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2:30 PM ET, June 6, 2009

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Kyle Drennen / NewsBusters.org:
Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Obama Is ‘Sort of God’  —  Newsweek editor Evan Thomas brought adulation over President Obama's Cairo speech to a whole new level on Friday, declaring on MSNBC: “I mean in a way Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world, he's sort of God.”
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John / Power Line:
Newsweek, Around the Bend  —  Newsweek editor Jon Meacham has announced that he wants to turn the magazine into a journal of liberal opinion with a smaller circulation.  I'm not sure that readers will be able to tell the difference between the Newsweek of recent years and the forthcoming …
Discussion: Hot Air and The Corner
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
New Scrutiny of Judge's Most Controversial Case  —  WASHINGTON — Near the end of a long and heated appeals court argument over whether New Haven was entitled to throw out a promotional exam because black firefighters had performed poorly on it, a lawyer for white firefighters challenging …
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David Neiwert / Crooks and Liars:
We Stand With Sonia Sotomayor  —  [Poster by Favianna Rodriguez for Presente.]  —  The Right is throwing every little bit of ugliness they can at Sonia Sotomayor in hopes of derailing her nomination to the Supreme Court.  —  They've called her a racist.  They've compared the National Council of La Raza to the Ku Klux Klan.
Ed Whelan / Bench Memos:
“I Don't Know What Liberal Means”
Discussion: Power Line and The Corner
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Obama Urges Effort on Health Care  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama, signaling the start of his health care push, called on Congress and his government to tackle “the root causes of skyrocketing health care costs.”  —  In his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday morning …
Discussion: The Swamp and Taylor Marsh
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Robert Reich / Robert Reich's Blog:
How Pharma and Insurance Intend to Kill the Public Option …
Discussion: Corrente
Bloomberg:
Alabama County Set to Halt Services, Shut Buildings  —  Alabama's most populous county is preparing to stop road maintenance, close courthouses and shutter services for the elderly after a court struck down taxes that pay for about 35 percent of its budget.  —  Jefferson County …
Times of London:
Labour suffers wipeout in its worst local election results  —  Gordon Brown was dealt another huge blow last night when Labour lost all its remaining county councils in its worst ever local election results.  —  Counties turned from red to blue in quick succession as the Labour vote collapsed in its heartlands.
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Brand Spanking New Katherine Sebelius Motivational Poster  —  Barack Obama's HHS Secretary — Katherine “Plan B” Sebelius — followed orders to a tee this morning, Sergeant Schultz-style.  She announced that America needs socialized medicine because, well, she just made some s*** up.
Discussion: American Power
Washington Post:
State Dept. Retiree, Wife Accused of Spying for Cuba for Decades  —  Official, Wife Passed Secrets to Cuba For Decades, Federal Prosecutors Say  —  A former State Department official with top-secret security clearance and his wife have been charged with spying for Cuba over the past three decades …
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
U.S. Charges Couple With Spying for Cuba
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and PoliBlog
Fox News:
Retired U.S. State Official, Wife Indicted on Charges of Spying for Cuba
Discussion: Babalú Blog
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obamacare plan finally released; Update: Goodbye, 4th Amendment  —  And it's so large that Patients United Now had to split it into nine different parts, and to put out a bleg for an Army of Patients to scour the bill.  The title:Quality Affordable Health Care for All Americans.
William Glaberson / New York Times:
U.S. May Permit 9/11 Guilty Pleas in Capital Cases  —  The Obama administration is considering a change in the law for the military commissions at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that would clear the way for detainees facing the death penalty to plead guilty without a full trial.
Washington Post:
Semi-Submarines, Stealthily Plying Pacific, Arrive as a Way to Smuggle Cocaine  —  MEXICO CITY — When anti-narcotics agents first heard that drug cartels were building an armada of submarines to transport cocaine, they thought it was a joke.  —  Now U.S. law enforcement officials …
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Pushed Fiat Deal on Chrysler  —  Internal Emails Reveal Resentment; Court Upholds Pact  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration rushed an alliance between Chrysler LLC and Fiat SpA despite Chrysler's worries about Fiat's financial health and its willingness to share technology, according to internal company emails.
Washington Post:
Nominee Pulls Out as Role at CIA Is Studied  —  A longtime CIA official chosen by President Obama to be the intelligence chief at the Department of Homeland Security withdrew from consideration yesterday after it became apparent that senators examining his nomination planned to scrutinize …
 
 
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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Hijab-wearing Muslim Crashes Remembrance rally for US Soldier Murdered …
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Max Boot / Commentary:
Eureka! Writers Get Paid
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Friday Night Trivia
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Video: Han Solo takes on the Emperor?
Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
Greening the Herds: A New Diet to Cap Gas
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Yara Bayoumy / Reuters:
Ex-President Carter praises Obama Mideast policy
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Michael Goldfarb / Weekly Standard:
Dem Leadership Moves to Kill Photo Amendment
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Bleak Jobs Outlook
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Palin takes low-key return to the road
US Department of Justice:
Justice Department Launches Investigation into Federal Crimes …
Rowan Scarborough / Fox News:
Pentagon Quietly Sending 1,000 Special Operators to Afghanistan in Strategy Revamp