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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Dem lawmaker urges White House to release details on Sestak job — Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner (N.Y.) called on the White House on Monday to detail its conversations it had with Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) to have allegedly tried to convince him to drop a Senate bid.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama White House probe of Obama White House finds no Obama White House impropriety on Sestak — Obviously, nothing to see over here, folks. Move along now. — Joe Sestak, the newly-elected Democratic Senate nominee from Pennsylvania, repeated his assertion Sunday that somebody …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
NBC's Chuck Todd: White House correspondent, anchor, blogger, twitterer
NBC's Chuck Todd: White House correspondent, anchor, blogger, twitterer
FITSNews:
Will Folks: Letting The Chips Fall — Since I founded FITSNews three-and-a-half years ago, I've made more than my fair share of powerful enemies in this state. — One reason for that? I call it like I see it - whether you like it or not, agree with it or not, or even believe it or not.
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Logan Smith / WIS-TV:
Blogger, fmr. Sanford aide claims past affair with Nikki Haley — COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - A political blogger and former aide to Gov. Mark Sanford claims to have had a past romantic relationship with Republican gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley. Haley, who is married and has two children …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: Obama Versus the Corporations — So here's how it is: They're as mad as hell, and they're not going to take this anymore. Am I talking about the Tea Partiers? No, I'm talking about the corporations. — Much reporting on opposition to the Obama administration portrays it as a sort of populist uprising.
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John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Obama Is From Mars, Wall Street Is From Venus — Psychoanalyzing one of America's most dysfunctional relationships. — Thirty-eight hours after Scott Brown's smack-upside-the-head victory in the race for Ted Kennedy's former Senate seat, Barack Obama took the podium in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House.
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David Frum / CNN:
Just saying ‘no’ won't win it for GOP — Editor's note: David Frum writes a weekly column for CNN.com. A special assistant to President Bush in 2001-02, he is the author of six books, including “Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again” and is the editor of FrumForum
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Principles of Rand Paul — No ideology survives the collision with real-world politics perfectly intact. General principles have to bend to accommodate the complexities of history, and justice is sometimes better served by compromise than by zealous intellectual consistency.
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Despite Moratorium, Drilling Projects Move Ahead — WASHINGTON — In the days since President Obama announced a moratorium on permits for drilling new offshore oil wells and a halt to a controversial type of environmental waiver that was given to the Deepwater Horizon rig …
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Ryan D'Agostino / Esquire:
Eric Massa's Secret — Long before the Eric Massa scandal broke, the congressman carried the lonely burden of another secret that, if revealed, would turn his world upside down. An extraordinary look inside the mind of a man in the crisis of his lifetime.
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Daniela Altimari / Capitol Watch:
Blumenthal: “I have made mistakes and I am sorry.” — After nearly a week of criticism following revelations that he misrepresented his military record and five days after a press conference in which he expressed regret for his misstatements, Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Richard Blumenthal apologized.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Clinton to DoD? — As DiMascio, Rozen and I report this morning, some of Clinton's allies are talking her up as the next Secretary of Defense: — Gates, for his part, has saved Clinton from a different kind of marginalization by a powerful White House staff, which has a sometimes-rocky relationship …
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William Yardley / New York Times:
For Roaming Palin, Home Base Is Still in Alaska — WASILLA, Alaska — Stepping quickly toward his big black Dodge Ram truck, Todd Palin offered a few highlights of the weekend ahead. — His youngest daughter, Piper, had a dance rehearsal. His oldest son, Track, would be helping …
The Politico:
Reid angles for tea party foe in Nev. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has knocked down his leading Republican challenger, paving the way for a potential fall fight with a tea party favorite who may be easier to beat. — Reid's unceasing attacks on his biggest-name challenger …
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Washington Post:
One false move in Europe could set off global chain reaction — If the trouble starts — and it remains an “if” — the trigger may well be obscure to the concerns of most Americans: a missed budget projection by the Spanish government, the failure of Greece to hit a deficit-reduction target, a drop in Ireland's economic output.
Guy Adams / The Independent:
After keeping us waiting for a century, Mark Twain will finally reveal all — The great American writer left instructions not to publish his autobiography until 100 years after his death, which is now — Exactly a century after rumours of his death turned out to be entirely accurate …
Jamellebouie / Matthew Yglesias:
Liberals have been pretty successful — I need help understanding how OpenLeft's Paul Rosenberg can credibly argue that Barack Obama has manically embraced “discredited conservative ideas” and “helped enormously in extended the hegemonic continuity of [the] Nixon-Reagan Eara.
Jay Heflin / The Hill:
Report: Healthcare law tax credits encourage small businesses to stay small, not hire — A study by the National Center for Policy Analysis shows that tax credits in the new healthcare law could negatively impact small-business hiring decisions. — The new law provides a 50 percent tax credit …
Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post:
From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings — Six years ago, we built Facebook around a few simple ideas. People want to share and stay connected with their friends and the people around them. If we give people control over what they share, they will want to share more.
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Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
US Pavilion at Expo 2010 is a National Humiliation — Our group was briefly taken today to visit Shanghai's Expo 2010, which is kind of like a World's Fair. The whole concept seems a bit goofy to my eyes, but it's caused a lot of excitement in China and I think the way you have to understand …
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