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5:25 PM ET, April 8, 2009

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Wall Street Journal:
Obama and Gates Gut the Military  —  The secretary's new budget will leave us weaker to pay for the president's domestic programs.  —  On Monday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a significant reordering of U.S. defense programs.  His recommendations should not go unchallenged.
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Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
Neocons vs. Bob Gates, With Special Guest Appearance by KKK Founder
Sharon Otterman / New York Times:
Pirates Seize Ship With U.S. Crew Off Coast of Somalia  —  Pirates commandeered a United States-flagged container ship with 20 American crew members off the coast of Somalia on Wednesday, the first time an American-crewed ship was seized by pirates in the area.
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Fox News:
American Crew Regains Control of Hijacked Ship, One Pirate in Custody  —  American crew members aboard a U.S.-flagged ship have regained control of the vessel hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia Wednesday, FOX News confirms.  —  Defense Department officials confirmed that one pirate is in custody.
Stephanie McCrummen / Washington Post:
U.S. Crew Members Retake Ship Seized by Somali Pirates
Washington Wire:
Live Blog of Maersk Conference Call
Discussion: Clusterstock and Neptunus Lex
Roger Ebert / Chicago Sun Times:
Thoughts on Bill O'Reilly and Squeaky the Chicago Mouse  —  Dear Bill: Thanks for including the Chicago Sun-Times on your exclusive list of newspapers on your “Hall of Shame.”  To be in an O'Reilly Hall of Fame would be a cruel blow to any newspaper.  It would place us in the favor of a man …
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.
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Paul Richter / Los Angeles Times:
Biden warns Israel off any attack on Iran
Discussion: Hot Air
Townhall.com:
Rick Warren on the Newsweek ‘End of Christian America’ article, Pt. 1  —  HH: Special hour of the Hugh Hewitt Show, my old and dear friend, Rick Warren, is in studio with us, America's pastor.  He's the author of The Purpose Driven Life.  He is the founding pastor 30 years ago at Saddleback Valley Community Church.
Discussion: Majikthise
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Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Did Rick Warren compare Democrats to prostitutes?
Hilary Leila Krieger / Jerusalem Post:
Obama to host Seder Thursday night  —  Article's topics: Barack Obama, Pessah, Seder,  —  US President Barack Obama will celebrate Passover Thursday night with staff and friends in what is believed to be the first White House Seder attended by an American president.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Keith Olbermann's scathing criticism of Obama's secrecy/immunity claims  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  Several weeks ago, I noted that unlike the Right — which turned itself into a virtual cult of uncritical reverence for George W. Bush especially during the first several years …
Nazila Fathi / New York Times:
Iran Issues Cautious Response to Obama  —  TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that Iran would welcome talks with the United States but said that any change in American policy toward Iran should be “honest.”  —  President Obama said in a message late last month …
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Associated Press:
U.S. to take part in group talks with Iran
Discussion: The Iowa Republican
HRC:
Human Rights Campaign Exposes National Organization for Marriage's Fake Ad for Fake Problems  —  Right-wing group does not have truth on its side, so it hires actors to spew lies; Audition reel uncovered online  —  WASHINGTON -The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest lesbian, gay …
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Seth Borenstein / Associated Press:
AP Newsbreak: Obama looks at climate engineering … WASHINGTON (AP) - The president's new science adviser said Wednesday that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration is discussing radical technologies to cool Earth's air.  —  John Holdren told The Associated Press …
Discussion: Tammy Bruce
Alec Baldwin / The Huffington Post:
Why We Need the New York Times  —  For many years, I was a devoted reader of the New York Times.  An unusually devoted one.  —  I picked up the habit from David O'Brien, an actor who played my father on a soap opera I appeared on over 25 years ago.  It was my first professional job …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
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Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:   Frankel and Raines: ‘NY Times’ Needs to Reinvent Itself, Again
The Huffington Post:
Palin Legal Defense Fund Launched, Supporters Drawn To Her Maternal Instinct  —  Defenders of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have created a defense fund to help pay for her legal fees, including those stemming from the now-famous Troopergate probe.  —  Clayton Paslay, director …
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Paul Foy / Associated Press:
Mitt Romney sells Utah ski house … SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Race-car driver and money manager Hal Prewitt bought Mitt Romney's ski house at Deer Valley Resort for “a little less” than the asking price of $5.25 million, his agent said  —  Tuesday.  —  “It's beautiful.
Discussion: Truthdig, Salon and Ben Smith's Blog
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Turkish anchor wears blackface to report on Obama's visit.  —  A YouTube video has popped up of a Turkish anchor wearing dark face paint when reporting on President Obama's recent visit to the country.  Jonathan Turley has a rough translation of what the anchor is saying: … Watch it:
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
For Ted Stevens, Rough Justice  —  It was Ted Stevens's moment to savor sweet vindication yesterday, but, in courtroom 24A, bitterness prevailed.  —  “You'd think there would be jubilation, that we'd be high-fiving each other around the office,” Brendan Sullivan, attorney for the fallen senator …
Discussion: Prairie Weather and TPMMuckraker
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb / Financial Times:
Ten principles for a Black Swan-proof world  —  1. What is fragile should break early while it is still small.  Nothing should ever become too big to fail.  Evolution in economic life helps those with the maximum amount of hidden risks - and hence the most fragile - become the biggest.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Want to Join Marcy and Me to Protest Banks on Saturday, April 11?  —  I'll be on Nancy Skinner's show at 3:00 PM ET today to talk about this.  If you don't have a local affiliate, you can listen live at http://ktlk.com  —  On Saturday, April 11, there are going to be demonstrations …
Discussion: PoliGazette
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 …
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: Weekly Standard, Don Surber and Reason
 
 
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