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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McCain: ‘Serious mistake’ if car bombing suspect was Mirandized — It would have been a serious mistake to have read the suspect in the attempted Times Square car bombing his Miranda rights, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said Tuesday. — McCain, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee …
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John Christoffersen / Associated Press:
Times Square bombing suspect's life had unraveled — BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Not long ago, Faisal Shahzad had a pretty enviable life: He became an American citizen after emigrating from Pakistan, where he came from a wealthy family. He earned an MBA. He had a well-educated wife …
New York Times:
Times Sq. Bomb Suspect Was a Suburban Father — They took their places in the wood-paneled courtroom, 58 people from 32 countries. They listened as a federal magistrate banged the gavel and said it was “a wonderful day for the United States”— the day they would become Americans.
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The Huffington Post:
Faisal Shahzad Arrest: Lieberman Proposes Taking Away Citizenship Of Suspected Terrorists — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — In arguing against the reading of Miranda rights to terrorism suspects or affording them other constitutional protections, opponents of civil liberties run …
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
MSNBC's Brewer: I'm Sorry Terror Suspect Has Islamic Ties — BREW-ING CONTEMPT — MSNBC Blabbermouth Upset Terrorist Isn't Homegrown — *** MORE AT NEWSBUSTERS, HOT AIR, JAWA REPORT, MEMEORANDUM *** — So much for the white male “tea partier” fantasy our left-wing state run media friends …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Times Sq. Arrest Renews Debate on Suspect Rights — WASHINGTON — The arrest of a suspect in the attempted Times Square car bombing revived the volatile political debate over terrorism policy on Tuesday, as President Obama's supporters and critics squared off over how the nation should handle those plotting against it.
Associated Press:
Security slip let suspect on plane, near takeoff
Security slip let suspect on plane, near takeoff
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Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Joe Lieberman's Fascist Solution To Terrorism
Joe Lieberman's Fascist Solution To Terrorism
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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:
MSNBC's Contessa Brewer ‘Frustrated’ That Times Square Bomber Is a Muslim
MSNBC's Contessa Brewer ‘Frustrated’ That Times Square Bomber Is a Muslim
Mary Katharine Ham / Washington Examiner:
It's already time for a ‘Dumbest theories about Times Square Bomber’ post
It's already time for a ‘Dumbest theories about Times Square Bomber’ post
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msnbc.com:
Documents offer clues to bomb suspect's life
Documents offer clues to bomb suspect's life
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Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Contessa Brewer's Very Bad Day, Or Why Couldn't Faisal Shahzad Be a Methodist?
Contessa Brewer's Very Bad Day, Or Why Couldn't Faisal Shahzad Be a Methodist?
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The Sundries Shack
miaminewtimes.com:
Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with “rent boy” — The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin. The profile touts his “smooth, sweet, tight ass” and “perfectly built 8 inch cock …
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Dan Savage / The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper:
Is Every Right-Wing, Anti-Gay Christian Bigot Sucking Off Rent Boys? — We've got another one, gang, and he's a doozy: … Rekers, as Joe Jervis points out, is the co-founder of the wildly anti-gay Family Research Council and a member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality …
Joe / Joe. My. God.:
Meet Geo, The Male Prostitute Hired By NARTH Member & Family Research Council Co-Founder Dr. George Rekers — I was going to withhold the identity of the male prostitute hired by Dr. George Rekers, the virulently anti-gay NARTH board member and Family Research Council co-founder.
Joe / Joe. My. God.:
Dr. George Rekers, Patron Of Male Prostitutes, Responds To Me On Facebook — NARTH and Family Research Council co-founder Dr. George Rekers has responded to my inquiry about where to find the hottest male prostitutes. After the above, he continues: … Oh, well that explains EVERYTHING!
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Associated Press:
‘Los Suns’ jerseys set for Cinco de Mayo — PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns will wear “Los Suns” on their jerseys in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals on Wednesday night, owner Robert Sarver said, “to honor our Latino community and the diversity of our league, the state of Arizona, and our nation.”
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Political Punch:
President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus ‘Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers’ — Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Washington Post or Huffington Post? — The once-cautious Washington Post has begun to invest heavily in the liberal blogosphere, transforming its online presence - a combination of accident and design - into a competitor of the Huffington Post and TalkingPointsMemo as much as the New York Times.
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Ed White / Associated Press:
US takes early lumps in case against Mich. militia — DETROIT (AP) — Federal authorities touted the arrests of nine members of a Michigan militia as a pre-emptive strike against homegrown terrorists, declaring at an initial court hearing that the suspects with “dark hearts and evil intent” wanted to go to war against the government.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races — Among the many reverberations of President Obama's election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.
Mike Glenn / Houston Chronicle:
Luggage damage prompts scare at Bush Airport — A hole found on a piece of luggage aboard a flight from Amsterdam to Houston aroused enough suspicion Tuesday that officials ordered it detonated with explosives. — Baggage handlers spotted the damaged luggage soon after KLM Royal Dutch …
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The Jawa Report
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Neil Cavuto / Fox News:
Former FEMA Director Michael Brown on Obama's Response to Oil Spill — This is a rush transcript from “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” May 3, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — NEIL CAVUTO, ANCHOR: Almost three weeks since the slick began …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Defending David Brooks From Brad DeLong's Smears — David Brooks has a Moynihanish column in which he says people overrate policy and underestimate the role of culture in determining outcomes. “The influence of politics and policy,” he writes “is usually swamped by the influence of culture …
Henry Farrell / Washington Monthly:
Reading Milton Friedman in Dublin — Ireland's politicians spent the '90s and ‘00s imitating the United States’ devotion to unfettered free markets. Unfortunately for the Irish, they succeeded. — When I first came to the United States from Ireland in the early 1990s …
David Kenner / FP Passport:
Mr. Cheney goes to Riyadh — mysteriously — In a move that is sure to set conspiracy theorists aflutter, former Vice President Dick Cheney popped up yesterday in Saudi Arabia, where he met with King Abdullah. Accompanying him was former State Department diplomat and its top translator …
Patten Fuqua / Section 303:
We Are Nashville — Allow me a moment to step away from the usual voice of this website. — What I am about to write has absolutely nothing to do with hockey. — If you live outside of Nashville, you may not be aware, but our city was hit by a 500-year flood over the last few days.
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The Huffington Post
Marc Cooper / Los Angeles Times:
To replace John Paul Stevens, an atheist — It's something Thomas Jefferson might have done: nominate a nonbeliever to the Supreme Court — As President Obama considers nominees to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a debate bubbles as to whether religion should play a role in his choice.
Reuters:
JPMorgan Chase Memo Sneers At ‘Ignorant’ Senators, ‘Time For The Grownups To Step In’ — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — A top executive at JPMorgan Chase told clients Monday that senators displayed “an unnerving ignorance of fundamental principles of market economics” during last week's Goldman Sachs hearing …
Trent Hill / Independent Political Report:
Exclusive: Former Congressman Goode Joins the Constitution Party — Virgil Goode is a former U.S. Representative from Virginia who was defeated for re-election in 2008 by just a couple hundred votes. He has now officially joined the Constitution Party, increasing speculation that he might run …