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7:20 PM ET, May 21, 2009

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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Text of Cheney's AEI Speech  —  THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained an advance copy of VP Cheney's remarks as prepared for delivery later this morning at the American Enterprise Institute.  I've read it quickly.  I think fair-minded people will find it very well-argued and powerful.
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New York Times:
Text: Obama's Speech on National Security  —  Following is a text of President Obama's prepared speech on Thursday on national security issues.  —  These are extraordinary times for our country.  We are confronting an historic economic crisis.  We are fighting two wars.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama: U.S. went ‘off course’ on terror  —  President Barack Obama declared defiantly Thursday that the U.S. “went off course” in fighting terrorism over the past eight years, and said his policies will “better protect” the country against al Qaeda.  —  In a major address at the National Archives …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama's civil liberties speech  —  Obama's speech this morning, like most Obama speeches, made pretty points in rhetorically effective ways about the Constitution, our values, transparency, oversight, the state secrets privilege, and the rule of law.  But his actions, in many critical cases, have repeatedly run afoul of those words.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Unbalanced  —  A simple note having now read the former …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Cheney Secrecy & War Crimes Blogging
Discussion: Washington Post
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Obama vs Cheney: A (Polling) Mismatch from the Start
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and TVNewser
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obama Returns To Persuasion Mode
Discussion: Democracy in America
Richard B. Cheney / American Enterprise Institute:
Remarks by Richard B. Cheney
Kate Phillips / The Caucus:
Live Blogging the President's National Security Speech
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Cheney vs. Obama: A Mismatch  —  I've read both speeches.  —  Obama's is the speech of a young senator who was once a part-time law professor—platitudinous and preachy, vague and pseudo-thoughtful in an abstract kind of way.  This sentence was revealing: “On the other hand …
Discussion: The Opinionator and The Daily Dish
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The Corner:
Cheney vs. Obama  —  Two speeches, two very different men.  Former Vice President Cheney seeks no political future.  He speaks from the vantage of one who witnessed the killing of our fellow citizens, who deliberated and defined the strategy that would successfully prevent further murders of our fellow Americans.
CNN:
CNN Poll: Favorable opinion of Dick Cheney on the rise  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — As Dick Cheney prepares to give a major speech on the battle against terrorism, a new national poll suggests that favorable opinions of the former vice president are on the rise.  —  But the CNN/Opinion Research …
Associated Press:
House rejects probe into Pelosi CIA claims  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican push to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claims that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against terrorism suspects.
Bill Sammon / Fox News:
Obama ‘Distracted’ by Biden's ‘Indiscipline,’ Book Asserts  —  The president is so “distracted by his vice president's indiscipline” that he has been forced to rebuke privately Vice President Biden, according to a new book by Richard Wolffe.  —  FOXNews.com
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Porter Goss Won't Say Whether He And Pelosi Were Told About Use Of Torture  —  Porter Goss, the former GOP Congressman who was in the room with Nancy Pelosi during their 2002 CIA briefing on interrogations, is declining through a spokesperson to say whether the two of them were told that enhanced interrogation techniques had been used.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Pelosi Gets Poor Marks for Handling Interrogation Matter
Discussion: The Swamp and Don Surber
Fox News:
Dems Swat Down GOP Demand for Probe of Pelosi CIA Claims
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Charlie Crist / tbo.com:
Secure our future responsibly  —  Last year I supported Sen. John McCain for president.  Despite these efforts, the American public chose Barack Obama as the person they wanted in the White House to confront the worst financial market turmoil since the Great Depression and the worst recession in a generation.
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John J. Miller / The Corner:
What Does Charlie Crist Believe?
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Obama's Pronunciations  —  I don't have a problem with the fact that Barack Obama says “Pah-kee-stahn” when referring to the country to the west of India.  Nor do I have a problem with the fact that Obama says “Afghanistan” in the customary American manner.
Discussion: Think Progress
The Huffington Post:
Glenn Beck Demands “A Damn Apology” From The View (AUDIO)  —  Here's the latest dumbassed escalation in the Glenn Beck versus The View story!  Beck is now demanding apologies from the View for accusing him of lying.  GLENN BECK HAS CHECKED AND RECHECKED HIS MINUTIAE BY CRACKEE, and needs reparations!
Erika Lovley / The Politico:
Congressman: We're going to Disney  —  Rep. Alan Grayson was standing in the middle of Disney World when it hit him: What Americans really need is a week of paid vacation.  —  So on Thursday, the Florida Democrat will introduce the Paid Vacation Act — legislation that would be the first …
Reason:
Replacing Justice Souter  —  With Supreme Court Justice David Souter set to retire next month at the end of the Court's current term, President Barack Obama faces one of the most important decisions of his tenure.  Reason.com asked a panel of leading legal scholars and commentators for their views …
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Pew Research Center:
Independents Take Center Stage in Obama Era  —  Trends in Political Values and Core Attitudes: 1987-2009  —  Centrism has emerged as a dominant factor in public opinion as the Obama era begins.  The political values and core attitudes that the Pew Research Center has monitored since 1987 show little overall ideological movement.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Nashville Effect  —  Two members of rock-n-roll royalty are getting married.  A couple of weeks ago, news broke that White Stripes drummer Meg White and guitarist Jackson Smith (son of legendary MC5 founder the late Fred “Sonic” Smith and singer-songwriter Patti Smith) plan to tie the knot later this month.
Megan McArdle:
The Road to Bankruptcy  —  At the end of his book's harrowing account of mortgage mistakes and credit card crises, Edmund Andrews writes: “While our misadventure had certainly been more extreme than those of many other Americans, our situation was not all that unusual.”
Discussion: The Enterprise Blog
Media Matters Action Network:
RNC Hits Obama For Criticizing Slavery … RNC: as he prepares to deliver remarks in hall that holds the constitution, flashback obama: “constitution flawed” http://bit.ly/tFL7O #RNC [Twitter, 5/21/09]  —  FACT: Obama Explains The Constitution's “Fundamental Flaw” Was Slavery.
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Crisis 18% salary slash for California officials isn't 100% what it seems  —  Boy oh boy, did California voters show bickering state officials a thing or two with their slam-dunk downing of five out of six financial propositions in Tuesday's voting.  As The Ticket reported then, they didn't just say No; they said No way!
Discussion: GayPatriot
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Sacramento Bee publishes vicious screed bashing taxpayers, gets caught, then scrubs with milquetoast replacement  —  Early this morning, the failing Sacramento Bee published a “vicious screed” that pilloried taxpayers for refusing to feed California's insatiable state government.
 
 
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Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Culture wars return to D.C.
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Associated Press:
Porn star: panel to explore possible Senate run
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Maggie Gallagher / The Corner:
The Trouble with Social Conservatives
Discussion: Politics Daily and AmSpecBlog
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obama Walked Day In Shoes Of Worker Directly Impacted By White House Decision
Discussion: TPMDC, Calitics and Ben Smith's Blog
J. Taylor Rushing / The Hill:
McConnell rips Obama's ‘flowery’ security speech
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Live Blogging Obama Speech
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Bjorn Lomborg / Wall Street Journal:
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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