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9:55 AM ET, April 8, 2009

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Siobhan Gorman / Associated Press:
Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies  —  Robert Moran monitors an electric grid in Dallas.  Such infrastructure grids across the country are vulnerable to cyberattacks.  —  WASHINGTON — Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs …
Scott / Power Line:
What happened in Minnesota  —  Minnesota's excruciatingly close Senate election between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and former unfunny humorist Al Franken is in the final innings of the post-election proceedings.  Franken is of course a left-liberal Democrat about whom I have nothing good to say.
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Camille Paglia / Salon:
Bow-ow-ow: Obama's painful missteps  —  Let the new president grow into the job — but he'd better do it fast!  Plus: Readers ask about everything from talk radio, morality and Mary McCarthy, to that big movie about a sinking ship.  —  Dear Camille,  —  In your column, you say …
Discussion: pw, Reason and Conservatives4Palin.com
Lynda Waddington / Iowa Independent:
King: 'If we don't save marriage, we can't remain pro-life'  —  CEDAR RAPIDS — Speaking at an anti-abortion event in eastern Iowa Monday night, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, warned that legalized same-sex marriage would lead to a complete dissolution of society and religion.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Salon
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Jason Szep / Reuters:
Vermont passes gay-marriage bill
Discussion: John Deeth Blog and ACSBlog
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. to Offer Aid to Life Insurers  —  Firms Face Capital Crunch; How Much They Will Get From TARP Remains Unclear  —  The Treasury Department has decided to extend bailout funds to a number of struggling life-insurance companies, helping an industry that is a lynchpin of the U.S. financial system …
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 …
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Robert / Jihad Watch:   Canadian neo-Nazis excoriate Jews, root for the Taliban …
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
NEO NAZIS LINK UP WITH CHARLES JOHNSON, LITTLE GREEN FOOTBALLS …
Discussion: TBogg
LATimes / Top of the Ticket:
Fidel Castro to Congressional Black Caucus members: ‘How can we help President Obama?’  —  How's this for hope and change: U.S. officials flying to Cuba, not to interrogate prisoners at Guantanamo Bay but to meet with the Castro brothers in order to ease the 50-year tensions between the two nations.
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Dr. Slammy / Scholars and Rogues:
Caller clowns Rush, Rush clowns Republicans
Discussion: The BRAD BLOG
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Support for Gun-Control Laws at All-Time Lows  —  Americans evenly divided at 49% on need for stricter gun laws  — USA - Crime - Government and Politics - Guns - Personal Safety - Violence - Americas - Northern America  —  PRINCETON, NJ — In Gallup polling conducted prior …
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 …
John McCormick / Clout St:
Quigley claims victory in race to replace Rahm Emanuel  —  Democratic Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley claimed victory tonight in the 5th District race to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress.  —  With 94 percent of the Chicago and suburban Cook precincts reporting totals …
Attaturk / Firedoglake:
Not even trying anymore  —  Little Lord Fop-leroy, Michael Gerson, is just phoning it in now: … Naturally, this is ALL Obama's fault.  It is not the responsibility of fair-minded Republicans like Mitch McConnell or John Boehner crying leathery tears of old fashioned bipartisanship …
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Obama's TV: sports and a few surprises  —  President Barack Obama can't stand to be without his “Entourage.”  —  Call it a guilty pleasure, or maybe it just rings familiar to him.  The HBO series about an aspiring actor features a fast-talking agent named Ari, based on the real-life brother of Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
Discussion: TIME.com
Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
Obama team readying for confrontation with Netanyahu  —  In an unprecedented move, the Obama administration is readying for a possible confrontation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by briefing Democratic congressmen on the peace process and the positions of the new government in Israel regarding a two-state solution.
Jeff Poor / The Business & Media Institute:
ACORN, HuffPo Organizing Efforts to Infiltrate Tax Day Tea Parties  —  FNC's Cavuto says efforts underway to make protests appear as ‘fringe-group efforts’ and in some cases as ‘racist undertakings.’  —  Business & Media Institute  —  Acts of protest tend to be synonymous with the left …
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Biden to Shepherd Test Ban Treaty Vote  —  Events of 1999 Attest to Task's Difficulty  —  President Obama is planning to put Vice President Biden in charge of what is expected to be the difficult job of getting the Senate to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, administration sources said.
Discussion: TIME.com and marbury
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Ethics board launches probe into Rep Jesse Jackson Jr.  —  A congressional ethics board has launched a preliminary inquiry into U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill), related to President Obama's vacant Senate seat and the corruption investigation of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
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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The New Republic:
Who Won and Who Lost in the Defense Budget?
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
 
 
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New York Times:
Iraq's Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Financial Times:
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world
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Jared Allen / The Hill:
Earmarks: Online hide and go seek
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers
Globe and Mail:
Taliban militants shelve plans to kill Canadian hostage
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Jad Mouawad / New York Times:
Oil Giants Loath to Follow Obama's Green Lead
Discussion: TIME.com
The Politico:
Yankees visit West Wing
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Reuters:
Source: Bank ‘stress test’ results delayed
Discussion: Emptywheel
Hugh Son / Bloomberg:
AIG's Bank Payments Probed by TARP Inspector General
Discussion: Zero Hedge and Clusterstock
M. Eric Eversole / Weekly Standard:
Minnesota's Shame  —  The wholesale disenfranchisement of absentee military voters.
Discussion: Power Line
Michael Saul / NY Daily News:
Actor Kal Penn's surprise suicide on ‘House’ opens way to job with Obama White House
Discussion: Newsweek Blogs and AmSpecBlog
 

 
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

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”

Reuters:
After oral arguments, SCOTUS appeared wary of curbing US government contacts with social media platforms in the First Amendment case of Murthy v. Missouri

 
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