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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, Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine, FrumForum and HotAirPundit
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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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Talking Points Memo, Pundit Press, New York Magazine, Hot Air and FrumForum
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 …
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democracyarsenal.org, Reuters, Guardian, Pajamas Media, Firedoglake, CANNONFIRE, Yglesias, New York Magazine and ABCNEWS
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
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!
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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CNN, The Lonely Conservative, Hot Air and CRFB.org
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Boehner Outlines Demands on Debt Limit Fight
Boehner Outlines Demands on Debt Limit Fight
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Washington Post, The New Republic, Gothamist and Bloomberg
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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Ben Smith's Blog, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, The Democratic Daily and Don Surber
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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
Trump: ‘I Am The Least Racist Person There Is’ Because A Black Guy Won The Apprentice Six Years Ago
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Top of the Ticket, Daily Kos, Shakesville, Ballot Box, The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh and Ben Smith's Blog
Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC:
Former Apprentice Contestant: Trump 'Doesn't Like Educated African-Americans Very Much'
Former Apprentice Contestant: Trump 'Doesn't Like Educated African-Americans Very Much'
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Mediaite, News Hounds, Talking Points Memo, National Review, FrumForum, Indecision Forever and Wonkette
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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The Politico, Left Coast Rebel, Weasel Zippers and Ballot Box
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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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TPMDC, Public Policy Polling, The New Republic, Washington Post and Ballot Box
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
In praising Tea Party, Bachmann swipes at Boehner's leadership
In praising Tea Party, Bachmann swipes at Boehner's leadership
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Cubachi, National Review and Liberty Pundits Blog
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Support for Third U.S. Party Dips, but Is Still Majority View
Support for Third U.S. Party Dips, but Is Still Majority View
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Hot Air
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.
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The Hill, Riehl World View, The Daily Caller, Eunomia, Ben Smith's Blog, The Page, GOP 12, National Review and AmSpecBlog
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
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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 …
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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Pat Dollard
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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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Gawker, PopEater and Pundit Press
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.
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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The Atlantic Online, The Mahablog, Oliver Willis, National Review, The Daily Dish, Daily Kos and Lawfare
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
Poll: Economy fears temper Obama's bin Laden bump
Poll: Economy fears temper Obama's bin Laden bump
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Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air and Associated Press
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Hill Poll: Voters see president's ratings bounce vanishing soon
The Hill Poll: Voters see president's ratings bounce vanishing soon
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The Politico, Washington Monthly and AMERICAblog News
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.
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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mother Jones, Doug Ross, Atlas Shrugs and LewRockwell.com Blog
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Paula Brooks / Lez Get Real:
US Navy Gives OK for On Base Same-Sex Marriages
US Navy Gives OK for On Base Same-Sex Marriages
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Pam's House Blend, Shakesville, Wonk Room and Towleroad News #gay
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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Pundit & Pundette
John Gittelsohn / Bloomberg:
‘Underwater’ Homeowners Rise to 28 Percent, Zillow Says — More than 28 percent of U.S. homeowners owed more than their properties were worth in the first quarter as values fell the most since 2008, Zillow Inc. said today. — Homeowners with negative equity increased from 22 percent …
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Wonk Room, DownWithTyranny!, Pajamas Media and The Gateway Pundit
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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.”
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.
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Moe Lane
ProPublica:
Scientific Study Links Flammable Drinking Water to Fracking — For the first time, a scientific study has linked natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing with a pattern of drinking water contamination so severe that some faucets can be lit on fire. — The peer-reviewed study …
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The Volokh Conspiracy