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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:
Editor Tina Brown Slams Female GOP Primary Winners: These ‘Wingnuts’ Are a ‘Blow to Feminism’ — Former New Yorker editor Tina Brown appeared on Thursday's Good Morning America to deride the mostly Republican women who won primaries on Tuesday as “wingnuts” and to sneer that they represent a “blow to feminism.”
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Manuel Roig-Franzia / Washington Post:
In South Carolina, Greene is mystery man despite winning Democratic Senate nod — MANNING, S.C. — Alvin M. Greene never gave a speech during his campaign to become this state's Democratic nominee for Senate. He didn't start a Web site or hire consultants or plant lawn signs.
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Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
SHOCKING VIDEO: Muslim Propaganda: Gaza oh Gaza — Arab propaganda makes you believe that there is nothing but suffering in Gaza... And billions in oil money are spent to make sure that you will continue to think this way. Fakestinians indeed, on so many levels.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Rejects Republican Effort to Thwart Carbon Limits — WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday defeated a Republican-led effort to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from curbing greenhouse gases as lawmakers road-tested arguments for a future fight over climate change legislation.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Boehner: Government—i.e. Taxpayers—Should Help Pay For Oil Spill — Congressional Democrats and the White House are toying with different ways to force BP to cover the costs of damages from the Gulf oil spill. But they face stiff opposition from industry...and it seems leading Republicans.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Boehner spox: No taxpayer money on Gulf spill cleanup or damages
Boehner spox: No taxpayer money on Gulf spill cleanup or damages
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Talking Points Memo, MyDD, TPMDC, TPM LiveWire, The Huffington Post and Washington Monthly
New York Times:
U.S. Fury at BP Stirs Backlash Among British — LONDON — Spewing oil and alienating Americans with its chief executive's impolitic remarks, BP may be Public Enemy No. 1 in the United States. But in Britain, where the company is a mainstay of the stock market and a favorite of pension funds …
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BBC:
US 16-year-old sailor found safe — A 16-year-old US sailor who went missing while sailing solo around the world has been found safe and well. — Abby Sunderland's yacht was spotted by an aerial search team in the southern Indian Ocean, midway between Australia and Africa.
Jana Winter / Fox News:
With Revolutionaries ‘Looking On,’ Teachers Take Kids on a Protest Trip to Arizona — May 28: Jose Lara, a social studies teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, took students on an overnight “freedom ride” to Phoenix to protest what he called the “racist and outrageous” new immigration law in Arizona.
New York Times:
New Estimates Double Rate of Oil That Flowed Into Gulf — A government panel on Thursday doubled its estimate of the amount of oil that had gushed for weeks from the out-of-control BP well even before the latest attempt to cap it. — The new calculation suggested that an amount of oil equivalent …
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Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
Goat spears Rep. Weiner, draws blood — Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) was injured by a mohair goat on Thursday during a press conference to highlight subsidies to the mohair industry. — The goat nicked Weiner's right hand with one of its pointy, foot-long horns, hard enough to draw blood.
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Fox News:
Experts Say White House ‘Misrepresented’ Views to Justify Drilling Moratorium — May 26: Greenpeace protesters hold up a banner as Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar testifies before the House. — The seven experts who advised President Obama on how to deal with offshore drilling safety …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama up in 2012 contests — Barack Obama leads all of his potential Republican opponents in hypothetical 2012 match ups, and it's becoming increasingly clear from this monthly poll that there are two tiers of GOP candidates when it comes to electability. — Polling close to Obama are Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney.
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Lee Fang / Think Progress:
Cato scholar jokes about using undocumented immigrants to soak up oil: 'they're very absorbent.' — Michael Cannon, a health policy expert for Cato, the libertarian think tank founded by Charles Koch of the oil conglomerate Koch Industries, took to Twitter today to trade jokes about the oil spill.
Salon:
Top Arlington officials expected to be fired — After Salon's yearlong investigation into Arlington's scandals, Army secretary expected to announce overhaul — A year-long investigation by Salon.com into the questionable management at Arlington National Cemetery is coming to a head today …
Mayra Cuevas / CNN:
Cops: Suspect has info on Holloway — Lima, Peru (CNN) — Joran van der Sloot told investigators during an interrogation that he knows the location of Natalee Holloway's body, but he would neither identify the location nor say what happened to her the night of her disappearance, a Peruvian police official told CNN.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Senators fret over Big 12 collapse, explore options — Plains state senators fretted Thursday over a major impending realignment in college football's major conferences. — Lawmakers representing states with universities in the Big 12 conference urged against moves that would break up the conference …
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Plan Would Allow Abortions at Military Hospitals — WASHINGTON — The fight to allow gay and bisexual people to serve openly in the military is already drawing political blood in Washington, but tucked into the same 852-page Pentagon policy bill as the repeal of “don't ask, don't tell” …
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The Politico:
Are Obama staffers overexposed? — When two White House aides last weekend stripped off their shirts for an afternoon of drinking with friends at a Georgetown bar, there was widespread agreement that it exposed something — beyond the pectorals of speechwriter Jon Favreau and press aide Tommy Vietor …
Gabriel Beltrone / Ben Smith's Blog:
Perkins calls Daniels' truce ‘astonishing’ — Leading conservative Tony Perkins, president of anti-abortion group Family Research Council, is pushing back against Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels' suggestion that the next president might have to sideline controversial social issues to broker a “truce” focusing on fiscal problems.
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Ramesh Ponnuru / The Corner on National Review Online:
The Daniels Truce — By: Ramesh Ponnuru
The Daniels Truce — By: Ramesh Ponnuru
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Prune and Grow — Sixteen months ago, Congress passed a stimulus package that will end up costing each average taxpayer $7,798. Economists were divided then about whether this spending was worth it, and they are just as divided now. — The president's economists ran the numbers through …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Dems' tough new immigration pitch — Long pilloried for being soft on illegal immigration, top Democratic officials have concluded there's only one way they can hope to pass a comprehensive immigration bill: — Talk more like Republicans. — They're seizing on the work …