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Jack Healy / New York Times:
Job Losses Slow; Unemployment at 9.4% — The United States economy lost 345,000 jobs in May, the government reported on Friday, a sharp slowing in the pace of job losses that fueled hopes that the economy was on its way toward a recovery. — The recession continued to take a toll …
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Felix Salmon:
Unemployment datapoint of the day — Remember the stress tests? The baseline scenario had unemployment in 2009 at 8.4%, rising to 8.9% under the more adverse scenario. Well, we're only up to May, and already it's at 9.4%. — Bloomberg tries to find a silver lining to today's gut-wrenchingly atrocious unemployment figure:
Bureau of Labor Statistics:Employment Situation Summary
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Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:Jobless rate hits 9.4 percent in May; layoffs slow
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Jared Allen / The Hill:
Intel firestorm: GOP reveals briefing info — Republicans ignited a firestorm of controversy on Thursday by revealing some of what they had been told at a closed-door Intelligence Committee hearing on the interrogation of terrorism suspects. — Democrats immediately blasted the GOP lawmakers …
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The Corner:
The End of America's Strategic Alliance with Israel? — From an Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama's speech today in Cairo was deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and programmatically, Obama's speech was a renunciation of America's strategic alliance with Israel.
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
The Settlements — Charles Krauthammer has a misleading and evasive column about the Israeli settlements issue. He does not deal with the legality of these towns—he can't, of course, because they are illegal under the fourth Geneva Convention, which provides rules for occupying powers.
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:Barack Obama's Israeli Settlements Canard
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Faiz Shakir / Think Progress:
Inhofe Rips Obama As ‘Un-American,’ Suggests He's On The Side Of Terrorists — Reacting to President Obama's outreach to the Muslim world yesterday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) decried the president's speech as “un-American” and even suggested Obama might be on the side of terrorists:
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Keeping Them Honest — “I appreciate your efforts, and look forward to working with you so that the Congress can complete health care reform by October.” So declared President Obama in a letter this week to Senators Max Baucus and Edward Kennedy. The big health care push is officially on.
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Wall Street Journal:
Nominee's Criminal Rulings Tilt to Right of Souter — WASHINGTON — While Judge Sonia Sotomayor stands in the liberal mainstream on many issues, her record suggests that the Supreme Court nominee could sometimes rule with the top court's conservatives on questions of criminal justice.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
MSNBC Shrugs About Liz Cheney's Over-Exposure: “Liz Is A Great Guest” — MSNBC is shrugging off the growing criticism of the extensive airtime the network has granted Liz Cheney to mount a political defense of her father and a political offensive against the Obama administration …
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Cheney and Pelosi Have Poor Ratings in Common — Pelosi's ratings down, while Cheney's improved from record low — PRINCETON, NJ — Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Dick Cheney have little in common politically, but they receive almost identical image ratings from the American public.
Victor Zapanta / Think Progress:
McHugh on DADT: I have no interest in excluding people ‘otherwise qualified to serve.’ — After President Obama named Rep. John McHugh (R-NY) as his nominee for Secretary of the Army, progressives have been working to better understand McHugh's current position on “Don't Ask, Don't Tell,” the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
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Washington Wire:
Remarks From Obama, Merkel News Conference — President Barack Obama called “for all of us to redouble our efforts” toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states. Alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel one day after his trip to the Middle East, Obama said: “The United States can't force peace upon the parties.”
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Michael Andrews / DailyTech:
NASA Study Acknowledges Solar Cycle, Not Man, Responsible for Past Warming — Report indicates solar cycle has been impacting Earth since the Industrial Revolution — Some researchers believe that the solar cycle influences global climate changes. They attribute recent warming trends to cyclic variation.
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Deborah Solomon / Wall Street Journal:
White House Set to Appoint a Pay Czar — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to appoint a “Special Master for Compensation” to ensure that companies receiving federal bailout funds are abiding by executive-pay guidelines, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Jerusalem Post:
Settlers build ‘Oz Yehonatan’ outpost — Article's topics: Barack Obama, Settlements — A day after US President Barack Obama reiterated his call to stop settlement activity during a speech in Cairo, defiant settlers continued to erect illegal structures in the West Bank …
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Jeff Stein / SpyTalk:
Exclusive: Mudd Withdraws as DHS Intelligence Chief (Updated) — The White House confirmed this afternoon it was withdrawing Phil Mudd from Senate consideration to be the Department of Homeland Security's intelligence chief. — Mudd, a career CIA employee who is currently the head of FBI counterterrorism, said the choice was his.
Wall Street Journal:
FDIC Pushes Purge at Citi — Bair Wants to Shake Up Management, Sought to Cut Rating of Bank's Health — WASHINGTON — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is pushing for a shake-up of Citigroup Inc.'s top management, imperiling Chief Executive Vikram Pandit, people familiar with the matter said.
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John / Power Line:
It Could Be Worse — Much has been made of President Obama's “on the other hand” transition, in his speech yesterday, from the Holocaust to the travails of the Palestinians. Some thought that he implied a kind of equivalence. But the appalling Tom Brokaw reminded us that it could have been worse …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republican senator seeks to outlaw tobacco — A Republican senator who is also a doctor is calling for a new era of Prohibition — outlawing cigarette smoking and other tobacco use. — The unlikely demand comes from Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), one of the staunchest free-market conservatives in the Senate.
Lymari Morales / Gallup:
Conservatives Shift in Favor of Openly Gay Service Members — Weekly churchgoers also show double-digit increase in support from 2004 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans are six percentage points more likely than they were four years ago to favor allowing openly gay men and lesbian women to serve in the military, 69% to 63%.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IT TAKES REAL EFFORT TO BE THIS AWFUL.... Once in a while, Sean Hannity's painful on-air antics are so over the top, they're almost hard to believe. — Last night, for example, whining incessantly about President Obama's speech in Cairo, Hannity told Fox News viewers that the president …
Mike Hale / ArtsBeat:
Review: Glenn Beck, Simulcasting Discontent — Before starting his performance Thursday night at the Midland Theater in Kansas City, Mo., which was simulcast to more than 440 movie houses around the country, Glenn Beck walked over to the camera, waved, and acknowledged the critic for The New York Times.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Racist Knows the Pain of Being Called Racist — This is pretty rich — both for Sen. Sessions (R-AL) and CNN for taking his line at face value. Sessions is saying he can feel Sonia Sotomayor's pain over being called a ‘racist’ since he was called a ‘racist’ too.
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