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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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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.) …
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.
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Super Duper Tuesday: What to Watch For
Super Duper Tuesday: What to Watch For
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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 …
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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John Cole / Balloon Juice:
You Got Played — Now that Helen Hitler Thomas has been forcibly retired, more video of the interview miraculously has become available for viewing: — Here's the “appalling” transcript: … Clearly, this woman is evil beyond words. The way she smiled at those Jewish kids while giving …
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
What Helen Thomas missed
What Helen Thomas missed
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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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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Pelosi delivers speech over screams of health-care activists — Raucous demonstrators greeted House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) at a gathering of progressive activists in Washington on Tuesday morning, forcing her to yell her 28-minute policy speech over their loud and uninterrupted protests.
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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
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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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Police: Van der Sloot confesses
Police: Van der Sloot confesses
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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 …
Paul Bedard / US News:
Washington Whispers — Home > Nation & World > Washington Whispers — CNBC Host Says Obama Sullied Office With ‘Ass to Kick’ Line — Becky Quick slapped Obama for using unpresidential language — Not everybody was pleased with President Obama's uncharacteristic line on the Today Show …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
KICK-ASS CONTEXT.... I've seen some mild criticism of President Obama this morning, from those wondering if the “whose ass to kick” line on the “Today” show was excessive bravado. Adam Serwer noted, for example, that Americans are “not going to be happier because the president has pulled out his Bruce Willis impression.”
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Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
Art Laffer: Make Up Your Own Facts Here — To a man whose only tool is a hammer, pretty soon everything begins to look like a nail. — I couldn't help but be reminded of that aphorism as I read the most popular article on WSJ.com yesterday — Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Boehner ridicules Obama's healthcare town hall with seniors as PR gimmick — House GOP leader John Boehner (Ohio) went on the offensive Tuesday against an event in which President Barack Obama will promote his signature healthcare reform law to seniors. — Boehner ridiculed an online town hall …
Sharon Roffe-Ofir / Ynetnews:
Leftist Tali Fahima converts to Islam — Woman who had affair with al-Aqsa Brigades commander Zubeidi, served time for aiding terrorists converts to Islam at Umm al-Fahm mosque. ‘From now on she is a full-fledged Muslim,’ sheikh says — Sheikh Yusuf Albaz confirmed that Fahima converted.
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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John Tierney / New York Times:
Daring to Discuss Women in Science — The House of Representatives has passed what I like to think of as Larry's Law. The official title of this legislation is “Fulfilling the potential of women in academic science and engineering,” but nothing did more to empower its advocates …
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.
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com Pro-Life Headlines:
Charlie Crist Removes Pro-Life Section of Campaign Web Site, Rubio Complains — Tallahassee, FL (LifeNews.com) — In the latest development in the race for the open U.S. Senate seat in Florida, Governor Charlie Crist is coming under fire for removing the pro-life section of his campaign website.
Susan Milligan / Boston Globe:
2012 primary plans would keep N.H. first — WASHINGTON — Intent on preventing a repeat of the chaotic presidential primary schedule in 2008, Republican and Democratic parties are completing plans to create an orderly timetable that would push most contests back while ensuring …
Wach Fox / Midlands Connect:
Haley accuser's polygraph results inconclusive — COLUMBIA — Just one day before the polls open across the state, one of the men claiming he had an affair with GOP candidate Nikki Haley sat down Monday to back up his claim. Lobbyist Larry Marchant took a polygraph test at his attorney's office in downtown Columbia.
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