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Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Poll: Reid's re-election numbers don't add up — CARSON CITY — Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds. — About a third of the state's voters …
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The Hill:
Kennedy's cancer in remission — Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain cancer is in remission and the Massachusetts Democrat is expected back in the Senate after the Memorial Day recess, according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. — Sen. Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday that he spoke with Kennedy's wife …
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Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Senate Democrats won't fund Gitmo closing for now — WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama's allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison until the administration comes up with a satisfactory plan for transferring the detainees held there, top Democrats said Tuesday.
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The Huffington Post:
Uighurs Fire Back At Gingrich From Gitmo: “Why Does He Hate Us So Much?” — Chinese Muslims known as Uighurs, detained for more than six years and counting at the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, are firing back at Newt Gingrich, who has accused them of terrorist ties and says that releasing …
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Satyam Khanna / Think Progress:
Reid: Guantanamo Detainees Should Not Be Held In U.S. Prisons — Today, Senate Democrats announced that the Senate will strip $80 million in funding for closing Guantanamo until the Obama administration devises a specific plan for transferring detainees. The move comes as conservatives …
David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Democrats in Senate Block Money to Close Guantánamo
Democrats in Senate Block Money to Close Guantánamo
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Jack Goldsmith / The New Republic:
The Cheney Fallacy — Why Barack Obama is waging a more effective war …
The Cheney Fallacy — Why Barack Obama is waging a more effective war …
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Andrew Martin / New York Times:
Credit Card Industry Aims to Profit From Sterling Payers — Credit cards have long been a very good deal for people who pay their bills on time and in full. Even as card companies imposed punitive fees and penalties on those late with their payments, the best customers racked up cash-back rewards …
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Nancy Trejos / Washington Post:
Senate Passes Bill Curtailing Credit Card Industry — The Senate today overwhelmingly passed a bill that would sharply curtail credit card issuers' ability to raise interest rates and charge fees, taking a critical step in reforming an industry that has gone largely unregulated for decades.
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
CIA Officials Fear That New Rules May Hinder Interrogations — Intelligence Officials Privately Warn That New Rules May Hinder Their Interrogations — Battered by recriminations over waterboarding and other harsh techniques sanctioned by the Bush administration, the CIA is girding itself …
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Pamela Hess / Associated Press:
Congressman, CIA dispute briefing list accuracy
Congressman, CIA dispute briefing list accuracy
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Here We Go — Walter Pincus commences the drumbeat …
Here We Go — Walter Pincus commences the drumbeat …
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Fox News:
Steele Threatens to Quit if RNC Undermines Funding Authority — Michael Steele, who is delivering a speech Tuesday on the future of the GOP, says some of the animosity in the RNC is from people in the party who supported other candidates for chairman. — FOXNews.com
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Steele vows to take Obama ‘head-on’
Steele vows to take Obama ‘head-on’
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Steele threatens to quit the RNC if he's pushed to become a ‘figurehead chairman.’
Steele threatens to quit the RNC if he's pushed to become a ‘figurehead chairman.’
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SteveK / TVNewser:
Anderson Cooper Says “Teabagging” Comment Was “Stupid, Silly” — CNN's Anderson Cooper spoke at UCLA Sunday as part of the Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture Series, and was asked about his “teabagging” comment last month during the Q&A portion. — Here is a video of his response, taken by an audience member.
Reuters:
CORRECTED - UPDATE 1-GM bankruptcy plan eyes quick sale to gov't — General Motors Corp's (GM.N) plan for a bankruptcy filing involves a quick sale of the company's healthy assets to a new company initially owned by the U.S. government, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.
John McCaslin / Human Events:
The Guy Behind the Palin Pick — RICK'S PICK — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin can thank Washington lobbyist and political consultant Rick Davis, chief executive officer of John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, for being the ultimate pick to become the Republican vice presidential candidate.
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama Avoids Test on Gays in Military — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has decided to accept an appeals-court ruling that could undermine the military's ban on service members found to be gay. — A federal appeals court in San Francisco last year ruled that the government must justify …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
The President's hair — The caption from the White House Flickr feed: “The youngster wanted to see if the President's haircut felt like his own.” — post comment | … Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1) — The son of a White House staff member during a family visit to the Oval Office May 8, 2009.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Relenting on Newt [UPDATED] — When the National Council for a New America launched last month, Eric Cantor's spokesman, Brad Dayspring, told me that Newt Gingrich hadn't been invited to join the National Council for a New America because he runs a “partisan” 527 organization, American Solutions.
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Rebecca Sinderbrand / CNN:
Gingrich signs on to GOP re-branding effort
Gingrich signs on to GOP re-branding effort
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John Podhoretz / Commentary:
The Old Time and the New Newsweek — Twenty-seven years ago, I began my professional career at Time Magazine as a reporter-researcher in the World section, which was devoted to international news. Generally speaking, the World section ran 12 pages in the magazine.
CNN:
Poll: Democrats and Repulicans agree on photos — WASHINGTON (CNN) - It isn't often that Democrats and Republicans see eye to eye. But on the thorny question of whether photos of U.S. military personnel allegedly abusing Iraqi prisoners should be released, a new national poll suggests Democrats and Republicans appear to agree.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Rumsfeld disputes GQ report — An aide to former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Keith Urbahn, e-mails to contest a widely discussed GQ article by Robert Draper, which suggested that Rumsfeld “appreciated” the practice of quoting Biblical quotations on the cover sheets of classified briefings …
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Dan Brown's America — The movie treatment of his novel, “Angels and Demons,” is cleaning up at the box office this week. The sequel to “The DaVinci Code,” due out in November, might bouy the publishing industry through the recession. And if you want to understand the state of American religion …
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Ryan Powers / Think Progress:
Rep. Hoekstra: Only I'm Allowed To Accuse The CIA Of Lying — In recent days, conservatives have been on a media blitz accusing Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) of lying last week when she said that she believed she had been “misled” by the CIA during intelligence briefings regarding the use of torture.
gqrr.com:
DCorps: New Survey Reveals Obama Closing the Democrats Historical National Security Gap — Democracy Corps — Research Categories … Executive Summary — A new Democracy Corps poll released by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner today shows that after 100 days in office, President Barack Obama has …
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Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
GPS system ‘close to breakdown’ — Network of satellites could begin to fail as early as 2010 — It has become one of the staples of modern, hi-tech life: using satellite navigation tools built into your car or mobile phone to find your way from A to B. But experts have warned that the system may be close to breakdown.