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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:

CNN Host Confronts Rick Perry On His Obama ‘Conspiracy’ Theory (VIDEO) — CNN host Kate Bolduan confronted Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) in an interview that aired Thursday about his suggestion that President Barack Obama may have engineered the current immigration crisis at the Texas border.

Discussion: Liberaland and New York Times

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

Dana Milbank: In border crisis, Obama is accused of ‘lawlessness’ for following law — A querulous quartet of conservatives took to the Senate floor Wednesday to condemn President Obama for his latest atrocity against the American way of life. — The Republican foursome …

Discussion: The Mahablog, ABC News and Twitchy

New York Times:

Obama Presses Perry to Rally Support for Border Funds — DALLAS — President Obama on Wednesday directly challenged Gov. Rick Perry of Texas to rally Republicans in support of a $3.7 billion emergency measure aimed at solving the humanitarian crisis caused as thousands of Central American children have crossed the Mexican border.

Discussion: USA Today, Hot Air, Fox News, Talking Points Memo, Politico, NBC News, Power Line, The Week, NewsBusters, The Huffington Post and Weekly Standard

Justin Sink / The Hill:

Obama: No interest in border ‘photo op’ — President Obama declared Wednesday he wasn't interested in a border trip “photo op,” saying such a visit was unnecessary to bolster his knowledge about the surge of unaccompanied children entering the U.S. — “There's nothing that is taking place …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Mediaite, Washington Post, Power Line, Politico and Talking Points Memo

Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Gov. Perry: The face of GOP opposition

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Washington Post and ABC News

James Oliphant / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's Texas Two-Step

Discussion: Fox News and RedState

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Perry: Obama's Katrina

Discussion: Washington Post, ABC News and Mediaite

Newt Gingrich / CNN: Obama's absurd and expensive border strategy

Jonathan Chait Follow / New York Magazine:

Libertarian Accidentally Shows How Obamacare Is Succeeding — Reading months of doomsaying all at once tells a different story. — The Commonwealth Fund has a new survey showing that the proportion of adults lacking health insurance has fallen by a quarter, from 20 percent of the population to 15 percent.

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money

The Commonwealth Fund:

Gaining Ground: Americans' Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care After the Affordable Care Act's First Open Enrollment Period — A new Commonwealth Fund survey finds that in the wake of the Affordable Care Act's first open enrollment period, significantly fewer working-age adults …

Discussion: The Dish, Bloomberg View and Prairie Weather

Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obamacare Haters, Your Case Just Got Weaker

Discussion: Business Insider, New York Times and Washington Post

Timothy Jost / Washington Post:
Courts won't void the Affordable Care Act over semantics

Discussion: National Review

Margot Sanger-Katz / New York Times:
Newest Health Insurance Customers Are Generally Happy

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, Mediaite and The Incidental Economist

Washington Post:

Restore trust to douse the fire in Gaza — THE LATEST mini-war between Israel and the Hamas movement is as unwinnable for either side as previous rounds in 2009 and 2012. Though it has stockpiled thousands of rockets and some longer-range missiles, Hamas lacks the ability to inflict serious damage …

Discussion: Jerusalem Post, New York Times, Firedoglake, Guardian and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Fairleft / Firedoglake:
53 Palestinians, 0 Israelis Die in Air and Missile Strikes ...

Discussion: Israel Matzav, Informed Comment and Guardian

USA Today:
Israel: Hamas firing rocket every 10 minutes

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Reuters and Washington Free Beacon

Sasha Goldstein / NY Daily News:

Washington man first to buy legal weed in Spokane is fired after spotted on news — Mike Boyer, 30, was canned Tuesday after waiting 20 hours to buy pot and immediately going home to smoke. He was called up for urine analysis after he was spotted on TV buying the pot. Boyer told The News he ‘regrets nothing.’

Discussion: Liberaland, Mashable and The Raw Story

New York Times:

Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers — WASHINGTON — Chinese hackers in March broke into the computer networks of the United States government agency that houses the personal information of all federal employees, according to senior American officials.

Discussion: Guardian, Reuters, The Hugh Hewitt Show, Mashable and Washington Free Beacon

Michael A. Cohen / New York Times: Obama's Understated Foreign Policy Gains

Ann Coulter / The Clarion-Ledger:

McDaniel backers killing his political future — By continuing the fight over the primary, Chris McDaniel and his supporters are risking a Republican majority in the U.S. Senate, not to mention McDaniel's own political future. — CONNECT — Chris McDaniel, candidate for the U.S. Senate …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Politico, OnPolitics and Washington Post

Gail Collins / New York Times:

The Rant Agenda — So little time, so much bad behavior to complain about. — Congress is back! Thank heavens, because there's a crisis at the border, and the Highway Trust Fund is about to expire. Plus, the Export-Import Bank is teetering on the brink of disaster.

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and CNN

Lauren French / Politico:
House conservatives applaud suing Obama

Discussion: Daily Kos, RedState, Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog and National Review

Politico:

Todd Akin's only regret — “Doubt me? Google 'stress and infertility,” Akin writes of his rape comments. AP Photo — Close — Todd Akin takes it back. — He's not sorry. — Two years after the Missouri Republican's comments on rape, pregnancy and abortion doomed his campaign and fueled a …

Discussion: Yahoo! News, ThinkProgress, OnPolitics, Daily Kos and Washington Post

Reason:

Millennials Think Government Is Inefficient, Abuses Its Power, and Supports Cronyism — But young Americans also want government to guarantee health insurance and living wages; plan to vote for Democrats in 2014 and 2016 — Emily Ekins discusses millennials with ReasonTV here

Discussion: Hit & Run, Real Clear Politics and VodkaPundit

Lanny Davis / The Hill:

Hillary Clinton's ‘Hard Choices’ shows who she is — The reviews are in on Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton's history of her four-year tenure as U.S. secretary of State. They are almost all positive. Her book sales are strong — No. 1 on The New York Times best sellers list for three weeks in a row.

Journalism.org:

America's Shifting Statehouse Press — Can New Players Compensate for Lost Legacy Reporters? — Within America's 50 state capitol buildings, 1,592 journalists inform the public about the actions and issues of state government, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.