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11:55 PM ET, April 1, 2010

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Jonathan Martin / Ben Smith's Blog:
RNC “census” mailer offers phone sex number  —  A new entrant in the when-it-rains-it-pours category.  —  The Republican National Committee sent a fundraising mail piece earlier this month with a return number that leads to a phone-sex line offering “live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl …
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The Note:
RNC Mailer Directs Donors to Sex Line: ‘We Love Nasty Talk as Much as You Do’  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis reports:  —  The Republican National Committee inadvertently sent a fundraising mail piece earlier this month with a return number that leads to a phone sex line offering to connect callers with …
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson worries loading too many people onto Guam could capsize the island  —  First, before you watch this short but remarkable video, a little background on Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson.  —  He's from Georgia's Fourth District.  A Washington, D.C. native …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
McCain: GOP hopes to sidestep veto in repeal efforts  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Thursday backed a plan that he says would allow the Republicans to avoid a presidential veto while negating the effects of a new healthcare law.  —  The 2008 GOP presidential nominee backed a plan …
Rachel Slajda / TPMDC:
Three Congressmen Defy GOP Earmark Ban, Face Losing Committee Seats  —  Three Republican congressmen have defied their party's decision to ban all earmarks for one year, a move that could cost them their committee posts.  —  According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Reps. Anh “Joseph” …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Open Left
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Jonathan Tilove / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Rep. Anh ‘Joseph’ Cao opts out of GOP moratorium on earmark requests
Discussion: Think Progress
Breitbart.tv:
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Liberal group march meets pushback  —  A handful of liberal groups - but only a few dozen protesters — marched on the Republican National Committee offices Thursday to denounce the threats against members of Congress during the health care vote.  —  But in an oddly Washington moment …
Rep. Patrick McHenry / RedState:
Returning the Census is Our Constitutional Duty  —  I'm worried about this year's census.  —  I'm not worried about ACORN rigging the count - we already succeeded in kicking them out of the census.  I'm not worried about the President's attempt to run the census out of the White House - we beat that power grab back last year.
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama's Census form: ‘First grandma’
Discussion: CNN and D.C. Now
Rick Berman / The Politico:
Debt disaster dead ahead  —  When the credit rating agency Moody's announced recently that the United States had moved “substantially” closer to losing its AAA bond rating, it largely ran as a wire brief, buried in newspaper business sections.  —  But this obscure announcement may one day be regarded …
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Anarchists Plan War On April 15th Tea Parties  —  WARNING: Be on the lookout-  —  Bring your cameras.  —  Violent anarchists are planning on infilitrating and sabotaging the Tea Party Protests on April 15th.  —  The Jawa Report posted this call to arms from the violent anarchists at Infowars today:
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
The Tea Party Of The Future.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias
Erik Telford / Washington Times:
Barack isn't my Daddy  —  And Congress can't just rewrite the facts  —  In 1897, a bill was introduced in the Indiana General Assembly that attempted to legally redefine the value of pi (the mathematical ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter).  The Indiana Pi Bill stands …
Mark Bowden / Vanity Fair:
The Professor of War  —  At 57, General David Petraeus has revolutionized the way America fights its wars, starting with the surge in Iraq and continuing into his current command, with responsibility for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, and Yemen.  Charting Petraeus's relentless challenge …
Discussion: ATTACKERMAN and Wonk Room
Philip Pullella / Reuters:
Pope has immunity in abuse trials: Vatican  —  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict, accused by victims' lawyers of being ultimately responsible for a cover-up of sexual abuse of children by priests, cannot be called to testify at any trial because he has immunity as a head of state, a top Vatican legal official said on Thursday.
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Tony Paterson / The Independent:
Papal ally accused of ‘ritual beatings’
Wall Street Journal:
Would the Founders Love ObamaCare?  —  The resistance to ObamaCare is about a lot more than the 10th Amendment.  —  The left-wing critics are right: The rage is not about health care.  They are also right that similar complaints about big government were heard during the New Deal and the Great Society, and the sky didn't fall.
Discussion: The Other McCain
Robin Abcarian / Los Angeles Times:
Abortion provider's killer is sentenced to life in prison  —  Scott Roeder is defiant in a Kansas courtroom as he receives a harsher sentence for shooting Dr. George Tiller in the face in 2009.  —  Scott Roeder sits in court Thursday.  (Jeff Tuttle / Associated Press)
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Study Claiming Link Between Stimulus Funding and Partisanship is Manifestly Flawed  —  A study purporting to find a connection between stimulus spending and the partisanship of a district suffers from an obvious flaw.  But in so doing, it provides an example of why it's important to retain …
CNN:
Presidential spokesman who resigned over Nixon pardon dies  —  (CNN) - Jerald terHorst, who resigned as President Gerald Ford's press secretary just 30 days after taking the job because of the pardon Ford granted former President Richard Nixon, has died of congestive heart failure, his son said Thursday.
Discussion: Politics Daily
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Investigation Shows Ensign Appealed to Company  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John Ensign sought financial backing for a troubled Nevada energy company in 2008, and at the same time he urged the company to hire his mistress's husband, according to people involved in the matter.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
DNC sells out first shipment of Biden healthcare shirts  —  Democrats say t-shirts that riff on Vice President Joe Biden's well-known take on the healthcare law are selling like hotcakes.  —  Organizing for America, the grassroots arm of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) …
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Apple iPad Review: Laptop Killer?  Pretty Close  —  For the past week or so, I have been testing a sleek, light, silver-and-black tablet computer called an iPad.  After spending hours and hours with it, I believe this beautiful new touch-screen device from Apple has the potential …
Frank Schaeffer / The Huffington Post:
The Evangelical “Mainstream” Insanity Behind the Michigan “End Times” Militia  —  A federal prosecutor in Michigan says authorities decided to arrest members of the Hutaree Christian militia after learning “they were prepared to kill.”  —  When I first learned of the news I went …
Dennis Santiago / The Huffington Post:
Move Your Money: 90th Day Report  —  It's been one quarter since Move Your Money burst upon the scene on December 29, 2009.  Over the last 90 days, most of the media coverage of the campaign has focused on the amazing phenomenon that acting on the simple idea that putting their money …
Discussion: Move Your Money
Washington Post:
No one likes TARP, but it's working  —  THE TROUBLED Assets Relief Program (TARP) goes out of business in October, and not many Americans will be sorry to see it fold.  The $700 billion program, hastily improvised at the height of the global financial panic in September 2008, broke all the rules of free-market capitalism.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
The Official Google Blog:
A different kind of company name  —  Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google.  We've been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture.  Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM …
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
New ProgressiveSpeak: Denial On Obama's Triangulation  —  Booman just can not accept that he is endorsing triangulation.  So he invents a new definition - triangulation is NOT what Barack Obama does, even though it is exactly like triangulation: … All of this is a prelude to Booman tying himself …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and The Confluence
Harold Pollack / The New Republic:
The Best-Covered News Story, Ever  —  This week's On the Media laments the low quality of press coverage in health care reform.  It's certainly easy to find examples of shoddy journalism and public ignorance to bolster this charge.  Every night, one could watch cable TV screamers trafficking …
Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
From China, a Hint That Its Currency May Rise  —  It is the number that lurks behind much of modern economic life, a figure that helps shape the fortunes of nations and the price of nearly everything.  —  The number hovers around 6.827.  It is the nearly fixed rate of exchange between China's currency …
Victor Davis Hanson / The Corner on National …:
The War on Terror-Bush Without the Stetson — By: Victor Davis Hanson  —  There is much to criticize about President Obama on foreign policy, but increasingly, despite all the “reset button” rhetoric and the obligatory nods to the Left, his anti-terrorism policies are becoming near identical extensions …
Discussion: Moe Lane
ABCNEWS:
Hoarding, Not Hiring: Corps.  Stockpile Cash  —  Reluctant to Spend or Expand, U.S. Companies Are Sitting on a Record $1.6 Trillion  —  Hopes are running high that Friday's jobs data will bring happy news.  —  Economists predict the Labor Department will announce that 190,000 jobs were added in March, according to a Reuters poll.
 
 
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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
Judge: Bush overstepped wiretapping authority
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Nevin Batiwalla / The Brunswick News:
Kingston cools rhetoric
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Snowe, Collins decline invitation to Obama event
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Silla Brush / The Hill:
Barney Frank directs his staff not to talk to aide-turned-lobbyist
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Gary Locke / Wall Street Journal:
Don't Believe the Writedown Hype
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