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1:15 PM ET, May 9, 2011

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Colin Firth / CBS News:
President Obama on the mission to kill bin Laden  —  The president talks to “60 Minutes” in his first interview since the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden  —  Whether we like it or not, Osama bin Laden changed America.  With that September morning in 2001, he introduced fear …
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
President Obama dashes ‘Jimmy Carter’ label  —  So much for campaigning against Jimmy Carter.  —  In the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's death, Republicans are adjusting to a new political reality: with the bin Laden trump card now in President Barack Obama's possession …
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 …
The Atlantic Online:
What If Bush Had Been President These Past Eight Days?  —  Ross Douthat: … These last eight days, as well as the last 10 years, suggest to me that there is only one American foreign policy; this default foreign policy is interventionist, moralistic, and militarily robust.  Everything else is commentary.
Wall Street Journal:
Home Market Takes a Tumble  —  Turnaround More Distant After 3% Drop, Steepest Quarterly Decline Since 2008  —  Home values posted the largest decline in the first quarter since late 2008, prompting many economists to push back their estimates of when the housing market will hit a bottom.
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John Gittelsohn / Bloomberg:
‘Underwater’ Homeowners Rise to 28 Percent, Zillow Says
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Gingrich will announce presidential campaign Wednesday  —  Washington (CNN) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will announce his presidential campaign on Wednesday, his spokesman Rick Tyler confirmed to CNN.  Gingrich, who has been exploring a presidential bid for several months, “will announce on Twitter and Facebook.”
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Gingrich to announce 2012 bid Wednesday
Discussion: The Caucus
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Spokesman says Newt Gingrich to announce 2012 presidential bid Wed. on Facebook, Twitter
Discussion: FrumForum
Juan Williams / The Hill:
OPINION: Ron Paul driving Republicans' White House campaign  —  Here's a news bulletin — it is becoming increasingly clear that we are living in a time when Republican politics are being shaped by a 75-year-old, 12-term Texas congressman with a son in the Senate.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
2012 and the Republican rescue fantasy
Discussion: Red Dog Report and New York Times
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Primary Election 2012: Conservative Fears Of Permanent Welfare State May Create Wild Ride
Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Osama Bin Laden wasn't on kidney dialysis, took herbal Viagra while living in compound  —  Osama Bin Laden wasn't on kidney dialysis - but he did need an herbal impotence drug.  —  “He believed in his own medication,” said his youngest widow, Amal al-Sadeh, who was shot in the leg …
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Matt Schneider / Mediaite:
Rosie O'Donnell: Without Due Process For Bin Laden, We May Be ‘Monsters’
Discussion: Verum Serum
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Randi Rhodes: Bush Knew Bin Laden's Location, Protected Him There
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Unwisdom of Elites  —  The past three years have been a disaster for most Western economies.  The United States has mass long-term unemployment for the first time since the 1930s.  Meanwhile, Europe's single currency is coming apart at the seams.  How did it all go so wrong?
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Falsehood?  Or Mostly Accurate Prediction?  —  Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler isn't so enamored with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius after she made this claim last week: … Kessler gives Sebelius three “Pincocchios” (out of a possible four) and offers this explanation:
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Washington Post:
On Medicare, reverting to a well-worn strategy
Discussion: Yglesias and Wonk Room
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
“Mediscare” And The Conventional Wisdom
Discussion: Paul Krugman
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 …
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Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Trump: ‘I am the least racist person there is’
Discussion: FrumForum
The Politico:
Gay donors fuel Obama's 2012 campaign  —  President Barack Obama's reelection campaign is banking on gay donors to make up the cash it's losing from other groups of wealthy supporters who have been alienated and disappointed by elements of Obama's first term.
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats See Strategy to End Big Oil Tax Breaks  —  WASHINGTON — Linking two of the politically volatile issues of the moment, Senate Democrats say they will move forward this week with a plan that would eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies and divert the savings to offset the deficit.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Romney's GOP Supporters Tilt Upscale; Palin's, Downscale  —  Huckabee's support leans to the right politically, to the South geographically  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Republican college degree holders are more likely than those without a degree to support Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, 21% vs. 13%.
Discussion: USA Today, GOP 12, CNN and National Review
Journalism.org:
WHERE PEOPLE GO, HOW THEY GET THERE AND WHAT LURES THEM AWAY  —  Whatever the future of journalism, much of it depends on understanding the ways that people navigate the digital news environment—the behavior of what might be called the new news consumer.  —  Despite the unprecedented level …
New York Post:
Hobbling gasbag  —  Gasbag Keith Olbermann can't seem to wrangle staff for his Current TV show, “Countdown.”  Still in need of an executive producer and other staff, famously difficult Olbermann has crawled back to his contacts at MSNBC, many of whom he offended while there, to beg for staff.
Keith Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
Solar Updates Marines' Arsenal  —  A company of U.S. Marines recently conducted a remarkable three-week patrol through southern Afghanistan, replacing hundreds of pounds of spare batteries in their packs with roll-up solar panels the size of placemats to power their battle gear.
Discussion: Wonk Room and Climate Progress
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Over 100 Michigan Law Students Walk Out Of Own Graduation To Protest Anti-Gay Speaker Rob Portman  —  Over 100 newly-minted lawyers walked out of their own graduation at the University of Michigan Law School on Saturday to protest the ceremony's commencement speaker, anti-gay Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH).
 
 
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Mike Brownfield / The Foundry:
Morning Bell: Obama's Attack on Private Industry
Discussion: TPMDC
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Biden confronts China on human rights
Discussion: FrumForum
Washington Post:
Syrian President Assad blows his reformist credentials
Discussion: Guardian
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Romney to speak to major gathering of social conservatives
Discussion: Washington Monthly
New York Post:
Two tunnel security breaches cause scare in city
Discussion: New York Magazine
New York Post:
Staten Island mom ‘hit’ boyfriend over head with cooking pot
Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Debate Fuels a Long Shot
Discussion: The Other McCain
New York Times:
Response to Volatility in Silver Takes Hold
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Alyssa Rosenberg / Washington Monthly:
NCIS: Bureaucrats with Guns
Discussion: Yglesias
Wall Street Journal:
‘A Mistake of Principle’  —  Jeffrey Wiesenfeld never had a chance against Tony Kushner.
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Atlas Shrugs
John / Power Line:
Announcing the Power Line Prize
Discussion: TBogg and Pajamas Media
Los Angeles Times:
Obama order could make corporate political spending public
Peter J. Thompson / National Post:
Jonathan Kay: Geert Wilders' problem with Islam
Discussion: FrumForum and Jihad Watch
Donald Douglas / American Power:
Noam Chomsky Attacks Israel's ‘Expansion Over Security’ at UCLA Lecture on ‘Palestine in Crisis’
Kevin Sack / New York Times:
Battle Over Health Care Law Shifts to Federal Appellate Courts
Discussion: ABCNEWS, The New Republic and Law Blog
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Mark Sweney / The Guardian:
National World, one of the UK's biggest newspaper groups, gets a £56.2M buyout offer from shareholder Media Concierge, a 40% premium to its Nov. 21 stock price

Max Goldbart / Deadline:
The English Premier League ends its content partnership with IMG and plans to bring content production and distribution in-house in 2026

 
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