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2:20 PM ET, May 9, 2011

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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
President Obama dashes ‘Jimmy Carter’ label  —  So much for campaigning against Jimmy Carter.  —  In the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's death, Republicans are adjusting to a new political reality: with the bin Laden trump card now in President Barack Obama's possession …
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Colin Firth / CBS News:
President Obama on the mission to kill bin Laden  —  The president talks to “60 Minutes” in his first interview since the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden  —  Whether we like it or not, Osama bin Laden changed America.  With that September morning in 2001, he introduced fear …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Whose Foreign Policy Is It?  —  For those with eyes to see, the daylight between the foreign policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama has been shrinking ever since the current president took the oath of office.  But last week made it official: When the story of America's post-9/11 wars is written …
The Atlantic Online:
What If Bush Had Been President These Past Eight Days?  —  Ross Douthat: … These last eight days, as well as the last 10 years, suggest to me that there is only one American foreign policy; this default foreign policy is interventionist, moralistic, and militarily robust.  Everything else is commentary.
Juan Williams / The Hill:
OPINION: Ron Paul driving Republicans' White House campaign  —  Here's a news bulletin — it is becoming increasingly clear that we are living in a time when Republican politics are being shaped by a 75-year-old, 12-term Texas congressman with a son in the Senate.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
2012 and the Republican rescue fantasy  —  Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. - Talk to enough people around this key primary state and you'll learn two lessons, over and over again.  One is that there is absolutely, positively no unity among Republicans …
Discussion: Red Dog Report and New York Times
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Gingrich will announce presidential campaign Wednesday
Wall Street Journal:
Home Market Takes a Tumble  —  Turnaround More Distant After 3% Drop, Steepest Quarterly Decline Since 2008  —  The U.S. housing market's 1Q 2011 decline was the steepest in three years.  Additionally, a Zillow.com survey indicates nearly 30% of borrowers owe more than their homes are worth.
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John Gittelsohn / Bloomberg:
‘Underwater’ Homeowners Rise to 28 Percent, Zillow Says
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Osama Bin Laden wasn't on kidney dialysis, took herbal Viagra while living in compound  —  Osama Bin Laden wasn't on kidney dialysis - but he did need an herbal impotence drug.  —  “He believed in his own medication,” said his youngest widow, Amal al-Sadeh, who was shot in the leg …
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Matt Schneider / Mediaite:
Rosie O'Donnell: Without Due Process For Bin Laden, We May Be ‘Monsters’
Discussion: Verum Serum
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Tapes Show ‘Pathetic’ Side of Al Qaeda Leader: Experts
Discussion: The Reaction, Wonkette and FrumForum
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Trump: ‘I Am The Least Racist Person There Is’ Because A Black Guy Won The Apprentice Six Years Ago  —  Potential presidential candidate Donald Trump has often found himself in hot water for making racially-tinged comments — saying in the span of a single press conference, for example …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Unwisdom of Elites  —  The past three years have been a disaster for most Western economies.  The United States has mass long-term unemployment for the first time since the 1930s.  Meanwhile, Europe's single currency is coming apart at the seams.  How did it all go so wrong?
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Falsehood?  Or Mostly Accurate Prediction?  —  Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler isn't so enamored with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius after she made this claim last week: … Kessler gives Sebelius three “Pincocchios” (out of a possible four) and offers this explanation:
Discussion: Paul Krugman
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Washington Post:
On Medicare, reverting to a well-worn strategy
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Over 100 Michigan Law Students Walk Out Of Own Graduation To Protest Anti-Gay Speaker Rob Portman  —  Over 100 newly-minted lawyers walked out of their own graduation at the University of Michigan Law School on Saturday to protest the ceremony's commencement speaker, anti-gay Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH).
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Why I Will Not Support Jon Huntsman.  Ever.  —  “I cannot tolerate a man serving as our ambassador to our chief strategic adversary in the world plotting, while in that capacity, to run against the President of the United States.”  —  Ambassador Jon Huntsman is gearing up now to run for President of the United States.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Romney's GOP Supporters Tilt Upscale; Palin's, Downscale  —  Huckabee's support leans to the right politically, to the South geographically  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Republican college degree holders are more likely than those without a degree to support Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, 21% vs. 13%.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats See Strategy to End Big Oil Tax Breaks  —  WASHINGTON — Linking two of the politically volatile issues of the moment, Senate Democrats say they will move forward this week with a plan that would eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies and divert the savings to offset the deficit.
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Christie: ‘I am not there right now’  —  Washington (CNN) - With news that a group of influential Iowa Republican donors is heading to New Jersey this month to meet Governor Chris Christie and urge him to run for President, he again on Monday insisted he will not become a candidate for the 2012 nomination.
Discussion: Ballot Box, Associated Press and GOP 12
Journalism.org:
WHERE PEOPLE GO, HOW THEY GET THERE AND WHAT LURES THEM AWAY  —  Whatever the future of journalism, much of it depends on understanding the ways that people navigate the digital news environment—the behavior of what might be called the new news consumer.  —  Despite the unprecedented level …
The Politico:
Gay donors fuel Obama's 2012 campaign  —  President Barack Obama's reelection campaign is banking on gay donors to make up the cash it's losing from other groups of wealthy supporters who have been alienated and disappointed by elements of Obama's first term.
New York Post:
Hobbling gasbag  —  Gasbag Keith Olbermann can't seem to wrangle staff for his Current TV show, “Countdown.”  Still in need of an executive producer and other staff, famously difficult Olbermann has crawled back to his contacts at MSNBC, many of whom he offended while there, to beg for staff.
Julian Pecquet / Healthwatch:
GOP senator expected to release budget leaving Medicare alone  —  Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) is expected to unveil a budget blueprint Tuesday that leaves Medicare alone, the strongest signal yet that Senate Republicans have no intention of duplicating an ambitious — and controversial — overhaul put forward by the House GOP.
Discussion: CRFB.org and FrumForum
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama to meet with both Senate caucuses on how to cut deficit  —  President Obama will meet separately with Senate Democrats and Republicans this week to discuss how to craft a deal on a deficit-reduction plan, the White House said Monday.  —  Obama will meet with Democratic senators on Wednesday …
Discussion: FrumForum
John / Power Line:
Announcing the Power Line Prize  —  Our nation faces an unprecedented financial crisis.  Every knowledgeable citizen understands that the fiscal path we are on is unsustainable.  Indefinite continuation of the status quo is not an option.  There are only two possibilities: reform and collapse.
Discussion: TBogg and Pajamas Media
 
 
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Ariane De Vogue / ABCNEWS:
Obama Health Care Law: Challenge Inches Toward Supreme Court
Discussion: New York Times and Law Blog
Gideon Gil / White Coat Notes:
Wait for doctors visit as long as 48 days in Mass.
Discussion: Pundit Press and National Review
New York Times:
Seeking Business, States Loosen Insurance Rules
Discussion: Felix Salmon
Leslie Gelb / Wall Street Journal:
Mission Accomplished  —  Al Qaeda is no longer based …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Hill Poll: Voters see president's ratings bounce vanishing soon
Mike Brownfield / The Foundry:
Morning Bell: Obama's Attack on Private Industry
Discussion: TPMDC
New York Post:
Two tunnel security breaches cause scare in city
Discussion: New York Magazine
Keith Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
Solar Updates Marines' Arsenal
Discussion: Wonk Room and Climate Progress
 Earlier Items: 
New York Post:
Staten Island mom ‘hit’ boyfriend over head with cooking pot
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Debate Fuels a Long Shot
Discussion: The Other McCain
Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Monthly:
NCIS: Bureaucrats with Guns
Discussion: Yglesias
Wall Street Journal:
‘A Mistake of Principle’  —  Jeffrey Wiesenfeld never had a chance against Tony Kushner.
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Atlas Shrugs
Los Angeles Times:
Obama order could make corporate political spending public
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Peter J. Thompson / National Post:
Jonathan Kay: Geert Wilders' problem with Islam
Discussion: FrumForum and Jihad Watch
Donald Douglas / American Power:
Noam Chomsky Attacks Israel's ‘Expansion Over Security’ at UCLA Lecture on ‘Palestine in Crisis’
 

 
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