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WHITE HOUSE GONE WILD: Shirtless Favreau And Vietor's Sunday/Funday Beer Pong Match — Suns out, guns out... It's going to take more than a little oil and a brittle economy to keep these White House staffers down...or their shirts on. Check out White House spokesman Tommy Vietor …
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PostPartisan:
Isn't there some room for Helen Thomas? — Columnist Helen Thomas, a trailblazer for women journalists and one of the few in the White House press corps who courageously questioned President Bush and other officials in his administration on war, torture and U.S. policy toward Israel, announced her retirement Monday.
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Our hard-core, adversarial press corps
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
No, Sarah Palin, White House Press Corps Did Not Condone Helen Thomas' Comments
The Huffington Post:
White House Endorses Unlimited Liability Cap For Oil Spillers
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The Hill:
Helen Thomas retires after fallout from controversial Israel remarks
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Washington Post:
Voters' support for members of Congress is at an all-time low, poll finds — As voters head to the polls Tuesday for a crucial set of primary elections, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds antipathy toward their elected officials rising and anti-incumbent sentiment at an all-time high.
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
U.S. Voters Favor Congressional Newcomers Over Incumbents
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Fox News:
Van der Sloot Confesses to Killing in Peru — June 5: Joran van der Sloot is escorted by Peruvian police as he arrives at their offices in Lima. — Dutchman Joran van der Sloot, long the prime suspect in U.S. teen Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance in Aruba, has confessed to killing …
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Daniel B. Klein / Wall Street Journal:
Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? — Self-identified liberals and Democrats do badly on questions of basic economics. — Who is better informed about the policy choices facing the country—liberals, conservatives or libertarians? According to a Zogby International survey that I write …
CNN:
Obama looking for ‘whose ass to kick’ — (CNN) — President Barack Obama bluntly defended his administration's response to the undersea gusher fouling the Gulf of Mexico on Monday, telling an interviewer he has met with experts to learn “whose ass to kick.”
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
The ties that bind. Remember Rahm Emanuel's rent-free D.C. apartment? The owner: A BP adviser — In case you were tempted to buy the faux Washington outrage at BP and its gulf oil spill in recent days, here's a story that reveals a little-known corporate political connection and the quiet …
Walter Shapiro / Politics Daily:
GOP's Nikki Haley: Breaking Through Barriers in South Carolina Governor's Race — CHARLESTON, S.C. - As the front-runner in Tuesday's Republican gubernatorial primary, 38-year-old Nikki Haley is writing the most improbable political success story of 2010. In a state defined by church …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
White House wants federal agencies to cut spending by five percent — The Obama administration is asking federal agencies to identify how to trim five percent of their budgets, a top official will say Tuesday. — Peter Orszag, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) …
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Richard Greener / The Huffington Post:
Helen Thomas Is Out Of Work - Good Thing We've Got A “Free” Press Here — Good thing we've got a “free” press here. — Helen Thomas is out of work. She's an old lady. She bad-mouthed Israel and the Jews. She's out of work. — Pat Buchanan is still working.
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
What Helen Thomas missed
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Kerry Picket / Washington Times:
Rangel on WH faith in BP: They don't have the slightest clue — The BP oil spill continues to deluge the gulf coast regions of the United States, and the Obama administration is feeling heat from those he could usually count on to stand by him. Democratic strategist James Carville railed …
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Pete Winn / CNSNews:
Mysterious Billboard Puts Obama's Face on $100,000,000,000,000 Bill, Asks: ‘But Who Will Pay the Piper?’ — (CNSNews.com) - Thanks to an advertiser who wishes to remain anonymous, cars and trucks on Arizona Highway 260 in East Central Arizona are driving by a billboard advertisement that recently went up …
Bill Bradley / Vanity Fair:
America's War in Afghanistan Now Officially Longer than Vietnam — the war in Afghanistan has lasted 104 months, surpassing Vietnam as the longest war in American history. American forces invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, Kabul fell that November, and America's attention shifted to the war in Iraq.
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Left to Obama: We're not happy — And like Obama's critics on the right, many progressives seized on the administration's response to the Gulf oil spill to vent their larger frustrations. — “We thought that an election was victory. We forgot that candidates don't deliver change …
WOOD-TV:
Student sitting behind Obama was asleep — Watch video for more — KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) - One of the Kalamazoo Central students — who was seated behind keynote speaker President Barack Obama during Monday night's commencement ceremony — fell asleep.
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Kasie Hunt / Reuters:
GOP bad dream: Birther on ticket — California Republicans optimistic about their prospects in November could find themselves with a bit of a problem after the votes are counted in Tuesday's primaries - a statewide ticket with the so-called “Birther Queen” as one of their candidates.
Mike Kelly / NorthJersey.com:
On this ground, zero tolerance — Some of the protesters, above, at Ground Zero on Sunday carried placards decrying plans for a mosque two blocks away. At right, Richie Mitzner of Fort Lee boasted of being a ‘proud American infidel.’ — He was not joking.
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William Shawcross / Jerusalem Post:
An irrational, obscene hatred — Israel is a cartoon villain, beyond sympathy, beyond even redemption. What is shocking - and frightening - is that the narrative the world accepts is always that of Israel as the evildoer. — Talkbacks (1) — Make JPOST.COM your Home Page — Iranian Threat
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
GOP puts health reform on ballot in push to turn out conservatives — Republicans are banking that anti-health reform ballot initiatives will give them a significant edge in the November midterm elections. — The debate on the measures, which will be voted on in a half-dozen states …
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