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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
EXCLUSIVE: White House asked Bill Clinton to talk to Joe Sestak about Senate run — Senior White House advisers asked former President Bill Clinton to talk to Joe Sestak about whether he was serious about running for Senate, and to feel out whether he'd be open to other alternatives, according to sources familiar with the situation.
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Bill Clinton rips left in Arkansas race — LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Former President Bill Clinton returned to his home state Friday to help a beleaguered ally and delivered a broadside against some of the most powerful interests in the Democratic Party. — Using unusually vivid language …
Peter Baker / The Caucus:
White House Used Bill Clinton to Ask Sestak to Drop Out of Race — President Obama's chief of staff used former President Bill Clinton as an intermediary to see if Representative Joe Sestak would drop out of a Senate primary if given a prominent, but unpaid, advisory position, people briefed on the matter said Friday.
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The White House:
Memorandum from White House Counsel Regarding the Review of Discussions Relating to Congressman Sestak — MEMORANDUM FROM ROBERT F. BAUER, WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL — We have concluded that allegations of improper conduct rest on factual errors and lack a basis in the law. — Secretary of the Navy.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
How the Sestak job offer became a big deal — Party leaders and campaign operatives — on nearly a daily basis — approach challenger candidates seeking to disrupt the established political order with a simple message: Get out or else. — And so, the report this morning …
David Weigel / Right Now:
Issa: White House memo doesn't hold up, Clinton and Sestak need to answer questions
Issa: White House memo doesn't hold up, Clinton and Sestak need to answer questions
Fox News:
White House Asked Bill Clinton to Urge Sestak to Drop Out of Senate Race
White House Asked Bill Clinton to Urge Sestak to Drop Out of Senate Race
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Simon Maloy / Media Matters for America:
Glenn Beck smears Obama's 11-year-old daughter — Glenn Beck, who repeatedly and angrily tells his alleged persecutors to “leave the families alone,” spent a good chunk of his radio program this morning mocking and attacking the intelligence of President Obama's 11-year-old daughter, Malia.
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JammieWearingFool:
Pathetic: BP Buses in Temps for Obama Photo Op — Maybe the alternate photo caption should read something like “I can see the end of my presidency from here.” Well, we all figured this would be a carefully choreographed photo op for the current occupant of the White House …
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Richard Rainey / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
BP buses cleanup crews to Grand Isle for Obama's visit, councilman says … BP, the oil company taking flak for its inconsistent response to the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, bused in 400 extra cleanup workers to Grand Isle during President Obama's visit today, Jefferson Parish Council Chairman John Young said.
CNN:
Parish official: BP had beach cleaned for president's visit — (CNN) — A Gulf Coast official accused BP of shipping workers into Grand Isle, Louisiana, for President Obama's visit to the oil-stricken area Friday and sending them away once the president left the region.
New York Times:
Oil Flow Is Stemmed, but Could Resume, Official Says — HOUSTON — By injecting solid objects as well as heavy drilling fluid into the stricken well leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico overnight, engineers appeared to have stemmed the flow of oil, Adm. Thad W. Allen of the Coast Guard …
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Letting the Chips Fall Where They May — “The problem is that any time you have a largely uninformed and uneducated electorate, that kind of lowest common denominator mudslinging can be effective.” — Will Folks. — We've been dragging on and on all week led by Will Folks …
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Koots_bc / RADAR:
BREAKING NEWS: Gary Coleman Dead At 42 — Gary Coleman has died at 42, RadarOnline.com is first to report. — Coleman had been hospitalized in Provo, Utah since Wednesday, May 26, after suffering what his family called “a serious medical problem.” — PHOTOS: Gary Coleman Through The Years
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Jim Cheng / USA Today:
Gary Coleman dies at age 42 — Gary Coleman, the child star of the TV sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, died Friday after suffering an intercranial hemorrhage. He was 42. — Utah Valley Regional Medical Center spokeswoman Janet Frank says life support was terminated and Coleman died at 12:05 p.m.
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DISSENTING JUSTICE
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Noonan Unhinged — An incoherent tangle of prejudices and feelings wrapped up in hyperbole is the best Peggy Noonan can now muster. How else to describe this morning's column? It heralds nothing less than the end of the Obama presidency just a year and a half in: … Seriously? Her evidence for this?
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Wall Street Journal:
He Was Supposed to Be Competent
He Was Supposed to Be Competent
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Jen DiMascio / The Politico:
House passes defense policy bill — The House on Friday passed its version of the defense policy bill for fiscal 2011, drawing a new veto threat from President Barack Obama, even though the legislation includes language that would allow the Pentagon to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military.
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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Friday Thought: Has The Tea Party Done Anything For The GOP? — With the exception of Scott Brown's miraculous Senate race victory in Massachusetts — and even there, one can question the premise — has the Tea Party movement really done anything to help the Republican Party this cycle?
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Ian M. / Think Progress:
Rand Paul Endorses Obviously Unconstitutional Plan To End Birthright Citizenship — Kentucky Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul is best known for radical anti-government views that lead him to oppose the federal ban on whites-only lunch counters, while claiming that governmental criticism of BP is “un-American.”
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John Hoeffel / Los Angeles Times:
Workers at 3 medical marijuana businesses in Oakland unionize — About 100 new members join the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. It is another step in a campaign to bring legitimacy to the emerging industry and boost a marijuana-legalization initiative.
Chicago Tribune:
Blagojevich trial delay request denied — Corruption trial of former governor set to open Thursday — WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens refused Friday to delay the trial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, scheduled to begin Thursday. — Stevens, who handles emergency appeals …