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1:05 PM ET, May 13, 2010

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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Arizona lawmaker laughs at McCain's border fence ad  —  Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) couldn't contain himself Thursday when he saw footage of Sen. John McCain's latest campaign ad.  —  Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) couldn't contain himself Thursday when he saw footage of Sen. John McCain's (R) latest campaign ad.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
McCain: Obama ‘false’ on immigration  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) says President Barack Obama is spreading “false” information about the Arizona immigration bill.  —  McCain was rebutting a joke the president recently made about the law that grants police in the state the ability to ask anyone …
Discussion: Swampland and Indecision Forever
Bloomberg:
Kagan Was ‘Not Sympathetic’ as Law Clerk to Gun-Rights Argument  —  Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Finding Meaning in Kagan's Tie to Justice Marshall  —  WASHINGTON — In the spring of 1988, Justice Thurgood Marshall assigned a clerk, Elena Kagan, to write a first draft of his opinion in a case considering whether a school district could charge a poor family for busing a child to the nearest school, which was 16 miles away.
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Fact Check: New York's Homeland Security Funding Is Rising  —  Rep. Peter King: “The fact that the Obama Administration would cut New York's homeland security funding just 11 days after the Times Square car bomb attempt is dangerous and unconscionable.  —  Rep. Anthony Weiner …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House pushes back against criticism of NYC anti-terror funding
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
The New Poor: The Economy Shifts, Leaving Some Behind  —  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Many of the jobs lost during the recession are not coming back.  —  Period.  —  For the last two years, the weak economy has provided an opportunity for employers to do what they would have done anyway …
The Politico:
Has clout become the ‘kiss of death’?  —  The back-to-back primary defeats of two powerful appropriators have sent an unmistakable message to lawmakers: The trappings of power can be a trap.  —  On Wednesday night, West Virginia Democrats eighty-sixed Rep. Alan Mollohan …
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Washington Post:
Party purges  —  THE INCREASING polarization of the nation's politics …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘PARTY PURGES’.... Every time a major media outlet insists …
Discussion: PostPartisan
Boston Herald:
Two taken into custody as FBI conducts searches in Times Square probe  —  Watertown, Brookline locations may be tied to Faisal Shahzad  —  Two people have been taken into custody on possible immigration violations following a sweep today in Watertown and at other locations across the Northeast …
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Mike Levine / Liveshots:
Feds Arrest 3, Possibly Tied To Bomb Plot
Louise Story / New York Times:
Cuomo Is Said to Question Banks' Influence on Ratings  —  The New York attorney general has started an investigation of eight banks to determine whether they provided misleading information to rating agencies in order to inflate the grades of certain mortgage securities, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation.
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Scott / Power Line:
Dicks bent on appropriations gavel  —  In today's Politico, Jonathan Allen covers Rep. Norman Dicks's desire to assume the chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee.  Dicks seeks to succeed the retiring David Obey as chairman of the committee.  Allen reports that Dicks began burning …
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Jonathan Allen / The Politico:   The quiet war for Hill power
Wall Street Journal:
Voters Shifting to GOP  —  Republicans have solidified support among voters who had drifted from the party in recent elections, putting the GOP in position for a strong comeback in November's mid-term campaign, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll.
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Sources: Dems Seek To Protect Lincoln By Delaying Action On Wall Street Reform  —  One of the most far-reaching pieces of the Senate's Wall Street reform bill has powerful enemies.  The White House doesn't like it.  FDIC chief Sheila Bair doesn't like it.  Obama adviser Paul Volcker …
Caleb Howe / Mediaite:
I Don't Like Roger Ebert  —  I love Twitter.  I use it all the time.  When I say use, hear it the way an addict would say it.  I use Twitter.  I'm pretty good at it too.  Not in the sense of having lots of followers, or being really popular, or anyone knowing who I am.
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Our activists' coalition against Arizona's xenophobic immigration law is spreading: Diamondbacks CEO is nervous  —  Here's the audio from our activist coalition that sent a letter signed by all parties to Bud Selig and Major League Baseball, and we're demanding that they denounce Arizona's SB 1070 …
The Huffington Post:
Barack Obama, Campaign Manager: How The 2008 Playbook Passed Health Care  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Shortly before 11 a.m. on a Sunday in mid-December, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was driving through Washington D.C. when he received a nervous phone call from one of his trusted deputies, Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Claire Bates / Daily Mail:
Jupiter loses one of its stripes and scientists are stumped as to why  —  Jupiter has lost one of its iconic red stripes and scientists are baffled as to why.  —  The largest planet in our solar system is usually dominated by two dark bands in its atmosphere, with one in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.
Discussion: The Onion
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
In Kentucky's Senate race, ties to Mitch McConnell could be helpful or harmful  —  MONTICELLO, KY. — When Senate candidate Rand Paul told a lunchtime crowd at Shearer's Buffet that “we have to do things differently” in Washington and “bring 'em home and send some different Republicans,” …
Daniel de Vise / College Inc.:
USNA reconsiders Herndon Climb  —  The Herndon Climb is a signature annual event at the United States Naval Academy.  Each May, a thousand first-year midshipmen surge to the top of a 21-foot granite obelisk coated with 200 pounds of lard.  The first mid to the top plants a midshipman's cap.
Discussion: The Other McCain
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Oil spill: BP had wrong diagram to close blowout preventer  —  WASHINGTON — In the days after an oil well spun out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers tried to activate a huge piece of underwater safety equipment but failed because the device had been so altered that diagrams BP got …
Quinnipiac University:
Sestak Surges Against Toomey In November Matchup, Quinnipiac University Pennsylvania Poll Finds; Corbett Has Small Lead In Governor's Race  —  U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, who has narrowed the gap against Sen. Arlen Specter in the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary, also is surging …
Debbie Schlussel:
EXCLUSIVE: Miss USA Contestant is Shi'ite Muslim Hezbollah Supporter, Used Pageant Name to Promote Muslim Female Subjugation; Hezbo Taqiyyah Allows Bikinis?  —  A couple of years ago, I told you that Donald Trump moved the Miss Universe pageant, which he owns, from Dubai because it would not allow Miss Israel …
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Phil Willon / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. council bans most official travel to Arizona  —  Members, arguing that the new immigration law could lead to racial profiling, also vote to bar future city contracts with companies in that state.  —  Councilman Ed Reyes meets with supporters after the council voted to ban most city travel …
City Journal:
A Hidden History of Evil  —  In the world's collective consciousness, the word “Nazi” is synonymous with evil.  It is widely understood that the Nazis' ideology—nationalism, anti-Semitism, the autarkic ethnic state, the Führer principle—led directly to the furnaces of Auschwitz.
Discussion: RedState
Thomas Fuller / New York Times:
Rogue General Seh Daeng Is Shot During Thai Protests  —  BANGKOK — A renegade Thai general was shot in Bangkok on Thursday as the military prepared to encircle the barricaded encampment of antigovernment protesters.  —  The general, Khattiya Sawatdiphol, 58, was struck in the head …
Raw Story:
Bankers jailed, sued as Iceland seeks culprits for crisis  —  REYKJAVIK — More than a year and a half after Iceland's major banks failed, all but sinking the country's economy, police have begun rounding up a number of top bankers while other former executives and owners face a two-billion-dollar lawsuit.
Discussion: Newshoggers.com
Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
UC Berkeley ends hunger strike over immigration  —  (05-12) 21:23 PDT BERKELEY — With the blessings of ceremonial dancers, a group of UC Berkeley students ended a 10-day hunger strike Wednesday while negotiators met with the chancellor over the status of illegal immigrants and student demonstrators.
 
 
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Washington Times:
Same-sex researcher's defamation claim backed
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Newsdesk / Clout St:
Palin talks about immigration, oil spill
Jay Lindsay / Associated Press:
Mass. Catholic school won't admit lesbians' son
Discussion: Think Progress and AMERICAblog Gay
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
How Badly Will the Democrats Do?  —  A few trends to watch ahead of November.
Discussion: Top of the Ticket, JSOnline and MyDD
Wall Street Journal:
The Treasury-Financial Complex  —  The Dodd bill is perfectly designed …
Discussion: Dealbreaker and Clusterstock
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Pentagon rethinking value of major counterinsurgencies
Discussion: Firedoglake
Associated Press:
Poll: Good marks for Obama on spill, more drilling
Discussion: Raw Story and NewsBusters.org
 Earlier Items: 
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
FIRST THOUGHTS: THE MORE THINGS CHANGE
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
BBC:
Venezuelan natural gas rig sinks
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Higher unemployment on horizon
Discussion: Wake up America
Curtis Lum / Honolulu Advertiser:
‘Birther’ measure signed into law
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Right Now
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Bailout Nation v. Rule of Law
Marisa Taylor / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Criminal charges likely from Gulf oil spill, legal experts say
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Attaturk / Firedoglake:
The banality of weasels
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