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Noam Scheiber / The New Republic:
Head Lock — The inside story of how Goldman and the banks are getting clobbered on financial reform. — Some two dozen executives from large corporations will be descending on Capitol Hill today to make the case against over-regulating derivatives. The “fly-in” is being organized in part …
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The Note:
Crist's Passions: Listening for Answers the GOP May Not Want — Charlie Crist gets to set the course for the GOP after all. (Whether it's where Republicans want to be led — that's another question.) — Since we know that he's listening and all — what he's hearing back is some mixed sounds, of varying volumes.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Do Dems Have A Unified Message To Counter GOP Filibuster Of Fin Reform?
Do Dems Have A Unified Message To Counter GOP Filibuster Of Fin Reform?
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Paul Krugman, No More Mister Nice Blog, Economist's View, The Plum Line and Democratic Strategist
kausforcalifornia.com:
Obama to Save Boxer Like He Saved Corzine! — Do Obama and Boxer realize they are on the wrong side of a tsunami of voter discontent with a government run by and for the public employee unions? — President Obama is “swooping” into Los Angeles today to try to save Senator Barbara Boxer …
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Hit & Run, Temple of Mut, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Corner on National …, GayPatriot and City Journal
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Gay rights protesters interrupt Obama speech at fundraiser — Gay rights protesters interrupted President Barack Obama's speech at a fundraiser for California Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) Monday night in Los Angeles. — Activists from a group called GetEQUAL began shouting at Obama while he was speaking at the podium.
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Gay protesters interrupt Obama at California fundraiser for Barbara Boxer
Gay protesters interrupt Obama at California fundraiser for Barbara Boxer
Lyndsey Layton / Washington Post:
FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons — The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, saying that less sodium in everything from soup to nuts would prevent thousands …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court voids law aimed at banning animal cruelty videos — The Supreme Court struck down a federal law Tuesday aimed at banning videos depicting graphic violence against animals, saying that it violates the constitutional right to free speech. — Chief Justice John J. Roberts Jr. …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
First Amendment left intact — Refusing to remove another form of expression from the protection of the First Amendment, the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled 8-1 that the government lacks the power to outlaw expressions of animal cruelty, when that is done in videotapes and other commercial media.
New York Times:
For Apple, Lost iPhone Is a Big Deal — For anyone who has ever lost a cellphone, remember this: it could be worse. You could be the person who left his phone in a bar in California. And it wasn't just any phone; it was a supersecret version of the next iPhone.
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
How Apple Lost the Next iPhone
How Apple Lost the Next iPhone
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Halperin Takes A Stand — It isn't every day that a consumate inside-game reporter/pundit type like Mark Halperin aggressively calls out one party for lying, but that's exactly what Halperin did early this morning on MSNBC, talking about the GOP claim that the Dem financial reg reform bill will lead to a permanent bailout.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Lincoln says she won't return Goldman contributions — Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) said Tuesday she won't return contributions she's received from Goldman Sachs employees. — Lincoln, who's authoring a section of the Wall Street reform bill that regulates derivatives markets …
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The Politico:
Goldman Sachs taps ex-W.H. counsel
Goldman Sachs taps ex-W.H. counsel
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What's behind the anti-Tea Party hate narrative? — There's a new narrative taking hold in the wake of the recent Tea Party protests and the 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing: The Tea Partiers' intense opposition to the Obama administration has led to overheated political rhetoric …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
California senator complains of harassment from Palin fans — California State Senator Leland Yee, who has been battling a state university over disclosing Sarah Palin's speaking contract, complains in a press release today that he's been getting nasty emails and faxes.
The Hill:
Dem to Obama: Push immigration or I'll tell Latino voters to stay home — A congressman from the president's home state is threatening that he will urge Latino voters to stay home this November if the Democratic Party does not make a concerted effort to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
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The Confluence, The Hill, Wonk Room, AmSpecBlog, The Washington Independent, JammieWearingFool and The Corner on National …
Bart Barnes / Washington Post:
Dorothy I. Height, founding matriarch of civil rights movement, dies at 98 — Dorothy I. Height, 98, a founding matriarch of the American civil rights movement whose crusade for racial justice and gender equality spanned more than six decades, died early Tuesday morning of natural causes …
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Democratic Strategist, Politics Daily, ACS Blog, Post Mortem, Jack & Jill Politics, DCist, Taylor Marsh, Shakesville, PostPartisan and Feministe
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Burns leads Critz 44-41 — Buoyed by an electorate that is exceptionally sour on national Democrats, Republican Tim Burns has a 44-41 lead over Democrat Mark Critz in the special election to replace John Murtha in the House. — It's a rare election these days where both candidates are viewed pretty favorably in the district.
Naftali Bendavid / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Split Over How to Win in Fall — WASHINGTON—Sen. John Cornyn, who is spearheading the Republicans' campaign to take back the Senate, is on a roll. The GOP snatched a seat in Massachusetts and polls favor Republicans in many key states. — But the genial Texas lawyer is facing an unusual challenge …
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John Meroney / The Atlantic Online:
Ronald Reagan and James Dean: Rare Video from 1954 — Today, it's an astonishing, even eerie, scene: the icon of modern American conservatism, whose rise to political prominence was galvanized by the cultural rebellion of the 1960s, fighting off an attack-at-gunpoint by the quintessential modern American rebel.
Media Matters Action Network:
McCain: AZ Bill's Racial Profiling Aspect Is Fine Because Immigrants “Are Intentionally Causing Accidents.” … O'REILLY: Now, next week, the governor is going to sign, we believe, a very stringent state law that gives the police in Arizona very, very broad authority to question people.
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Hoyer says House won't vote on D.C. voting rights bill — The House will not vote on a bill granting the District of Columbia a voting member of Congress, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday. — “The price was too high,” said Hoyer (D-Md.), who cited extraneous measures …
Kenneth Anderson / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Waco — Bill Clinton's invocation of Timothy McVeigh in connection with the Tea Party movement caused me to recall my review of a book on the Waco massacre that was a motivation for McVeigh. The book under review was Reavis, The Ashes of Waco, and it appeared in the Times Literary Supplement in 1995.
Bruce J. Schulman / The Politico:
The costs of crossing the president — Will the White House punish Democrats who defected on the monumental health care overhaul? — “There is not a whole lot of [President] Barack Obama and [Vice President] Joe Biden to spare on a good day,” one senior White House official told POLITICO.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McCaskill presses GOP to reveal holds — Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) is trying to flush out Senate Republicans who have placed secret holds on nearly 80 of President Barack Obama's nominees. — McCaskill asked for unanimous consent to vote on the 18 nominees.
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Bill Carter / Media Decoder:
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert To Stay on Comedy Central Through 2012 Election — With Conan O'Brien about to change the calculus of late-night cable programming, the Comedy Central channel has made a move to lock up its two dominant stars, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
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Andrea Lafferty / Roll Call:
Employment Bill Threatens Easy House Schedule — House Members looking for easy votes following a public and exhausting health care battle are facing a rude awakening. Democrats especially have been running ragged after spending much political capital on health care reform and are hoping …