| 8:16 PM: | Courts expect crush of cases during GOP convention. With September's Republican National Convention approaching, Ramsey County court officials are preparing to hold round-the-clock hearings for arrested protesters. MPR. | #13 |
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| 8:06 PM: | New Yorker cartoon cover w/Obamas. A small version of the New Yorker cover on Flickr. New Yorker. | #3 |
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| 8:01 PM: | 'New Yorker' Cover With Obama as Muslim. If it was meant to be provocative -- it succeeded. The cover of this week's New Yorker features Baack Obama in Muslim garb, with his gun-toting Afro-ed wife, an American flag burning in the fireplace. E&P. | #5 |
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| 8:00 PM: | Campaign: Obama cartoon tasteless. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is indifferent to his cartoon on the cover of the New Yorker while his supporters are angry. Press TV. | #10 |
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| 7:58 PM: | Lieberman Finds Middle a Tricky Path. Senator Joseph I. Lieberman's criticism of Senator Barack Obama has infuriated many of his Democratic colleagues. NYT. | #14 |
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| 7:57 PM: | New Yorker's Cover: Tastless and Offensive or A Bee Sting? My first reaction to the New Yorker's new cover is simple: New Yorker editor David Remnick has more guts -- for good or ill, I'm not sure -- than the entire hotel bar at a Magazine Publishers of America conference. The campaigns are both outraged. Time. | #8 |
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| 3:26 PM: | Who listens to blogging heads? Political blog readers tend to read just a few blogs. About 40% of them named only one political blog they regularly visit, and 90% said they read four or fewer blogs. LA Times. | #9 |
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| 2:05 PM: | Arnold may consider Obama energy post. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in an interview aired Sunday that he would be open to the idea of serving as energy czar in a Barack Obama administration. Politico. | #7 |
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| 12:14 PM: | Democrats Wave Goodbye to Lieberman. Sen. Joseph Lieberman next year will be kicked out of the party's caucus and lose his Senate chairmanship if he addresses the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., as planned. RealClearPolitics. | #1 |
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| 11:56 AM: | The Shame of Postville, Iowa. Deporting unauthorized workers is one thing; sending desperate breadwinners to prison, and their families deeper into poverty, is another. NYT. | #12 |
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| 11:07 AM: | Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama. "Can you get where he is and maintain your personal integrity?" she said. "Is that the question?" She stared at me and grimaced. "I'm going to pass on that." New Yorker. | #4 |
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| 10:43 AM: | Obama Picks Senators as Iraq Partners. Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican of Nebraska, and Senator Jack Reed, Democrat of Rhode Island, will join Mr. Obama on his first trip to Iraq as a presidential candidate. All three senators share similar views -- critical ones -- of the administration's Iraq policy.
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| 10:34 AM: | In House, Tweets Fly Over Web Plan. It began with a twitter from one of Capitol Hill's best-known technophiles. NYT. | #2 |
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| 9:13 AM: | John McCain goes online. McCain, who admitted in January that he is a computer "illiterate," now says he is "learning to get online." Politico. | #11 |
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| 7:20 AM: | Nouri al-Maliki ready to oust US from Iraq green zone. The green zone of Baghdad, a highly fortified slice of American suburbia on the banks of the Tigris river, may soon be handed over to Iraqi control if the increasingly assertive government of Nouri al-Maliki, the prime minister, gets its way. Times of London. | #6 |
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| 12:52 AM: | Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac's $5 trillion mess. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac own or guarantee $5 trillion worth of mortgages, nearly half of all the country's outstanding home loan debt. Now, both companies are teetering on financial ruin. How could the companies end up in such awful straits? Given the way they were created and run, a better question might be: how could they not? CNN. | |
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| 12:52 AM: | Obama cautious on steps to help Freddie/Fannie. Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said on Saturday he was confident "prudent steps" by the U.S. government would stabilize mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac but that it was necessary to see how the situation developed before deciding on what steps to take. Reuters. | |
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