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1:45 PM ET, May 27, 2013

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New York Times:
Nonprofit Applicants Chafing at I.R.S. Tested Political Limits  —  When CVFC, a conservative veterans' group in California, applied for tax-exempt status with the Internal Revenue Service, its biggest expenditure that year was several thousand dollars in radio ads backing a Republican candidate for Congress.
CNN:
Poll: Do you support or oppose the health care law?  —  Washington (CNN) - A majority of Americans still oppose the nation's new health care measure, three years after it became law, according to a new survey.  —  But a CNN/ORC International poll released Monday also indicates …
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Polarized Congress Thwarts Changes to Health Care Law
Discussion: The Plum Line
James Legge / The Independent:
Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Chastain among the front-runners to play Hillary Clinton in Rodham  —  Upcoming film expected to hit cinemas in time for the next presidential election  —  Scarlett Johansson and Reese Witherspoon are among actresses being considered to portray …
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
Trump researching 2016 run  —  Donald Trump has spent more than $1 million on electoral research for a potential presidential run in 2016.  —  Sources said the tough-talking “Celebrity Apprentice” host is increasingly being asked to speak at Republican events, and he appeared …
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The Obama riddle  —  You wonder if President Obama sometimes finds himself singing a variant on Kermit the Frog's anthem about the burdens of being green: It's not easy being Barack Obama.  —  This is not simply or even primarily a matter of color, although the president's racial background …
Discussion: National Review
P.J. O'Rourke / Weekly Standard:
Stupid  —  “You're stupid,” is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.  But on Friday morning I picked up the Wall Street Journal and learned that the president had given a speech about the war on terror saying, “This war, like all wars, must end.”
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Globe and Mail:
Toronto police spoke to Mayor Ford's senior staffer after tip linked killing to alleged drug video  —  A senior member of Rob Ford's office was interviewed by police last week about a tip linking a video allegedly showing the mayor smoking illicit drugs to a recent Toronto homicide, two separate sources have confirmed.
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Daniel Dale City Hall / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford: 'There's no video,' reporters are ‘a bunch of maggots’
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Amy Chozick / New York Times:
News Corp. Says It Was Not Told of Subpoena for Reporter's Phone Records  —  News Corporation said on Sunday that it had no record of being notified by the Justice Department nearly three years ago of a subpoena for the telephone records of a reporter at its Fox News cable channel.
Guardian:
Letters: Lose the lads' mags or risk legal action  —  The Lose the Lads' Mags campaign by UK Feminista and Object is calling on high-street retailers to immediately withdraw lads' mags and papers featuring pornographic front covers from their stores.  Each one of these stores is a workplace.
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
‘Show Me Your Papers’ Bill Could Make North Carolina The Next Arizona  —  North Carolina is set to vote on a piece of anti-immigration legislation on par with Arizona and Alabama's racially-tinged laws that drew national attention and ire from immigration advocates.
International Business Times:
Woolwich Terror Backlash: Two Arrested after Grimsby Mosque ‘Attacked with Petrol Bombs’  —  Two men have been arrested after a suspected arson attack on a mosque in Grimsby, as the backlash continues against soldier Lee Rigby's murder at the hands of suspected Islamic terrorists.
Martin Robinson / Daily Mail:
Tensions on streets after slaughter of British soldier: War memorials defaced and mosque firebombed as EDL march on Westminster  —  Two of Britain's most celebrated war memorials have been defaced, apparently with the word ‘Islam’ scrawled across them and inscriptions scrubbed out with red paint.
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Vox Popoli
Fox News:
2 victims of Benghazi attack to be honored with plaques at California veteran's memorial  —  Two former Navy SEALs killed in the terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi will be honored with plaques at a San Diego veteran's memorial Monday.  —  42-year-old Glen Doherty and 41-year-old Tyrone Woods …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Pat Dollard
 
 
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Dean Schabner / ABCNEWS:
Oregon HS Student Accused of Attempted Murder in Alleged Bomb Plot
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Fox News:
Al Qaeda rehab includes spa treatments, family fun time in Saudi Arabia
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Sens. Graham, Durbin talk DOJ, IRS scandals; rare interview with 'America's veteran,' former Sen. Bob Dole
Joshua Rhett Miller / Fox News:
America's oldest veteran to spend quiet Memorial Day at Texas home
Discussion: Washington Wire
Fox News:
Tea Party gets a bump after being targeted by IRS
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Dems prepare game plan for Benghazi
Keith Laing / The Hill:
Schumer: New ‘Gang of Eight’ to draft rules for press subpoenas
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
A third George Bush steps up to the political plate in Texas
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Transparency isn't coming easily to Obama White House
 

 
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