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5:15 PM ET, May 5, 2011

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Sarah Owen / New York Magazine:
David Koch Gives President Obama Zero Credit for Bin Laden's Death  —  Considering the stark partisan divide over the amount of credit President Obama deserves for the death of Osama bin Laden, it should probably not come as a surprise that billionaire David Koch, a rabidly anti-Obama conservative activist …
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Thomas M. Defrank / NY Daily News:
Bush feels Obama ignoring ex-president's role in Osama Bin Laden strike for ‘victory lap’: source  —  WASHINGTON - George W. Bush won't be at Ground Zero with President Obama Thursday in part because he feels his team is getting short shrift in the decade-long manhunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Monica Morales / Sun-Sentinel:
9/11 Family Invited To Presidential Ground Zero Visit Snubs Obama  —  pix11.com  —  NEW YORK (PIX11)— As 50 carefully selected families prepare to join President Barack Obama for a ceremony at the World Trade Center site Thursday, one of the invited 9/11 families have decided to pass on the Commander-in-chief's visit.
Brent Lang / The Wrap:
Michael Moore: Bin Laden Wasn't Killed, He Was Executed  —  Osama bin Laden wasn't killed by a Navy SEAL team — he was straight up executed, Michael Moore told TheWrap on Wednesday.  —  The “Fahrenheit 9/11” director has been setting Twitter aflame Wednesday afternoon urging the Obama administration …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Honors Victims of Bin Laden at Ground Zero  —  President Obama visited ground zero to lay a wreath at a memorial to the nearly 3,000 victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, six days after ordering a daring nighttime raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden, the author of the terrorist attack …
Washington Post:
In killing Osama bin Laden, U.S. had the law on its side
Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
President Obama to Thank Navy SEAL Team That Killed Bin Laden
Discussion: FrumForum
Mark Halperin / Reuters:
Five Mistakes the Obama Administration Has Made in the Aftermath of Bin Laden Killing
Steven Swinford / Telegraph:
Osama bin Laden dead: Blackout during raid on bin Laden compound
Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
McCain: Waterboarding didn't help
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Boehner supports Obama decision not to release bin Laden photos
Discussion: Gothamist and Mother Jones
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Budget talks: Republicans offer to seek common ground with Democrats  —  Senior Republicans conceded Wednesday that a deal is unlikely on a contentious plan to overhaul Medicare and offered to open budget talks with the White House by focusing on areas where both parties can agree, such as cutting farm subsidies.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Health Care Repeal Is ‘Dead,’ Says Top Republican, Sights Turned To Repealing Individual Mandate … Dave Camp Reform , Dave Camp , Mandate Repeal , Politics News  —  WASHINGTON — Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, acknowledged Thursday …
The Caucus:
Chairman of House Tax Committee Backs Off Medicare Plan
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Still no front-runner in the battle for the GOP nomination  —  Greenville, South Carolina (CNN) - A new national poll indicates the race for the Republican presidential nomination remains wide-open, with none of the probable or potential GOP White House contenders above 20 percent, according to a new national poll.
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Pawlenty skipping pre-debate Tea Party rally
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and GOP 12
Armstrong Williams / Pundits Blog:
Previewing tonight's GOP debates
Discussion: CNN and Booman Tribune
Jordan Fabian / Ballot Box:
Pawlenty, Dems spar before first GOP debate
Discussion: Swampland and The Daily Caller
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Obama floats plan to tax cars by the mile  —  The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive.  —  The plan is a part of the administration's …
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
Half Of Adults In Detroit Are Functionally Illiterate  —  Something that I think drives at least some of my disagreements with other liberals about education policy is that I think a lot of middle class liberals implicitly underestimate the extent of really bad learning outcomes.
Discussion: American Times
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CBS Detroit:
Report: Nearly Half Of Detroiters Can't Read  —  DETROIT (WWJ) - According to a new report, 47 percent of Detroiters are “functionally illiterate.”  The alarming new statistics were released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund on Wednesday.  —  WWJ Newsradio 950 spoke with the Fund's Director …
Toby Young / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Jay Carney is floundering under pressure, say Washington insiders  —  There is increasing concern in Washington that Jay Carney, the new White House Press Secretary, isn't up to the job.  Even when faced with an innocuous question that requires only that he trot out the official line …
KGTV-TV:
Terrorist Group Setting Up Operations Near Border  —  Hezbollah Considered To Be More Advanced Than Al-Qaida  —  SAN DIEGO — A terrorist organization whose home base is in the Middle East has established another home base across the border in Mexico.  —  “They are recognized by many experts …
Martin S. Feldstein / New York Times:
Raise Taxes, but Not Tax Rates  —  REDUCING the budget deficit and stopping the explosion of our national debt will require more tax revenue as well as reduced government spending.  But the need for more revenue needn't mean higher tax rates.  —  As the bipartisan fiscal commission appointed …
Wesley P. Hester / RTD Virginia Politics Blog:
Allen being tracked by Alan  —  George Allen has a new shadow, and his name is Alan.  Alan Piracha.  —  Piracha, 23, is working as a tracker for the Democratic Party of Virginia, following Allen, a Republican U.S. senate candidate, around the state, videotaping his appearances.
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Democrats Love Compromise  —  Matthew Yglesias flags the latest Pew survey, which attempts to provide a political typology to describe the different ideological groups that reside in each party.  Looking at the extent to which Democrats are divided on social issues and immigration …
Discussion: Yglesias
Hendrik Hertzberg:
Daniels in the Lamb's Den  —  A month from now, Mitch Daniels, the Governor of Indiana, will probably be a declared candidate for President.  His candidacy, if it comes off, will test the (rather dubious) hypothesis that Republicans might be willing to forgo some of the visceral pleasures …
The Atlantic Online:
Torture Opponents Were Right  —  They've long insisted that a “ticking time bomb” exception would set us on a slippery slope.  The reaction to bin Laden's death proves their point  —  Torture apologists claiming that the death of Osama bin Laden justifies America's use of …
Pamela Geller / WorldNetDaily:
An illegitimate child, an illegitimate president  —  Talk about your proverbial can of worms.  It is now clear that Barack Hussein Obama Sr.'s immigration file was the impetus for President Obama to release his “long form” last week.  If he thought that release would put the matter to rest, it has had the opposite effect.
Jon Cohen / Washington Post:
Poll: Number of ‘birthers’ plummets  —  The number of Americans saying President Obama was born in another country has been sliced in half, according to a new Washington Post poll.  —  In interviews following the public release the president's “long-form” birth certificate last week …
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
RSC: Dems ‘demonize’ oil companies  —  Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah) has a message for Democrats who want to end tax incentives for major oil companies: don't hate them because they're rich.  —  As Democrats ramp up their effort to eliminate such tax breaks, members of the conservative Republicans …
Discussion: CNN
 
 
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