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Richard Harris / NPR:
Gulf Spill May Far Exceed Official Estimates … Watch the video of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill — This graphic requires version 9 or higher of the Adobe Flash Player. Get the latest Flash Player. — In this handout from BP, the main oil leak at the end of the riser pipe is seen underwater in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits — WASHINGTON — The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits from another agency that assesses threats to endangered species …
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Size of Oil Spill in Gulf Underestimated, Scientists Say — Two weeks ago, the government put out a round estimate of the size of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico: 5,000 barrels a day. Repeated endlessly in news reports, it has become conventional wisdom.
Christine Dell'Amore / National Geographic:
If efforts fail to cap the leaking Deepwater Horizon wellhead …
Erick Erickson / RedState:
BREAKING: We Have Elena Kagan's College Thesis — This proves Elena Kagan is an open and avowed socialist. The woman declares that socialists must stick together instead of fracture in order to advance a socialist agenda, which Kagan advocates. 1 — You can see for yourself right here (PDF).
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The Nation:
Judging Elena Kagan — This article appeared in the May 31, 2010 edition of The Nation. — Recommended by 1 — In what is by now an oft-quoted snippet from one of her law review articles, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan castigated the confirmation hearings of Justices Souter, Kennedy …
Charles Postel / Reuters:
Tea party: Dark side of conservatism — Tea partiers proudly proclaim themselves conservatives. And rightly so. — Tea party protesters repeat the conservative catchwords of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, who built their careers fighting the “creeping socialism” of civil rights legislation, Social Security and Medicare.
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Lloyd Marcus / American Thinker:
Media Demands, ‘Take Us to Your Leader, Sarah Palin!’ — Is Sarah Palin the leader of the Tea Party Movement? This is asked as a “gotcha” question by the liberal mainstream media of every spokesperson of the Tea Party Movement. The liberal mainstream media is so far out of touch …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
The New Normal on Abortion: Americans More “Pro-Life” — For second year straight, “pro-life” and “pro-choice” closely matched — PRINCETON, NJ — The conservative shift in Americans' views on abortion that Gallup first recorded a year ago has carried over into 2010.
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Walter Dellinger / Washington Post:
How I know Kagan isn't anti-military — The nomination of an anti-military leftist to the Supreme Court would make for a riveting story. But in the case of Elena Kagan, it's just not true. — When Kagan became dean of Harvard Law School in 2003, Harvard, like virtually every other law school …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Kagan Scrutinized for Hiring Record at Harvard
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Republican: Holder 'doesn't deserve to be attorney general' — A key House Republican on Friday said that Attorney General Eric Holder “doesn't deserve” to keep his job because of his handling of the failed Times Square bombing attempt. — House Homeland Security Committee ranking Republican Pete King …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
New Jersey Gov. goes off on reporter — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) had no patience for a reporter who questioned his “confrontational” tone. — At a press conference Thursday, Christie responded, “You know, Tom, you must be the thinnest-skinned guy in America …
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New York Post:
Wall Street bigs $kip O's glitzy Apple gala — By JENNIFER FERMINO in NY and GEOFF EARLE and CHARLES HURT in DC — Wall Street bigs snubbed President Obama last night at a big-bucks campaign fund-raiser at The St. Regis hotel in Midtown. — The gala — where tickets went for as much as $50,000 …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama rips executives, calls oil spill hearing a ‘ridiculous spectacle’ — President Barack Obama excoriated the companies involved in the Gulf oil spill Friday for failing to take responsibility. — In remarks from the Rose Garden after a meeting with cabinet officials about the ongoing spill …
Wall Street Journal:
The Democrats' Civil War — The Democratic primaries are generating nominees who are embracing, or even going beyond, the president's unpopular agenda. — What do Joe Sestak, Bill Halter and Colleen Hanabusa have in common? The left loves them. This is yet another reason Democrats are in trouble this fall.
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Health Care Reform Already Costs More Than We Thought It Would — There's been a spate of bad news recently about the health care bill. — Henry Waxman canceled his War on Accounting, not because there was a sudden breakout of common sense on Capitol Hill, but because his committee's …
Ezra Klein:
More evidence that oil isn't as cheap as it looks — Yesterday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski rose to deny unanimous consent to Democrats trying to pass a bill increasing the cap on damages for oil spills from $75 million to $10 billion. Murkowski saw a problem: “It would be impossible or perhaps close …
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Murkowski blocks oil liability bill
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Ezra Klein:
The good old days of low-information advertising — One of James Fallows's readers is skeptical about the long-term economics of online advertising: … What always interests me about this observation is the implication that offline advertising is similarly worthless.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Book: Rahm “begged” Obama for days not to pursue ambitious health reform — Rahm Emanuel spent nearly a week in the summer of 2009 aggressively trying to talk Obama out of moving foward with an ambitious version of health care reform, and by his own admission “begged” him not to do it, a book out next week reports.
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Charlie Crist unleashed: A wide-ranging interview with the newly independent one — ST. PETERSBURG — Something peculiar is going on with Charlie Crist. — He's on the cusp of losing public office, his lifelong party is attacking him mercilessly, and some of his closest friends are yanking …
Arizona Republic:
Governor out to rebrand Arizona over immigration law criticism — Acknowledging that Arizona has developed a serious image problem because of its tough new immigration law, Gov. Jan Brewer and tourism-industry leaders said Thursday that they will launch a new effort to stanch the flow of lost trade and convention business in the state.
Online NewsHour:
Exclusive: McChrystal Says Despite Progress in Afghanistan, ‘Nobody is Winning’ — JEFFREY BROWN: I sat down with General Stanley McChrystal at the Pentagon this afternoon. — General McChrystal, welcome. — GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, U.S. commander in Afghanistan: Thank you.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
We're Not Greece — It's an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the crisis in Greece is making some people — people who opposed health care reform and are itching for an excuse to dismantle Social Security — very, very happy. Everywhere you look there are editorials and commentaries …
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