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6:20 PM ET, May 8, 2009

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Kenneth R. Bazinet / NY Daily News:
White House aide Louis Caldera loses job over Manhattan flyover fiasco involving Air Force One  —  WASHINGTON - The White House aide who authorized the controversial Air Force One photo-op flight last week around the Statue of Liberty is out of a job.  —  President Obama has accepted …
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Obama to Address Muslim World From Egypt  —  President Obama will make his promised speech to the Muslim world from Egypt, a White House official said on Friday.  —  Obama pledged during the campaign to address the Muslim world from a Muslim capital within the first few months of taking office.
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
After Air Force One Flyover, Military Office Director Resigns  —  The White House on Friday released the April 27 photo of the plane flying over New York City.  —  The director of the White House Military Office submitted his resignation on Friday, less than two weeks after he authorized …
Haaretz:
Jerusalem worried over breakdown of U.S.-Israel cooperation under Obama  —  Senior officials in Jerusalem expressed concern recently over the sharp decline in the coordination between Israel and the United States on security and state affairs since President Barack Obama's entered the White House …
CNN:
White House official resigns over NYC flyover
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Michael Hirsh / Newsweek:
Train Wreck Ahead?
Discussion: Mondoweiss
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama: Egyptian speech to Muslim world
Discussion: The Politico
The Hill:
Hoekstra considers hearings on Pelosi, interrogations  —  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is under renewed fire after the Obama administration released documents that critics say contradict her claim that she was never told that U.S. detainees were being waterboarded.
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The Caucus:
Pelosi Criticized Over Interrogation Briefings
Discussion: Midwest Voices
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Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Obama sends handwritten letter to gay soldier ousted from the military promising to repeal DADT.  —  In January, Sandy Tsao, an army officer based out of St. Louis, MO, told her superiors that she is gay — a violation of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell law.  Tsao then wrote to President Obama …
Dana Stevens / Slate:
Go See Star Trek  —  It's logical. … J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (Paramount Pictures) is a gift to those of us who loved the original series, that brainy, wonky, idealistic body of work that aired to almost no commercial success between 1966-69 and has since become a science fiction archetype and object of cult adoration.
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Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
A Mind-Meld Q&A With Leonard Nimoy
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Family Research Council: We Could Support Gay SCOTUS, But Not One With “Pro-Gay Ideology”  —  Yesterday I reported that the religious right group Focus on the Family said that they wouldn't oppose an openly-gay nominee to the Supreme Court on the basis of their sexual orientation.
Discussion: Salon and Josh Gerstein's Blog
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Bloomberg:
Geithner Bets U.S. Can Avoid Japan Trap on Banks  —  Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is betting that U.S. banks can do something their Japanese counterparts were unable to accomplish in that country's “lost decade” of the 1990s: earn their way out of trouble.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Are We Turning Japanese Deliberately?
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
Brutally Honest:
Someone at Best Western gets it  —  If this ad doesn't present a story worth telling, nothing does:  —  With props to Bob McCarty.
Discussion: Dr. Melissa Clouthier
Chicago Breaking News:
Alan Keyes among 22 arrested at Notre Dame  —  Former Illinois U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes and 21 other protesters were arrested this morning when they refused to leave the Notre Dame campus during a protest of President Obama's upcoming commencement address there, authorities said.
John Consoli / Hollywood Reporter:
Obama drama  —  Nets take a stand against primetime pre-emptions  —  By and large, they personally forked out for his campaign, they voted for him, and they know he is capable of boosting TV ratings just by making an appearance.  —  But executives at the Big Four broadcast networks …
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
E! Online:
Palin “Supports” Prejean, Dad Claims  —  Carrie Prejean and Sarah Palin go together like lipstick and pigs.  —  So says Prejean's father, at least, who tells E! News in an exclusive interview that the Alaska governor has already been in touch with his lightning-rod spawn.
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Democrats Do Best Among Generation Y and Baby Boomers  —  Republicans do better among Generation X  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Although Democrats currently enjoy a party identification advantage over Republicans among Americans at every age between 18 to 85, the Democrats' greatest advantages come among …
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
CAN LOCAL BLOGGERS REPLACE LOCAL NEWS COVERAGE?  —  “Not only is it going to be intrinsically difficult to ever find a viable revenue model for paying a reporter to cover the zoning board if people don't want to read about the zoning board,” writes Matt Yglesias, “[but] I'm not actually sure …
Wall Street Journal:
A Pacific Warning  —  Australia prepares for U.S. decline.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Since World War II, U.S. military dominance has underpinned the Asia-Pacific region's prosperity and relative peace.  So it's cause for concern when one of America's closest allies sees …
Discussion: ParaPundit
Brian Joseph / Total Buzz:
Tran launches Congressional campaign... in wrong district  —  After years of will-he or won't-he speculation, Assemblyman Van Tran officially launched his quest to unseat Rep. Loretta Sanchez at a press conference this afternoon at a Little Saigon office building in Westminster.
Discussion: Swing State Project
Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Ready or Not, Katrina Victims Lose Temporary Housing  —  NEW ORLEANS — Earnest Hammond, a retired truck driver, did not get any of the money that went to aid property owners after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.  —  He failed to qualify for one federal program and was told he missed the deadline on another.
Discussion: MyDD, Boing Boing and Raw Story
Evan Halper / Los Angeles Times:
U.S. threatens to rescind stimulus money over wage cuts  —  The Obama administration threatens to rescind billions in stimulus money if Gov. Schwarzenegger and lawmakers do not restore wage cuts to unionized home healthcare workers.  —  Reporting from Sacramento — The Obama administration …
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Line: The Republican Influencers  —  Former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge's no-go Senate decision on Thursday robbed Republicans of a potentially appealing face to lead their party back to relevancy in 2010.  —  Ridge, a decorated Vietnam veteran and the first head of the Homeland Security department …
 
 
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