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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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New Jersey Online:
Gov. Christie's helicopter rides raise ire of Democratic lawmaker — MONTVALE — A brand-new State Police helicopter was Gov. Chris Christie's ride of choice yesterday as he traveled to and from his son's baseball game in Bergen County. — His office won't say where he came from or where he went afterward.
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Oliver Willis and Wonkette
Lisa Fleisher / Metropolis:
Chris Christie's Helicopter Ride to Home Plate
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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POWIP, Weasel Zippers, American Power, Salon, The Political Commentator, Washington Post, Althouse, Fox Nation and Fox News
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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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TalkLeft, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, NY Daily News, FishbowlDC, Founding Bloggers, JammieWearingFool, New York Post, The Other McCain, The Reaction, Conservative Hideout 2.0, Big Government, Right Pundits, Michelle Malkin, Confederate Yankee, TPMDC, Nice Deb, Fausta's Blog, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, CNN, National Review, Outside the Beltway, GayPatriot, American Power, Taylor Marsh, JustOneMinute, POWIP, Hot Air, Pajamas Media and Runnin' Scared
David A. Graham / msnbc.com:
ANTHONY WEINER'S PLAYBOY PAST — Before the New York Democrat, now embroiled in a scandal over a crotch shot posted on his Twitter feed, got married in 2009, his love life fed the rumor mill for years, reports David A. Graham. — Over the weekend, someone tweeted a crotch shot …
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Ace of Spades HQ, Verum Serum, Pajamas Media, Politics, UNCOVERAGE.net and Washington Post
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Weinergate: Porn star, stripper Ginger Lee talks to TheDC
Weinergate: Porn star, stripper Ginger Lee talks to TheDC
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Weasel Zippers, Shakesville, National Review, TPMDC, Hot Air, The Powers That Be and Gawker
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
WeinerGate: What do Reporters Think? — And the Weiner saga continues.
WeinerGate: What do Reporters Think? — And the Weiner saga continues.
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Mediaite
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney leads in Iowa, Cain surging — Mitt Romney has the lead in PPP's first Iowa poll since Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump exited the race, but with six different candidates polling in double digits it's clear this thing is wide open. — Romney polls at 21%. Sarah Palin and Herman Cain are tied for second at 15%.
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Outside the Beltway, Eunomia, Mediaite, LifeNews.com, Iowa Caucuses, Taegan Goddard's … and Towleroad News #gay
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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 …
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msnbc.com, TPMDC, Washington Monthly, RealClearPolitics, Swampland, Booman Tribune, Mother Jones, Washington Post, The Hill, Hotline On Call and Marathon Pundit
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Jon Huntsman's Supporter
Jon Huntsman's Supporter
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Ben Smith's Blog, TPMDC and Washington Post
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
One Person, One Vote? Not Exactly
One Person, One Vote? Not Exactly
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The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, Eduwonk, Economix and Washington Post
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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Philly.com, Mediaite, Betsy's Page, Right Wing News and CBS News
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Palin embraces unconventional strategy ahead of possible 2012 bid
Palin embraces unconventional strategy ahead of possible 2012 bid
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Ballot Box, The Politico and Conservatives4Palin
Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Palin to Visit S.C. as Part of Early-State Trifecta
Palin to Visit S.C. as Part of Early-State Trifecta
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Washington Wire, Taegan Goddard's … and GOP 12
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, Big Journalism, The Camp Of The Saints, Associated Press, The Anchoress and Wizbang
Andy Barr / The Politico:
After Ellis Island, Sarah Palin heads to Boston
After Ellis Island, Sarah Palin heads to Boston
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The Note, USA Today and Ben Smith's Blog
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, Booman Tribune, msnbc.com and PERRspectives
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker rejects White House trip, says he won't be ‘lectured to’ by Obama — A freshman GOP lawmaker rejected an invitation to the White House on Wednesday, saying he didn't want to be “lectured” by President Obama. — “I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today …
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The Politico, Washington Monthly and Weasel Zippers
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Robert Lucas Argues That Barack Obama Is The Most Important Leader In American History — I'd been dimly aware of Robert Lucas' argument (PDF) that the Great Recession can be explained without reference to such petty concepts as aggregate demand, but until I read Gavyn Davies' summary …
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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 …
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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The Jawa Report, Confederate Yankee, pandagon.net and Gawker
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
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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Right Pundits, americanthinker.com, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and The Lonely Conservative
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, Gawker, Gothamist, New York Magazine, The Awl, Prairie Weather, Law Blog and DealBook, more at Mediagazer »
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, AMERICAblog Gay, Poliglot, Outside the Beltway, Bark Bark Woof Woof and Balloon Juice
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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Washington Post and Pajamas Media
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul, Supposed Defender Of Civil Liberties, Calls For Jailing People Who Attend ‘Radical Political Speeches’ — Libertarian-leaning 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, Outside the Beltway, msnbc.com and NBC Washington
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
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
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
GOP to White House, Boehner: economists say cut more than you hike — Haley Barbour to the Hill on oil spill — CBC flips on debt limit — Goodbye to Greco — DRIVING THE DAY: HOUSE GOP TO WHITE HOUSE House Republicans will head west on Pennsylvania Avenue to meet with President Barack Obama in the East Room of the White House.
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