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2:25 PM ET, May 13, 2010

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Bloomberg:
Kagan Was ‘Not Sympathetic’ as Law Clerk to Gun-Rights Argument  —  Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Finding Meaning in Kagan's Tie to Justice Marshall  —  WASHINGTON — In the spring of 1988, Justice Thurgood Marshall assigned a clerk, Elena Kagan, to write a first draft of his opinion in a case considering whether a school district could charge a poor family for busing a child to the nearest school, which was 16 miles away.
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Panel approves Liu nomination  —  Goodwin Liu, one of President Barack Obama's most controversial lower court nominees, cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a partisan 12-7 vote Thursday, signaling a fierce floor fight over one of the more liberal judicial picks of the Obama presidency.
Matt Corley / Think Progress:
McCain Attacks Kagan For Harvard's ROTC Policy …
Mark Arsenault / Boston Globe:
Kagan backers cite intellect, foes her slim written record
Discussion: Washington Post
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Sources: Dems Seek To Protect Lincoln By Delaying Action On Wall Street Reform  —  One of the most far-reaching pieces of the Senate's Wall Street reform bill has powerful enemies.  The White House doesn't like it.  FDIC chief Sheila Bair doesn't like it.  Obama adviser Paul Volcker …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘PARTY PURGES’.... Every time a major media outlet insists …
Discussion: PostPartisan
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Arizona lawmaker laughs at McCain's border fence ad  —  Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) couldn't contain himself Thursday when he saw footage of Sen. John McCain's latest campaign ad.  —  Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) couldn't contain himself Thursday when he saw footage of Sen. John McCain's (R) latest campaign ad.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
McCain: Obama ‘false’ on immigration  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says President Barack Obama is spreading “false” information about the Arizona immigration bill.  —  McCain was rebutting a joke the president recently made about the law that grants police in the state the ability to ask anyone …
Discussion: Swampland and Indecision Forever
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Oil spill: BP had wrong diagram to close blowout preventer  —  WASHINGTON — In the days after an oil well spun out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers tried to activate a huge piece of underwater safety equipment but failed because the device had been so altered that diagrams BP got …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
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Marisa Taylor / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Criminal charges likely from Gulf oil spill, legal experts say
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Revelations of Multiple Deepwater Horizon Failures; Criminal Charges Coming?
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Emptywheel
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House pushes back against criticism of NYC anti-terror funding  —  The White House rejected criticism of cuts to some New York City anti-terror programs Thursday, saying that overall funding for the city is higher than it was under President George W. Bush.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and The Impolitic
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Fact Check: New York's Homeland Security Funding Is Rising  —  Rep. Peter King: “The fact that the Obama Administration would cut New York's homeland security funding just 11 days after the Times Square car bomb attempt is dangerous and unconscionable.  —  Rep. Anthony Weiner …
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
The New Poor: The Economy Shifts, Leaving Some Behind  —  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Many of the jobs lost during the recession are not coming back.  —  Period.  —  For the last two years, the weak economy has provided an opportunity for employers to do what they would have done anyway …
City Journal:
A Hidden History of Evil  —  In the world's collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil.  It is widely understood that the Nazis' ideology—nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic state, the Führer principle—led directly to the furnaces of Auschwitz.
Louise Story / New York Times:
Cuomo Is Said to Question Banks' Influence on Ratings  —  The New York attorney general has started an investigation of eight banks to determine whether they provided misleading information to rating agencies in order to inflate the grades of certain mortgage securities, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation.
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Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
I Don't Like Roger Ebert  —  I love Twitter.  I use it all the time.  When I say use, hear it the way an addict would say it.  I use Twitter.  I'm pretty good at it too.  Not in the sense of having lots of followers, or being really popular, or anyone knowing who I am.
Scott / Power Line:
Dicks bent on appropriations gavel  —  In today's Politico, Jonathan Allen covers Rep. Norman Dicks's desire to assume the chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee.  Dicks seeks to succeed the retiring David Obey as chairman of the committee.  Allen reports that Dicks began burning …
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Jonathan Allen / The Politico:   The quiet war for Hill power
Wall Street Journal:
Voters Shifting to GOP  —  Republicans have solidified support among voters who had drifted from the party in recent elections, putting the GOP in position for a strong comeback in November's mid-term campaign, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
Quinnipiac University:
Sestak Surges Against Toomey In November Matchup, Quinnipiac University Pennsylvania Poll Finds; Corbett Has Small Lead In Governor's Race  —  U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, who has narrowed the gap against Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, also is surging …
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
In Kentucky's Senate race, ties to Mitch McConnell could be helpful or harmful  —  MONTICELLO, KY. — When Senate candidate Rand Paul told a lunchtime crowd at Shearer's Buffet that “we have to do things differently” in Washington and “bring 'em home and send some different Republicans,” …
Claire Bates / Daily Mail:
Jupiter loses one of its stripes and scientists are stumped as to why  —  Jupiter has lost one of its iconic red stripes and scientists are baffled as to why.  —  The largest planet in our solar system is usually dominated by two dark bands in its atmosphere, with one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.
Discussion: The Onion
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
U.S. SENATE RACE: Tea Party power fuels Angle  —  Ex-Reno assemblywoman moves up in crowded GOP primary field  —  Fueled by a burst of support from the Tea Party, Sharron Angle has rocketed into a near dead heat with Sue Lowden in the white-hot U.S. Senate Republican primary …
Discussion: Politics Daily, TPMDC, Daily Kos and The Eye
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Pentagon rethinking value of major counterinsurgencies  —  WASHINGTON — Nearly a decade after the United States began to focus its military training and equipment purchases almost exclusively on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, U.S. military strategists are quietly shifting gears …
Discussion: Firedoglake and WarIsACrime.org
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Our activists' coalition against Arizona's xenophobic immigration law is spreading: Diamondbacks CEO is nervous  —  Here's the audio from our activist coalition that sent a letter signed by all parties to Bud Selig and Major League Baseball, and we're demanding that they denounce Arizona's SB 1070 …
Daniel de Vise / College Inc.:
USNA reconsiders Herndon Climb  —  The Herndon Climb is a signature annual event at the United States Naval Academy.  Each May, a thousand first-year midshipmen surge to the top of a 21-foot granite obelisk coated with 200 pounds of lard.  The first mid to the top plants a midshipman's cap.
Discussion: The Other McCain
Conor Humphries / Reuters:
Russia warns U.S. against unilateral Iran sanctions  —  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the United States and other Western nations on Thursday against imposing unilateral sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, Interfax news agency reported.
 
 
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Same-sex researcher's defamation claim backed
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Mass. Catholic school won't admit lesbians' son
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BBC:
Venezuelan natural gas rig sinks
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Higher unemployment on horizon, posing big challenge for Dems
Discussion: Wake up America
Debbie Schlussel:
EXCLUSIVE: Miss USA Contestant is Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah Supporter …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Curtis Lum / Honolulu Advertiser:
‘Birther’ measure signed into law
Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. council bans most official travel to Arizona
 

 
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