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New York Times:
Palin's Route to Resignation: Missteps and Ignored Advice — ANCHORAGE — In late March, a senior official from the Republican Governors Association headed for Alaska on a secret mission. Sarah Palin was beset by such political and personal turmoil that some powerful supporters determined …
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The Future of Conservative Ideas — Drake Bennett profiles four up-and-coming right-of-center thinkers: Luigi Zingales, Bradford Wilcox, Reihan Salam, and Megan McArdle. I've never heard of Wilcox, but his ideas (family is good!) don't sound very interesting.
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Drake Bennett / Boston Globe:
The next conservative thinkers — Many Republicans fret that the party of ideas has gotten stuck. Here are four who might help unstick it. — By definition, conservatism prefers the past to the present - in William F. Buckley's famous formulation, history was something to be stood athwart …
Isabel Vincent / New York Post:
FOLKS: O, FOR SHAME! — 'GIRL'S NO SEX SYMBOL!' — The Secret Service might want to put a new threat on its watch list: the mad-as-hell mama of the 17-year-old Brazilian beauty ogled by President Obama and French leader Nicolas Sarkozy at the G8 summit last week.
Fox News:
Democrats Call for Probe Over Canceled CIA Program Never Reviewed by Congress — Some Democratic senators say they want to know whether former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered Congress out of the loop on a covert CIA counterterrorism program. — FOXNews.com
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Foster Kamer / Gawker:
Hate Speech Against Malia Obama On Conservative Blogs Reported By Hate Speech Planting Journalist — We should've seen this coming: conservative blog Free Republic fired hate speech off at Malia Obama after this photo of her appeared, letting their commenters go to town.
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Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
Responding to the President's op-ed — I would like to respond to the President's Washington Post op-ed, “Rebuilding Something Better.” All quotes in this post are from the President. … The President and his team use this language to lower the bar against which they are measured.
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Barack Obama / Washington Post:Rebuilding Something Better
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New York Times:
Goldman Sachs Likely to Post Huge Profits, Analysts Say — Most of Wall Street, and America, is still waiting for an economic recovery. Then there is Goldman Sachs. — Up and down Wall Street, analysts and traders are buzzing that Goldman, which only recently paid back its government bailout money …
CNN:
Obama orders review of alleged mass killings — (CNN) — President Obama has ordered national security officials to look into allegations that the Bush administration resisted efforts to investigate a CIA-backed Afghan warlord over the killings of hundreds of Taliban prisoners in 2001.
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Moneyrunner / The Virginian:
CNN's Don Lemon Gets His “Unprecedented Obama Welcome” Shot Down — It appears to be the The end of Obamania — And in the real world Sarah Palin has moved herself from the periphery to the center of power in the Republican party. The Party just doesn't seem to know it yet.
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
Fiscal Policy: The Obama Administration Is Not Making Much Sense These Days — Tim Geithner is not making sense: … Let's review the bidding: — Last December the Obama administration to be decided on a fiscal stimulus package which they believed would have minor effects on the economy …
A Siegel / Firedoglake:
Republicans Reject Science; Scientists Reject Republicans — The Republican Party has a serious infection of anti-science syndrome. And, scientists have noted the The Republican War on Science. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press came out, last week …
Bradley Graham / Washington Post:
McNamara Apologized. Will Rumsfeld? — Late in his life, Robert McNamara became a sad study in what can happen when a Pentagon leader eventually regrets taking a country into a disastrous war and attempts to atone. His belated acknowledgment of doubts and error in managing the Vietnam War came …
Jack Kim / Reuters:
North Korea leader Kim has pancreatic cancer: report — SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has pancreatic cancer and the illness is life-threatening, South Korean broadcaster YTN said on Monday based on information gathered by Chinese and South Korean intelligence sources.
David Alexander / Reuters:
Lawmakers reject tax to pay for health reform — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Sunday criticized a plan to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay for a $1 trillion healthcare overhaul and warned Congress was unlikely to meet President Barack Obama's goal of passing the measure by August.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Will ObamaCare threaten medical innovation? — Glenn Reynolds argues that the wait lines for treatments in a single-payer system are not the biggest concern. In a Washington Examiner column, Glenn relates personal stories of how his family members have benefited from innovation in medical treatments …
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Jules Crittenden
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:Glenn Reynolds on the hidden cost of national health care
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Holder trial balloon: Abu Ghraib redux — (updated below - Update II - Update III) — Yesterday, I treated this new Newsweek report that Eric Holder is “leaning toward appointing a prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's brutal interrogation practices” as something to celebrate.
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Scott Horton / The Daily Beast:Torture Prosecution Turnaround?
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