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New York Times:
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.
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Declan Walsh / Guardian:
US's Bin Laden deal with Pakistan — US forces were given permission to conduct unilateral raid inside Pakistan if they knew where Bin Laden was hiding, officials say — The US and Pakistan struck a secret deal almost a decade ago permitting a US operation against Osama bin Laden …
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Hot Air, Informed Comment, The Daily Beast, Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine, FrumForum and HotAirPundit
Elizabeth Palmer / CBS News:
Pakistan grants U.S. access to bin Laden widows
Pakistan grants U.S. access to bin Laden widows
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The Daily Beast and Hot Air
Washington Post:
Pakistanis name CIA station chief; U.S. suspects retaliation
Pakistanis name CIA station chief; U.S. suspects retaliation
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FrumForum and Outside the Beltway
Jane Perlez / New York Times:
Leak of C.I.A. Officer Name Is Sign of Rift With Pakistan
Leak of C.I.A. Officer Name Is Sign of Rift With Pakistan
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Firedoglake, CANNONFIRE, democracyarsenal.org, Reuters, Guardian, Pajamas Media and Yglesias
Fox News:
Pakistan PM Warns of ‘Full Force’ Response to Future U.S. Raids
Pakistan PM Warns of ‘Full Force’ Response to Future U.S. Raids
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Algemeiner.com and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House wants more information from Pakistan on bin Laden
White House wants more information from Pakistan on bin Laden
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The Politico, The Note and FrumForum
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver announce separation — The former first lady has moved out after 25 years of marriage. Maria Shriver helped bolster Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign against charges that he groped women during his movie career. — Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver …
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Outside the Beltway, Illinois Review, Gawker, PopEater and Pundit Press
Alexander Bolton / Healthwatch:
Republican rift widens on Medicare — A deep rift is opening wider and wider in the Republican Party over controversial proposals to cut Medicare. — Senate Republicans have decided to avoid jeopardizing their chances of capturing the upper chamber in next year's elections and will not echo …
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Prairie Weather
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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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Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, CRFB.org and CNN
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Boehner Outlines Demands on Debt Limit Fight — WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner said Monday that Republicans would insist on trillions of dollars in federal spending cuts in exchange for their support of an increase in the federal debt limit sought by the Obama administration to prevent a government default later this year.
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The Politico, Washington Post, The Caucus, Robert Reich, The New Republic and Gothamist
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
House GOP leaders skeptical of plan to hike debt limit in steps — House Republican leaders are throwing cold water on a proposed incremental strategy that would raise the federal debt limit two months at a time. — Noting that rank-and-file Republicans balked at a series …
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FrumForum
Manu Raju / The Politico:
Jon Kyl predicts $6 trillion in cuts
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Near Deal to Acquire Skype — Software Giant Could Pay Nearly $8 Billion for Company — Microsoft Corp. is close to a deal to buy Internet phone company Skype Technologies SA for between $7 billion and $8 billion—the most aggressive move yet by Microsoft to play …
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GigaOM, GeekWire, The Moderate Voice, Felix Salmon, Deal Journal, WiredPen, TechCrunch and Oliver Willis, more at Techmeme »
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Microsoft in Talks to Acquire Skype for $8.5 Billion
Microsoft in Talks to Acquire Skype for $8.5 Billion
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GeekWire, New York Magazine, Reuters and Gawker, more at Techmeme »
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Gingrich Set to Run, With Wife in Central Role — WASHINGTON — Callista Bisek's friends from rural Wisconsin were stunned when, well over a decade ago, she confided that she was secretly dating an older, married man: Newt Gingrich. — Still in her 20s when they met …
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Balloon Juice, Taegan Goddard's …, The Reaction, Pat Dollard and National Review
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Economy fears temper Obama's bin Laden bump — But president sees significant jump in questions about leadership, national security, foreign affairs — Below: — Deputy political director — WASHINGTON — In the days after Barack Obama ordered the successful mission to kill Osama bin Laden …
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Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Questions and Observations, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Scared Monkeys and Associated Press
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Gallup: Bush Got Bigger Bounce for Catching Saddam Than Obama Got for Killing Bin Laden
Gallup: Bush Got Bigger Bounce for Catching Saddam Than Obama Got for Killing Bin Laden
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Fire Andrea Mitchell! and Weasel Zippers
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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The Gateway Pundit, Atlas Shrugs and Doug Ross
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Ron Paul's land of second-rate values — Before last week's South Carolina Republican debate, Ron Paul supporters complained that their candidate was not getting the first-tier attention his polling and fundraising should bring. It is true that Paul has often been overlooked and dismissed, as one might treat a slightly dotty uncle.
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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.
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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brandchannel.com, Taylor Marsh, Ben Smith's Blog, The Moderate Voice, Don Surber and The Democratic Daily
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.
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normblog, The Huffington Post, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, FailedMessiah.com, Ben Smith's Blog and Feministing
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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Hit & Run, Hot Air, The Politico, Gallup, FrumForum, Left Coast Rebel and Weasel Zippers
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David Nir / Daily Kos:
NY-26: Dem Kathy Hochul in the lead in new DK/SEIU poll
NY-26: Dem Kathy Hochul in the lead in new DK/SEIU poll
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The Lonely Conservative, Public Policy Polling, TPMDC, The New Republic, Washington Post and Ballot Box
Erick Erickson / RedState:
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.
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The Daily Caller, Riehl World View, Eunomia, The Hill, Ben Smith's Blog, The Page, AmSpecBlog and GOP 12
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.
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Israel Matzav, YID With LID and Weasel Zippers
Wall Street Journal:
National Health Preview — RomneyCare's bad outcomes keep coming. — The ObamaCare preview that Massachusetts has been conducting for the last several years grows more ominous by the month, not that anyone in Washington is paying attention. So let's check on the Bay State's latest warning …
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Betsy's Page, The New Republic and National Review
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.
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