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8:05 AM ET, June 3, 2009

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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...
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama Says U.S. Could Be Seen as a Muslim Country, Too  —  HAHN, Germany — As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including …
Robert / Jihad Watch:
Obama: The United States is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world”  —  What planet is he on?  —  “Obama Says U.S. Could Be Seen as a Muslim Country, Too,” by Jeff Zeleny for the New York Times Caucus Blog, June 2 (thanks to Randall): … Was that an observation or a wish?
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Stop The ACLU
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:   VP: $600 mil ‘not a lot’
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.
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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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
W.H.: Sotomayor what Right wants
Akiva Eldar / Haaretz:
U.S. demands Israel halt construction in East Jerusalem market  —  Washington is furious over the Interior Ministry's anticipated approval of a plan to build a new hotel in East Jerusalem, just 100 meters from the Old City's walls.  The plan, which would see the demolition of a wholesale market …
Discussion: Commentary and Israel Matzav
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M Peretz / The New Republic:
An Inconvenient Truth  —  What dismays me most about Barack Obama's Middle East initiative is that the only country in the area he seems to be pressing is Israel.  He is not pressing Egypt and perhaps that's because there is nothing that Cairo can give., Maybe I'll be surprised …
Discussion: Israpundit and YID With LID
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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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Business Channel:
Which State Was Least Great in 2008?  —  A really cool data table — with an even cooler graph after the jump — shows how GDP, jobs and home prices moved in each state last year.  How did your state do?  If you live in North Dakota, congratulations to both of you for nationwide highs …
Discussion: Real Time Economics
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 …
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 …
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Associated Press:
Military: Gitmo detainee dies of apparent suicide
Discussion: TalkLeft
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.
Denise Grady / New York Times:
The Deadly Toll of Abortion by Amateurs  —  BEREGA, Tanzania — A handwritten ledger at the hospital tells a grim story.  For the month of January, 17 of the 31 minor surgical procedures here were done to repair the results of “incomplete abortions.”  A few may have been miscarriages …
Washington Post:
Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers To Defend Interrogation Techniques  —  Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogation program, part of a secretive and forceful defense he mounted throughout 2005 …
Discussion: Fox News
The Hill:
Congress, Pentagon ramp up North Korea pressure  —  President Obama's top military adviser on Tuesday issued a thinly veiled warning to North Korea, while some lawmakers said the communist country must be put back on the U.S. terrorism list.  —  The salvos from the Pentagon and Congress come …
Discussion: The Politico
Pundit Review Radio / BLACKFIVE:
Private William Long's Father in Interview with Little Rock's KATV  —  This is difficult to watch, but you should listen to Daris Long, former Marine and father of Private William Long who was killed taking a break outside of a Little Rock recruiting center.  It's important.  It's about our family.
Discussion: ArmyWifeToddlerMom
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Bill Proposes Immigration Rights for Gay Couples  —  Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Democrat from Vermont who is the powerful chairman of the Judiciary Committee, is adding another controversial ingredient to the volatile mix of an immigration debate that President Obama has said he hopes to spur in Congress before the end of the year.
Discussion: MyDD
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Doctor's Killer Is Not Alone in the Blame, Some Say  —  Dr. George R. Tiller had many critics, but arguably the one with the highest profile was Bill O'Reilly, the Fox News Channel host.  Mr. O'Reilly, a vocal opponent of abortion, often called him “Tiller the baby killer” …
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 …
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.
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 …
Azi Paybarah / Politicker NY:
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 …
Brad DeLong / Grasping Reality with Both Hands:
We Are Live at “The Week” with the Eclipse of the Chicago School  —  The Chicago School is eclipsed - THE WEEK:  —  Richard Posner, leader of the Chicago School of Economics and Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals judge, uses his new book, “A Failure of Capitalism,” to try to rescue …
Discussion: Angry Bear
cbpp.org:
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities  —  Limiting the Tax Exclusion for Employer-Sponsored Insurance Can Help Pay for Health Reform  —  Universal Coverage May Be Out of Reach Otherwise  —  Limiting the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance could provide significant revenues …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and D-Day
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 …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
‘Renegade’ cliff notes  —  A Rev. Wright Sit-down:  —  After Obama gave his race speech in Philadelphia primary but before his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, would make his now-infamous appearance at the National Press Club, the candidate went to Chicago to meet with Wright.
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 …
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.
 
 
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James Kwak / The Baseline Scenario:
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Tom Robbins / Runnin' Scared:
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Agence France Presse:
Al-Qaeda number two slams Obama visit to Egypt
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Seventh Circuit Rules That, Under Supreme Court Precedent …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
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Discussion: The New Republic and Hot Air