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2:55 PM ET, May 19, 2014

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Alexander Burns / Politico:
POLITICO poll shows mounting danger for Dems  —  President Barack Obama's job approval slump and voters' entrenched wariness of his health care law are dogging Democrats ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, and Republicans have captured a lead in the areas home to the year's most competitive races, according to a new POLITICO poll.
Jacob Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: VA Scandal Hits New Hospital  —  Veterans with serious heart conditions, gangrene, and even brain tumors waited months for care at the Albuquerque VA hospital, a whistleblowing doctor tells The Daily Beast.  —  Add Albuquerque, New Mexico's to the growing list of VA hospitals accused …
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Jim McElhatton / Washington Times:
Obama warned about VA wait-time problems during 2008 transition  —  The Obama administration received clear notice more than five years ago that VA medical facilities were reporting inaccurate waiting times and experiencing scheduling failures that threatened to deny veterans timely health care …
John Fund / National Review:
Lessons of the VA Scandal
Yahoo! News:
Marco Rubio's ‘pot’ hole  —  Why won't Sen. Marco Rubio say whether he's ever smoked pot?  —  The Florida Republican, who maintains a strict stance against the legalization of marijuana, refuses to answer whether he's ever personally smoked it.  Rubio told “Politics Confidential” …
David Weigel / Slate:
Watch the Homophobic Ad That a Losing Candidate is Running in Georgia  —  The Georgia airwaves are largely full of TV ads for Republican Senate candidates (and a few for Michelle Nunn, who's sailing to a Democratic primary win), and I saw maybe eight of them while in the state last week.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Nate Cohn / New York Times:
What to Watch For in Three Primaries  —  Not much matters six months before a midterm election, but Tuesday's primaries are an exception.  Republicans will have an opportunity to nominate candidates in three potentially competitive Senate contests: in Kentucky, Georgia and Oregon.  Here's what you need to know.
Discussion: PBS and Political Insider blog
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Al CrossThe / Courier-Journal:
Al Cross | Bevin's primary numbers important
Discussion: Washington Post and Booman Tribune
Courier-Journal:
Bluegrass Poll | McConnell pounding Bevin, tied with Grimes
Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
U.S. Charges Chinese Army Personnel With Cyberspying  —  WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice said on Monday that it had charged five individuals in China's People's Liberation Army in connection with stealing trade secrets from some of the largest American companies, including Westinghouse, United States Steel and Alcoa.
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ABC News:
US to Announce Hacking Charges Against China
Discussion: NBC News, Politico, Gawker and Mediaite
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
For 2016 Hopefuls, Washington Experience Could Do More Harm than Good  —  Military Service Top Positive, Atheism Top Negative for Potential Candidates  —  As the 2016 presidential campaign begins to take shape, Washington experience has become less of a potential asset for those seeking the White House.
The Intercept:
Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas  —  The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas.
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds  —  At the 25 public universities with the highest-paid presidents, both student debt and the use of part-time adjunct faculty grew far faster than at the average state university from 2005 to 2012 …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Springtime for Bankers  —  By any normal standard, economic policy since the onset of the financial crisis has been a dismal failure.  It's true that we avoided a full replay of the Great Depression.  But employment has taken more than six years to claw its way back to pre-crisis levels …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Higher ed becoming a joke: Column  —  American colleges are fraught with petty politics and bad economics.  —  As college graduates around the country fling their caps into the air, college and university administrators are ending the year in a less positive state.
Discussion: Power Line and Hit & Run
Byron Tau / Politico:
President Obama golfs with Bain Capital lobbyist  —  One of President Barack Obama's golf partners this weekend was a lobbyist for the financial firm Bain Capital.  —  According to a White House pool report, Obama hit the links on Saturday at the exclusive Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville …
David Carr / New York Times:
Abramson's Exit at The Times Puts Tensions on Display  —  Back in 2010, before she became executive editor of The New York Times, Jill Abramson sent me a handwritten attaboy note about a big story.  It still hangs in my cubicle: “You wrote a story about the trashing of a once great American institution and people never tire of that.”
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
In Arkansas, Obama is a Four-letter Word Hampering Democrats  —  What Bill Clinton's home state says about racial politics, control of the Senate, and Hillary Clinton in 2016.  —  Jerry Hood gives Richard Wyatt a trim while talking politics at his Little Rock barbershop.  (Ron Fournier)
E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:
No more liberal apologies as Elizabeth Warren takes the offensive  —  BOSTON  —  Elizabeth Warren is cast as many things: a populist, a left-winger, the paladin against the bankers and the rich, the Democrats' alternative to Hillary Clinton, the policy wonk with a heart.
Discussion: Shakesville and Daily Kos
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Miss. mailers compare Cochran opponent to Akin  —  JACKSON, Miss.—A super-PAC supporting Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-Miss.) reelection bid is launching a talking mailer hitting his primary challenger, state Sen. Chris McDaniel, for racially-charged comments he's made in the past.
Discussion: BuzzFeed and The Daily Caller
Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Is This the Democrats' War on Women?  —  In 2013, an ex-boyfriend called the cops on Monica Wehby—and four days before her GOP primary, the police report resurfaced.  To blame for the leak?  A Democratic attack, say Republicans.  —  Republicans are crying foul over an eleventh-hour flurry …
John Tierney / The Atlantic Online:
How to Win Millennials: Equality, Climate Change, and Gay Marriage  —  Two months ago, Derek Thompson walked readers through the results of a huge new survey by the Pew Research Center on Millennials and their attitudes and opinions.  As he noted, this generation, roughly defined as people between …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner's big reform decision  —  It's up to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).  —  Republican and Democratic advocates see one final, long-shot chance to pass immigration reform this summer, and its fate rests with a Speaker stuck between his party's resistance and his search for a career-defining legacy.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Michael S. Schmidt / New York Times:
At F.B.I., Change in Leaders Didn't Change Focus on Terror
Discussion: Power Line and emptywheel
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Here's How Republicans Are Trying To Solve Their Problem With Black Voters
Discussion: Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
Associated Press:
Mitt Romney calls on N.H. police commissioner to resign
Discussion: OnPolitics and Booman Tribune
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Republican Georgia Congressional Candidate Has Many Thoughts On Gays Marrying
Discussion: Mediaite
Kelly Riddell / Washington Times:
Targeted? Gun sellers say ‘high risk’ label from feds cuts off banking options, restricts business
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Koch Brothers' Secrets Revealed In New Book
Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
Swiss Voters Defeat $24.65 Minimum Wage by a Wide Margin
Discussion: Smartertimes.com and Cafe Hayek
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Missouri Prisons Ban Magazine For Article Critical Of The Death Penalty [Updated]
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Poverty Is Not a State of Mind
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
The American spirit is breaking
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