Morning Constitutional – Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Good morning, folks. Campbell Brown is leaving CNN; could Eliot Spitzer take her spot? Now, your morning constitutional:

Results in yesterday\’s primaries and the one special election were pretty much as expected: Paul won, Specter lost, Lincoln goes to a run-off. Analysis from Slate, FiveThirtyEight, Politico, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor.

Did Rand Paul refuse to take Grayson\’s congratulations call?

In Thailand, four leaders of the anti-government protesters have surrendered to police after troops surrounded the protesters\’ fortified encampment in Bangkok. BBC asks: How did it come to this?

The Senate Judiciary Committee has posted Elena Kagan\’s entire written record—from her undergraduate thesis to briefs from her Solicitor General office—online.

U.S. consumer prices lowered in April as energy prices fell, while inflation remains flat, both allowing the Federal Reserve to continue helping the economy by keeping interest rates low.

A Senate Democratic proposal to lift the cap on oil companies\’ liability for oil spills was killed Tuesday by a procedural maneuver by Sen. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma).

U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, in his first major statement in office, will announce a major political reform program.

Fred Kaplan at Slate knocks down the Republican\’s insincere arguments against the new strategic nuclear arms treaty with Russia. Peter Baker at the Times also looks into it.

Facebook will likely soon be looking to simplify its privacy settings. Also, a Pakistan court has banned Facebook.

Google eliminates advertising directed at ‘cougars,’ yet maintains ads related to \’sugar daddies.\’

LifeLock CEO Todd Davis, whose company purports to protect ones identity from theft and advertises the service by printing Davis\’s Social Security number on billboards and display ads, has been the victim of identity theft 13 times.

A new study suggests that hospital cleaners are more important to society than bankers.

Stay-at-home dads apparently having a harder time re-entering the workforce than moms: \”Compared with at-home moms, who outnumber them by more than 5 to 1, at-home dads face a bigger stigma among would-be employers, and they often have fewer opportunities to network from home. Also, they are returning to a labor market where men have suffered major setbacks; heavy job losses in male-dominated industries and middle management have led pundits to label the latest downturn the \’he-cession.\’\”

Finally, consider having yourself a Pimm\’s.