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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Utah Sen. Bob Bennett loses convention fight — Utah Sen. Bob Bennett lost his bid to be nominated for a fourth term Saturday, defeated at the state Republican Party convention amid a strong conservative sentiment that threatens to unseat other establishment-backed Republicans in the months to come.
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Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
Bennett Third On First UT SEN Ballot — Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) is in jeopardy of losing his bid for a fourth term as delegates to the UT GOP convention begin casting their second ballots, becoming the first victim of a growing anger at incumbents in DC. — Despite a last-minute push …
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
Bennett Won't Appear On Senate Ballot — Sen. Bob Bennett (R-UT) has lost the battle for a fourth term in office after delegates to the UT GOP convention refused to renominate him on Saturday, a highly-placed source with knowledge of the vote count tells Hotline OnCall.
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Sen. Bennett struggles to be heard at Utah GOP convention — Utah Sen. Bob Bennett (R) made his final pitch to delegates at the state party convention in Salt Lake City Saturday. There was just one problem — almost no one could hear him. — Bennett was the only candidate without …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The latest on Elena Kagan — I've laid out my case against Elena Kagan as thoroughly as I could, but with several anonymous (i.e., unreliable) reports percolating that she's the likely choice and could be announced as early as Monday, it's worthwhile to note several recent items from others pertaining to her selection:
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
So Why Am I Already Defending Elena Kagan? — Strange. I'm not sure I support Elena Kagan for the Supreme Court, assuming she is the nominee, but I'm already finding myself having to defend her. — If Elena Kagan were a liberal legal hero, with a long record of reaching the correct conclusions …
Paul Campos / The New Republic:
Blank Slate — There's a lot we don't know about Elena Kagan …
Blank Slate — There's a lot we don't know about Elena Kagan …
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Don't Mention the War — Why does the Obama administration find it so hard to utter the words ‘terrorism’ and ‘jihad’ and ‘Islamic extremism’? — On Saturday, May 1, a crude car bomb composed of gasoline canisters, propane tanks, fertilizer, and fireworks failed to detonate in Times Square.
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Mark Steyn / National Review:
Faisal Shahzad, Subprime Terrorist?
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Left and Economics — According to Zeljka Buturovic and Dan Klein, people who self-identify as “progressive” have low levels of economic knowledge whereas those who self-identify as “libertarian” or “very conservative” rank very highly. For reasons suggested by Tyler Cowen, I think that conclusion is nonsense.
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Obama says health care law already helps millions — WASHINGTON - The new health care law already is helping millions of people through tax breaks for small businesses and assistance for families with young adults, President Barack Obama said Saturday. — In his weekly radio and Internet address …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: The Tea Party Tries to Outrun Race — Racist. Tea Party. — Are those separate concepts or a single one? Depends on whom you ask. — According to an article accompanying a Washington Post/ABC News poll released on Wednesday: “About 61 percent of tea party opponents …
Gail Collins / New York Times:
What Every Girl Should Know — A thousand years ago, popular birth control methods in the Western world included spitting into the mouth of a frog, eating bees and wearing the testicles of a weasel. In Córdoba, Spain, which was supposed to be on the scientific cutting edge …
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The Crisis Comes Ashore — Why the oil spill could change everything. — The continuing undersea gusher of oil 50 miles off the shores of Louisiana is not the only source of dangerous uncontrolled pollution spewing into the environment. Worldwide, the amount of man-made CO2 …
Roxana Tiron / The Hill:
Gates: Military spending should be subjected to harsher scrutiny — Defense Secretary Robert Gates is warning Congress and the Pentagon brass that military spending must receive harsh scrutiny in the face of the nation's tough economic times and large deficit.
Patrick McGeehan / New York Times:
Verizon Asks to End White Pages for All in N.Y. — The digital age may claim another victim. — The residential White Pages, those inches-thick tomes of fine-print telephone listings that may be most useful as doorstops, could stop landing with a thud on doorsteps across New York later this year.
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Oh the Irony: “America is Back!,” Baby, But The Magazine Proclaiming This Just Might Go Out of Business — Remember this? Of course you do. It was like three weeks ago. You're morons, not retards. — Well, Newsweek's on the auction block, and the Washington Post Company's sales brochure …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pelosi leads congressional delegation to Afghanistan to visit Karzai, McChrystal — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) arrived with a congressional delegation in Afghanistan on Saturday to meet with top officials there. — Pelosi led a delegation that arrived for meetings …
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