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9:00 PM ET, June 12, 2009

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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Obama defends DOMA in federal court.  Says banning gay marriage is good for the federal budget.  Invokes incest and marrying children.  —  UPDATE: Obama spokesman caught lying to Politico.  —  Joe and I have been trying since last night to get a copy of the government's brief just filed in this case.
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Linda Deutsch / Associated Press:
DOJ moves to dismiss first fed gay marriage case  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has moved to dismiss the first gay marriage case filed in federal court, saying it is not the right venue to tackle legal questions raised by a couple already married in California.
Discussion: #gay and MSNBC
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Obama DOJ lies to Politico in defending hate brief against gays  —  Ben Smith at Politico just reported the following statement from the Department of Justice over their brief, filed last night, comparing gay marriage to incest: … Yeah, you see, that's an outright lie.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Justice explains DOMA defense
Discussion: The Daily Dish
The Huffington Post:
Right-Wing Neocons Rooting For Ahmadinejad Win  —  American neoconservatives have often used the presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to bolster their case for aggressive action against Iran.  So the assumption might be that they would be rooting for Iranians to take care of the problem themselves …
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Matthew Syed / Times of London:
Ahmadinejad claims victory after Iran's polling stations are kept open  —  Martin Fletcher in Tehran and Nico Hines  —  Polls remained open in Iran tonight, three hours after the end of official voting, with President Ahmadinejad's representatives declaring victory despite a huge turnout that is expected to favour his rival.
CNN:
Ahmadinejad leads in early Iran returns
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Big Hate  —  Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Think Progress:
Angered By His Holocaust Museum Shooting Coverage, The Far Right Goes After Shepard Smith  —  On Wednesday, Fox News' Shepard Smith responded to the tragic shooting at the Holocaust Museum by a white supremacist by saying that it was time to re-think the Homeland Security report on right-wing extremism that conservatives disparaged.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What's behind Obama's sudden attempt to fire the AmeriCorps inspector general?  —  Some strange and potentially suspicious events tonight concerning the Obama White House and the AmeriCorps program.  I've been told that on Wednesday night the AmeriCorps inspector general, Gerald Walpin …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama cronyism: Going after AmeriCorps IG on behalf of contributor; Update: A Michelle Obama connection?  —  David Freddoso tried to explain that the only change Barack Obama would bring to the Beltway would be an introduction of the Chicago Machine politics that made him successful to the Beltway.
Donald Douglas / American Power:
Thoughts on Our Civil War  —  As regular readers well know, it's my personal belief that radical left-wing ideology is the greatest threat to the country today.  Leftist radicalism and demonology is manifested not just in the corrosive political discourse of the online fever swamps …
Discussion: Guardian, Flopping Aces and HazZzMat
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Jeffrey Goldberg:
What Judith Warner Left Out
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Judith Warner:
The Wages of Hate
Discussion: Villainous Company
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CNN:
Former President GHW Bush stands up for Sotomayor  —  (CNN)-Former President George H.W. Bush stood up for his former judicial nominee Sonia Sotomayor Friday, telling CNN Anchor Robin Meade that GOP critics who called President Obama's Supreme Court pick a racist were off-base, and unfair.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Insta-Hack Watch  —  He's up to his partisan shenanigans again.  He must know that the huge deficits projected in the future have virtually nothing to do with Obama's proposals on healthcare or energy.  They are a function of inherited entitlement spending, the legacy of two open-ended wars …
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Mike Murphy / Time:
The Ice Age Cometh  —  Despairing Republican friends have been asking me what I think we should do to rebuild the GOP and begin our certain and inevitable comeback.  My answer disappoints them: “Build an ark.”  —  I say this because I've made a career out of counting votes …
Laura Litvan / Bloomberg:
House Health-Care Bill to Include $600 Billion in Tax Increases  —  Health-care overhaul legislation being drafted by House Democrats will include $600 billion in tax increases and $400 billion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel said.
Tom Leonard / Telegraph:
US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive  —  Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic “shrink to survive” proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline.  —  The government looking at expanding …
Bradley Graham / Washington Post:
Decline and Fall  —  Face time with the president is political gold in Washington, so Donald Rumsfeld moved quickly after taking charge at the Pentagon to secure weekly private meetings with President George W. Bush.  Now, nearly six years and many meetings later, the defense secretary arrived …
Discussion: SWJ Blog, Raw Story and FishBowlDC
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Barack Obama Surveys the World  —  “And the Spirit of God hovered upon the face of the waters”  —  When President Obama returned from his first European trip, I observed that while over there he had been “acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray mediating” between America and the world.
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
We Need a New National Anthem  —  In the Age of Karaoke, more people (including me) like to join in the singing when they strike up the national anthem at public occasions.  No one can stop you, no matter how embarrassed she might be by your obvious lack of talent.
Kori Schake / Shadow Government:
Remember Iraq?  You will soon enough  —  Iraq is receding from our national consciousness (Stephen Colbert's efforts to remind us about the war notwithstanding).  The combined effects of the success of the surge, President Bush signing a restrictive Status of Forces Agreement …
Margaret Talev / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: GOP risks loss of respect if it goes after Sotomayor  —  WASHINGTON — Republicans may have a window of opportunity to turn public opinion against President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee, but a new poll finds that such a campaign could hurt their party's already weak standing …
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Leading White Nationalist To Speak At Pat Buchanan's American Cause Conference This Month  —  The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that MSNBC's Pat Buchanan has invited the editor of a white nationalist, anti-immigrant website to speak at the upcoming conference for his group, the American Cause.
The Huffington Post:
White House Browbeats Dem Freshmen On War Money: “You'll Never Hear From Us Again”  —  The White House is playing hardball with Democrats who intend to vote against the supplemental war spending bill, threatening freshmen who oppose it that they won't get help with reelection and will be cut off …
Bill Maher / Los Angeles Times:
Enough with the Obamathon  —  The president is on TV more than the ShamWow guy, but I want to see a little more action.  —  President Obama should just join the cast of “I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!”  It's not that farfetched; he's been on everything else.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey / The Huffington Post:
We Need a Real and Robust Public Option  —  In the weeks ahead, Congress will take up one of the most pressing and glaring problems facing our nation — our broken and dysfunctional health care system.  As most of you already know, while American taxpayers spend more per capita on health care …
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Can James Jones Survive a Second Round of Attacks and “Longer Knives”?  —  I am here in London where I'm participating in an interesting forum sponsored by the Princeton Project on National Security and the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Transatlantic Program, I've received not just one email …
 
 
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Mike Lux / The Huffington Post:
The Measure of Obama's Presidency
Julian Borger / Guardian:
UK to review Bermuda relations
Discussion: FP Passport, Truthdig and Fausta's Blog
Amanda Ruggeri / US News:
Ray LaHood: A ‘Transformational’ Time for the U.S. Transit System
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
Indulge This: What The Anti-Obesity Movement Can Learn From The Defeat …
Discussion: MyDD
Jason Hancock / Iowa Independent:
Chuck Norris endorses Vander Plaats
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Elisabeth Eaves / Forbes:
The Recession Is Great  —  Low prices.  Nice people.  What's not to like?
Discussion: Don Surber and Dealscape
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Jane Hamsher / Campaign Silo:
Supplemental Whip Count Update: 32 “No,” 15 “Leaning No” — We Need 39
Discussion: Congress Matters and Firedoglake
John E. Mulligan / Providence Journal:
Rep. Kennedy decides to ‘step away’ for medical treatment
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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