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BANKS: Deposits Guaranteed … Through the great banking houses of Manhattan last week ran wild-eyed alarm. Big bankers stared at one another in anger and astonishment. A bill just passed by both houses of Congress would rivet upon their institutions what they considered a monstrous system of guaranteeing bank deposits.
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The White House:
Remarks by the President on Wall Street Reform Cooper Union, New York, New York — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Everybody, please have a seat. Thank you very much. Well, thank you. It is good to be back. (Applause.) It is good to be back in New York, it is good to be back in the Great Hall at Cooper Union.
Ezra Klein:
What would FDR do? — In 1936, Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the podium at Madison Square Garden to deliver a message to his critics. “We [have] had to struggle with the old enemies of peace,” he said. “Business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Higher Taxes: The Solution to Obscene Wall Street Profits — Ezra Klein uses some charts and graphs to demonstrate how profits and compensation have skyrocketed on Wall Street, and concludes: … I don't really understand this progressive passion for trying to micromanage the structure of the American economy.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
In Manhattan, Obama Presses for Financial Reform — President Obama challenged some of the nation's most influential bankers on Thursday to call off their “battalions of financial industry lobbyists” and embrace a new regulatory structure meant to avert another economic crisis. — Multimedia
Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Issa Admits He Has No Proof For His Conspiracy That Obama White House …
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
‘South Park’ Episode Is Altered After Muslim Group's Warning — A message posted on SouthParkStudios.com, the Web site of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's production company. — 8:56 a.m. | Updated — An episode of “South Park” that continued a story line involving the Prophet Muhammad …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Puss-TV vs Non-Puss TV — If you try to access the latest episode of South Park online, you get the message above. — I know I'm a broken record, but the two-part 200th episode was about as close to genius - and hardcore fan-pandering - as you can get. Hennifer Lopez, Mr Hat …
NBC Chicago:
Redactions Revealed: The Six Secrets You Need to Know From the Obama Subpoena Request — Former governor Rod Blagojevich's defense team asked Thursday to issue a trial subpoena to the President of the United States of America. — The motion, intended to be heavily redacted …
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Mediaite Exclusive: Censored Portions of Blago Subpoena May Implicate Team Obama — Today in United States v. Rod Blagojevich: following up on his 2008 claims that then-Senator Barack Obama was one of a few people who could testify to his innocence, his defense team issued a motion today to subpoena the President to testify in court.
WBBM-TV:
Judge Holds Emergency Hearing In Blagojevich Case — Defense Motion To Subpoena President Barack Obama Contained Sealed Information That Was Visible In Some Electronic Formats — CHICAGO (CBS) ― The judge presiding over the corruption case against former Gov. Rod Blagojevich …
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National Review
Hogan / RedState:
Epistemic Nonsense - Count Me on Team Levin — Yesterday, our good friend Mark Levin was attacked on The Corner over at National Review Online by one of his fellow contributors there, Jim Manzi. I am not going to link to his hit piece. I found it to be beneath what I thought I knew of him and beneath The Corner.
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Reuters:
Exclusive: WellPoint routinely targets breast cancer patients — (Reuters) - One after another, shortly after a diagnosis of breast cancer, each of the women learned that her health insurance had been canceled. First there was Yenny Hsu, who lived and worked in Los Angeles.
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Cheney: Telling Leahy to ‘f*ck’ himself was ‘sort of the best thing I ever did.’ — In 2004, then-Vice President Dick Cheney had a “frank exchange of views” with Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) on the Senate floor over Cheney's ties to Halliburton and President Bush's judicial nominees.
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Washington Post
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Reid moves forward with reform vote — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday that he will not wait for Democrats and Republicans to reach a bipartisan compromise on a Wall Street reform bill, pledging to move ahead with the first key test vote Monday.
Tim Shipman / Daily Mail:
'I've gone from being Churchill to a Nazi in a week': Clegg defends attack on Britain's ‘delusions of grandeur’ over WWII — A rattled Nick Clegg today sought to defend himself over his claim that the British people have a ‘more insidious cross to bear’ than Germany over World War II.
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Thomas Fitzgerald / Philly.com:
In Pa. House race, identity politics with a twist — It's happened so often that it's now a cultural cliche: the gay politician pretending to be straight. In most parts of the nation, homosexuality or bisexuality is a clear electoral liability. — Not in Center City's 182d state House district.
Martin Kady II / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
GOP brings KBH back into leadership — Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) is being rewarded for sticking with Republicans in the Senate. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Thursday appointed Hutchison as a “counsel” to GOP leadership to serve alongside Judd Gregg of New Hampshire and Bob Bennett of Utah.
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Obama administration to appeal prayer ruling — From NBC's Pete Williams — The Justice Department says it intends to appeal a federal court ruling that found the National Day of Prayer to be a violation of the separation between church and state. — The ruling came in a lawsuit filed …
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Marist Poll:
4/22: Making Change with the 50 Dollar Bill — A Republican congressman from North Carolina has proposed legislation that would replace the image of President Ulysses S. Grant on the fifty dollar bill with that of President Ronald Reagan. Do Americans want this change to occur?
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Conservative Radio Silence On Financial Regulation — Yesterday I commented on the miraculous nature of the sudden revival of financial reform. One other key element in this upsurge is the intellectual disarray on the right. Conservatives do not know what to say or think about this.
Jen DiMascio / The Politico:
Pentagon pulls Graham invitation — The Pentagon has withdrawn an invitation to Franklin Graham to speak at the Pentagon's National Day of Prayer services on May 6 because of past comments the preacher has made about Islam, including calling the religion “evil.”
Mike Lillis / The Washington Independent:
In Coal Country, a Culture of Fear — Massey Intimidates Workers, Families Into Silence … Charleston, W.Va. — Two weeks after the horrific explosion that killed 29 coal miners in southern West Virginia, it's business as usual for the owner of the project.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Rep Brian Bilbray Says He Can Spot Illegal Immigrants Based on Their Shoes — I was concerned yesterday that Arizona's new draconian anti-immigrant law might lead to widespread harassment of Hispanics who live in or travel to the state. Chris Matthews explored this topic with Rep Brian Billbray …
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats at the Edge of the Cliff — Democrats are spending trillions at the worst possible moment, with a new poll showing public trust in government at a historic low of 22%. — There was always something eerie about the way the Democrats said their health-care legislation was what the American people had waited “70 years” for.
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The New Republic
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll — April 2010 — The first Kaiser Health Tracking Poll fielded since the passage of health reform last month finds that 8 in 10 Americans know that President Obama signed the legislation into law. But 55 percent say they are confused about the law and more than half …
George F. Will / Press Association:
Bringing Thunder-ous change to New Jersey — The bridge spanning the Delaware River connects New Jersey's capital with this town where the nation's most interesting governor occasionally eats lunch at Cafe Antonio. It also connects New Jersey's government with reality.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Michael Steele Acknowledges GOP Had “Southern Strategy” For Decades — A lot of people are pointing to a new set of remarks Michael Steele made about the Republican Party and race, in which Steele acknowledged that the GOP hasn't given African Americans a reason to support the party.
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