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2:40 PM ET, May 26, 2014

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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
White House mistakenly identifies CIA chief in Afghanistan  —  The CIA's top officer in Kabul was exposed Saturday by the White House when his name was inadvertently included on a list provided to news organizations of senior U.S. officials participating in President Obama's surprise visit with U.S. troops.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Making Hay While the Sun Shines: The Left Politicizes Elliot Rodger  —  You have to hand it to the liberals: they never miss an opportunity to convert tragedy into political gain.  In the wake of Elliot Rodger's six murders-three with a knife and three with a gun, plus injuries inflicted …
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NY Daily News:
Lupica: Santa Barbara rampage shows it's too easy to get guns that make mass murder easier  —  There are no sure safeguards against madness, but it does not change the fact that it's too simple for sick people to get guns — legally or illegally — especially the kinds of semiautomatic weapons …
Discussion: Doug Ross
Michael Moore / Facebook:
With due respect to those who are asking me to comment …
Discussion: Hinterland Gazette and Mashable
John Fund / National Review:
European Earthquake  —  The voters demonstrate their Euroskepticism, but will elites listen?  —  How big was the “Euroskeptic” uprising in the elections for the European Parliament on Sunday?  Martin Schulz of Germany, the left-wing candidate who will become the next president of the European Commission …
Discussion: New York Times and Hot Air
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Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
California GOP Candidate's Pro-Gun Robocall Went Out Day After Mass Shooting  —  Politics News National Rifle Association University of California Santa Barbara Tony Strickland Robocall UCSB Shooting Santa Barbara Shooting Second Amendment Tony Strickland California Tony Strickland Isla Vista Pro Gun Gop Gun Control UC Santa Barbara
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Mark O'Mara / CNN:
I'm a gun owner and I want gun control
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obama's New Rules for Coal Plants Are a B.F.D. The Ensuing Political Fight May Be Even Bigger.  —  Conventional wisdom holds that second term presidencies rarely yield accomplishments and that this second term president, in particular, has lost the ability to get much done.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
New York Times:
Ukraine Forces Appear to Oust Rebels From Airport in East  —  DONETSK, Ukraine — This city erupted with the din of war on Monday, as the Ukrainian military used fighter jets, helicopters and artillery in what appeared to be a successful attempt to rid the airport of separatist fighters …
Discussion: The Week
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Washington Post:
Chocolate tycoon Poroshenko claims victory in Ukrainian presidential election
Reuters:
Ukrainians back Poroshenko to find way out of crisis
Discussion: NPR
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Miss. Judge Allegedly Struck, Yelled Slur At Mentally Disabled Black Man  —  A Mississippi judge allegedly slapped a young mentally disabled black man earlier this month at a flea market and yelled “run, n—  , run,” the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported Sunday.
Discussion: The Raw Story
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
The ‘Wary of Hillary’ Democrats  —  Everyone knows about the “Ready for Hillary” Democrats — the rapidly proliferating parade of elected officials and activists getting behind Hillary Clinton's increasingly likely 2016 presidential campaign.  —  But there's also a smaller …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Europe's Secret Success  —  SINTRA, Portugal — I'll be spending the next couple of days at a forum sponsored by the European Central Bank whose de facto topic — whatever it may say on the program — will be the destructive monetary muddle caused by the Continent's premature adoption of a single currency.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Are We Ready for H.I.V.'s Sexual Revolution?  —  PRETEND it's 1960, and the Food and Drug Administration has just done something startling.  It has taken a drug it had previously approved for infertility — brand name Enovid — and approved it for the opposite use: birth control.
Discussion: National Review
Jeff Jacoby / The Boston Globe:
Obama fails to show his vaunted ‘competence’  —  AS A CANDIDATE for president in 1988, Michael Dukakis famously proclaimed: “This election is not about ideology; it's about competence.”  —  It wasn't a winning argument.  Dukakis ran as the architect of the so-called “Massachusetts Miracle,” the state's mid-1980s economic boom.
 
 
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
I.R.S. Bars Employers From Dumping Workers Into Health Exchanges
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Keith Laing / The Hill:
Highway funds stuck in neutral as Memorial Day travel spikes
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New York Times:
Obama Makes Surprise Trip to Afghanistan
Dennis Wagner / Arizona Republic:
Delayed care, fraud point to ailing VA health system
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