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7:15 PM ET, April 20, 2009

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Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
History Professor Gingrich Falsely Claims U.S. Presidents Don't ‘Smile And Greet’ Russian Leaders  —  Yesterday, President Obama shook hands and briefly chatted with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, explaining in a press conference afterwards that he was trying to move towards a “more constructive” …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE HANDSHAKE.... It's early Monday, and you know what that means: time for a new coordinated conservative tantrum.  The freak-out over the Department of Homeland Security and domestic threats is so last week.  The new fit is over President Obama shaking hands with the President of Venezuela at the Summit of the Americas.
Carol E. Lee / The Politico:
Gingrich slams Obama over Chavez  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tore into President Barack Obama Monday for his friendly greeting of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying Obama is bolstering the “enemies of America.”  —  Gingrich appeared on a number of morning talk shows comparing Obama …
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Cheney: Torture memos miss ‘success’
Discussion: The Politico
John Feehery / The Hill's Pundits Blog:   Hugging Hugo  —  The pictures over the weekend were pretty incredible.
Associated Press:
Delegates walk out on Ahmadinejad at Geneva  —  Article's topics: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Durban 2  —  As Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for the eradication of Israel in his address to the United Nations anti-racism conference which  —  opened its week long event in Geneva on Monday …
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Times of London:
Walkout at UN conference after Iran president calls Israel ‘racist’  —  British delegates joined a dramatic diplomatic walkout today when President Ahmadinejad of Iran told a major UN conference against racism that the state of Israel had been founded “on the pretext of Jewish suffering” during the Second World War.
Edward Cody / Washington Post:
Iranian President Causes Uproar with Anti-Israel Speech
Discussion: Power Line and Pajamas Media
Ron Kampeas / blogs.jta.org:
Why the Harman leaks smell to high heaven  —  I just posted a brief picking up this CQ Politics story by Jeff Stein, re-raising allegations that U.S. Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) attempted to intervene on behalf of Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman, the two former AIPAC staffers charged …
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:   Surveillance and Political Corruption
Jeff Stein / CQ Politics:
Sources: Wiretap Recorded Rep. Harman Promising to Intervene for AIPAC
Ali Frick / Think Progress:
Gibbs confirms that torture memo authors are ‘not being held accountable.’  —  Yesterday, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said that when it came to the Bush administration's illegal torture program, “those who devised the policies...should not be prosecuted.”
Discussion: Newsweek, On Deadline and Hullabaloo
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Meghan McCain / Blogs and Stories:
Karl Rove, Twitter Creep  —  Blogs and Stories  —  Meghan McCain says we need to take back Twitter from the creepy people—like Karl Rove, “America's Toughest Sheriff,” and the other undesirables who now follow her every Tweet.  —  Karl Rove follows me on Twitter.  That's creepy.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
The Times Wins 5 Pulitzer Prizes  —  The New York Times won five Pulitzer Prizes in journalism on Monday, the second-most in its history, for work on subjects as varied as America's wars in Asia, the sudden downfall of a political titan, art from ancient to modern, and a history-making presidential campaign.
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Michael Calderone / Michael Calderone's Blog:
NYT leads pack with five Pulitzers
Discussion: TPMDC and MoJo Blog Posts
Access Hollywood:
Miss California: My Sister Is A Gay Rights Activist  —  Pageants,LGBT,Billy Bush,Celebrities  —  Her opinions on same-sex marriage may have cost Miss California the Miss USA crown on Sunday night - but in an interview with Billy Bush for “The Billy Bush Show” and Access Hollywood on Monday morning …
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Rasmussen Reports:
51% View Tea Parties Favorably, Political Class Strongly Disagrees  —  Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans have a favorable view of the “tea parties” held nationwide last week, including 32% who say their view of the events is Very favorable.  —  Thirty-three percent (33%) …
Michael Barone / www.washingtonexaminer.com:
Back to the future: Obama's foreign policy  —  Senior Political Analyst  —  As Barack Obama finishes up his second major foreign tour, a pattern in his approach to foreign policy seems to be emerging.  On pressing matters of obvious importance, he has made responsible decisions …
Discussion: Hot Air
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Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
In Shift, Obama Doesn't Plan to Reopen Nafta Talks
Discussion: MyDD
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
RUDY RIPS GOV'S BID FOR GAY NUPS  —  RUDY GIULIANI is declaring war on gay marriage — vowing to use his strong opposition of it against the Democrats if he runs for governor next year.  —  The former mayor, in an extended interview with The Post, also predicted that Gov. Paterson's high-profile effort …
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Kenneth Lovett / NY Daily News:
Has gay marriage reached a tipping point in New York? …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Axelrod Inner Circle  —  White House senior adviser David Axelrod.  AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais  —  UPDATE, 2:40 p.m.: Two more additions to the weekly Wednesday meetings of White House adviser David Axelrod's inner circle.  —  • Jim Messina: Messina …
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Jon Ward / Washington Times:
Axelrod: Anti-Americanism now ‘not cool’
Discussion: Hot Air
Washington Post:
Sources: Chrysler Financial Refused Government Loan Over Limits on Executive Pay  —  Top officials at Chrysler Financial turned away a $750 million government loan because executives didn't want to abide by new federal limits on pay, sources familiar with the matter say.
Robert Reich / TPMCafe:
Where Government Spending Should be Trimmed — And Why It's Necessary to Fast-Track Universal Health Care  —  It's no accident that as Congress returns this week from its two-week recess and begins debate on the $3.5 trillion budget plans for the fiscal year starting in October …
Discussion: D-Day
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Ann Arbor / MLive.com:
based law center sues Homeland Security over ‘right-wing extremism’ issue  —  The Ann Arbor-based Thomas More Law Center says it has filed a federal lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.  —  The non-profit law firm said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Napolitano: Returning vets too stupid to avoid extremists
Discussion: The Hill
Bloomberg:
Treasury Says ‘No Basis’ to Report on Bank Testing  —  A U.S. Treasury spokesman said there's no basis to a blog posting that buffeted financial stocks by saying that most of the nation's largest banks are insolvent.  —  Andrew Williams, a Treasury spokesman, dismissed the report from Hal Turner …
Discussion: Felix Salmon
Matthew Wagner / Jerusalem Post:
NU's Katz reminds Emanuel he's Jewish  —  Article's topics: Ya'acov Katz, Rahm Emanuel, King Ahashverosh  —  National Union chairman Ya'acov “Ketzele” Katz sent a letter to White House chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel last week admonishing him not to forget his Jewish and Israeli origins.
Gabriel Sherman / New York Magazine:
The Wail of the 1%  —  As the privileged class loses its privileges, a collective moan rises from the canyons of Wall Street.  —  Shortly after 1:30 on the afternoon of March 18, two dozen traders in AIG's financial-products division stepped away from their Bloomberg terminals …
The Huffington Post:
Pundits Whitewash Torture  —  On the Sunday morning news programs, several pundits went out of their way to either endorse waterboarding and other techniques endorsed in the torture memos - or to dismiss the idea of holding their authors responsible.  —  On ABC News' “This Week With George Stephanopoulos …
Discussion: Salon and Wonkette
Murray Waas / The Atlantic Online:
A U.S. Attorney's Story  —  Dan Bogden, who served as the United States attorney from Nevada until he was abruptly dismissed from his job during the infamous wave of firings of U.S. attorneys in late 2006, hoped to someday learn why he was let go.  By most accounts, Bogden had served …
 
 
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Laura Rozen / The Cable:
30 hours of Brownback v. Hill?
Michael Amon / Newsday:
Peter King standing by Muslim comments
Discussion: RedState
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Another Key Dem Senator Won't Say Whether He'll Cast Key Vote For EFCA
Eric Hananoki / The Huffington Post:
The Michele Bachmann Reality Show
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Second Amendment Incorporated by Ninth Circuit Panel, in Nordyke v. King.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
John Boehner Deems It “Almost Comical” to Say Carbon Dioxide is Harmful
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michael Wolff / Newser:
Eliot Spitzer Knows What He's Doing
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Gawker
John Pomfret / Washington Post:
Jackie Chan's Jab at Freedom
Discussion: FP Passport, UN Dispatch and TIME.com
Tina Brown / Blogs and Stories:
Boyle and the Invisible Women
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Declining Demographics of Suburbanism
Discussion: naked capitalism and Portfolio
Dan Collins / protein wisdom:
Witness to State Dept. Contractor Misconduct Murdered
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Al-Qaeda Pushing Back on New, More Popular American Leadership
 

 
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Katie Kilkenny / The Hollywood Reporter:
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