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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Congress, Up In Arms — There seems to be a strong sentiment in Congress that the only constitutional right suspected terrorists have is the right to bear arms. — “I think you're going too far here,” said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina at a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
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CBS News:
Faisal Shahzad on Homeland Security List Since 1999 — Posted by CBS News Investigates 4 comments - Share - - - Share - E-mail - Print - Font Sources tell CBS News that would-be Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad appeared on a Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list …
New York Times:
Shahzad's Friends Describe a Growing Seriousness — Theirs was an arranged marriage: two well-educated children of prominent Pakistani families set up through a mutual friend. He was the quiet one; she was the one who laughed at parties. — The couple in this Web photo are identified as Faisal Shahzad and Huma Mian.
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New York Times:
Fear Itself — There are many important and urgent questions about the man accused of trying to set off a car bomb in Times Square. — Officials say Faisal Shahzad admitted to the attempt and said he learned bomb-making at a camp in Pakistan. Is Mr. Shahzad indeed connected to the Pakistani Taliban …
Andy Borowitz / The Huffington Post:
Authorities Say They Followed Times Square Bomber, but Only on Twitter
Authorities Say They Followed Times Square Bomber, but Only on Twitter
Zombie / Pajamas Media:
Students punished for wearing American flags on Cinco de Mayo — Five students at a California high school were forced to leave school and then face disciplinary action yesterday for the crime of wearing clothing printed with American flag designs. — If you're wondering how being patriotic …
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George Kiriyama / NBC Bay Area:
Students Kicked Off Campus for Wearing American Flag Tees — Freedom of expression or cultural disrespect on Cinco de Mayo? — TWITTER — On any other day at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, Daniel Galli and his four friends would not even be noticed for wearing T-shirts with the American flag.
Washington Post:
As Britain goes to polls, shake-up in Parliament is forecast — LONDON — Britain's Conservative Party was pressing for an outright victory as voters went to the polls here Thursday, following a hard-fought campaign that could produce this nation's most fragile government in a generation.
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The Politico:
Rove, GOP plot vast network to reclaim power — The Republican Party's best-connected political operatives have quietly built a massive fundraising, organizing and advertising machine based on the model assembled by Democrats early in the decade, and with the same ambitious goal — to recapture Congress and the White House.
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
Trying to shirk responsibility for spill, BP CEO predicts ‘lots of illegitimate’ lawsuits because ‘this is America.’ — BP is financially responsible for the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, so it is desperately trying the limit the financial and legal fall out.
The Onion:
Supreme Court Upholds Freedom Of Speech In Obscenity-Filled Ruling — WASHINGTON—In a decisive and vulgar 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court once again upheld the constitution's First Amendment this week, calling the freedom of expression among the most “inalienable and important rights that a motherf**ker can have.”
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Right and Journalism — Laura McGann has an interesting story in The Washington Monthly about conservative efforts to get into the reporting game: … To ruin the punchline, though, the subhead asks of these new outlets “can their reporting survive their politics?” and the answer seems to be “no, it can't.”
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CNN:
National Day of Prayer to go on despite ruling — Washington (CNN) — Some 58 years after President Truman signed a bill proclaiming a National Day of Prayer, Thursday's observance may be one of the last to be officially recognized by Washington. — A federal judge declared the law unconstitutional …
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
High Court Long Shot Has a Reputation for Persuasion — Kathleen Morris was not thrilled to be working on a dry bankruptcy case. But when Ms. Morris, then a law clerk, shared her feelings with her boss, Sidney R. Thomas, a federal appeals court judge, his answer startled her.
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Jack Brammer / Lexington Herald-Leader:
Kentucky Poll: Paul holds commanding lead; Mongiardo ahead — FRANKFORT — A new Kentucky Poll shows novice political candidate Rand Paul with a commanding 12-point lead over Trey Grayson, the Republican Party establishment's choice in the GOP race for U.S. Senate in Kentucky.
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Plans New Broadband Rules — WASHINGTON—In a move that will stoke a battle over the future of the Internet, the federal government plans to propose regulating broadband lines under decades-old rules designed for traditional phone networks. — The decision, by Federal Communications …
The ChamberPost:
Truth is the First Casualty of Kos — Last Friday Markos Moulitsas, the Kos in DailyKos, put up a fundraising post titled “AR-Sen: Hell to Pay: Chamber-backed group runs racist ad against Bill Halter.” After displaying the ad the bulk of the post starts with “The group running this ad is funded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...”
Gov. Jan Brewer / ESPN:
Arizona governor: Boycott is misguided — Jan Brewer, the governor of Arizona, responds to calls for sports boycotts of her state — In my 28 years of public service, I have made a lot of tough calls. But with a federal government unwilling to secure our border for years and years, Arizona is left with little choice.
Jason Mattera / Human Events:
Exclusive: Rubio Clarifies Critique of Arizona Law — Florida GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio got himself into hot water with conservatives when he argued that Arizona's new illegal immigration law went “too far” and could possibly turn Arizona into a “police state.”
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Michael C. Moynihan / Hit & Run:
If Only the Tea Partiers Were More European — Sitting at breakfast last week in Oslo, I opened the newspaper Dagbladet and did a Tex Avery-like double take. Is that a photograph of Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity and professional tax-hatin' bogeyman of the Rachel Maddow show, in a Norwegian newspaper?
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Nashville Flood 2010: The Disaster You May Not Have Heard About — A great American city is currently buried under a sea of water, but you may not know much about it given all the attention media have given to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the failed car bomb attempt in New York's Times Square.
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Jia Lynn Yang / Washington Post:
Freddie Mac asks U.S. for $10 billion as losses pile up — Freddie Mac, the bailed-out mortgage-finance giant, reported Wednesday that it continues to lose money and needs an additional $10.6 billion in assistance from U.S. taxpayers. — The most recent earnings report follows three straight quarters …
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Newsweek Has Fallen Down and Can't Get Up … - Should We Be More Afraid of al-Qaida Affiliates Than We Are of al-Qaida Itself? - What Crisis P.R. Experts Think BP Did Wrong- Living Without the Internet Is a Lot Easier Than I Thought It Would Be- So What if the Oil Spill Is Visible From Space.
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