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11:00 AM ET, May 10, 2011

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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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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.
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.
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.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
John Boehner: Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels should run
Discussion: The Page
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
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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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John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
The Associated Press's Case for Releasing the Bin Laden Photo
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
Declan Walsh / Guardian:
US's Bin Laden deal with Pakistan
Elizabeth Palmer / CBS News:
Pakistan grants U.S. access to bin Laden widows
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Hot Air
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
Official: Pakistan to Give US Access to Bin Laden Widows
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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Microsoft:
Microsoft to Acquire Skype  —  Combined companies will benefit consumers, businesses and increase market opportunity.  —  Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: “MSFT") and Skype Global S.à r.l today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Skype …
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The Note:
Health Care Reform Appeal to be Heard by Panel Appointed by Democratic Presidents  —  ABC News' Ariane de Vogue (@Arianedevogue) reports:  —  Today in Richmond, as Justice Department lawyers prepare to defend the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals …
Discussion: ABCNEWS
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  BREAKING: Appeals panel hearing …
Discussion: Hit & Run
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 …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
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 …
Discussion: msnbc.com
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 …
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.
Bill Gorman / TVbytheNumbers:
TV Ratings Sunday: Finales Of ‘Brothers & Sisters,’ ‘CSI:Miami’ Up; ‘The Amazing Race’ Hits Low … CBS topped the night's adults 18-49 ratings with a less than impressive 2.3 rating average as the two hour finale of The Amazing Race was down 4% from last week to its lowest rating finale ever.
Discussion: Poynter
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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 …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
House defense committee to vote on anti-gay amendments  —  Amendments that could disrupt “Don't Ask, Don't Tell” repeal and mandate that marriages on military bases comply with the Defense of Marriage Act are set to see votes on Wednesday when a House defense panel takes up major Pentagon budget legislation.
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 …
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.
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) …
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 …
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Whatever Happened to the Great Recession?  —  At least, that's what I would ask David Brooks, who managed to write an entire column on unemployment among adult men without mentioning the economic collapse of 2008.  His explanation for the 20 percent of American men (between the ages of 25 and 54) who don't work?
Discussion: Yglesias
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.
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog and Newsalert
 
 
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Joe Williams / The Politico:
President Obama, Congressional Black Caucus on solid ground?
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Wall Street Journal:
Military Draws Up Afghan Exit Plan
Discussion: The Hill and The Foundry
Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Obama's illegal alien nation
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Five on Iowa team to recruit Chris Christie say 'it's nothing against the rest'
Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Missing Fifth  —  In 1910, Henry Van Dyke wrote a book called …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
House GOP leaders skeptical of plan to hike debt limit in steps
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The Politico:
2012 battlefield: The Supreme Court
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ProPublica:
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Anne Bayefsky / Fox News:
Did the U.S. Violate Bin Laden's Rights?
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