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9:05 AM ET, April 8, 2012

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Rich Lowry / National Review:
Parting Ways  —  Anyone who has read Derb in our pages knows he's a deeply literate, funny, and incisive writer.  I direct anyone who doubts his talents to his delightful first novel, “Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream,” or any one of his “Straggler” columns in the books section of NR.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
National Review fires John Derbyshire  —  The National Review has fired longtime columnist John Derbyshire following an article he wrote for an online magazine that was widely viewed as racist in nature.  —  “[Derbyshire's] latest provocation, in a webzine, lurches from the politically incorrect …
Faiz Shakir / ThinkProgress:
In 2009, Derbyshire Argued Women Shouldn't Vote: ‘Women Voting Is Bad For Conservatism’  —  The National Review's John Derbyshire isn't just an avowed racist and a homophobe.  He's also a misogynist.  In 2009, he authored a book that contained a chapter titled “The Case Against Women's Suffrage.”
Faiz Shakir / ThinkProgress:
Derbyshire In 2003: I'm A Proud ‘Racist’  —  Over at the conservative blog RedState, diarist Leon Wolf notes that in a 2003 interview, the National Review's resident racist John Derbyshire proudly proclaimed his lack of tolerance for African-Americans:
Rich Lowry / National Review:
Derb's Screed  —  Needless to say, no one at National Review shares Derb's appalling view of what parents supposedly should tell their kids about blacks in this instantly notorious piece here.
Josh Barro / The Barrometer:
Why National Review Must Fire John Derbyshire
John Holbo / Crooked Timber:
Needless To Say?  —  I'm a bit puzzled by Rich Lowry's degree …
Reuters:
Hamas executes 3 in Gaza, including ‘collaborator’  —  Terror group denounces man who allegedly helped Israel as a “traitor,” says executions were in accordance with religion, law.  —  Hamas executed three men on Saturday, hanging two convicted murderers and a Gazan found guilty of collaborating …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Sbhagav / CBS Baltimore:
Crowd Beats, Strips & Robs Tourist On St. Patrick's Day; Incident Caught On Camera  —  BALTIMORE (WJZ)- Caught on camera- a tourist being beaten in downtown Baltimore and instead of helping him, a crowd laughs and steals his belongings.  —  Mike Hellgren has the video and the investigation.
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: U.S., Afghans reach deal governing nighttime raids  —  The U.S. and Afghan governments signed an agreement Sunday on the conduct of overnight raids in Afghanistan, according to media reports.  —  Under the agreement, Kabul would have oversight of nighttime raids …
Discussion: Associated Press
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Mike Huckabee takes aim at Rush Limbaugh  —  Rush Limbaugh, the longstanding undisputed king of conservative talk radio who's been dogged by controversy recently, is about to face some more heat.  Not from the left, but this time from the right.  —  On Monday, former Arkansas governor …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
David P. Goldman / Gatestone Institute:
Short Supply, Not Middle East Tensions, Push up Oil Prices  —  “Right now the key thing that is driving higher gas prices is actually the world's oil markets and uncertainty about what's going on in Iran and the Middle East, and that's adding a $20 or $30 premium to oil prices,” President Obama said March 23.
Discussion: Cold Fury and Power Line
Paul Krugman:
On Ryan Apologists  —  In my next life I want to be a conservative policy scammer.  Think of how much nicer it would be.  Instead of constantly being accused of having evil motives, I'd be presumed to have noble intentions no matter how much the actual content of my policy proposals was at odds with such claims.
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Obama heads to the golf course  —  President Obama kicked off the sunny Easter weekend on Saturday with a trip to the golf course.  —  The president, a frequent golfer, left the White House shortly before 1 p.m. for a ride to what has become his home course at Andrews Air Force Base.
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Reuters:
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Uncorrected: Charles Blow Finally Returns To The Scene Of His Journalistic Crime
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