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10:15 AM ET, April 23, 2010

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Don't Cry for Wall Street  —  On Thursday, President Obama went to Manhattan, where he urged an audience drawn largely from Wall Street to back financial reform.  “I believe,” he declared, “that these reforms are, in the end, not only in the best interest of our country, but in the best interest of the financial sector.”
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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Issa Admits He Has No Proof For His Conspiracy That Obama White House …
New York Times:
Obama Criticizes Wall St. in Push for Reform
Daniel Wagner / Associated Press:
SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed  —  WASHINGTON - Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were being paid to police the financial system, an agency watchdog says.
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
SEC Officials Surfing Porn During Financial Crisis, Report Finds  —  SEC Employees Exposed Downloading, Uploading Pornography at Work  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission is the sheriff of the financial industry, looking for crimes such as Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme …
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
SEC Officials Surfed Porn, Ignored Fraud  —  Gov't Report Finds Securities and Exchange Commission Employees Surfing Pornographic Websites at Work  —  On a day when President Obama argued for more government regulation over the financial industry, a new government report reveals …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Schumer: Obama's ‘counter-productive’ Israel policy ‘has to stop’  —  New York Senator Chuck Schumer harshly criticized the Obama Administration's attempts to exert pressure on Israel today, making him the highest-ranking Democrat to object to Obama's policies in such blunt terms.
NBC Chicago:
Redactions Revealed: The Six Secrets You Need to Know From the Obama Subpoena Request  —  Former governor Rod Blagojevich's defense team asked Thursday to issue a trial subpoena to the President of the United States of America.  —  The motion, intended to be heavily redacted …
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Mediaite Exclusive: Censored Portions of Blago Subpoena May Implicate Team Obama
WBBM-TV:
Judge Holds Emergency Hearing In Blagojevich Case
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Potential Supreme Court pick Garland could find foes on left  —  Unlike several other possible candidates to succeed retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Merrick B. Garland probably won't face conservative opposition.  Instead, it could be liberals lining up against him.
Discussion: DC Dicta
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The Caucus:
A Brisk First Round on Supreme Court Search
Discussion: The Page
Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Democrats plan to introduce bill to blunt ruling on political spending
Discussion: The Plum Line
The Corner on National Review Online:
Liberty, Tyranny, and the Globe — By: NRO Staff  —  I don't know Jim Manzi, but given his out-of-nowhere rant, you'd think I ran over his dog or something.  Feel free to read my book, and the chapter Manzi distorts and cherry-picks, yourself.  You don't need Manzi to interpret it.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Government War  —  In these columns I try to give voice to a philosophy you might call progressive conservatism.  It starts with the wisdom of Edmund Burke — the belief that the world is more complex than we can know and we should be skeptical of handing too much power to government planners.
Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Report says health care will cover more, cost more  —  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's health care overhaul law is getting a mixed verdict in the first comprehensive look by neutral experts: More Americans will be covered, but costs are also going up.  —  Economic experts at the Health …
New York Times:
U.S. Faces Choice on New Weapons for Fast Strikes  —  WASHINGTON — In coming years, President Obama will decide whether to deploy a new class of weapons capable of reaching any corner of the earth from the United States in under an hour and with such accuracy and force that they would greatly …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Key local to back Henry, likely foiling Stern succession plans  —  A giant New York-based local union is poised to vote to support California labor leader Mary Kay Henry (above) for the presidency of America's largest union today, three sources familiar with the union said …
Discussion: Washington Wire
Guardian:
Clegg survives storm in TV debate  —  • Lib Dem leader narrowly won debate, Guardian ICM poll finds  —  • Cameron accuses Brown of lying over pensioner leaflets  —  • Leaders clash over Trident, immigration and Europe  —  Nick Clegg's bandwagon appeared to have kept …
Discussion: BBC and AMERICAblog News
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Roland Watson / Times of London:
David Cameron edges second leaders' debate, according to Times poll
Discussion: Telegraph, Guardian and The Daily Dish
US News:
Hoyer Sees Election Trouble for House Democrats  —  Nationally-recognized election prognosticator Charlie Cook isn't the only one who sees the majority for House Democrats slipping away.  Today, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer agreed, but said that he and others will mount a strong campaign …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and The Eye
Rush Limbaugh / Wall Street Journal:
Liberals and the Violence Card  —  Conservative protest is motivated by a love of what America stands for.  —  The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence.  That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused …
Fox News:
Franklin Graham Regrets Army's Decision to Rescind Invite to Pentagon Prayer Service  —  Evangelist Franklin Graham said Thursday that he regrets the Army's decision to rescind its invitation to him for the Pentagon's National Day of Prayer service on May 6, but expressed “strong support” for the U.S. military.
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Democrat “Outs” Another Democrat For Being Straight  —  If you've been looking for further proof that American politics is going thoroughly bonkers as partisans claw for increasingly personal labels to hurl at and discredit foes or those who don't agree — it's a lot easier doing …
Arizona Republic:
Arizona immigration bill: Both sides continue to pressure Gov. Brewer  —  As Gov. Jan Brewer contemplated how to proceed on the nation's toughest legislation against illegal immigration, opponents of the bill converged in protest at the state Capitol on Thursday and Brewer announced efforts …
Discussion: msnbc.com and Taegan Goddard's …
Wall Street Journal:
The Real Republican Civil War  —  The struggle between Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist for the Florida Senate seat symbolizes the rift between the reformers and the establishment in the GOP.  —  Marco Rubio appeared on a Sunday talk show this month to say something remarkable.
Discussion: Commentary
Susan Pulliam / Wall Street Journal:
Galleon Probe Turns to Goldman, Buffett Deal  —  Government Suspects Goldman Director Told Galleon of Berkshire's 2008 Investment  —  A Goldman Sachs Group Inc. director tipped off a hedge-fund billionaire about a $5 billion investment in Goldman by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc …
Discussion: DailyFinance, Clusterstock and DealBook
 
 
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Plan for Greener, Pedestrian-Friendly 34th Street
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Alcoa's loves green, but not the environment
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Ben Smith / Reuters:
Spitzer slated for red-carpet rebirth
Money Supply:
Drama in the Greek bond markets
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Julian Ryall / Telegraph:
South Korean ship sunk by crack squad of ‘human torpedoes’
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Atlas Shrugs
Dana Blanton / Fox News:
Fox News Poll: Obama Approval Up; Most Say Stop Blaming Bush
G-A-Y / Good As You:
Andrea Lafferty's inability to pinpoint truth: SPLC edition
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Spokesman: Hayworth Thinks Arizona Birther Bill ‘Drawn Too Narrowly’
 Earlier Items: 
Roger L Simon / Pajamas Media:
Why Is the L.A. Times Burying the Obama/Khalidi Tape?
Discussion: Riehl World View and alicublog
Publius / Big Government:
Chicago Teacher on Tax Hike: ‘Give Up the Bucks’
Discussion: Beltway Confidential
Martin Kady II / Glenn Thrush's Blog:
GOP brings KBH back into leadership
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats at the Edge of the Cliff