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11:55 PM ET, May 9, 2011

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U.S. Braced for Fights With Pakistanis in Bin Laden Raid  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama insisted that the assault force hunting down Osama bin Laden last week be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by hostile local police officers and troops, senior administration and military officials said Monday.
Jane Perlez / New York Times:
Leak of C.I.A. Officer Name Is Sign of Rift With Pakistan  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the second time in five months, the Pakistani authorities have angered the Central Intelligence Agency by tipping the Pakistani news media to the identity of the C.I.A. station chief in Islamabad …
Washington Post:
Pakistanis name CIA station chief; U.S. suspects retaliation
Discussion: FrumForum and Outside the Beltway
Fox News:
Pakistan PM Warns of ‘Full Force’ Response to Future U.S. Raids
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House wants more information from Pakistan on bin Laden
Discussion: The Note and FrumForum
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
2012 and the Republican rescue fantasy  —  Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. - Talk to enough people around this key primary state and you'll learn two lessons, over and over again.  One is that there is absolutely, positively no unity among Republicans …
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The Note:
Newt Gingrich Previews 2012 Announcement: ‘My Run For President Of The United States’
Philiana Ng / Hollywood Reporter:
NBC's Three-Hour ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Down 23% … A supersized edition of Donald Trump's competition series Celebrity Apprentice spanned three hours, going head-to-head against the rest of primetime on Sunday.  —  But, NBC's three-hour telecast — which saw Star Jones and LaToya Jackson fired …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Trump: ‘I Am The Least Racist Person There Is’ Because A Black Guy Won The Apprentice Six Years Ago  —  Potential presidential candidate Donald Trump has often found himself in hot water for making racially-tinged comments — saying in the span of a single press conference, for example …
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
John Boehner: Cut ‘trillions’ as debt limit nears  —  NEW YORK — Speaker John Boehner will call on Congress to offset a debt ceiling hike with spending cuts of a greater amount, an ambitious proposal that puts House Republicans on a collision course with Democrats who want much more modest spending restrictions attached to the vote.
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Manu Raju / The Politico:   Jon Kyl predicts $6 trillion in cuts
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner: Debt-ceiling hike without deep cuts would be ‘arrogant’
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Why I Will Not Support Jon Huntsman.  Ever.  [UPDATED]  —  “I cannot tolerate a man serving as our ambassador to our chief strategic adversary in the world plotting, while in that capacity, to run against the President of the United States.”  —  Ambassador Jon Huntsman is gearing up now to run for President of the United States.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Whose Foreign Policy Is It?  —  For those with eyes to see, the daylight between the foreign policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama has been shrinking ever since the current president took the oath of office.  But last week made it official: When the story of America's post-9/11 wars is written …
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Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Hill Poll: Voters see president's ratings bounce vanishing soon
The Atlantic Online:
What If Bush Had Been President These Past Eight Days?
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Gallup poll sees growing support for third party in GOP, Tea Party  —  A majority of Republicans said for the first time that a third party was needed in American politics, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.  —  Fifty-two percent of Republicans, and an even stronger number of Tea Party supporters …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
In praising Tea Party, Bachmann swipes at Boehner's leadership
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Support for Third U.S. Party Dips, but Is Still Majority View
Discussion: Hot Air
Associated Press:
Suspect in flight disturbance had Calif. ID  —  SAN FRANCISCO - The passengers sat stunned as they watched a man walk quickly toward the front of American Airlines Flight 1561 as it was descending toward San Francisco.  He was screaming and then began pounding on the cockpit door.
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Associated Press:
Midair security scares on 3 U.S. flights
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Daily Mail:
Gunter Sachs, the playboy who married Brigitte Bardot, kills himself at 78  —  Millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs, the German-born former husband of Brigitte Bardot, has killed himself at the age of 78.  —  He is reported to have shot himself at his home in the Swiss resort of Gstaad.
Pete Winn / CNSNews:
Navy Authorizes Chaplains to Perform Same-Sex ‘Marriages’ in Naval Chapels  —  (CNSNews.com) - Anticipating the elimination of the military ban on homosexuality, the Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains has decided that same-sex couples in the Navy will be able to get married in Navy chapels …
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Wall Street Journal:
Home Market Takes a Tumble  —  Turnaround More Distant After 3% Drop, Steepest Quarterly Decline Since 2008  —  The U.S. housing market's 1Q 2011 decline was the steepest in three years.  Additionally, a Zillow.com survey indicates nearly 30% of borrowers owe more than their homes are worth.
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Vos Iz Neias:
Brooklyn, NY - After Outrage Hasidic Newspaper Issues Statement On Altered White House Photo  —  Brooklyn, NY - Much has been written about a controversial altered photograph of the White House situation room published by Der Tzeitung, a Chareidi newspaper, based out of Brooklyn.
Christopher Hitchens / Vanity Fair:
Unspoken Truths  —  Until cancer attacked his vocal cords, the author didn't fully appreciate what was meant by “a writer's voice,” or the essential link between speech and prose.  As a man who loved to talk, he turns to the masters of such conversation, both in history and in his own circle.
Discussion: Pundit & Pundette
Nicolas Loris / The Foundry:
South Carolina Taking Light Bulb Ban into Its Own Hands  —  Fed up with the federal government's ban of the traditional incandescent light bulb, state representatives in South Carolina are pushing for the state to produce and use incandescents solely for its state.
Discussion: Moe Lane
Anne Bayefsky / Fox News:
Did the U.S. Violate Bin Laden's Rights?  —  The response to the death of Usama bin Laden by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, and two “experts” appointed by the U.N. Human Rights Council ought to be ringing a lot of alarm bells right now.
David Leonhardt / Economix:
Why Success Starts With Failure  —  Tim Harford is a columnist for The Financial Times and the author of “The Undercover Economist.”  He's part of the growing cadre of journalists who try to write about economics in plain English.  His new book, “Adapt: Why Success Always Starts With Failure,” will be published this week.
 
 
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