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5:50 AM ET, May 5, 2010

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Christian right leader George Rekers takes vacation with “rent boy”  —  The pictures on the Rentboy.com profile show a shirtless young man with delicate features, guileless eyes, and sun-kissed, hairless skin.  The profile touts his “smooth, sweet, tight ass” and “perfectly built 8 inch cock …
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Joe / Joe. My. God.:
Meet Geo, The Male Prostitute Hired By NARTH Member & Family Research Council Co-Founder Dr. George Rekers  —  I was going to withhold the identity of the male prostitute hired by Dr. George Rekers, the virulently anti-gay NARTH board member and Family Research Council co-founder.
Dan Savage / The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper:
Is Every Right-Wing, Anti-Gay Christian Bigot Sucking Off Rent Boys?  —  We've got another one, gang, and he's a doozy: … Rekers, as Joe Jervis points out, is the co-founder of the wildly anti-gay Family Research Council and a member of the National Association for Research & Therapy of Homosexuality …
Joe / Joe. My. God.:
Dr. George Rekers, Patron Of Male Prostitutes, Responds To Me On Facebook  —  NARTH and Family Research Council co-founder Dr. George Rekers has responded to my inquiry about where to find the hottest male prostitutes.  After the above, he continues: … Oh, well that explains EVERYTHING!
John Christoffersen / Associated Press:
Times Square bombing suspect's life had unraveled  —  BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Not long ago, Faisal Shahzad had a pretty enviable life: He became an American citizen after emigrating from Pakistan, where he came from a wealthy family.  He earned an MBA.  He had a well-educated wife …
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New York Times:
Times Sq.  Bomb Suspect Was a Suburban Father  —  They took their places in the wood-paneled courtroom, 58 people from 32 countries.  They listened as a federal magistrate banged the gavel and said it was “a wonderful day for the United States”— the day they would become Americans.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Times Sq.  Arrest Renews Debate on Suspect Rights  —  WASHINGTON — The arrest of a suspect in the attempted Times Square car bombing revived the volatile political debate over terrorism policy on Tuesday, as President Obama's supporters and critics squared off over how the nation should handle those plotting against it.
The Huffington Post:
Faisal Shahzad Arrest: Lieberman Proposes Taking Away Citizenship Of Suspected Terrorists  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  In arguing against the reading of Miranda rights to terrorism suspects or affording them other constitutional protections, opponents of civil liberties run …
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Joe Lieberman's Fascist Solution To Terrorism
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
MSNBC's Brewer: I'm Sorry Terror Suspect Has Islamic Ties
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:
MSNBC's Contessa Brewer ‘Frustrated’ That Times Square Bomber Is a Muslim
Dan / Riehl World View:
Source: Terrorist Faisal Shahzad Was Anti-Bush, Anti-War
Discussion: Gateway Pundit and Nice Deb
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McCain: ‘Serious mistake’ if car bombing suspect was Mirandized
Associated Press:
‘Los Suns’ jerseys set for Cinco de Mayo  —  PHOENIX — The Phoenix Suns will wear “Los Suns” on their jerseys in Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals on Wednesday night, owner Robert Sarver said, “to honor our Latino community and the diversity of our league, the state of Arizona, and our nation.”
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Washington Post or Huffington Post?  —  The once-cautious Washington Post has begun to invest heavily in the liberal blogosphere, transforming its online presence - a combination of accident and design - into a competitor of the Huffington Post and TalkingPointsMemo as much as the New York Times.
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Matt Lewis / Politics Daily:
Washington Post Reporter's ‘Bigots’ Tweet Criticized by Right
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Iran's Leader Says Sanctions May Ruin Relations  —  UNITED NATIONS — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said Tuesday that relations with the United States might never be repaired if new sanctions were imposed against his country, that the United Nations atomic agency had no authority …
Discussion: The Page
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Ed White / Associated Press:
US takes early lumps in case against Mich. militia  —  DETROIT (AP) — Federal authorities touted the arrests of nine members of a Michigan militia as a pre-emptive strike against homegrown terrorists, declaring at an initial court hearing that the suspects with “dark hearts and evil intent” wanted to go to war against the government.
Discussion: Riehl World View
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘TEABAGGERS’ DISCOVER POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.... Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, a Washington Monthly alum, has a book coming out on President Obama's first year in office.  He chatted with the president in late November, and Obama noted his belief that GOP opposition to economic recovery efforts …
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Political Punch:
President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus ‘Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers’
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
CBS News and CNN Are Back in Partnership Negotiations  —  CBS News and CNN are in advanced negotiations about signing a news-gathering partnership, according to executives familiar with the discussions.  The talks revolve around how the two news divisions can combine operations in a bid to cut costs and expand audiences on both sides.
Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite and TIME.com
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Black Hopefuls Pick This Year in G.O.P. Races  —  Among the many reverberations of President Obama's election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit:
Awful.  DNC Trying to Make Money Off of Tragedy That Killed 11 Americans  —  Nothing is sacred.  Not even death.  —  The DNC is now trying to raise money off of a oil rig explosion that killed 11 Americans.  —  On April 20, 2010, 11 Americans were killed when the Deepwater Horizon …
Discussion: Right Now
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
DSCC capitalizes on oil spill
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Right Now
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Oil spill, failed bombing offer Obama a challenge of message, management  —  Barack Obama's presidency has not lacked for crises.  But the two that have dominated this week — a spreading environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and a failed car bombing that narrowly missed creating carnage …
Marc Cooper / Los Angeles Times:
To replace John Paul Stevens, an atheist  —  It's something Thomas Jefferson might have done: nominate a nonbeliever to the Supreme Court  —  As President Obama considers nominees to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a debate bubbles as to whether religion should play a role in his choice.
Neil Cavuto / Fox News:
Former FEMA Director Michael Brown on Obama's Response to Oil Spill  —  This is a rush transcript from “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” May 3, 2010.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  NEIL CAVUTO, ANCHOR: Almost three weeks since the slick began …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Defending David Brooks From Brad DeLong's Smears  —  David Brooks has a Moynihanish column in which he says people overrate policy and underestimate the role of culture in determining outcomes.  “The influence of politics and policy,” he writes “is usually swamped by the influence of culture …
Henry Farrell / Washington Monthly:
Reading Milton Friedman in Dublin  —  Ireland's politicians spent the '90s and ‘00s imitating the United States’ devotion to unfettered free markets.  Unfortunately for the Irish, they succeeded.  —  When I first came to the United States from Ireland in the early 1990s …
Discussion: Mother Jones and Matthew Yglesias
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Coats, Fisher win; NC-Senate to runoff  —  Former Sen. Dan Coats won the Republican Senate nomination in Indiana tonight in a race that had drawn significant attention from national conservative leaders.  —  Coats beat out two candidates — state Sen. Marlin Stutzman and former Rep. John Hostettler …
Discussion: The Other McCain and The Eye
 
 
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Former Sen. Coats survives GOP primary
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Budget Hawk John Spratt and the “Grand Bargain” on Social Security
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
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Trent Hill / Independent Political Report:
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David Kenner / FP Passport:
Mr. Cheney goes to Riyadh — mysteriously
Jared Allen / The Hill:
Hoyer: Dems more successful at fighting terrorists than GOP
John Podhoretz / Commentary:
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