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6:55 AM ET, April 19, 2011

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Dylan Smith / TucsonSentinel.com:
Brewer vetoes birther, campus gun bills  —  Also vetoes health care compact law  —  Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill Monday that would have required presidential candidates to provide their birth certificates to appear on the ballot, and another that would have allowed guns to be carried on school grounds.
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FOX 10 News:
Gov. Brewer Vetoes Birther Bill, Guns on Campus  —  PHOENIX - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer has vetoed two controversial bills passed by both the Arizona Senate and House — the guns on campus bill and the ‘birther’ bill.  — Would've allowed guns to be carried on public rights …
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com and Fox Nation
The Huffington Post:
Jan Brewer Vetoes Presidential Birther Bill  —  AP/The Huffington Post … Jan Brewer , Brewer Arizona Birther Bill , Brewer Birther Bill , Brewer Presidential Birther Bill , Brewer Vetoes Birther Bill , Jan Brewer Arizona Birther Bill , Jan Brewer Birther Bill , Jan Brewer Presidential Birther Bill …
Frances Martel / Mediaite:   Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Vetoes Presidential ‘Birther’ Bill
Associated Press:
Brewer vetoes presidential ‘birther’ bill
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Boehner Hires $5 Million Lawyer To Defend Unconstitutional Law  —  Earlier today, Speaker John Boehner's (R) office announced that American taxpayers would pay former Bush Solicitor General Paul Clement to defend the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act.  Clement, a former law clerk …
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Boehner asks Pelosi to join him in cutting funds from the DoJ to defend DOMA
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Ben Smith's Blog and FrumForum
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
Today's (Needless) Hysteria: the S&P Panic  —  I agree with Clive Crook's puzzlement about the S&P downgrade “bombshell” today: … And I like James K. Galbraith's derisive guffaw, as reported by Dave Lindorff: … I know that markets run on fear, greed, instinct, and panic as much as on logic.
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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Krauthammer doubles down on the 'Trump is the GOP's Al Sharpton' claim  —  It turns out that George Will isn't the only conservative who isn't impressed with the Donald's effort to pump himself up for the White House.  —  On last weekend's broadcast of the syndicated weekend public affairs program …
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George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Donald Trump's Solution on Gas Prices: Get Tough With Saudi Arabia; Seize Oil Fields in Libya and Iraq?
Discussion: The Page
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Trump Loses Conservatives Thanks To His Political Past
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced  —  The New York Times won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for its economics commentary and for its reporting on Russia in 2010, while The Los Angeles Times received the coveted public service Pulitzer.  —  The prizes, which are administered by Columbia University …
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Paul Steiger / ProPublica:
A Note on ProPublica's Second Pulitzer Prize  —  ProPublica reporters Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein have been awarded a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for their stories on how some Wall Street bankers, seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of their clients and sometimes even their own firms …
Gawker:
Roger Ailes Caught Spying on the Reporters at His Small-Town Newspaper  —  The small-town newspapers in New York's Hudson Valley that Fox News chief Roger Ailes owns with his wife Elizabeth are in a staff revolt after employees caught Ailes spying on them with News Corp. security goons.  More »
Jay Carney / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama and Vice President Biden's Tax Returns and Tax Receipts  —  Today, the President released his 2010 federal income and gift tax returns.  He and the First Lady filed their income tax return jointly and reported an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096.
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obamas' Tax Return Shows Lower Household Income Than in 2009
Discussion: Pirate's Cove
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama's 2010 return: $454K in federal taxes on $1.7M in income
Discussion: CNN and FrumForum
Yglesias:
Will House Democrats Hold Firm On The Debt Ceiling?  —  In a savvy piece of analysis, Brian Beutler notes that the posture of the usually irrelevant House minority could actually make a big difference in the debt ceiling fight: … That said, it seems to me that it'll be difficult for Pelosi …
Discussion: TPMDC and TalkLeft
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Fox News:
DeMint Threatens Filibuster on Debt Ceiling Vote
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Citing immigration reform, liberal House Dem might not back Obama in 2012
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Decline to Hear Appeal From Chinese Detainees  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday that it would not hear an appeal from five Chinese Muslims detained at Guantánamo Bay who seek to be released into the United States.  There were no noted dissents …
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Why Did The Union Fight?  —  I've always thought there was something about the Lincoln administration's determination to fight and win the Civil War that was a bit odd.  Secession gave the regionally based Republican Party large congressional majorities that wouldn't exist if southern states had representation in congress.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Why did the anti-Palin protesters think it was right and good to shout her down?  —  The more I think about it, the less sense it makes to me.  On Saturday, there was a planned Tea Party rally to take place at the King Street side of the Wisconsin Capitol.  It was the usual “tax day” event …
Discussion: Moe Lane, Nice Deb, POWIP and Pajamas Media
Paul Krugman:
S&P  —  OK, so Standard and Poors has warned that it might downgrade the US one of these days.  At first read, what it says doesn't seem too silly: it lays stress, rightly, on political gridlock.  The point should be that the US is perfectly capable both of running large deficits now and getting …
Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
Andres Serrano's Piss Christ destroyed by Christian protesters  —  • Intruders vandalise photo day after Christian protest  —  • Exhibitor blames Sarkozy speech for inflaming issue  —  When New York artist Andres Serrano plunged a plastic crucifix into a glass of his own urine …
Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu / Arutz Sheva:
Obama, the Interpreter of the Message of Passover  —  Follow Israel news on and .  —  Passover recalls the bondage and suffering of Jews in Egypt and the miracle of the Exodus, but U.S. President Barack Obama says its message is reflected in Muslim uprisings.
Clyde Wayne Crews / cei.org:
Ten Thousand Commandments 2011  —  President Barack Obama's new federal budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2012 seeks $3.729 trillion in discretionary, entitlement, and interest spending.  In the previous fiscal year, the president had proposed outlays of $3.83 trillion.
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Enron Writ Large  —  Standard & Poor's decision to downgrade the long-term outlook for U.S. sovereign debt came as a shock.  It shouldn't have.  Credit-rating agencies (CRAs) such as S&P are a government-chartered cartel, with constraints on competition and a customer base guaranteed by statute.
 
 
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