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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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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.
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Arizona's new immigration law is an act of vengeance
Arizona's new immigration law is an act of vengeance
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Wall Street Journal, Balkinization, Ezra Klein, Lean Left, The Corner on National … and Wonk Room
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
Breathing While Undocumented — I'm glad I've already seen the Grand Canyon.
Breathing While Undocumented — I'm glad I've already seen the Grand Canyon.
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Washington Monthly
Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:
In Wake of Immigration Law, Calls for an Economic Boycott of Arizona
In Wake of Immigration Law, Calls for an Economic Boycott of Arizona
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Kyle Drennen / NewsBusters.org:
MSNBC News Flash: Arizona Law ‘Makes it a Crime to be Illegal Immigrant’
MSNBC News Flash: Arizona Law ‘Makes it a Crime to be Illegal Immigrant’
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Dem: Ariz. law like ‘Nazi Germany’
Dem: Ariz. law like ‘Nazi Germany’
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The Swamp, The Strata-Sphere, Moonbattery, Left Coast Rebel, PoliBlog, The Corner on National …, Sadly, No!, CNN, NY Daily News, Hot Air, 24Ahead and Townhall.com
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.
Brody Mullins / Washington Wire:
Wall Street Rules Help GOP Fill Campaign Coffers — Republicans are poised to lose the fight over Wall Street regulations, but there is a silver lining: the fight has helped the Republicans pad their campaign accounts. — For the first time since 2004, the biggest Wall Street firms …
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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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New York Times, The Hill, The Politico, Taylor Marsh, The Baseline Scenario and Daily Kos
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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.
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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Washington Monthly, Reuters, Don Surber, Open Congress, CBS News, The Washington Independent, Firedoglake, Night Light, The Huffington Post and Wonkette
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Democrats to Kill Derivatives Provision Pushed by Berkshire
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Matthew Yglesias, Ezra Klein, Firedoglake, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller, NPR Blogs, The Corner on National …, FT Alphaville, Daily Kos and ProPublica
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Goldman Drama — Between 1997 and 2006, consumers, lenders and builders created a housing bubble, and pretty much the entire establishment missed it. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the people who regulate them missed it. The big commercial banks and the people who regulate them missed it.
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Full Annotated Lloyd Blankfein Testimony
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Firedoglake, Guardian, Wall Street Journal, Politics in the Zeros, BBC and The Curious Capitalist
Louise Story / New York Times:
Goldman Said to Have Been in Other Mortgage Deals
Goldman Said to Have Been in Other Mortgage Deals
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Carl Levin, DealBook, Sweetness & Light, naked capitalism, AMERICAblog News and TPMMuckraker
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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Cassy Fiano, Democratic Strategist, RedState, Gallup, Sister Toldjah, Commentary, The Moderate Voice, Right Now and Real Clear Politics
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.
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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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 …
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Hugo Chavez to join Twitter — Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan President, has announced that he will start using Twitter, the microblogging site which will test his ability to deliver a concise message. — Mr Chavez speaks to the nation for hours every Sunday on his radio and television program …
Boston Globe:
KFC: Who's the fattiest of them all? — KFC's newest offering has redefined the American sandwich landscape. The Double Down sandwich consists of two fried chicken breasts, bacon, cheese, and special sauce. “This product is so meaty,” reports KFC's website with the sort of pride usually reserved …
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Sens: Facebook not protecting users — Four Democratic senators expressed concern Tuesday that Facebook is not being careful to protect the privacy of its users. — New York's Charles Schumer, Colorado's Michael Bennet, Alaska's Mark Begich and Minnesota's Al Franken have sent a letter …
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Inquiry Says Health Care Charges Were Proper — WASHINGTON — When major companies declared that a provision of the new health care law would hurt earnings, Democrats were skeptical. But after investigating, House Democrats have concluded that the companies were right to tell investors …
Roll Call:
Heard on the Hill: Kennedy's Vodka-Fueled Bar Trip — Rep. Patrick Kennedy was spotted doing vodka shots last week at a Capitol Hill bar just hours after he spoke about his history of substance abuse at a charity event. — An HOH tipster and a pal were sitting at the bar …
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
‘This Is Alabama. We Speak English’ — In this advertisement, Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim James speaks on the apparently incredible waste of government resources it takes to give driver's license examinations in twelve languages. — “This is Alabama,” he says. “We speak English.
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Minority Report — Human Rights Watch fights a civil war over Israel. — On October 19 of last year, the op-ed page of The New York Times contained a bombshell: a piece by Robert Bernstein, the founder and former chairman of Human Rights Watch (HRW), attacking his own organization.
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Oil Leak from Damaged Well in Gulf of Mexico — An estimated 42,000 gallons of oil per day were leaking from an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico in late April, following an explosion at an offshore drilling rig on April 20, 2010. The rig eventually capsized and sank.
Ezra Klein:
The Federal Reserve and the banks join forces against Blanche Lincoln's derivatives proposal — The banks, of course, aren't big on Blanche Lincoln's idea to spin derivatives-trading desks out of the banks. Particularly the big banks, which as you can in the graphic atop this post, pretty much control the market.
Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:
GOP launches ad attack on Cahill — Candidates swap charges over taxes — The Republican Governors Association, hoping to clear a path for Charles D. Baker, will launch a hard-hitting television and radio ad campaign today targeting state Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill …
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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 …
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 …