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10:00 PM ET, May 10, 2010

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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
So Is She Gay?  —  It is no more of an empirical question than whether she is Jewish.  We know she is Jewish, and it is a fact simply and rightly put in the public square.  If she were to hide her Jewishness, it would seem rightly odd, bizarre, anachronistic, even arguably self-critical or self-loathing.
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Jane Hamsher / The Politico:
Wrath of the angry left  —  How hard will Senate Republicans fight the Kagan Supreme Court nomination?  Will legal lefties vent their anger at the White House for not picking a full-throated liberal progressives to battle Scalia and Alito?  —  Blogger, firedoglake.com and liberal activist :
Doug Heye / GOP.com:
The Problem With Kagan's “Defective” Quotation  —  Democrats and their allies on the Left and in the media are jumping on Chairman Steele's statement on Solicitor General Elena Kagan this morning, in which he raised concerns about “her support [in a law review article] for statements suggesting …
Russell Berman / The Hill:
RNC uses Thurgood Marshall speech to attack Supreme Court nominee Kagan  —  Republicans are questioning Elena Kagan's ties to a liberal icon and the nation's first African-American Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.  —  In its first memo to reporters since Kagan's nomination …
Jeffrey Toobin / News Desk:
Elena Kagan's Nomination  —  President Obama is set to nominate Elena Kagan, the Solicitor General, to the Supreme Court today.  —  I should make a disclosure.  I met Elena on our first day of law school at Harvard in the fall of 1983.  We were introduced by a mutual friend …
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Top Strategist Advises GOP To Prolong SCOTUS Fight To Block Obama Agenda  —  Liberals have been warning President Obama for weeks that Republicans and conservative activists would fight and seek to delay confirmation of his Supreme Court nominee no matter whom he picked.  Turns out they were right.
Roland S. Martin / CNN:
Opinion: A diversity double-standard  —  Editor's note: Roland S. Martin, a CNN political analyst, is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of “Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith” and the new book “The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House.”
Ezra Klein:
Will the court ‘become a conscious agent overturning progressive laws the way the court was before the New Deal’?  —  Simon Lazarus is public policy counsel to the National Senior Citizens Law Center and a frequent commentator on the Supreme Court and the intersection of the law and economic and labor issues.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
New York Times:
Kagan's Climb Is Marked by Confidence and Canniness  —  WASHINGTON — She was a creature of Manhattan's liberal, intellectual Upper West Side — a smart, witty girl who was bold enough at 13 to challenge her family's rabbi over her bat mitzvah, cocky (or perhaps prescient) …
Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:   Elena Kagan no longer thinks Supreme Court nominees should have …
Americans For Truth:
If Elena Kagan Is a Lesbian, She Should Say So because Public Has a Right to Know
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
GOP attacks Kagan by defending slavery. Seriously.
New York Times:
Obama Picks Kagan, Scholar but Not Judge, for Court Seat
Jon Ward / The Daily Caller:
White House bristles at mention of Elena Kagan's sexuality …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Fixed Terms for SCOTUS
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Supreme Irony - Kagan Nomination Ends Gay Marriage Hopes
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama's natural choice of Kagan
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Elena Kagan said “There is no federal constitutional right …
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Durbin: GOP could delay Kagan confirmation into August
Discussion: TPMDC
Erick Erickson / RedState:
The Great Disentangling Has Begun: What Bob Bennett's Defeat Means and Does Not  —  I'd like to think I might have some idea of what Bob Bennett's defeat means and does not mean.  —  After all, as with Marco Rubio, Doug Hoffman, and Marlin Stutzman, before others noticed, I was beating the drum …
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Ethan Wilensky-Lanford / Portland Press-Herald:
Activists redefine GOP platform
Discussion: Riehl World View and TPMDC
Brad Thor / Big Government:
EXCLUSIVE: Mullah Omar Captured!  —  Through key intelligence sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan, I have just learned that reclusive Taliban leader and top Osama bin Laden ally, Mullah Omar has been taken into custody.  —  According to the State Department's Rewards for Justice Program …
Discussion: The Jawa Report, Hot Air and RedState
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Fox News:
Clinton Accuses Pakistani Officials of Holding Back on Bin Laden Intelligence  —  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accused members of the Pakistani government over the weekend of practically harboring Usama bin Laden, raising questions about whether the U.S. is pushing hard enough …
Discussion: CBS News
Jim Galloway / Political Insider:
The Governator at Emory: 'I was going to speak in Arizona, but I thought I'd be deported'  —  California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger greets graduates at Emory University.  John Spink/AJC  —  California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave the commencement address at Emory University on Monday.
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Kevin Yamamura / Capitol Alert:
Schwarzenegger makes Arizona joke at commencement
Discussion: Think Progress and Ballot Box
BBC:
Brown to quit as UK Labour Party leader  —  Gordon Brown is to step down as Labour leader  —  Gordon Brown is to step down as Labour leader by September - as his party opens formal talks with the Lib Dems about forming a government.  —  His announcement came as he and the Conservatives woo …
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John F. Burns / New York Times:
Brown Says He'll Resign to Help Labour
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Confirmed: Apple and AT&T signed five-year iPhone exclusivity deal — but is it still valid?  —  The term of Apple and AT&T's iPhone exclusivity deal has long been a mystery — although USA Today reported a five-year arrangement when the original iPhone came out in 2007 …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New McCain ad: You cannot be serious  —  I don't know what to say, guys.  I'm genuinely speechless.  Pandering is one thing, shameless careerist pandering is something else, and then there's John “Goddamned Fence” McCain marching along the border in a badass Navy baseball cap looking …
Robert Samuelson / Real Clear Politics:
The Welfare State's Death Spiral  —  WASHINGTON — What we're seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state.  This isn't Greece's problem alone, and that's why its crisis has rattled global stock markets and threatens economic recovery.  Virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect.
Mark Landsbaum / orangepunch.freedomblogging.com:
Whitman lead shrinking dramatically  —  Not long ago Meg Whitman had such a huge lead - 50 points - over Steve Poizner for the GOP nomination for governor, many folks thought the race was over and started sizing up her chances against the Democrats' Jerry Brown.
Aljean Harmetz / New York Times:
Lena Horne, Singer and Actress, Dies at 92  —  Lena Horne, who was the first black performer to be signed to a long-term contract by a major Hollywood studio and who went on to achieve international fame as a singer, died on Sunday night at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York.
David S. Hilzenrath / Washington Post:
Limits to be placed on insurance coverage for dependents  —  Regulations drafted by the Obama administration show that there is a limit to the new requirement that health plans allow families to keep young adults on their policies up to age 26.  —  “The new policy applies only to health insurance plans …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Riehl World View
 
 
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Greek Bailouts: What are They Good For?  —  I vividly remember …
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John Herrman / Gizmodo:
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Young Republican Fed. Chair Resigns
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Poizner attacks from right on immigration
Discussion: CNN
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Gulf spill could boost energy reform
Discussion: Daily Kos and Climate Progress
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
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Jamison Foser / Media Matters for America:
Kathryn Jean Lopez' SCOTUS quotas
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Leonard Greene / New York Post:
iPad is iBad for democracy, Obama tells graduates
Discussion: Mediaite and Commentary
Jazz Shaw / Hot Air:
NYT Tells Greece to Abandon Socialized Medicine?
Felix Salmon:
Why volatility means you should sell stocks
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Dan / Riehl World View:
What The GOP Doesn't Get About Blogs
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
DCCC Pulls Out Of Hawaii
John / Power Line:
Are the Feds Trying to Nationalize Your Retirement Savings?
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: Divorce and Abortion: Red States and Blue States
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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