Morning Constitutional – Wednesday, 26 May 2010

Good morning, everybody. Lady Gaga calls the Glee tribute a dream come true. Now, your dream come—I mean, your morning constitutional:

BP is poised to attempt  choking the oil spill by stuffing it with heavy drilling mud and cement on Wednesday, a tactic called a \”top kill.\” Singapore is battling an oil spill of its own.

The Trans-Alaska Pipeline (which is partially owned by BP) was shut down Tuesday after spilling several thousand barrels of oil into backup containers.

In retaliation for an international report that lays the blame on North Korea for sinking a South Korean warship, North Korea has severed all diplomatic ties to South Korea.

The president, the Pentagon and leaders in Congress have reached a deal on ending the military\’s \”don\’t ask, don\’t tell\” policy. Congress will vote to end the policy, pending a Pentagon review on troop readiness in December. According to a new CNN poll, 8 out of 10 Americans favor allowing gays to serve the military.

End of an era: The last and final Hummer H3 has rolled off the production line Shreveport, Louisiana.

Can the free market save the space program?

Lori Berenson, an American jailed in Peru for 15 years for suspicion that she helped leftist rebels, has been granted a conditional release.

Slate: Contaminated memories and criminal injustice.

Republicans will unveil a new agenda in the spirit of the 1994 \”Contract With America\” in September.

On what we spend our economy.

The Obama administration will send 1,200 National Guard troops to the American-Mexican border and seek additional funding for law enforcement along the border.

President Obama meets with Senate Republicans, admits that he is being pressured from the left and asks them to take the same criticism from their right flank in order to achieve bipartisan results.

Police chiefs from some of the state\’s and nations largest cities agree that the Arizona immigration law will boost crime.

Italy announces measures to curb its debt.

Crime rates fell around the United States in 2009, despite the economic downturn. Violent crimes declined by 5.5 percent last year, and property crimes decreased 4.9 percent.

The London Review of Books with an election post-mortem: Is this the end of the UK?

Finally, a teacher in Georgia has been suspended for allowing students to dress in mock Ku Klux Klan robes for a class film in a history and film class.