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<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:45:23 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Obama&apos;s Counsel Told of IRS Audit Findings Weeks Ago (Peter Nicholas/Wall Street Journal)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p10#a130520p10</link>
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<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p10#a130520p10" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Peter Nicholas / <A HREF="http://online.wsj.com/public/us">Wall Street Journal</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323648304578493081906824260.html">Obama's Counsel Told of IRS Audit Findings Weeks Ago</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The White House's chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups, a senior White House official said Sunday.</P>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:45:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market (Charles V. Bagli/New York Times)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p9#a130520p9</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/nyregion/boom-in-luxury-towers-is-warping-new-york-real-estate-market.html?pagewanted=all"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/i9.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p9#a130520p9" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Charles V. Bagli / <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/nyregion/boom-in-luxury-towers-is-warping-new-york-real-estate-market.html?pagewanted=all">Boom in Luxury Towers Is Warping New York Real Estate Market</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Only 10 floors have been completed in what is intended to be the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere &mdash; a slender, 84-story tower on Park Avenue at 56th Street in Manhattan.&nbsp; But the top penthouse is already under contract for $95 million.</P>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:40:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets (New York Times)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p7#a130520p7</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/world/asia/chinese-hackers-resume-attacks-on-us-targets.html?pagewanted=all"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/i7.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p7#a130520p7" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/world/asia/chinese-hackers-resume-attacks-on-us-targets.html?pagewanted=all">Chinese Hackers Resume Attacks on U.S. Targets</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; WASHINGTON &mdash; Three months after hackers working for a cyberunit of China's People's Liberation Army went silent amid evidence that they had stolen data from scores of American companies and government agencies, they appear to have resumed &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 07:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Anthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon advisor&apos;s biotech firm (David Willman/Los Angeles Times)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p6#a130520p6</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-anthrax-resistant-20130519-dto,0,3192936.htmlstory"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/i6.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p6#a130520p6" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> David Willman / <A HREF="http://www.latimes.com/">Los Angeles Times</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-anthrax-resistant-20130519-dto,0,3192936.htmlstory">Anthrax drug brings $334 million to Pentagon advisor's biotech firm</A></B></SPAN> &hellip; REPORTING FROM WASHINGTON&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Prepared text for President Obama&apos;s speech at Morehouse (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p5#a130520p5</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/prepared-text-for-president-obamas-speech-at-moreh/nXwk2/"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/i5.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p5#a130520p5" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://www.ajc.com/">Atlanta Journal-Constitution</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/prepared-text-for-president-obamas-speech-at-moreh/nXwk2/">Prepared text for President Obama's speech at Morehouse</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Hello, Morehouse!&nbsp; Thank you Dr. Wilson, the Board of Trustees; Congressman Cedric Richmond and Sanford Bishop - both proud alumni of this school; Congressman Hank Johnson and the great John Lewis; Mayor Reed, and all the members of the Morehouse family.</P>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:40:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>How Much Are Obama&apos;s Scandals Hurting Him? (John Hinderaker/Power Line)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p4#a130520p4</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/05/how-much-are-obamas-scandals-hurting-him.php"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/i4.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p4#a130520p4" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> John Hinderaker / <A HREF="http://www.powerlineblog.com/">Power Line</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/05/how-much-are-obamas-scandals-hurting-him.php">How Much Are Obama's Scandals Hurting Him?</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Is Obama being hurt by the scandals that have engulfed his administration?&nbsp; That sounds like a silly question: of course the scandals have damaged his image, thrown his administration off message, weakened his ability to get anything through Congress.</P>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:10:01 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Eric Holder&apos;s liberation (Josh Gerstein/Politico)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p3#a130520p3</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p3#a130520p3" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Josh Gerstein / <A HREF="http://www.politico.com/">Politico</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=C90FD0DA-93EE-4C67-B4D2-0B6674FD79BD">Eric Holder's liberation</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Last February, Attorney General Eric Holder was so worn out from a House committee's four-hour grilling over the Fast and Furious fiasco that he couldn't get up from the witness table.&nbsp; Amid the post-hearing commotion, a couple of aides swooped in &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 02:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>AP CEO calls records seizure &apos;unconstitutional&apos; (Associated Press)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p2#a130520p2</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p2#a130520p2" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/fronts/HOME?SITE=AP">Associated Press</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/ap-ceo-calls-records-seizure-unconstitutional-162821460.html">AP CEO calls records seizure &lsquo;unconstitutional&rsquo;</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; The Associated Press' president and chief executive says the government's secret seizure of two months of reporters' phone records has already had a chilling effect on newsgathering, a week after the subpoenas were revealed publicly.</P>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:35:05 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Republicans use IRS scandal to tar Obamacare (Jake Miller/CBS News)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p1#a130520p1</link>
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<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p1#a130520p1" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Jake Miller / <A HREF="http://www.cbsnews.com/">CBS News</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57585153/republicans-use-irs-scandal-to-tar-obamacare/">Republicans use IRS scandal to tar Obamacare</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., linked the ongoing targeting scandal at the IRS with Obamacare in the weekly Republican address on Saturday, warning that the troubled agency has too much control over the rules and regulations governing the implementation of the law.</P>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe (Ann E. Marimow/Washington Post)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130519/p36#a130519p36</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/130519/i36.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130519/p36#a130519p36" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Ann E. Marimow / <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/">Washington Post</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justice-department-leak-probe/2013/05/19/0bc473de-be5e-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html">A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.</P>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 23:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Justice Department Spied on Fox News Reporter (Taegan Goddard&apos;s Political Wire)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130519/p35#a130519p35</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130519/p35#a130519p35" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://politicalwire.com/">Taegan Goddard's Political Wire</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/05/19/justice_department_spied_on_fox_news_reporter.html">Justice Department Spied on Fox News Reporter</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; &ldquo;When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material,&rdquo; the Washington Post reports.</P>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 23:40:02 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Islamic Jihad Urges Muslim Confrontation with Israeli Aggressions (Fars News Agency)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130519/p34#a130519p34</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130519/p34#a130519p34" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://english.farsnews.com/">Fars News Agency</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9202242130">Islamic Jihad Urges Muslim Confrontation with Israeli Aggressions</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; TEHRAN (FNA)- Representative of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement to Tehran Nasser Abusharif strongly condemned the recent Israeli air raid on Syria, and called on all Islamic states to confront the Zionist regime's aggressive moves &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:15:05 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>A Right-Wing Mole at ABC News (Peter Hart/FAIR)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130519/p33#a130519p33</link>
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<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130519/p33#a130519p33" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Peter Hart / <A HREF="http://fair.org/">FAIR</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://fair.org/extra-online-articles/a-right-wing-mole-at-abc-news/">A Right-Wing Mole at ABC News</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Jonathan Karl and the success of the conservative media movement&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Conservatives don't just complain loudly, endlessly and inaccurately about liberal media bias.&nbsp; They also train right-leaning journalists to make their way into the supposedly hostile terrain of Beltway media.</P>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:40:01 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Harvard students erupt at scholar&apos;s claim in thesis (Meghan E. Irons/The Boston Globe)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130519/p32#a130519p32</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130519/p32#a130519p32" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Meghan E. Irons / <A HREF="http://www.bostonglobe.com/">The Boston Globe</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/05/17/kennedy-school-students-demand-inquiry-into-immigration-thesis/6Izovn4svIW6jvlm7VSDFO/story.html">Harvard students erupt at scholar's claim in thesis</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Thesis asserted Latino immigrants have lower IQs&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Harvard students, outraged over a doctoral dissertation arguing that Hispanic immigrants lack &ldquo;raw cognitive ability or intelligence,&rdquo; this week urged the university to investigate &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 21:05:02 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Obama gets personal about race and manhood in Morehouse College speech (Philip Rucker/Washington Post)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p8#a130520p8</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/130520/p8#a130520p8" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Philip Rucker / <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/">Washington Post</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-gets-personal-about-race-and-manhood-in-morehouse-speech/2013/05/19/0f45064e-c0a3-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_story.html">Obama gets personal about race and manhood in Morehouse College speech</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to &ldquo;transform the way we think about manhood,&rdquo; urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 19:50:02 -0400</pubDate>
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