sweeping conservative politics in Dixie—"sovereignty resolutions" that appear to assert states' rights to unilaterally invalidate federal action, a doctrine last seen in the hands of John C. Calhoun, the great antebellum theorist of white supremacy.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
A Justice Who Is Gay  —  Two of the most qualified center-left jurists in the country are gay, and they've got friends in high places.  —  Channeling our inner Joy Behars: “Who cares?”  —  Sexual orientation won't matter to President Obama — this I do believe, based on several years of reporting on the guy.
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Colin Powell Bashes Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and GOP  —  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has once again bashed conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh as well as Alaska Governor Sarah Palin while going a step further this time by piling on the GOP.
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Chrysler + FIAT = Chooch!  —  Dan Gross, in a defense of the Chrysler deal's treatment of bondholders, writes … But Gross argues it's permissable in this case, if I understand him, because thanks to government bailout money the complaining “secured” lenders are doing better than they would have anyway.
Golnar Motevalli / Reuters:
Afghanistan's only pig quarantined in flu fear  —  KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu.
Discussion: Neptunus Lex
Mother Jones:
A Cheney Cover-Up?  —  Someone in the White House tried to deep-six Philip Zelikow's anti-torture memo.  Welcome to the latest Bush-era whodunit.  —  Post Comment  —  Who in the George W. Bush White House tried to shred a memo challenging the use of torture?
Lee Fang / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Limbaugh Mocks Recession During Speech To Wealthy Right-Wing Donors  —  Last night, Rush Limbaugh came to Washington, D.C. to address the President's Club Dinner, a meeting of wealthy donors and supporters of the Heritage Foundation.  The audience included Supreme Court …
Michael Barone / www.washingtonexaminer.com:
White House puts UAW ahead of property rights  —  Last Friday, the day after Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, I drove past the company's headquarters on Interstate 75 in Auburn Hills, Mich.  —  As I glanced at the pentagram logo I felt myself tearing up a little bit.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
White House Cheat Sheet: Republican Recruiting Recovering  —  (Photo - Toni L. Sandys/ The Washington Post)  —  Republicans, out of power in Washington and struggling badly to find new leaders to match President Obama at the national level, are on the verge of a series of recruiting successes …
BBC:
Eco-sailors rescued by oil tanker  —  An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker.  —  Raoul Surcouf, Richard Spink and skipper Ben Stoddart sent a mayday because they feared for their safety amid winds of 68mph (109km/h).
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
DOING NOTHING ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS EXPENSIVE.  —  My new employers sure seem to spend a lot of time publishing columnists who are critical of climate science and then publishing op-eds and arguments that essentially trash the take of the original columns.  The latest example comes in response …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Steele yields powers to foes in RNC  —  Accepts limits on spending  —  Capitulating to critics on the Republican National Committee, embattled Republican Party Chairman Michael S. Steele has signed a secret pact agreeing to controls and restraints on how he spends hundreds …
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Elena Kagan, Radical?  —  Earlier this week, President Obama called Republican Senator Orrin Hatch to discuss the vacancy on the Court left by Justice Souter.  According to Hatch's office, the president “assured Hatch...that he would appoint a pragmatist, not a radical, to this important position.”
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Roger Ailes
Amy Diluna / NY Daily News:
Old duds, Michelle still fab  —  Now that's how to dress in New York during a recession.  —  For her first visit here as First Lady, Michelle Obama recycled a wardrobe staple.  She shopped her closet and picked a Tracy Feith dress that she's worn before for a meet-and-greet at the U.S. mission to the UN Tuesday afternoon.
Discussion: Cassy Fiano and The Anchoress
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Luntz to GOP: Health reform is popular  —  Dr. Frank Luntz, a top Republican consultant on the language of politics, is warning the GOP that the American people want health-care reform and that lawmakers need to try to avoid directly opposing President Barack Obama.
 
 
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
Poll finds lack of support for ‘torture’ investigations
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
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Law School Commencement Speakers
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The Huffington Post:
DNC Survivor Ad Mocks Republicans As Hapless Castaways
Wesley Young / Winston-Salem Journal:
Foxx sends note of apology to gay man's mother
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
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