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11:55 AM ET, May 28, 2013

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Daniel Klaidman / The Daily Beast:
Holder's Regrets and Repairs  —  How the attorney general feels about his own role in the Fox News case—and how he plans to prevent it from happening again.  By Daniel Klaidman.  —  It was Friday, May 17, and officials at the Department of Justice had gotten word that The Washington Post …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Axelrod: DOJ's Fox probe ‘disturbing’  —  The Justice Department's surveillance of a Fox News reporter is “disturbing,” David Axelrod said Tuesday.  —  The former Obama campaign adviser specially said he found it disturbing that the Department of Justice decided to label chief Fox Washington …
Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers
Peter Ferrara / Forbes:
To the Horror of Global Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling Is Here  —  Around 1250 A.D., historical records show, ice packs began showing up farther south in the North Atlantic.  Glaciers also began expanding on Greenland, soon to threaten Norse settlements on the island.
Politico:
John Boehner's shrinking power  —  House Speaker John Boehner, who by title and position should be the second most powerful person in Washington, sure doesn't seem or sound like it.  —  He has little ability to work his will with fellow House Republicans.  He has quit for good his solo efforts …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP feels jilted after being wined and dined by Obama  —  Senate Republicans who shared laughs with President Obama over dinner at the Jefferson Hotel in March are grumbling there has since been little follow-through from him on deficit talks.  —  They say the White House has not set …
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs compromised by Chinese cyberspies  —  Designs for many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, according to a report prepared for the Pentagon and to officials from government and the defense industry.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: US weapons systems compromised by Chinese hackers
Michael Shear / New York Times:
Obama Plans 3 Nominations for Key Court  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama will soon accelerate his efforts to put a lasting imprint on the country's judiciary by simultaneously nominating three judges to an important federal court, a move that is certain to unleash fierce Republican opposition …
Rich Calder / New York Post:
Labor big a real heavy sleeper  —  Just another doze at the office for union's ‘scarf-&-snore’ prez  —  Union fat cat Mark Rosenthal spends more time sleeping at his desk than organizing labor, a series of damning photos reveals.  —  The 400-pound president of Local 983 of District Council 37 …
Discussion: Capital New York
Politico:
After 2008, who would Hillary Clinton hire?  —  Back in 2008, Hillary Clinton committed so many management sins it was hard to keep track of them all — yet none was worse than failing to establish a coherent, functional chain of command.  —  Loyalists often clashed with the best and brightest …
John Steele Gordon / Commentary Magazine:
A Frequent Visitor to the White House  —  The Washington Examiner reported on Monday that Mark Everson, Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 2003 to 2007, during the Bush administration, visited the White House exactly once while in office.  Indeed he felt like he'd “moved to Siberia” so out of the ordinary political loop was he.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Priebus: Issa going to have ‘quite a summer’ investigating Obama
Discussion: The Raw Story
David Martosko / Daily Mail:
Rand Paul claims Obamacare will include diagnostic codes for injuries sustained from a turtle, walking into a lamppost and burning water skis  —  In a little-noticed speech to the Iowa Republican Party this month, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul mocked President Obama's signature health care overhaul …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Weasel Zippers
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Iowa buzzes over Scott Walker
Discussion: Right Turn
World News:
McCain slips into Syria to meet with rebel leaders  —  John McCain crossed into Syria from Turkey to meet with Salim Idris, the general commander of the Free Syrian Army.  McCain wants the U.S. to support the Free Syrian Army with arms and a no-fly zone.  NBC's Richard Engel reports and NBC's David Gregory discusses the visit.
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Dean Chambers / Examiner:
Was President Obama high on coke while Benghazi burned?  (Video)  —  Bob Woodward Says Benghazi Is Like WatergateBob Woodward Says Benghazi Is Like Watergate  —  While our consulate in Benghazi was attacked during the night of September 11 of last year, our fearless leader …
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
What If the Next President Is Even Worse?  —  Partisanship shouldn't blind Americans to Bush-Obama civil liberty threats.  —  George W. Bush in 2001 declared war on a tactic (terrorism), and empowered Big Brother to tap phones, launch drones and indefinitely imprison people without due process.
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Lisa De Pasquale / Townhall.com:
DePasquale's Dozen With Author Dr. Helen Smith  —  Nearly every TV commercial seems to show the husband or father as bumbling, emasculated basement-dwellers.  One commercial that sticks in my mind is a laundry detergent commercial that shows a husband and wife folding their triplets' clothes.
Cathy Young / Newsday:
More government overreach — on campus sexual harassment  —  A joint letter from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Education to the University of Montana earlier this month signals a stepped-up federal initiative to combat sexual assault and harassment on college campuses.
Discussion: Hit & Run
Paul Roderick Gregory / Forbes:
‘Austerity’ To Blame?  But Where's The Austerity?  —  Die-hard Keynesians bemoan that, with a few exceptions, the world's economies are drowning in the quicksand of austerity.  They preach we need more government spending and stimulus, not less.  Northern Europe should bail …
Alec MacGillis / New Republic:
This Is How the NRA Ends  —  The bigger, richer, meaner gun-control movement has arrived  —  On April 17, the bill to expand background checks on gun buyers failed in the Senate, and the fatalistic shrugs in Washington were so numerous they were nearly audible.
Discussion: susiemadrak.com and Mediaite
 
 
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Associated Press:
One Region in Myanmar Limits Births of Muslims
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BBC:
Russian arms ‘to deter foreign intervention in Syria’
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New York Times:
Blacks Professionals' Progress Stalls
New York Times:
Border Injustice  —  Those who view fixing immigration as simply …
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USA Today:
Penalties for politicians: Column
Discussion: Hit & Run and Ed Driscoll
Joel Alicea / Washington Times:
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Bishop Hill:
Met Office admits claims of significant temperature rise untenable
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Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Marines punished for sexist, threatening posts
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Alex Isenstadt / Reuters:
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CNN:
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