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11:35 PM ET, April 7, 2009

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Burlington Free Press:
Vt. legalizes gay marriage with veto override  —  FREE PRESS STAFF REPORT  —  VIDEO: House vote passes gay mariage bill .  —  MONTPELIER — Vermont has become the fourth state to legalize gay marriage — and the first to do so with a legislature's vote.  —  The Legislature voted Tuesday …
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Washington Post:
D.C. Council Votes to Recognize Other States' Gay Marriages  —  The D.C. Council voted today to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, on the same day that Vermont became the fourth state to legalize same-sex unions.  —  Domestic partnerships are already legal in the nation's capital …
beliefnet:
Vermont gets gay marriage the right way
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Vermont And Rod's Giant Sigh
Discussion: Upturned Earth and Think Progress
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Guns and Gays in the District
Discussion: The Daily Dish
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Dr. Slammy / Scholars and Rogues:
Caller clowns Rush, Rush clowns Republicans  —  In the immortal words of Catbert, I just laughed myself fuzzy.  First, you really must listen to this:  —  (Transcript here, courtesy of Media Matters.)  —  Rush starts, I think, to suggest that the caller isn't really who he says he is …
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG
Michael A. Cohen / The Politico:
Extremist rhetoric won't rebuild GOP  —  Watching Fox News' new sensation Glenn Beck is not for the faint of heart.  It is a disquieting entree into the feverish mind of a conspiracy theorist who believes, among other things, that the government wants to remotely control our thermostats …
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Little Green Footballs:
About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric  —  Michael A. Cohen has a piece in Politico today about the over-the-top irresponsible extremism and conspiracy theories promulgated by weeping Glenn Beck: Extremist rhetoric won't rebuild GOP. … He's right.  This turn toward the extreme right …
Chris Orr / The New Republic:
They're All Arlen Specter Now  —  A propos of my earlier post …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Chris Orr / The New Republic:
Americans More Optimistic; Still Hate GOP
David Roberts / Grist:
Washington Post reporters call out George Will for lying in Washington Post 2  — TWITTER - NEWSVINE - GOOGLE BOOKMARKS - STUMBLEUPON  —  [SEE UPDATE BELOW]  —  Today, Washington Post reporters Juliet Eilperin and Mary Beth Sheridan have a piece on the alarming decline of Arctic sea ice.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   MAKING GEORGE WILL LOOK WORSE.... The Washington Post …
Andrew Freedman / Capital Weather Gang:
Will Misleads Readers on Climate Science - Again
Discussion: Wonk Room
Michael Ausiello / EW.com:
‘House’ exclusive: The shocking story behind last night's big death  —  DEFCON 1 spoiler alert!  If you haven't seen last night's House, stop reading now.  Everyone else, onward and downward!  —  Here are the six things you need to know up-front about last night's House:
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Michael Saul / NY Daily News:
Actor Kal Penn's surprise suicide on ‘House’ opens way to job with Obama White House
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
Lynn Sweet:
Actor Kal Penn joining Obama administration in Valerie Jarrett's shop.
Discussion: Newsweek Blogs
Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Pentagon Chief: Why I Tore Up the Army's ‘Future’  —  Of all the hard choices Defense Secretary Robert Gates had to make in his radical overhaul of the Pentagon's arsenal, the toughest, he tells Danger Room, was the decision to gut Future Combat Systems, the Army's $200 billion effort to design …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Gates on the Defense Budget
The New Republic:
Who Won and Who Lost in the Defense Budget?
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
Jonah Goldberg / USA Today:
Obama's word play  —  The administration has created a lexicon that masks reality through the gauzy world of euphemism.  To the world, it's just words.  —  President Obama had a grand time in Europe.  He wowed the press, met the queen, gave some wonderful news conferences and got virtually none …
Discussion: Macsmind, Hot Air and Betsy's Page
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Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
VP Biden: 'There Is A 'War On Terror"
Discussion: Hot Air
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Harvard Student Takes On Barney Frank Over Economy  —  WFXT-TV: It all started with a question: “How much responsibility, if any, do you have for the financial crisis?”  Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and a conservative Harvard law student debated over how Frank should have handled his role …
Kevin Duchschere / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Franken extends lead over Coleman  —  The Democrat made a net gain today in a count of formerly rejected absentee ballots that pushed his advantage to more than 300 votes in the U.S. Senate race.  —  Democrat Al Franken today extended his lead over Republican Norm Coleman in the U.S. Senate election …
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Brian Bakst / Associated Press:
Absentees push Franken's Senate lead to 312
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and TIME.com
Robert Moore / Coloradoan Online:
Bennet talks with skeptical Democrats in Fort Collins  —  Sen. Michael Bennet met with about 100 Larimer County Democrats on Monday night at New Belgium Brewing and frequently wound up giving them answers they didn't come to hear.  —  Facing a respectful but clearly skeptical audience of party activists …
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
CBC members praise Castro  —  Key members of the Congressional Black Caucus are calling for an end to U.S. prohibition on travel to Cuba, just hours after a meeting with former Cuban president Fidel Castro in Havana.  —  “The fifty-year embargo just hasn't worked,” CBC Chairwoman Barbara Lee …
Discussion: Don Surber and AmSpecBlog
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Chad Pergram / Fox News:   U.S. Lawmakers Meet With Castros, Push for New Policy on Cuba
Paul Lewis / Guardian:
Video reveals G20 police assault on man who died  —  Exclusive footage obtained by the Guardian shows Ian Tomlinson, who died during G20 protests in London, was attacked from behind by baton-wielding police officer  —  Dramatic footage obtained by the Guardian shows that the man who died …
Neil A. Lewis / New York Times:
Tables Turned on Prosecution in Stevens Case  —  A federal judge dismissed the ethics conviction of former Senator Ted Stevens after naming a special prosecutor to investigate whether the government lawyers should face criminal charges.
Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Right Wing Hysterical Over Obama's ‘Not At War With Islam’ Remarks: ‘We Have Nothing To Apologize For’  —  President Obama's outreach to the Muslim world has been a welcome development after eight years of President Bush's “us vs. them” approach.  “Let me say this as clearly as I can,” he told the Turkish parliament yesterday.
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Caitlin Taylor / Political Punch:
President Obama to Europe: Sorry About the Bush Years*
Discussion: The Plum Line and D-Day
David Brooks / New York Times:
The End of Philosophy  —  Socrates talked.  The assumption behind his approach to philosophy, and the approaches of millions of people since, is that moral thinking is mostly a matter of reason and deliberation: Think through moral problems.  Find a just principle.  Apply it.
MSNBC:
Obama: Time for Iraqis to ‘take responsibility’  —  President meets generals, thanks GIs during unannounced Baghdad visit  —  BAGHDAD - Cheered wildly by U.S. troops, President Barack Obama flew unannounced into Iraq on Tuesday and promptly declared it is time for Iraqis …
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill's Blog Briefing Room:
Howard Stern endorses Arlen Specter
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Jimmy Vielkind / Politicker NY:
And Back Again: After a Misreport, More Votes for Tedisco
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and TPMDC
Ann Althouse / Chicago Tribune:
Barney Frank is all wrong on Scalia's dissent
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Bunning Loses to Any Democrat
Discussion: Hot Air
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
At What Point Did Republicans Become the Party of Bed-Wetting Hysterics?
Discussion: Hullabaloo and CNN
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
At Gun Show, Conservatives Panic About Obama
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
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Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Scarborough Lies About Obama: 'We Have A President Who Has Never …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Times Editor: Lack Of Disclosure On Merkin Op-Ed Is No Big Deal
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
Obama Names Pope-Basher to Faith-Based Initiative Board
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
 

 
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