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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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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.
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama BP gambit could fall short — The Obama administration's latest anti-BP volley is a call on the oil giant to pay up big time — not just for economic damages from the Gulf spill but also for lost wages of workers idled by the president's drilling moratorium.
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Michael E. Ruane / Washington Post:
Chaos at Arlington Cemetery: Mismarked graves, dumping of urns — Army investigators at Arlington National Cemetery have found more than 100 unmarked graves, scores of grave sites with headstones that are not recorded on cemetery maps, and at least four burial urns that had been unearthed …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Anyone have Tony Hayward's BP number? Why Obama couldn't be bothered calling the CEO — White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's boss will visit the gulf coast again next week to be seen asking after things concerning the nation's worst environmental disaster ever. This time, President Obama will stay overnight.
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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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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.
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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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” …
Michael Smerconish / Washington Post:
On cable TV and talk radio, a push toward polarization — Any conversation about political polarization would be incomplete without a look at the media's role in shaping opinions. From my view on the front lines, I have seen a rapid escalation of extreme dialogue — sadly, something sure to guarantee high ratings.
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Doug Sovern / Sovern Nation:
Run Jerry Run — I ran into Jerry Brown the other day. Or, rather, he ran into me. Literally. — I was out for a bike ride in the Oakland hills and stopped at Redwood Regional Park to fill up my water bottle. Suddenly, up jogs Jerry, in his sweats, chugging along the trail.
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Under Pressure, Teachers Tamper With Test Scores — The staff of Normandy Crossing Elementary School outside Houston eagerly awaited the results of state achievement tests this spring. For the principal and assistant principal, high scores could buoy their careers at a time when success is increasingly measured by such tests.
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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.
Philip Shenon / The Daily Beast:
Pentagon Manhunt — Blogs and Stories — Anxious that Wikileaks may be on the verge of publishing a batch of secret State Department cables, investigators are desperately searching for founder Julian Assange. Philip Shenon reports. — Pentagon investigators are trying to determine …
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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Joe Kovacs / WorldNetDaily:
Hawaii elections clerk: Obama not born here — Official who oversaw ballots in 2008 race says hospital birth certificate non-existent — A college instructor who worked as a senior elections clerk for the city and county of Honolulu in 2008 is making the stunning claim Barack Obama …
Charles Hawley / Spiegel Online:
German-Jewish Boat to Challenge Israeli Blockade — Palestinians enjoying a water pipe while looking out into the Mediterranean Sea. The waters off the Gaza Strip could get busy this summer. — A group of German Jews has stepped up efforts to send a humanitarian mission to the Gaza Strip in defiance of the Israeli sea blockade.
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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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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.
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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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Roger Simon makes his return — Since last Oct. 9, POLITICO readers have endured a hardship: the absence of Roger Simon's columns. Happily, that ends today and Simon's POLITICO family is delighted to welcome him back. — The return of Ask Dr. Politics! — Q: Where have you been? It's been months.
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