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Huma Khan / Political Punch:
President Obama Reverses Course on Releasing More Detainee Abuse Photographs — President Obama defended his decision to fight the release of photos showing detainee abuse Wednesday afternoon, saying it would only put American troops in harms way and create a backlash against Americans.
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Washington Post:
Obama Reverses Position on Release of Photos of Detainee Abuse — President Obama will oppose the release of several dozen photos depicting abuse of detainees held in U.S. military custody abroad, reversing his previous position on the grounds that the pictures could inflame anti-American sentiment and endanger U.S. troops.
Ed Hornick / CNN:
Obama orders stop to detainee photo releases — (CNN) — President Obama has ordered government lawyers to object to the planned release of additional detainee photos, according to an administration official. — The Defense Department was set to release hundreds of photographs showing alleged abuse …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama Reverses Course On Torture Photos — In what can only be seen as a stunning reversal, the president is now refusing to release photographs that would help prove that the abuse and torture techniques revealed at Abu Ghraib were endemic in the Bush military.
MSNBC:
In reversal, Obama seeks to block abuse photos — Images reportedly depict the abuse of prisoners by U.S. military in Iraq — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will try to block the court-ordered release of hundreds of photos showing U.S. troops allegedly abusing prisoners …
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:Very Lame — The White House has decided to reverse course …
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
GOP to rebrand Dems as ‘socialists’ — A member of the Republican National Committee told me Tuesday that when the RNC meets in an extraordinary special session next week, it will approve a resolution rebranding Democrats as the “Democrat Socialist Party.” — When I asked if such a resolution …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Socialist Schmocialist — They're finally getting serious: … Awesome. But they've missed a huge opportunity here. They could try to “rebrand” the Democrats as the National Socialist American Worker's Party, which would have been rilly, rilly kewl cuz then they could have merged Obama's picture with Hitler 'n stuff.
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Ed Kilgore / Democratic Strategist:
The GOP's New “Evil Empire” — Like a lot of non-Rush-Limbaugh listeners, when I first heard that a large faction of Republican National Committee members was pushing for a formal resolution calling on GOPers to start referring to the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Socialist Party,” …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
No Clamor for High Court Appointee to Be Woman, Minority — As in 2005, majority of Americans say gender, race, and ethnicity of appointee don't matter — PRINCETON, NJ — Despite the widely reported expectation that President Barack Obama will be looking for a qualified woman …
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Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Not one dime to the NRSC — If you have Facebook, I encourage you to join the group. — You know, I can slightly understand the NRSC getting into the Chaffee race, though it was a stupid waste and mismanagement of funds. — I can kind of understand them getting behind Specter.
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Rick Hasen / Election Law:
PREDICTION: PRESIDENT OBAMA WILL NOMINATE JUDGE DIANE WOOD OF SEVENTH CIRCUIT — With all the talk about whom the President should nominate, there's been less focus on whom the president will nominate. You can look at the Intrade predictions market here, which reflects Judge Sotomayor in the lead …
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Barack Obama, Wanda Sykes and the Politics of Humorlessness — There's nothing un-funnier than Saturday night's jokes reviewed by the caffeinated light of Monday morning. — Which is why we probably shouldn't quarterback a comedian over coffee when she was performing for a crowd primed on cocktails.
Christy Hardin Smith:
OLC: Make That A Stick, Harry... Well, this is complete and utter bulls**t: … I've been told by several sources that Nelson intended to vote no on the floor vote, but yes for cloture. So unless that's changed — and I'd like to know why, and what Reid has actually tried to do about it — that wouldn't have been an issue.
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Jessica Brady / Roll Call:Reid: Johnsen Doesn't Have Votes for DOJ Post
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama, Neocon In Chief — From extending and deepening the war in Afghanistan, to suppressing evidence of rampant and widespread abuse and torture of prisoners under Bush, to thuggishly threatening the British with intelligence cut-off if they reveal the brutal torture inflicted on Binyam Mohamed …
Todd J. Zywicki / Wall Street Journal:
Chrysler and the Rule of Law — The Founders put the contracts clause in the Constitution for a reason. — Printer — Friendly — The rule of law, not of men — an ideal tracing back to the ancient Greeks and well-known to our Founding Fathers — is the animating principle of the American experiment.
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Les Christie / CNNMoney.com:
Foreclosures: ‘April was a shocker’ — A record number of foreclosure filings took place during April, but the number of repossessions fell 11%. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Foreclosures in April exceeded even March's blistering pace with a record 342,000 homes receiving notices of default …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Fierce Urgency Of Whenever — I lived through eight years of the Clintons and then eight years of Bush. Through it all, gay people were treated at the federal level like embarrassments or impediments. With Clinton, we were the means to raise money. With Bush, we were the means to leverage votes by exploiting bigotry.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
GOP PAC warns Senate Republicans — The National Republican Trust PAC, currently the best-funded and most aggressive independent Republican group, has dispatched a round of letters to Republican senators threatening to go after senators who back President Obama's judicial nominees.
The Huffington Post:
Ben Nelson All Alone In Quest To Block Health Care Reform — Sen. Ben Nelson announced at the beginning of this month that he opposed the creation of a public health care plan that people would have the option to buy into. He'd be gathering together a coalition of like-minded senators to oppose the plan …
New York Post:
HILL THRILLED BY CAMPAIGN ‘CHEAT’ — CLINTON'S ‘FAWN’ CALLS AIRED AT $$-RAISER TRIAL — Hillary Rodham Clinton gushed to disgraced Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu that he would “single-handedly” help her win the presidency because nobody “has been more loyal and been more effective” in landing donations.
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Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Obama Pushes Broad Rules for Oversight of Derivatives — WASHINGTON — Marking its first major effort to overhaul financial regulation, the Obama administration will seek new authority to supervise the virtually unregulated complex financial instruments, known as derivatives …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Cheney in Manhattan: ‘A giant conspiracy’ on Iran — Former Vice President Dick Cheney swung quietly through New York City Tuesday night to watch his daughter, Elizabeth, a former State Department official, argue the conservative side in a debate over American policy toward Iran …
Eric Zimmermann / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Graham: Bush admin saw law as unaffordable ‘nicety’ — In the midst of a spirited defense of the Bush administration's intentions in developing interrogation techniques, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) dropped a phrase that liberals may seize upon. — The Bush administration did not commit any crimes …
Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog:
The Truth Behind the Social Security and Medicare Alarm Bells — What are we to make of yesterday's report from the trustees of the Social Security and Medicare trust funds that Social Security will run out of assets in 2037, four years sooner than previously forecast, and Medicare's hospital fund …
Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
MSNBC Reporter Furious Over ASU Denying Obama A Honorary Degree; Students Not Upset — MSNBC's Contessa Brewer has been riding on Susan Roesgen's hate-spewing coattail lately. Just yesterday, Brewer said Miss California “hates gay marriage but likes to take her shirt off.”
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Andy McCarthy / The Corner:
Re: Did the President Read Andy McCarthy Today? — K-Lo, that's welcome news and let's hope the president does the patently obvious right thing. But speaking of “patently obvious,” what really concerns me relates to Bill's second point: “The Obama DOJ is full of left-wing ideologues.
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