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3:00 PM ET, May 14, 2010

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Richard Harris / NPR:
Gulf Spill May Far Exceed Official Estimates … Watch the video of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill  —  This graphic requires version 9 or higher of the Adobe Flash Player.  Get the latest Flash Player.  —  In this handout from BP, the main oil leak at the end of the riser pipe is seen underwater in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
U.S. Said to Allow Drilling Without Needed Permits  —  WASHINGTON — The federal Minerals Management Service gave permission to BP and dozens of other oil companies to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without first getting required permits from another agency that assesses threats to endangered species …
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Size of Oil Spill in Gulf Underestimated, Scientists Say  —  Two weeks ago, the government put out a round estimate of the size of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico: 5,000 barrels a day.  Repeated endlessly in news reports, it has become conventional wisdom.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama rips executives, calls oil spill hearing a ‘ridiculous spectacle’  —  President Barack Obama excoriated the companies involved in the Gulf oil spill Friday for failing to take responsibility.  —  In remarks from the Rose Garden after a meeting with cabinet officials about the ongoing spill …
Discussion: The Politico, The Swamp and ABCNEWS
Christine Dell'Amore / National Geographic:
If efforts fail to cap the leaking Deepwater Horizon wellhead …
Discussion: Mother Jones
Erick Erickson / RedState:
BREAKING: We Have Elena Kagan's College Thesis  —  This proves Elena Kagan is an open and avowed socialist.  The woman declares that socialists must stick together instead of fracture in order to advance a socialist agenda, which Kagan advocates.  1  —  You can see for yourself right here (PDF).
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The Nation:
Judging Elena Kagan  —  This article appeared in the May 31, 2010 edition of The Nation.  —  Recommended by 1  —  In what is by now an oft-quoted snippet from one of her law review articles, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan castigated the confirmation hearings of Justices Souter, Kennedy …
Discussion: Althouse and Hit & Run
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Will the Senate see Kagan's long paper trail?
Walter Dellinger / Washington Post:
How I know Kagan isn't anti-military  —  The nomination of an anti-military leftist to the Supreme Court would make for a riveting story.  But in the case of Elena Kagan, it's just not true.  —  When Kagan became dean of Harvard Law School in 2003, Harvard, like virtually every other law school …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:   Dellinger on Harvard's “Anti-Military and Anti-ROTC Policies”
Charles Postel / Reuters:
Tea party: Dark side of conservatism  —  Tea partiers proudly proclaim themselves conservatives.  And rightly so.  —  Tea party protesters repeat the conservative catchwords of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan, who built their careers fighting the “creeping socialism” of civil rights legislation, Social Security and Medicare.
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Lloyd Marcus / American Thinker:
Media Demands, ‘Take Us To Your Leader, Sarah Palin!’  —  Is Sarah Palin the leader of the Tea Party Movement?  This is asked as a “gotcha” question by the liberal mainstream media of every spokesperson of the Tea Party Movement.  The liberal mainstream media is so far out of touch …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
The New Normal on Abortion: Americans More “Pro-Life”  —  For second year straight, “pro-life” and “pro-choice” closely matched  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The conservative shift in Americans' views on abortion that Gallup first recorded a year ago has carried over into 2010.
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CNN:
Palin hits campaign trail for anti-abortion group
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Republican: Holder 'doesn't deserve to be attorney general'  —  A key House Republican on Friday said that Attorney General Eric Holder “doesn't deserve” to keep his job because of his handling of the failed Times Square bombing attempt.  —  House Homeland Security Committee ranking Republican Pete King …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Holder hasn't read Arizona law he criticized
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Holder balks at blaming ‘radical Islam’ for terror attempts
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
New Jersey Gov. goes off on reporter  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) had no patience for a reporter who questioned his “confrontational” tone.  —  At a press conference Thursday, Christie responded, “You know, Tom, you must be the thinnest-skinned guy in America …
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Robert Costa / National Review:
Yes, Even Orrin  —  Sen. Orrin Hatch, a Republican from Utah, has served in the upper chamber for 34 years.  But he's up for reelection in 2012, and with voters eagerly tossing out incumbents, his “safe seat” may be anything but.  “He's toast,” says Utah GOP delegate Saima Leon to Politico.
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:   Hatch vows to run for reelection in 2012
New York Post:
Wall Street bigs $kip O's glitzy Apple gala  —  By JENNIFER FERMINO in NY and GEOFF EARLE and CHARLES HURT in DC  —  Wall Street bigs snubbed President Obama last night at a big-bucks campaign fund-raiser at The St. Regis hotel in Midtown.  —  The gala — where tickets went for as much as $50,000 …
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JammieWearingFool:   Wall Street Fatcats Skip Obama Fundraiser
Ezra Klein:
The good old days of low-information advertising  —  One of James Fallows's readers is skeptical about the long-term economics of online advertising: … What always interests me about this observation is the implication that offline advertising is similarly worthless.
Discussion: Matthew Yglesias and Mother Jones
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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:   Google-and-the-News Followups
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
The Health Care Reform Already Costs More than We Thought it Would  —  There's been a spate of bad news recently about the health care bill.  —  Henry Waxman cancelled his War on Accounting, not because there was a sudden breakout of common sense on Capitol Hill, but because his committee's …
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Book: Rahm “begged” Obama for days not to pursue ambitious health reform  —  Rahm Emanuel spent nearly a week in the summer of 2009 aggressively trying to talk Obama out of moving foward with an ambitious version of health care reform, and by his own admission “begged” him not to do it, a book out next week reports.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Guardian
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Charlie Crist unleashed: A wide-ranging interview with the newly independent one  —  ST. PETERSBURG — Something peculiar is going on with Charlie Crist.  —  He's on the cusp of losing public office, his lifelong party is attacking him mercilessly, and some of his closest friends are yanking …
Online NewsHour:
Exclusive: McChrystal Says Despite Progress in Afghanistan, ‘Nobody is Winning’  —  JEFFREY BROWN: I sat down with General Stanley McChrystal at the Pentagon this afternoon.  —  General McChrystal, welcome.  —  GENERAL STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL, U.S. commander in Afghanistan: Thank you.
Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
The GOP's harsh immigration stance will cost it  —  Has the Republican Party become, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid recently charged, the “anti-immigrant party”?  —  The accusation is overbroad.  Republicans (and others) who are offended by chaos at the southern border …
Discussion: Democratic Strategist and TalkLeft
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
We're Not Greece  —  It's an ill wind that blows nobody good, and the crisis in Greece is making some people — people who opposed health care reform and are itching for an excuse to dismantle Social Security — very, very happy.  Everywhere you look there are editorials and commentaries …
David Brooks / New York Times:
Glimmers of Hope  —  If you're elected president or prime minister in pretty much any country in the developed world today, you're faced with the same set of challenges: to reduce national deficits without choking off a fragile recovery; to trim the welfare state and raise taxes while still funding …
 
 
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Tara Kelly / Time:
Internet Use Makes Us Happier, Says Mental-Health Study
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Arizona Republic:
Governor out to rebrand Arizona over immigration law criticism
Discussion: Daily Kos
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Their Dirty Little Secret: GOP Senators Say Bailouts Worked …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Whitman veers right on immigration
Discussion: Right Now
Kyung M. Song / Seattle Times:
West Coast senators seek ban on Pacific offshore drilling
 Earlier Items: 
Richard Haass / Financial Times:
Goodbye to Europe as a high-ranking power
Ezra Klein:
More evidence that oil isn't as cheap as it looks
Discussion: Mother Jones, Alas, a blog and Grist
The Huffington Post:
Group Sends Racially-Tinged Mailer Targeting Bill Halter In Arkansas Senate Race
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and TPMDC
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Spain Deflation Sends Markets Tumbling
Discussion: Financial Times
Marc Ambinder / The Atlantic Online:
Inside the Secret Interrogation Facility at Bagram
Discussion: The Nation
Political Punch:
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