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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.
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Pro-Gay Hecklers Repeatedly Interrupt Obama At DNC Fundraiser — Obama said he agrees that “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” needs to be repealed. “When you got an ally like Barbara Boxer and you've got an ally like me who are standing for the same thing, then you don't know exactly why you have to holler …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Gay protesters interrupt Obama at California fundraiser for Barbara Boxer — After a long day of work in Washington and a long transcontinental flight to Los Angeles, President Obama told a crowd of Democratic donors in Los Angeles Monday night that he was “fired up!” — Turns out so were some of the crowd members.
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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The Politico:
Goldman Sachs taps ex-W.H. counsel — Goldman Sachs is launching an aggressive response to its political and legal challenges with an unlikely ally at its side — President Barack Obama's former White House counsel, Gregory Craig. — The beleaguered Wall Street bank hired Craig …
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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.
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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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
A Letter: Apple Wants Its Secret iPhone Back — Well, how can I explain this? I got some interesting calls today. It was Apple. And they wanted their phone back. — This phone was lost, and then found. But from Apple's perspective, it could have been considered stolen.
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Goldman Tops Forecast, With $3.46 Billion in Earnings — Beset by accusations of securities fraud, Goldman Sachs nevertheless showed Tuesday that it was still very good at what it does best: making money. — Earnings for the Wall Street giant rose 91 percent in the first quarter of 2010 …
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Jesse Westbrook / Bloomberg:
SEC Said to Vote 3-2 to Sue Goldman Sachs Over CDOs
SEC Said to Vote 3-2 to Sue Goldman Sachs Over CDOs
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sen. Collins pledges to block Democratic Wall Street bill — Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) announced after meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Monday that she will vote to filibuster a Democratic Wall Street reform bill. — Her announcement hurts Democratic chances …
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Robert Costa / The Corner on National Review Online:
Crist: 'I'm Staying in This Race' — By: Robert Costa — In an exclusive interview, Gov. Charlie Crist (R., Fla.) tells National Review Online that “damn right, I'm staying in this race.” He tells us that he will not run as a Democrat. “I was never going to do that.”
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Eamon Javers / The Politico:
Debate tests members' financial IQs — Ask White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee about derivatives, and he'll tell you about free tacos. — That's the trouble with the financial regulatory reform debate: The arcane terminology of the financial world can be daunting.
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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 …
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 …
Lynn Sweet:
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel: Rahm eyes City Hall in post-Daley era — WASHINGTON — White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, who in January tried to quash stories about a future Chicago mayoral bid, on Monday put his interest in City Hall on the record: “One day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago.”
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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 …
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 …
Pamela Geller / Human Events:
Free Speech Denied In Miami — In an outrageous denial of free speech rights, Miami-Dade Transit last week forced the removal of a “Leaving Islam” ad campaign on Miami buses because the ads might be “offensive to Islam.” — The Freedom Defense Initiative, the new organization I have begun …
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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.
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.
Boston Globe:
More from Eyjafjallajokull — As ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano continued to keep European airspace shut down over the weekend, affecting millions of travelers around the world, some government agencies and airlines clashed over the flight bans.