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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 …
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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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Filing from the new C-SPAN Digital Bus: Sen. Lincoln headed for big loss — Keil turns purple — Merry Strasmas: Strasburg, the $15m man, starts for Nats tonight — SIREN : Top Arkansas sources tell us the state's political establishment expects Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) …
Ezra Klein:
Anti-incumbent, pro-party primaries — Mike Allen notes that a Blanche Lincoln loss would make 2010 a banner year for sitting senators bumped off in primaries. We'd be at three — Bob Bennett, Arlen Specter and Lincoln — which is more than we've seen since 1980.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
The sad farewell of Helen Thomas — Afew months ago, White House reporters settled on a system for preserving the sanctity of Helen Thomas's front-row-center seat in the briefing room. On those frequent occasions when the 89-year-old legend didn't show up for a briefing …
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
What Helen Thomas missed — Ah, another teachable moment! — This one comes to us from Helen Thomas, the longtime White House reporter and columnist who announced her retirement on Monday. Thomas, of Lebanese ancestry and almost 90, has never been shy about her anti-Israel views …
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msnbc.com:
Obama: I would've fired BP chief by now — Ex-EPA lawyer brands oil company as ‘recurring environmental criminal’ — msnbc.com staff and news service reports — President Barack Obama would have fired BP's CEO Tony Hayward over controversial comments downplaying the Gulf oil spill — if the executive had been working for him.
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Reports at BP over years find history of problems — A series of internal investigations over the past decade warned senior BP managers that the oil company repeatedly disregarded safety and environmental rules and risked a serious accident if it did not change its ways.
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Pelosi Heckled At DC Event Over Lack Of Federal Funding — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is heckled by Code Pink at an event in Washington, D.C. “We supported Obama, we supported you, now 21 states are begging for money to help us save the community,” a woman screamed at Pelosi.
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Scott / Power Line:
The gathering storm, cont'd — William Shawcross is the son of Winston Churchill's lawyer, the prominent former Nuremberg prosecutor and Labor MP Sir Hartley Shawcross. He thus provides something of a living link to Churchill whom we are especially proud to claim as a friend of our site.
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Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
Health law could ban low-cost plans — Part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September could strip more than 1 million people of their insurance coverage, violating a key goal of President Barack Obama's reforms. — Under the provision, insurance companies will no longer …
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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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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Progressives seek to gain momentum for change at America's Future Now conference — Progressive movement activists gathered in Washington on Monday declared themselves dismayed, even angry, at President Obama and Democrats in Congress for being too timid and compromising in pursuing change …
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
White House is directing agencies to cut budgets — The White House is directing agencies to develop plans for trimming at least 5 percent from their budgets by identifying programs that do little to advance their missions or President Obama's agenda. — The request, made amid rising public anxiety …
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Charles Mahtesian / The Politico:
Tuesday targets: Nine races to watch — South Carolina's freak show politics, the progressive left's Arkansas muscle flexing, the astounding and obscene amount of statewide election spending in California — at least $120 million-plus and rising — all of it is part of Tuesday's dramatic primary election narrative.
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Nolongerfamous / FamousDC:
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 …
Washington Post:
Marriage equality for all couples — Nearly a century after the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, the Supreme Court unanimously affirmed that “marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man.’ ” That 1967 case, Loving v. Virginia, ended bans on interracial marriage in the 16 states that still had such laws.
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
‘A Very Deep Hole’ — I know the president has a lot on his mind, but the No. 1 problem facing the U.S. continues to fester, and that problem is unemployment. — The jobs report for May, released on Friday by the Labor Department, was grim. President Obama tried to put the best face on it …
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.