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11:35 AM ET, May 3, 2009

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Associated Press:
Jack Kemp, quarterback turned politician, dies  —  WASHINGTON - Jack Kemp, the former pro quarterback who turned fame on the gridiron into a career in national politics and a crusade for lower taxes, has died of cancer at age 73.  —  Family spokeswoman Marci Robinson said Kemp died shortly …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Jack Kemp, all-star quarterback, politician, father, dead of cancer, 73  —  Jack Kemp, the all-star college and pro quarterback who went on to serve nine House terms, as secretary of Housing and Urban Development and as Robert Dole's VP running mate on the 1996 Republican presidential ticket, died this evening.
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy and The Page
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
Ex-Official Championed Housing, Tax Reforms
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and AmSpecBlog
Associated Press:
Former VP candidate, Bills QB Jack Kemp dies
Discussion: Power Line
Fox News:   Jack Kemp, Former GOP VP Candidate and Quarterback, Dies at 73
Associated Press:   AP Top News at 10:42 p.m. EDT
James Delingpole / James Delingpole's blog listings:
Condi Rice sticks it to the Stanford bleeding hearts  —  Condoleezza Rice, Guantanamo Bay, torture,  —  If ever you needed further proof of the “person of color” America really needs in charge right now, I urge you to watch this fabulous YouTube footage of the magnificent Condoleezza Rice …
JSOnline:
GOP chairman Steele calls moderates to party at La Crosse convention  —  By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel  —  La Crosse - Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele appealed to the political middle Friday to join his party but added that the party itself wouldn't moderate.
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CNN:
Bob Barr: GOP in ‘very deep trouble’  —  (CNN) — Former Georgia Rep. Bob Barr said Saturday it's hard to “overestimate the damage” that's been inflicted on the Republican Party — not only with this week's defection of Sen. Arlen Specter, but also the “lack of any coherent philosophy, vision or leadership.”
Patrick Leahy / Boston Globe:
Lifting the Bush-era veil of secrecy  —  On US torture, we need to find out what happened - and why  —  THE OBAMA administration's decision to release more Bush-era memoranda, which sought to rationalize torture, shows that President Obama is following through on his promise to ban torture …
Discussion: Think Progress and The Swamp
Robert J. Shiller / New York Times:
Depression Scares Are Hardly New  —  WHAT is the chance that the current downturn will morph into another Great Depression?  That question has been preoccupying people for months.  —  The popular mood has a huge impact on the economy, so it's worth noting what many people seem to forget: Depression scares come and go.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Assailin' Palin: Complaints deluge gov.  —  Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's life has changed in a myriad of ways since she became the Republican vice presidential nominee last August, but one aspect of her newfound fame has been more bracing than the others: Since entering the national spotlight …
Hazel Blears / Guardian:
YouTube is no substitute for knocking on doors  —  Ministers need to engage more, and hear the public's anger first-hand  —  When Gordon Brown leads Labour into the next general election, our campaign must rest on three pillars: we need to fight on a platform of practical policy …
Discussion: Samizdata.net and Spectator
The White House:
Ethics Update  —  As he has done before in the spirit of transparency, Norm Eisen, special counsel to the president for ethics and government reform, asked us to pass along this update on the President's Executive Order on Ethics:  —  Just a quick post to advise that we granted …
Annys Shin / Washington Post:
U.S. Workers' Wages Stagnate As Firms Rush to Slash Costs  —  In December, Timothy Owner, a trombone player with the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, called his landlord to tell her he might have trouble paying rent around May.  He and the orchestra's 53 other full-time members …
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
Va. Candidate McAuliffe Has History of Mixing Business, Politics  —  Terry McAuliffe has a simple message for Virginia: Elect him governor this year and he will bring jobs, because he has more business experience than anyone else in the race.  —  Yet McAuliffe's business pedigree is not so simple.
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
California Legislature: Where cost-cutting plans go to die
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David Shuster destroys NOM's Brian S. Brown over their misleading ad …
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