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10:10 PM ET, May 9, 2009

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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Huckabee warns GOP could become ‘irrelevant’  —  (CNN) — Days after national Republicans launched a new campaign to broaden the party's outreach, former upstart presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the GOP is at risk of becoming “irrelevant as the Whigs.”
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Tariffs Are Bad, Mkay?  —  Matt Steinglass breaks with some of his fellow liberals:  —  There are few areas where I agree with the CATO Institute crowd, but this is definitely one of them: long-term tariffs on manufactured goods are really, really stupid.  Germany and Japan …
Jules Crittenden:
Sounds Like His Heart Was In The Right Place  —  But it doesn't sound like he knows the troops as well as he thinks he does.  The Hill: … Feherty's rhetorical excess is one of many in a satire-heavy piece that also calls for capital punsihment for pro-lifers.
Associated Press:
Ohio Christian school tells student to skip prom  —  FINDLAY, Ohio - A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THIS WEEK IN GOD.... First up from the God Machine this week …
New York Times:
New York Charges Rent for Working Homeless  —  The Bloomberg administration has quietly begun charging rent to homeless families who live in publicly run shelters but have income from jobs.  —  The new policy is based on a 1997 state law that was not enforced until last week …
Richard Florida / Atlantic Correspondents:
Uneven Unemployment  —  The U.S. lost 563,000 jobs in April, down 100,000 or so from the 663,000 jobs lost in March.  But the unemployment rate continued to rise, increasing from 8.5 percent in March to 8.9 percent last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
John Romano / Big Hollywood:
Obama Bans the Commonfolk from Normandy  —  A lot of the difference, the change if you will, between Obama and Bush has much to do with the word humility.  —  George Bush is and was a humble man.  Obama thinks the world counts on him and him alone to lead us.  Bush went to church and prayed often.
Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
The Hidden Details in a Teen's Death  —  The fatal shooting of a 17-year-old youth on the streets of the nation's capital gets a two-sentence mention buried in a lengthy April 25 news-in-brief column in Metro, while a panda's colonoscopy at the National Zoo warrants a 240-word story and photograph on Metro's May 2 front page.
Discussion: RedState and The Other McCain
New York Post:
SEN. PARKER ARRESTED IN FOTOG ATTACK  —  Brooklyn state Sen. Kevin Parker was busted last night after allegedly attacking a New York Post photographer who was trying to take his picture, police said.  —  Parker, a Democrat from the 21st District, became enraged when Post staff photographer …
Idaho Press Tribune:
Crane will not run for Congress  —  NAMPA - Nampa resident and Idaho Treasurer Ron Crane has decided against running for Walt Minnick's 1st District U.S. Congressional seat in 2010.  —  Crane, a Republican, told the Idaho Press-Tribune Friday he had made the decision not to run.
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Clarke blasts GOP terror video  —  House Republicans have rolled out another searing video — with terrorist mug shots and World Trade Center footage — to warn people about the shut down of Guantanamo Bay.  But one former Bush administration official is telling them to back off.
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:   Obama's ‘symbolism over security:’ GOP
Jim Moran / Washington Post:
By Hosting U.S. Terrorism Trials, Alexandria Can Serve the Nation  —  Obama administration officials say a final decision has not been made about where to relocate the 241 foreign nationals being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and/or where to put them on trial.
Discussion: Commentary and Moe Lane
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Specter clarifies ‘cancer’ site  —  Sen. Arlen Specter's campaign team has changed the layout of its specterforthecure.com Web site to make it clear that the site is aimed at promoting Specter's reelection to the Senate.  —  The move follows criticism that the site - and Specter's description of it on …
Discussion: Hot Air and On Politics
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Adam Green / Open Left:
BREAKING: Specter Quietly Changes “Cancer Cure” …
Washington Post:
DOJ Should Make All Records Public in Probe of Interrogation Memos  —  Why the Justice Department should embrace disclosure in its investigation of Bush administration legal advice  —  LAWYERS IN the Justice Department gave the Bush administration legal cover to use harsh interrogation techniques, including waterboarding.
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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Agence France Presse:
Pope's address disappoints Muslim leaders
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
The Florida Underdog  —  Marco Rubio's uphill race against Charlie Crist.
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Danica Coto / Associated Press:
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