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9:55 AM ET, May 8, 2013

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Catalina Camia / Associated Press:
Mark Sanford wins special election for Congress  —  The former governor and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch squared off in a special election for Congress.  —  WASHINGTON — Disgraced ex-South Carolina governor Mark Sanford won his bid for redemption on Tuesday night …
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Associated Press:
Ex-South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford wins old House seat back after scandal  —  CHARLESTON, S.C. - Four years after scandal derailed his political career, ex-Republican Gov. Mark Sanford once again holds a South Carolina political office, winning back his old congressional seat Tuesday …
CNN:
Sanford wins South Carolina House vote  —  (CNN) - Former Gov. Mark Sanford will win the race for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, CNN projects.  With 70% of the vote in, Republican Sanford leads Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, 54%-45%.  —  Once considered a possible presidential …
Sanford Leads / The Huffington Post:
COUNTY-BY-COUNTY … THE CANDIDATES  —  held this seat from 1995 to 2001 before serving as the governor of South Carolina from 2003 to 2011.  In 2009 he admitted to lying about having an affair with an Argentinian woman, to whom he is now engaged.  —  Elizabeth Colbert Busch (D) …
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Behind Mark Sanford's turnaround  —  South Carolinians may not love former Gov. Mark Sanford.  They may still have a bad taste in their mouths after his governorship.  They may even wonder whether they can entirely trust him.  —  But in the end, they decided he was as good as they were going to get.
Discussion: Salon, Politicker, Althouse and Ballot Box
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Ex-South Carolina governor Sanford beats Colbert Busch in special House election
Discussion: NewsBusters
Bruce Smith / Associated Press:
Ex-SC Gov. Sanford Back In Political Office
Discussion: Firedoglake
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans Give Guns, Immigration Reform Low Priority  —  Creating jobs and growing the economy get highest priority  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans put reforming immigration and reducing gun violence — the focus of much of the attention on Capitol Hill in recent weeks …
Discussion: Politico and Jammie Wearing Fools
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Poll: Voters want focus on economy over guns, immigration reform  —  Despite dominating Washington's attention, voters say the issues of gun control and immigration reform should take a back seat to efforts to bolster the economy and create jobs, according to a new poll.
Daily Mail:
Dick Cheney slams Obama administration's Benghazi performance as 'a failure of leadership ... I cannot understand why they weren't ready'  —  Former Vice President Dick Cheney criticized the Obama administration on Tuesday for its handling of the September 11, 2012 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
New Benghazi probe evidence puts spotlight back on Clinton  —  New revelations about the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, are pulling Hillary Clinton back into a political firestorm that the presumptive 2016 candidate had so far managed to escape unscathed.
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News, a persistent voice of media skepticism on Benghazi  —  From the start, the Obama administration's account of what happened in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 last year didn't quite square for Sharyl Attkisson.  —  So the veteran CBS News reporter dug in, and kept digging.
Discussion: Althouse and The Hugh Hewitt Show
cms.gov:
Medicare Provider Charge Data  —  As part of the Obama administration's work to make our health care system more affordable and accountable, data are being released that show significant variation across the country and within communities in what hospitals charge for common inpatient services.
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
One hospital charges $8,000 — another, $38,000
Irin Carmon / Salon:
Judge rips Obama's right-wing Plan B stance  —  “You're disadvantaging young people, African-Americans, the poor... that's the policy of the Obama administration?”  —  “It turns out that the same policies that President Bush followed were followed by President Obama,” said District Court Judge Edward Korman …
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Delaware Becomes 11th State With Marriage Equality [UPDATED]
USA Today:
Reports of sex abuse, beatings inside Cleveland house  —  THREE MISSING CLEVELAND WOMEN FREED  —  Three women who had been held captive for 10 years were found Monday in a Cleveland neighborhood, barely a mile from where they had been abducted.  Amanda Berry was able to escape and alert authorities …
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CBO's Publications:
Monthly Budget Review  —  The federal government ran a budget deficit of $489 billion in the first seven months of fiscal year 2013 (that is, from October 2012 through April 2013), according to CBO's estimates.  That amount is $231 billion less than the shortfall recorded during the same period last year …
Discussion: AEIdeas
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Kevin Glass / Townhall.com:   Report: Budget Deficit Shrinks Due To More Tax Revenue
Niall Ferguson / Harvard News:
An Open Letter to the Harvard Community  —  Last week I said something stupid about John Maynard Keynes.  Asked to comment on Keynes' famous observation “In the long run we are all dead,” I suggested that Keynes was perhaps indifferent to the long run because he had no children, and that he had no children because he was gay.
Umbrella Security Labs:
Breaking news: Traffic from Syria Disappears from Internet  —  At around 18:45 UTC the OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria.  On closer inspection, it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet.  —  The graph below shows DNS traffic from and to Syria.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people …
Kevin Diaz / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Michele Bachmann is in talks to settle Iowa lawsuit  —  Sources say she met with lawyers for woman who accused campaign of stealing e-mail list.  —  U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is engaged in settlement negotiations in a lawsuit alleging that senior members of her presidential campaign stole …
Discussion: The Hill
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
'That's absurd beyond the word absurd'  —  You know Republican state lawmakers in Texas are pursuing a troubling agenda when “birther” legislation starts to move, and it's not the most ridiculous proposal worth watching.  —  Rather, this is (thanks to Anneli Kunze on our Facebook page for the tip).
The Boston Globe:
Ex-Romney aide details campaign ‘miscalculations’  —  WASHINGTON - One of Mitt Romney's former campaign aides is planning to ­release a new book next week that is being pitched as an insider's account that provides “an unblinking look at the tactical and strategic miscalculations” made by the former presidential candidate.
Discussion: First Read
 
 
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Ivan Semeniuk / Globe and Mail:
‘No such thing as ethical oil,’ Al Gore tells Toronto audience
Discussion: E2-Wire
Washington Times:
Two-thirds of senators to vote on U.S.-Mexico border without having seen it
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Plans for the Worst in Syria
Discussion: ThinkProgress and New York Times
David M. Drucker / Goppers:
Conservatives Expect Immigration Bill to Move Right
Discussion: BuzzFeed and New York Times
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
On Day Stock Market Sets New Record, Conservative Group Floats Impeaching Obama For ‘Wrecking The Stock Market’
Discussion: Daily Kos
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Pentagon Study Sees Sharp Rise in Sexual Assaults
 Earlier Items: 
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Republicans mull wish list on debt limit
Discussion: Politico and The Plum Line
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
After Boston, Little Change in Views of Islam and Violence
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Yahoo! News
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Biden on Susan Rice: She speaks for the president
Discussion: The Hill and Politico
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Joe Biden Tells Supporter He Opposes Keystone Pipeline, But Is “In The Minority,” She Says
Discussion: E2-Wire
David Brooks / New York Times:
Beyond the Fence  —  The opponents of immigration reform …
Discussion: The Monkey Cage and msnbc.com
WBFF-TV:
USAF Vet Willing to Offer National Cemetery Burial Plot to Bombing Suspect
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
The Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly Renews Contract
Discussion: Deadline.com, Mediaite and TheBlaze.com