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7:40 AM ET, May 20, 2013

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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Obama gets personal about race and manhood in Morehouse College speech  —  President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility …
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Prepared text for President Obama's speech at Morehouse  —  Hello, Morehouse!  Thank you Dr. Wilson, the Board of Trustees; Congressman Cedric Richmond and Sanford Bishop - both proud alumni of this school; Congressman Hank Johnson and the great John Lewis; Mayor Reed, and all the members of the Morehouse family.
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama urges Morehouse grads to lead by ‘the power of your example’
Discussion: Politico
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Justice Department Spied on Fox News Reporter  —  “When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material,” the Washington Post reports.
Discussion: Riehl World News
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe  —  When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.
Peter Hart / FAIR:
A Right-Wing Mole at ABC News  —  Jonathan Karl and the success of the conservative media movement  —  Conservatives don't just complain loudly, endlessly and inaccurately about liberal media bias.  They also train right-leaning journalists to make their way into the supposedly hostile terrain of Beltway media.
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters:
Schieffer to Obama Advisor: 'Why Are You Here?  Why Isn't the White House Chief of Staff Here?'  —  As NewsBusters reported two weeks ago, CBS's Bob Schieffer is fed up with the White House's talking points concerning what happened at our consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last September.
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CNN:
ABC's Jonathan Karl to CNN: ‘I regret the email was quoted incorrectly’
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Benjamin Bell / ABCNEWS:
Dan Pfeiffer: IRS Behavior ‘Inexcusable’ Whether or Not Illegal
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Aide: ‘Irrelevant Fact’ Where President Was During Benghazi Attacks
New York Times:
Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets  —  WASHINGTON — Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China's People's Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies, they appear to have resumed …
Discussion: BBC and The Verge
David Willman / Los Angeles Times:
Anthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon advisor's biotech firm … REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON  —  Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security …
Discussion: Firedoglake and CBS DC
Andy Borowitz / Borowitz Report:
Obama Denies Role in Government  —  WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—President Obama used his weekly radio address on Saturday to reassure the American people that he has “played no role whatsoever” in the U.S. government over the past four years.  —  “Right now, many of you are angry at the government …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
How Much Are Obama's Scandals Hurting Him?  —  Is Obama being hurt by the scandals that have engulfed his administration?  That sounds like a silly question: of course the scandals have damaged his image, thrown his administration off message, weakened his ability to get anything through Congress.
Discussion: Rasmussen Reports and CANNONFIRE
Fars News Agency:
Islamic Jihad Urges Muslim Confrontation with Israeli Aggressions  —  TEHRAN (FNA)- Representative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement to Tehran Nasser Abusharif strongly condemned the recent Israeli air raid on Syria, and called on all Islamic states to confront the Zionist regime's aggressive moves …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Taxing Times for Obama  —  WASHINGTON — I WENT to New York last week to cover the TV presentations for the new season, shows like “Scandal,” “Shark Tank” and a faltering “American Idol.”  —  I may as well have stayed here.  —  You know that the faltering American idol in the White House must be reeling in this scandalous spring.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Poll: Obama at 53 percent approval after week of controversies
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Mitch McConnell Backs Away From GOP Claims Of A Benghazi Cover Up
Discussion: The Caucus and The Huffington Post
 
 
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Charles V. Bagli / New York Times:
Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Eric Holder's liberation
Discussion: NewsBusters
Jake Miller / CBS News:
Republicans use IRS scandal to tar Obamacare
Discussion: The Raw Story
Meghan E. Irons / The Boston Globe:
Harvard students erupt at scholar's claim in thesis
Discussion: TBogg and ThinkProgress
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