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9:50 AM ET, April 6, 2009

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Attaturk / Firedoglake:
Letting Stupid beget Stupid  —  Newt Gingrich — with all his Boss Hogg gravitas — prattled on FoxNews Sunday about the “recklessness” of Obama's foreign policy, while proclaiming we should attack North Korea with ‘frickin’ lasers.  Meanwhile, Obama was making a speech in front …
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Wall Street Journal:
Satellite Proposals Gain Traction After North Korea's Launch  —  U.S. intelligence agencies are capitalizing on North Korea's weekend rocket launch to advance proposals to deploy two new spy satellite systems estimated to cost a total of about $10 billion, according to government and industry officials.
Los Angeles Times:
U.N. Security Council fails to agree on North Korea reaction
Discussion: Washington Post and Pajamas Media
Wall Street Journal:
From Bubble to Depression?  —  Bubbles have been frequent in economic history, and they occur in the laboratories of experimental economics under conditions which — when first studied in the 1980s — were considered so transparent that bubbles would not be observed.
Discussion: Reason, Economist's View and EconLog
Little Green Footballs:
Bush Bowed Too  —  More than a few people on the right are screaming that Barack Obama should be impeached for bowing to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.  —  Those of you who are buying into this hyperventilating nonsense need to see this video.  (Click the image to watch.)
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Critical Thinker / Politics and Critical Thinking:
Obama Bowed, Bush Danced.
Discussion: DISSENTING JUSTICE
Andrew Rosenfield / New York Times:
How to Clean a Dirty Bank  —  COMMERCIAL banks in the United States are not subject to the bankruptcy statute — when they become insolvent they are simply acquired by the government.  This is what banks sign on for in return for a charter, deposit insurance and direct access …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Bill Moyers Journal
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Geithner Says Government Would Remove Bank Chiefs if Needed  —  WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the federal government might remove top bank executives or board members if “exceptional” assistance is required to keep the banks operating in the future.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: ‘Common ground,’ East-West  —  President Barack Obama, capping a European tour with an address to the Turkish Parliament today, issued a call for seeking “a common ground” between East and West that he has voiced in his travels across the continent.  —  “I also want to be clear …
Discussion: The Politico
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Louise Story / New York Times:
A Rich Education for Summers (After Harvard)  —  Lawrence H. Summers plays down his stint in the hedge fund business as a mere part-time job — but the financial and intellectual rewards that he gained there would make even most full-time workers envious.  —  Mr. Summers, the former Treasury secretary …
Discussion: Clusterstock
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
Even Rick Wagoner's Firing Got Lousy Mileage
Iain Martin / Iain Martin's blog listings:
Barack Obama really does go on a bit  —  Isn't it time for him to go home yet?  It is good, in theory, that the new President of the United States is taking so much time to tour Europe.  He arrived in London last Tuesday, has been to Strasbourg, Prague yesterday and now he's off to Turkey.
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Wendy Koch / USA Today:
Homelessness up as families on the edge lose hold  —  Cities and counties are reporting a sharp increase in homeless families as the economic crisis leads to job loss and makes housing unaffordable.  —  In Seattle, 40% more people are living on suburban streets.
Discussion: Think Progress
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Life After Newspapers  —  Few industries in this country have been as coddled as newspapers.  The government doesn't actually write them checks, as it does to farmers and now to banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers.  But politicians routinely pay court to local newspapers …
Discussion: The Opinionator and Sister Toldjah
Randall Chase / Associated Press:
Pentagon lets media see return of US war dead  —  DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. - The Pentagon's 18-year ban on media covering the return of fallen U.S. service members ended with a solemn ceremony for the arrival of a flag-draped casket of an airman felled in Afghanistan.
Discussion: Political Machine
Reuters:
New NATO chief pledges conciliation with Muslims  —  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Former Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Monday he would pay close attention to religious sensibilities in his new role as NATO chief in comments aimed at allaying Muslim concerns at his appointment.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obamateurism of the Day  —  George Bush's critics rightly roasted him for his tortured syntax and waterboarded grammar, and used it to make the claim that the graduate of both Harvard and Yale was an idiot.  Well, perhaps, but I don't recall him ever claiming that Austrian was a language.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and RedState
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
2006 Israel-Lebanon War Looms Large in Pentagon Debate on Future  —  Leaders Divided on Whether to Focus On Conventional or Irregular Combat  —  A war that ended three years ago and involved not a single U.S. soldier has become the subject of an increasingly heated debate inside the Pentagon …
Discussion: Soccer Dad
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Hannity: Obama ‘Harbors Deep Resentment’ Of America, Just Like Dixie Chicks  —  On Friday, President Obama told a town hall audience in Strasbourg, France, that America's tendency to dismiss Europe — as well as Europe's tendency to blame America for every problem — had to end.
 
 
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BBC:
Mecca mosques ‘wrongly aligned’
Discussion: Pharyngula and The Jawa Report
Wall Street Journal:
Rattner Rises as Obama's Mr. Fix-It
Real Clear Politics:
David Axelrod on “Fox News Sunday”
Discussion: Pajamas Media, TigerHawk and Commentary
Charles Piller / Sacramento Bee:
Billionaire Buffett benefits from bailout he promoted
Discussion: Don Surber
The Daily Beast:
Are Republicans Blackmailing Obama?
Salena Zito / Real Clear Politics:
Card Check, Plan B, and 2010
Discussion: Commentary, Kausfiles and GayPatriot
Jimmie / The Sundries Shack:
Hate Speech from the Democrats Online Golden Boy
 Earlier Items: 
Nikki Finke / Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily:
EXCLUSIVE: Fox News Fires Showbiz Columnist For “Promoting” Piracy
Discussion: Gawker and Crooks and Liars
Scott Waldman / Albany Times Union:
Sweeney charged with felony DWI
Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Research Links Poor Kids' Stress, Brain Impairment
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
David Gregory Tries To Union Bust Auto Companies; GM CEO Refuses To Play Along
Discussion: The Raw Story
Mohammed Tawfeeq CNN / CNN:
Six gay men shot to death in Iraq by tribe members
The Atlantic Online:
How the Crash Will Reshape America
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Elle Halliwell / NEWS.com.au:
40 per cent of Australian women wear a bra with a cup size DD or bigger
Discussion: The Other McCain and PoliGazette
 

 
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New York Times:
The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
The Atlantic is profitable, has 1M subscribers, and revenue grew 10% in 2023 thanks to a 50% price hike, a harder paywall, and a shift to in-depth reporting

New York Times:
Karlie Kloss' Bedford buys Life publication rights from Dotdash Meredith and plans to resume regular print publication in 2025; Josh Kushner will be publisher

 
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