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11:25 AM ET, May 8, 2011

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Stephanie Coontz / New York Times:
When We Hated Mom  —  ONE of the most enduring myths about feminism is that 50 years ago women who stayed home full time with their children enjoyed higher social status and more satisfying lives than they do today.  All this changed, the story goes, when Betty Friedan published her 1963 best seller …
Daily Mail:
Robed Muslim clerics kicked off U.S. flight after pilot refuses to take off with them (and they were en route to conference on Islamophobia)  —  Two Muslim religious leaders were asked to leave a commercial airliner in Memphis - and were told it was because the pilot refused to fly with them aboard.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Beth Shayne / WCNC-TV:
Muslim men say they were taken off flight to Charlotte
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Now, to Find a Parking Spot, Drivers Look on Their Phones  —  SAN FRANCISCO — It is the urban driver's most agonizing everyday experience: the search for an empty parking place.  —  It is part sleuthing and part blood sport.  Circling, narrowly missing a spot, outmaneuvering other motorists …
Discussion: Yglesias, Althouse and Eschaton
John / Power Line:
Time to Celebrate?  —  No doubt, very few of those who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 anticipated that the high point of his administration would be the extra-judicial killing of a terrorist leader by a team of Navy SEALs.  This, as our involvement in Iraq winds down on the Bush administration's timetable …
Discussion: Bookworm Room
N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:
If You Have the Answers, Tell Me  —  AFTER more than a quarter-century as a professional economist, I have a confession to make: There is a lot I don't know about the economy.  Indeed, the area of economics where I have devoted most of my energy and attention — the ups and downs of the business cycle …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
In Another Universe  —  Think Progress returns to Silsbee, Texas, where a deplorable sexual assault of a cheerleader by a star athlete took place.  —  The timeline of events is not controversial, yet Think Progress simply can't or won't present the facts accurately.  And the facts do seem to matter.
Victor Davis Hanson / Pajamas Media:
Thoughts on a Surreal Depression  —  Here in Fresno County, in the heart of California's San Joaquin Valley, the official unemployment rate in February to March ranged between 18.1 and 18.8 percent.  I suspect it is higher in the poorer southwestern portions, especially near my hometown of Selma, about two miles from my farm.
Discussion: EconLog
Mark Thoma / Economist's View:
“We Dare Not Let This Happen” (But Don't Support Doing Anything About It)  —  Dean Baker is frustrated with a Washington Post editorial telling the public there's nothing we can do about the unemployment problem, a problem it cannot even characterize correctly (see Dean on this point).  Me too.
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CEPR:
The Post Bombards Readers With Misinformation About Jobs and the Economy
Eric Greitens / Wall Street Journal:
The SEAL Sensibility  —  From a member of the elite force, an inside look at the brutal training and secret work of the commandos who got Osama bin Laden.  —  At Camp Pendleton in California, where I did my initial weapons training, we must have fired thousands of rounds at practice-range targets printed …
Times of India:
Pakistan breaches trust, names local CIA boss  —  WASHINGTON: Amid bitter, recriminatory exchanges between the United States and Pakistan over the Osama bin Laden extermination, planned bilateral visits of President Asif Ali Zardari to Washington DC and a return trip of President Barack Obama to Islamabad are both in jeopardy.
Discussion: The Talking Dog and Weasel Zippers
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Killing Evil Doesn't Make Us Evil  —  I don't want closure.  There is no closure after tragedy.  —  I want memory, and justice, and revenge.  —  When you're dealing with a mass murderer who bragged about incinerating thousands of Americans and planned to kill countless more …
Discussion: Washington Post and Emptywheel
New York Times:
Bin Laden's Secret Life in a Diminished World  —  WASHINGTON — The world's most wanted terrorist lived his last five years imprisoned behind the barbed wire and high walls of his home in Abbottabad, Pakistan, his days consumed by dark arts and domesticity.  —  American officials believe …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Why Pakistan knew it could hide Osama  —  As my old friends at The Spectator in London pointed out Monday morning, I scooped the entire planet in breaking the news of Osama bin Laden's death: “Osama bin Laden is dead, says Mark Steyn.”  This was in The Spectator's edition of June 29, 2002, which turned out to be a wee bit premature.
Discussion: Hot Air
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Videos From Bin Laden's Hide-Out Released  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Saturday released five videos recovered from Osama bin Laden's hide-out in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that show him threatening the United States, condemning capitalism and, in the most candid scenes, watching news coverage of himself on television.
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