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10:50 PM ET, June 2, 2009

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CNN:
CNN Poll: No frontrunner in GOP 2012 presidential race  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) - A new national poll of Republicans suggests that there's no front runner at this extremely early moment in the next race for the White House.  —  Three possible candidates are all bunched at the top of a CNN/Opinion Research
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CNN:
CNN Poll: Many Americans hold unfavorable view of Muslim world  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — Hours before President Barack Obama departs for a trip to the Middle East, a new national poll suggests that only one in five Americans has a favorable view of Muslim countries.
Agence France Presse:
Al-Qaeda number two slams Obama visit to Egypt
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Amir Taheri / Times of London:
Barack Obama is blind to his blunders over Islam
Discussion: normblog and Wake up America
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:   Poll: Few have good view of Muslim world
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Majority of Americans Favor Sotomayor Confirmation  —  Many more say her views are “mainstream” rather than “extreme”  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans are generally supportive of President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Mona Charen / Real Clear Politics:
It's Not Fair To Casually Call People Racist
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Right demands tougher fight
Kristina Wong / Political Punch:
The Emergence of President Obama's Muslim Roots  —  ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report: The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or general election campaign.  During a conference call in preparation for...
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Bad News for Franken?  —  I hope I'm wrong.  But Gov. Tim Pawlenty's (R) apparent decision not to seek reelection does not bode well for Al Franken's ability to get seated in the senate any time soon.  That's because the most probable next step in the endless Franken-Coleman drama …
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KCCW-TV:
Sources: No 3rd Governor Term For Pawlenty  —  Watch The News Conference LIVE On WCCO.COM At 2 p.m.  —  ST. PAUL (WCCO) ― Two sources have confirmed that Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will announce that he will not seek re-election in 2010.  —  The sources confirmed …
William J. Broad / New York Times:
In Online Slip, Nuclear Sites Make Rounds  —  The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation's civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.
Gil Hoffman / Jerusalem Post:
Likud: US meddling in Israeli politics  —  Article's topics: Barrack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, Rahm Emanuel, Moshe Ya'alon  —  US President Barack Obama's administration's criticism of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's policies has crossed the line into interfering in Israeli politics, top Likud ministers and MKs said Tuesday.
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Associated Press:
Obama makes surprise appearance at Barak meeting in U.S.
Discussion: Haaretz
Telegraph:
Barack Obama should stop apologising for America
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Palin links Tiller, Long slayings  —  Sarah Palin today picked up a widely heard theme on the right, using the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller to call attention to the murder of an army recruiter in Arkansas, allegedly by a self-styled Islamic militant:
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Carl Hulse / The Caucus:
Obama to Name N.Y. Congressman the Army Secretary  —  Representative John M. McHugh, a Republican congressman from New York, will be nominated by President Obama to be secretary of the Army, according to officials, as the administration continues to reach into the ranks of the opposition for executive appointments.
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Wayne Barrett / Runnin' Scared:
Why Don't MSNBCers Question “Morning Joe” About Abortion Doc Killings?  —  Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow devoted much of their MSNBC shows last night to the assassination of George Tiller.  Maddow actually led with a headshot of Michael Griffin, the first abortion-doctor murderer …
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MSNBC:
‘The Rachel Maddow Show’ for Monday, June 1  —  Guest: Bob Graham, Frank Schaeffer, Jonathan Turley, Susan Wicklund, Kent  —  RACHEL MADDOW, HOST: And thank you at home for staying with us for the next hour.  —  We will have former Senator Bob Graham of Florida here with us this hour …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Nancy Zuckerbrod / Associated Press:
Obama says Iran's energy concerns legitimate  —  LONDON — President Barack Obama suggested that Iran may have some right to nuclear energy _ provided it proves by the end of the year that its aspirations are peaceful.  —  In a BBC interview broadcast Tuesday, he also restated plans …
Right Wing News:
The 10 Hottest Liberal Women In Politics  —  After the debacle that was Playboy's Hit Piece On Conservative Women, I thought, “Someone should do this right.”  I mean, can't we simply admire the female form without being jerks about it...ehr, much?  —  So, I thought about doing a list …
Discussion: Liberal Values
William Glaberson / New York Times:
Guantánamo Detainee Kills Himself  —  A Yemeni detainee at Guantánamo apparently committed suicide late Monday, military officials said in a terse announcement Tuesday.  —  The death was the first at the prison since President Obama took office, and detainees' lawyers …
Discussion: Salon and Associated Press
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Associated Press:
Military: Gitmo detainee dies of apparent suicide
Discussion: TalkLeft
Azi Paybarah / politickerny.com:
Unwitting Gillibrand Tells 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists She Backs a ‘Fuller Hearing’  —  There's probably a lesson here for anyone new to their office, which is to steer well clear of 9/11 conspiracy theorists with cameras.  —  Here's Gillibrand after a May 27 event in Midtown …
Discussion: Hot Air, RedState and Runnin' Scared
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Poor Dan”  —  Christian Brose praises a New Republic profile of U.S. Ambassador Dan Fried, the man tasked with finding homes for Gitmo detainees.  Brose then goes on:  —  What is dawning on the Obama administration is that, in the moral interest of closing Guantanamo, they'll have to cut some moral corners elsewhere.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Quagmire Ahead  —  On Jan. 21, 1988, a General Motors executive named Elmer Johnson wrote a brave and prophetic memo.  Its main point was contained in this sentence: “We have vastly underestimated how deeply ingrained are the organizational and cultural rigidities that hamper our ability to execute.”
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Seventh Circuit Rules That, Under Supreme Court Precedent, the Second Amendment Is Not Incorporated Against the States: The case is NRA v. City of Chicago, the challenge to the Chicago handgun ban.  The core argument: … I don't think this reasoning (from Judge Frank Easterbrook …
Conor Friedersdorf / The American Scene:
A Question for War on Terror Hawks  —  The attack on Dr. Tiller is widely referred to as “terrorism” in the blogosphere.  Agree or not, it is easy to image an ongoing terrorist campaign run by fringe pro-lifers to shut down abortion clinics.  Heaven forbid that this recent murder is followed …
DownWithTyranny!:
A Whole Lot Of Yiffing Going On In The Office Of Pennsylvania GOP Senate Whip, Jane Orie— Gay Yiffing... With A Minor  —  It was like a cross between an episode on MSNBC's Dateline: To Catch A Predator With Chris Hansen and a re-enactment of those heady days in 2006 when Republican Congressman Mark Foley …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Crooks and Liars
Tim Fernholz / American Prospect:
ON SOCIALISM.  —  Jon Henke highlights a few people wondering “why everybody is afraid to use the S-word” to describe the government's investment in General Motors.  The easy joke is, doye, Saul Anuzis already decided that socialism was played and conservatives have to call Obama's policies “fascist.”
Reason:
Turning Japanese  —  Japan's post-bubble policies produced a “lost decade.”  So why is President Obama emulating them?  —  The scenario was eerily familiar.  A long real estate bubble that had expanded extra rapidly for the previous five years suddenly burst, and asset prices came crashing back down to earth.
Discussion: QandO
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
New poll results are devastating for Obama's Gitmo plan  —  I've gotten a look inside the Gallup poll numbers showing that a majority of Americans oppose shutting down the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay.  The numbers are stunning.  They show a strong and virtually across …
Discussion: Power Line
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
AP: tech coming to stop “wholesale theft” on 'Net  —  It looks like the Associated Press is getting pretty close to deploying that ‘anti-misappropriation’ technology the news agency has been talking about.  Ars got an AP editor to give us some details.  —  Ever since the Associated Press warned …
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Pennsylvania Voters To Dem Establishment: Please Let Us Pick Our Senator  —  A striking number in a new poll that Susquehanna Research and Polling just sent over shows that an overwhelming majority of Pennsylvania Democrats want a Senate primary, despite the best efforts of the White House …
 
 
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Petreaus Does Geneva
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Cato @ Liberty
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Bob Allen / ABP News:
Former SBC officer says Tiller murder answer to prayer
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Santorum tells Obama how to be a role model for African-Americans …
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Gays Have The Power  —  The Gallup poll tells you a lot:
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