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I.M.F. Chief's Arrest Throws French Politics Into Disarray — PARIS — For months, France has been buzzing with speculation that Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the popular chief of the International Monetary Fund, would quit his job in Washington to take on President Nicolas Sarkozy in next year's presidential elections.
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I.M.F. Chief, Apprehended at Airport, Is Accused of Sexual Attack — The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off an Air France plane at Kennedy International Airport minutes before it was to depart for Paris on Saturday …
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New York Post:
IMF head Strauss-Kahn pulled off plane, arrested in alleged sodomy of hotel maid
IMF head Strauss-Kahn pulled off plane, arrested in alleged sodomy of hotel maid
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Reuters, The Daily Beast, Boing Boing, Pajamas Media, EconomicPolicyJournal.com and blogs.telegraph.co.uk
Tamer El-Ghobashy / Wall Street Journal:
Head of IMF Strauss-Kahn in Custody for Alleged Sexual Assault
Head of IMF Strauss-Kahn in Custody for Alleged Sexual Assault
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Deal Journal, The Raw Story, Vox Popoli, Gawker, naked capitalism, BuzzFeed and Talking Points Memo
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
IMF chief arrested in alleged sex assault, police tell AP
IMF chief arrested in alleged sex assault, police tell AP
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Robert Wenzel / EconomicPolicyJournal.com:
Shadow Stat Misery Index Highest on Record — John Williams, over at Shadow Stats, compiles economic data for inflation and unemployment the way it used to be calculated pre-1990. Based on that data, the CPI inflation rate is over 10%, and the unemployment rate is over 15% (see charts).
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Sky Dancing
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
Newt Gingrich Proposes Reviving “Poll Tests” Of The Sort Outlawed In The Civil Rights Era — Ta-Nehisi Coates heard the dog whistle loud in clear in Newt Gingrich's proclamation last night that Barack Obama is “the most successful food stamp president in modern American history.”
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John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Huckabee: ‘I would have made a fine president’ — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said on Sunday he “would have made a fine president,” but added that he “was at peace” with his decision not to run for the White House in 2012. — Huckabee also told Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday” …
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Huckabee Opts Against 2012 White House Bid
Huckabee Opts Against 2012 White House Bid
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Maggie Haberman / Reuters:
Mike Huckabee says he won't run for president in 2012
Mike Huckabee says he won't run for president in 2012
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CNN, The Politico, Taegan Goddard's …, The Atlantic Online, Ben Smith's Blog, Fox News and Outside the Beltway
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Open thread: “The Decision”; Update: Huckabee not running; Update: Video added
Open thread: “The Decision”; Update: Huckabee not running; Update: Video added
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Datechguy's Blog, Cubachi, Mediaite and The Other McCain
Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Ryan will decide soon on Wisconsin Senate race — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said on Sunday he'll decide this week if he'll run for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Herb Kohl. — “Herb just announced this Friday,” Ryan said on CNN's “State of the Union.”
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Ryan announcement on Wisconsin Senate seat coming soon
Ryan announcement on Wisconsin Senate seat coming soon
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Cubachi, Liberty Pundits Blog and The Political Carnival
Duncan Hollis / Opinio Juris:
What kind of immunity does the IMF Managing Director Have? — The arrest on sexual assault charges of IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Khan (or “DSK” as he's known to the French tabloids) is big news this morning. Most of the main stream media attention (quite naturally) …
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The Volokh Conspiracy and Hit & Run
Andrew Stiles / National Review:
Newt Tacks Left, Slams Ryan's Medicare Plan — Newt Gingrich's appearance on “Meet the Press” today could leave some wondering which party's nomination he is running for. The former speaker had some harsh words for Paul Ryan's (and by extension, nearly every House Republican's) plan to reform Medicare, calling it “radical.”
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Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
An Evening On The Beltway Yuengling and Minor Assault Circuit — So . . . I was walking back from the home of Megan McArdle and Peter Suderman and instead of doing the normal thing and taking Q Street west to 5th and then walking south, I wanted to take a shortcut by walking south on North Capitol to then cut southwest on New York.
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TBogg and Doughnut Orbitals
Brian Kates / NY Daily News:
Union whistleblowers: We were beaten and harassed after they accused bosses of looting — Unionized phone company employees say they were beaten or threatened after they accused their labor bosses of looting their coffers through various scams. — One member of Communications Workers …
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Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative and JammieWearingFool
Patterico's Pontifications:
Patterico Criticizes Google; Gets Locked Out of Gmail — Over the last day or so, I have written several posts criticizing Google's treatment of Ann Althouse. So did my guest blogger Aaron Worthing. — I collected several examples of people getting locked out of their Google accounts …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Althouse
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Obama's hypocritical rhetoric on immigration reform — Senior Political Analyst Follow Him @MichaelBarone — Barack Obama's immigration speech in El Paso, Texas, on May 10 was an exercise in electioneering and hypocrisy. Hypocrisy because while Obama complained about “politicians” …
New York Times:
Secret Desert Force Set Up by Blackwater's Founder — ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Late one night last November, a plane carrying dozens of Colombian men touched down in this glittering seaside capital. Whisked through customs by an Emirati intelligence officer …
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Blogger Bob / The TSA Blog:
Texas House of Representatives Seeking to Ban Current TSA Pat-Down — What's our take on the Texas House of Representatives voting to ban the current TSA pat-down? Well, the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article. VI. Clause 2) prevents states from regulating the federal government.
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