memeorandum: EXCLUSIVE: Email From Author Of Arizona Law Reveals Intent … (Anill/Wonk Room)

10:20 AM ET, May 1, 2010

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Sarah Palin / Facebook:

Domestic Drilling: Why We Can Still Believe — We've all been shocked and saddened by the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico. My heart breaks for coastal residents who are facing fears of the unknown impacts of the oil spill. — As an Alaskan, I can speak from the heart about the tragedy of an oil spill.

Discussion: Hot Air, Mediaite, The Rachel Maddow Show, Conservatives4Palin.com, CBS News, Riehl World View and Right Now

Ezra Klein:

Oil spill an inside job? — If Rush Limbaugh was on the far left, he'd be a 9/11 truther. As it is, he's on the far right, and has decided to become an oil-spill truther: … Is there literally nothing this man can say that will convince Republicans to disavow him? — Photo credit: By Ron Edmonds/Associated Press

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, New York Times, Donklephant and Mediaite

Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:

Rush: “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 …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Newsweek Blogs, Outside The Beltway and Ben Smith's Blog

RushLimbaugh.com:
Regime SWAT Teams Sent to Gulf

Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Federal Eye

Paul Krugman:
The Oil Spill Is Obama's Fault

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Reuters, Newsweek Blogs, NewsBusters.org, The Moderate Voice, Liberal Values, Open Left, The TrogloPundit, AMERICAblog News, Matthew Yglesias, EnviroKnow, The Huffington Post and American Power

Ben Raines / Breaking News from the Press-Register:

Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher … A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.

Discussion: Below The Beltway, The Confluence, Washington Post, Donklephant, Dot Earth, SkyTruth, New Orleans Times-Picayune and Achenblog

New York Times:

BP Is Criticized Over Oil Spill, but U.S. Missed Chances to Act — NEW ORLEANS — As oil edged toward the Louisiana coast and fears continued to grow that the leak from a seabed oil well could spiral out of control, officials in the Obama administration publicly chastised BP America …

Discussion: LA Times Environment Blog, Gateway Pundit, Pundit & Pundette and Prairie Weather

Helene Cooper / New York Times:

White House Memo: Shadow of Katrina Hangs Over Official Response to Spill — WASHINGTON — There's a world of difference between the impact of an oil spill and a deadly hurricane. And the White House hopes it stays that way. — As President Obama stepped up his administration's response …

Discussion: The Swamp, The Hill, CNN, The Plum Line, New York Times and The Caucus

msnbc.com:
BP didn't plan for major spill

Discussion: Reuters, Bloomberg, Associated Press, Crooks and Liars, Hot Air and New York Magazine

NASA Earth Observatory:
Gulf Oil Spill Creeps Towards Mississippi Delta

Discussion: Boston Globe, The Lede, White House.gov Blog Feed, Mashable!, Dot Earth, The Atlantic Online and LA Times Environment Blog

Arizona Republic:

Pinal County Sheriff's deputy shot after traffic stop — A Pinal County Sheriff's deputy was shot in the stomach Friday by an undocumented immigrant off Interstate 8, according sheriff's officials. — Lt. Tami Villar told 12 News that the search and rescue deputy was investigating a load …

Discussion: The Jawa Report

CNN:

Arizona deputy wounded in shooting — (CNN) — A sheriff's deputy in central Arizona was shot Friday afternoon by a suspected drug trafficker, authorities said. — The Pinal County deputy, who was not immediately identified, contacted authorities after being wounded in the desert …

Discussion: The Jawa Report

Manavt / This Just In:

Authorities: Ariz. deputy shot by suspected drug traffickers — [Updated at 11:00 p.m.] A sheriff's deputy in central Arizona was shot Friday afternoon by a suspected drug trafficker, authorities said. — The Pinal County deputy, who was not immediately identified, contacted authorities …

Discussion: Hot Air, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Left Coast Rebel

Nicholas Riccardi / Los Angeles Times:

Arizona lawmakers modify immigration law — Legislators ban race from being used by police as a factor to identify illegal immigrants and require scrutiny only of people who police stop, detain or arrest. — Reporting from Phoenix — The Arizona Legislature has narrowed …

Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog, Diggers Realm and LAist

Anill / Wonk Room:

EXCLUSIVE: Email From Author Of Arizona Law Reveals Intent To Cast Wide Net Against Latinos — Kris Kobach of the Immigration Reform Law Institute. — Yesterday, Arizona lawmakers made a handful of changes to the immigration bill Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ) recently signed into effect that appear …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, TalkLeft, Ezra Klein, New York Times, Arizona Republic, NO QUARTER, Hot Air and Michelle Malkin

Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Baseball players union unhappy with Arizona immigration law

Discussion: CNN

National Enquirer:

OBAMA CHEATING SCANDAL — PRESIDENT OBAMA has been caught in a shocking cheating scandal after being caught in a Washington, DC Hotel with a former campaign aide, sources say. — And now, a hush-hush security video that shows everything could topple both Obama's presidency and marriage to Michelle!

Discussion: Outside The Beltway, Freedom's Lighthouse, Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, No Sheeples Here, YID With LID and The Jawa Report

Jim Balloch / Knoxville News-Sentinel:

Jury convicts Palin e-mail intruder on two counts; mistrial declared on ID theft — KNOXVILLE - A federal jury this afternoon convicted Sarah Palin e-mail intruder David C. Kernell of felony destruction of records to hamper a federal investigation and misdemeanor unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer.

Discussion: The Confluence and palingates

CNN:
Man found guilty in Palin e-mail case

Discussion: ABCNEWS

Sarah Palin / Facebook:
The Hacker Case Verdict

Discussion: Threat Level, Mediaite and Ben Smith's Blog

Ben Smith / The Politico:

Obama: ‘A guy who doubles down’ — Assessing the Obama administration's mixed record on foreign policy, the grinding problems it faces like Afghanistan and the impasses it has reached on high-priority issues such as the Mideast and China, it helps to start with a historical parallel from the not very distant past:

Discussion: CNN

The Politico:
WHCD A-LIST GUEST LIST

Discussion: Washington Wire and Wilshire & Washington

Susan Saulny / New York Times:

Dressing Mrs. Obama for Success, Then Going Out of Business — CHICAGO — Fashion and politics are seasonal and unpredictable, yet the two came together quite well here for the hometown designer Maria Pinto and Michelle Obama, whose first memorable bursts onto the national scene were often in Pinto creations.

Discussion: JammieWearingFool

Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:

Gates To Congress: Don't Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell This Year — As part of the Obama administration's plan to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT), the Pentagon has convened a “Working Group” that is meeting with servicemembers, chaplains, and others individuals about how to repeal the ban …

Discussion: Firedoglake

CNN:
Gates to Congress: Don't mess with 'don't ask, don't tell' yet

Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Politico

Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:

Kos poll: Burns by six — Weighed down in his district by low presidential favorability ratings and a health care law that's unpopular there, Pennsylvania Democrat Mark Critz now trails by 6 percentage points in next month's special election for the seat of the late Rep. John Murtha …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Real Clear Politics and Ballot Box

DavidNYC / Swing State Project: PA-12: Dems Trailing in Special to Replace Murtha

The Hankster:

Friday Nite Hankster Chat — Friday Nite Hankster Chat — Free-wheeling conversation with independent political blogger Nancy Hanks. — <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf- 96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.adobe.com/ pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve rsion= 9,0,0,0" …

Discussion: The Hankster