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7:45 PM ET, May 9, 2011

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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
2012 and the Republican rescue fantasy  —  Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. - Talk to enough people around this key primary state and you'll learn two lessons, over and over again.  One is that there is absolutely, positively no unity among Republicans …
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
OPINION: Ron Paul driving Republicans' White House campaign  —  Here's a news bulletin — it is becoming increasingly clear that we are living in a time when Republican politics are being shaped by a 75-year-old, 12-term Texas congressman with a son in the Senate.
The Note:
Newt Gingrich Previews 2012 Announcement: ‘My Run For President Of The United States’
Declan Walsh / Guardian:
US's Bin Laden deal with Pakistan  —  US forces were given permission to conduct unilateral raid inside Pakistan if they knew where Bin Laden was hiding, officials say  —  The US and Pakistan struck a secret deal almost a decade ago permitting a US operation against Osama bin Laden …
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Jane Perlez / New York Times:
Leak of C.I.A. Officer Name Is Sign of Rift With Pakistan  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the second time in five months, the Pakistani authorities have angered the Central Intelligence Agency by tipping the Pakistani news media to the identity of the C.I.A. station chief in Islamabad …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House wants more information from Pakistan on bin Laden
Discussion: The Note and FrumForum
Fox News:
Pakistan PM Warns of ‘Full Force’ Response to Future U.S. Raids
Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Osama Bin Laden wasn't on kidney dialysis, took herbal Viagra while living in compound
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Philiana Ng / Hollywood Reporter:
NBC's Three-Hour ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ Down 23% … A supersized edition of Donald Trump's competition series Celebrity Apprentice spanned three hours, going head-to-head against the rest of primetime on Sunday.  —  But, NBC's three-hour telecast — which saw Star Jones and LaToya Jackson fired …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Trump: ‘I Am The Least Racist Person There Is’ Because A Black Guy Won The Apprentice Six Years Ago  —  Potential presidential candidate Donald Trump has often found himself in hot water for making racially-tinged comments — saying in the span of a single press conference, for example …
Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC:
Former Apprentice Contestant: Trump 'Doesn't Like Educated African-Americans Very Much'  —  A former contestant on The Apprentice, whose harsh treatment by Donald Trump drew accusations of racism in 2004, suggested to TPM on Monday that the billionaire Republican businessman's attacks …
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Why I Will Not Support Jon Huntsman.  Ever.  [UPDATE]  —  UPDATE: A lot of people take issue with this and the core argument is, in essence, he was a good ambassador.  This doesn't matter to me.  My position is not about partisan, politics, or ideology.  It's about being an American.
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Whose Foreign Policy Is It?  —  For those with eyes to see, the daylight between the foreign policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama has been shrinking ever since the current president took the oath of office.  But last week made it official: When the story of America's post-9/11 wars is written …
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The Atlantic Online:
What If Bush Had Been President These Past Eight Days?
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Wall Street Journal:
Home Market Takes a Tumble  —  Turnaround More Distant After 3% Drop, Steepest Quarterly Decline Since 2008  —  The U.S. housing market's 1Q 2011 decline was the steepest in three years.  Additionally, a Zillow.com survey indicates nearly 30% of borrowers owe more than their homes are worth.
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
John Boehner: Cut ‘trillions’ as debt limit nears  —  NEW YORK — Speaker John Boehner will call on Congress to offset a debt ceiling hike with spending cuts of a greater amount, an ambitious proposal that puts House Republicans on a collision course with Democrats who want much more modest spending restrictions attached to the vote.
Discussion: Left Coast Rebel and CRFB.org
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Manu Raju / The Politico:   Jon Kyl predicts $6 trillion in cuts
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
In praising Tea Party, Bachmann swipes at Boehner's leadership
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
The Hill Poll: Voters see president's ratings bounce vanishing soon  —  Most voters believe the popularity boost President Obama has received following the killing of Osama bin Laden will disappear quickly, according to a new poll conducted for The Hill.  —  Almost three in five likely voters think the …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:   Eric Holder: U.S. will still close Guantanamo Bay
Alexandria Sage / Reuters:
Attorney General vows to close Guantanamo
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Weasel Zippers
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Unwisdom of Elites  —  The past three years have been a disaster for most Western economies.  The United States has mass long-term unemployment for the first time since the 1930s.  Meanwhile, Europe's single currency is coming apart at the seams.  How did it all go so wrong?
Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Heller takes Senate oath  —  Republican Dean Heller of Nevada was sworn into the Senate Monday by Vice President Joe Biden, replacing embattled Sen. John Ensign who resigned last week over a sex scandal involving a former aid.  —  Heller was joined at the dais by Majority Leader Harry Reid …
Discussion: CNN
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The Politico:
Is Olympia Snowe feeling the heat?
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Gallup poll sees growing support for third party in GOP, Tea Party  —  A majority of Republicans said for the first time that a third party was needed in American politics, according to a Gallup poll released Monday.  —  Fifty-two percent of Republicans, and an even stronger number of Tea Party supporters …
Discussion: Gallup, The Hill and Weasel Zippers
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Christopher Hitchens / Vanity Fair:
Unspoken Truths  —  Until cancer attacked his vocal cords, the author didn't fully appreciate what was meant by “a writer's voice,” or the essential link between speech and prose.  As a man who loved to talk, he turns to the masters of such conversation, both in history and in his own circle.
Vos Iz Neias:
Brooklyn, NY - After Outrage Hasidic Newspaper Issues Statement On Altered White House Photo  —  Brooklyn, NY - Much has been written about a controversial altered photograph of the White House situation room published by Der Tzeitung, a Chareidi newspaper, based out of Brooklyn.
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Tapes Show ‘Pathetic’ Side of Al Qaeda Leader: Experts  —  Osama bin Laden speaks in this undated image taken from video provided by the U.S. Department of Defense and released on Saturday, May 7, 2011.  The videos show bin Laden watching himself on television and rehearsing for terrorist videos.
Daily Mail:
Gunter Sachs, the playboy who married Brigitte Bardot, kills himself at 78  —  Millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs, the German-born former husband of Brigitte Bardot, has killed himself at the age of 78.  —  He is reported to have shot himself at his home in the Swiss resort of Gstaad.
The Huffington Post:
Bristol Palin Reality Show: Palin, Massey Brothers In New BIO Channel Show … Bristol Palin , Bristol Palin Bio Channel , Bristol Palin Kyle Massey , Bristol Palin Reality Show , Entertainment News  —  Bristol Palin is making it a reality show hat trick.  —  The daughter of former Alaska …
Nicolas Loris / The Foundry:
South Carolina Taking Light Bulb Ban into Its Own Hands  —  Fed up with the federal government's ban of the traditional incandescent light bulb, state representatives in South Carolina are pushing for the state to produce and use incandescents solely for its state.
 
 
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