Top Items:
Kristina Wong / Political Punch:
The Emergence of President Obama's Muslim Roots — ABC News' Jake Tapper and Sunlen Miller report: The other day we heard a comment from a White House aide that never would have been uttered during the primaries or general election campaign. During a conference call in preparation for...
Discussion:
The Moderate Voice, The Politico, Gateway Pundit, Politics Daily, Stop The ACLU, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Democracy in America, Jihad Watch, Hot Air, Outside The Beltway, blogs.abcnews.com, Debbie Schlussel, Don Surber, Confederate Yankee, Scared Monkeys, Pundit & Pundette, Hyscience, Sister Toldjah, Pat Dollard, Little Green Footballs, Flopping Aces, Macsmind, Gawker and Weasel Zippers
RELATED:
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Obama Says U.S. Could Be Seen as a Muslim Country, Too — HAHN, Germany — As President Obama prepared to leave Washington to fly to the Middle East, he conducted several television and radio interviews at the White House to frame the goals for a five-day trip, including …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Obama on Obama — During a telephone interview Tuesday with President Obama about his speech to Arabs and Muslims in Cairo on Thursday, I got to tell the president my favorite Middle East joke. It gave him a good laugh. It goes like this: — There is this very pious Jew named Goldberg who always dreamed of winning the lottery.
Discussion:
Washington Post, Boston Globe, MSNBC, Los Angeles Times, Daniel W. Drezner, Taylor Marsh and Financial Times
Robert / Jihad Watch:
Obama: The United States is “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world” — What planet is he on? — “Obama Says U.S. Could Be Seen as a Muslim Country, Too,” by Jeff Zeleny for the New York Times Caucus Blog, June 2 (thanks to Randall): … Was that an observation or a wish?
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Yikes! Did Obama Really Call America A Muslim Country? Nope. — With President Obama set to depart for the Mideast, many will likely jump on him today for allegedly calling America a Muslim country on French television late yesterday. — Indeed, critics are already grabbing on to the comment …
Discussion:
The Daily Dish
Toby Harnden / Toby Harnden's blog listings:Barack Hussein Obama: US “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world”
Newt Gingrich / Human Events:
Supreme Court Nominee Sotomayor: You Read, You Decide — Shortly after President Obama nominated her to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, I read Judge Sonia Sotomayor's now famous words: — “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, Think Progress, Firedoglake, CBS News, Vanity Fair, The Washington Independent, Swampland, The Anonymous Liberal, TPMDC, The New Republic, Washington Post, The Hill's Blog Briefing Room, Black Agenda Report, PoliGazette, Wonkette, Politics Daily, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Power Line, Newsweek Blogs, The Atlantic Politics Channel, The Note, Talk To Action, Pufferfish, The BLT, The Plum Line, Top of the Ticket, Obsidian Wings, Gateway Pundit and Commentary
RELATED:
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Conservative Judges' Gun Ruling in Agreement With Sotomayor — Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been called an “anti-gun radical” by some gun rights activists for joining an opinion this year that said the Second Amendment does not prevent state and local governments from restricting arms ownership.
Discussion:
DISSENTING JUSTICE, The BLT, Los Angeles Times, Wonk Room, Lawyers, Guns and Money, Law Blog, SCOTUSblog and The Volokh Conspiracy
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:GOPSen: Nominee could get 75 votes
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Roll Call, AMERICAblog News, The Plum Line, MyDD, TPMDC, New York Times, The Note and Gallup
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:Sessions, GOP's Lead on Panel Weighing Sotomayor, Was Once Rejected for Bench
Charles Mahtesian / The Politico:
Stealth war: Obama sabotages GOP — Tuesday's announcement of Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.) as President Barack Obama's nominee for Army secretary makes perfect sense from a policymaking standpoint. It's hard to find a member of Congress who's more well-respected or more steeped …
RELATED:
William J. Broad / New York Times:
In Online Slip, Nuclear Sites Make Rounds — The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation's civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons.
Wall Street Journal:
Why the Health Care Rush? — Democrats don't think their bill can stand public inspection. — Printer — Friendly — If sharks stop swimming, they sink and drown. President Obama seems to view his health-care program the same way. “If we don't get it done this year,” …
RELATED:
M Peretz / The New Republic:
An Inconvenient Truth — What dismays me most about Barack Obama's Middle East initiative is that the only country in the area he seems to be pressing is Israel. He is not pressing Egypt and perhaps that's because there is nothing that Cairo can give. Maybe I'll be surprised …
RELATED:
Washington Post:
Cheney Led Briefings of Lawmakers To Defend Interrogation Techniques — Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogation program, part of a secretive and forceful defense he mounted throughout 2005 …
RELATED:
Fox News:
Source: More Targets Found on Arkansas Shooting Suspect's Computer — A senior U.S. official tells FOX News that more targets were found on the computer of a man charged in the fatal shooting at a military recruiting center in Arkansas — suggesting the accused gunman may have been part …
RELATED:
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Something Is Happening In Iran — I don't know whether you have been reading the various press accounts of the election campaign in Iran. I know that the candidates' list is fixed, but I can also see democratic spirit when it is bang in front of me. There appears to be a genuine fight for votes …
NY Daily News:
Bam and Michelle's marriage went through frosty period, says new book — The First Family, Michelle, Sasha, Barack, and Maila Obama. The Obamas marriage went through a rough patch between the birth of their two daughters, says a new book. — Barack and Michelle Obama may look like the picture …
Sara A. Carter / Washington Times:
EXCLUSIVE: Al Qaeda eyes bio attack from Mexico — Seeks white militias as allies — U.S. counterterrorism officials have authenticated a video by an al Qaeda recruiter threatening to smuggle a biological weapon into the United States via tunnels under the Mexico border …
John Koblin / New York Observer:
Newsweek Turns to Tina Tricks: Meet Guest Editor ... Stephen Colbert! — In the two weeks since Newsweek has redesigned, the magazine's editors have sent out a statement that they intend to sever any and all connection to the turgid, dusty newsweekly of yore.
James Kirchick / Wall Street Journal:
The Religious Right Didn't Kill George Tiller — The left tries to smear ‘Christianists’ as akin to Islamic extremists. — Printer — Friendly — On Sunday, abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered at his church in Wichita, Kan. He was one of a handful of doctors in the U.S …
Output Producer, CA — 
China Markets Correspondent, Shanghai — 
Senior Assignment Editor, DC — 
Breaking News Editor, Tokyo — 
Senior Correspondent - Wealth, NY — 
Reporter - Ottawa Bureau — 
Local Government Reporter, IA — 
Research Director, CA — 
Immigration Enforcement Reporter — 
Presque Island Reporter, ME — 
Contributing Parks Ed. - SW, CA — 
AI Content Editor, WA — 
Legislative Reporter, TN — 
Editorial Assistant, Remote US — 
Elon Musk Reporter, NY or CA — 
Government & Politics Editor, WA — 
Business & GA Reporter. VT — 
Sports Reporter, WA — 
Energy Reporter, TX — 
Senior Reporter, SC — 
Trade & Climate Correspondent, DC — 
Reporter, WI — 
Political Newsletter Writer, CO — 
Jackson Reporter, MS — 
Music Editor, AZ — 
Breaking News Reporter, NV — 
Fearless Reporter/Producer, IA — 
Reporter II - Technology, Remote — 
Editor, Remote US — 
City Reporter, WA — 
Executive Editor, OR — 
Education & Budget Reporter, CA — 
Senior Writer/Editor, FL — 
Media Editor, Remote — 
