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Jim Tankersley / Los Angeles Times:
‘Top kill’ effort succeeds in blocking oil leak, Coast Guard admiral says — Thad Allen, who is coordinating the government response, says the well still has low pressure, but cement will be used to cap the well permanently as soon as the pressure hits zero.
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Donna Miles / American Forces Press Service:
Mullen: Proposed Legislation Retains Prerogative — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said yesterday that he's comfortable with proposed legislation that seeks to repeal the law that bans gay men and lesbians from serving openly in the military because it includes “very clear language” …
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Service Chiefs Seek to Delay Vote on Gays — WASHINGTON — The chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines objected on Wednesday to a compromise plan to repeal the military's ban on allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly, a position that put them at odds with President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.
Igor / Wonk Room:
BREAKING: McCain Asks Senate Armed Services Committee To Televise DADT Repeal Vote
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Family Research Council: End Of DADT Means More Gay Rape In The Military
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
A dang fence — The Palins are to Joe McGinniss what John McCain is to Mexico. — Or something like that. — Post Comment — Pages — No, the McGinniss is to Palin what McCain is to Mexico. In other news.... Todd worked for BP for 18yrs who is palling around with foreign oil cartels …
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Heather / Crooks and Liars:
Sarah Palin Gets a New Neighbor — Keith Olbermann talks to the Washington Post's Dave Weigel who apparently isn't too popular with the right wingers for defending journalist Joe McGinniss who has moved in next door to Sarah Palin while working on an unauthorized biography of the ex-half-term-Governor.
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:
US money supply plunges at 1930s pace as Obama eyes fresh stimulus — The M3 money supply in the United States is contracting at an accelerating rate that now matches the average decline seen from 1929 to 1933, despite near zero interest rates and the biggest fiscal blitz in history.
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Justice Scalia Praises Elena Kagan's Lack of Judicial Experience — ABC News' Teddy Davis reports: — Obama Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan has been criticized by some Republican senators for lacking judicial experience. But Justice Antonin Scalia, the High Court's most outspoken conservative …
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Suzan Clarke / ABCNEWS:
O'Connor Warns Kagan on ‘Dreadful’ Hearings — O'Connor Cautioned Kagan on ‘Dreadful’ Nomination Process — The first woman ever to sit on the nation's highest court has gotten behind Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, but warned her of the “dreadful, unpleasant” nomination process.
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
BP Used Riskier Method to Seal Oil Well Before Blast — WASHINGTON — Several days before the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, BP officials chose, partly for financial reasons, to use a type of casing for the well that the company knew was the riskier of two options, according to a BP document.
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
An early look at Obama's National Security Strategy — In unveiling his first formal National Security Strategy Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama called for “a strategy of national renewal and global leadership,” emphasizing U.S. economic strength as the foundation of American power …
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USA Today:
Is oil spill becoming Obama's Katrina? — The hurricane that drowned New Orleans and cast George W. Bush as out of touch swept across the Gulf Coast nearly five years ago. Now, as oil laps ashore in the very same region, local officials are asking: Is there another government-Gulf Coast disconnect?
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Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Yes, the Gulf Spill Is Obama's Katrina
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Lymari Morales / Gallup:
Americans Critical of Oil Spill Response; Keeping Close Tabs — President Obama's efforts rated more positively than BP's — WASHINGTON, D.C. — With President Barack Obama and BP taking their most aggressive steps yet in response to the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico …
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Roger Alford / Associated Press:
Rand Paul faces possible challenge, staff shake-up — FRANKFORT, Ky. — A week after a come-from-behind victory over the GOP's establishment candidate in a Kentucky Senate primary, Rand Paul is facing a possible challenge by the Libertarian Party and is shaking up his staff after comments …
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Scott / Power Line:
A thug too far, part 5 — When Nina Easton found a mob of union thugs demonstrating at her neighbor's Chevy Chase house last week, she used her professional skills to ascertain what all the fuss was about. She filed an illuminating report. The mainstream media have avoided the story.
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Wisconsin Senate — Wisconsin Senate: Feingold 46%, Johnson 44% — Businessman Ron Johnson, endorsed at last weekend's state Republican Convention, is now running virtually even against incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold in Wisconsin's race for the U.S. Senate.
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Mythili Rao / CNN:
Ads on NYC buses target those wanting to leave Islam — New York (CNN) — “Fatwa on your head?” a new series of provocative ads on New York City buses asks. “Is your community or family threatening you? Leaving Islam?” — The ads, sponsored by an organization called Stop the Islamization of America …
Isaac Wood / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
May House Update — GOP Gains Likely, Majority Uncertain — Like many beleaguered sports fans, as the calendar turned to 2010, Republicans across the country were conjuring up the same thought: “This is the year!” After disastrous House elections in 2006 and 2008, Republicans dropped …
Jana Winter / Fox News:
Feds Issue Terror Watch for the Texas/Mexico Border — The Department of Homeland Security is alerting Texas authorities to be on the lookout for a suspected member of the Somalia-based Al Shabaab terrorist group who might be attempting to travel to the U.S. through Mexico, a security expert who has seen the memo tells FOXNews.com.
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The Hill:
MMS director resigns amid criticism — The head of the Minerals and Management Services (MMS) has resigned. — MMS, which is charged with monitoring and regulating offshore drilling, has come under intense criticism since the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Presidential Planner — This morning, President Obama will meet with the NCAA men's basketball Ccampion Duke Blue Devils at the White House to honor their 2009-2010 championship season in the Rose Garden. — Keeping up the sports theme, the president and the vice president will take a photo …
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