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10:10 AM ET, May 25, 2010

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Deal Reached for Ending Law on Gays in Military  —  WASHINGTON — The White House and leading Congressional Democrats reached agreement Monday on legislative language and a time frame for repealing the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy, but it was not clear whether the deal had secured …
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Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Obama endorses 'don't ask, don't tell' compromise in Congress  —  President Obama has signed on to a “don't ask, don't tell” compromise between lawmakers and the Defense Department, the White House announced Monday, an agreement that removes a key obstacle to repealing the military's policy banning gays …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Fawning press now gets cold shoulder from Obama  —  Will Barack Obama go an entire year without holding a formal news conference?  He's getting close: The president's last full-scale session with the press was on July 22, 2009, which was 307 days ago.  —  When Obama last held a big news conference …
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
President Obama seeks new version of line-item veto  —  As part of what the White House called a campaign to crack down on wasteful government spending, President Obama on Monday asked Congress to grant him new powers to slice lawmakers' pet projects from congressionally approved spending bills.
Lisa Mascaro / Los Angeles Times:
Palin suggests Obama oil ties impede spill cleanup
Daniela Altimari / Capitol Watch:
Sources say Rob Simmons will drop out of U.S. Senate race tomorrow.  —  Rob Simmons will hold a press conference for this morning in New London to announce he's leaving the U.S. Senate race, sources said late today.  —  The former congressman and Vietnam War veteran lost …
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Mark Pazniokas / ctmirror.org:
Source says Simmons told staff he is ending campaign  —  A Republican source says Rob Simmons told his staff Monday he will end his campaign for U.S. Senate at a press conference today in New London.  —  On Monday night, Simmons called a press conference for 9 a.m. in New London to make an …
Discussion: Hot Air, Daily Kos and National Review
Ballot Box:
Simmons suspends Conn. Senate campaign
Discussion: The Politico
Susan Haigh / Associated Press:
Simmons expected to bow out of Conn. Senate race
Discussion: Power Line, The Caucus and The Page
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
U.S. Expands Secret Military Acts in Mideast and Beyond  —  WASHINGTON — The top American commander in the Middle East has ordered a broad expansion of clandestine military activity in an effort to disrupt militant groups or counter threats in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Somalia and other countries in the region …
Erik Berte / FOXBusiness.com:
The Next Bailout: $165B for Unions  —  Taxpayers could be on the hook for another $165 billion if a bill to bail out private union pension funds makes it through Congress.
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Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Delightful: Democrats to stick American taxpayers with a $165 …
Discussion: Fausta's Blog and Townhall.com
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
When Passengers Spit, Bus Drivers Take Months Off  —  It could be the cutbacks to the city's transportation system, or a general decline in urban civility.  Perhaps people are just in a collective bad mood.  —  What else could explain why New Yorkers — notoriously hardened to the slings …
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Tom Namako / New York Post:
Bus drivers take two months off when riders spit on them
Discussion: Beltway Confidential
David Frum / Washington Post:
Zev Chafets's ‘Rush Limbaugh: An Army of One,’ reviewed by David Frum  —  Sentinel.  229 pp.  $25.95  —  “Every great man has his disciples,” quipped Oscar Wilde.  “And it is always Judas who writes the biography.”  —  Not so for Rush Limbaugh.  Biographer Zev Chafets received unprecedented access …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Inspector General's Inquiry Faults Regulators  —  WASHINGTON — Federal regulators responsible for oversight of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico allowed industry officials several years ago to fill in their own inspection reports in pencil — and then turned them over to the regulators …
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
It's Like He Does it On Purpose — By: Jonah Goldberg  —  Thomas Friedman does it again.  He literally fantasizes about American becoming like China — but just for a day!  From Meet the Press yesterday: … Can someone please tell Tom Friedman that China only produces “suboptimal solutions” too.
Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:
Patrick says Obama critics are ‘almost at the level of sedition’  —  Governor Deval Patrick, even as he decried partisanship in Washington, said today that Republican opposition to President Obama's agenda has become so obstinate that it “is almost at the level of sedition.”
Ace / minx.cc:
Gov. Bobby Jindal Rips Obama For Slowness On Oil Spill  —  Video at the link.  The problem is with sand-booms needed to protect Louisiana's shores from the invasion of oil.  —  The video is worth watching, but here's a transcript of some of his remarks.  —  Note his Tea Party-like vow.
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Libtalker Pleads With Obama To Take Action On Oil Spill  —  THEY'RE WORRIED  —  Libtalkers Worry Public Outrage Shifting Toward Obama  —  Can blame for gross inaction on the Gulf oil spill be shifted away from Obama indefinitely?  Some on the left are clearly beginning to realize the anti-BP OUTRAGE …
Scott / Power Line:
A thug too far, part 3  —  Do you recall what was revealed the day that SEIU sicced a mob on the suburban D.C. home of the Bank of America deputy general counsel?  Nina Easton filed an illuminating report.  The mainstream media are studiously avoiding this story.
Kyung M. Song / Seattle Times:
Rossi expected to enter Senate race soon; hires key staff  —  WASHINGTON — Dino Rossi is expected to officially enter the U.S. Senate race as early as Wednesday, and already has hired several key staffers for a campaign to unseat three-term incumbent Patty Murray.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Two Theories of Change  —  When I was in college I took a course in the Enlightenment.  In those days, when people spoke of the Enlightenment, they usually meant the French Enlightenment — thinkers like Descartes, Rousseau, Voltaire and Condorcet.  —  These were philosophers who confronted …
Washington Post:
Rep. James Moran's investments illustrate Congress's leeway in trading  —  He was a stockbroker before he became a politician, and he continued playing the markets during his rise through Congress.  —  Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee …
Discussion: National Review
Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:
Hayworth: ‘In My History’ U.S. Didn't Formally Declare War On Nazi Germany (VIDEO)  —  Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ), who is challenging Sen. John McCain in the Republican primary, said that the United States did not formally declare war on Germany in World War II — at least, that's how it went in his history.
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
Britons' Fears Turn to Doubts About Climate Change  —  LONDON — Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on climate change has not changed, why have so many people turned away from the idea that human activity is warming the planet?
Erika Lovley / The Politico:
Exclusive: FBI details surge in death threats against lawmakers  —  I voted for you," the caller said in a voice mail to Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler's district office. “  If you vote for that stimulus package, I'm gonna kill you.  Simple as that.  The FBI says the caller was a 70-year-old resident …
Discussion: TPMMuckraker
The Huffington Post:
Obama's War Supplemental: Recent Reports Strengthen The Case Against It  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Members of Congress with any inclination to balk at President Obama's massive emergency war-funding request have found their case strengthened by two recent reports that question …
Tim Alberta / The Politico:
Tea party tempest in Idaho primary  —  There isn't much of national interest on the Idaho primary ballot Tuesday, but there's one race that's well worth watching for a unique look into tea party movement politics—the 1st District Republican primary.  —  In that contest, Raul Labrador …
Discussion: Roll Call
Stephen Farber / Hollywood Reporter:
Sex and the City 2 — Film Review  —  Bottom Line: Overlong sequel scores some choice, politically incorrect laughs.  —  Because the first “Sex and the City” movie turned out to be a boxoffice bonanza two years ago, there are a lot of women panting for the sequel, already planning their wardrobe for a girls' night out.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Summers needs to take Explaining Econ 101  —  Millions of Americans are out of work, the budget deficit is in the trillions and Europe is flirting with economic collapse.  —  Fear not, says Larry Summers, the chief economic adviser to President Obama.  It is merely a “fluctuation.”
 
 
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Elizabeth Kolbert / New Yorker:
OIL SHOCKS  —  In September of 1968, Union Oil Company of California …
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Grist
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
U.S. oil drilling regulator ignored experts' red flags on environmental risks
M.S. / Democracy in America:
Slick operators
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Guardian, CNN and Gawker
Ishaq Siddiqi / Wall Street Journal:
European Stocks Track Asia Selloff
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Mathias Hariyadi / Asianews.it:
West Java: Islamic authorities shut down church, Christians celebrate in the street
CQ Politics:
Freshmen Run Away From Obama
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and The Eye
Stephen Rodrick / New York Magazine:
Tea-Vee Time  —  John Stossel, Libertarian newsman, is often anxious.
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 Earlier Items: 
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Justices Rule Against N.F.L. in Antitrust Case
Haaretz:
Syria: Obama has failed in peace efforts and lost influence in Mideast
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Jawa Report
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
GOP plans ‘America Speaking Out’ event
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Hispanics swing to Democrats in West
Erick Erickson / RedState:
This Stuff Is Not Supposed to Happen in America