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12:45 PM ET, March 26, 2009

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Dan Raviv / CBS News:
U.S. Accused Of Killing 39 In Sudan Strike  —  A government minister in Sudan is accusing the United States Air Force of killing dozens of people in that north African country this past January - but the semi-official American version of the story is very different.
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Haaretz:   IAF Sudan strike / Olmert: Israel will target threats near and far
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Bachmann Introducing Bill to Ban Use of Made-Up Global Currency  —  The madness continues as Michelle Bachmann introduces legislation that “would bar the dollar from being replaced by any foreign currency.”  —  What the Chinese were proposing, of course, was to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency.
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Wall Street Journal:
China and the Dollar  —  Markets don't like Treasury talking down the dollar's status.  —  As if the dollar didn't have enough problems, Timothy Geithner took China's bait yesterday and said he was “quite open” to its suggestion this week to displace the greenback with an “international reserve currency.”
Chicago Tribune:
Rahm Emanuel's profitable stint at mortgage giant  —  Short Freddie Mac stay made him at least $320,000  —  Before its portfolio of bad loans helped trigger the current housing crisis, mortgage giant Freddie Mac was the focus of a major accounting scandal that led to a management shake-up …
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Steele On Rush Flap: “It's All Strategic”  —  Michael Steele just doesn't know how to stop.  —  Steele appeared on CNN this afternoon, and was asked by host Don Lemon whether he's ever considered running for president, and right off the bat he managed to give the sensible, correct answer …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
MICHAEL STEELE'S MASTER PLAN.... Republican National Committee …
Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:   Steele on Limbaugh gaffe: ‘There is a logic behind it,’ 'it's all strategic.'
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The Caucus:
Obama's Interactive Town Hall Meeting  —  President Obama is trying to talk directly to the American people these days, making the case for his ambitious agenda in forums as varied as Jay Leno's late-night television show and a news conference on Tuesday.  Now Mr. Obama will have a chance …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
WSJ Says Bayh Wants to Shake Up Status Quo By Protecting Business Interests  —  Here's a curious report from The Wall Street Journal's Naftali Bendavid and Greg Hitt: … The presumption here being that over the past eight years, the political powerhouses in Washington were insufficiently solicitous …
Jeffrey Sachs / Financial Times:
Obama's bank plan could rob the taxpayer  —  The Geithner-Summers plan, officially called the public/private investment programme, is a thinly veiled attempt to transfer up to hundreds of billions of dollars of US taxpayer funds to the commercial banks, by buying toxic assets from the banks at far above their market value.
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Dems warn against first lady bill  —  House Republicans are pressing for a change in federal law that could force Michelle Obama and future first ladies to do more of their policy work in public.  But Democrats warn President Obama may take the attempt personally “as an attack on his wife.”
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin: XXVII  —  She said she'd turned down some of the federal stimulus money: … No, she didn't say she did. … But she did: … But she didn't:
Richard A. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
Is the Bonus Tax Unconstitutional?  —  The Supreme Court defers too much to Congress.  —  Bills now winding their way through Congress would tax between 70% and 90% of bonuses paid to any executive earning in excess of $250,000, if he or she is employed by a business that received more than $5 billion from U.S. bailout funds.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Cutting Deficit Will Require Tax Increases  —  The debate on the budget is phony, the howling on deficits a charade.  Few politicians want to acknowledge that if you really are concerned about long-term deficits, you have to support tax increases.  —  That's why the most significant moment …
Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
Bold claims of stimulus jobs can't be measured  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - If space exploration were conducted like the job forecasts under the government's new stimulus law, man surely would have missed the moon.  But this isn't rocket science.
Rep. Barney Frank / The Huffington Post:
Why I Called Justice Scalia A Homophobe  —  While responding to questions from journalists about my characterization of Justice Antonin Scalia as a homophobe, I realized that the fact that I made that comment in conjunction with a potential lawsuit about the Defense of Marriage Act created …
Discussion: DownWithTyranny!
Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Learning How to Think  —  Ever wonder how financial experts could lead the world over the economic cliff?  —  One explanation is that so-called experts turn out to be, in many situations, a stunningly poor source of expertise.  There's evidence that what matters in making a sound forecast …
Scott Kraus / Pennsylvania Ave.:
Obama 2.0 Volunteer Effort: Still a work in progress  —  Organizing for America, the Democratic National Committee-based group that took over for Barack Obama's prodigious grassroots campaign organization released the results of their weekend canvassing effort in support of Obama's budget proposal.
Peter Foster / Telegraph:
US deploys warships as North Korea prepares to launch missile  —  The US has deployed two warships with anti-missile capabilities in the waters off Japan as tensions mount over North Korea's plans to test-fire a long-range ballistic missile capable of striking Alaska.
Bloomberg:
Jindal Spurns Obama's Jobless Aid as Mayor Pleads ‘Help Me Now’  —  Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, a Republican, cited fiscal responsibility when he turned down about $98 million in unemployment aid that was part of President Barack Obama's $787 billion federal stimulus package.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Wall Street Journal:
AIG Fights a Fire at Its Paris Unit  —  Executives' Resignations Put Billions in Contracts at Risk of Default  —  Amid the flap over bonuses at American International Group Inc. two of the company's top managers in Paris have resigned.  Their moves have left the giant insurer …
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT: FOURTH QUARTER 2008 (Final)  —  Corporate Profits, Fourth quarter 2008  —  Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — decreased at an annual rate of 6.3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 …
Discussion: New York Times and Housing Wire
The Hill:
Domino's ads delivering for Gov. contender  —  Corporate CEOs aren't the most popular people right now, but one of them wants to make it very clear that he had no part in this whole bailout thing.  —  Domino's Pizza Chairman and CEO David Brandon has been on national television for two weeks touting the …
Discussion: Democracy in America and MSNBC
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Cities Deal With a Surge in Shanty Towns  —  FRESNO, Calif. — As the operations manager of a outreach center for the homeless here, Paul Stack is used to seeing people down on their luck.  What he had never seen before was people living in tents and lean-tos on the railroad lot across from the center.
Bartle Bull / Prospect Magazine:
No, he can't  —  157 » Features » No, he can't  —  The wheels are already coming off Obama's Trojan horse revolution.  Will he, like Jimmy Carter, be seen as a one-term disaster?  —  Discuss this article at First Drafts, Prospect's blog  —  Barack Obama was always going to disappoint.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Budget Has Obama Courting Fellow Democrats  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama loped up the stairs inside the Capitol on Wednesday, running a few minutes late for a lunch with Democratic senators.  The standing ovation as he entered the room masked an undercurrent of friendly but distinct differences within.
Pat Doyle / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Senate race is a broken record  —  The old record was set by the 1962 governor's election between DFLer Karl Rolvaag and incumbent Republican Elmer L. Andersen.  —  Minnesota's U.S. Senate race set a record Wednesday for delay.  No election for statewide office in Minnesota has dragged …
Discussion: TIME.com, NJDC Blog and TPMDC
Warren P. Strobel / Christian Science Monitor:
Clinton says US shares responsibility for Mexico's drug violence  —  The “insatiable” American demand for illegal drugs is part of the problem, she says, and hints at changes ahead in US drug-control policies.  —  MEXICO CITY -  —  The United States is at least as responsible as Mexico …
Andrew Pergam / NBC Connecticut:
Threats to AIG: “We Will Get Your Children”  —  The anger in the threats against AIG executives is palpable.  —  “Get the bonus, we will get your children,” someone identified only as “Jacob the Killer” hauntingly writes in an e-mail.  —  His is one of dozens of threats against AIG …
Discussion: Don Surber
 
 
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David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Obama, AIG and the Lessons of NCAA Bracketology
Discussion: Wonkette
Justin Fox / Time:
Is the Economy Starting to Recover? Or Just Less Bad?
Discussion: Free exchange and Salon
Conor Clarke / The Atlantic Business Channel:
Can't a website be a newspaper?
BBC:
Therapists offer gay ‘treatment’
Discussion: European Tribune
David Thompson:
Treatment  —  Via Critical Mass, here's a short follow-up film …
Discussion: pw
Brendan McGarry / Air Force Times HOME:
Death before this honor  —  Why have Iraq and Afghanistan produced …
Gary D. Robertson / Associated Press:
States could lose billions in taxes to stimulus
Discussion: Right Wing News
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New York Times:
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Discussion: The Corner
Adam Lisberg / NY Daily News:
Bloomberg backs gay marriage in NYS
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin in Anchorage  —  Peter Hamby picks up a candid Sarah Palin speech …
Discussion: American Power
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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