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4:15 PM ET, March 12, 2009

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee  —  Federal agents this morning are searching the office Washington, D.C.'s Chief Technology Officer.  —  The search of the office at 1 Judiciary Square is part of “an ongoing investigation,” said a spokeswoman for the FBI's D.C. Field Office, Lindsay Gotwin, said.
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WTOP.com:
2 arrested in FBI raid at Obama appointee's office  —  WASHINGTON - Two officials in the D.C.'s Office of the Chief Technology Officer have been arrested in a federal bribery sting, sources tell WTOP.  —  D.C. Office of the Chief Technology Officer employees Sushil Bansal and 40-year-old Yusuf Acar …
David A Nakamura / D.C. Wire:   Breaking: D.C. Tech Official Busted in Federal Bribery Sting
Del Quentin Wilber / Washington Post:
D.C. Official Arrested in Federal Bribery Sting
Discussion: DCist
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Steele, under fire, walks back ‘choice’ remark  —  RNC Chairman Michael Steele said today that despite telling an interviewer he supports “individual choice” and state-level decisions on abortion, he in fact opposes abortion and supports a Constitutional ban.  —  Steele said in a statement through an RNC spokesman:
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Matt Lewis / Townhall.com:
Blackwell: Steele Needs to Re-Read Bible, Constitution...  I just spoke with Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow at the American Civil Rights Union and a former Ohio Secretary of State, about Michael Steele's comments to GQ.  —  According to Blackwell: … Blackwell ran against Steele …
Mike Huckabee / Huck PAC:
MICHAEL STEELE'S RECENT COMMENTS  —  Comments attributed to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele are very troubling and despite his clarification today the party stands to lose many of its members and a great deal of its support in the trenches of grassroots politics.
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Rendell: Steele's ‘days are numbered’
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and The Politico
Melissa Clouthier / Right Wing News:
Get Off Michael Steele's Back
Discussion: Alarming News
Jimmy Orr / Christian Science Monitor:
New Limbaugh billboard slogan announced - creativity was not considered  — E-mail a friend - Print this - Letter to the Editor - Republish - - Get e-mail alerts - RSS  —  Setting a world record today for beating a dead horse, the Democratic National Committee will announce they've selected …
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John / Power Line:
THE WINNING BILLBOARD IS...  We ridiculed here the Democratic Party's lame contest for an anti-Rush Limbaugh slogan to be put on a billboard near his home.  The five “finalists” were, we thought, rather pathetic.  Just this morning, the Democrats announced the winner; click to enlarge:
Michelle Malkin:
Lamest billboard ever  —  I said last week that Democrat donors ought to question whether the DNC was using its money wisely by indugling in an anti-Rush Limbaugh billboard.  —  See, I told you so.  The Christian Science Monitor skewers the results: … FAIL.
David S. Broder / Washington Post:
The Country's Loss  —  The Obama administration has just suffered an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the lobbyists the president vowed to keep in their place, and their friends on Capitol Hill.  The country has lost an able public servant in an area where President Obama has few personal credentials …
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New York Times:
Madoff Is Jailed After Pleading Guilty  —  Bernard L. Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday to all the charges against him and expressed remorse for a vast Ponzi scheme that bilked investors out of billions of dollars.  —  Standing before Judge Denny Chin in United States District Court in Manhattan …
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Clyburn: Sanford jab ‘beyond the pale’  —  House Minority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) told me he thinks S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford's quip comparing President Obama's stimulus package to Zimbabwe's economic policies are “beyond the pale” — and suggested they might carry a racial subtext.
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David Rothkopf:
Why Freeman himself was wrong about what his defeat signified...  There was a lot I didn't like about the Chas Freeman debacle, but the thing I did not like most was the degree to which it offered apparent support to the “theories” of Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer.
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Los Angeles Times:
An open debate on Israel
Discussion: PostPartisan, Mondoweiss and TPMCafe
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Paved With Magnificent Intentions  —  Charles Dickens, who visited in 1842, described Washington as a “city of magnificent intentions” because of the incongruity between the city's grand aspirations and muddy, swampy actuality.  Today Washington's discrepancy is not architectural but political.
Discussion: The Foundry and Commentary
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Forbes:
How Low Can The Stock Markets Go?
Discussion: The Campaign Spot
Christine / FishBowlDC:
Pres. Obama Will Not Attend Annual Gridiron Dinner, First President Since Cleveland to Miss  —  A Gridiron Club member tells FBDC first that President Obama will not attend this year's dinner next Saturday, March 21st.  He will be the first president since Grover Cleveland not to attend the first Gridiron Club Dinner of his presidency.
New York Times:
Congresswoman With Ties to Bank Helped Seek Funds  —  WASHINGTON — Top banking regulators were taken aback late last year when a California congresswoman helped set up a meeting in which the chief executive of a bank with financial ties to her family asked them for up to $50 million in special bailout funds, Treasury officials said.
Hamza Hendawi / Associated Press:
Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush jailed for 3 years  —  BAGHDAD - A court convicted an Iraqi journalist of assault Thursday for hurling his shoes at George W. Bush and sentenced him to three years in prison, prompting an outburst from his family and calls for his release from Iraqis who consider him an icon for a nation decimated by war.
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Paul / Power Line:
BAGHDAD IN NPR'S PARALLEL UNIVERSE
Discussion: Jules Crittenden and BBC
Jennifer Parker / George's Bottom Line:
Third Top Treasury Pick Withdraws From Consideration  —  Democratic sources say that H. Rodgin Cohen, a partner in the New York law firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration.  —  It's the third withdrawal …
Stephanie Green / Washington Times:
Everyman Obama courts socialites  —  A workingman's White House cultivates Beltway ‘tastemakers’  —  While publicly identifying with the nation's have-nots, the Obama administration has been quietly cultivating the Beltway social elite behind the scenes.  —  Earlier this year …
Discussion: Townhall.com and Hot Air
Fox News:
Republicans Propose ‘No Cost’ Stimulus  —  This is a rush transcript from “Hannity,” March 11, 2009.  This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.  —  SEAN HANNITY, HOST: And in “Your America” tonight, another economic plan is also emerging tonight.
Maria Recio / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Obama: Troop move to Mexican border under consideration  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama weighed in Wednesday on the escalating drug war on the U.S.-Mexico border, saying that he was looking at possibly deploying National Guard troops to contain the violence but ruled out any immediate military move.
MsJoanne / TheZoo:
How DARE you say 9/11 happened on Bush's watch!  —  Oh boy...popcorn all around!  This from the Bush Legacy Revisionism Tour ™.  —  Chris Matthews asks Ari Fleischer about how Bush left the economy.  Fleischer answers 9/11!  9/11!  Then the money shot...  Priceless!
Discussion: Think Progress and Wonk Room
Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:
Sy Hersh: Cheney Ran Assassin Ring  —  Like many reporters, Seymour Hersh has a lot of trouble keeping a hot scoop to himself, and dropped a major bomb at the University of Minnesota the other night.  This is the second time he's spilled the beans on an upcoming story at a public forum:
TBogg:
The Galts of Gullible Gulch  —  Galt Gulch seemed so much bigger in the book  —  Threatened by “Obama's Thugs” which slims her pickin's mightily, Dr. Mrs Ole Perfesser assembles a crack panel of quarter millionaires (plus one dollar) who describe how they are going to Go John Galt.
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Makes Use of Signing Statements  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama signed a $410 billion spending bill Wednesday that includes thousands of pet projects inserted by lawmakers, even as he unveiled new rules to restrict such so-called earmarks.  —  At the same time …
Dave Orrick / TwinCities.com:
Donors, security experts blast Coleman campaign as credit card numbers show up online  —  Republican, aides suggest partisan motives in aftermath  —  Former Sen. Norm Coleman's campaign didn't do enough to protect donors' confidential information, and Wednesday that lapse came home to roost …
Telegraph:
Artificial life ‘could be created within five years’  —  Artificial life could be created “within five years”, researchers from the USA have claimed.  —  Laboratories across the world are closing in on a “second genesis” - an achievement that would be one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time.
 
 
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Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Americans Like Big Government
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Big Union Vows To Back Arlen Specter In 2010 If He Supports Employee Free Choice
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Jacob Sullum / Reason:
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Yahoo! News:
After Iraq, more US caution on preemptive attacks: Gates
Michelle Malkin:
Calling bull on ABC News & Time magazine's apologists for Pelosi
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
The White House Misfires on Limbaugh
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Sam Butterfield / dailycollegian.com:
Feder's hate crime speech cut short by protests
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Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:
No Skepticism on the Energy Gap
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Gristmill
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Political Science and Political Journalism
Erica Orden / New York Magazine:
Columbia J-School's Existential Crisis
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
KEEP YOUR EYE OUT  —  As I said last night, I think Michael …
Wall Street Journal:
Chris Dodd's Irish ‘Cottage’
Discussion: The Corner
Lisa Schiffren / The Corner:
Young Miss Palin
Discussion: Associated Press and Jon Swift