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1:40 PM ET, May 27, 2011

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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Palin creates buzz but rivals bet she won't run  —  Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork  —  “The bottom line is Sarah Palin is not going to run for president,” says a Republican adviser close to front-runner Mitt Romney.  “She's making money, she's moved on, she's kind of an entertainer rather than a politician.
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: CNN Poll: GOP 2012 field still up in the air  —  Washington (CNN) - Call it a sign of how unsettled the GOP presidential field remains: Two of the three people at the top of new national poll in the battle for the Republican nomination may not even run for the White House.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Aharding / CNN:
Pawlenty spins low poll numbers
The Note:
Obama Won't Personally Sign Patriot Act Extension  —  ABC News' Matthew Jaffe (@jaffematt) and Devin Dwyer (@devindwyer) report: Congress officially passed an extension of the Patriot Act tonight, just hours before key provisions of the national security law were due to lapse at midnight.
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Emptywheel:
“Robo-signing” the PATRIOT Act
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Obama signs Patriot Act extension
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Ballot Box
Julian Sanchez / Cato @ Liberty:
Manufactured Panic over Patriot Act
Discussion: Danger Room, Emptywheel, Weigel and Eschaton
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Judge strikes down corporate donations ban  —  A federal court in Alexandria, Va. on Thursday struck down a federal ban on corporate campaign contributions, in a case with potentially dramatic ramifications for a campaign finance regulatory system under siege by legal and regulatory attacks.
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Jason Embry / Austin American-Statesman:
Perry says he will consider White House run  —  Gov. Rick Perry today gave his strongest indication yet that he may run for president.  —  “I'm going to think about it” after the legislative session ends Monday, Perry said.  —  For years, Perry has said that he would not run for president and that he had no interest.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Medicare and Mediscares  —  Yes, Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, is a sore loser.  Why do you ask?  —  To be sure, Mr. Ryan had reason to be upset after Tuesday's special election in New York's 26th Congressional District.  It's a very conservative district …
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Not ‘Right Now’  —  Paul Ryan opens the door for a presidential run.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
When a party declares intellectual bankruptcy  —  The good news is, House Republicans unveiled a plan yesterday that's intended to create jobs.  The bad news is, the plan can charitably be described as a bad joke.  —  As we discussed yesterday, the jobs agenda, such as it is …
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Paul Krugman:
No Ideas  —  Ezra Klein points us to the House GOP's rather pitiful jobs manifesto.
Discussion: Jared Bernstein and Daily Kos
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
What Obama did to Israel  —  Every Arab-Israeli negotiation contains a fundamental asymmetry: Israel gives up land, which is tangible; the Arabs make promises, which are ephemeral.  The long-standing American solution has been to nonetheless urge Israel to take risks for peace …
Kevin Hall / The Iowa Republican:
Bachmann's Debacle  —  “This is a disaster,” said one prominent Polk County Republican.  An elected official called it “an embarrassment”.  The embarrassing disaster was the result of Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann's last minute cancellation of her appearance at the Polk County GOP's Robb Kelley Dinner.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Medicare Survival Guide  —  Sometime this summer, the Democrats and the Republicans will go toe-to-toe over whether to raise the debt ceiling.  At the height of the confrontation, President Obama may well address the country and say that even though he has offered the Republicans …
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The Note:
Mitt Romney Sends Leftover Pizza to Obama Chicago HQ  —  ABC's Emily Friedman (@abcemily) reports: After spending the day in Chicago fundraising, Mitt Romney sat down with small business owners at Gino's East, a pizza joint famous for their deep-dish pizza.  —  Not wanting any of the leftover slices …
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  No recess appointments for Obama over Memorial Day break  —  President Obama will not be able to make recess appointments over the week-long break to commemorate Memorial Day, after Republicans forced Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to keep the chamber open for pro forma sessions every three days.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and Moe Lane
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Associated Press:
Herman Cain: Federal Reserve Chairman, Tea Party Champion  —  The businessman's tenure with the Kansas City Fed should make for interesting debates with anti-Fed stalwart Ron Paul  —  There's no question that Herman Cain is the big winner in the the latest national Gallup poll …
Bryan Preston / Pajamas Media:
Pawlenty knocks out Obama in one tweet  —  Hat tip to Jim Treacher — T-Paw tweets: … Everybody knows the president doesn't have one.  And everybody should know that his joke of a budget garnered exactly zero votes in the Senate.  —  Old and busted: Tim Pawlenty is nice but a bit of a bore.
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Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
Tim Pawlenty's Doing It Wrong
Brendan Greeley / Business Week:
Tyler Cowen, America's Hottest Economist  —  The George Mason University professor has written a bestseller, The Great Stagnation, keeps an influential blog, and reads way too many books  —  Tyler Cowen sits with a cranberry juice and a pile of books he no longer intends to read.
New York Post:
A Supreme conflict of interest  —  Judicial Watch, a public-interest watch dog group, just unearthed a cache of e- mails showing that Elena Kagan participated in preparing the government's defense of ObamaCare during her time as President Obama's solicitor general.
Rick Perlstein / New York Times:
America's Forgotten Liberal  —  JANUARY was the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth, and the planet nearly stopped turning on its axis to recognize the occasion.  Today is the 100th anniversary of Hubert H. Humphrey's birth, and no one besides me seems to have noticed.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Daily Kos
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
McConnell: I Won't Agree To Raise The Debt Limit Without Medicare Cuts  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) says substantial Medicare cuts must be part of a spending and deficit cut package to get his support to raise the debt limit.  —  In a Capitol briefing with reporters Friday …
Jeré Longman / New York Times:
Badminton's New Dress Code Is Being Criticized as Sexist  —  In an attempt to revive flagging interest in women's badminton as the 2012 London Olympics approach, officials governing the sport have decided that its female athletes need to appear more, how to put it, womanly.
Discussion: Jezebel and ECHIDNE of the snakes
Ed Treleven / host.madison.com:
Marshfield man charged with coming to Madison to kill abortion provider  —  IMAGE (2)  —  The Marshfield man who drove to Madison to kill an abortion doctor will appear in federal court Friday around 10:30 a.m.  —  Ralph Lang, 63, faces federal charges after he was arrested Wednesday night …
Discussion: Shakesville, Pharyngula and Feministing
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Economy Is Wavering.  Does Washington Notice?  —  The latest economic numbers have not been good.  Jobless claims rose last week, the Labor Department said on Thursday.  Another report showed that economic growth at the start of the year was no faster than the Commerce Department initially reported …
 
 
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Stogie / Saberpoint:
Soquel High School Students Suspended for Wearing White T Shirts (They're Signs of “White Supremacy")
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Questions about Ratko Mladic
Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
GOP Cuts Disaster Preparedness Funds By $1.5 Billion
Discussion: Wonk Room and Shakesville
Radley Balko / The Agitator:
Video of the Pima County SWAT Raid
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
Neighborly Advice to the Palins: In Arizona, the Sun Burns
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Eric Roper / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Dayton vetoes voter ID
Colin Freeze / Globe and Mail:
Mumbai massacre terrorist tells court of second scheme to hit Danish newspaper
James Rosen / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Clyburn protests McClatchy article on Obama and race
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New York Post:
Koepp decamps Newsweek, returns to Time Inc.
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Palin's road trip
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
In 2012 campaigns, spoilers from the Tea Party worry GOP
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Meghan Daum / Los Angeles Times:
Obama's fast brain vs. slow mouth
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
DNC chairwoman doesn't drive American
 

 
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