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8:45 AM ET, May 11, 2011

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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Obama hits Fox News  —  Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama used an immigration speech Tuesday to take a jab at News Corporation CEO, Rupert Murdoch, who owns Fox News Channel.  —  Obama quoted the CEO, an Australian native, who said “Immigrants have made America great as the world leader in business …
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Scott Wong / The Politico:
Democrats to reintroduce DREAM Act  —  Senate Democrats will re-introduce the long-stalled DREAM Act, hoping to tap into momentum from President Barack Obama's speech along the border Tuesday about America's need to pass comprehensive immigration reform.  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Budget chief wants plan with 50-50 split between spending cuts and tax hikes
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Senate Democrats set to attack big oil tax subsidies
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Bin Laden Sons Say U.S. Broke International Law  —  WASHINGTON — The adult sons of Osama bin Laden have lashed out at President Obama in their first public reaction to their father's death, accusing the United States of violating its basic legal principles by killing an unarmed man …
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Bin Laden death now part of Obama's re-elect message  —  President Obama speaks at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Austin, Tex. Tuesday.  (Jim Young/Reuters)  —  Reporting from Austin, Tex.— Osama bin Laden, mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, is now an applause line in a presidential campaign speech.
The Note:
Lawmakers Allowed to Osama Bin Laden Death Photos
Discussion: The Politico
National Review:
Why Kill Bin Laden?
Discussion: BLACKFIVE
Christian Heinze / Ballot Box:
Palin and Trump: It's complicated  —  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and businessman Donald Trump have formed a political bond, one united by their populist ideology and contempt for the mainstream media.  —  Their kinship grew during the height of the birther controversy.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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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.
Corry Schiermeyer / Zogby:
Todays Number  —  IBOPE Zogby Poll: Cain Now Second to Christie …
kff.org:
House Republican Budget Plan: State-By-State Impact of Changes in Medicaid Financing  —  This analysis projects the state-by-state impact of converting Medicaid into a block grant and eliminating the planned expansion of the program by repealing the health reform law, as called for under the House Budget Plan.
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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
Report: Up to 44m more uninsured under GOP budget
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
The House Republican Budget Privatizes Medicare, It Doesn't Means-Test It
Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC:
Rand Paul Suggests Conspiracy In Labor Fight: ‘Mr. President, Do You Have An Enemies List?’  —  Speaking at the Chamber of Commerce's national headquarters in Washington, D.C., South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) joined Republican lawmakers Tuesday to decry the National Labor Relations Board …
Discussion: Oliver Willis and Washington Post
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Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
GOP Sen. Rand Paul questions whether White House has ‘enemies list’
Kevin Lamarque / The Atlantic Online:
How Perpetual War Became U.S. Ideology  —  Since the last realist president, George H.W. Bush, left office, two groups— neoconservatives and liberal interventionists—have overtaken American foreign policy  —  The United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Raid: Pakistan Hints China Wants a Peek at Secret Helicopter  —  Pakistani officials said today they're interested in studying the remains of the U.S.'s secret stealth-modified helicopter abandoned during the Navy SEAL raid of Osama bin Laden's compound, and suggest the Chinese are as well.
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Southern border is more secure, but not thanks to Obama, says Cornyn  —  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) conceded this week that security on the Mexican border has improved under the Obama administration - but not, he said, because of the president's policies.  —  “We are better than we were …
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
In Washington, You Don't Need To Know Anything About Policy To Be a Senator Or Chair Important Commissions  —  Here's an important fact about the United States of America.  Since 1940, advances in prenatal, neonatal, and pediatric medicine have massively reduced early in life deaths.  This is common sense.
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Associated Press:
Key senator says Social Security changes off table
Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
“Very Positive”: Fox News' Smear Of “Vile Rapper” Common Debunked By Own Reporting  —  Conservatives such as Fox News, the Daily Caller and Sarah Palin are criticizing the White House's invitation to rapper Common for a poetry event over the purported vulgarity of his lyrics.
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The Politico:
Obama fundraises in Austin, Texas  —  President Obama's take from his Austin, Texas, fundraisers is $2 million, a Democratic source said Tuesday.  —  More than 50 attendees paid $35,800 - the maximum legal limit - to dine with the president at a private residence.
Discussion: CNN, Reuters and The Page
Patrick Caldwell / American Prospect:
Republican Electoral Strategy: Don't Let the Democrats Vote  —  The Texas Legislature passed two bills yesterday that on the surface look like good governance measures but are actually efforts to discourage the Democratic base from voting.  The state Senate approved a bill requiring voters …
Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Humbled Gingrich to launch 2012 bid  —  Sees strength in adviser team  —  Newt Gingrich vowed Tuesday that his 2012 run for the GOP presidential nomination will be free of the intellectual arrogance and personal disorganization that he concedes marred his tenure as speaker of the U.S. House in the 1990s.
Discussion: CNN and GOP 12
New York Times:
After Bin Laden, U.S. Reassesses Afghan Strategy  —  WASHINGTON — The killing of Osama bin Laden has set off a reassessment of the war in Afghanistan and the broader effort to combat terrorism, with Congress, the military and the Obama administration weighing the goals, strategies …
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Page and FrumForum
 
 
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Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
New York Times Magazine Relies upon Faked Research to Smear Military
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Cheyenne Hopkins / American Banker:
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Ron Bloom / White House.gov Blog:
How Tough Love Averted Catastrophe & Led to 4,200 New American Jobs
Discussion: Emptywheel and The Hill
Al Tompkins / Poynter:
Steve Kroft explains why he broke interviewing rules when questioning Obama about bin Laden death for ‘60 Minutes’
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Lawn sign advances feud between mosque, neighbor
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Gingrich Run Reflects His Sense of History