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Louise Nordstrom / Associated Press:
Home of Swedish Muhammad cartoonist attacked — STOCKHOLM — The home of a Swedish artist who once drew a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad as a dog has been hit by a suspected arson attack, police said Saturday. — Lars Vilks, who lives in Nyhamnslage in southern Sweden …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Horrible: Full video of the attack on Sweden's Mohammed cartoonist — Via Ace, whose post you should read if only for the brilliance of his headline. Some of you will be tempted twice over to skip this: It's long, and you've already seen the most dramatic bit. Don't skip it.
Charles Homans / Washington Monthly:
Culture Shock — What happened when one conservative Web site ventured outside the movement bubble. — Last May, Conor Friedersdorf, a twenty-eight-year-old recent graduate of NYU's Journalism School, decided he was going to save conservative journalism.
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Jordan Smith / The Atlantic Online:
Ricochet: Making Conservatism Fun Again — If conservative ideas are dead, as many liberals claim, nobody seems to have told conservatives. Right-wingers believe their ideas are alive and fit for implementation. All that is needed, perhaps, is new personalities and institutions able to market conservatism in the post-Bush era.
John / Power Line:
The Looming Obama Debt Disaster — Is the United States Greece? The short answer is: not yet, but it will be if the Democrats remain in control in Washington for two more election cycles. — In the Telegraph, Edmund Conway summarizes a lengthy report by the International Monetary Fund on sovereign debt that came out today:
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Debit Fee Cut Is Rare Loss for Largest U.S. Banks — WASHINGTON — Retailers have begged Congress for years, in vain, to limit the fees they must pay to banks when customers swipe credit or debit cards. Bills never reached a vote. Amendments were left on the table.
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
D.C. Dems to Obama: Aim fire at GOP — President Barack Obama is a master of knowing his audience - even when it's fellow politicians. — He served up a Republican roast to House Democratic leaders and donors in New York Thursday night, two weeks after Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her lieutenants griped …
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Susan Crabtree / The Hill:
Rep. Lee: Dems have fallen down on the job by failing to produce budget
Rep. Lee: Dems have fallen down on the job by failing to produce budget
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Public Works Are Hard to Do — Harold Meyerson explains why it hasn't been possible to use public works to counter massive unemployment in construction, and wouldn't have been even had more funds been appropriated: … Two lessons from this. One is that I think we need some more real talk …
Jay Heflin / The Hill:
Health reform threatens to cram already overwhelmed hospital ERs — The new healthcare law will pack 32 million newly insured people into emergency rooms already crammed beyond capacity, according to experts on healthcare facilities. — A chief aim of the new healthcare law …
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The Official Google Blog:
WiFi data collection: An update — Nine days ago the data protection authority (DPA) in Hamburg, Germany asked to audit the WiFi data that our Street View cars collect for use in location-based products like Google Maps for mobile, which enables people to find local restaurants or get directions.
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Martina Stewart / CNN:
TRENDING: Palin: ‘Fine with me’ to be called a ‘redneck’ — (CNN) - She's a politician, an author, cable news contributor and sought-after speaker. But perhaps former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is interested in a new title: comedienne. — In what can only be described as a bit of a schtick …
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Sarah Palin issues a call to action to ‘mama grizzlies’
Sarah Palin issues a call to action to ‘mama grizzlies’
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Chip Reid / CBS News:
Angry Obama Seeks to Deflect Blame for Gulf Oil Spill Crisis — The president seemed genuinely angry today, on a beautiful spring afternoon in the Rose Garden. Having watched him on a daily basis for about a year and a half, I'm confident he wasn't faking it.
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James G. Neuger / Bloomberg:
Euro Breakup Talk Increases as Germany Loses Proxy — Romano Prodi recalls how he persuaded Germany to allow debt-swamped Italy into the euro: support our membership and we'll buy your milk, he said. — When Prodi toured Germany's agricultural heartland after becoming Italian leader in 1996 …
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Proposal Would Delay Hearings in Terror Cases — WASHINGTON — President Obama's legal advisers are considering asking Congress to allow the government to detain terrorism suspects longer after their arrests before presenting them to a judge for an initial hearing, according to officials familiar with the discussions.
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Afghan reconciliation strategy should reflect Pashtun culture — How do wars end in the tribal society of Afghanistan? That's one of the interesting questions that was highlighted by President Hamid Karzai's visit to Washington last week. — During their well-scripted news conference at the White House …
Zephoria / apophenia:
Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) — At SXSW, I decided to talk about privacy because I thought that it would be the most important issue of the year. I was more accurate than my wildest dreams. For the last month, I've watched as conversations about privacy went from being the topic …
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