memeorandum: The rules of Britannia — Britain's election campaigns are short and to the point. (Los Angeles Times)

11:00 AM ET, May 6, 2010

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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 …

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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.

Discussion: Washington Post, TalkLeft, Prairie Weather and Daily Kos

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 …

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:

WSJ: Yep, looks like Shahzad is a bona fide Taliban-trained agent — Remember, until this point, the only evidence that there was a Taliban link was that videotape put out on Saturday night in which bombmaker-in-chief Qari Hussain took credit for the attack.

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New York Times:
Shahzad's Friends Describe a Growing Seriousness

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Andy Borowitz / The Huffington Post:
Authorities Say They Followed Times Square Bomber, but Only on Twitter

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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.”

Discussion: Indecision Forever and Balloon Juice

Washington Post:
Obama to make Supreme Court decision soon, aides say

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John Schwartz / New York Times:
High Court Long Shot Has a Reputation for Persuasion

Discussion: Law Blog

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 …

Discussion: KTVU-TV, Michelle Malkin, Moonbattery and JammieWearingFool

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.

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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 …

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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
FCC will seek to regulate Internet providers

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Josh Silver / The Huffington Post:
FCC to Restore Authority Over Net Neutrality, Broadband Service …

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Political Punch:

While Oil Slick Spread, Interior Department Chief of Staff Rafted with Wife on “Work-Focused” Trip in Grand Canyon — Though his agency was charged with coordinating the federal response to the major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Department of the Interior chief of staff Tom Strickland …

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.

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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.”

Discussion: Washington Monthly

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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Los Angeles Times:
The rules of Britannia — Britain's election campaigns are short and to the point.

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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 …

Discussion: Think Progress

The Politico:
Despite arrest, W.H. on defensive

Discussion: The Hill and The Swamp

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.

Discussion: Washington Wire, Real Clear Politics and Pollster.com All Content

Alan Zibel / Associated Press:

Freddie Mac seeks $10.6B in aid after 1Q loss — WASHINGTON - Freddie Mac is asking for $10.6 billion in additional federal aid after posting a big loss in the first three months of the year. It's another sign that the taxpayer bill for stabilizing the housing market will keep mounting.

Discussion: The Other McCain, The Corner on National …, Real Clear Politics and Moe Lane

Jia Lynn Yang / Washington Post:
Freddie Mac asks U.S. for $10 billion as losses pile up

Discussion: Moonbattery

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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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.

Discussion: Left Coast Rebel, Sister Toldjah, Gawker and TalkLeft

Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:

Newsweek on Block as Era of the Newsweekly Fades — For generations, Time and Newsweek fought to define the national news agenda every Monday on the newsstand. Before the Internet, before cable news, before People magazine, what the newsweeklies put on their covers mattered.

Discussion: Mudville Gazette and The Future of Capitalism

John Koblin / New York Observer:
Meacham on Buying Newsweek: 'I'm Going to Take a Look at This'

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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?

Discussion: CNN

Emily Walker / ABCNEWS:

Cancers from Environment ‘Grossly Underestimated’ — Daily Exposures Cause Far More Cancers Than Once Thought, a Presidential Panel Says — Environmental carcinogens are responsible for a far greater number of cancers than previously believed — a fact that suggests eradicating …

George F. Will / Washington Post:

In Afghanistan, the clock is ticking — The ticking clock does not disturb the preternatural serenity that Gen. David H. Petraeus maintains regarding Afghanistan. Officially, the U.S. Central Command is located here; actually, it is wherever he is, which is never in one place for very long.

Discussion: Outside The Beltway