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9:35 AM ET, April 27, 2010

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Rasmussen Reports:
Nationally, 60% Favor Letting Local Police Stop and Verify Immigration Status  —  Arizona Governor Jan Brewer last week signed a new law into effect that authorizes local police to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant.
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Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Early Morning Swim: Rachel Maddow on the Origin of Arizona's Draconian Immigration Law  —  Meanwhile, Jan Brewer's really stepped in it. … Shorter Brewer: At a time of recession, how dare people not financially support our racist xenophobic laws.
Discussion: New York Times
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Arizona's new immigration law is an act of vengeance
Kyle Drennen / NewsBusters.org:
MSNBC News Flash: Arizona Law ‘Makes it a Crime to be Illegal Immigrant’
Discussion: Sister Toldjah and National Review
Alex Seitz-Wald / Think Progress:
City Of San Francisco Moves To Join Growing Boycott Of Arizona …
Gizmodo:
Police Seize Jason Chen's Computers  —  Last Friday night, California's Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team entered editor Jason Chen's home without him present, seizing four computers and two servers.  They did so using a warrant by Judge of Superior Court of San Mateo.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid to force repeated votes to end filibuster of Wall Street reform  —  Sen. Harry Reid will force Republicans to vote repeatedly against Wall Street reform to put pressure GOP centrists.  —  A senior Democratic aide said Reid would schedule votes to end a Republican filibuster of the reform bill …
Discussion: The Hill and Taylor Marsh
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Washington Post:
Talks continue as GOP senators block advance of financial overhaul bill  —  Republicans voted unanimously Monday to block an effort to overhaul financial regulations from reaching the Senate floor, pledging to hold out for significant changes to the bill even as they acknowledged the political risk …
The Note:
With FinReg Filibuster Nigh; Rhetoric Heats Up
The Huffington Post:
Nelson Flips On Regulatory Reform After Buffett Provision Removed  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Democrats were surprised on Monday evening when Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) did an abrupt about-face and became the only Democrat to help filibuster legislation to revamp Wall Street regulations.
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
G.O.P. Readies a Rival Bill on Financial Regulation
The Hill:
Climate advocates fight to give legislation another day  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) insisted Monday that the Senate could still take up climate change legislation before immigration reform.  —  Lieberman's comments came as a range of environmental and business groups that support …
Discussion: The Politico
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Not What He Needs?  —  I'm going to lose my mind if I have to listen …
Discussion: The Politico and Firedoglake
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Flashback: Lindsey Graham Told Obama He Wanted Immigration Reform To Move This Year
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Midwest Trip With Political Fortunes on the Line  —  MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa — President Obama is making an appeal to the legions of new voters who sent him to the White House, imploring them to preserve the Democratic majority in Congress.  But party leaders have an even more pressing wish …
Ayaan Hirsi Ali / Wall Street Journal:
‘South Park’ and the Informal Fatwa  —  The veiled threats against the Comedy Central show's creators should be taken very seriously.  —  'South Park" is hilarious, right?  Not any more.  —  Last week, Zachary Adam Chesser—a 20-year-old Muslim convert who now goes by the name Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee …
Discussion: Power Line and New York Times
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Robert Quigley / Geekosystem:
The Simpsons Stand Behind South Park with Help of Bart's Chalkboard [Video]
Discussion: Right Wing Nut House
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Poll stunner: Sen. Bennett on brink of defeat  —  Politics » With time running out, Lee, Bridgewater take the lead among GOP delegates.  —  Unless Sen. Bob Bennett's political fortunes change dramatically in the next two weeks, he could become Utah's first incumbent U.S. senator to lose his party's nomination in seven decades.
Discussion: msnbc.com
Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal:
Paterson to Successor: You Will Fail  —  ALBANY—David Paterson, the current governor of New York, has a message for his successor: You're doomed to fail.  —  In a 70-minute interview with The Wall Street Journal, the governor cast himself as a scapegoat for the state's problems, blamed an …
Discussion: City Room
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Enemy Lurks in Briefings on Afghan War: PowerPoint  —  WASHINGTON — Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the leader of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan, was shown a PowerPoint slide in Kabul last summer that was meant to portray the complexity of American military strategy, but looked more like a bowl of spaghetti.
Ross Douthat:
Does Conservatism Need Fox News?  —  Amid a long commentary on last week's Jim Manzi-Mark Levin dust-up (and related matters), Jonah Goldberg made the following observation: … I suppose that it depends on what you mean by “success.”  In a sense, the last eighteen months have been enormously successful …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obamateurism of the Day  —  Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.  Those academics who learn the politically-correct, facile interpretation of history are doomed to look like fools when they open their mouths.  Barack Obama proved at least the latter of these two axioms …
Discussion: Reuters and Pajamas Media
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
No More Beer Summits: Tea Party ‘N-Word’ Incident Didn't Happen, And the Congressional Black Caucus Owes America an Apology  —  Rep. Andre Carson wants to change the subject.  I don't blame him.  —  On April 13, 2010 he told AP reporter Jesse Washington, “I think we need to move toward …
Silvana Naguib / American Prospect:
What to Make of ‘Boobquake’?  —  Today, women gathered in Washington's Dupont Circle for a protest.  There weren't typo-ridden signs or rallying cries to pass legislation.  Instead, there were just a lot of low-cut shirts.  —  Jen McCreight came up with the idea for the protest and proposed …
Jim Manzi / The American Scene:
Re: Reply to Jim Manzi  —  Thanks for your reply.  I think that your directness and clarity have helped to isolate the key point of difference between us.  —  In response to my question - “Put yourself in the position of a senior government leader tasked with making real decisions that affect the lives of millions.
Discussion: driftglass
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Techno-GOP  —  Web-savvy is no longer a monopoly of the political left  —  Home to two-term Republican governor Rick Perry, Austin is also the newest outpost of the social networking giant Facebook, which announced it had surpassed Google as the most visited website in the United States around …
David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
Home Buyer Tax Credit Called Successful, but Costly  —  Realtors, home buyers and sellers are rushing to complete sales agreements before the tax credit for home purchases expires this week.  —  Home buyers must have a deal by April 30 and close by June 30 to qualify for the federal tax break …
Discussion: Calculated Risk
Louise Story / New York Times:
Goldman Said to Have Been in Other Mortgage Deals  —  WASHINGTON — The legal storm buffeting Goldman Sachs continued to rage Tuesday just ahead of what is expected to be a contentious Senate hearing at which bank executives plan to defend their actions during the housing crisis.
The Prowler / American Spectator:
What Lies Beneath  —  OFFICE POLITICS  —  The economic report released last week by Health and Human Services, which indicated that President Barack Obama's health care “reform” law would actually increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on consumers, had been submitted …
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Wal-Mart Gender Case Divides Court  —  In a closely watched case, a sharply divided federal appeals court on Monday ruled 6-5 that a sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart could proceed as a class action for more than a million women.  The suit is the biggest employment discrimination case in the nation's history.
 
 
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