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Retiring from television is a lot like being a professor emeritus – you still spend time wandering around campus – but for many, Donaldson was a model, the first of a line of more brash, outspoken journos covering the White House. “I guess it’ll be on my tombstone: ‘He yelled at Ronald Reagan.’”

The NYT profiles GOP Whip Eric Cantor. In typical conservatives in the mist fashion, Cantor is a “new face” despite receiving a serious look as a potential VP in 08. But in a more insightful moment, they note the parallels of Newt Gingrich’s emergence in the resistance of the early 90s with the VA Republican’s.

Technology and obscenity: you know, for the kids. Twenty percent of teens in the United States admit to sending lewd pictures of themselves or others, but a crackdown on the practice is leading to multiple arrests of high schoolers (and sometimes even younger) on child porn charges.

U.S. Sen. Roland Burris has changed his story again about what happened before ex-Gov. Rod Blagojevich appointed him to the Senate, and state Republican leaders said Saturday they want an investigation into whether he perjured himself. Burris gradually has acknowledged deeper contacts with Blagojevich allies after initially portraying himself as a surprise pick for the […]