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12:15 PM ET, May 30, 2010

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Frank Rich / New York Times:
Obama's Katrina?  Maybe Worse  —  FOR Barack Obama's knee-jerk foes, of course it was his Katrina.  But for the rest of us, there's the nagging fear that the largest oil spill in our history could yet prove worse if it drags on much longer.  It might not only wreck the ecology of a region …
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Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
Western conservatives and Southern conservatives battle for the soul of the Republican Party. … - Prince of Persia: The Characters Had More Depth in the Video Game- I Fly the American Flag Outside My House.  Want To Make Something of It?  - The Orientalist Claptrap of Sex …
Discussion: Metablog
Byron York / Beltway Confidential:
Covering Obama, press encounters Nation of Islam  —  President Obama's home is in the same Chicago neighborhood as Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.  On Saturday night, the overlapping of Obama's and Farrakhan's worlds made for a strange, and sometimes testy, encounter between the Secret Service …
Discussion: RedState
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Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Farrakhan, press have minor ‘stand-off’ in Obama's neighborhood  —  An interesting “stand-off” of sorts developed outside a barbecue President Obama was attending at a friend's house Saturday night between followers of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on one side and members of the press …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Mediaite
Washington Post:
As ‘top kill’ effort fails, BP must fall back on oil spill containment strategy  —  It is the well that will not die.  —  BP's three-day effort to throttle the leaking gulf oil well with multiple blasts of heavy mud has failed.  The attempted “top kill” of the well was abandoned late Saturday afternoon …
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Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
Obama says new procedure needed to stop offshore oil leak
Discussion: CNN and The Politico
Toby Harnden / Telegraph:
Barack Obama's credibility hits rock bottom after oil spill and Sestak scandal  —  The combination of Obama's passivity over the Gulf oil spill catastrophe and his cynical political manoeuvrings could spell disaster for him, argues Toby Harnden  —  The first thing Barack Obama probably …
Washington Post:
To join the Army's Old Guard, Iraq war veteran learns to sweat the small stuff  —  They are crazy about creases in the Old Guard, which is why it takes Army Sgt. Nicholas Pata more than an hour to press his uniform the night before inspection.  —  They are obsessive about loose threads …
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Helen O'Neill / Associated Press:   At Arlington, each soldier has a special lady
R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Illinois Senate candidate admits claim about military award was inaccurate  —  The Republican candidate for President Obama's old Senate seat has admitted to inaccurately claiming he received the U.S. Navy's Intelligence Officer of the Year award for his service during NATO's conflict with Serbia in the late 1990s.
Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill  —  “IF we've learned anything so far about the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, it is that it contains surprises.  And that means an operator needs depth — depth in terms of resources and expertise — to create the capability to respond to the unexpected. ”
David Leppard / Times of London:
Muslim preacher of hate is let into Britain  —  THE home secretary, Theresa May, is facing a stiff test of the Conservative party's claims to oppose radical Islam after her officials chose to allow a misogynist Muslim preacher into Britain.  —  Zakir Naik, an Indian televangelist described as a …
Patterico / Hot Air:
Destroyed by court order: The footage of a Landrieu staffer admitting the senator's office had no problem with their phones  —  I recently reported that the judge in James O'Keefe's criminal case ordered the destruction of the footage of James O'Keefe's entry into Senator Mary Landrieu's offices.
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Associated Press:
Video gone from phone activist used in La. caper
Discussion: NewsReal Blog
Sibylla Brodzinsky / Christian Science Monitor:
Philosopher Antanas Mockus rattles Colombia election  —  Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus - a mathematician, philosopher, and former mayor Bogotá - has seen a surge in popularity in the Colombia election.  What sets him apart, he tells the Monitor, is his ‘decency.’
Los Angeles Times:
Census nonsense  —  By counting illegal immigrants the same as citizens in the census, some states get more congressional seats than they deserve.  —  Official political innumeracy, enshrined in the census, steals our democracy.  We count illegal immigrants the same as citizens and assign states congressional seats accordingly.
Daniel Indiviglio / The Atlantic Online:
The Atlantic Home  —  Go  —  Daniel Indiviglio - Daniel Indiviglio is a blogger and staff editor.  Prior to joining The Atlantic, he wrote for Forbes.  He also worked as an investment banker and a consultant.  —  Comparing Financial Stability Oversight Councils
Discussion: American Thinker
 
 
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