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5:55 PM ET, April 17, 2009

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Bigger Picture  —  It will take some time to absorb the full implications of the ICRC report and the OLC memos.  Right now, many are understandably focused on the legal details, the grotesque specifics of the techniques ("insects", “walling”?), the inconsistencies of the memos …
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Wall Street Journal:
The President Ties His Own Hands on Terror  —  The point of interrogation is intelligence, not confession.  —  The Obama administration has declassified and released opinions of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) given in 2005 and earlier that analyze the legality …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The significance of Obama's decision to release the torture memos  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  Numerous commentators are objecting to the idea that Barack Obama deserves credit for his release of the OLC torture memos yesterday in light of his accompanying pledge that CIA officials relying …
Fox News:
Attorney: Justice Memos Prove U.S. Did Not Torture
Discussion: Guardian, Instapundit and BLACKFIVE
John Cook / Gawker:
Fox-Bashing CNN Reporter Applied for a Job at Fox  —  CNN's Susan Roesgen went nuts on the air Wednesday at a Chicago tea party, blaming everything (accurately) on Fox News.  But maybe she was angry because Fox turned her down for a job—twice!  —  Roesgen got snippy with a crazy interviewee …
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Media Matters for America:
On the house: Fox aired 107 ads for its coverage of tea party protests over 10 days … From April 6 to April 15, Fox News aired at least 107 commercial promotions for their coverage of the tea party protests that took place on April 15.  As Media Matters for America has documented …
Teddy Davis / The Note:
McCain Guru Urges GOP to Back Gay Marriage  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis reports:  —  Former top McCain adviser Steve Schmidt is planning to use a Friday speech to the Log Cabin Republicans to urge the GOP to drop its opposition to same-sex marriage.  —  “I'm confident American public opinion …
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Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
Happening NOW  —  For those of who you who can't get enough Palin and/or miss Campaign '08, C-SPAN's Howard Mortman sends over this note:  —  At about 1:30 p.m. ET today (Friday, April 17), C-SPAN2 will show A.B. Culvahouse discussing the vetting process for Sarah Palin's selection as John McCain's running mate, plus other issues.
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K. Daniel Glover / Accuracy in Media:
Direct Your Tweet Outrage To Katie Couric
Discussion: Breitbart.tv
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
McCain's Palin pick: ‘High risk... reward’
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Wonkette
Melinda Henneberger / AOL News:
Palin Says She Considered Abortion  —  In her first out-of-state political appearance since last fall's presidential election, former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin confided to 3,000 at a right-to-life event here that she had “just for a fleeting moment” contemplated seeking …
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
E.P.A. Clears the Way for Regulation of Warming Gases  —  WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday formally declared carbon dioxide and five other heat-trapping gases to be pollutants that threaten public health and welfare, setting in motion a process that for the first …
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Taxes & Tyranny  —  Amidst all of the hooplah, I've heard a lot of complaints from liberals.  Here are the most frequent complaints and my responses.  1. All of this tyranny talk is overheated and idiotic.  Well, some of it surely is.  But look: According to that Reason video I posted below …
Discussion: protein wisdom
Charles Homans / Washington Monthly:
Culture Shock  —  What happened when one conservative Web site ventured outside the movement bubble.  —  Last May, Conor Friedersdorf, a twenty-eight-year-old recent graduate of NYU's Journalism School, decided he was going to save conservative journalism.
Major Garrett / Fox News:
White House Embraces Opening for Talks With Cuba  —  White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs says the administration was struck by Raul Castro's statement about Cuba potentially being “wrong” about avoiding talks with the U.S.  —  FOXNews.com  —  PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago …
Discussion: TigerHawk
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CNN:
Raúl Castro: Cuba ready ‘to discuss everything’ with U.S.
Discussion: MyDD and Wonk Room
Max Twain / race42008.com:
One of the most hateful rants in history  —  http://www.youtube.com/watch?  v=jAAHMDpk7Ik  —  Surprisingly, Olbermann is not the craziest person in this video.  That alone puts this into a special category of left-wing vile that stands out as some of the most hateful speech you will ever hear on television.
Rasmussen Reports:
In Texas, 31% Say State Has Right to Secede From U.S., But 75% Opt To Stay  —  Thirty-one percent (31%) of Texas voters say that their state has the right to secede from the United States and form an independent country.  —  However, the latest Rasmussen Reports poll in the state finds …
Wall Street Journal:
Goodbye Bland Affluence  —  Get ready for authenticity chic.  —  A small sign of the times: USA Today this week ran an article about a Michigan family that, under financial pressure, decided to give up credit cards, satellite television, high-tech toys and restaurant dining, to live on a 40-acre farm and become more self-sufficient.
The Huffington Post:
Tea Party Fallout: Independents Turned Off, Some GOPers Worried  —  It's been two days now since angry conservatives hosted a series of tea parties across the country, and the fallout has some Republicans nervous.  —  While the anti-tax sentiment of the protests may have been sincere …
Attaturk / Eschaton:
Morning Thread: Epilogue  —  Since the right-wing blogs likely will not revisit and the press certainly will not.  —  The coda of the Beauchamp Affair: … If you cannot place the name, Master Sgt. Hatley was the direct superior of Pvt. Scott Beauchamp and the person most used to discredit …
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Rescued Banks Balk at Chrysler Deal  —  Creditors Pushed To Surrender Claims Of Billions  —  At a meeting with executives from four of the nation's largest banks earlier this month, the chief of the government's auto task force, Steven Rattner, delivered a message that shocked some in the room.
Dafna Linzer / ProPublica:
Newly Released Memo Inadvertently Reveals CIA Held (and Abused) Missing Prisoner  —  Among the OLC memos released today, one appears to inadvertently reveal that a top al-Qaida suspect captured in northern Iraq in January 2004 was held by the CIA in a secret prison.
Discussion: Emptywheel and Think Progress
Glenn Thrush / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
Burr told constituents not to mob ATMs  —  Sen. Richard Burr (D-N.C.) told his wife to pull the family's cash out of an ATM at the height of last fall's financial crisis — but he advised North Carolinians not to panic when Charlotte-based Wachovia was taken over by Citigroup in an emergency transaction around the same time.
WTOP.com:
The Politics Program with Mark Plotkin  —  The Politics Program airs Fridays at 10 a.m. on WTOP.  To call the show: 1-877-336-1035.  —  Bob McDonnell, GOP candidate for Virginia Governor  —  GOP candidate for Virginia governor Bob McDonnell talks about bringing jobs to Virginia …
Yael T. Abouhalkah / Kansas City Star:
Limbaugh's ‘just an entertainer,’ says GOP congressman  —  U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt of Kansas is a feisty and ardent conservative.  But he said something Tuesday that might irritate Rush Limbaugh's ditto-head followers.  —  Tiahrt was asked by a Kansas City Star Editorial Board member whether Limbaugh …
C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
Turning Tables, U.S. Troops Ambush Taliban With Swift and Lethal Results  —  KORANGAL OUTPOST, Afghanistan — Only the lead insurgents were disciplined as they walked along the ridge.  They moved carefully, with weapons ready and at least five yards between each man, the soldiers who surprised them said.
Arloc Sherman / cbpp.org:
Income Gaps Hit Record Levels In 2006, New Data Show  —  Rich-Poor Gap Tripled Between 1979 and 2006  —  New data from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) show that in 2006, the top 1 percent of households had a larger share of the nation's after-tax income, and the middle and bottom fifths …
 
 
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Leon Wieseltier / The New Republic:
Washington Diarist: Dead Of Exposure
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Banality Of Evil, Ctd
Discussion: Think Progress and MoJo Blog Posts
Helen Nugent / Times of London:
Mother who died giving birth in hospital toilet never saw twins
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Jay Bybee
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
WHY AMERICAN HEALTH CARE COSTS SO MUCH (PART 2).
Discussion: Kausfiles and EconLog
David Brooks / New York Times:
A Loud and Promised Land
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Kamran Pasha / The Huffington Post:
Why Muslims Left the Republican Party
Discussion: Dump Michele Bachmann
 Earlier Items: 
Ross Douthat:
A Goodbye
Associated Press:
Court blocks Bush-era Alaska drilling plan
BBC:
Court jails Pirate Bay founders
Bruce Bartlett / Forbes:
Tax Tea Party Time, Part Two
David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
Pat Robertson urges his callers to crash Homeland Security hotline
Discussion: Wall Street Journal and CBN.com
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Averages 63% Approval in His First Quarter
Kahrin Deines / Associated Press:
New gun law aimed at asserting sovereignty
Discussion: Clayton Cramer's BLOG