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Rasmussen Reports:
Nationally, 60% Favor Letting Local Police Stop and Verify Immigration Status — Arizona Governor Jan Brewer last week signed a new law into effect that authorizes local police to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant.
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Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow on the Origin of Arizona's Draconian Immigration Law — Meanwhile, Jan Brewer's really stepped in it. … Shorter Brewer: At a time of recession, how dare people not financially support our racist xenophobic laws.
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Dem: Ariz. law like ‘Nazi Germany’
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Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers — Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers. They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid to force repeated votes to end filibuster of Wall Street reform — Sen. Harry Reid will force Republicans to vote repeatedly against Wall Street reform to put pressure GOP centrists. — A senior Democratic aide said Reid would schedule votes to end a Republican filibuster of the reform bill …
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Midwest Trip With Political Fortunes on the Line — MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa — President Obama is making an appeal to the legions of new voters who sent him to the White House, imploring them to preserve the Democratic majority in Congress. But party leaders have an even more pressing wish …
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Obama Hits Main Street, Capitol Hill Targets Wall Street — Obama Kicks Off Another Jobs Tour as Democrats Ramp Up Midterm Campaign Focus — President Obama hits the road today and shifts his focus from Wall Street to Main Street, just as Democrats are ratcheting up their efforts for the upcoming midterm election season.
The Prowler / American Spectator:
What Lies Beneath — OFFICE POLITICS — The economic report …
What Lies Beneath — OFFICE POLITICS — The economic report …
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The Huffington Post:
Nelson Flips On Regulatory Reform After Buffett Provision Removed — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Democrats were surprised on Monday evening when Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) did an abrupt about-face and became the only Democrat to help filibuster legislation to revamp Wall Street regulations.
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Annie Lowrey / The Washington Independent:
Democrat Ben Nelson Votes Against Moving Forward With Financial Regulation
Democrat Ben Nelson Votes Against Moving Forward With Financial Regulation
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Democrats to Kill Derivatives Provision Pushed by Berkshire
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Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Poll stunner: Sen. Bennett on brink of defeat — Politics » With time running out, Lee, Bridgewater take the lead among GOP delegates. — Unless Sen. Bob Bennett's political fortunes change dramatically in the next two weeks, he could become Utah's first incumbent U.S. senator to lose his party's nomination in seven decades.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Democrats' young voter problem — 1. Less than 24 hours after President Barack Obama announced his plan to re-build the coalition that helped elect him in 2008, new numbers from Gallup suggest one of the pillars of that foundation is decidedly shaky. — Less than one in four voters aged …
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War: PowerPoint — WASHINGTON — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti.
The Hill:
Climate advocates fight to give legislation another day — Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) insisted Monday that the Senate could still take up climate change legislation before immigration reform. — Lieberman's comments came as a range of environmental and business groups that support …
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Paterson to Successor: You Will Fail — ALBANY—David Paterson, the current governor of New York, has a message for his successor: You're doomed to fail. — In a 70-minute interview with The Wall Street Journal, the governor cast himself as a scapegoat for the state's problems, blamed an …
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City Room
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / Wall Street Journal:
‘South Park’ and the Informal Fatwa — The veiled threats against the Comedy Central show's creators should be taken very seriously. — 'South Park" is hilarious, right? Not any more. — Last week, Zachary Adam Chesser—a 20-year-old Muslim convert who now goes by the name Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee …
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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
No More Beer Summits: Tea Party ‘N-Word’ Incident Didn't Happen, And the Congressional Black Caucus Owes America an Apology — Rep. Andre Carson wants to change the subject. I don't blame him. — On April 13, 2010 he told AP reporter Jesse Washington, “I think we need to move toward …
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Obamateurism of the Day — Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Those academics who learn the politically-correct, facile interpretation of history are doomed to look like fools when they open their mouths. Barack Obama proved at least the latter of these two axioms …
Silvana Naguib / American Prospect:
What to Make of ‘Boobquake’? — Today, women gathered in Washington's Dupont Circle for a protest. There weren't typo-ridden signs or rallying cries to pass legislation. Instead, there were just a lot of low-cut shirts. — Jen McCreight came up with the idea for the protest and proposed …
Ross Douthat:
Does Conservatism Need Fox News? — Amid a long commentary on last week's Jim Manzi-Mark Levin dust-up (and related matters), Jonah Goldberg made the following observation: … I suppose that it depends on what you mean by “success.” In a sense, the last eighteen months have been enormously successful …
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Morris Davis / The Huffington Post:
Obama and Change at Guantanamo: Believe It When You See It — “I'm asking you to believe.” That's what it said at the top of the page on BarackObama.com, the wildly popular website for President Obama's successful 2008 campaign. On a page entitled “Strengthen America Overseas,” …
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The Washington Independent
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Techno-GOP — Web-savvy is no longer a monopoly of the political left — Home to two-term Republican governor Rick Perry, Austin is also the newest outpost of the social networking giant Facebook, which announced it had surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States around …
Jim Manzi / The American Scene:
Re: Reply to Jim Manzi — Thanks for your reply. I think that your directness and clarity have helped to isolate the key point of difference between us. — In response to my question - “Put yourself in the position of a senior government leader tasked with making real decisions that affect the lives of millions.
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