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BBC:
Contacting aliens could be risky, Hawking warns — Aliens almost certainly exist but humans should make every attempt to avoid them, Stephen Hawking has warned. — In a series for the Discovery Channel the renowned astrophysicist said it was “perfectly rational” to assume intelligent life exists elsewhere.
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Jonathan Leake / Times of London:
Don't talk to aliens, warns Stephen Hawking — THE aliens are out there and Earth had better watch out, at least according to Stephen Hawking. He has suggested that extraterrestrials are almost certain to exist — but that instead of seeking them out, humanity should be doing all it that can to avoid any contact.
Robert Kuttner / The Huffington Post:
Obama Rejects Bipartisan Bank Deal — Although Senate Banking Committee Chris Dodd and his sometime Republican ally Richard Shelby continued to make noises on the Sunday talk shows about a possible bipartisan deal, both President Obama and House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank …
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Wall St. showdown on Senate floor — Even as both sides closed in on a Wall Street reform deal, Senate Republicans predicted Sunday that Democrats will fail to push the overhaul bill through the chamber Monday. — That sets up a sharply partisan - but potentially short-lived - showdown on the Senate floor.
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Manu Raju / Politico Live's Blog:
Shelby: Dems will lack votes Monday
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Cushy Life of the Rightwinger — If you're a connoisseur of people pointing out that Jonah Goldberg isn't a very intelligent man while simultaneously being too polite to come out and say so directly, I'd highly recommend this post from Conor Friedersdorf.
The Politico:
Climate backers try to regroup — Backers of a bipartisan climate change bill are scrambling to revive efforts to pass legislation before the November midterms — even as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sticks by plans to slow-walk the measure behind immigration reform.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
GRAHAM ASKED FOR ‘STEPPED UP’ ACTION ON IMMIGRATION.... Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is so upset that Dems might take up immigration reform this year, he's prepared to kill his own tri-partisan climate/energy bill. Some of his concerns are reasonable — Graham was told the climate bill …
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Telegraph:
Pope ‘could cancel UK visit’ over ‘offensive’ Foreign Office memo — The Pope could cancel his planned visit to Britain because of a “hugely offensive” Foreign Office memo mocking his stance on abortion and birth control, sources in the Vatican said. — Senior Papal aides suggested …
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Stephen Bates / Guardian:
Pope ‘condom’ gaffe: FO apologises — Internal Foreign Office memo filled with ironic suggestions about the pope's September visit to the UK has prompted an official apology to the Vatican — An internal Foreign Office memo about September's papal visit to Britain, born …
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Still Not Getting It — The Mustache of Understanding: … They weren't around protesting during the Bush years BECAUSE THE TEA PARTY IS REPUBLICANS. They don't care about the deficit. They care that a Democrat (and a black “Muslim,” to boot), is in the White House.
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Paul Krugman:
Can't Anybody Here Play This Game? — Bear with me while I vent for a moment. On financial reform, there are clear villains in the political process: Mitch McConnell, the US Chamber of Commerce, etc.. But at this point I'm accustomed to that sort of thing.
Jon Hilsenrath / Washington Wire:
Geithner: ‘I Never Had A Real Job’ — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is haunted by the misperception that he used to work on Wall Street. — Sen. John Kerry made the mistaken association at a hearing last year. During an April 2009 hearing of a panel overseeing government rescue funds …
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Firedoglake:
Lloyd Blankfein Auditions for Open Mic Night — Vampire squid at taxpayers' rally outside Goldman Sachs DC office. (photo: SEIU via Flickr) — Well, well, well. — It seems that Lloyd Blankfein and the folks at the Vampire Squid think Sen Levin and the staff of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee …
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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Goldman executives cheered housing market's decline, newly released e-mails show
ninemsn:
‘Gay dog’ refused entry to Adelaide restaurant — An Adelaide restaurant that refused a blind man entry because a waiter thought his guide dog was “gay” has been ordered to apologise and pay compensation. — Ian Jolly was told he could not take guide dog Nudge into the Thai Spice …
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