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9:55 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.
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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
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 …
RushLimbaugh.com:
Regime SWAT Teams Sent to Gulf
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Federal Eye
Paul Krugman:
The Oil Spill Is Obama's Fault
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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 …
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
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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 …
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!
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 …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Baseball players union unhappy with Arizona immigration law
Discussion: CNN
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: palingates and The Confluence
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CNN:
Man found guilty in Palin e-mail case
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
The Hacker Case Verdict
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
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The Politico:
WHCD A-LIST GUEST LIST
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
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 …
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DavidNYC / Swing State Project:   PA-12: Dems Trailing in Special to Replace Murtha
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 …
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
James Tozer / Daily Mail:
Muslim daubs war memorial with ‘Islam will dominate the world’ - but walks free after CPS says he was NOT racially motivated  —  A Muslim protester who daubed a war memorial with graffiti glorifying Osama Bin Laden and proclaiming ‘Islam will dominate the world’ walked free from court …
Discussion: Pajamas Media and The Jawa Report
BBC:
Anger in Malawi over polygamy ban  —  Muslims in Malawi have been angered by government plans to ban polygamy.  —  A spokesman for the Muslim Association of Malawi told the BBC the proposed law would discriminate against the country's Muslim minority.  —  He said with about 6% more women …
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Boing Boing
Guardian:
The liberal moment has come  —  If the Guardian had a vote it would be cast enthusiastically for the Liberal Democrats.  But under our discredited electoral system some people may - hopefully for the last time - be forced to vote tactically  —  Citizens have votes.  Newspapers do not.
Discussion: normblog and Left Foot Forward
 
 
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Stacy-Marie Ishmael / FT Alphaville:
‘We are wall Street...we are smarter and more vicious than [dinosaurs]’
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Amy Chozick / WSJ. Magazine:
Carly Fiorina: Coming Around Again
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Swamp plays Hardball: Party matters
Discussion: The Politico
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Gates To Congress: Don't Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell This Year
Discussion: Firedoglake
John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
Polarization Is Not Associated with Trust in Government
Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
Some Hispanic Americans hope law deters illegal immigration
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Ariz. targets ‘human-animal hybrids’
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
After reporter's subpoena, critics call Obama's leak-plugging efforts Bush-like
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