Obama’s Faster, Smarter Afghan Exit from Afghanistan (Leslie H. Gelb) from the Daily Beast
"Kudos for Obama and his team! They’ve announced a quick end to U.S. combat in Afghanistan—a surprise decision of strategic skill and political courage."
The World has Changed, Mr. Romney (Fareed Zakaria) from the Washington Post
"I’d like to call attention to a line you have used repeatedly: “This is a president who fundamentally believes that this next century is the post-American century.” I leave it to the president to describe what he believes, but as the author of the book “The Post-American World,” let me make sure you know what exactly you are attacking. “This is a book not about the decline of America but rather about the rise of everyone else,” I note at the very outset. I am optimistic about America, convinced that it can prosper in this new world and remain the most powerful country on the planet. But I argue that the age of American unipolarity — which began with the collapse of the Soviet Union — has ended."
Police to Investigate Alleged Email Hacking at the Times from the Guardian [of the UK]
"The Metropolitan police is investigating alleged email hacking at the Times, in response to a letter from the Labour MP Tom Watson."
Washington State Senate Passes Gay Marriage Bill from the New York Times
"Washington appeared almost certain to become the seventh state to allow same-sex marriage after the State Senate voted late Wednesday for a measure that would allow gay and lesbian couples to marry beginning this summer."
Top Susan G. Komen Official Resigned Over Planned Parenthood Cave-In (Jeffrey Goldberg) from the Atlantic
"Sources with direct knowledge of the Koman decision-making process said recent policies were adopted specifically to cut funding to Planned Parenthood."
Planned Parenthood Says Komen Decision Causes Donation Spike from the Washington Post
"Donors reacting to the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood contributed $650,000 in 24 hours, nearly enough to replace last year’s Komen funding, Planned Parenthood executives said Wednesday."
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Obama's Bodyguard (Howard Kurtz) from the Daily Beast
"Meet the Democratic leader who’s blasting Republicans and reaching out to a peeved Congress."
What Occupy Taught the Unions (Arun Gupta) from Salon
"SEIU and others are embracing the movement that has succeeded as they have faded."
Where Are the Romney Republicans? (Nicholas Kristof) from the New York Times
"The Republican Party used to be known for its moderate pragmatists. Then the party forced moderates like Mitt Romney to feign extremism just to compete."
Mitt Romney and the Poor People’s Safety Net Myth (Gary Rivlin) from the Daily Beast
"Romney’s claim that very poor Americans have a safety net is belied by the facts: jobless benefits and health insurance are limited, housing assistance has been reduced, and ‘welfare’ has been devastated by budget cuts."
Mitt Romney Won in Florida But Lost Overall (E.J. Dionne) from the Washington Post
"Mitt Romney can argue that winning ugly is still winning, especially in a contest he could not afford to lose. But Romney’s decisive victory in Florida came at a price. He aggravated Newt Gingrich’s hostility to him, with all the trouble that could entail, and left behind a dispirited Republican electorate in a state the GOP needs to win this fall."
Romney Is Kerry. Or Maybe Gore. (Jacob Weisberg) from Slate
"He’s too handsome, too rich, and too pompous to win the hearts of ordinary Americans."
What Will Happen if Obama Wins Again? (David Weigel) from Slate
"Republican voters in Florida answer the question that terrifies them most."
Romney Derangement Syndrome (on the Right) (Jennifer Rubin) from the Washington Post
"...it gets a little squirrelly when fatal flaws in Romney (the individual mandate, for example) become excusable in another candidate, or anti-wealth rhetoric that would never be tolerated on the left becomes not simply understandable but virtuous when voiced against Romney."
Have Democrats Succeeded in Pre-Destroying Romney? (Molly Ball) from the Atlantic
"Inside the left's little-noticed, relentless, brutally effective campaign to tear down the Republican front-runner in advance of the general election."
What is Wrong with This Guy? (Mark Steyn) from the National Review
"Romney says, "The poor are incorrigible, but let’s add a couple more groats to their food stamps and housing vouchers, and they’ll stay quiet. Aside from the fact that that kind of thinking has led the western world to near terminal insolvency, for a candidate whose platitudinous balderdash of a stump speech purports to believe in the most Americanly American America that any American has ever Americanized over, it’s as dismal a vision of permanent trans-generational poverty as any Marxist community organizer with a cozy sinecure on the Acorn board would come up with."
More to the point -- what is wrong with this commentator -- and the millions of conservatives who share his views!? Even Romney's "not the very poor" comment doesn't pass muster with this crowd!
The Trump Trap (Jennifer Rubin) from the Washington Post
"Donald Trump will be endorsing Mitt Romney later today, not Newt Gingrich as the entire political world believed up until a few hours ago. This raises a single question: What in the world is the Romney camp thinking?"
OLD NEW YORK CITY NUGGET!!
On That Spooky New York Leper Colony Everyone Is Talking About (Nicholas Jackson) from the Atlantic
"You've probably seen it on a trip to New York, but you didn't know that North Brother Island was once home to an infectious disease clinic."
WARNER BROTHERS CARTOON NUGGET!!
Every Time Daffy Duck Gets Shot in the Face in “The Hunting Trilogy” (Forrest Wickman) from Slate
"Between 1951 and 1953, legendary animator Chuck Jones directed his “Hunting Trilogy,” three short Looney Tunes that are among the classics of the form."
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