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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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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner's hard line on debt ceiling gets cool reception from Wall St. — NEW YORK - House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday laid down an aggressive new marker in the debt limit fight, calling for spending cuts that exceed any additional borrowing authority that Congress approves.
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Boehner's debt-ceiling demands — (Kathy Willens - AP) In a speech before a Wall Street crowd on Monday, John Boehner laid out the three legs of the GOP's opening bid on the debt ceiling. They are: — 1) “Without significant spending cuts and reforms to reduce our debt, there will be no debt limit increase.
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
John Boehner: Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels should run
John Boehner: Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels should run
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
House GOP leaders skeptical of plan to hike debt limit in steps
House GOP leaders skeptical of plan to hike debt limit in steps
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
John Boehner: Cut ‘trillions’ as debt limit nears
John Boehner: Cut ‘trillions’ as debt limit nears
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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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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Schwarzenegger and Shriver Announce Separation
Schwarzenegger and Shriver Announce Separation
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New York Times:
U.S. Was Braced for Fight 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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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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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Official: Pakistan to Give US Access to Bin Laden Widows
Official: Pakistan to Give US Access to Bin Laden Widows
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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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Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
The Long Shot
The Long Shot
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate Magazine:
Chomsky's Follies — The professor's pronouncements about Osama Bin Laden are stupid and ignorant. — Anybody visiting the Middle East in the last decade has had the experience: meeting the hoarse and aggressive person who first denies that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the destruction …
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Times of India:
Record sale of Osama posters in Pakistan — ISLAMABAD: There has been a record sale of posters of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan after the al-Qaida leader was gunned down in a daring US commando raid May 2 in the country, a media report said on Tuesday. — More than 100,000 posters …
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — BREAKING: Appeals panel hearing ObamaCare suit comprised of 2 Obama nominees and a Clinton nominee — Senior Editorial Writer Follow Him @Philipaklein — RICHMOND, Va. - A three-judge federal appeals panel comprised of two Obama nominees and a Clinton nominee …
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Perry declines Obama's invite — Rick Perry has declined the White House's request that he greet President Obama when Air Force One lands in Texas on Tuesday, the Republican governor's office says. — “We did try to arrange something with the White House,” Lucy Nashed, a spokeswoman for Perry, told POLITICO.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Beyond Obama's Bin Laden Bounce — A week after the news broke of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, bettors at Intrade, a political futures market, are barely any more likely to think that Barack Obama will win re-election. — As of this writing, Mr. Obama's Democrats are given …
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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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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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Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Tragedy of Sarah Palin — From the moment Sarah Palin's acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.” But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska …
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Skschust / CBS New York:
National Emergency Alert System Set To Launch In NYC — NEW YORK, (CBSNewYork) - A new national alert system is set to begin in New York City that will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones. — Presidential and local emergency messages as well as Amber Alerts would appear …
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Philip Christofanelli / Big Government:
‘Introduction to Labor Studies’ - My First-Hand Account — My name is Philip Christofanelli. I was a student in the University of Missouri's “Introduction to Labor Studies” course. The class was taught simultaneously by Professor Don Giljum of University of Missouri-Saint Louis (UMSL) …
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Danger: Falling Tyrants — The Jordanian monarchy represents the sort of regime the United States finds itself defending. It is not the most difficult regime in the Middle East to defend—throughout the early stages of the Arab revolt, Bahrain's royal family, engaged in the often violent suppression …
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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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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 …
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
‘Burn a Bush’? Michelle Obama invites rapper Common to a poetry reading — First Lady Michelle Obama has scheduled a poetry evening for Wednesday, and she's invited several poets, including a successful Chicago poet and rapper, Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr., AKA “Common.”
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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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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