memeorandum: TRENDING: Obama to push BP to set up escrow fund to pay damage claims (CNN)

10:20 AM ET, June 13, 2010

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Mike Allen / The Politico:

EXCLUSIVE: Obama to demand third-party panel for BP payouts — President Barack Obama plans to use a meeting with BP executives this week to demand that they create and fund an escrow account and accept an independent panel to handle damage claims by individuals and businesses hurt by the Gulf disaster …

Discussion: The Page

Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:

Obama pleads for $50 billion in state, local aid — President Obama urged reluctant lawmakers Saturday to quickly approve nearly $50 billion in emergency aid to state and local governments, saying the money is needed to avoid “massive layoffs of teachers, police and firefighters” and to support the still-fragile economic recovery.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, New York Times, The Page and Daily Kos

CNN:

TRENDING: Obama to push BP to set up escrow fund to pay damage claims — A worker hired by BP helped to clean the beach in Grand Isle, Louisiana late last week. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) — Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama will push BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg …

Discussion: The Politico

Alec MacGillis / Washington Post:
Newly released Kagan papers show a flair for the political

Discussion: Raw Story, Wall Street Journal and Liveshots

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:

“I am a Muslim,” Obama Tells Egyptian Foreign Minister Gheit Islamic Coup on the White House … Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, in which President Obama told him that he was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father …

Discussion: Doug Ross and The Right Scoop

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:

Paypal Cuts Off Atlas: Truth is the New Hate Speech — The little money that Atlas generates (I have no large donors) is about to be cut off. Apparently the jihad is hard at work trying to kill free speech (and the bus ads and the 911 no mosque movement), preventing it from making its way to those in pursuit of truth.

Discussion: AmSpecBlog, Israel Matzav, Outside the Beltway, Comments from Left Field, Pajamas Media, Gates of Vienna, alicublog, The Other McCain, Jihad Watch, The Jawa Report, five feet of fury. and Jay Currie

Associated Press:

Goalkeeper blunder hands U.S. precious point vs. England — RUSTENBURG, South Africa — England's players couldn't get off the field fast enough. The Americans lingered to savor the night. — They walked to the end of Royal Bafokeng Stadium where thousands of red, white and blue-clad fans …

Discussion: THEROOT.COM, Outside the Beltway and The Other McCain

Times of London:

Revealed: Japan's bribes on whaling — A SUNDAY TIMES investigation has exposed Japan for bribing small nations with cash and prostitutes to gain their support for the mass slaughter of whales. — The undercover investigation found officials from six countries were willing to consider selling …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, msnbc.com and Raw Story

Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:

Days After BP Denies Blocking The Media From Covering The Spill, Reporter Is Harrassed On A Public Beach — In response to numerous media reports that BP has been blocking journalists from covering the oil spill and speaking with clean-up workers, BP CEO Doug Suttles issued a letter …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, WDSU-TV, Comments from Left Field, The Impolitic, Raw Story and Balloon Juice

Kiran Khalid / CNN:

Son ‘stupid kid’ but not a terrorist, mom says — New York (CNN) — The mother of one of the two New Jersey men arrested last week at a New York airport allegedly on their way to fight with an al Qaeda-affiliated group in Somalia says the two men are guilty of stupidity — but not of the sinister plan described by authorities.

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, Gateway Pundit and Jihad Watch

Caroline Glick:

YouTube silences Latma, removes We Con the World — As Israel went offline for the Jewish sabbath, YouTube removed most versions of Latma's hit parody song We Con the World. If you try to access the song on YouTube you receive the notification: — This video is no longer available due …

Discussion: Gates of Vienna, Comments from Left Field, Israellycool, Atlas Shrugs, NewsReal Blog, Left Coast Rebel, Israel Matzav and The Jawa Report

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Inevitable: YouTube pulls “We Con the World” video; Update: Video rehosted

Discussion: Caroline Glick, Mediaite, American Power, No Sheeples Here, Pajamas Media and Instapundit

Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:

Obama faces rare defeat on health help for jobless — WASHINGTON - If Chuck Lacasse had gotten his pink slip four days earlier, Uncle Sam would have covered most of his family's health insurance while he looked for a new job. — But Congress allowed emergency health care assistance …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:

Demystifying Charter Cities — Sebastian Mallaby has a good piece in the Atlantic on Paul Romer and the idea of “charter cities”—places that would be administered by credible developed democracies but inhabited by migrants from poor countries—that I recommend to one and all.

Investor's Business Daily:

Administration: 51% Of Companies' Health Plans Won't Pass Muster — Internal White House documents reveal that 51% of employers may have to relinquish their current health care coverage by 2013 due to ObamaCare. That numbers soars to 66% for small-business employers.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Betsy's Page