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3:40 PM ET, May 21, 2012

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Washington Post:
Cory Booker commits the classic Washington gaffe  —  In Washington, there's an old cliche: A gaffe is when a politician is accidentally honest.  —  That's what happened to Newark (N.J.) Mayor Cory Booker during an appearance on NBC's “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Bankruptcy report on Bain-owned Ampad: Creditors repaid $.002 for every dollar owed  —  The Obama campaign is opening up a fresh line of attack on Bain Capital using the story of Ampad, an ultimately bankrupt company backed by Bain that laid off all 250 workers at an Indiana factory it purchased …
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Daily Kos
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Cory Booker walks back criticism of Obama tactics as ‘nauseating’  —  Newark Mayor Cory Booker released a Web video Sunday emphasizing his support for President Obama and clarifying remarks he made earlier in the day where he criticized the president's campaign tactics as “nauseating.”
Tim Mak / Politico:
Harold Ford: Cory Booker was right  —  Former Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford Jr. said Monday that he would not have walked back New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker's surprising comments criticizing the Obama campaign for attacking private equity.  —  “I would not have backed off the comments if I were Mayor Booker …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
RNC launches ‘I Stand With Cory’ petition
Discussion: Daily Kos and Indecision Forever
Conn Carroll / Campaign 2012:
Morning Examiner: Booker's Bungle
Discussion: msnbc.com and Conservative Commune
Wall Street Journal:
Bain Capitalism 101  —  How does a rapacious company get repeat business?
Discussion: Betsy's Page and American Power
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
BREAKING: Cardinal Dolan of NY, Cardinal Wuerl of D.C., Notre Dame—And 40 Other Catholic Dioceses and Organizations—Sue Obama Administration  —  (CNSNews.com) - The archdiocese of New York, headed by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archdiocese of Washington, D.C., headed by Cardinal Donald Wuerl …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Breaking: 43 Catholic institutions file suits over HHS mandate
Discussion: Fox News, Nice Deb and National Review
Lee Drutman / Sunlight Foundation:
The changing complexity of congressional speech  —  Congress now speaks at almost a full grade level lower than it did just seven years ago, with the most conservative members of Congress speaking on average at the lowest grade level, according to a new Sunlight Foundation analysis of the Congressional Record using Capitol Words.
Sarah Campbell / The Salisbury Post:
Video stirs debate on teacher's actions in North class  —  SPENCER — After reviewing a video in which a North Rowan High School teacher tells a student he can be arrested for speaking ill of President Barack Obama, the Rowan-Salisbury School System said it can be a learning experience.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Limbaugh takes post-Fluke ratings hit  —  Rush Limbaugh took a significant ratings hit in some key radio markets last month in the wake of the Sandra Fluke controversy.  —  The conservative radio host's ratings fell 27 percent in the key 25-54 demo in New York City, 31 percent in Houston-Galveston …
Ross Ramsey / The Texas Tribune:
UT/TT Poll: Runoffs Loom in U.S. Senate Race … Texas' Republican primary for U.S. Senate is close — and could be headed for a July 31 runoff — with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst holding a single-digit lead over former Solicitor General Ted Cruz, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune poll.
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Tim Carpenter / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Political Runoff  —  Palin's advice to Kansan: Vote in Texas
T.W. Farnam / Washington Post:
White House visitor logs provide window into lobbying industry  —  Before 9 a.m., a group of lobbyists began showing up at the White House security gates with the chief executives of their companies, all of whom serve on President Obama's jobs council, to be checked in for a roundtable with the president.
Christine McConville / Boston Herald:
Dems say no changing horses now  —  Despite Warren's heritage woes ...  Bay State Democrats are standing by their woman, saying they're confident in embattled Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren — now three weeks into a persistent scandal over her claims of Native American heritage …
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Thomas B. Edsall / Campaign Stops:
Obama on the High Wire
Discussion: Campaign 2012 and Hullabaloo
Kirstan Conley / New York Post:
WATCH: NYPD Sgt.'s filthy tirade captured in shocking cellphone video  —  A uniformed NYPD sergeant was caught on video unleashing a vulgar tirade against a group of Brooklyn men — threatening them with his gun even while condoning their criminal behavior, The Post has learned.
Paul Krugman:
None So Blind  —  As those who will not see.  —  Eddie Lazear has an op-ed in the WSJ on the fiscal cliff that, among other things, pooh-poohs any concerns that sudden cuts in spending might hurt the economy.  He weasels a bit, but basically conveys the impression that there's no evidence for Keynesian effects.
Discussion: Brad DeLong
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Edward P. Lazear / Wall Street Journal:
Edward Lazear: Three Views of the ‘Fiscal Cliff’
Discussion: Firedoglake
Tim Mak / Politico:
Jesse Jackson says hits on Jeremiah Wright pain him  —  Civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson defended Monday controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright, saying that it was a “source of pain” to see him criticized in the media.  —  “I know it's a source of pain for me to see him used as an object …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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Steven Goldstein / Garden State Equality:
Dharun Ravi is sentenced  —  Moments ago, Judge Berman decided to sentence Dharun Ravi to 30 days in jail.  We have been public in taking a position of balance: We opposed throwing the book at Dharun Ravi.  We have spoken out against giving him the maximum sentence of 10 years in jail and against deporting him.
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Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:
Missouri Legislature Approves Bill Allowing Employers To Deny Access To Birth Control  —  Missouri legislators passed a bill Friday that allows employers or health insurance providers to stop offering coverage for contraception, abortion, or sterilization if doing so violates their religious or moral convictions.
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
GOP blasts $1 million Hawaii conference for judges in wake of GSA scandal  —  Two senior Senate Republicans on Monday blasted plans by judges in the 9th Circuit to hold a conference in Hawaii this August that they said could run up a tab of $1 million or more, and includes a schedule of sport fishing …
Patrick O'Connor / Washington Wire:
Dick Cheney to Raise Money for Mitt Romney  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, will host a July fund-raiser for Mitt Romney at their home in Jackson Hole, Wyo., according to a save-the-date e-mail from the Romney campaign.  —  The event will help the likely Republican nominee tap …
 
 
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Hon. Robert S. Mueller, III / The House Committee …:
King Letter to FBI Director Mueller on Leaks in AQAP Operation
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Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
LIKE WARREN, OBAMA CLAIMS CHEROKEE ANCESTRY—BUT OFFERS NO PROOF
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Moonbattery
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
NEWLY DISCOVERED VIDEO Previously Scrubbed From YouTube Shows Trayvon Martin Participating in Local Fight Club
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Life after the fall: 4 sex scandal pols
City Journal:
The Worst Union in America
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
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Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  How Republicans Have Gained The Upper Hand In The Fight …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Fill Stadium for Rally on Internet
Discussion: Mashable! and New York Magazine
Matt Gutman / ABCNEWS:
George Zimmerman Case: Should Charges Be Dropped?
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Boris Johnson / Telegraph:
Europe is driving full-tilt, foot on the pedal, into a brick wall