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11:50 AM ET, June 12, 2009

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Big Hate  —  Back in April, there was a huge fuss over an internal report by the Department of Homeland Security warning that current conditions resemble those in the early 1990s — a time marked by an upsurge of right-wing extremism that culminated in the Oklahoma City bombing.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Oh my: NOW inducts Letterman into its “Media Hall of Shame”  —  Credit where credit's due. … People on Twitter are grumbling about that last paragraph but (a) given how peeved the sisterhood will be that they're defending Palin, surely you won't begrudge NOW some sort of ass-covering knock …
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NOW's Media Hall of Shame:
Letterman “Jokes” About Palin's Daughter  —  Offender: David Letterman on “Late Show with David Letterman”  —  The Offense: Late night TV host David Letterman “joked” that during their recent trip to New York, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter “was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez” during a Yankees baseball game.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Sarah Palin: Letterman ‘not cool or funny’  —  The weeklong feud between late-night's David Letterman and last-year's Sarah Palin came in for a landing this morning on the Today show, where Matt Lauer interviewed the Alaska governor.about the comedian's lines of attack.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama cronyism: Going after AmeriCorps IG on behalf of contributor; Update: A Michelle Obama connection?  —  David Freddoso tried to explain that the only change Barack Obama would bring to the Beltway would be an introduction of the Chicago Machine politics that made him successful to the Beltway.
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Michelle Malkin:
Obama's Americorps scandal — and the First Lady's meddling  —  President Obama is hoping you won't notice his abrupt change of inspectors general over at Americorps, the government-run, taxpayer-subsidized “community service” boondoggle (which Republicans helped expand as part …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
What's behind Obama's sudden attempt to fire the AmeriCorps inspector general?  —  Some strange and potentially suspicious events tonight concerning the Obama White House and the AmeriCorps program.  I've been told that on Wednesday night the AmeriCorps inspector general, Gerald Walpin …
Discussion: Stop The ACLU
Fox News:
Obama Fires AmeriCorps Inspector General Over Scandal
Washington Post:
Obama Gives Up on Resettling Cleared Guantanamo Detainees in U.S., Officials Say  —  Administration Gives Up on Bringing Cleared Inmates to U.S., Officials Say  —  The Obama administration has all but abandoned plans to allow Guantanamo Bay detainees who have been cleared for release to live …
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Los Angeles Times:
U.S. increasingly unlikely to take any Guantanamo detainees
Discussion: Wake up America and The Page
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
Uighurs Released to Bermuda All Trained at Terrorist Camp in Tora Bora
Discussion: Political Punch, Power Line and Hot Air
Ezra Klein:
Has Kent Conrad Solved the Public Plan Problem?  An Interview.  —  (Earlier today, Sen. Kent Conrad, the North Dakota Democrat who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, introduced a “potential compromise” on the public plan: A system of federally-chartered co-ops that could offer …
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Robert Reich / American Prospect:
THE LATEST PUBLIC OPTION BAMBOOZLE.
New York Times:
Obama Takes His Health Care Case to the Public
Discussion: MSNBC and Cato @ Liberty
Elliott Abrams / New York Times:
Lebanon's Triumph, Iran's Travesty  —  WITH elections in Lebanon and Iran occurring in the same week, it's inevitable that they are viewed as twin tests of efforts to spread democracy to the Muslim world.  Should we celebrate the outcome in Lebanon and push for elections throughout the Middle East …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Barack Obama Surveys the World  —  “And the Spirit of God hovered upon the face of the waters”  —  When President Obama returned from his first European trip, I observed that while over there he had been “acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray mediating” between America and the world.
Wall Street Journal:
A Daring Trade Has Wall Street Seething  —  Texas Brokerage Firm Outwits the Big Banks in a Mortgage-Related Deal, and Now It's War  —  A canny trade by a small brokerage firm in two markets at the heart of the financial crisis has left some of the biggest players on Wall Street crying foul.
Halimah Abdullah / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Senators who opposed tobacco bill received top dollar from industry  —  WASHINGTON — Among the 17 senators who voted against allowing the Food and Drug Administration to regulate tobacco are some of the top recipients of campaign contributions from the tobacco industry …
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Blaming the Guy Who Came Before Doesn't Work Long  —  WASHINGTON — As President Obama struggles to turn around the moribund economy and confront multiple international issues, he wastes few opportunities to remind the country that the problems are not of his making.
Wall Street Journal:
Tax Man's Target: The Mobile Phone  —  The use of company-issued mobile phones could trigger new federal income taxes on millions of Americans as a “fringe benefit.”  —  The Internal Revenue Service proposed employers assign 25% of an employee's annual phone expenses as a taxable benefit.
Mike Murphy / Time:
The Ice Age Cometh  —  Despairing Republican friends have been asking me what I think we should do to rebuild the GOP and begin our certain and inevitable comeback.  My answer disappoints them: “Build an ark.”  —  I say this because I've made a career out of counting votes …
Discussion: MSNBC and The Fix
David Neumark / Wall Street Journal:
Delay the Minimum-Wage Hike  —  A recession is the worst time to raise the cost of low-skilled employment.  —  Printer  —  Friendly  —  Despite severe economic difficulties confronting businesses, and soaring unemployment among youths and minorities, the federal minimum wage is slated to increase to $7.25 in July from $6.55 today.
Discussion: Clusterstock and EconLog
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
About That DHS Report  —  Balko doesn't approve of the partisan spin on the Holocaust Museum shooting:  —  Trying to string together three homicidal incidents out of hundreds from the last few months as evidence of some rising, violent, anti-government movement is just as absurd …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems brace for CBO score  —  Senate Democrats are bracing for what they expect will be a huge price tag connected with revamping the nation's healthcare system.  —  The soon-to-be-delivered estimate on Democratic healthcare reform proposals is expected to be so expensive that lawmakers …
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
If There's a Knock on Sotomayor, It's Not Inexperience  —  The battle over Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the Supreme Court has moved into high gear, with the Senate Judiciary Committee setting hearings for July 13.  Some on the Hill are predicting an all-out Republican fight on this one.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
Obama defends DOMA in federal court. …
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David C. Rose / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Health care reform: The real problem is lack of competition
Hilzoy / Obsidian Wings:
Fighting Words  —  I am trying to figure out what would possess …
Discussion: Sadly, No! and Erick's blog
Eli Lake / Washington Times:
Netanyahu yields on Palestinian sovereignty
Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
A.I.G. Balks at Claims From Jet Ditching in Hudson
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John Cook / Gawker:
Andrew Breitbart: Holocaust Museum Killer Was a ‘Multiculturalist’
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 Earlier Items: 
WhiteHouse.gov Blog:
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN TOWH HALL MEETING ON HEALTH CARE
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Dr. Biden's debut  —  Jill Biden was standing in a brilliant …
Discussion: The Page
Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Palestinian family kills 15-yr-old son
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Caitlin Taylor / Political Punch:
Rev. Wright: I Meant to Say “Zionists” …