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8:40 PM ET, May 22, 2009

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Ryan Pollyea / NBC Chicago:
Mancow Waterboarded, Admits It's Torture  —  “It is way worse than I thought it would be”  —  Shock jocks shock.  —  And so it went Friday morning when WLS radio host Erich “Mancow” Muller decided to subject himself to the controversial practice of waterboarding live on his show.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Conservative Radio Host Has Himself Waterboard to Prove It's Not Torture, Realizes He Was Wrong  —  Via John Chait, it seems that conservative talk radio host Eric “Mancow” Muller decided it would be a fun stunt to have himself waterboarded in order to prove that it's not really torture.
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:   Talk Show Host Mancow Waterboarded: Says It's “Absolutely Torture”
Kevin Allen / Sports Pros:
Mancow gets waterboarded
Discussion: Firedoglake and Progress Illinois
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Cheney's speech ignored some inconvenient truths  —  WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney's defense Thursday of the Bush administration's policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements.  —  In his address to the American Enterprise Institute …
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
First on The CNN Ticker: Ridge disagrees with Cheney  —  (CNN) — Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge told CNN former Vice President Dick Cheney's repeated charge the Obama administration has made the country less safe is wrong.  —  “Yeah, I disagree with Dick Cheney,” …
US News:
Conservatives: Liz Cheney Should Run for Office  —  The hottest Republican property out there isn't former Vice President Dick Cheney but his daughter Liz, who has taken to the airwaves to defend her dad and the whole Bush administration on national security and Guantánamo Bay issues.
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Olbermann Calls Dick Cheney ‘As Insane As Any Terrorist’  —  MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has said a lot of disgraceful things in his tenure as “Countdown” host, but on Thursday evening, he attacked former Vice President Dick Cheney in a fashion that should make all of America's enemies both here and abroad proud.
Discussion: Hot Air, PoliGazette, Raw Story and MSNBC
Ray Reed / News & Advance:
Kaine calls on LU to reconsider Democratic club ban  —  Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. made his first public comments today about the university's suspension of the campus Democratic party club.  —  “That club still has the right to exist,” Falwell said, although it cannot use the university's name in its activities.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Liberty U. bans Democrats
Discussion: AMERICAblog News and INSTAPUTZ
Anne Reynolds / NBC Washington:
Sobbing Kindergarteners Snubbed for Steelers?  —  Kids locked out of White House; officials say they were too late  —  Thursday was supposed to be the highlight of the year for more than 100 kindergarteners from Stafford County, Va. They got up early and took a chartered bus to the White House for a school field trip.
Conor Friedersdorf / The American Scene:
“I don't know why your husband doesn't put a gun to his temple.”  —  En route to pick up a tux for a wedding I'm attending this weekend, I flipped on the radio in my mother's car, found it tuned to the AM dial, and heard a host so petulant that he is an outlier even on talk radio.
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Toby Harnden / Toby Harnden's blog listings:
The 10 punches Dick Cheney landed on Barack Obama's jaw
Wendy Wright / Human Events:
Obama Aide: Not Our Goal to Reduce Abortions  —  Author's Note: Because of the Obama speech at Notre Dame and the widespread misunderstanding that this Administration has fostered, others have urged me to make public what the White House official in charge of finding “common ground” stated in our meeting.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Facts and myths about Obama's preventive detention proposal  —  [Updated below - Update II (Interview with ACLU) - Update III - Update IV - Update V ]  —  In the wake of Obama's speech yesterday, there are vast numbers of new converts who now support indefinite “preventive detention.”
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Politics Channel:
The Rubicon Of Indefinite Detention
Discussion: Salon, TalkLeft and Room for Debate
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NEPOTISM REIGNS.... Mid-day yesterday, I noticed that Mark Halperin had a headline that read, “Round 2: Liz Cheney vs Axe.”  Round 1, apparently, was President Obama and former Vice President Cheney, and Round 2's “Axe” refers to David Axelrod, Senior White House Advisor to the president.
Discussion: Think Progress and The Page
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David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
Larry v. Liz
Discussion: The Plum Line
Associated Press:
Bush: It's ‘liberating’ to be out of office  —  He gets warm welcome from group of graduating N.M. high school students  —  ARTESIA, N.M. - It was a humbling moment for the former commander in chief: President George W. Bush was walking former first dog Barney in his new Dallas neighborhood …
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The Huffington Post:
Jesse Ventura Challenges Hannity On Waterboarding: “I'll Get Him To Say Obama Is The Greatest President”  —  Jesse Ventura, the former Minnesota governor and presidential candidate, vows that if he waterboarded Sean Hannity, he'd get the right-wing Fox News host to say that “Barack Obama is the greatest president.”
Discussion: The Swamp, TVNewser and VetVoice
Rick Casey / Houston Chronicle:
Mayor quits job for gay illegal immigrant he loves  —  It was, simply put, the most stunning abdication since King Edward VIII in 1936 gave up the British throne for Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American socialite.  —  Only two weeks after being elected to serve his fourth term …
Discussion: The Other McCain and Swampland
Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
The Newburgh Four — And The Goverment Mole Who Betrayed Them  —  We're starting to get a rich picture of the four hapless Jihadis who were arrested Wednesday night for plotting to bomb two New York synagogues, as well as the FBI informant who deceived them.
Bertrand Fan / Sunlight Labs:
Labs Contest  —  Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge  —  What it Is  —  Apps for America is a special contest we're putting on this year to celebrate the release of Data.gov!  We're doing it alongside Google, O'Reilly Media, and TechWeb and the winners will be announced …
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Some fear Pelosi attacks may backfire  —  After a one-two punch from Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney, House Minority Leader John Boehner and other Republican lawmakers worry that their party has overplayed its hand on Nancy Pelosi.  —  The Republicans' fear: Gingrich's call for Pelosi's ouster …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Blue Double Cross  —  That didn't take long.  Less than two weeks have passed since much of the medical-industrial complex made a big show of working with President Obama on health care reform — and the double-crossing is already well under way.  Indeed, it's now clear that even as they met …
Evan Ramstad / Wall Street Journal:
Citizen Spies Lift North Korea's Veil  —  With Sleuthing and Satellite Images, Mr. Melvin Fills the Blanks on a Secretive Nation's Map  —  SEOUL — In the propaganda blitz that followed North Korea's missile launch last month, the country's state media released photos of leader Kim Jong Il visiting …
Toby Harnden / Toby Harnden's blog listings:
“Out of the loop” Joe Biden says decision to shut Guantanamo was “like opening Pandora's Box”  —  Thank goodness for Vice President Joe Biden.  In one of the few amusing parts of the Wanda Sykes comedy routine at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, she said: “God forbid that Joe Biden falls …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Media Fawns Over Newt, Ignores Other Former Congressional Leaders  —  Steve Benen observes that these days Newt Gingrich is everywhere you look: … It's a really strange situation.  If were an editor looking for an op-ed from a conservative point of view about the California budget crisis …
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
OBAMA TO APOLOGIZE TO GERMANY FOR WWII?  —  The latest inconceivable Obamaction is yet another unbecoming apology in Europe, this time in Germany for WWII.  John Rosenthal suggests, “As bizarre as it may seem, President Obama's impending trip to Dresden suggests that German revisionists have a friend in the White House”.
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Women are unhappier than ever.  —  According to a new study.  —  That's what we get for being more in touch with how we feel — we notice it, we admit it to ourselves and others.  And we get attention because of it.  If men were/are sad, who would know?  Who would care?
Discussion: GayPatriot
Floyd Norris / New York Times:
U.S. Jobless Rate May Soon Top Europe's  —  For many years, unemployment in the United States was lower than in Western Europe, a fact often cited by people who argued that the flexibility inherent in the American system — it is easier to both hire and fire workers than in many European countries — produced more jobs.
Ronald Brownstein / National Journal Online:
For GOP, A Southern Exposure  —  REPUBLICAN STRENGTH IN THE SOUTH HAS BOTH COMPENSATED FOR AND MASKED THE EXTENT OF THE PARTY'S DECLINE ELSEWHERE.  —  Founded in the decade before the Civil War as the Northern voice of union, the Republican Party today is more electorally dependent on the South than at any point in its past.
 
 
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Business Channel:
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Bloomberg:
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Prop 8 Decision Tuesday!
Discussion: MyDD, Hullabaloo and Pam's House Blend
Michael Tomasky / New York Magazine:
Obama's Real Hundred Days
John McCaslin / Washington Times:
Inside the Beltway  —  Graduating midshipmen of the U.S. Naval Academy …
Discussion: Moe_Lane's blog
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Michael Kinsley / The New Republic:
Backward Runs ‘Newsweek’
Kerry Eleveld / Advocate:
Defense Spokesman Cornered on DADT Discussions
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Media Blog
BBC:
Outrage at Serbia ‘beating’ video
Discussion: Pharyngula and Shakesville
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Guns at the White House?
Discussion: The Swamp