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10:00 AM ET, May 7, 2013

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New York Post:
Christie reveals secret stomach surgery to lose weight  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band stomach surgery to aggressively slim down for the sake of his wife and kids, he revealed to The Post last night.  —  The Garden State governor agreed to the operation …
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Dan Merica / CNN:
Christie reveals weight loss surgery  —  Washington (CNN) - A few months after turning 50 years old, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band surgery in February for the sake of his wife and kids, a source close to the governor confirmed to CNN.
Associated Press:
Newspaper: NJ gov. had secret weight loss surgery  —  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent gastric band surgery in February to try to lose weight at the urging of his family.  —  The father of four agreed to the surgery, in which a tube was placed around his stomach …
Discussion: Riehl World News
Thomas Ott / Plain Dealer:
Berry, DeJesus, Knight found alive, police source confirms  —  Cheers as Amanda Berry, Gina Dejesus, MIchelle Knight found alive  —  CLEVELAND, Ohio — Long-missing Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight have been found alive.  —  Berry called police Monday afternoon and frantically told …
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Guardian:   US air force sexual assault prevention unit chief charged with sexual battery
Jennifer Hlad / Stars & Stripes:
Air Force sex assault prevention chief charged in sex assault
Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
G.O.P. Is Readying a New Offensive Over Health Care Law  —  WASHINGTON — As the administration struggles to put in place the final, complex piece of President Obama's signature health care law, an endeavor on a scale not seen since Medicare's creation nearly a half-century ago …
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Brett Norman / Politico:
Will health care cost slowdown last?
Discussion: First Read, The Hill and New York Times
Dana Bash / CNN:
Flake willing to support background checks, with changes to internet sales  —  Washington (CNN) - Republican Sen. Jeff Flake told CNN he is willing to reverse his opposition to expanding background checks for guns if the Senate sponsors change on the bill's provision dealing with internet sales.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:   Manchin ‘frustrated’ with the NRA
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Huckabee: Benghazi will drive Obama from office  —  Mike Huckabee on Monday predicted that President Barack Obama won't finish out his second term in light of the “cover-up” of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the former Arkansas governor called the affair “more serious than Watergate.”
Politico:
Gun control ads have Democrats worrying  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's aides met recently with staffers of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to warn them: Targeting vulnerable Democrats like Arkansas's Mark Pryor on gun control could backfire on the party, several sources told POLITICO.
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Sanford reaches for comeback
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Peter Beinart / The Daily Beast:
Yes, Democrats Can Be Racist
David Brown / Washington Post:
Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’  —  You, hear me!  Give this fire to that old man.  Pull the black worm off the bark and give it to the mother.  And no spitting in the ashes!  —  It's an odd little speech.  But if you went back 15,000 years and spoke these words …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Directly Blames China's Military for Cyberattacks  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China's military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map “military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis.”
Discussion: Business Insider and ParaPundit
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Julian E. Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Says China's Government, Military Used Cyberespionage
Discussion: VentureBeat and The Verge
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Reid calls Sen. Cruz a ‘schoolyard bully’  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called freshman GOP Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) a “schoolyard bully” during a contentious exchange Monday on the Senate floor.  —  The two senators bickered as Cruz rose to object to Reid's motion …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Where are the start-ups?  Column  —  A country that celebrates achievement and risk-taking is likely to see more economic success than one that does not.  —  When the economy was last this bad for this long — back in the dreaded Jimmy Carter era — there was one upside …
Discussion: Riehl World News and Vox Popoli
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Hillary Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end  —  When it first became clear that the CIA's Benghazi talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect.  After all, it served President Obama's political purposes to claim …
Tim Flach / The State:
Chapin teacher got $85,000 in flag stomping deal  —  CHAPIN, SC — Lexington-Richland 5 paid former Chapin High teacher Scott Compton √ $85,000 to avoid a legal challenge, part of a settlement that led to his resignation after he stomped on an American flag during a class lesson.
Anne McNamara / FOX43tv.com:
Boy who held pencil like gun suspended  —  School has “zero tolerance” weapons policy  —  SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) - A Suffolk school suspended a second grader for pointing a pencil at another student and making gun noises.  —  Seven-year-old Christopher Marshall says he was playing …
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
House hits brakes on Internet tax passed by Senate … The House was in no rush to take up an internet tax bill that senators approved Monday night.  And even if the House takes up the issue, lawmakers said, it will be a bill very different from the Senate's.
The Times:
David Cameron's attempts at renegotiation will be inconsequential - we must leave  —  David Cameron has promised that in four years time the British people will be given the opportunity to decide in a referendum whether this country should leave the European Union.
Discussion: Telegraph, Guardian, BBC and Spectator
Jonathan Salant / Political Capital:
Menendez Asked Justice to Delay Merger Opposed by Donor  —  Photograph by Douglas Graham/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images  —  Sen. Robert Menendez, D-NJ., walks to a classified briefing.  —  Sen. Robert Menendez contacted the U.S. Justice Department in an effort to delay a proposed merger opposed …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
 
 
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Kerry Lester / Daily Herald:
Illinois GOP's Brady to resign Tuesday morning
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@NCCapitol:
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 Earlier Items: 
Richard A. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
The Rule of Lawyers  —  Law-school applications today have dropped …
Discussion: Via Meadia
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Mississippi Still Poised For Tuesday Execution, Despite DOJ Warnings That Evidence Is ‘Invalid’
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Chambliss sinks hole-in-one during golf round with Obama
Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Non-Violent March To Threaten Violence
Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon:
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Discussion: Firedoglake and Daily Kos
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
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Discussion: The Verge