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10:00 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
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
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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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Gay marriage: Iowans weigh pros and cons of altering Iowa Constitution  —  If Iowans choose to open the hood on the Iowa Constitution, it could invite all sorts of tinkering, law professors and state lawmakers said today.  —  Voters soon have a once-a-decade chance to step around lawmakers and update the Constitution on their own.
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 …
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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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Feminism as Natalism  —  Michelle Goldberg wades into the debate I've been having with various people about the macroeconomic implications of population decline with an observation I definitely agree with: … I actually agree with both of the points here.
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Michelle Goldberg / American Prospect:
EUROPE'S BIRTH STRIKE.
Discussion: Donkeylicious
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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 …
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.
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
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 …
Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
FBI Defends Disruptive Raids on Texas Data Centers  —  The FBI on Tuesday defended its raids on at least two data centers in Texas, in which agents carted out equipment and disrupted service to hundreds of businesses.  —  The raids were part of an investigation prompted by complaints from AT&T …
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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Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Palin plans to assist Murkowski campaign in 2010
New York Times:
Iraq's Newly Open Gays Face Scorn and Murder
Discussion: Wockner
Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Financial Times:
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world
Discussion: EconLog, Clusterstock and Felix Salmon
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Biden to Shepherd Test Ban Treaty Vote
Discussion: TIME.com and marbury
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Earmarks: Online hide and go seek
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
 Earlier Items: 
The Politico:
Yankees visit West Wing
Discussion: TIME.com
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
 

 
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