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2:30 PM ET, May 10, 2011

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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.
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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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.
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.
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
John Boehner's Debt Demands
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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, Verum Serum and Jezebel
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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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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 …
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The Note:
Mitt Romney To Lay Out Health Reform Plan Thursday  —  ABC's John Berman (@johnsberman) and Amy Walter (@amyewalter) report:  —  Former Massachusetts Governor and likely Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will outline his approach to health care reform in Michigan Thursday …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Matt Viser / Boston Globe:
Romney to give major health care speech
Discussion: Washington Post and AmSpecBlog
Aharding / CNN:
Romney to talk about troublesome issue: Health care
Discussion: Cubachi and Liberty Pundits Blog
Feifei Sun / The Page:
Taking It On  —  First on The Page: Romney to give major health …
Discussion: GOP 12, TPMDC and Taegan Goddard's …
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.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Missing Fifth  —  In 1910, Henry Van Dyke wrote a book called “The Spirit of America,” which opened with this sentence: “The Spirit of America is best known in Europe by one of its qualities — energy.”  —  This has always been true.  Americans have always been known for their manic dynamism.
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Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Whatever Happened to the Great Recession?
Discussion: Rortybomb
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
Human Capital Can't Explain The Precipitous Rise In Unemployment Across America
Discussion: Free exchange
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 …
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
GOP Sen. Rand Paul questions whether White House has ‘enemies list’  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) asked Tuesday if the White House had an “enemies list” in light of the National Labor Relations Board's complaint against Boeing for moving some of its operations to South Carolina.
Discussion: FrumForum
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Michael Gerson / Washington Post:
Ron Paul's land of second-rate values
The Atlantic Online:
Hillary Clinton: Chinese System Is Doomed, Leaders on a 'Fool's Errand'  —  In an exclusive interview, the secretary of state says Beijing's human rights record is “deplorable” and it is “trying to stop history” by opposing the advance of democracy  —  In my latest Atlantic cover story …
Discussion: Political Punch and Swampland
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Danger: Falling Tyrants
Discussion: FishbowlDC
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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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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Kerry Burke / NY Daily News:
Avena, the herbal ‘Viagra’ found in Osama Bin Laden's compound, is ‘popular’ item in New York shop
Rasmussen Reports:
59% Favor Cutoff of Federal Funds to Sanctuary Cities  —  New legislation being considered by the House would stop all federal funding for cities that give sanctuary to illegal immigrants, and most voters like the idea.  But very few believe Congress is likely to pass such a measure.
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 …
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: Taegan Goddard's … and The Hill
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.
 
 
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
A Wider War on Terror
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Michael Weiss / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Amnesty International, MEMO and the Palestinian writer who calls Jews ‘kikes’
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Judy L. Randall / Staten Island Advance:
Gingrich candidacy won't sit well with Staten Island's Guy Molinari
Discussion: GOP 12
Juana Summers / The Politico:
GOP litmus test: Sharia opposition
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Senate Dem leaders introduce bill to repeal oil-company tax breaks
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San Francisco Chronicle:
‘Social justice’ in contracts costs S.F. millions
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Competition in Higher Education
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