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2:40 PM ET, May 22, 2009

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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.
US News:
Conservatives: Liz Cheney Should Run for Office
Discussion: CNN, Hot Air and JammieWearingFool
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Olbermann Calls Dick Cheney ‘As Insane As Any Terrorist’
Discussion: PoliGazette
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
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
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story, Pam's House Blend and MSNBC
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Liberty U. bans Democrats
Discussion: INSTAPUTZ and AMERICAblog News
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.
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 …
Michael James / The Note:
RNC Launches ‘Daisy’ Web Ad  —  ABC News' Rick Klein reports: Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele this week promised an aggressive new approach to opposing President Obama.  —  That starts now.  —  The RNC is launching a Web ad on Friday highlighting Democrats' divisions …
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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.”
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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.
Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Animatronic Obama Going to Disney World With High-Tech Style  —  LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama was standing on a riser inside a warehouse here, delivering an inspirational speech about the blessings of freedom, when his left index finger began to twitch uncontrollably, unnerving his aides.
Discussion: Boing Boing, The Page and Wonkette
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 …
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?
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”.
Bruce Finley / Denver Post:
Supermax too full for Guantanamo detainees  —  Moving any large number of terror detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Colorado's Supermax would require either shuffling current residents out of the Florence prison or expanding its capacity and resolving a long-running battle over adequate prison staffing.
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 …
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 …
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
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
 
 
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Kerry Eleveld / Advocate:
Defense Spokesman Cornered on DADT Discussions
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Media Blog
Rich Lowry / National Review:
President Above-It-All  —  EDITOR'S NOTE: This column …
Discussion: GINA COBB
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
NEPOTISM REIGNS.... Mid-day yesterday, I noticed that Mark Halperin …
Discussion: The Page
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
In the Loop: A Gay Pride Party at the Baghdad Embassy
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BBC:
Outrage at Serbia ‘beating’ video
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Robert Schmidt / Bloomberg:
Geithner Vows to Cut U.S. Deficit on Rating Concern
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A Governor and His Veto Pen
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Dan Froomkin / NiemanWatchdog.org:
Establishing the connection between the Bush White House and Abu Ghraib
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Shelby Grad / L.A. Now:
L.A. police union wants San Diego newspaper writers fired
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