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Michael Muskal / Top of the Ticket:
White House aide out after $357,012 photo-op with Air Force One  —  A White House aide joined the unemployment lines today for his role in Air Force One's controversial photo-op flyover above New York, the Obama administration just announced.  (Of course, it's scheduled for a Friday afternoon.)
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
After Flyover of Air Force One Backup, Military Office Director Resigns  —  The White House on Friday released the April 27 photo of the plane flying over New York City.  —  The director of the White House Military Office submitted his resignation on Friday, less than two weeks after he authorized …
MSNBC:
White House aide resigns over NYC flyover
Discussion: Guardian and Hot Air
Michael O'Brien / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
CBS announcer: Any U.S. soldier would shoot Pelosi, strangle Reid  —  CBS Sports commentator David Feherty drew criticism Friday for suggesting any U.S. soldier would murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) if given the chance.
Discussion: Glenn Thrush's Blog, MyDD and Eschaton
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
CBS golf analyst Feherty: “[I]f you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it ... there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.”  —  From Feherty's column on D Magazine:
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Family Research Council: We Could Support Gay SCOTUS, But Not One …
New York Times:
Choosing a New Justice  —  Never mind that President Obama …
Discussion: The XX Factor
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Obama to Address Muslim World From Egypt  —  President Obama will make his promised speech to the Muslim world from Egypt, a White House official said on Friday.  —  Obama pledged during the campaign to address the Muslim world from a Muslim capital within the first few months of taking office.
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Michael Atherton / Times of London:
Barack Obama to walk in footsteps of uncle who helped free Buchenwald
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and Cassy Fiano
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: Egyptian speech to Muslim world
Discussion: The Politico
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Hoekstra's Office: He's Seen Documents That Prove Pelosi Was Briefed On Waterboarding  —  GOP Rep. Pete Hoekstra is upping the stakes of the torture fight in response to Nancy Pelosi's claims that she wasn't briefed on the use of waterboarding.  —  His office tells me that he's seen documents that will prove this isn't true.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
CIA Admits That Info About Torture Briefings For Dems May Not Be Accurate
The Caucus:
Pelosi Criticized Over Interrogation Briefings
Discussion: Midwest Voices
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Pelosi sticks to her story
Discussion: The Page
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Train Wreck Ahead?  —  Why the U.S. and Israel may be headed for a collision.  —  For Israeli leaders, a public break with the United States is the third rail of politics.  The possibility that Israelis might lose the support of the one nation that can guarantee their security awakens …
Discussion: TPMCafe, Newshoggers.com and Mondoweiss
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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
The face of naked eliminationism  —  You can view this video right here by getting the latest version of Flash Player!  —  Remember that DHS bulletin on right-wing extremism that got all the righties' shorts in a bunch?  Let's quickly recall the bottom line of its assessment:
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IF IT'S SUNDAY.... Just yesterday, Dick Cheney explained his belief that it's time for some of the older establishment Republican voices to exit the stage.  “I think periodically we have to go through one these sessions.  It helps clear away some of the underbrush,” the former vice president said …
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Wall Street Journal:
Republicans and ObamaCare  —  The sound of silence is deafening.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Listen.  That sound of silence?  That's what's known as the united Republican response to President Barack Obama's drive to socialize health care.  —  The president has a plan, and he's laid it on the table.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Chicago Breaking News:
Alan Keyes among 22 arrested at Notre Dame  —  Former Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes and 21 other protesters were arrested this morning when they refused to leave the Notre Dame campus during a protest of President Obama's upcoming commencement address there, authorities said.
Bloomberg:
Geithner Bets U.S. Can Avoid Japan Trap on Banks  —  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is betting that U.S. banks can do something their Japanese counterparts were unable to accomplish in that country's “lost decade” of the 1990s: earn their way out of trouble.
Discussion: New York Times and D-Day
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Are We Turning Japanese Deliberately?
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
Brutally Honest:
Someone at Best Western gets it (UPDATED)  —  If this ad doesn't present a story worth telling, nothing does:  —  With props to Bob McCarty.  —  UPDATE: Wow, Glenn links... thanks Insty.
Discussion: Dr. Melissa Clouthier
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
CAN LOCAL BLOGGERS REPLACE LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE?  —  “Not only is it going to be intrinsically difficult to ever find a viable revenue model for paying a reporter to cover the zoning board if people don't want to read about the zoning board,” writes Matt Yglesias, “[but] I'm not actually sure …
E! Online:
Palin “Supports” Prejean, Dad Claims  —  Carrie Prejean and Sarah Palin go together like lipstick and pigs.  —  So says Prejean's father, at least, who tells E! News in an exclusive interview that the Alaska governor has already been in touch with his lightning-rod spawn.
John Consoli / Hollywood Reporter:
Obama drama  —  Nets take a stand against primetime pre-emptions  —  By and large, they personally forked out for his campaign, they voted for him, and they know he is capable of boosting TV ratings just by making an appearance.  —  But executives at the Big Four broadcast networks …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Democrats Do Best Among Generation Y and Baby Boomers  —  Republicans do better among Generation X  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Although Democrats currently enjoy a party identification advantage over Republicans among Americans at every age between 18 to 85, the Democrats' greatest advantages come among …
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Sources: Senators weigh 3 government health plans  —  WASHINGTON - Senators are considering three different designs for a new government health insurance plan that middle-income Americans could buy into for the first time, congressional officials said Friday.
Eric Boehlert / Media Matters for America:
Cue the world's smallest violin.  Again  —  The Hollywood Reporter goes big today with a long article about how entertainment execs at the nets hate pre-empting their schedules for Obama's primetime pressers.  About how the nets are losing millions of dollars in ad revenue, although actually …
Discussion: MyDD
Brian Joseph / Total Buzz:
Tran launches Congressional campaign... in wrong district  —  After years of will-he or won't-he speculation, Assemblyman Van Tran officially launched his quest to unseat Rep. Loretta Sanchez at a press conference this afternoon at a Little Saigon office building in Westminster.
 
 
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