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8:40 AM ET, May 7, 2011

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Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Raid: Al Qaeda ‘Playbook’ Revealed  —  U.S. intelligence is now in possession of a veritable “playbook” of al Qaeda operations — from potential terror attack targets to information on international safe houses and top commanders — thanks to the Navy SEAL raid that took …
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Rick Santorum: Obama 'Didn't Get Osama Bin Laden!'  —  Since President Obama's surprise announcement Sunday night that American forces had killed Osama bin Laden, conservatives and Bush loyalists have been trying to claim some of the glory and redeem the discredited torture policies of the Bush administration.
Matt Hadro / NewsBusters.org:
Michael Moore: You ‘Hate Being an American’ If You Wanted Bin Laden Killed Without a Trial  —  Ever looking to criticize the American populace from his cardboard platform, filmmaker Michael Moore lashed out Thursday on CNN at supporters of Osama bin Laden's assassination.
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
John Yoo: Obama Afraid To Capture Bin Laden (VIDEO)  —  John Yoo says President Obama is too afraid of the politics of Guantanamo Bay to capture and interrogate terrorists.  —  The former George W. Bush administration lawyer, Yoo wrote the infamous torture memos used to justify the …
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's War  —  The secret behind the bin Laden takedown is the president's new conception of terrorism.  —  Ever so gingerly, even as they praised President Obama's success against Osama bin Laden, some former senior Bush administration officials have sought to take a little credit for the mission themselves.
Daily Mail:
On this day of all days! …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Pajamas Media
Brendan Abbot / Daily Express:
FURIOUS BIN LADEN SUPPORTERS VOW TO TAKE REVENGE
Discussion: Hot Air and Atlas Shrugs
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama to special ops team that killed bin Laden: ‘Job well done’
Discussion: The Politico and Fox Nation
Daily Mail:
This just in from London-istan: Violent clashes outside U.S. Embassy after hundreds of UK Muslims …
CNN:
Santorum: Obama doesn't understand America  —  Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) - Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had a ballroom packed with South Carolina Republican insiders all to himself on Friday night when he addressed the state party's annual fundraising banquet in Columbia.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Graham to absentees: Come next time  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Sen. Lindsey Graham on Friday warned the Republicans who didn't show up this week for the state's first presidential primary debate, telling them “you sure as hell better come next time.”  —  And he jokingly warned a gathering …
CNN:
Huntsman: ‘Things are moving pretty quickly’
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Huntsman's service in administration gets pass from some GOPers
New York Times:
Probing Link to Bin Laden, U.S. Tells Pakistan to Name Agents  —  WASHINGTON — Pakistani officials say the Obama administration has demanded the identities of some of their top intelligence operatives as the United States tries to determine whether any of them had contact with Osama bin Laden …
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
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Jeremy Bernstein / New York Review of Books:
That ‘Sweet Abbottabad Air’
Discussion: New York Times and Online NewsHour
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Tried but Failed to Kill Yemeni Cleric  —  A U.S. drone strike in Yemen Thursday was aimed at killing Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical cleric suspected of orchestrating terrorist attacks in the U.S, but the missile missed its target, according to Yemeni and U.S. officials.
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Drone Strike in Yemen Was Aimed at Awlaki
Discussion: TalkLeft
Zombie / Pajamas Media:
SEIU drops mask, goes full commie  —  A May Day rally in Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the SEIU and various communist groups, as well as other unions, reflected yet another step in the normalization of self-identified communist and socialist ideologies in the Obama era.
JSOnline:
Unions might drop state status  —  Some would skip facing difficult annual recertification votes  —  By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison — If Gov. Scott Walker's union bargaining measure becomes law and forces do-or-die recertification votes for public employee unions …
Juana Summers / The Politico:
Giuliani: Running a possibility  —  Rudy Giuliani called for a return to American exceptionalism Friday, telling a group of GOP lawyers gathered in the nation's capital that Ronald Reagan fundamentally changed how Americans felt about themselves.  —  Before Reagan was elected, Giuliani said …
Discussion: Reuters
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama: Nation can't drill its way out of soaring gas prices  —  President Obama called for the elimination of billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks Friday, while stressing that the United States can't drill its way out of high gas prices.  —  “We can't just drill our way out of the problem …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Politics of Solipsism  —  The United States, as you know, was founded as a republic, not simply as a democracy.  The distinction has been lost over the past few decades, but it is an important one.  —  The believers in a democracy have unlimited faith in the character and judgment …
Discussion: Balkinization and Salon
Spiegel Online:
Judge Files Complaint against Merkel over Bin Laden Comments  —  A Hamburg judge has filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Angela Merkel for “endorsing a crime” after she stated she was “glad” that Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces.  Meanwhile a new poll reveals that a majority …
Oliver Willis / Media Matters for America:
No, President Obama Didn't Have A Flag Removed From Ground Zero  —  ABC News' Jake Tapper published the following Tweet yesterday, showing cranes removing a U.S. flag from the Ground Zero site with the caption, “One minute to air and they decided to take the flag down from the live shot”:
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Bloomberg:
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Facing possible Tea Party challenger, centrist Snowe moves to the right
Discussion: The Reaction and Wonk Room
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
After Citizens United, Conservative Undisclosed Donors Spent 8 Times As Much As Liberal Ones In 2010 Election
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