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11:45 AM ET, May 19, 2011

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Gerry Mullany / New York Times:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Resigns From I.M.F.  —  Dominique Strauss-Kahn resigned Wednesday as head of the International Monetary Fund after explosive allegations that he had sexually attacked a cleaning lady in a midtown Manhattan hotel room.  —  “It is with infinite sadness that I feel compelled today …
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Telegraph:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn: IMF head ‘hired prostitutes from Manhattan madam’  —  Dominique Strauss-Kahn hired prostitutes from the “Manhattan Madam” who infamously also served Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced former Governor of New York, she claimed on Wednesday night.
Bruce Crumley / Time:
Smoke and Fire: Why France Was Silent About Strauss-Kahn's Womanizing  —  IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, at a news conference during the IMF-World Bank meetings in Washington on April 16, 2011  —  When news of the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn broke in France, Emmanuel Pierrat remembered …
New York Times:
A Favorite Emerges for Helm of I.M.F.  —  PARIS — The French finance minister, Christine Lagarde, was on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos this January when her usual smile turned into a frown.  Next to her, Robert E. Diamond Jr., chief executive of Barclays and one of the most powerful bankers …
Jonathan Ferziger / Bloomberg:
Arab Spring Spurs Israel to Ice Peace Plan Before Obama Meeting  —  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had been preparing to greet President Barack Obama at the White House tomorrow with a proposal to resurrect Middle East peace talks, advisers said.  —  That was until Palestinian …
Discussion: The Agonist
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Ed Henry / CNN:
Stakes high — again — for Obama speech
Discussion: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and News Desk
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
REPORT: Jon Huntsman's Secret Life As A Progressive  —  Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (R) left his post as President Obama's ambassador to China last month in order to pursue a potential bid for the presidency.  During his ambassadorship, Huntsman penned multiple letters to Obama in which he praised …
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Now this is change  —  Previewing Obama's speech …
Nia-Malika Henderson / Washington Post:
Moderate Jon Huntsman, possible 2012 candidate, tests the waters in today's GOP
Mike Allen / The Politico:
MESpeech: President to back democratic reform with economic incentives — Huntsman focuses on U.S. competitiveness; doesn't hit Obama or rivals - Dick Cheney takes gloves off in book - Rummy's sequel  —  TWITTER AS THE NEW DIAL GROUP — TIME magazine “White House Memo: To spread the Gospel of Barack …
Discussion: The Foundry
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Michael Scherer / Time:
Can They Win, One Tweet at a Time?  —  Plouffe, second from left …
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
Associated Press:
Dick Cheney's memoir will have ‘very strong views,’ daughter Liz says
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Dick Cheney memoir set for Aug. 30 release
Discussion: CNN and New York Magazine
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
GOP Donors Deserting Newt Gingrich … WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich's catastrophic first week as an official Republican primary candidate may knock him out of the race before it even gets started.  And if he stays in, fundraising will now be much more difficult, and that could hasten his exit, Republican sources said.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
NBC's David Gregory Defends Medicare Question As Newt Gingrich Spokesman Blasts Media ‘Minions’
Gail Collins / New York Times:
The Year of Living Adulterously  —  What is it with Republicans lately?  —  Nobody wants to run for the presidential nomination.  Mike Huckabee said God told him to stay on Fox News.  NBC told Donald Trump to stay on “Celebrity Apprentice.”  —  Whatever happened to putting your country first?
Discussion: The Note and Washington Monthly
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Romney, Daniels feel ‘death hug’ on their healthcare records
Discussion: GOP 12 and The Daily Caller
Jonathan Capehart / Washington Post:
Cornel West on Obama is no better than a birther  —  Anyone who knows me, and knows me well, knows that I have little patience for the “Blacker than thou” crowd.  These are the self-appointed guardians of what it means to be black — a decidedly limited and ignorant perspective …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell leaves House GOP budget twisting in the wind  —  Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) is leaving Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget plan to its own fate in the Senate by not whipping his GOP colleagues on the vote.  —  Republican senators say McConnell has made it clear …
Julie Mason / The Politico:
Rogue tweet by Secret Service!  —  How embarrassing, Secret Service!  (Gawker image)  —  Courtesy  —  Oh, the dangers of social media!  Those instant, regrettable outbursts of unvarnished truth and scantily clad photos.  Today's victim: the Secret Service!
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Senate rejects GOP bill to expand, speed up offshore drilling  —  The Senate on Wednesday rejected Republican-backed legislation intended to speed up and expand offshore oil and gas drilling.  —  In a 42-57 vote, the Senate failed to move forward with the bill, which was opposed by the White House and most Senate Democrats.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Agence France Presse:
Peter Fonda calls Obama ‘traitor’ at Cannes  —  CANNES, France — Peter Fonda launched a four-letter attack on US President Barack Obama at the Cannes film festival on Wednesday, calling him a traitor over the handling of the aftermath of the Gulf oil spill.
Ken Lee / People.com:
Maria Shriver Hires a Divorce Attorney  —  Maria Shriver, who has split from husband Arnold Schwarzenegger amid a love-child scandal, has hired a divorce lawyer, sources tell PEOPLE.  —  Prominent Los Angeles family law attorney Laura Wasser is now representing California's former first lady, according to sources close to Shriver.
Alan S. Blinder / Wall Street Journal:
The Debt Ceiling Fiasco  —  Fights over the budget are normal and proper in a democracy.  But threatening to default could have dire consequences for the dollar, interest rates and the economy.  —  The debt ceiling “crisis” started on Monday when the U.S. government reached the legal limit …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Gary Johnson's rough start  —  There's sometimes a cheerful lightness to the low expectations that come with being a no-hope minor candidate, but Gary Johnson appears not even to be meeting those.  First Ron Paul, whose space he was primed to take refused to leave.
Discussion: Veritas NM.com
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Many With New College Degree Find the Job Market Humbling  —  The individual stories are familiar.  The chemistry major tending bar.  The classics major answering phones.  The Italian studies major sweeping aisles at Wal-Mart.  —  Now evidence is emerging that the damage wrought …
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Private Prisons Found to Offer Little in Savings  —  PHOENIX — The conviction that private prisons save money helped drive more than 30 states to turn to them for housing inmates.  But Arizona shows that popular wisdom might be wrong: Data there suggest that privately operated prisons …
Discussion: Yglesias and Unfogged
 
 
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Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Ron Paul, Herman Cain & The Tea Parties
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Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Disability-Claim Judge Has Trouble Saying ‘No’
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The Hidden State Financial Crisis
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Why is the Senate stalling on the debt debate?
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Charles Hoskinson / The Politico:
GOP's last-gasp stall on 'don't ask'
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Quinnipiac University:
Blackwell Leads GOP Pack To Challenge Brown In Ohio, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Obama Gets Almost No Osama Bounce
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Debbie Siegelbaum / The Hill:
Don't repeat Osama raid, says Feinstein
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John T. Bennett / The Hill:
Gates: ‘No evidence’ Pakistani leaders knew bin Laden was there
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Jason Mattera / Human Events:
Socialist Senator Sanders Hawks His Book Like an Evil Capitalist
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The White House:
President Obama Nominates Justice Morgan Christen for the United States Court of Appeals
Daily Mail:
You idiot!  Shamed politician John Edwards rages at mistress Rielle Hunter for not destroying sex tape
Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST and Don Surber