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2:25 PM ET, May 24, 2009

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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Durbin Calls On Gingrich To Apologize For Attacking The CIA In 2007  —  Last week, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich called on Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to resign her current position as Speaker.  He said that she “disqualified herself” over her comments that the CIA was “misleading” Congress.
Discussion: Doug Ross
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Durbin: ‘supermax’ Gitmo inmates  —  Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), the assistant majority leader, said Sunday on NBC's “Meet the Press” that he would accept Guantanamo detainees in his home state as long as they were held in super-maximum prisons, where inmates are held 23 hours a day in small cells with slits for windows.
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Ridge takes aim at Limbaugh  —  (CNN) — Pennsylvania Republican Tom Ridge is taking direct aim at Rush Limbaugh, telling CNN's John King the conservative talk radio host can be “shrill” and uses language in a way “that offend very many.”  —  “Rush Limbaugh has an audience of 20 million people.
Clark Hoyt / New York Times:
The Writers Make News.  Unfortunately.  —  IT has been a busy week or two for the ethics police — those within The Times trying to protect the paper's integrity, and those outside, ready to pounce on transgressions by Times journalists.  —  Thomas Friedman, the star columnist …
Louise Armitstead / Telegraph:
British banks revolt against Obama tax plan  —  British banks and stockbrokers may refuse to take on American clients if new international tax proposals outlined by President Obama are passed.  —  The decision, which would make it hard for Americans in London to open bank accounts and trade shares …
Matthew Alexander / The Huffington Post:
What's Not Said Is More Important Than What Is Said  —  As a senior interrogator in Iraq (and a former criminal investigator), there was a lesson I learned that served me well: there's more to be learned from what someone doesn't say than from what they do say.
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
They May Not Want The Bomb  —  And other unexpected truths. … From the magazine issue dated Jun 1, 2009  —  Everything you know about Iran is wrong, or at least more complicated than you think.  Take the bomb.  The regime wants to be a nuclear power but could well be happy …
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Some Obama Enemies Are Made Totally of Straw  —  WASHINGTON — Democrats often complained about President George W. Bush's frequent use of a rhetorical device as old as rhetoric itself: creating the illusion of refuting an opponent's argument by mischaracterizing it and then knocking down that mischaracterization.
Detroit Free Press:
Watson paid pittance for taxes on ‘nonexistent’ Detroit house  —  Detroit City Councilwoman JoAnn Watson paid only $68 in property taxes this year because city records say her well-kept, brick Tudor-style home doesn't exist.  Although the home has occupied its west-side plot since 1926 …
Discussion: Don Surber and The New Editor
Ariel Leve / Times of London:
FBI ‘lured dimwits’ into terror plot  —  The arrest of petty crooks over a plan to target Jews has put the use of sting operations under fire  —  ON the steps of New York city hall on Friday, Michael Bloomberg, the mayor, praised the police officers and federal agents who helped disrupt …
Discussion: CANNONFIRE, WXXA-TV and TalkLeft
Robert J. Samuelson / Newsweek:
Let Them Go Bankrupt, Soon  —  Solving Social Security and Medicare.  —  From the magazine issue dated Jun 1, 2009  —  When the trustees of Social Security and Medicare recently reported on the economic outlook for these programs, the news coverage was universally glum.  The recession had made everything worse.
Washington Post:
U.S. Presses Israel to End Expansion of Settlements; Bush Pact Complicates Issue  —  Settlement Issue Is Complicated by Bush Agreement  —  The Obama administration is pressing the Israeli government to halt the expansion of Jewish settlements in Palestinian areas, U.S. and Israeli officials said …
 
 
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Nuance Is Fine Until It's a Flip-Flop
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Decline of the Blue-Collar Man
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Scott Horton / Harper's:
Federal Judge Spotlights Misconduct by Federal Prosecutors in Siegelman Case
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