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9:45 PM ET, February 19, 2009

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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
HOUSE GOP DISCOVERS THE IMPORTANCE OF WH EMAILS.... I'm sorry, the Irony-O-Meter I keep on my desk just burst into flames. … Issa, easily a #2 seed on my bracket for Most Ridiculous Member of Congress competition, also asked the White House to respond to a series of additional questions about the administration's email archiving.
Discussion: MoJo Blog Posts
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Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Rove testimony hangs in balance
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
Amy Sullivan / Time:
The Catholic Crusade Against a Mythical Abortion Bill
Discussion: Salon, NewsBusters.org and The Corner
Martina Stewart / CNN:
Republican wants White House e-mail plan
Discussion: Think Progress
Frank James / The Swamp:
NYT settles with lobbyist on McCain story  —  A Washington lobbyist who said the New York Times implied she had an improper relationship with Sen. John McCain will drop her defamation lawsuit against the newspaper, which today said it never intended that readers conclude the two were having an affair.
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Libel Suit Against The Times Ends  —  A lobbyist's lawsuit against The New York Times over the newspaper's account of her ties to Senator John McCain has been settled, both sides announced on Thursday.  —  The suit, filed by Vicki L. Iseman, the Washington lobbyist, was settled without payment …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Boston Globe
Joe Strupp / Editor and Publisher:
‘NY Times’ Settles Lobbyist Lawsuit Over McCain Report  —  NEW YORK Vicki Iseman, the Washington, D.C., lobbyist who had sued The New York Times for $27 million over an article last year that she claimed wrongly depicted her as having an affair with Sen. John McCain, has reached a settlement with the newspaper.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Greed is Not a Defense  —  I found Ezra Klein's defense of Politico to be pretty weak stuff.  —  Ezra's main point is that coverage that's utterly trivial and that poisons public understanding of crucial issues that effect the lives of billions of people is rewarded by the market …
Discussion: Eschaton
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Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
THE PROBLEM OF THE POLITICO.  —  I love Mike Allen's Playbook.  Unabashedly.  I wouldn't even deny that it's “the 4chan of political reporting.”  But it's the best guide to the morning news, and Allen mixes “drive the day” trivia — and there is a lot of that — with a good eye for the substance in stories.
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Steele: GOP needs ‘hip-hop’ makeover  —  NEWSMAKER INTERVIEW:  —  Newly elected Republican National Committee Chairman Michael S. Steele plans an “off the hook” public relations offensive to attract younger voters, especially blacks and Hispanics, by applying the party's principles to “urban-suburban hip-hop settings.”
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CNN:
RNC chair plans ‘off the hook’ campaign, tells critics to ‘stuff it’
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
I'M ONLY BEING REAL WHEN I SAY, NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR THEIR GRANDFATHER RAP.
Daniel Dombey / Financial Times:
Iran holds enough uranium for bomb  —  Iran has now built up a stockpile of enough enriched uranium for one nuclear bomb, United Nations officials acknowledged on Thursday.  —  In a development that comes as the Obama administration is drawing up its policy on negotiations with Tehran …
CNN:
Spokesman for embattled Sen. Burris resigns  —  (CNN) — A spokesman for Illinois Sen. Roland Burris resigned Thursday in the wake of new disclosures about requests that Burris raise money for disgraced former Gov. Rod Blagojevich while seeking a U.S. Senate appointment.
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Jonathan Tilove / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Two ministers leading recall effort against Cao face long odds  —  WASHINGTON — A group spearheaded by two ministers has filed papers with the Louisiana secretary of state's office to recall U.S. Rep. Anh “Joseph” Cao, R-New Orleans, who has been on the job only six weeks.
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bayoubuzz.com:
Louisiana Congressman Cao Faces Recall Petition Over Stimulus Vote
Discussion: Democracy in America and MyDD
The Huffington Post:
New York Post Employees Unhappy, Ashamed Of Offensive Cartoon  —  The mood inside the New York Post, it seems, is a mix of anger and bewilderment that the paper published a cartoon depicting the authors of the stimulus as a dead, crazed chimpanzee.  —  On Wednesday, an employee of the paper told …
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Michael Wolff / Off the Grid:
Chimp Cartoon Makes Murdoch a Chump  —  Well, yes, it would require quite a contortion to find that Rupert Murdoch's New York Post had not compared the first black president to a monkey in an editorial cartoon.  —  Now, it is true that the Post has a certain vernacular involving public figures …
Discussion: Salon and protein wisdom
Radley Balko / Reason:
Manufacturing Guilt?  —  Editor's Note: The following article contains graphic and disturbing photographs and video excerpts of an examination conducted on the body of a 23-month-old girl.  The images are the basis of claims that forensic experts fabricated evidence in a case that put a man on death row …
Ben Evans / Associated Press:
Democrats strike different tone on Katrina  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - The economic stimulus signed by President Barack Obama will spread billions of dollars across the country to spruce up aging roads and bridges.
Ezra Klein / American Prospect:
THE END OF THE ENTITLEMENT SCARE.  —  There are two things going on in Jane Hamsher's post on the “fiscal summit.”  The first is a show of thundering opposition to benefit cuts in Social Security.  That's a good thing.  Progressives should draw bright lines.
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Jamison Foser / Media Matters:
Here we go again ...  Politico's Glenn Thrush, seeing a news report that Hillary Clinton said she likes the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, “decided to fact-check.”  —  What would make him decide to fact-check the unremarkable statement by a baby boomer that she likes the two most popular band …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Biden Says Bush Gave Al Qaeda Recruiting Tool  —  LANGLEY, Va. — Visiting the Central Intelligence Agency to swear in Leon E. Panetta as the agency's 19th director, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Thursday that the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies “gave Al Qaeda a powerful recruiting tool.”
CNN:
Republicans urge Obama to overturn stem cell ban  —  (CNN) - A group of six moderate House Republicans have written to President Obama urging him to lift President Bush's ban on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.  —  “We are writing to respectfully urge that you immediately lift …
Associated Press:
Wife of former governor subpoenaed by feds  —  CHICAGO - Patti Blagojevich has been served with a federal subpoena seeking documents, notes or e-mails related to people or entities ranging from former gubernatorial fund raisers to her real estate dealings.  —  Attorney Raymond Pijon told …
Discussion: TIME.com
Megan McArdle:
Do you mind if I rant a minute?  —  Here's my position on what ended the Great Depression: I don't know.  There are a whole lot of theories out there, but with an “n” of 1, no overwhelming evidence in favor of any of them.  There are a few that I think most economists agree are not true …
Discussion: Dean's World
Wall Street Journal:
Some Americans, Underwater but Ineligible, Are Riled Up  —  President Barack Obama's new foreclosure-prevention plan is already sparking outrage from some Americans who won't qualify for federal aid — and from those who resent having to foot the bill for those who do.
The Moderate Voice:
Kill “Qwerty”!  (Guest Voice)  —  FOR GOD'S SAKE, THIS IT THE 21ST CENTURY - LET'S GET RID OF “QWERTY”!!  —  by Marc Pascal  —  Why do computers still have keyboards?  They represent a quaint vestige of their predecessor typewriters that were invented 130 years ago.
Jacob Sullum / Reason:
Obama Plans Indefinite Military Detention of Terrorism Suspects  —  Last month I worried about Attorney General Eric Holder's declaration at his confirmation hearing that “we are at war” with terrorists, noting that such language has often been used to justify legal shortcuts and abridgements of civil liberties.
Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
Wholesale inflation takes biggest jump in 6 months  —  Wholesale inflation jumps by largest amount in 6 months, reflecting higher energy costs  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Inflation at the wholesale level surged unexpectedly in January, reflecting sharply higher prices for gasoline and other energy products.
Discussion: MSNBC, Don Surber and Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Exclusive: Group counters stimulus with Jesus in TV ad  —  After watching liberal allies of President Barack Obama flood the airwaves in support of the stimulus bill, a conservative third-party group is countering with a provocative new commercial using Jesus Christ to emphasize the scale of the $787 billion package.
Washington Post:
Until We Have a Playoff System, Bush Is Stuck at No. 36  —  George W. Bush has long maintained that history will vindicate his administration, despite liberals' insistence that he has a permanent lock on the title “worst ever.”  —  A C-SPAN poll of 65 historians and observers of the presidency …
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Rasmussen Reports:
45% Oppose Government Mortgage Help for Troubled Homeowners  —  Forty-five percent (45%) of Americans oppose the federal government subsidizing mortgage payments for financially troubled homeowners, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Discussion: Michael Barone
 
 
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