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Fox News:
Cheney: Justice Probe of CIA Interrogators an ‘Outrage’ — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday it's an “outrage” the Obama administration continues to investigate CIA agents who interrogated terror suspects, claiming they did nothing wrong and expressing concern about the precedent it sets.
Discussion:
The Lonely Conservative and Don Surber
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Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Cheney praises, criticizes Obama — President Barack Obama earned “high marks” Sunday from former Vice President Dick Cheney for the operation that killed Osama bin Laden - a thaw that underscores the difficulty Republicans face in challenging Obama's defense credentials in 2012.
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National Review
Morning Gloria / Jezebel:
Hillary Clinton Photoshopped Out of Situation Room Photo [Wtf] — Ultra Orthodox Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung is telling its readers like it isn't- by editing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the now-iconic Bin Laden raid Situation Room photo. Oy vey.
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Salon, Outside the Beltway, Comments from Left Field, The Raw Story and Hullabaloo
CNN:
Egyptian Copts, reeling from violence, want protection — From Mohamed Fadel Fahmy and Ian Lee, For CNN — Cairo (CNN) — Muslim-Christian sectarian violence intensified in Egypt this weekend, spurring an emergency meeting of the Cabinet and public exhortations from Coptic Christians for international protection.
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Guardian, Harry's Place, The Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain
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Felix Salmon:
The hermetic and arrogant New York Times — The NYT employs some of the smartest and ablest users and analysts of social media: it's probably the most sophisticated newspaper in America on that front. And then it has dinosaurs like Bill Keller and Arthur Brisbane, whose respective columns …
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality … and The Other McCain, more at Mediagazer »
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Tea Party favorite breaks with GOP on healthcare repeal votes — A Tea Party favorite in the House is turning against the Republican leadership's strategy on healthcare. — Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.), who has emerged as an outspoken conservative voice among GOP freshmen …
Discussion:
Left Coast Rebel and Outside the Beltway
Victor Davis Hanson / Pajamas Media:
Thoughts on a Surreal Depression — Here in Fresno County, in the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, the official unemployment rate in February to March ranged between 18.1 and 18.8 percent. I suspect it is higher in the poorer southwestern portions, especially near my hometown of Selma, about two miles from my farm.
Discussion:
The Lonely Conservative, Left Coast Rebel and EconLog
Stephanie Coontz / New York Times:
When We Hated Mom — ONE of the most enduring myths about feminism is that 50 years ago women who stayed home full time with their children enjoyed higher social status and more satisfying lives than they do today. All this changed, the story goes, when Betty Friedan published her 1963 best seller …
Discussion:
Connecting.the.Dots
Christiane Amanpour / ABCNEWS:
Donilon: Osama Bin Laden Did Not Surrender — White House National Security Adviser Tom Donilon appears on ‘This Week with Christiane Amanpour.’ Fred Watkins/ABC News — Osama bin Laden did not surrender, said White House national security advisor Tom Donilon.
Discussion:
Scared Monkeys, CNN and FrumForum
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Now, to Find a Parking Spot, Drivers Look on Their Phones — SAN FRANCISCO — It is the urban driver's most agonizing everyday experience: the search for an empty parking place. — It is part sleuthing and part blood sport. Circling, narrowly missing a spot, outmaneuvering other motorists …
Discussion:
Patterico's Pontifications, Yglesias, Althouse and Eschaton
CNN:
Alleged rape victim flees Libya — (CNN) — Eman al-Obeidy, who garnered worldwide attention for her vocal rape allegations against the regime of Moammar Gadhafi, says she has fled Libya, fearing for her safety. — Al-Obeidy told CNN that she crossed into Tunisia on Thursday with the help …
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Babylon & Beyond, New York Magazine and HotAirPundit
Greg Allen / NPR:
Florida Bill Could Muzzle Doctors On Gun Safety … Florida Gov. Rick Scott is expected to sign a bill that will make the state the first in the nation to prohibit doctors from asking patients if they own guns. The bill is aimed particularly at pediatricians, who routinely ask new parents …
Washington Post:
Kaine, Allen tied in 2012 Senate matchup, Post poll shows — George Allen and Timothy M. Kaine are locked in a dead heat 18 months from Election Day, according to a new Washington Post poll, suggesting that the U.S. Senate race between the Virginia titans may live up to its billing as one of the most competitive contests in the nation.
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Hotline On Call, Ballot Box, RTD Virginia Politics Blog and FrumForum
Daily Mail:
Robed Muslim clerics kicked off U.S. flight after pilot refuses to take off with them (and they were en route to conference on Islamophobia) — Two Muslim religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis - and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard.
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers and The Talking Dog
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Beth Shayne / WCNC-TV:
Muslim men say they were taken off flight to Charlotte
Muslim men say they were taken off flight to Charlotte
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Truthdig, Crooks and Liars and Gawker