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3:10 PM ET, February 19, 2009

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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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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
I'M ONLY BEING REAL WHEN I SAY, NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR THEIR GRANDFATHER RAP.  —  Via Steve Benen, Michael Steele, the Republican Party's new black friend, continues the new black friendness in earnest: … Yesterday Gwen Ifill said that the Republican Party wasn't “so caught up with the idea …
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Rove testimony hangs in balance  —  A federal appeals court has agreed to give President Barack Obama a little more time—but only a little— to decide whether to support...  one of President Bush's most controversial uses of executive privilege.  —  The new administration had asked …
CNN:
RNC chair plans ‘off the hook’ campaign, tells critics to ‘stuff it’
Discussion: CBS News and Political Machine
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Is the Administration Winging It?  —  Obama's reputation for competence is at risk.
Discussion: Big Brass Blog and Flopping Aces
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
STEELE VOWS TO GO ‘BEYOND CUTTING-EDGE’.... The more RNC Chairman …
Discussion: TBogg
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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Ben Smith / The Politico:
Budget to kick off health care rewrite  —  At the end of the day last Wednesday, Obama aides and a handful of Senators hashed out the details of a $787 billion spending package in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office.  —  Larry Summers, the architect of the plan, was no longer in the room …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY SUMMIT.... Whenever President Obama or anyone associated with his administration utters the phrase “entitlement reform,” it generates an audible gasp.  The fear, of course, is that the White House might buy into conservative rhetoric about weakening Social Security.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Unfogged
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Hedge Fund Billionaire Pete Peterson Key Speaker At Obama …
Byron York / www.dcexaminer.com:
The RAT hiding deep inside the stimulus bill  —  The far-reaching — and potentially dangerous — provision that no one knows about.  —  You've heard a lot about the astonishing spending in the $787 billion economic stimulus bill, signed into law this week by President Barack Obama.
Joe Stephens / Washington Post:
Valenti's Sexuality Was Topic For FBI  —  Under Pressure, LBJ Let Hoover's Agents Investigate Top Aide  —  When Beltway insider Jack Valenti died two years ago at age 85, he was playing the role of intermediary between Washington and Hollywood as the theatrical, snowy-haired president of the Motion Picture Association of America.
Sacramento Bee:
Budget plan goes to Schwarzenegger after Legislature's OK  —  The deal is done.  —  The California Legislature voted early today to approve a massive budget package of tax increases, spending cuts and borrowing to close a $40 billion deficit after granting major concessions to one holdout Republican senator.
Jim Treacher / Mother, May I Sleep with Treacher?:
TOP 10 REASONS PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA IS NOTHING LIKE TRAVIS THE CHIMP  —  10. Travis understood TurboTax  —  9. Obama somewhat less likely to attack Biden  —  8. Travis never lied  —  7. Obama's smile not quite as genuine  —  6. Travis could get through entire day without teleprompter
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 …
Jeremy Page / Times of London:
Google Earth reveals secret history of US base in Pakistan  —  The US was secretly flying unmanned drones from the Shamsi airbase in Pakistan's southwestern province of Baluchistan as early as 2006, according to an image of the base from Google Earth.  —  The image — that is no longer …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
How Low Will Newspapers' Ad Revenues Go?  —  When Arthur Sulzberger Jr. refused to talk to his own reporter about the financial condition of the New York Times Co., it was the latest sign of an industry in deep trouble.  —  After all, the Times is not only the nation's top-selling metropolitan daily …
Discussion: The Other McCain
Michelle Malkin:
Gimme, gimme, gimme: More scenes from the anti-Obama entitlement backlash  —  So, a CNBC host is calling for a new “tea party” to protest Barack Obama's out-of-control spendulus/entitlement culture?  We've been doing it all week.  Seattle, Denver, Mesa.  Kansas this weekend.  And more outbreaks to come.
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.
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: protein wisdom and Romenesko
Erik Wemple / Washington City Paper:
WaPo Working with Roger Black  —  The Washington Post is undergoing a remarkable shrinking act, with some sections folding and others taking on more complicated identities.  Making it all happen will require some tweaks to the paper's design.  The paper's Web site, washingtonpost.com …
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
Betting on Bipartisanship  —  As far as most of Washington is concerned, Barack Obama's big talk about bipartisanship is kaput.  One month into his presidency, many pundits and political analysts have told him to drop it.  Get real, they say.  It bought you next to nothing on the stimulus bill.
Charles Mahtesian / The Politico:
GOP governors clash over cash  —  While Barack Obama's stimulus package faced nearly unanimous Republican congressional opposition, it also exposed an unmistakable fault line among the 22 GOP governors, several of whom took high-profile positions in support of the $787 billion plan.
Discussion: The Swamp and The Moderate Voice
Leila Fadel / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Iraq's Kurdish-Arab tensions threaten to escalate into war … MOSUL, Iraq — At the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Mosul, Khasro Goran, the deputy governor of Iraq's Nineveh province, is worried about the future.  —  Iraq's Jan. 31 provincial elections have been hailed …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
“Humane Alternatives”  —  Reading the pseudo-world-weary way in which some on the right in America still defend the use of torture, however euphemistically rephrased, always takes me back to Orwell.  Some want to define “actual” torture in ways that mean that freezing someone to near-death …
Discussion: Salon
Nicole Gatz / Daily Nebraskan:
Santorum speech excites crowd  —  Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum visited the auditorium of the Nebraska Union on Tuesday to present his idea that Americans do not truly understand why the United States is at war.  —  Santorum is passing through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln …
Discussion: PoliBlog, Think Progress and Wonkette
Gideon Levy / Haaretz:
Netanyahu, put your money where your mouth is  —  Why isn't Benjamin Netanyahu setting up a right-wing government?  Why isn't he carrying out the voters' will to position the right wing in power?  Why isn't he taking the opportunity that fell into his hands to form a government in tune with his doctrine?
Discussion: The Huffington Post and MyDD
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
Washington Post runs George Will's newest column without issuing a correction for his last one.»  —  On Sunday, the Washington Post printed a climate change denial column by George Will that contained several demonstrable falsehoods.  Despite the loud chorus of critics pointing …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and TalkLeft
Tony Messenger / Political Fix:
Sarah Steelman still on fence on running for U.S. Senate  —  JEFFERSON CITY — Former state treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Sarah Steelman is still deciding whether to run for Senate and face U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt in what would surely be a divisive Republican primary.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Drowning by Fire Hose  —  “Suppose my neighbor's home catches fire, and I have a length of garden hose. . . . I don't say to him . . . ‘Neighbor, my garden hose cost me $15 . . .’ ”  —  “When the town is burning, you don't check party labels.  Everybody needs to grab a hose.”
Discussion: Reason
 
 
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
“Hate Speech”: From a UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center study …
Maria Golovnina / Reuters:
Kyrgyzstan shuts U.S. base, NATO Afghan help sought
Albany Times Union:
Take a stand, Mr. Tedisco
Greg Mankiw / Greg Mankiw's Blog:
“Create or Save”  —  Now that the stimulus bill has been passed …
Discussion: Cold Fury and EconLog
 Earlier Items: 
Mark Murray / MSNBC:
FIRST THOUGHTS: NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP  —  From Chuck Todd …
Russell Storring / CBC News:
Going to war with the Yanks
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Leo Kolivakis / Pension Pulse:
Age of Deflation?  —  Stocks slid within striking distance …
Discussion: Redhot
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The Face of Shrillness  —  (updated below - Update II - Update III)
 

 
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Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
The Scott Trust approves the sale of The Observer to Tortoise, despite two days of strikes by Guardian and Observer staffers against the deal

Mark Stenberg / Adweek:
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