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6:15 PM ET, May 25, 2009

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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korean Nuclear Claim Draws Global Criticism  —  SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea announced on Monday that it had successfully conducted its second nuclear test, in defiance of international warnings.  —  The dimensions of the test were not immediately verifiable.
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Guardian:
North Korea nuclear test ‘on a par with Hiroshima’
Martin Fackler / New York Times:
Timing of Test Hints at Succession Issues
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Isabel Reynolds / Reuters:
Japan panel wants “first strikes” against enemies
Discussion: FP Passport and The Agonist
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
State of Paralysis  —  California, it has long been claimed, is where the future happens first.  But is that still true?  If it is, God help America.  —  The recession has hit the Golden State hard.  The housing bubble was bigger there than almost anywhere else, and the bust has been bigger too.
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John Steele Gordon / Commentary:
Getting California Wrong  —  Sometimes you just have to wonder if there is sentient life on the opinion floor of the New York Times Building.  —  Yesterday, the Times ran an editorial called “The Sorry State of the States” that noted that many states have budget problems, thanks to the recession.
Discussion: Cold Fury and Calitics
Aaron Stein / Map the Fallen:
Map the Fallen launched!  —  For the past two years I've been working on the Google Earth Outreach team, aimed at helping non-profits and public benefit groups use Google Earth and Google Maps to further their cause.  In that time I've worked on so many cool projects, from training indigenous communities …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's wreaths: Afro-Amer., Confed.  —  Today, there were wreaths to go around.  —  Several dozen professors had called upon the first African-American president to forgo a Memorial Day tradition of laying a wreath at a monument to Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery …
Discussion: Redhot
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:   An Extra Memorial Day Wreath for Obama
Nia-Malika Henderson / The Politico:   Obama lays wreath at Arlington
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Backlash grows against Obama's preventive detention proposal  —  (updated below - Update II)  —  The backlash against President Obama's extraordinary proposal for indefinite “preventive detention” — already widespread in the immediate aftermath of his speech — continues to grow.
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The Politico:
Conservatives itching for SCOTUS fight  —  As Barack Obama prepares to nominate his first Supreme Court justice, conservative activists have three words for Senate Republicans: Lock and load.  —  While conservatives know that they can't defeat Obama's nominee without massive Democratic defections …
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Bill Mears / CNN:
Supreme Court pick: Uneasy calculus of diversity
Discussion: New York Times
Sara Robinson / Orcinus:
Decision Day on California's Prop 8  —  Tomorrow is D-Day in California: the day that the state's Supreme Court will render its decision on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the initiative passed last November to put an end to legal gay marriage in the state.  —  Nobody has a clue which way they're likely to rule.
Discussion: Pam's House Blend
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Who Will Ombud The Ombudsman?  —  Clark Hoyt, ombudsman of the NY Times, goes into the tank for Edmund Andrews, author of “Busted”, who was busted by Megan McArdle.  —  To recap - Edmund Andrews, Times financial reporter, is promoting a new book claiming to detail his personal journey through …
CNN:
CNN Poll: Powell vs. Cheney and Limbaugh  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - As Colin Powell fires back against Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh in the latest skirmish in the battle over the future of the Republican Party, a new national poll indicates that Americans have a much more favorable opinion of Powell than Cheney or Limbaugh.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Speaker Gingrich?  —  At our editorial meeting this morning we were trying to reason our way through the renewed prominence and media omnipresence of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — something that actually seems to happen every few years when the GOP starts taking on water.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Think Progress
New York Times:
Job Losses Push Safer Mortgages to Foreclosure  —  As job losses rise, growing numbers of American homeowners with once solid credit are falling behind on their mortgages, amplifying a wave of foreclosures.  —  In the latest phase of the nation's real estate disaster, the locus of trouble …
Larry Rohter / New York Times:
Dear Donna: A Pinup So Swell She Kept G.I. Mail  —  “It has been a long time since any of us boys have seen a woman, so we are writing to you in hopes that you'll help us out of our situation,” Cpl. Frank J. Gizych lamented in a letter posted from the fog-shrouded Aleutian Islands.
Discussion: TPMCafe, AmSpecBlog and American Power
Mickey Kaus / Kausfiles:
Happy Days Are Here Again  —  Buried Lede of the Day: From the tenth graf of a May 7 WSJ article on furniture retailer Design Within Reach: … Is that really true?  If so, a big deal, no? ...  And why?  Perspective?  Lower status anxiety?  Lower Iraq anxiety?  Obama?  The power of schadenfreude? ...
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ANOTHER ONE?.... Let's see, Liz Cheney practically lives on cable news.  She also lies routinely, accuses the president of helping terrorists, and is so mindless in her attacks on the nation's elected leadership, she's something of a national embarrassment.  —  And for Republican recruiters, apparently she's perfect.
Discussion: Think Progress and The Plum Line
New York Post:
SINKING ANCHORS ANDERSON COOPER AND ROLAND MARTIN HOBBLE CNN  —  SINCE President Obama took office in January, CNN has seen its ratings drop.  And one reason has to do with Campbell Brown.  The host of “No Bias, No Bull” has been on maternity leave for the past month, and in her absence …
Discussion: New York Times and Don Surber
 
 
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Los Angeles Times:
Schwarzenegger follows Brown's route
Discussion: Calitics
Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
The Medicare, Social Security Bankruptcies We Need
Discussion: Obsidian Wings and Unreported
Brad / Sadly, No!:
A novel objection to gay marriage
Discussion: TBogg
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
U.S. Captain Hears Pleas for Afghan Detainee
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Michael Yon
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
New Yorker Cover Art, Painted With an iPhone
Discussion: Gothamist and The Big Picture
Adam Minter / The Atlantic Online:
Keeping Faith  —  On a June day in 1982, Father Aloysius Jin Luxian …
Discussion: Capitol Briefing
Andrew Breitbart / Washington Times:
How Sean Penn won the war
David J. Sanders / Arkansas News:
Timing is everything for Tim Griffin
 Earlier Items: 
Rob Stein / Washington Post:
New Rules on Stem Cells Threaten Current Research
Discussion: cab drollery
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
2 Ex-Timesmen Say They Had a Tip on Watergate First
E.J. Dionne, Jr / The New Republic:
Obama's Center-Left Two-Step
Discussion: marbury and Swampland
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Business Channel:
Hank Paulson Admits He Doesn't Understand Mortgage Securities
Discussion: AMERICAblog News
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Court Officials Turn to Guards, Identity Shields, Weapons to Handle New Threats
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Justice Department Investigates Mountaintop Technologies Over Murtha Earmarks
Discussion: Fox News and AmSpecBlog