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5:25 PM ET, May 30, 2013

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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  May 30, 2013 - American Voters 4-1 Want Special Prosecutor For IRS, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; But Fixing Economy Is More Important, Voters Say 3-1  —  American voters say 76 - 17 percent, including 63 - 30 percent among Democrats, that a special prosecutor …
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Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog:
I THINK I KNOW WHAT MIGHT SAVE MSNBC  —  There's a lot of talk about the fact that MSNBC's ratings have been way down for the past couple of months.  A number of factors seem to be responsible for this: people are turning instead to CNN and HLN for real news (the Boston bombings) and fake news …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Obama's poll numbers hold up despite the storm of scandal  —  Obama's 7 percentage-point positive margin in Gallup is better than where he stood before the IRS scandal broke.  —  President Obama's approval ratings have increased since a trio of controversies involving his administration began dominating the news cycle.
Carol Cratty / CNN:
Holder runs into roadblocks on off-the-record meetings on leaks  —  Washington (CNN) - Attorney General Eric Holder's plans to sit down with media representatives to discuss guidelines for handling investigations into leaks to the news media have run into trouble.
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Holder media backlash intensifies
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Hot Air
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Networks And News Organizations Are Boycotting A Controversial Meeting With Eric Holder
Discussion: Mediaite, Hot Air and CNN
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Harvard 1, Strawman 0  —  To the delight of NY Times headline writers …
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Washington ‘Spends’ More on Tax Breaks Than on Medicare, Defense, or Social Security
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Los Angeles Times
Lynn Sweet / Chicago Sun Times:
Bobby Rush rips Mark Kirk's mass gang arrests proposal as ‘elitist white boy solution’  —  Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) is highly critical of a proposal by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) for mass arrests of 18,000 Gangster Disciples, telling the Sun-Times on Wednesday that Kirk's approach is …
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Bobby Rush hits Mark Kirk's ‘white boy’ gang plan
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Fox's Erick Erickson: It's ‘Anti-Science’ To Not Believe Men Should ‘Dominate’ Women  —  Appearing on a Fox Business panel Wednesday evening, Fox contributor Erick Erickson suggested it is “anti-science” to reject the biological claim that men should be in the “dominant” role in the nuclear family.
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Fox Contributor Says Men Should Dominate Women
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and susiemadrak.com
Illinois Review:
EXCLUSIVE: LERNER INTRIGUE GOES BACK TO '96 DURBIN/SALVI U.S. SENATE RACE  —  CHICAGO - The IRS scandal may have its roots in Illinois politics.  Specifically, the 1996 U.S. Senate race between Democrat Congressman Dick Durbin and conservative Republican State Rep. Al Salvi.
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING>>> Lois Lerner Told Republican in 1996: “Promise me You Will Never Run Again, and We'll Drop This (FEC) Case”
Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller:
IRS's Shulman had more public White House visits than any cabinet member  —  Publicly released records show that embattled former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House at least 157 times during the Obama administration, more recorded visits than even the most trusted members of the president's Cabinet.
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Why Did the FBI Kill an Unarmed Man and Clam Up?  —  Law enforcement can't get its story straight in the worrisome case of Ibragim Todashev.  —  What led an FBI agent, or some other law enforcement official, to shoot and kill an unarmed man in Orlando, Florida?
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Aaron Katersky / ABCNEWS:
Exclusive: Images of Possibly Ricin-Laced Letter to Bloomberg
Discussion: The Reaction
Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Conference Call Features Threat To Assassinate U.S. Senator Because She Supports Immigration Reform  —  In a Tea Party-sponsored conference call held on Wednesday night, a participant called for the assassination of Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) over her support for immigration reform.
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
McCain Wasn't Posing With Rebel Kidnapper, Spokesman Says  —  “Regrettable” if true, McCain spokesman says.  —  Via: Handout/Reuter / Reuters  —  WASHINGTON — Senator John McCain's office is pushing back against reports that while visiting Syria this week he posed in a photo with rebels who kidnapped 11 Lebanese Shi'ite pilgrims.
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
MSNBC Lands In Fourth Place In May; Maddow Hits Ratings Lows  —  MSNBC got some very tough ratings news on Wednesday.  —  Another month of big crime and disaster news saw the network struggle to keep up with rivals CNN, HLN and Fox News.  MSNBC was presumably expecting some dropoff from its 2012 numbers …
Rick Madonik / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford video scandal: Mayor Ford said he knew where video was, sources say  —  The mayor cited “our contacts” as the source of his information, according to insiders familiar with an unusual May 17 session in his office. … Toronto Mayor Rob Ford speaks during a press conference at City Hall …
Bloomberg:
The Biggest Supreme Court Ruling You Haven't Heard Of  —  The Supreme Court has yet to decide this year's attention-grabbing cases on same-sex marriage, affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act.  But last week, a divided court decided Arlington v. FCC, an important victory …
Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
Republican Red Flags All Over in Bellwether States  —  The GOP's recruitment struggles in Virginia and Colorado don't bode well for the party's long-term health.  —  For all the lip service given by Republicans to the party's efforts to modernize its image, a quick look at the GOP's standing …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Conservative Icon Calls GOP's Need To Court Hispanics A ‘Great Myth’  —  Phyllis Schlafly of the pro-family group Eagle Forum called the GOP's need to reach out to Hispanic voters a “great myth” during a conservative radio program Wednesday.  —  “The Hispanics who have come …
Ezra Klein / Bloomberg:
One Way Obamacare May Already Be Working  —  There was a time when all anyone in Washington wanted to talk about was “bending the health-care cost curve.”  Forget covering the uninsured — the ultimate test of the Affordable Care Act would be the trajectory of health-care costs.
Discussion: National Review
Andy Newman / New York Times:
New York Challenges a Coffee Shop Logo  —  First came the tattoo, etched across the knuckles of Sam Penix's right fist in 2009.  It said “I [coffee cup] N Y,” the bold red cup leaping out from the black letters.  —  Then came the logo — a cartoon of Mr. Penix's tattooed fist grasping …
Discussion: Above the Law and Boing Boing
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Lois Lerner state  —  It is appropriate that the worst scandal of the Obama administration— the IRS targeting of conservatives — is a scandal of administrators and bureaucrats, of otherwise faceless people endowed with immense power over their fellow citizens and running free of serious oversight from elected officials.
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Meet The Most Powerful Man In The White House You've Never Heard Of  —  Deputy White House Chief of Staff Mark Childress, the man with all the plans.  —  With the Obama administration coping with a whole new sort of challenge — a wave of scandals and allegations that threaten to disrupt …
Los Angeles Times:
America's China mistake  —  As Beijing becomes more bellicose, Washington clings to the hope that military-to-military relations will somehow relieve tensions.  They won't.  —  China's navy has been invited to participate in the 2014 Rim of the Pacific naval exercise to be held off Hawaii.
 
 
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Illinois Review:
LEGAL EXPERTS CONCLUDE ILLINOIS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BILL WORST IN U.S. IN PROTECTING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Louisiana Democratic Party Chair Runs Away From Reporters
Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline.com:
Grumpy Cat Gets Garfield-Like Movie Deal
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
John Kerry's misfire on U.S. performance on Kyoto emissions targets
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Althouse
Kyle Munzenrieder / Riptide 2.0:
Miami-Dade Police Choke Black Teenager Because He Was Giving Them “Dehumanizing Stares”
Discussion: Gawker, ThinkProgress and Shakesville
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Terry McAuliffe Blamed Bush Election For His Father's Death
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Lynne Marek / Chicago Business:
Chicago Sun-Times cuts entire photography staff
CBS News:
What's going on between the IRS and True the Vote?
Discussion: Hot Air and The Strata-Sphere
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Tea Partying Strip Club Mogul: The IRS Targeted Me, Too
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Keith Koffler / Politico:
Why Dems might reject Hillary Clinton in 2016
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
With campaign in rearview, Ann Romney says there were mistakes
Discussion: Taking Note and Politico
Jim Tankersley / Washington Post:
Sequester not biting District yet
 

 
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