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5:30 AM ET, June 2, 2009

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Kyle / Right Wing Watch:
Terry Declares That Tiller “Reaped What He Sowed,” Then Asks If Someone Will Buy Him Lunch  —  Today, Randall Terry held a press conference at the National Press Club “to discuss how the pro-life movement should deal with Dr. [George] Tiller's death” and defend his statement …
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Megan McArdle:
The War on The War on Abortion  —  Let me start off, in the obligatory way, by announcing that I am pro-choice.  I don't think abortions before, say, eight [months] weeks are even arguably murder.  Moreover, I don't think many other people believe it's murder, either, for all that they profess to.
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
O'Reilly Responds To The Tiller Murder: ‘No Backpedaling Here...Every Single Thing We Said About Tiller Was True’  —  After yesterday's brutal shooting of George Tiller, a Kansas doctor who administered abortions, many anti-choice groups quickly condemned the murder and attempted to separate themselves from the actions of the killer.
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Sarah Palin, like most right-wingers, doesn't get it: Abortion …
Megan McArdle:
A Really Long Post About Abortion and Reasoning By Historical Analogy …
beliefnet:
The Tiller Assassination & The Much Maligned Government Report …
William M. Welch / USA Today:
Recruiter shot dead outside Army office  —  A Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military shot two soldiers outside an Arkansas recruiting station, killing one, police said Monday.  —  “This individual appears to have been upset with the military, the Army in particular …
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CNN:
1 dead, 1 hurt in recruiting office shooting  —  (CNN) — A U.S. soldier was killed and a second was wounded Monday in an apparent drive-by shooting at a recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas, police said.  —  The second soldier's injuries were not life-threatening, said police Lt. Terry Hastings.
USsoldiersgurl / KATV-TV:
One Dead, One Injured in West LR Shooting  —  Little Rock - One person is dead, another seriously injured, and a third is in custody following a double shooting in west Little Rock Monday morning.  —  Authorities say the incident occurred around 10:00 a.m. at a U.S. Army Navy Career Center inside …
Brian Chilson / ArkansasTimes:
Cops: double shooting terror act
New York Times:
Gunman Kills Soldier Outside Recruiting Station
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Noah Trister / Associated Press:
Police: Recruiting center gunman targeted military
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
It's official: Playboy is a hate site; Update: Playboy pulled it  —  Playboy likes to claim that it prints pictures of naked women as a means to empower them.  Uh-huh.  It seems that Playboy and Hugh Hefner only like to empower women to the extent that they'll take off their clothes …
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Anne Schroeder Mullins / Anne Schroeder's Blog:
Playboy 's “Top 10 Conservative Women We Hate to Love”  —  Playboy has concocted a list of GOP women they “hate to love.”  —  “So Right, It's Wrong,” they say.  —  And the list is:  —  1. Michelle Malkin  —  2. Megyn Kelly  —  3. Mary Katharine Ham  —  4. Amanda Carpenter
Michelle Malkin:
Moron of the day  —  No, the moron of the day award does not go to the Playboy.com Neanderthal who published a Top 10 list (now yanked from the site and replaced with a Playboy model shoving her backside at readers) of conservative women he'd like to “hatef*ck.”
Jimmie / The Sundries Shack:   I Don't Know Guy Cimbalo, but I'd Enjoy Punching Him in the Mouth.
Tommy Christopher / Politics Daily:
Playboy Magazine Officially Hates Women, Conservative or Otherwise
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Moe Lane
The Huffington Post:
Cheney Offers Support For Gay Marriage  —  Dick Cheney rarely takes a position that places him at a more progressive tilt than President Obama.  But on Monday, the former vice president did just that, saying that he supports gay marriage as long as it is deemed legal by state and not federal government.
David Gardner / Daily Mail:
How Obamas' romantic £120 trip to Broadway racked up a £45,000 bill  —  ...that's for three private jets, two helicopter rides, extra planes for security and closing roads for motorcade  —  It was a campaign pledge that Barack Obama didn't dare break - a promise to take his wife …
Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Cheney mixes up Obama, Osama  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney confused the president of the United States with the world's most-wanted terrorist in a speech on Monday.  —  Speaking at the National Press Club, Cheney answered a question as to why his administration had not caught Osama bin Laden.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Cheney: ‘Would do exactly the same’
Discussion: The Politico, The Note and Raw Story
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Why'd Obama switch on detainee photos?  Maliki went ballistic  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama reversed his decision to release detainee abuse photos from Iraq and Afghanistan after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki warned that Iraq would erupt into violence and that Iraqis …
Agence France Presse:
Obama says US cannot impose its values: BBC interview  —  US President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States cannot impose its values on other countries, but argued that principles such as democracy and the rule of law were universal.  —  In an interview with the BBC ahead of a visit …
Discussion: MSNBC and Weasel Zippers
Charles Savage / The Caucus:
Conservatives Ask Republican Senators to Filibuster on Sotomayor  —  Several years ago, when Senate Democrats were using filibusters to block confirmation votes on several of President George W. Bush's appeals court nominees, some conservatives decried the tactic as unconstitutional.
Michael Moore / Mike's Message:
Goodbye, GM ...by Michael Moore  —  I write this on the morning of the end of the once-mighty General Motors.  By high noon, the President of the United States will have made it official: General Motors, as we know it, has been totaled.  —  As I sit here in GM's birthplace, Flint, Michigan …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama says he will not manage GM  —  President Obama defended his administration's decision to take a 60 percent government stake in General Motors as Republicans criticized the president for his interference in the private sector.  —  The nation's premier business lobby joined the GOP …
Discussion: The Politico
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
GOP Has Always Been Dominated by White Voters  —  Gallup has data out suggesting that 89 percent of self-identified Republicans are white; the comparable figure among Democrats is 65 percent.  These numbers closely match those from last November's Presidential election …
 
 
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Justices Gone Wild
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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on Amazon
M Peretz / The New Republic:
Even the New York Times, for which Mahmoud Abbas has been a virtual hero …
Discussion: Commentary
Jackie Kucinich / Roll Call:
GOP Weighs Pelosi Assault
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
FRC spokesman calls Dr. Tiller, Dr. Killer by mistake
Discussion: The Politico
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Vanity Fair:
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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