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11:30 PM ET, April 30, 2010

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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Domestic Drilling: Why We Can Still Believe  —  We've all been shocked and saddened by the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico.  My heart breaks for coastal residents who are facing fears of the unknown impacts of the oil spill.  —  As an Alaskan, I can speak from the heart about the tragedy of an oil spill.
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
“I'm Just Noting the Timing Here”  —  Me, in email with a friend last night about the Louisiana oil spill: … Honest to God, I didn't know he'd said this a few hours earlier: … Plus there's this, from the friend I was emailing with: “Maybe not Obama, but the WSJ snuck it in their story yesterday …
Ezra Klein:
Oil spill an inside job?  —  If Rush Limbaugh was on the far left, he'd be a 9/11 truther.  As it is, he's on the far right, and has decided to become an oil-spill truther: … Is there literally nothing this man can say that will convince Republicans to disavow him?  —  Photo credit: By Ron Edmonds/Associated Press
Discussion: Mediaite
Paul Krugman:
The Oil Spill Is Obama's Fault  —  No, I haven't lost my mind — that's not what I believe.  But you know that's what the talk-show hosts will be saying soon, if they haven't already started.  The only question is what the story will be.  —  Will it be claims that liberals …
Ben Raines / Breaking News from the Press-Register:
Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher … A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.
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Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
Oil From Spill Is Reported to Have Reached the Coast  —  NEW ORLEANS —Coast Guard officials were investigating reports early Friday morning that oil from a massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico had washed ashore overnight, threatening fisheries and wildlife in fragile marshes and islands along the Gulf Coast.
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Tweet Of The Day  —  “Every a**hole who ever chanted ‘Drill baby drill’ should have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty,” - Bill Maher.  —  I have always been in favor of Cape Wind off Cape Cod but the confluence of these two events will surely help swing public opinion further in favor of non-carbon energy.
Ben Raines / Breaking News from the Press-Register:
Gulf of Mexico oil spill 2010: The worst-case scenario
Discussion: Firedoglake and Wonkette
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Administration Vows No New Offshore Drilling Until Investigation
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems spark alarm with call for national ID card  —  A plan by Senate Democratic leaders to reform the nation's immigrations laws ran into strong opposition from civil liberties defenders before lawmakers even unveiled it Thursday.  —  Democratic leaders have proposed requiring every worker …
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Ezra Klein:
Is a biometric, national ID card an immigration game changer?  —  The Democrats' immigration-reform proposal (pdf) is 26 pages long.  Pages 8 through 18 are devoted to “ending illegal employment through biometric employment verification.”  I don't think the Democrats are going to like me calling …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
MLBPA: AZ Immigration Law “Could have a negative impact on hundreds of Major League players”  —  The executive director of the Major League Baseball Player's Association has released a strong statement condemning the Arizona immigration law.  I've pasted it below the fold:
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Baseball players union unhappy with Arizona immigration law
Discussion: CNN
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Boehner: GOP could pick up 100 seats  —  House Republicans could win 100 or more seats in this fall's elections, House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Friday.  —  Boehner said he believes there is no seat that the GOP cannot win during this election cycle, judging by Sen. Scott Brown's …
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Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Might Want to Rent, not Own, the House
Arizona Republic:
Pinal County Sheriff's deputy shot after traffic stop  —  A Pinal County Sheriff's deputy was shot in the stomach Friday by an undocumented immigrant off Interstate 8, according sheriff's officials.  —  Lt. Tami Villar told 12 News that the search and rescue deputy was investigating a load …
Discussion: CNN and The Jawa Report
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Manavt / This Just In:
Authorities: Ariz. deputy shot by suspected drug traffickers  —  [Updated at 11:00 p.m.] A sheriff's deputy in central Arizona was shot Friday afternoon by a suspected drug trafficker, authorities said.  —  The Pinal County deputy, who was not immediately identified, contacted authorities …
Jim Balloch / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
Jury convicts Palin e-mail intruder on two counts; mistrial declared on ID theft  —  KNOXVILLE - A federal jury this afternoon convicted Sarah Palin e-mail intruder David C. Kernell of felony destruction of records to hamper a federal investigation and misdemeanor unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer.
Discussion: palingates
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CNN:
Man found guilty in Palin e-mail case
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
The Hacker Case Verdict
The Politico:
WHCD A-LIST GUEST LIST  —  If you're not going to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, no doubt you want to know exactly who is.  If you are, you'll want to know who's going to be where.  So, for your celeb-stalking needs —whether you're after Scarlett Johansson, Bradley Cooper …
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama: ‘A guy who doubles down’
Discussion: CNN
Fox News:
Arizona Legislature Passes Bill to Curb ‘Chauvanism’ in Ethnic Studies Programs  —  After making national headlines for a new law on illegal immigrants, the Arizona Legislature sent Gov. Jan Brewer a bill Thursday that would ban ethnic studies programs in the state that critics say currently advocate separatism and racial preferences.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
The Progressive Movement is Officially Dead  —  Hey, Sierra Club: There's a giant flaming ball of oil being pushed straight for the coasts of Alabama and Mississippi.  Might be the worst environmental event in decades.  I know it makes the President's recent decision to allow offshore drilling look …
Josh Kraushaar / The Politico:
Kos poll: Burns by six  —  Weighed down in his district by low presidential favorability ratings and a health care law that's unpopular there, Pennsylvania Democrat Mark Critz now trails by 6 percentage points in next month's special election for the seat of the late Rep. John Murtha …
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DavidNYC / Swing State Project:   PA-12: Dems Trailing in Special to Replace Murtha
Susan Saulny / New York Times:
Dressing Mrs. Obama for Success, Then Going Out of Business  —  CHICAGO — Fashion and politics are seasonal and unpredictable, yet the two came together quite well here for the hometown designer Maria Pinto and Michelle Obama, whose first memorable bursts onto the national scene were often in Pinto creations.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Michael Cavna / Comic Riffs:
‘NAZI ARIZONA’: N.J. artist reinforces immigration cartoon criticized by ADL  —  Cartoonists rely on iconography.  Symbol is ready metaphor, and not just such trite-and-true staples as donkeys and elephants and American eagles.  No editorial toolkit is complete without the darkest of symbols …
Discussion: Big Journalism and Romenesko
The Hankster:
Friday Nite Hankster Chat  —  Friday Nite Hankster Chat  —  Free-wheeling conversation with independent political blogger Nancy Hanks.  —  <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf- 96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.adobe.com/ pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve rsion= 9,0,0,0" …
Miriam Jordan / Wall Street Journal:
Arizona Grades Teachers on Fluency  —  State Pushes School Districts to Reassign Instructors With Heavy Accents or Other Shortcomings in Their English  —  PHOENIX—As the academic year winds down, Creighton School Principal Rosemary Agneessens faces a wrenching decision …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
After reporter's subpoena, critics call Obama's leak-plugging efforts Bush-like  —  The Justice Department's decision to subpoena a New York Times reporter this week has convinced some press advocates that President Obama's team is pursuing leaks with the same fervor as the Bush administration.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Gates To Congress: Don't Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell This Year  —  As part of the Obama administration's plan to repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT), the Pentagon has convened a “Working Group” that is meeting with servicemembers, chaplains, and others individuals about how to repeal the ban …
Discussion: Firedoglake
 
 
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BBC:
Anger in Malawi over polygamy ban
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Amy Chozick / WSJ. Magazine:
Carly Fiorina: Coming Around Again
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Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Swamp plays Hardball: Party matters
Discussion: The Politico
John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
Polarization Is Not Associated with Trust in Government
Guardian:
General election 2010: The liberal moment has come
Emanuella Grinberg / CNN:
Some Hispanic Americans hope law deters illegal immigration
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 Earlier Items: 
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Ariz. targets ‘human-animal hybrids’
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Ezra Klein:
Sen. Carl Levin: ‘We ought to eliminate the damn synthetics’
Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Judge: Obama won't have to testify at Blagojevich trial
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
GDP growth drops to 3.2% in first quarter of 2010
Discussion: Washington Post and Gateway Pundit
Paul Krugman:
Why Isn't Britain In More Trouble?