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New York Post:
Weiner's tweet-hearts — By S.A. MILLER in Washington and PERRY CHIARAMONTE AND CHUCK BENNETT in NY — It takes a certain type of woman to set his heart a-Twitter. — Rep. Anthony Weiner follows only a select 198 of his nearly 49,000 Twitter fans — and a surprising number of them are total babes.
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Weasel Zippers, Salon, The Political Commentator, Althouse and Fox Nation
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Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Anthony Weiner Is Not Doing Himself Any Favors — We won't pretend to know the truth behind Weinergate — whether Weiner was the victim of a hacker or prankster or conservative conspiracy, or whether he was personally responsible for sending a college girl a photo of a man's bulge over Twitter.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, NY Daily News, The Daily Caller, TPMDC, JammieWearingFool, The Reaction, New York Post, Confederate Yankee, Right Pundits, FishbowlDC, Outside the Beltway, JustOneMinute, CNN, Taylor Marsh, National Review, POWIP, Pajamas Media, The Camp Of The Saints and Ace of Spades HQ
Anahad O'Connor / New York Times:
Lawmaker in Twitter Case Assails Reporters
Lawmaker in Twitter Case Assails Reporters
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The Other McCain, The Note, Capital Tonight and PolitickerNY
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Rep. Weiner Has Angry Exchange With Capitol Hill Reporters Over Twitter Scandal
Rep. Weiner Has Angry Exchange With Capitol Hill Reporters Over Twitter Scandal
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Palin embraces unconventional strategy ahead of possible 2012 bid — Jersey City, New Jersey (CNN) - A presidential campaign typically begins at the micro-level in Iowa or New Hampshire, with small town meet-and-greets and well-timed endorsements from elected officials and grassroots leaders.
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Ballot Box and The Politico
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Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Palin to Visit S.C. as Part of Early-State Trifecta — JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will visit the first-in-the-South primary state of South Carolina later this month as part of her nationwide bus tour, RealClearPolitics has learned. — According to well-informed sources …
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GOP 12
Keith Laing / The Hill:
Critics of Boeing lawsuit slam Obama Commerce secretary pick — Critics of the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) lawsuit against airplane manufacturer Boeing denounced President Obama's choice of a member of the airline's board of directors to be secretary of Commerce.
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Marathon Pundit, AmSpecBlog and The Hill
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
One Person, One Vote? Not Exactly
One Person, One Vote? Not Exactly
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The Huffington Post, Eduwonk, Daily Kos, Economix and Washington Post
New Jersey Online:
Gov. Christie arrives at son's high school baseball game in State Police helicopter — TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie arrived at his son's baseball game this afternoon aboard a State Police helicopter. — Right before the lineup cards were being exchanged on the field …
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Metropolis, Firedoglake, The Moderate Voice, Ben Smith's Blog, ThinkProgress, The Note, The Blaze, The Raw Story, AmSpecBlog, TBogg, City Room, Balloon Juice and msnbc.com
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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Chris Christie won't run for president, but he'll visit Iowa this summer
Chris Christie won't run for president, but he'll visit Iowa this summer
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The Hill, USA Today, GOP 12, New York Times and The Huffington Post
Kathleen Madigan / Wall Street Journal:
Private Jobs Post Tepid Rise — Private businesses barely added jobs in May as large companies cut workers, according to a report released Wednesday. The news is sure to raise further fears about the second-quarter U.S. economy. — Private-sector jobs in the U.S. rose by just 38,000 last month …
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Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Glass Ceiling — Why Obama can't assume Republicans will ever make a deal on the debt ceiling. — For all the patriotic prattle about American exceptionalism, last night was a moment when our national politics seemed borrowed from the comic-opera irrelevance of Berlusconi's Italy.
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The Moderate Voice, msnbc.com and PERRspectives
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The White House:
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION — The story of America's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community is the story of our fathers and sons, our mothers and daughters, and our friends and neighbors who continue the task of making our country a more perfect Union.
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ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway, Bark Bark Woof Woof and Balloon Juice
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Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
Obama Issues Pride Proclamation — With No Mention of Relationship Recognition
Obama Issues Pride Proclamation — With No Mention of Relationship Recognition
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Alex Fitzsimmons / NewsBusters.org:
Martin Bashir: Sarah Palin's Bus Tour ‘Breach of Federal Law’ — MSNBC's Martin Bashir on May 31 insisted that Sarah Palin's bus tour amounts to a “breach of a federal law.” — Anchoring his eponymous program, Bashir scolded, “In fact, the whole thing could be in breach of a federal law …
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Mediaite and Right Wing News
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sen. DeMint mulls White House bid — Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says he is considering running for president after frustrated conservative activists have pleaded with him to run. — DeMint told The Hill that he has discussed a White House bid with his wife and will pray on the question …
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CNN, Mother Jones, TPMDC, p m carpenter's commentary, Maggie's Notebook, Weasel Zippers, msnbc.com, The Daily Caller, GOP 12, Washington Post and New York Magazine
Jon Huntsman / Wall Street Journal:
Our Current Time for Choosing — Anyone who disagrees with Paul Ryan's Medicare reforms has a moral obligation to propose an alternative. — This year marks the centennial anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth—and America finds itself at a crossroads that brings to mind the title …
Sarah Anne Hughes / Washington Post:
Ku Klux Klan protests Westboro Baptist Church (Video) — Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. (Michael S. Williamson - THE WASHINGTON POST) As President Obama honored fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, three members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested …
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Cold Fury and Religion Dispatches
blogs.abcnews.com:
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump Meet In New York City Tuesday Night, Eat Pizza — ABC News' Michael Falcone (@michaelpfalcone) reports: — UPDATED Sarah Palin sat down with Donald Trump in New York City on Tuesday night for just over a half hour at the former Alaska governor continued her roadtrip up the Eastern seaboard.
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The Atlantic Online, Washington Wire, The Note, Politics, Gothamist, Gawker, Swampland, The Gateway Pundit, The Politico, Mediaite, GOP 12, Runnin' Scared, No More Mister Nice Blog, New York Magazine, Fox Nation, The New Republic, The Daily Dish, Daily Kos, TPMDC, The Page and Balloon Juice
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Sarah Palin plays the media like a violin: Her turn now
Sarah Palin plays the media like a violin: Her turn now
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National Review, Rumproast, The Camp Of The Saints, Big Journalism, The Impolitic, Associated Press and CBS News
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
77,000 fed employees paid more than governors — Government salaries put under scrutiny — ** FILE ** A congressional study revealed that 7,283 federal employees in Maryland made more than Gov. Martin O'Malley's $150,000 salary in 2009. (Associated Press)
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americanthinker.com, Right Pundits, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and The Lonely Conservative
Ben Geman / The Hill:
New York AG sues feds over gas ‘fracking’ — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman opened a new front Tuesday in battles over controversial natural-gas drilling projects with a lawsuit alleging that federal agencies are shirking environmental review of dangerous development techniques.
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Taylor Marsh and The Volokh Conspiracy
New York Times:
S.E.C. Case Stands Out Because It Stands Alone — At the height of the housing boom, the 26th floor of Goldman Sachs's former headquarters on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan was the nerve center of Goldman's fast-growing mortgage trading business. — Hundreds of employees worked closely in teams …
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Felix Salmon, The Awl, Law Blog, Prairie Weather and DealBook, more at Mediagazer »
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Study finds many corporations pay effective tax rate of zero — A number of U.S. corporations had an effective tax rate of less than zero in recent years, a new study has found. — Citizens for Tax Justice released an examination on Wednesday that said that a dozen major companies had …
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Taylor Marsh
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul, Supposed Defender Of Civil Liberties, Calls For Jailing People Who Attend ‘Radical Political Speeches’ — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) made headlines last week for single-handedly obstructing the renewal of the Patriot Act, calling the law an unconstitutional infringement on civil liberties.
Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
Airplane annoyance leads to brouhaha in the skies over D.C. — Before things got out of hand, it was a typical annoyance that happens once a flight gets airborne: A passenger hit the recline button and sent his seat intimately close to the lap of the guy sitting behind him.
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USA Today, Gawker, msnbc.com, Outside the Beltway and NBC Washington
Gavyn Davies:
The classical view of the global recession — The disappointing economic data on US activity in recent months has brought a key policy debate back into focus. Is there a chronic shortage of growth in the developed world, and if so what should be done about it?
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Paul Krugman and Grasping Reality …
Steyn Online:
CRIMINAL COMEDY — Steyn on Books — HAPPY WARRIOR — from National Review — I read The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, when I was a schoolboy. Bit above my level, but, even as a teenager, I liked the premise. Ludvik is a young man in post-war, newly Communist Czechoslovakia.
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Pajamas Media and Pundit & Pundette
Alex Pareene / Salon:
Matt Drudge's disgusting race war awareness campaign — Matt Drudge's non-political obsessions used to be harmless things like “extreme weather” and “pictures of Olympic wrestlers.” Since the election of Barack Obama, though, Drudge — the proto-blogger and reclusive creator of the noted Courier …
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pandagon.net and Gawker
Stars & Stripes:
Army Ranger to be awarded Medal of Honor — WASHINGTON — An Army Ranger who lost his right hand and suffered shrapnel wounds after throwing an armed grenade away from his fellow Soldiers will be the second living Medal of Honor Recipient from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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UrbanGrounds and SWJ Blog