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6:25 PM ET, April 6, 2009

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Chris Steller / Minnesota Independent:
Bachmann fears ‘politically correct re-education camps for young people’  —  U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann says she fears the Obama administration will create “re-education camps for young people, where young people have to go and get trained in a philosophy that the government puts forward …
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Andy Birkey / Minnesota Independent:
Bachmann's district has Minnesota's highest foreclosure rates  —  Source: Housing Link 2008 foreclosure report  —  Foreclosures have hit Minnesota's economy hard, leading to a debate among policymakers over how best to provide relief to the state's families.
Lloydletta / Dump Michele Bachmann:
Michele Bachmann on Sue Jeffers
Discussion: TPMDC and Wonkette
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Bachmann: The Serve America Act will lead to ‘re-education camps for young people.’
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New York Times:
Gates Budget Plan Reshapes Pentagon's Priorities  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates on Monday announced a broad reshaping of the Pentagon budget, with deep cuts in many traditional weapons systems but billions of dollars for new technology to fight the insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Bipartisan Call for Obama to Reverse Missile Defense Cuts
Discussion: Commentary
Times of London:
Bob Dylan on Barack Obama, Ulysses Grant and American Civil War ghosts  —  Listen to an exclusive track from Bob Dylan's new album, and read his views on US politics and history, exclusively on Times Online  —  Exclusive track: Listen to Feel A Change Comin' On
Jeffrey Sachs / The Huffington Post:
The Geithner-Summers Plan is Even Worse Than We Thought  —  Two weeks ago, I posted an article showing how the Geithner-Summers banking plan could potentially and unnecessarily transfer hundreds of billions of dollars of wealth from taxpayers to banks.  The same basic arithmetic was later described …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:   Jeffrey Sachs, Not Detail-Oriented
Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
THE BUSH SIX  —  About a year ago, a book came out in England that made a fascinating prediction: at some point in the future, the author wrote, six top officials in the Bush Administration would get a tap on the shoulder announcing that they were being arrested on international charges of torture.
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
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John Byrne / The Raw Story:
Following Bush lead, Obama moves to block challenge to wiretapping program
Discussion: AlterNet.org
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Scenes From the Real America  —  I spent Saturday at the bi-annual Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, right outside of Louisville, Ky. Gun enthusiasts of all stripes were there — from the National Rifle Association and sportsmen to militia members to white supremacists and Obama birthers.
Khaled Wassef / CBS News:
Saudis Report Plot To Assassinate Obama  —  The Saudi Arabian newspaper al-Watan reported today that Turkish security services have arrested a man of Syrian origins Friday in connection with a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama during his current visit to Turkey.
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Quinnipiac University:
Voters Say 3-1 Paterson Does Not Deserve Election, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Most Say He Should Announce Now He Won't Run  —  New York State voters disapprove 60 - 28 percent of the job Gov. David Paterson is doing, the lowest approval ever for a New York Governor, and say 63 …
ArkansasBusiness.com:
Lincoln Says She Will Vote Against Employee Free Choice Act  —  Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., told a Monday meeting of the Little Rock Political Animals Club that she will oppose the Employee Free Choice Act.  —  Lincoln's office said the senator will release a statement on the legislation this afternoon.
Richard Perez-Pena / New York Times:
A.P. Moving to Halt Use of Newspaper Articles on Web Sites  —  The Associated Press and its member newspapers will take legal action against Web sites that use newspaper articles without legal permission, the group said on Monday, in a clear shot at aggregators like Google.
Gavin Jones / Reuters:
Italy muzzled scientist who foresaw quake  —  Source: Reuters  —  An Italian scientist predicted a major earthquake around L'Aquila weeks before disaster struck the city on Monday, killing dozens of people, but was reported to authorities for spreading panic among the population.
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Robert Mackey / The Lede:   Earthquake Warning Was Removed From Internet
John / Power Line:
The Apology Tour: Will It Ever End?  —  Earlier today, President Obama addressed the Parliament of Turkey.  What made news were his positive references to Islam: … This is, of course, indistinguishable from many similar pronouncements that were made by President Bush.
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Elie Leshem / Jerusalem Post:
'Israel doesn't take orders from Obama,' minister Erdan says
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
There are no excuses for ongoing concealment of torture memos  —  Ever since October, 2007, the ACLU has been battling in court to compel the disclosure of three key torture-authorizing memos authored by Bush's Office of Legal Counsel chief Steven Bradbury and approved by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2005.
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beliefnet:   Why Didn't Ashcroft-the-Christian Stop The Torture?
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
No one is trying to silence right-wing fearmongers — but it is time to stand up to them  —  John Amato's virtual online magazine...OK, It's a blog!  — Advertising- Commenting- General Problems- Media Problems- Supported Browsers- User Registration  —  Blogs » David Neiwert's blog
Fred Barbash / The Politico:
Newt: U.S. at greater risk under Obama  —  The U.S. is at greater risk of terrorist attack because of the Obama administration's actions, Newt Gingrich said Monday.  —  In a chat with POLITICO readers, Gingrich also called the administration's response to the North Korean missile launch a …
Discussion: Hot Air
The New Republic:
Let Obama Sleep!  —  It's a small thing but did Robert Gibbs really need to wake Obama at 4:30 am with news of the North Korean missile launch?  We knew the launch was coming and Obama had no imminent decision to make.  Waking the president to tell him things so he can return to a troubled sleep …
Barry Eichengreen / voxeu.org:
A Tale of Two Depressions  —  Often cited comparisons - which look only at the US - find that today's crisis is milder than the Great Depression.  In this column, two leading economic historians show that the world economy is now plummeting as it did in the Great Depression; indeed …
Discussion: FP Passport
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner:
Rules of Usage  —  President Obama reminded his European audience that just because he's not Bush, of non-traditional ancestry, and named “Barack Hussein Obama,” the war on terror won't just go away (you think?).  All of which brings up interesting rules of usage with the name “Hussein” …
Mark Hemingway / National Review:
Jake Tapper Isn't Letting Go  —  Jake Tapper isn't the easiest guy to interview.  After all, when your interview subject is a competent journalist, he or she already knows all the tricks of the trade — the subtle flatteries, the ever-so-slightly leading questions — so Tapper …
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Gawker
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: Cup O' Joe
Erin Brown / NewsBusters.org:
CBS Blasts Palin in Ridiculous ‘Scandal’ Segment  —  Recent earthquake activity in Alaska provided “CBS Early Show” co-hosts with a ready-made metaphor for a segment on the personal lives of some of the those surrounding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.  But their quake turned out to be barely a ripple.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
South Union Street:
Payback Is A...  U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, (R-Saks) used a day of his two-week break from his congressional duties in Washington, D.C. to drop in on a few of his constituents at Auburn University Montgomery.  —  AUM and the main campus of Auburn University are both in congressional District 3, which Rogers represents.
Discussion: The Politico
Jerry Seper / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Barton's foundation not so charitable  —  Congressman's group gives less than 25% to public causes  —  The top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee operates a tax-exempt foundation that has raised donations from the industries his committee oversees …
 
 
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Lucinda Franks / Blogs and Stories:
Ruth Madoff's Private World
Discussion: Clusterstock and New York Magazine
Elizabeth Benjamin / The Daily Politics:
Paterson Offers Advice To Senate GOP
Discussion: Spin Cycle
New York Post:
PATER-SON BURNED BY DEAR OLD PATER-DAD
Discussion: Spin Cycle
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Chafee planning to run for governor
Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Texas Rangers fans give Bush a rousing ovation as he throws out first pitch.
Bob Gardinier / Albany Times Union:
Sweeney to troopers: I'm in big trouble
John Carney / Clusterstock:
Geithner Wrong, Crap Assets Correctly Priced, Say Harvard And Princeton Profs
Discussion: TalkLeft and Wonk Room
 Earlier Items: 
Patricia Hurtado / Bloomberg:
Zuckerman Sues Merkin Over $40 Million Madoff Loss
Associated Press:
Exonerated Miss. men sue over bite mark testimony
Stanley Fish / New York Times:
Ward Churchill Redux
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Special panel set to do last count in Minn. Senate race
Washington Post:
Americans Support Goal of Improved Relations With Muslim World
Jessie Pounds / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Cultural divide: Mosque doesn't agree with restaurant's plan to serve alcohol
Discussion: Stop The ACLU and Right Wing News
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obamateurism of the Day  —  George Bush's critics rightly roasted …
Discussion: Bloomberg