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• An unknown, Huntsman presses White House bid (AP)
• APNewsBreak: Aide: Pawlenty running for president (AP)
• Palin on 2012: ‘I do have the fire in my belly’ (Daily Caller)
• Ill. lawmakers say gun-permit holder names private (AP)
• From marijuana to alligator hides, Obama pardons 8 (AP)
• Gov. Scott Signs Property Insurance, Election Bills into Law (ContributorNetwork)
• How the GOP Can Defeat Barack Obama in 2012 (ContributorNetwork)
• NATO says Libya airstrikes cripple Gaddafi's forces (Reuters)
• Israeli rebuke of Obama exposes divide on Mideast (Reuters)
• Obama urges Congress backing for Libya action (AFP)
• NRC questions new nuclear reactor design (AP)
• White House skips legal deadline on Libya (AP)
• Democrats probe Koch's interest in oil sands pipe (Reuters)
• AFL-CIO may reduce support to Democrats (AP)
• Obama Grants Eight Pardons (The Atlantic Wire)
• Obama Backpedals on Israel Support, Could Further Compromise Reelection (ContributorNetwork)
• RIAA, MPAA Support Anti-Piracy Legislation that Allows Warrantless Searches (ContributorNetwork)
• FEC clears Fla. US Rep. Rivera in campaign probe (AP)

An unknown, Huntsman presses White House bid (AP) Posted: 20 May 2011 02:28 PM PDT AP - Republican Jon Huntsman on Friday heard a major hurdle to his White House aspirations summed up in a single voter's question: "Aside from Utah, who are you?"

APNewsBreak: Aide: Pawlenty running for president (AP) Posted: 20 May 2011 07:54 AM PDT AP - Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a laid-back Midwestern Republican who governed a Democratic-leaning state, is running for president and will declare his candidacy on Monday in the leadoff caucus state of Iowa, an adviser told The Associated Press.

Palin on 2012: ‘I do have the fire in my belly’ (Daily Caller) Posted: 19 May 2011 08:17 PM PDT Daily Caller - The question remains — will former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin run for president, or won’t she?

Ill. lawmakers say gun-permit holder names private (AP) Posted: 20 May 2011 04:07 PM PDT AP - Illinois lawmakers voted overwhelming Friday to bar the public from knowing who holds a firearm owner identification card, a victory for gun owners who say they have a right to privacy over open-government advocates who say such records should not be secret.

From marijuana to alligator hides, Obama pardons 8 (AP) Posted: 20 May 2011 03:17 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama on Friday pardoned eight people convicted of crimes ranging from conspiring to import marijuana to selling alligator hides.

Gov. Scott Signs Property Insurance, Election Bills into Law (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 May 2011 03:02 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - The Florida legislature had a very busy 2011 session. Needing to fill a $3 million budget gap, lawmakers found themselves cutting budgets left and right. But that didn't stop them from sending several controversial bills to the governor's desk.

How the GOP Can Defeat Barack Obama in 2012 (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 May 2011 03:02 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | A weak field for the Republicans has emerged after former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and faker Donald Trump decided not to run.

NATO says Libya airstrikes cripple Gaddafi's forces (Reuters) Posted: 20 May 2011 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - NATO's bombing campaign in Libya has crippled the government's ability to attack rebels fighting to topple Muammar Gaddafi and effectively forced the leader into hiding, the alliance said on Friday.

Israeli rebuke of Obama exposes divide on Mideast (Reuters) Posted: 20 May 2011 04:25 PM PDT Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly told President Barack Obama on Friday his vision of how to achieve Middle East peace was unrealistic, exposing a deep divide that could doom any U.S. bid to revive peace talks.

Obama urges Congress backing for Libya action (AFP) Posted: 20 May 2011 04:23 PM PDT AFP - President Barack Obama on Friday asked lawmakers to back "limited" US action in the NATO assault on Libya, as he hit a technical 60-day deadline to get official congressional approval for the use of his war powers.

NRC questions new nuclear reactor design (AP) Posted: 20 May 2011 04:18 PM PDT AP - Westinghouse Electric Co. must fix problems with its new nuclear reactor design before regulators decide whether the system can be used for the next generation of nuclear power plants, the chairman of a federal panel said Friday.

White House skips legal deadline on Libya (AP) Posted: 20 May 2011 04:18 PM PDT AP - The White House is skipping a legal deadline to seek congressional authorization of the military action in Libya — but few on the Hill are objecting.

Democrats probe Koch's interest in oil sands pipe (Reuters) Posted: 20 May 2011 03:00 PM PDT Reuters - Democratic U.S. lawmakers have asked Congressional panels to look into whether Koch, an energy company led by brothers who are powerhouses in conservative politics, will benefit if the Obama administration approves a $7 billion pipeline to bring crude from Canada into the United States.

AFL-CIO may reduce support to Democrats (AP) Posted: 20 May 2011 02:44 PM PDT AP - Prominent labor leaders, frustrated that Democrats in Washington aren't aggressively pursuing the union agenda, are threatening to limit their campaign support for Democrats, an act that would hamper the party's bid to regain control of the House next year and keep a majority in the Senate.

Obama Grants Eight Pardons (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 20 May 2011 02:28 PM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Conveniently timed for a late afternoon Friday release, President Obama has granted eight pardons. Scanning down the list of felons, there's two convicted of marijuana related crimes, another who conspired to distribute methamphetamine, and one man who was "aiding and abetting the possession and sale of illegal American alligator hides" in 1986. Many of the crimes committed were over two decades old, and the most recent was from 2001.

Obama Backpedals on Israel Support, Could Further Compromise Reelection (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 May 2011 02:12 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - COMMENTARY | As an Illinois senator, Barack Obama was highly critical of the war in Iraq. In his 2006 A Way Forward in Iraq speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Obama said:

RIAA, MPAA Support Anti-Piracy Legislation that Allows Warrantless Searches (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 20 May 2011 02:12 PM PDT ContributorNetwork - In an effort to curb the pirating of music and films, two California state senate committees approved a new bill that would authorize law enforcement personnel to search, without a warrant, facilities that press and duplicate optical discs. The Committee on Public Safety passed bill SB 550 unanimously, while the Appropriations Committee approved it in a five-to-two vote.

FEC clears Fla. US Rep. Rivera in campaign probe (AP) Posted: 20 May 2011 02:12 PM PDT AP - The Federal Election Commission has cleared U.S. Rep. David Rivera following an investigation into whether he improperly helped an independent group produce an attack against his opponent in last year's election.

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