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Maine.gov:
Governor Signs LD 1020, An Act to End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom  —  AUGUSTA - Governor John E. Baldacci today signed into law LD 1020, An Act to End Discrimination in Civil Marriage and Affirm Religious Freedom.  —  “I have followed closely the debate on this issue.
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Matt Wickenheiser / pressherald.mainetoday.com:
Baldacci signs same-sex marriage into law  —  Maine becomes the fifth state to allow same-sex marriage.  The law will take effect 90 days after the end of the legislative session in June.  —  AUGUSTA - Democratic Gov. John Baldacci today signed into law a bill allowing gay marriage …
Bangor Daily News:
Maine governor signs same-sex marriage bill  —  AUGUSTA, Maine - Gov. John Baldacci on Wednesday signed a gay marriage bill passed just hours before by the Maine Legislature.  —  Baldacci made his announcement within an hour of the Maine Senate giving its final approval to LD 1020.
CNN:
Maine legalizes same-sex marriage
Discussion: Reason
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
MAINE, FIFTH STATE TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE
Discussion: Firedoglake, The BRAD BLOG and SFist
The Politico:
Meltdown: Specter stands alone  —  Arlen Specter infuriated Senate Republicans when he bolted from their party last week.  Now he's alienated just about everybody in the Senate Democratic caucus, too.  —  Since declaring himself a Democrat last Tuesday, Specter has defied Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Colin Powell Bashes Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and GOP  —  Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has once again bashed conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh as well as Alaska Governor Sarah Palin while going a step further this time by piling on the GOP.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
White House Cheat Sheet: Republican Recruiting Recovering
Anchorage Daily News:
Palin may attend East Coast events this weekend
Discussion: RedState
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
A Complicated Question  —  I had dinner once with John and Elizabeth Edwards, when he first burst onto the national scene.  —  Looking across the booth at her grinning, boyish husband, she told me that it was irritating to be married to someone so comely who looked so much younger.
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Nick Gillespie / Reason:
Obama's Brave Burger Run; Even Takes Biden Along (And You Know How Risky That Can Be)  —  All D.C. is a-twitter with yesterday's big burger run by the White House's answer to the Venture Bros.  —  President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden jaunted off to an Arlington …
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Eli Lake / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Secret U.S.-Israel nuclear accord in jeopardy  —  President Obama's efforts to curb the spread of nuclear weapons threaten to expose and derail a 40-year-old secret U.S. agreement to shield Israel's nuclear weapons from international scrutiny, former and current U.S. and Israeli officials and nuclear specialists say.
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The Politico:
The GOP's new point man  —  By elevating Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions to their top spot on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Republicans have selected their chief inquisitor for President Barack Obama's first Supreme Court nominee: a Southern, white conservative man who has drawn fire for racially insensitive comments in the past.
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Ben Evans / Associated Press:
Top Republican inclined against Scotus filibuster
Discussion: The Caucus
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Tortured Logic  —  Hit me Bybee, one more time.  —  Remember the Rule of Law?  In the late 1990s, it was all the rage in conservative circles.  Having maneuvered Bill Clinton into a position where he could either lie under oath or suffer massive personal and political embarrassment …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Confederate Legacy  —  Ed Kilgore has a very interesting post on a new trend sweeping conservative politics in Dixie—"sovereignty resolutions" that appear to assert states' rights to unilaterally invalidate federal action, a doctrine last seen in the hands of John C. Calhoun, the great antebellum theorist of white supremacy.
Hillary Rodham Clinton / US Department of State:
U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Consultations II  —  Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari  —  Benjamin Franklin Room  —  Washington, DC  —  SECRETARY CLINTON: Good morning, and welcome to the State Department.  This is what's called the Benjamin Franklin Room …
Joe Weisenthal / Clusterstock:
Bank Of America's Stress Test Now Being Spun As Good News  —  Weird.  So late last night, when initial wire reports surfaced saying Bank of America (BAC) would need to rasie an additional $34 billion, it certainly sounded like the bank would need to raise a lot of new cash.
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Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Chrysler + FIAT = Chooch!  —  Dan Gross, in a defense of the Chrysler deal's treatment of bondholders, writes … But Gross argues it's permissable in this case, if I understand him, because thanks to government bailout money the complaining “secured” lenders are doing better than they would have anyway.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
A Justice Who Is Gay  —  Two of the most qualified center-left jurists in the country are gay, and they've got friends in high places.  —  Channeling our inner Joy Behars: “Who cares?”  —  Sexual orientation won't matter to President Obama — this I do believe, based on several years of reporting on the guy.
Michael Barone / www.washingtonexaminer.com:
White House puts UAW ahead of property rights  —  Last Friday, the day after Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, I drove past the company's headquarters on Interstate 75 in Auburn Hills, Mich.  —  As I glanced at the pentagram logo I felt myself tearing up a little bit.
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
DOING NOTHING ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS EXPENSIVE.  —  My new employers sure seem to spend a lot of time publishing columnists who are critical of climate science and then publishing op-eds and arguments that essentially trash the take of the original columns.  The latest example comes in response …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Steele yields powers to foes in RNC  —  Accepts limits on spending  —  Capitulating to critics on the Republican National Committee, embattled Republican Party Chairman Michael S. Steele has signed a secret pact agreeing to controls and restraints on how he spends hundreds …
BBC:
Eco-sailors rescued by oil tanker  —  An expedition team which set sail from Plymouth on a 5,000-mile carbon emission-free trip to Greenland have been rescued by an oil tanker.  —  Raoul Surcouf, Richard Spink and skipper Ben Stoddart sent a mayday because they feared for their safety amid winds of 68mph (109km/h).
Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Elena Kagan, Radical?  —  Earlier this week, President Obama called Republican Senator Orrin Hatch to discuss the vacancy on the Court left by Justice Souter.  According to Hatch's office, the president “assured Hatch...that he would appoint a pragmatist, not a radical, to this important position.”
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Roger Ailes
Amy Diluna / NY Daily News:
Old duds, Michelle still fab  —  Now that's how to dress in New York during a recession.  —  For her first visit here as First Lady, Michelle Obama recycled a wardrobe staple.  She shopped her closet and picked a Tracy Feith dress that she's worn before for a meet-and-greet at the U.S. mission to the UN Tuesday afternoon.
Discussion: Cassy Fiano and The Anchoress
Lee Fang / Think Progress:
EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Limbaugh Mocks Recession During Speech To Wealthy Right-Wing Donors  —  Last night, Rush Limbaugh came to Washington, D.C. to address the President's Club Dinner, a meeting of wealthy donors and supporters of the Heritage Foundation.  The audience included Supreme Court …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Luntz to GOP: Health reform is popular  —  Dr. Frank Luntz, a top Republican consultant on the language of politics, is warning the GOP that the American people want health-care reform and that lawmakers need to try to avoid directly opposing President Barack Obama.
 
 
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The Huffington Post:
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Kristi Keck / CNN:
Obama tones down National Prayer Day observance
Wesley Young / Winston-Salem Journal:
Foxx sends note of apology to gay man's mother
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
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Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
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