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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Oil From Spill Is Reported to Have Reached the Coast — NEW ORLEANS —Coast Guard officials were investigating reports early Friday morning that oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico had washed ashore overnight, threatening fisheries and wildlife in fragile marshes and islands along the Gulf Coast.
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The Oil Spill Is Obama's Fault — No, I haven't lost my mind — that's not what I believe. But you know that's what the talk-show hosts will be saying soon, if they haven't already started. The only question is what the story will be. — Will it be claims that liberals …
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Administration Vows No New Offshore Drilling Until Investigation — Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Threatens to Jeopardize President Obama's Offshore Drilling Policy — As some Democratic lawmakers call on President Obama to suspend his plans to expand offshore oil drilling …
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Ben Raines / Breaking News from the Press-Register:
Gulf of Mexico oil spill 2010: The worst-case scenario
Gulf of Mexico oil spill 2010: The worst-case scenario
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems spark alarm with call for national ID card — A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation's immigrations laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday. — Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker …
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Ezra Klein:
Is a biometric, national ID card an immigration game changer? — The Democrats' immigration-reform proposal (pdf) is 26 pages long. Pages 8 through 18 are devoted to “ending illegal employment through biometric employment verification.” I don't think the Democrats are going to like me calling …
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
Holy Loads of Tone Deaf — Talk about misreading the public mood. The Democratic immigration reform bill contains the following: … Apparently they think the outcry over the Arizona “SHOW YOUR PAPERS” bill is that it will only be applied to Hispanics. Polls pretty clearly demonstrate …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Boehner: GOP could pick up 100 seats — House Republicans could win 100 or more seats in this fall's elections, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Friday. — Boehner said he believes there is no seat that the GOP cannot win during this election cycle, judging by Sen. Scott Brown's …
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Boehner: GOP Will Repeal Health Care Law — House Republican Leader John Boehner has said that his party will repeal the new health care law if the GOP gains a congressional majority in November. — “I think that we need to repeal the health care law and replace it with common-sense steps …
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Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Might Want to Rent, not Own, the House — President Barack Obama went on a campaign-style barnstorming tour of the Midwest this week, a reminder that this is a big political year posing a big political question: Can Republicans take back control of the House of Representatives?
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Arizona Legislature Passes Bill to Curb ‘Chauvanism’ in Ethnic Studies Programs — After making national headlines for a new law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona Legislature sent Gov. Jan Brewer a bill Thursday that would ban ethnic studies programs in the state that critics say currently advocate separatism and racial preferences.
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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Gov. Brewer: ‘Arizona has been under terrorist attacks’ with ‘all of this illegal immigration.’ — Today during a Fox News interview about Arizona's new controversial immigration law, Gov. Jan Brewer (R) commiserated with host Megyn Kelly about all the criticism she's been receiving from people outside of Arizona.
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Peter Wallsten / Washington Wire:
Greene Enters Fla. Senate Race — Just when we thought the Florida Senate race couldn 't get any stranger... No sooner did GOP Gov. Charlie Crist announce that he'll run as an independent, clearing the way for Marco Rubio to secure the Republican nomination, than billionaire credit default …
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Ezra Klein:
Sen. Carl Levin: ‘We ought to eliminate the damn synthetics’ — Sen. Carl Levin chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and has used it not only for Tuesday's hearing on Goldman Sachs, but for previous hearings on the ratings agencies, the mortgage issuers and more.
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Prosecutors Said to Start Inquiry at Goldman
Prosecutors Said to Start Inquiry at Goldman
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Scott / Power Line:
At some point you have grabbed enough power — Given that poorer citizens always outnumber the rich, the classic political philosophers held that government based on majority rule was untenable. They were of the view that it would lead to organized theft from the wealthy by the democratic masses.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
GDP growth drops to 3.2% in first quarter of 2010 — In January, Barack Obama and Democrats insisted that the 5.7% annual growth rate in the fourth quarter of 2009 showed that their stimulus plan had set the American economy back on track for rapid growth and job creation.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Tweet Of The Day — “Every a**hole who ever chanted ‘Drill baby drill’ should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty,” - Bill Maher. — I have always been in favor of Cape Wind off Cape Cod but the confluence of these two events will surely help swing public opinion further in favor of non-carbon energy.
Margalit Fox / New York Times:
Leslie Buck, Designer of Iconic Coffee Cup, Dies at 87 — It was for decades the most enduring piece of ephemera in New York City and is still among the most recognizable. Trim, blue and white, it fits neatly in the hand, sized so its contents can be downed in a New York minute.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
After reporter's subpoena, critics call Obama's leak-plugging efforts Bush-like — The Justice Department's decision to subpoena a New York Times reporter this week has convinced some press advocates that President Obama's team is pursuing leaks with the same fervor as the Bush administration.
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Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Judge: Obama won't have to testify at Blagojevich trial — Ruling comes after ex-gov's aide Lon Monk pleads guilty to bribery charge — A federal judge in Chicago has denied a request from lawyers for ousted former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to subpoena President Obama to testify in Blagojevich's upcoming corruption trial.