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4:30 PM ET, May 8, 2014

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Ron Christie / The Daily Beast:
Why Democrats Are So Scared of Benghazi  —  They insist we don't need another committee to investigate the attack—but they're really afraid of the incompetence the truth will reveal.  —  I read with interest my Daily Beast colleague Michael Tomasky's column Wednesday …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Meet the chief prosecutor in the GOP's Benghazi show trial  —  Rep. Trey Gowdy, the tea party Republican tapped to lead the new committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi attacks, made a telling slip Wednesday morning in describing his mission.  —  Asked by MSNBC's Joe Scarborough …
Kate Nocera / BuzzFeed:
Rank-And-File Democrats Nervous About Boycotting Benghazi Select Committee
Discussion: Washington Post
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
Clinton can win 45 states
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, ABC News and Politico
USA Today:
Put Benghazi attack in perspective: Our view
Discussion: Associated Press and Speaker.gov
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Hillary's State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists  —  Under Hillary Clinton, the State Department repeatedly declined to fully go after the terror group responsible for kidnapping hundreds of girls.  —  The State Department under Hillary Clinton fought hard against placing …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
What Timothy Geithner Really Thinks  —  “This is kind of like a hearing,” Timothy Geithner said, swaying uncomfortably, face scrunched and hair perfectly tousled.  “Do you guys always do it this way?”  —  The former Treasury secretary was looking up from behind a long desk at his audience …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Clinton: Even Killing Goldman Sachs CEO Wouldn't Satisfy ‘Blood Lust’  —  Bill Clinton told former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner that nothing would appease the populist “blood lust” for bankers — not even slitting the throat of Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in a dark alley.
Discussion: Balloon Juice and New York Times
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Four Years in, GOP Support for Tea Party Down to 41%  —  Support for the movement nationwide drops to 22%  —  PRINCETON, NJ — About four in 10 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents classify themselves as supporters of the Tea Party, while 11% are opponents and 48% are neither.
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Dave Levinthal / The Center for Public …:
GOP civil war rages in Senate primary battles
RADAR:
Defiant Donald Sterling Unapologetic In First Public Comment Since Scandal, Insists 'I'm NOT A Racist' & WON'T Sell The Clippers — 'You Can't Force People To Sell Property In America!'  —  Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has gone into lockdown mode since tapes of his racist rant went public earlier this month.
Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Unleashes the Left  —  How the government created a federal hunting license for the far left.  —  In the U.S., the politics of the left versus the right rolls on with the predictability of traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge.  It's a lot of honking.  Until now.
Adweek:
Germans Fight Neo-Nazis by Liking Their Facebook Page and Flooding It With Love This didn't go over very well By Gabriel Beltrone  —  Sadly, there's still a Nazi presence in Germany.  Recently, an organization named Laut Gegen Nazis, or Loud Against Nazis, decided to combat the hate with lots of love—or rather, lots of likes.
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Report: Journalists Are Miserable, Liberal, Over-Educated, Under-Paid, Middle-Aged Men  —  Today, the term ink-stained wretches is exactly one-third accurate.  —  Journalists aren't quite so blotched from pens and printers, now that the newspaper die-out has wiped out 50 years of advertising gains in a decade.
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
Bill Clinton Was Racialized, Too  —  My colleague Peter Beinart rebukes Congressman Bennie Thompson's claim that Clarence Thomas is an “Uncle Tom.”  He then goes on to challenge the explanatory power of racism in understanding some of President Obama's more unhinged foes:
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Called by Republicans, Health Insurers Deliver Unexpected Testimony  —  WASHINGTON — House Republicans summoned a half-dozen health insurance executives to a hearing Wednesday envisioned as another forum for criticism of the Affordable Care Act.  But insurers refused to go along with the plan …
Joshua Green / Businessweek:
The Tea Party Gets Into the News Biz  —  Last year the conservative Heritage Foundation had more influence on the direction of the Republican Party than just about anyone else—and not necessarily for the better.  Over the summer, the conservative think tank's president …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Krauthammer: Climate Change Is ‘Superstition’ Like ‘The Rain Dance Of Native Americans’  —  Charles Krauthammer believes climate change is a mere superstition, just like the “rain dance of Native Americans.”  —  Appearing Tuesday on Fox News' “Special Report,” the conservative pundit rejected …
ThinkProgress:
CEO Of Biggest Fast Food Chain Comes Out In Favor Of A Minimum Wage Increase  —  The founder and CEO of Subway says a minimum wage increase wouldn't be such a bad thing for his stores and workers and believes it should be changed so that wages rise automatically with inflation.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Harry Reid's claim that the Koch brothers are ‘one of the main causes’ of climate change  —  “While the Koch brothers admit to not being experts on the matter, these billionaire oil tycoons are certainly experts at contributing to climate change.  That's what they do very well.
Washington Post:
GOP woos Mike Pence for 2016, and Indiana governor says he's ‘listening’  —  For a governor who says he is focused squarely on his home state of Indiana, Republican Mike Pence keeps popping up elsewhere.  —  There he was in Palm Beach, Fla., in February, evangelizing free-market conservatism …
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid: Media covering for Republicans  —  The media are covering for Republicans in their political coverage, according to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.  —  Asked by MSNBC's Chuck Todd in an interview aired Thursday why he won't allow Republican amendments to an energy bill …
Discussion: The Hill, ThinkProgress and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Political Speech Wins in Wisconsin  —  A federal judge rebukes prosecutors trying to silence conservatives.  —  The four-year effort by Democratic prosecutors to criminalize political speech in Wisconsin has hit the wall of the U.S. Constitution.  In a ruling that could have consequences nationwide …
Discussion: Instapundit and Althouse
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Vulnerable Democrat Gives Stunningly Strong Defense Of Obamacare At Hearing  —  In a flipping of the proverbial script, a Senate Democrat facing a tough re-election race used a confirmation hearing of Sylvia Mathews Burwell, nominated to head the Department of Health and Human Services, to advocate forcefully in favor of Obamacare.
ThinkProgress:
MSNBC Host Grills Ohio Secretary Of State For Cutting Early Voting  —  MSNBC host Chuck Todd grilled Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) on Thursday over the state's recent decision to reduce the amount of time available to voters in the state to cast their votes.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Ynetnews:
Ex-atomic agency chief: Netanyahu using scare tactics on Iran nuclear program  —  Brig.-Gen.Uzi Eilam is convinced that Iran is a decade away from a bomb, and is unsure that this is what Tehran even wants.  —  Ronen Bergman  —  An insider in Israel's nuclear program believes …
Discussion: The Dish and ThinkProgress
Molly Redden / Mother Jones:
Meet the Sex Hypnotherapist Helping the GOP Retake the Senate  —  Loren Parks and other megadonors are trying to make the Oregon Senate race competitive.  —  Loren Parks in one of his many hypnotherapy videos Loren Parks/YouTube  —  As Democrats and Republicans jostle for control of the Senate in 2014 …
Discussion: The Week, Oregonian and The Raw Story
 
 
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Rebecca Traister / The New Republic:
Monica Lewinsky Is the Perfect Person to Kick Off the Conversation About Hillary Clinton's Presidency
Discussion: Slate and Washington Monthly
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Larry King on Piers Morgan: ‘He Made Himself Too Much Part Of The Show’
Noemie Emery / Washington Examiner:
Cliven Bundy, Donald Sterling and the Left's archaic discourse on racial discrimination
Dana Davidsen / CNN:
Alligator-wrestling Louisiana Senate candidate gets Palin backing
Discussion: Politico and ABC News
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BLM workers on alert after wrangler threatened with gun on I-15
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