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Clockwise from left: Niall Ferguson, Glenn Beck, Jonah Goldberg and Ann Coulter

Niall Ferguson and the brain-dead American right

Michael Lind
The British historian owes his celebrity here to the absence of authentic American conservative intellectuals
Passengers rest on the floor as their flights have been canceled at Edinburgh Airport in Edinburgh, Scotland Tuesday, May 24, 2011. A dense ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano blew toward Scotland, causing airlines to cancel Tuesday flights and raising fears of a repeat of last year's huge travel disruptions in Europe that stranded millions of passengers. (AP Photo/Scott Heppell) (AP)

Volcanic ash will cancel up to 500 flights

Slobodan Lekic, Meera Selva
Ash from the Grimsvotn volcano has already forced President Obama to shorten his visit to Ireland
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama drink Guinness beer as they meet with local residents at Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather, Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Fox News invents the possibility of a U.S.-Ireland bailout

Natasha Lennard
The cable channel speculates, without any basis, about whether Obama will support a U.S.-funded bailout of Ireland
Jim Daly

Focus on the Family head basically gives up on fighting gay marriage

Alex Pareene
With polls showing growing acceptance of same-sex marriage, the huge religious right organization sounds resigned

Donald Trump enters the “revisionism” phase

Steve Kornacki
You know, the polls showed me running in first place when I got out ...
President Obama smiles as he shakes hands with a crowd of local residents in Moneygall.

Our first black Irish president

Joan Walsh
Obama's warm words about his Irish family could help him politically at home
U.S. President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama drink Guinness beer as they meet with local residents at Ollie Hayes pub in Moneygall, Ireland, the ancestral homeland of his great-great-great grandfather, Monday, May 23, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama leaving Ireland early as ash cloud looms

Julie Pace
The president was scheduled to spend Monday night in Ireland, but will fly to London instead
In this photo released by the Hamas Media Office, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center-left, and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, center-right, shake hands at a ceremony in Cairo, Egypt Wednesday, May 4, 2011. Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas on Wednesday proclaimed a landmark, Egyptian-mediated reconciliation pact aimed at ending their bitter four-year rift, at a declaration ceremony in the Egyptian capital Cairo. (AP Photo/Hamas Media Office) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY, NO SALES ** (AP)

Abbas defends unity deal against US criticism

Dale Gavlak
The Palestinian president delivers his first remarks on Obama's recent speeches
President Obama arrives to speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention on Sunday.

Is Obama really getting tough on Israel?

Justin Elliott
The co-author of "the Israel Lobby" responds to the storm over Obama's Mideast speech
Roger Ailes and Chris Christie

Roger Ailes really, really wants Chris Christie to run for president

Alex Pareene
The Fox News head also reportedly thinks Sarah Palin is an idiot
An Afghan policeman stands guard at the scene of an explosion in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Sunday, May 22, 2011. In Kandahar, two police officers suffered injuries Sunday when a motorcycle laden with explosives detonated as they tried to disarm it, the ministry said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) (AP)

Taliban denies leader has been killed in Pakistan

Heidi Vogt, Rahim Faiez
The insurgent group claims that Mullah Omar is alive and well in Afghanistan
President Barack Obama arrives to speak at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention in Washington, Sunday, May 22, 2011. After a contentious couple of days this week when he clashed publicly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over ideas for a permanent Palestinian state, Obama is focusing on the deep U.S.-Israeli friendship and alliance. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

Consider the pro-Israel crowd reassured

Natasha Lennard
In an AIPAC speech Sunday, the president clarified his statement on the 1967 borders
In this photo taken on Saturday, May 21, 2011, smoke plumes from the Grimsvotn volcano, which lies under the Vatnajokull glacier, about 120 miles, (200 kilometers) east of the capital, Rejkjavik, which began erupting Saturday for the first time since 2004. Iceland closed its main international airport and canceled domestic flights Sunday as a powerful volcanic eruption sent a plume of ash, smoke and steam 12 miles (20 kilometers) into the air. (AP Photo/Jon Gustafsson) ICELAND OUT (AP)

Ash from Icelandic volcano may disrupt flights

Meera Selva
Plume could affect UK travel as early as tonight; a similar cloud closed European airspace for five days last year
From left, President Barack Obama, President of Ireland Mary McAleese and her husband Martin McAleese, and first lady Michelle Obama stop to be photographed as President Barack Obama arrives at the Presidential Residence in Dublin, Ireland, Monday, May 23, 2011. President Barack Obama opens a six-day European tour with a quick dash through Ireland, where he will celebrate his own Irish roots and look to give a boost to a nation grappling with the fallout from its financial collapse.(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

Obama says U.S. and Ireland have “blood link”

Julie Pace
President emphasizes two countries' ancestral ties
President Barack Obama tells the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention that the bonds between the US and Israel are "unbreakable", Washington, Sunday, May 22, 2011. After a contentious couple of days this week when he clashed publicly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over ideas for a permanent Palestinian state, Obama is focusing on the deep U.S.-Israeli friendship and alliance. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (AP)

The incredible shrinking GOP presidential race

Steve Kornacki
There are just three Republican candidates left with a realistic chance of being nominated to oppose Barack Obama
Damaged vehicles litter the parking lot of St. John's Hospital in Joplin, Mo, after a tornado hit the southwest Missouri city on Sunday evening, May 22, 2011. A massive tornado blasted its way across southwestern Missouri on Sunday, flattening several blocks of homes and businesses in Joplin and leaving residents frantically scrambling through the wreckage. (AP Photo/Mike Gullett) (AP)

Missouri officials say tornado killed at least 89

Kurt Voigt, Alan Scher Zagier
Residents were given only a 20 minute warning before tornado hit
CORRECTS PHOTOG NAME FROM KRISTEN TO KRISTIN Smoke rises from the Grimsvotn volcano, Saturday, May 21, 2011 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Iceland's most active volcano has started erupting, scientists said Saturday _ just over a year after another eruption on the North Atlantic island shut down European air traffic for days. Iceland's Meteorological Office confirmed that an eruption had begun at the Grimsvotn volcano, accompanied by a series of small earthquakes. (AP Photo/Halldora Kristin Unnarsdottir) (AP)

Icelandic volcano flings up ash, shuts airport

Jill Lawless, Gudjon Helgason
Event reminiscent of Eyjafjallajokull eruption that cancelled thousands of European flights last summer
President Barack Obama speaks at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) convention in Washington Sunday, May 22, 2011. Obama said the bonds between the U.S. and Israel are unbreakable. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) (AP)

Obama stands by Israel-Palestine border policy

Bradley Klapper
President says 1967 boundaries reflect longstanding U.S. position
Syrian citizens who fled from violence from the western Syrian villages along the Lebanese-Syrian border, protest as they shout slogans against Bashar Assad and his regime, in the Wadi Khaled area, about one kilometer (0.6 miles) from the Lebanon-Syria border, north Lebanon, on Monday May 16, 2011. Carrying mattresses and bags of clothing, Syrians fleeing their homeland described a "catastrophic" scene Monday in a besieged border town that has been largely sealed off as the army tries to crush a two-month uprising. (AP Photo) (AP)

Shootings in Syria push death toll above 900

Bassem Mroue
Security forces open fire on funeral procession for anti-government protesters on Saturday
Gov. Mitch Daniels speaks at the state Republican Party fundraiser in Indianapolis, Thursday, May 12, 2011. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) (AP)

Mitch Daniels won’t run for president in 2012

Philip Elliott
Indiana's governor will sit out the Republican primaries, citing the "interests and wishes" of his family
FILE - In this May 20, 2011, file photo President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. Sunday, May 22, Obama is scheduled to speak at the AIPAC Policy conference in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) (AP)

Obama and the Israel Lobby

Glenn Greenwald
The President deserves support, and some modest credit, in the controversy triggered by this week's speech
Palestinian mourners burn an Israeli flag during a funerla procession of three Palestinians who killed when Israeli soldiers opened fire on Sunday at protesters who approached the village of Majdal Shams at Syria's border with the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, at Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus, Syria, on Monday May 16 2011. Israeli troops clashed with Arab protesters along three hostile borders on Sunday, leaving people dead and dozens wounded in an unprecedented wave of violence marking the anniversary of the mass displacement of Palestinians surrounding Israel's establishment in 1948. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi) (AP)

Palestinians to proceed with U.N. recognition bid

Karin Laub
Senior officials will try to bypass negotiations with Israel, calling such efforts fruitless
Possible 2012 presidential hopeful Republican businessman Herman Cain speaks during a dinner sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, Friday, April 29, 2011 in Manchester , N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (AP)

Herman Cain enters 2012 GOP presidential race

Greg Bluestein, SHANNON McCAFFREY
The founder of Godfather's Pizza officially throws his hat in the ring
President Barack Obama speaks to CIA employees at the CIA Headquarters, Friday, May 20, 2011 in Langley, Va. Obama congratulated the country's intelligence workers for the years of effort that led to the discovery and killing of terrorist Osama bin Laden. He also thanked them for their daily work in protecting America, saying he'd never felt prouder or more confident about them. He said they're proof that when Americans put their mind to something, "there is nothing we cannot do." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP)

White House skips legal deadline on Libya

Associated Press
Military action passes 60-day threshold, but Obama won't seek congressional approval
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