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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 …
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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Wall Street Journal:
Drilling Process Attracts Scrutiny in Rig Explosion — An oil-drilling procedure called cementing is coming under scrutiny as a possible cause of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico that has led to one of the biggest oil spills in U.S. history, drilling experts said Thursday.
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Ben Raines / Breaking News from the Press-Register:
Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher
Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Administration Vows No New Offshore Drilling Until Investigation
EXCLUSIVE: Administration Vows No New Offshore Drilling Until Investigation
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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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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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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Arizona Expands Its Discrimination: Teachers With Heavy Accents …
Arizona Expands Its Discrimination: Teachers With Heavy Accents …
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
“I'm Just Noting the Timing Here” — Me, in email with a friend last night about the Louisiana oil spill: … Honest to God, I didn't know he'd said this a few hours earlier: … Plus there's this, from the friend I was emailing with: “Maybe not Obama, but the WSJ snuck it in their story yesterday …
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Paul Krugman:
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 …
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Byron York / Beltway Confidential:
In response to critics, Arizona tweaks new immigration law — In recent days, some critics of the new Arizona immigration law have said the measure will lead to Arizona becoming a police state. Many of the criticisms — some including the words Nazi and fascist — have been based …
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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Gov. Brewer: ‘Arizona has been under terrorist attacks’ …
Gov. Brewer: ‘Arizona has been under terrorist attacks’ …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Baseball players union unhappy with Arizona immigration law
Baseball players union unhappy with Arizona immigration law
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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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CNN:
TRENDING: Man found guilty in Palin e-mail case — A federal jury in Tennessee has so far found a 22 year-old man guilty on two of four counts in a case that involved hacking into Sarah Palin's e-mail account. — (CNN) - In their fourth day of deliberations, a federal jury in Tennessee …
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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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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
The Progressive Movement is Officially Dead — Hey, Sierra Club: There's a giant flaming ball of oil being pushed straight for the coasts of Alabama and Mississippi. Might be the worst environmental event in decades. I know it makes the President's recent decision to allow offshore drilling look …
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The Politico:
WHCD A-LIST GUEST LIST — If you're not going to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, no doubt you want to know exactly who is. If you are, you'll want to know who's going to be where. So, for your celeb-stalking needs —whether you're after Scarlett Johansson, Bradley Cooper …
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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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.
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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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
The Hacker Case Verdict — My family and I are thankful that the jury thoroughly and carefully weighed the evidence and issued a just verdict. Besides the obvious invasion of privacy and security concerns surrounding this issue, many of us are concerned about the integrity of our country's political elections.
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.