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9:15 AM ET, April 16, 2009

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Associated Press:
Gov. Rick Perry: Texas Could Secede, Leave Union  —  HuffPost has comprehensive coverage of the Tax Day Tea Party protests.  Click here for the latest photos and video.  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry fired up an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday with his stance against the federal government …
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Texas Politics:
Perry says Texas can leave the union if it wants to  —  Note to commenters: The comments do not post automatically.  I have to read them and post them.  Since it is dinner time here, I may be away from the computer for a bit.  —  Speaking with reporters after a tea party rally in Austin today …
Wayne Slater / Associated Press:
Texas Gov. Rick Perry gets crowd boiling at Austin ‘tea party’  —  wslater@dallasnews.com  —  AUSTIN - Gov. Rick Perry told an anti-tax “tea party” Wednesday the federal government is “rampaging through the halls of Congress” with big-spending programs and only states' rights can stop it.
Michelle Malkin:
CNN beclowns itself  —  Call the wah-mbulance.  —  So, the Tea Party protests are “not fit for family viewing” according to one very unhappy CNN reporter, Susan Roesgen, who also fumes over what she calls an “offensive” anti-Obama sign that compares Obama to a fascist.  (And yes, I told you this was going to happen.)
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Sinfonian / Blast Off!:
DFH blogger speaks at Pensacola Tea Party ... and lives to tell the tale  —  If you were following my livetweeting today from the Pensacola Tea Party, then you already know: I gave a little speech.  Hey, I'm a sucker for Open Mic Night ... what can I say?  —  Seriously — I didn't realize …
David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Scenes From the DC Tea Party: More Photos!
New York Times:
N.S.A.'s Intercepts Exceed Limits Set by Congress  —  WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year, government officials said in recent interviews.
William Yardley / New York Times:
For Gov. Palin, a Rough Return to the Day Job  —  JUNEAU, Alaska — Before Tina Fey and “Drill, baby, drill,” there was mud season here in the Alaskan capital.  This soggy, socked-in spring has been no exception, but it sure has been different in other ways.
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Alissa R / Us Weekly:
Sarah Palin's Dad Wishes Levi Johnston Would “Buy Some Diapers”  —  In the new issue of Us Weekly (on newsstands today) Sarah Palin's father slams Levi Johnston — the 19-year-old father of Bristol Palin's baby — for recently badmouthing the Palin family in the press.
RushLimbaugh.com:
President Obama Ordered the Killing of Three Black Muslim Kids  —  BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  —  RUSH: You know what we have learned about the Somali pirates, the merchant marine organizers that were wiped out at the order of Barack Obama, you know what we learned about them?  They were teenagers.
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Carl Schreck / themoscowtimes.com:
Hair Stylist Keeps Armed Robber as Sex Slave  —  In what is either the weirdest Russian crime story of the year so far or a new low in yellow crime journalism, a female hair stylist in the Kaluga region is suspected of holding an armed robber in captivity as a sex slave for two days …
CBS News:
Katie Couric's Notebook: Tea Parties  —  Katie's off today.  I'm Maggie Rodriguez.  —  It was a major catalyst for our independence from Britain: the tea party in Boston harbor 235 years ago.  And it seems Americans have been grumbling about their paying taxes ever since ... just not quite like this.
Discussion: PoliGazette
Josh Kraushaar / Scorecard's Blog:
Sestak for Senate?  —  In the fundraising battle of the three Pennsylvania House Democrats considering running for the Senate, we have a clear fundraising winner: Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.)  —  Sestak, who has been seriously considering a Senate campaign, raised $550,000 in the first three months of the year …
Mike Madden / Salon:
“On 9/11, I think they hit the wrong building”  —  A woman participates in a Tax Day rally in Lafayette Park in Washington Wednesday.  —  WASHINGTON — The gathering in Lafayette Square, in honor both of tax day and of a generalized fury at Barack Obama, his budget, the Federal Reserve …
Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Pelosi calls for panel to probe Wall Street  —  (04-15) 16:14 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying that the American people are demanding “discipline and accountability” after the multibillion-dollar federal bailouts, promised Wednesday to create a legislative commission …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Wall Street Journal:
Portions of CIA Memos Expected to Be Released  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expected to release some operational details of a Central Intelligence Agency interrogation program and its legal rationale, while seeking to keep secret the names of detainees and the way techniques …
Discussion: RebelReports
Kim Sengupta / The Independent:
Iraq air raids hit mostly women and children  —  Report urges review of military strategy when targeting urban areas  —  Air strikes and artillery barrages have taken a heavy toll among the most vulnerable of the Iraqi people, with children and women forming a disproportionate number of the dead.
Discussion: Informed Comment and USS Neverdock
Casey Seiler / Capitol Confidential:
At last: final numbers from Saratoga County  —  The bottom line: Tedisco picks up 163 173 corrected votes after all paper ballots — including military — have been counted.  But remember that there are still more than 700 contested ballots in that county alone, and reportedly more than 1,200 across all 10 counties.
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Jimmy Vielkind / Politicker NY:
NY-20 Judge: Most Objections Invalid
Discussion: TPMDC, Scorecard's Blog and D-Day
Jim Iovino / NBC Washington:
1 Million Tea Bags, But No Place to Dump  —  Permits end dumping before it starts  —  WASHINGTON — It was a great idea, really.  Take a million tea bags and dump them in Lafayette Park to protest government spending.  Hip, hip, hoo-ray!  —  But a funny thing happened en route to a visually pleasing Tax Day protest.
Adam Smith / The Buzz:
Charlie Justice running for Bill Young's seat  —  Democrat Charlie Justice will end a decade-long state legislative career to challenge C.W. Bill Young for Congress.  “The decisions made in Washington D.C. more and more impact our daily lives and that's what drew me to public service in the first place …
Willem Buiter / Willem Buiter's Maverecon:
Ruminations on banking  —  (1) The autodafé of the unsecured creditors is coming to a US bank near you  —  A binding budget constraint sure concentrates the mind, even for the US Treasury.  There is just one way to make the US government's policy towards the banks work.
Discussion: naked capitalism
 
 
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Agence France Presse:
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Rick Pearson / Clout St:
Rep. Kirk says decision on Senate or governor run by end of April
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Media Matters for America:
Conservative media freak-out: claim Obama DHS targeting conservatives …
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Minn. Senate flashpoint: the judges
Discussion: mnpACT!
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
President of the World  —  Given Obama's performance …
Discussion: HazZzMat
Elise Labott / CNN:
Clinton unveils plan to combat ‘scourge of piracy’
Gary Fineout / New York Times:
Overhaul of Florida Voting Rules Is Proposed
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