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1:15 PM ET, May 29, 2010

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JammieWearingFool:
Pathetic: BP Buses in Temps for Obama Photo Op  —  Maybe the alternate photo caption should read something like “I can see the end of my presidency from here.”  Well, we all figured this would be a carefully choreographed photo op for the current occupant of the White House …
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CNN:
Workers bused in for president's visit?
Discussion: Truthdig
DougJ / Balloon Juice:
You make a grown man cry  —  I know I talk about David Broder too much, but this reads like parody: … No, there is no way that a president could fabricate a story about something a family member told him.  It simply is not possible.  It can't be done.  When a president mention …
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Give Them Something They Can Feel  —  There are many things at which the president is extraordinarily gifted.  Emoting isn't one of them.  —  Thursday, in the opening remarks of his press conference, the president said: “Every day I see this leak continue I am angry and frustrated.”
Discussion: TalkLeft and JustOneMinute
David Weigel / Right Now:
Joe McGinniss talks about why he moved in next to Sarah Palin  —  When a source told Joe McGinniss that he could rent the house next to Sarah Palin's Wasilla, Alaska, home, the author was sold.  —  A room at the Best Western, not far away, would have been prohibitively expensive.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Options studied for a possible Pakistan strike  —  The U.S. military is reviewing options for a unilateral strike in Pakistan in the event that a successful attack on American soil is traced to the country's tribal areas, according to senior military officials.
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Spencer Ackerman / The Washington Independent:
New Study Suggests Drone Strikes Don't Kill as Many Pakistani Civilians as Claimed
Byron York / Beltway Confidential:
Sestak was ineligible for job Clinton offered  —  In a little-noticed passage Friday, the New York Times reported that Rep. Joe Sestak was not eligible for a place on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, the job he was reportedly offered by former President Bill Clinton.
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The Note:
Sestak Says Offer Was Not Inappropriate
Discussion: The Politico and Political Punch
CNN:
White House says Carville doesn't know all the facts  —  (CNN) - James Carville doesn't know all the facts, the White House says.  —  Amid repeated criticism from the Democratic strategist and CNN contributor over the president's response to the BP oil spill, White House Press Secretary …
Discussion: Mediaite
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Julian E. Barnes / Los Angeles Times:
Spending may trip up 'don't ask' repeal
Discussion: TalkLeft, Truthdig and Reuters
Jen DiMascio / The Politico:   House passes defense policy bill
BBC:
Malawi pardons jailed gay couple  —  A gay couple jailed in Malawi after getting engaged have been pardoned by President Bingu wa Mutharika.  —  Mr Mutharika, speaking as UN chief Ban Ki-moon visited his country, said he had ordered their immediate release.
Bob Herbert / New York Times:
An Unnatural Disaster  —  “Where I was wrong,” said President Obama at his press conference on Thursday, “was in my belief that the oil companies had their act together when it came to worst-case scenarios.”  —  With all due respect to the president, who is a very smart man …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Daily Kos
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Scientists Build Case for Undersea Plumes  —  IN THE GULF OF MEXICO — The ocean caught fire.  —  As it blazed, a dense column of black smoke rose toward the sky.  Oily water, the color of strong tea, slopped up the sides of boats.  The breeze carried an acrid smell, like gasoline fumes.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Bill Clinton rips left in Arkansas race  —  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Former President Bill Clinton returned to his home state Friday to help a beleaguered ally and delivered a broadside against some of the most powerful interests in the Democratic Party.  —  Using unusually vivid language …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Swedish Murder Rate  —  This Foreign Policy article on Steig Larsson and the decline of the Swedish utopia concludes with what seems to me to be a whopper of a factual error: … In fact, there are 9.3 million people in Sweden and only 600,000 in Sweden.  In other words, Sweden …
James Dao / New York Times:
As 'Don't Ask' Fades, Military Faces Thorny Issues  —  For opponents of the ban against homosexuals serving openly in the military, the steps by Congress this week to repeal the policy, known as “don't ask, don't tell,” were a major victory.  But now they are girding for what may be an equally difficult task …
Democratic Strategist:
Down the Rabbit Hole in South Cackalacky  —  Earlier this week I did a brief post on the madness that's consumed the South Carolina Republican gubernatorial contest.  —  Long story short, a conservative blogger and former staffer to both Gov. Mark Sanford and state Rep. Nikki Haley “admitted” …
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer abruptly suspends state's attorney general …
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Elizabeth Williamson / Washington Wire:
Obama Gets Lesson on Tar Balls
Associated Press:
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Discussion: The Jawa Report and Weasel Zippers
John Hoeffel / Los Angeles Times:
Workers at 3 medical marijuana businesses in Oakland unionize
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Firedoglake
Chicago Tribune:
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Ben Armbruster / Think Progress:
Days after saying ‘leave peoples’ …