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3:20 PM ET, May 22, 2009

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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.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
White House Reporter Protects Cheney, Accuses Gibbs Of Taking “Swipe”  —  One of the odder things we've seen from some members of the White House press corps this year is a kind of zealous over-protectiveness of the previous administration — Dick Cheney, in particular.
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Guns at the White House?
Discussion: The Swamp
Toby Harnden / Toby Harnden's blog listings:
The 10 punches Dick Cheney landed on Barack Obama's jaw  —  The spectacle of two duelling speeches with a mile of each other in downtown Washington was extraordinary.  I was at the Cheney event and watched Obama's address on a big screen beside the empty lectern that the former veep stepped behind barely …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama Adopts the Bush Approach to the War on Terrorism  —  “We were able to hold it off with George Bush.  The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning.”  — Unnamed and dismayed human rights advocate, on legalizing indefinite detention of alleged terrorists,
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 …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Cheney Lost to Bush  —  President Obama and Dick Cheney conspired on Thursday to propagate a myth.  The myth is that we lived through an eight-year period of Bush-Cheney anti-terror policy and now we have entered a very different period called the Obama-Biden anti-terror policy.
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: The Page
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Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Olbermann Calls Dick Cheney ‘As Insane As Any Terrorist’
Discussion: MSNBC, PoliGazette, Raw Story and Hot Air
US News:
Conservatives: Liz Cheney Should Run for Office
Discussion: Hot Air and JammieWearingFool
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
First on The CNN Ticker: Ridge disagrees with Cheney
Ray Reed / News & Advance:
McAuliffe, LU Democrats hold call on club ban  —  Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe held a conference call with reporters this morning.  —  Liberty University's Democratic party club president Brian Diaz and the club's staff adviser, Maria Childress, answered questions …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Liberty U. bans Democrats  —  From the Lynchburg paper:  —  Liberty University has revoked its recognition of the campus Democratic Party club, saying “we are unable to lend support to a club whose parent organization stands against the moral principles held by” the university....
Discussion: INSTAPUTZ and AMERICAblog News
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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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Bush: 'It's a liberating feeling' that I am no longer president.
Discussion: The Swamp and Wonkette
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Steele: Obama ‘Was Not Vetted Because The Press Fell In Love With The Black Man Running For The Office’  —  Apparently unable to learn from egregious mistakes from the recent past, RNC Chairman Michael Steele once again took to the radio airwaves today as a guest host for Bill Bennett.
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 …
Washington Post:
U.S. to Steer GM Toward Bankruptcy  —  Filing Expected as Chrysler Set to Emerge  —  The Obama administration is preparing to send General Motors into bankruptcy as early as the end of next week under a plan that would give the automaker tens of billions of dollars more in public financing …
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.
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 …
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Newt Gingrich / Washington Post:
A Rising Anti-Government Tide
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 …
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Some GOP-ers step away from Cheney  —  Dick Cheney's full-throated attack on the Obama administration has left congressional Republicans with a tricky decision: Do they embrace his critiques, even if it means aligning themselves with the most polarizing figure from the still-unpopular Bush administration?
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 …
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Facts and myths about Obama's preventive detention proposal  —  [Updated below - Update II (Interview with ACLU) - Update III - Update IV ]  —  In the wake of Obama's speech yesterday, there are vast numbers of new converts who now support indefinite “preventive detention.”
Yossi Melman / Haaretz:
Yossi Melman / Obama quashed Israel military option against Iran  —  Israel's military option against Iran has died.  The death warrant was issued courtesy of the new U.S. administration led by Barack Obama.  —  All the administration's senior officials, from the president to his vice president …
Discussion: Wonk Room, Mondoweiss and Taylor Marsh
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”.
Robert L. Smith / Plain Dealer:
NEWS FROM THE PLAIN DEALER  —  Headlines for Cleveland and Northeast Ohio  —  Waves of immigrants now calling Philadelphia home; new Welcoming Center idea behind the lure  —  Vacant homes.  Empty storefronts.  Ghostly streets.  —  In a scenario hauntingly familiar to Cleveland …
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
George Rush / NY Daily News:
Rush: Love tangle for Citigroup exec  —  It's no secret that Citigroup board Chairman Richard Parsons has been working for months to repair the financial giant.  —  But, until now, even his closest associates didn't know he also was wrestling with a personal crisis - how to tell his wife …
Wall Street Journal:
A Governor and His Veto Pen  —  Minnesota's illuminating budget brawl.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  'Minnesota nice" comes in two forms: the first, gracious hospitality; the second, smiling stubbornness.  Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty this week delivered his spendthrift legislature a humiliating taste of the latter.
Discussion: Weekly Standard, AmSpecBlog and MSNBC
 
 
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Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Miss California and Gay Marriage
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Barbour to New Hampshire
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MP highlights suicide risk over expenses
Kerry Eleveld / Advocate:
Defense Spokesman Cornered on DADT Discussions
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Rich Lowry / National Review:
President Above-It-All  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: This column …
Discussion: GINA COBB
BBC:
UN in aid plea for Pakistan ‘suffering’
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
In the Loop: A Gay Pride Party at the Baghdad Embassy
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Outrage at Serbia ‘beating’ video
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