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11:20 AM ET, May 23, 2008

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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
Why I Will No Longer Support John McCain For President  —  I've never been a fan of John McCain.  Not only is he not a conservative, he may have done more damage to the conservative movement than any other Republican over the last few years.  Look back at the Gang-of-14, global warming …
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Jazz Shaw / The Moderate Voice:
McCain's Second U-Turn on Immigration Reform  —  In what appears to be a clear signal that Sen. John McCain feels he has secured as much of the conservative base vote that he can for the general election, the candidate seems to have doubled back again on the question of comprehensive immigration reform.
Discussion: Hot Air and Right Wing News
Michael Luo / The Caucus:
McCain Says Immigration Reform Should Be Top Priority
Discussion: The Sundries Shack and Lonewacko
Mark Kleiman / The RBC:
Bad day for John McCain, Part II: anger management  —  When a candidate has well-known anger-management issues, he really needs to be careful about the tone of his statements.  —  Today, John McCain was one of only three Senators who failed to show up for the debate and vote on Sen. Jim Webb's improved GI Bill.
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David Brown / Washington Post:
POW Aftereffects in McCain Unlikely
John McCain / Real Clear Politics:
McCain Responds to Obama on Veterans Bill
Discussion: Macsmind and Don Surber
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
FORMAL TALKS?  —  CNN is reporting this morning that the Obama and Clinton campaigns are in formal talks about ending her quest for the Democratic nomination and possibly giving her the VP slot.  —  These apparent talks are described by CNN as being in a “very preliminary” stage and as “difficult.”
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Associated Press:
McCain appears cancer-free and healthy, medical records show  —  FOUNTAIN HILLS, Ariz. - Three-time melanoma survivor John McCain appears cancer-free, has a strong heart and is in otherwise general good health, according to eight years of medical records reviewed by The Associated Press.
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Joseph Curl / Washington Times:
McCain restricts access to medical records
Discussion: Wonk Room and Gawker
Joseph R. Biden Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans and Our Enemies  —  On Wednesday, Joe Lieberman wrote on this page that the Democratic Party he and I grew up in has drifted far from the foreign policy espoused by Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and John Kennedy.  —  In fact, it is the policies that President George W. Bush has pursued …
Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
GROUNDSWELL OF CALLS FOR O-HILL UNION  —  Barack Obama yesterday launched his search for a running mate - as Democratic calls for a “marriage” to rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton reached new heights.  —  With the party sharply divided after a bruising primary season …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Alpha Geeks  —  In 1950, Dr. Seuss published a book called “If I Ran the Zoo.”  It contained the sentence: “I'll sail to Ka-Troo, and bring back an IT-KUTCH, a PREEP, and a PROO, a NERKLE, a NERD, and a SEERSUCKER, too!”  According to the psychologist David Anderegg …
Chris Suellentrop / The Opinionator:
And Paul Begala for Vice President?  —  “Tucker Carlson for president?”  That's the headline at the personal blog for Brendan Nyhan, a former Spinsanity editor who is now a graduate student in political science at Duke.  Nyhan says that Carlson, the former “Crossfire” host and former writer …
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Brendan Nyhan:
Tucker Carlson for president?
Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
More Than 100 Post Journalists Take Buyout  —  More than 100 Washington Post reporters, editors, photographers, artists and other journalists will take early retirement packages offered by the company as a way to cut costs, reducing the newsroom staff by at least 10 percent.
Discussion: BuzzMachine and Romenesko
James Forsyth / Spectator:
Crewe goes bright blue, will Labour now dump Brown?  —  If on April 29th, when Labour announced the date of the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, you had told people that the Tories would win the seat by 7,860 votes you would have been laughed out of town.  This result shows just how much in politics has changed in the last few weeks.
Jeffrey Young / The Hill:
Drug, device lobbies back physician-gift disclosure bill  —  The pharmaceutical and medical device industries have reversed course and endorsed a Senate bill that would require them to disclose when they give gifts to physicians.  —  The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America …
Charles Krauthammer / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's Growing Gaffe  —  WASHINGTON — When the House of Representatives takes up arms against $4 gas by voting 324-84 to sue OPEC, you know that election-year discourse has gone surreal.  Another unmistakable sign is when a presidential candidate makes a gaffe, then, realizing it is too egregious …
Discussion: Power Line and Soccer Dad
New York Times:
Talking With the Enemy  —  Everybody knew President Bush was aiming at Senator Barack Obama last week when he likened those who endorse talks with “terrorists and radicals” to appeasers of the Nazis.  But now we know what Mr. Bush knew then — that Israel is in indirect peace talks with Syria …
Amnon Rubinstein / Jerusalem Post:
Suicide, the path to national salvation  —  Gaza is becoming a symbol.  We rightly emphasize Israel's need to put an end to the daily, ever-widening, shelling of our civilians; indeed, it is obvious that Israel will eventually have to take military action - no country could act otherwise - to silence the guns and missile-launchers.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Soccer Dad
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Jeffrey Goldberg:   Palestinian National Suicide
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Change You Can't Believe In  —  President Bush vetoed …
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
ACTUAL EXISTING CONSERVATISM....Jonah Goldberg responds …
Amanda / Think Progress:
McCain rejects Parsley's endorsement.
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
The Catch  —  Both McCain and Obama are looking at Mayor Bloomberg …
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Andrew Romano / Stumper:
Obama Hints at Naming Clinton to His ‘Team of Rivals’
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Stop Yelling at Hillary to Stand Down and Start Yelling at the …