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Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Pelosi turns down Sunday show invitations — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) turned down invitations to be on several Sunday morning talk shows and is instead spending the weekend with her family. — The Speaker was invited to appear on NBC's “Meet the Press,” ABC's “This Week,” …
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Steyn: Pelosi's tortured press performance — Let's just cut to the chase and handcuff Cheney and Pelosi to a radiator in a CIA safe house somewhere. — Recommend — Uh-oh. Nancy Pelosi's performance at her press conference re: waterboarding has raised, according to The Washington Post …
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:Pelosi May 2002 Statement Casts Further Doubt On Her Claims
Mike Madden / Salon:Cheney's torture trap for Democrats
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Washington Post:
Republican Governor of Utah Selected to Be Envoy to China — Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. (R) will be introduced today as President Obama's choice as ambassador to China, a source familiar with the decision said last night. — Huntsman, 48, was mentioned this spring as a potential Republican contender …
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Al Giordano / The Field on the Narcosphere:
Huntsman to China: It's About Romney — When, a day before the 2008 Tsunami Tuesday primaries, Michelle Obama visited with top apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints, eyebrows were raised. What was the Obama campaign doing reaching out to Mormons, some said, who have long been a reliable voting bloc for Republicans?
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The Politico:
Huntsman chosen China ambassador — President Barack Obama named Republican Utah Gov. Jon M. Huntsman Jr. as his pick for ambassador to China, likely removing one of his strongest potential challengers in the 2012 presidential campaign from the running. — In an unusual Saturday announcement …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Don't Wince. Fight! — Dick Cheney, Most Valuable Republican. — When accused of being too aggressive on behalf of the United States at the United Nations, Daniel Patrick Moynihan was fond of repeating a French proverb: “Cet animal est fort méchant, / Quand on l'attaque il se défend.”
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Conservatives Map Strategies on Court Fight — WASHINGTON — If President Obama nominates Judge Diane P. Wood to the Supreme Court, conservatives plan to attack her as an “outspoken” supporter of “abortion, including partial-birth abortion.” — If he nominates Judge Sonia Sotomayor …
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Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal:Sessions Favors Judge for High Court
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Victoria Toensing / Wall Street Journal:
Critics Still Haven't Read the ‘Torture’ Memos — The CIA proposed the methods. The Justice Department gave its advice. — Printer — Friendly — Sen. Patrick Leahy wants an independent commission to investigate them. Rep. John Conyers wants the Obama Justice Department to prosecute them.
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David Weigel / The Washington Independent:
Happy ‘Whitey Tape’ Eve! — One year ago tomorrow—May 16, 2008—former CIA analyst and current security consultant Larry Johnson put up this blog post at his site “No Quarter.” … Johnson posted a video of a then-current Tennessee Republican ad attacking Michelle Obama, then continued his argument.
Mark Silva / The Swamp:
Obama abroad: Ghana, Italy, Moscow — The president, with an avowed goal of reengaging the United States in international diplomacy on a wide array of fronts, will add Africa to his travels abroad this summer. — The White House, in announcing today the date of a trip to Moscow …
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Jonah Lehrer / New Yorker:
DON'T! — The secret of self-control. — In the late nineteen-sixties, Carolyn Weisz, a four-year-old with long brown hair, was invited into a “game room” at the Bing Nursery School, on the campus of Stanford University. The room was little more than a large closet, containing a desk and a chair.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A NEW FOUNDATION.... When presidents pursue an ambitious agenda, which breaks with the recent past, the larger vision tends to get a name. We've seen a “New Deal,” a “Square Deal,” a “Fair Deal,” a “New Frontier,” and the drive for a “Great Society.” — President Obama is subtly hoping to build a “New Foundation.”
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Terry Frieden / CNN:
U.S. sends Gitmo detainee to France for release — WASHINGTON (CNN) — U.S. officials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have released a well-known Algerian detainee and flown him to France, where he will be allowed to join family members. — French officials said they agreed to accept Lakhdar Boumediene …
Wall Street Journal:
Obama Aims to Trim Party's Money Gap With GOP — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is taking up a new role for the Democratic Party: Fund-Raiser-in-Chief. — This Sunday, following his commencement speech at Notre Dame, he headlines a $15,000-a-couple event in Indianapolis.
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Biden Reveals Classified Information? — Joe Biden is proving impossible to parody. — In one of the few funny jokes at the White House correspondents dinner, Wanda Sykes won loud laughter when she joked that terrorists interested in learning America's most important secrets would only have to ask Biden how he's doing.
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