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10:45 PM ET, June 19, 2010

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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Obama hits golf course with Biden on another hot, humid weekend  —  President Barack Obama hit the golf course Saturday with Vice President Joe Biden.  —  The White House pool report noted that Obama left at about 1 p.m. for the course at Andrews Air Force base, and his golfing parters …
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Mortimer B. Zuckerman / US News:
Mort Zuckerman: World Sees Obama as Incompetent and Amateur  —  The president is well-intentioned but can't walk the walk on the world stage  —  President Obama came into office as the heir to a great foreign policy legacy enjoyed by every recent U.S. president.  Why?
Associated Press:
White House Chief: Yacht Trip Another Gaffe by BP  —  White House chief of staff says BP executive Hayward commits another gaffe by going yachting  —  President Barack Obama's chief of staff says BP chief executive Tony Hayward has committed yet another in a “long line of PR gaffes” …
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Liz Robbins / New York Times:
BP Tries to Clarify Who Is in Charge  —  BP officials scrambled on Saturday to say that Tony Hayward, their embattled chief executive, was still in charge of all BP operations in spite of comments from the company's chairman the day before indicating that Mr. Hayward was relinquishing his duties in the Gulf of Mexico.
Josh Gerstein / Josh Gerstein's Blog:
Former watchdog Walpin loses suit over firing  —  A federal agency inspector general fired last year by President Barack Obama amid claims of bizarre and incompetent behavior, Gerald Walpin, has lost the first round in his legal bid to win back his job.  —  On Thursday, U.S. District Court …
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Byron York / Beltway Confidential:
Walpin defeat means president can fire IGs at will  —  A federal judge in Washington has dismissed the wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by Gerald Walpin, the AmeriCorps inspector general who was fired last year by President Obama.  And not just dismissed; if the decision …
Nina Bernstein / New York Times:
Immigrant Arrested After His Wife's Plea to Obama  —  The letter appealing to President Obama was written in frustration in January, by a woman who saw her family reflected in his.  She was a white United States citizen married to an African man, and the couple — college-educated professionals …
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
Obama Porkway: Road Built With Stimulus Money Will Bear President's Name  —  **Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers  —  I'm only guessing that, when it's completed, Pres. Barack Obama Parkway in Orlando, Florida will lead straight to the Magic Kingdom:
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Michael Scott Moore / Spiegel Online:
Will Obama Be the ‘Jimmy Carter of the 21st Century’?
Discussion: Fausta's Blog
Ben / bsom:
Washington Post Alternate Reality: Public More Concerned About Deficit Than Jobs or Economy Overall  —  A stunning front-page article in Saturday's Washington Post moves the paper firmly into conservatives' dream universe on deficit policy.  “Stimulus plans run up against deficit fears” by Lori Montgomery serves up this whopper:
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Election-year deficit fears stall Obama stimulus plan
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Vianna Davila / Houston Chronicle:
Student pleased he's allowed to stay in U.S.  —  Harvard student from Texas won't be deported - for now  —  Immigration officials are currently not pursuing deportation proceedings against San Antonio's Eric Balderas, an unauthorized immigrant from Mexico who's been thrust into the national spotlight …
Colbert I. King / Washington Post:
On Father's Day, hypocrites are all in the family  —  Family, marriage and the contribution of fathers come together as topics for reflection on Father's Day.  So I'd like to know why Barack Obama, a husband and a father in a family structure that encompasses bonds deemed essential to our society …
Ken Timmerman / NewsMax.com:
Left-Wing Lobbyists Orchestrate Gaza Campaign  —  An American communications firm best known for shaping the liberal Moveon.org into a national movement has tackled a new project: orchestrating an international anti-Israel campaign aimed at breaking the blockade of the Gaza strip.
Real Time Economics:
China Issues Statement on Yuan Exchange Rate Flexibility  —  The following is the full statement by the People's Bank of China on yuan flexibility.  (Read related article)  —  Further Reform the RMB Exchange Rate Regime and Enhance the RMB Exchange Rate Flexibility
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Keith Bradsher / New York Times:   China Signals a Gradual Appreciation of Currency
Jules Crittenden:
Ding Dong Ditch  —  Wikileaks reportedly is preparing to release an Afghan “massacre” vid that is more shocking than the Iraq gun camera footage they popped a couple of months ago.  Now, does that mean it will be even more clueless, distorted and offensively biased than that one was?  Hard to say.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Avoiding the Resource Curse  —  Chana Joffe-Walt has a worthwhile podcast about one solution for countries facing the resource curse: “Take all money that comes in from foreign companies — for lithium in Afghanistan, oil in Nigeria, natural gas in Bolivia — and give it to the citizens.
Discussion: Prairie Weather and NPR
Justin Gillis / msnbc.com:
‘The grandaddy of all gushers’?  Not this spill  —  Obama's claim that Gulf crisis is ‘worst environmental disaster’ spurs debate  —  Morgan Edmonds plays in the surf as an oil clean-up crew combs the beach on Dauphin Island, Alabama, on May 10.  Scholars are debating where the spill …
 
 
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aflcio.org:
Remarks by AFL-CIO President Richard L. Trumka at the City Club …
Discussion: Firedoglake, The Hill and Hullabaloo
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Dems: E-mail bolsters Kagan
Discussion: CNN and Patterico's Pontifications
Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
‘Enough BP oil to spew for two years’
Walter Russell Mead / Walter Russell Mead's Blog:
The Killings in Kyrgyzstan  —  The grim news from Kyrgyzstan continues to roll in.
Michael Shain / New York Post:
Hooked up  —  Eliot Spitzer has found a new woman.
The Note:
Pelosi Throws Down — Won't Consider Senate Doc Fix
Discussion: Hot Air and Crooks and Liars
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
McCaskill says she has votes to end Senate practice of secret holds
Discussion: The Caucus and The Impolitic
Washington Post:
Pakistan, Afghanistan begin talks about dealing with insurgents
Discussion: The Foundry
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Mariah Blake / Washington Monthly:
Revisionaries  —  How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids' textbooks.
Discussion: Wonk Room
WCBS-TV:
NYC Going After Teen ‘Sexting’ — In The Home
Martin Rogers / Yahoo! Sports:
Source: FIFA may sit Slovenia-U.S. referee
Detroit News:
Detroit schools president: Health woes caused ‘poor judgment’
Discussion: theblogprof and Gateway Pundit
 

 
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