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11:45 AM ET, May 27, 2010

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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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BBC:
‘Top kill’ method ‘slows BP oil leak’ in Gulf of Mexico  —  BP has slowed the flow of oil and gas from a ruptured well into the Gulf of Mexico, a US official told local media.  —  The company's “top kill” effort has “stabilised the wellhead”, Coast Guard commander Admiral Thad Allen said.
Discussion: Michelle Malkin
Bruce Nolan / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Thad Allen says effort to stop Gulf of Mexico oil spill going according to plan … An attempt to kill the runaway deepwater horizon well spilling oil into the Gulf of Mexico is going according to plan so far, leaving the coast guard admiral in charge of managing the spill “cautiously optimistic” but unwilling to say the well is capped.
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  —  Yesterday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — who at one point said that he would re-evaluate his support for the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy if military leaders like Colin Powell called for its repeal …
Dana Bash / CNN:
First vote on 'don't ask, don't tell' possible
Discussion: The Caucus
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.
Political Punch:
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.
Discussion: Politics Daily
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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Catalina Camia / USA Today:
Poll: Majority give Obama, feds failing grade on oil spill response
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 …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and SWJ Blog
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
President Obama's national security strategy looks beyond military might
Eli Lake / Washington Times:
Strategy focuses on terrorists at home
Discussion: ThreatsWatch
Michelle Malkin:
Todd Palin for border czar!  —  You've no doubt read about the Palin family's snoopy new neighbor, author Joe McGinniss, who has rented a house 15 feet from the Palins' backyard to conduct binocular-aided research for his Random House book.  I'll share more thoughts later on the media ethics issues and media double standards involved.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
A dang fence  —  The Palins are to Joe McGinniss what John McCain is to Mexico.
Discussion: The Plum Line and Gretawire
Shannyn Moore / The Huffington Post:
Sarah Palin Takes Up Fencing.
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.
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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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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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Kentucky libertarians: Rand Paul might not be libertarian enough
New York Times:
Obama to Extend Drilling Moratorium  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama plans to announce Thursday that he is extending the moratorium on permits to drill new deepwater wells for six more months and will delay or cancel specific projects off the coasts of Alaska and Virginia and in the western Gulf of Mexico, a White House official said.
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New York Post:   Where was plan A?  —  Do something, baby, do something …
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Bill on jobless benefits, state financial help scaled back  —  Under fire from rank-and-file Democrats worried about the soaring national debt, congressional leaders reached a tentative agreement Wednesday to scale back a package that would have devoted nearly $200 billion to jobless benefits …
Discussion: Calculated Risk
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David Rogers / The Politico:
Dems trim jobs bill to woo moderates
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.
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 …
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs
 
 
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David McGrath Schwartz / Las Vegas Sun:
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Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
U.S. withdrawal from Iraq will be on time, Vice President Biden says
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BBC:
Colombian beauty queen arrested
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John / Power Line:
Obama's Slide Continues
Joshua Rhett Miller / Fox News:
Wisconsin Veteran Must Remove Flag After Memorial Day, Wife Says
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Jawa Report
Joe Schoffstall / The Blast:
Obama Nominee: Sexual Sadism Should be a ‘Mitigating Factor’
Discussion: Hot Air and NewsBusters.org
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47% Now Hold Unfavorable View of Kagan
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