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11:45 AM ET, April 3, 2010

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Blazing Cat Fur:
Palestine House Thugs Screams “You need another Holocaust”  —  Update1: We have a new Camel Girl!  Meet Denise Balkissoon crack reporter for the Toronto Star.  This was Ms. Balkissoon's take away - “Each group accused the other of hate, shouting “go home. … Update2: Frumpy has the video - “We love jihad.
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Kathy Shaidle / five feet of fury.:
Toronto Muslim: ‘We need another Holocaust!’  (UPDATED)  —  Today Arnie and I attended that protest outside (tax payer funded) Palestine House, where a genocidal Muslim VIP will be speaking tomorrow night.  —  Speaking of genocide: we have video of one Muslim guy in the Palestine House parking lot …
Discussion: Blazing Cat Fur and American Power
Elizabeth Scalia / NPR:
Today, On Good Friday, Here's Why I Remain Catholic  —  text sizeAAA  —  Elizabeth Scalia is a contributing writer to First Things Magazine as the blogger known as The Anchoress.  —  The question has come my way several times in the past week: “How do you maintain your faith in light …
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Wall Street Journal:
The Catholic Church's Catastrophe
Discussion: Mediaite
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Poll: Most Americans Remain Against Health Care Overhaul  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.  —  The public is increasingly skeptical of the health care reform bill signed into law last week, a new CBS News poll shows.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
CBS poll: Believe it or not, support for ObamaCare still eroding  —  Amazing as it might seem, this elevator may not yet have reached the basement. … More than half think their own health-care costs will go up, but nothing new there.  Consider this a sequel to the earlier post about why The One's …
Discussion: The Politico
New York Times:
Asked to Declare His Race, Obama Checks ‘Black’  —  It is official: Barack Obama is the nation's first black president.  —  A White House spokesman confirmed that Mr. Obama, the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, checked African-American on the 2010 census questionnaire.
David Gardner / Daily Mail:
Barack Obama?  Not bothered... Schoolgirl left wondering what all the fuss is about after meeting president amid crowd frenzy  —  One little girl was distinctly unimpressed with all the excitement when President Barack Obama came to town.  —  Many supporters in the crowd in Portland …
Discussion: Left Coast Rebel
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Why I won't buy an iPad (and think you shouldn't, either)  —  I've spent ten years now on Boing Boing, finding cool things that people have done and made and writing about them.  Most of the really exciting stuff hasn't come from big corporations with enormous budgets, it's come from experimentalist amateurs.
Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
The great elaborator: Obama gives 17-minute answer to health-care query in N.C.  —  CHARLOTTE — Even by President Obama's loquacious standards, an answer he gave here on health care Friday was a doozy.  —  Toward the end of a question-and-answer session with workers at an advanced battery …
Tara Siegel Bernard / New York Times:
Your Money: Mortgage Aid Elicits Anger, but It May Help  —  The angry comments flooded in after the federal government announced it was expanding its program to assist unemployed homeowners, as well as borrowers who owe more on their mortgages than their homes are now worth.
Wall Street Journal:
Authorities Probe Iran Nuclear Ring  —  Western Authorities Investigate China Connection in Export of French Valves  —  An Iranian firm closely linked to Tehran's nuclear program acquired special hardware for enriching uranium, despite sanctions intended to keep such equipment out of Iran …
The Huffington Post:
Doctor Jack Cassell Refuses To Treat Obama Supporters  —  What's Your Reaction: … Florida urologist Jack Cassell posted a sign on his office door reading, “If you voted for Obama ... seek urologic care elsewhere.  Changes to your health care begin right now, not in four years.”
Jeff Stein / Spy Talk:
CIA's top spy: No losses from waterboarding ban  —  Michael Sulick, head of the CIA's National Clandestine Service, told a student audience last week that the spy agency has seen no fall-off in intelligence since waterboarding was banned by the Obama administration.
Rep. Paul Ryan / Real Clear Politics:
Should America Bid Farewell to Exceptional Freedom?  —  Last week, on March 21st, Congress enacted a new Intolerable Act.  Congress passed the Health Care bill - or I should say, one political party passed it - over a swelling revolt by the American people.  The reform is an atrocity.
Discussion: Ruby Slippers
CNN:
Report: Actor to leave Obama administration  —  The White House wouldn't confirm a report Friday that actor Kal Penn is leaving the Obama administration.  —  Washington (CNN) - The White House isn't confirming a report that actor Kal Penn is leaving the Obama administration.
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ZIP / Weasel Zippers:
Black Dem Rep. Who Was Reportedly Spit on by Tea Party Protester: I Never Claimed to Have Been Spit on Intentionally, Others Are Making the Claim on My Behalf, Refuses to Confirm it Happened..  (Update) He's Full of S**t...  More proof this claim is 100% bulls**t.
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