memeorandum: Muslim girl, 19, ‘stoned to death after taking part in beauty contest’ (Will Stewart/Daily Mail)

6:50 PM ET, May 30, 2011

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Andy Barr / The Politico:

Confusion on Day 2 of Palin bus tour — Day 2 of Sarah Palin's bus tour, and the former vice presidential nominee has prompted little more than confusion over exactly what she is up to. — Palin started Memorial Day at the National Archives in Washington, but the only reporters …

Discussion: The Caucus and Gawker

Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:

Palin Family Tours Washington ‘Incognito’ — Sarah Palin and her family sneaked out in Washington on Sunday night for what she called an “incognito” tour of the national monuments, having successfully created a media frenzy and then ditched the press. — Details of the visit …

Discussion: TVNewser, Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Hot Air, Daily Kos, Althouse and Bloomberg

Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:

Palin to Visit Iowa as Bus Tour Kicks Into Gear — WASHINGTON — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will travel to Iowa next month as part of her nationwide bus tour, two sources with direct knowledge of the plan told RealClearPolitics. — Palin's trip to the nation's first voting state …

Discussion: Mediaite, Washington Post, The Gateway Pundit, Outside the Beltway, Politics, Conservatives4Palin and National Review

Gschwarzcnn / CNN: Palin mum on run in latest stop

Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sarah Palin swarmed at first bus tour stop

Discussion: CNN, Taylor Marsh, The Daily Pulp, Talking Points Memo, Conservatives4Palin, Swampland, Pirate's Cove and The Raw Story

Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Palin's Path May Be Unclear, but Her Ride Is Revved Up

Discussion: NY Daily News, Don Surber, The Caucus, neo-neocon, FrumForum and SarahPAC

Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:

Gennette Was Not Alone... Weiner's Twitter Friends Include Pages of Young Lucious Fans — Gennette Nicole was not alone. — On Friday far left Rep. Anthony Weiner said his twitter and Facebook accounts were hacked. He said this after a picture of his penis was reportedly sent out to a young woman in Seattle.

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, The Last Tradition, The Other McCain, Ace of Spades HQ, alicublog, NY Daily News and Doug Ross

The Politico:

Anthony Weiner hires attorney in Twitter incident — 'This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work,' said Weiner of the Twitter mishap. AP Photo — New York Rep. Anthony Weiner has retained an attorney to advise him “what civil or criminal actions should be taken” …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Other McCain, Balloon Juice and The Mahablog

Maria Newman / New York Times:
Congressman Says Hacker Sent Lewd Photo Using His Name

Discussion: Power Line, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Little Green Footballs, Pajamas Media, Liberal Values, The Other McCain, Booman Tribune, Althouse, JustOneMinute, Gothamist, The Moderate Voice, Big Government and American Power

David Dayen / Firedoglake:

Bernstein: Obama Economic Team Had “No Appetite” for Direct, Public Job Creation — Paul Krugman had a good column today on how America needed to end its “learned helplessness” on the jobs crisis. He cited multiple options of things the government could do right now to create jobs …

Discussion: Grasping Reality …, Eschaton and The Hill

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Against Learned Helplessness — Unemployment is a terrible scourge across much of the Western world. Almost 14 million Americans are jobless, and millions more are stuck with part-time work or jobs that fail to use their skills. Some European countries have it even worse: 21 percent of Spanish workers are unemployed.

Discussion: Jared Bernstein, The Moderate Voice, Paul Krugman, Washington Monthly, Economist's View, Daily Kos, NewsBusters.org, Prairie Weather, Clusterstock and Corrente

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:

What the media establishment refuses to understand — It was quite a roundtable on “Meet the Press” yesterday. Viewers got to see a Republican strategist, a conservative pundit, a conservative Democrat, and an ostensibly center-left columnist who thinks that Democrats are big meanies when it comes to Medicare.

Discussion: Booman Tribune, The Last Tradition and Paul Krugman

Frank Newport / Gallup:

U.S. Military Personnel, Veterans Give Obama Lower Marks — Younger, active-duty military less likely to have an opinion on Obama either way — PRINCETON, NJ — U.S. military veterans and those currently on active military duty are less likely to approve of President Obama's job performance …

Discussion: BLACKFIVE, Don Surber, Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, The Daily Caller, NewsBusters.org, The Lonely Conservative, The Last Tradition and Wake up America

Will Stewart / Daily Mail:

Muslim girl, 19, ‘stoned to death after taking part in beauty contest’ — A teenage Muslim girl was stoned to death under ‘Sharia law’ after taking part in a beauty contest in Ukraine. — Katya Koren, 19, was found dead in a village in the Crimea region near her home.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch

David W. Blight / New York Times:

Forgetting Why We Remember — MOST Americans know that Memorial Day is about honoring the nation's war dead. It is also a holiday devoted to department store sales, half-marathons, picnics, baseball and auto racing. But where did it begin, who created it, and why?

Discussion: Power Line, The Atlantic Online, Opinionator, Outside the Beltway, Connecting.the.Dots and Hullabaloo

David Rogers / Reuters:

House Democrats unite on Afghanistan exit — It's more angst than outright anger, but House Democrats are showing real unity for the first time in pressuring President Barack Obama on Afghanistan — with influential moderates now expressing their impatience alongside the anti-war left that drove the early Iraq war debate.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh

Stephen Evans / BBC:

Germany: Nuclear power plants to close by 2022 — Germany saw mass anti-nuclear protests in the wake of the Fukushima disaster — Germany's coalition government has announced a reversal of policy that will see all the country's nuclear power plants phased out by 2022.

Discussion: Truthdig