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Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
The Night Beat: What the Heck Was McChrystal Thinking? — Good evening. — ROLLING STAN: What in the heck was Gen. Stanley McChrystal thinking? I mean, I know what he was thinking: he was tired of being the victim of what he believes is a concerted effort on behalf of Ambassador …
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Ernesto Londoño / Washington Post:
Gen. Stanley McChrystal summoned to Washington following magazine profile — KABUL — The top U.S. general in Afghanistan was headed to Washington early Tuesday for an impromptu White House meeting, after apologizing for an upcoming magazine article that portrays him and his staff as flippant …
Associated Press:
McChrystal Says U.S. Ambassador ‘Betrayed’ Him With Criticism of Afghan War Strategy — May 10: Commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl W. Eikenberry brief reporters ahead of Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit at the White House.
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Gordon Lubold / The Politico:
Furious Obama summons McChrystal to D.C. to explain slams at superiors — The top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, has been summoned to the White House to explain biting and unflattering remarks he made to a freelance writer about President Barack Obama and others in the Obama administration.
Peter Spiegel / Washington Wire:
McChrystal on Defensive for Remarks — Relations between the U.S. military and civilians in the Obama administration have been tense since last year's three-month review of Afghan war strategy, a state of affairs unlikely to be helped by a new profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal …
BBC:
US summons top general over article — The top US commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington in the wake of a magazine article that mocked senior Obama administration officials and diplomats. — Gen Stanley McChrystal has apologised for the article in Rolling Stone.
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. indirectly paying Afghan warlords as part of security contract — The U.S. military is funding a massive protection racket in Afghanistan, indirectly paying tens of millions of dollars to warlords, corrupt public officials and the Taliban to ensure safe passage of its supply convoys throughout …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House dismisses critics, defends Obama's golf outings during Gulf crisis — The White House is dismissing criticism that President Barack Obama shouldn't play golf during the Gulf oil spill. — The White House is dismissing criticism that President Barack Obama shouldn't play golf during the Gulf oil spill.
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Paul H. Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
A Tale of Two Disasters — Bush was blamed for local failures after Katrina. Obama got a free ride for weeks as federal failures mounted during the Gulf spill. — In many respects, the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Katrina are mirror images of each other.
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Robert Bluey / Fox News:
Why Won't Obama Waive the Jones Act? — Five years ago, in the midst of another crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, the Bush administration waived the Jones Act, easing the way for foreign vessels to move in U.S. waters and between ports. The decision came with the administration under duress for its handling of Hurricane Katrina.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Florida senator: Obama told me we can't deploy oil skimmers because they might be needed elsewhere — A quickie but goodie courtesy of The Shark Tank, which wrangled this interview with LeMieux after a meeting of the Florida GOP. I'd be curious to know when, precisely …
Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
Senator LeMieux Pans Obama's Oil Spill Clean-Up Efforts(VIDEO)
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Jackie Calmes / The Caucus:
Orszag Leaving as Budget Director — Peter R. Orszag will leave his job as the White House budget director in July, according to someone familiar with his plans, making him perhaps the first official to leave the Obama Cabinet and removing a major player from President Obama's economic team.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Orszag to bail next month; likely successors are inside
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Poll: Most Say Obama Lacks Clear Plans on the Oil Spill, Energy or Jobs — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — Most Americans do not believe President Obama has a clear plan to deal with the oil spill in the Gulf …
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New York Times:
Poll Finds Deep Concern About Energy and Economy — By JOHN M. BRODER and MARJORIE CONNELLY — Overwhelmingly, Americans think the nation needs a fundamental overhaul of its energy policies, and most expect alternative forms to replace oil as a major source within 25 years.
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That — One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average. — But it's not because they are all working harder. — The school is retroactively inflating its grades, tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years.
Thomas Sowell / Investor's Business Daily:
Is U.S. Now On Slippery Slope To Tyranny? — When Adolf Hitler was building up the Nazi movement in the 1920s, leading up to his taking power in the 1930s, he deliberately sought to activate people who did not normally pay much attention to politics. — Such people were a valuable addition …
Arizona Republic:
Hayworth pitched ‘free money’ seminars in 2007 infomercial — Republican Senate challenger J.D. Hayworth appeared in a 2007 television infomercial in which he helped convince viewers that they could rake in big bucks by attending seminars that would teach them how to apply for federal grants that they wouldn't have to pay back.
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New York Times:
Bloomberg Contributed to Blagojevich's Campaign — It turns out that Rod R. Blagojevich, the impeached former governor of Illinois, flamboyant reality television star and billboard for the helmet hairdo, had an unexpected admirer in New York City: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
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Stanley Fish / Opinionator:
Deep in the Heart of Texas — A number of responses to my column about the education I received at Classical High (a public school in Providence, RI) rehearsed a story of late-flowering gratitude after an earlier period of frustration and resentment. “I had a high school (or a college) …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Faustus Makes a Deal — It was the winter of 2007. Dr. Faustus, the famous left-wing philologist, was sitting in a coffee shop in despair over the Bush-Cheney regime and the future of his country. — Suddenly, Mephistopheles, who happened to be the provost at his college, appeared, sipping a double mocha frappuccino.
Yahoo! News:
Mystery deepens around alleged Bush poisoning incident — Did former First Lady Laura Bush hype a stomach flu, or some other viral disorder, into a mythical assassination attempt in order to sell books? When Bush's memoir, Spoken From the Heart, was released last month …
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