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Alexander Bolton / Healthwatch:
Republican rift widens on Medicare  —  A deep rift is opening wider and wider in the Republican Party over controversial proposals to cut Medicare.  —  Senate Republicans have decided to avoid jeopardizing their chances of capturing the upper chamber in next year's elections and will not echo …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Boehner Outlines Demands on Debt Limit Fight  —  WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner said Monday that Republicans would insist on trillions of dollars in federal spending cuts in exchange for their support of an increase in the federal debt limit sought by the Obama administration to prevent a government default later this year.
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
Wonkbook: Boehner's debt-ceiling demands  —  (Kathy Willens - AP) In a speech before a Wall Street crowd on Monday, John Boehner laid out the three legs of the GOP's opening bid on the debt ceiling.  They are:  —  1) “Without significant spending cuts and reforms to reduce our debt, there will be no debt limit increase.
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
John Boehner's Debt Demands  —  To really understand the debt ceiling debate, I think you need to know the following things: … Under the circumstances, the solution to the deadlock is for a bipartisan bill to pass the House with the support of both Boehner and Pelosi …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner's hard line on debt ceiling gets cool reception from Wall St.  —  NEW YORK - House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Monday laid down an aggressive new marker in the debt limit fight, calling for spending cuts that exceed any additional borrowing authority that Congress approves.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
John Boehner: Chris Christie, Mitch Daniels should run
Discussion: The Page
Los Angeles Times:
Boehner demands trillions in cuts in exchange for debt vote
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Balloon Juice
New York Times:
U.S. Was Braced for Fight With Pakistanis in Bin Laden Raid  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama insisted that the assault force hunting down Osama bin Laden last week be large enough to fight its way out of Pakistan if confronted by hostile local police officers and troops, senior administration and military officials said Monday.
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John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
The Associated Press's Case for Releasing the Bin Laden Photo
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver announce separation  —  The former first lady has moved out after 25 years of marriage.  Maria Shriver helped bolster Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign against charges that he groped women during his movie career.  —  Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver …
Kris Hundley / St. Petersburg Times:
Billionaire's role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions  —  A conservative billionaire who opposes government meddling in business has bought a rare commodity: the right to interfere in faculty hiring at a publicly funded university.
Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
The Tragedy of Sarah Palin  —  From the moment Sarah Palin's acceptance speech electrified the Republican convention, she was seen as an unbending, hard-charging, red-meat ideologue—to which soon was added “thin-skinned” and “vindictive.”  But a look at what Palin did while in office in Alaska …
Discussion: msnbc.com and Jezebel
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Trump collapses  —  Donald Trump has had one of the quickest rises and falls in the history of Presidential politics.  Last month we found him leading the Republican field with 26%.  In the space of just four weeks he's dropped all the way down to 8%, putting him in a tie for fifth place with Ron Paul.
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Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
The myth of American exceptionalism  —  “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in 1903 — and I will not quibble.  But the problem of the 21st century is the problem of culture, not just the infamous “culture of poverty” but what I would call the culture of smugness.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Romney plans major healthcare speech in Michigan on Thursday  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) will deliver a major speech Thursday on healthcare in his native state of Michigan.  —  Romney will make a presentation at the University of Michigan's cardiovascular center laying …
Discussion: The Politico and HotAirPundit
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Feifei Sun / The Page:
Taking It On  —  First on The Page: Romney to give major health …
Discussion: GOP 12 and Taegan Goddard's …
Wall Street Journal:
National Health Preview
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Gingrich Set to Run, With Wife in Central Role  —  WASHINGTON — Callista Bisek's friends from rural Wisconsin were stunned when, well over a decade ago, she confided that she was secretly dating an older, married man: Newt Gingrich.  —  Still in her 20s when they met …
The Politico:
Whiteboard Archives  —  IN THE RED: President Obama is going to Texas on Tuesday to give an immigration speech in El Paso before raising money for his reelection in Austin.  After he speaks at two Democratic National Committee events in Austin, one of which is open to just a print pool reporter …
Discussion: Right Wing News
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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Perry declines Obama's invite
Emily Miller / Washington Times:
Obama's illegal alien nation
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft to Acquire Skype  —  Software Giant to Pay $8.5 Billion in Cash for Company  —  The next phase of Skype's life could be as part of Microsoft.  What could the software giant do with the service, and could it be a better fit than its former owner eBay?  WSJ's Andrew LaVallee discusses with Alex Frangos.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  BREAKING: Appeals panel hearing ObamaCare suit comprised of 2 Obama nominees and a Clinton nominee  —  Senior Editorial Writer Follow Him @Philipaklein  —  RICHMOND, Va. - A three-judge federal appeals panel comprised of two Obama nominees and a Clinton nominee …
Discussion: Washington Post and Hit & Run
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Beyond Obama's Bin Laden Bounce  —  A week after the news broke of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, bettors at Intrade, a political futures market, are barely any more likely to think that Barack Obama will win re-election.  —  As of this writing, Mr. Obama's Democrats are given …
Christopher Hitchens / Slate Magazine:
Chomsky's Follies  —  The professor's pronouncements about Osama Bin Laden are stupid and ignorant.  —  Anybody visiting the Middle East in the last decade has had the experience: meeting the hoarse and aggressive person who first denies that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the destruction …
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Times of India:
Record sale of Osama posters in Pakistan
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Associated Press:
Suspect in flight disturbance had Calif. ID  —  SAN FRANCISCO - The passengers sat stunned as they watched a man walk quickly toward the front of American Airlines Flight 1561 as it was descending toward San Francisco.  He was screaming and then began pounding on the cockpit door.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Tailspin: Obama's numbers on economy reach new low in NBC/WSJ poll  —  He ended up with an overall bounce because of Bin Laden, of course — from 49/45 last month to 52/41 now, with sharp spikes in his ratings on foreign policy, being a strong commander-in-chief, etc.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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Brad Poole / Yahoo! News Canada:
Liberals in southern Arizona seek to form new state  —  TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) - A long-simmering movement by liberal stalwarts in southern Arizona to break away from the rest of the largely conservative state is at a boiling point as secession backers press to bring their longshot ambition to the forefront of Arizona politics.
Aharding / CNN:
CNN Poll: Democrats up 50-46 percent in battle for House  —  Washington (CNN) - It's one of the storylines for 2012: Can the Democrats win back control of the House of Representatives?  —  A new poll suggests that they may have a chance.  —  Full results (pdf)
Discussion: The Hill
 
 
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
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Thomas Sowell / Real Clear Politics:
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Missing Fifth  —  In 1910, Henry Van Dyke wrote a book called …
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Ron Paul's land of second-rate values
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