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4:10 PM ET, May 5, 2013

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New York Times:
Obama's Vow on Chemical Weapons Puts Him in Tough Spot  —  WASHINGTON — Confronted with evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria, President Obama now finds himself in a geopolitical box, his credibility at stake with frustratingly few good options.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Aide On Syria's Assad: 'If He Drops Sarin On His Own People, What's That Got Do Do With Us?'  —  President Barack Obama got ahead of himself and his advisers when he said that Syria using chemical weapons would cross a “red line,” the New York Times reports.
CNN:
Syria: Attack on military facility was a ‘declaration of war’ by Israel  —  Damascus, Syria (CNN) — A Syrian official called an attack Sunday on the nation's military research facility a “declaration of war” by Israel.  —  In an interview with CNN, Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al Mekdad …
Reuters:
Israel strikes Syria again, rocking Damascus  —  (Reuters) - Israel carried out its second air strike in days on Syria early on Sunday, a Western intelligence source said, in an attack that shook Damascus with a series of powerful blasts and drove columns of fire into the night sky.
The Commentator:
Assad “to declare war” on Israel following fresh airstrikes  —  Reports suggest that Syria's embattled dictator, Bashar al-Assad, is shortly set to declare war on Israel after interventions against the regime  —  Following evidence of chemical warfare and an increasinly reticent US position …
Associated Press:
Israeli warplanes continue to pound Damascus
Discussion: Wake up America
Daniel Byman / New York Times:
Mr. Obama, Don't Draw That Line
Discussion: JustOneMinute
BBC:
Damascus hit ‘by Israeli strikes’
Kathleen Geier / Washington Monthly:
How wrong is Kathleen Parker about Plan B birth control?  Let me count the ways!  —  Kathleen Parker's column in today's Washington Post, which is about over-the-counter sales of Plan B birth control, is a small masterpiece of sophistry.  It's a virtual greatest hits collection …
Discussion: The Impolitic and Balloon Juice
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Prude or prudent? The debate over access to Plan B
Benny Johnson / BuzzFeed:
National Rifle Association Bans Bleeding “Obama” Target, Others Remain  —  Beyond the pale at the NRA convention.  “They thought it looked too much like President Obama,” says a worker.  —  The Zombie Industries booth at the NRA Convention in Houston.  —  HOUSTON, Texas …
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Matthew DeLuca / U.S. News:
NRA's LaPierre: ‘We will never surrender our guns’
Justin Sink / The Hill:
King: ‘Very difficult to believe’ Boston bombing suspects acted alone  —  Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the former chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said Sunday that he did not believe the suspects in last month's Boston Marathon bombings acted alone.
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
King: Customs was not equipped to monitor student visas
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
China Is Censoring Jokes About Its Propaganda Machine's Penis-Shaped HQ  —  The People's Daily is the main state-owned newspaper of China's communist party, and everyone was pretty psyched about the paper's new Beijing headquarters.  The building is massive, imposing, and, uh, currently shaped like a colossal penis.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
Official: We knew Benghazi was a terrorist attack “from the get-go”  —  (CBS News) “Everybody in the mission” in Benghazi, Libya, thought the attack on a U.S. consulate there last Sept. 11 was an act of terror “from the get-go,” according to excerpts of an interview investigators conducted …
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Howard Kurtz apologizes on CNN for errors  —  Howard Kurtz took to his CNN show “Reliable Sources” on Sunday to issue a lengthy full-fledged apology for his erroneous report last week about NBA star Jason Collins and for a string of past careless mistakes that he admitted he was sometimes slow to correct …
Benjamin Bell / ABCNEWS:
Jim DeMint: Immigration Reform Will Cost U.S. Trillions  —  Former South Carolina Republican senator and current Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint argued that implementing immigration reform as proposed by the so-called “Gang of Eight” would “cost Americans trillions of dollars,” …
Washington Post:
Poll: Cuccinelli has early lead over McAuliffe in Virginia governor's race  —  Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has an early lead over businessman Terry McAuliffe in their race for governor, a new Washington Post poll shows, even as most voters in the commonwealth have yet to engage in the nationally watched contest.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama urges OSU graduates to celebrate ‘citizenship’ and reject cynicism  —  President Obama urged graduates at The Ohio State University to celebrate “citizenship” and reject cynicism in a commencement speech to tens of thousands of graduates, family members and friends at Ohio Stadium in Columbus on Sunday.
Discussion: Politico
 
 
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