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Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Sarah Palin's History Lesson: Paul Revere Warned The British — In what is somehow “not a publicity seeking tour,” Tea Party maven Sarah Palin is traipsing around the nation's historic landmarks in her “One Nation” bus to “take Americans back to their roots.”
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Paul Revere redux — All Palin knows about history is what she learned from Disney cartoons. — Posted By: All Palin knows about history is what she learned from Disney cartoons. June 03, 2011 at 12:55 PM — Palin is not helping our cause at all. Please, Sarah take a deep breath and lay low until after Romney defeats Obama.
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Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Sarah Palin Reveals Fascinating New Account of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride — Many Americans think they have a solid understanding of the country's founding. No taxation without representation, tea party, Boston Massacre, George Washington, all that jazz.
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Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Paul Revere's Ride, Reimagined by Sarah Palin
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Edwards Indicted in Campaign Fund Case — John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina and presidential candidate, was indicted Friday morning by a grand jury in Raleigh on charges that he violated campaign finance law during his 2008 presidential campaign.
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New York Post:
Lewd-pic recipient worn out by Weiner scandal — By REUVEN FENTON in Seattle and JEANE MacINTOSH in NY — “Weinergate” has put a Seattle college cutie through the wringer — jeopardizing her academic dreams, embarrassing her family and shattering her privacy.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Rep. Weiner cancels speech at Wisconsin state Dem convention in wake of ‘Weinergate’
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
'It's like following Princess Diana' — SEABROOK, N.H. — Sarah Palin's bus is plastered with a mockup of the U.S. Constitution. But her entourage — both the three-vehicle motorcade that includes the bus and the smaller, two-SUV version she uses for smaller events — hasn't been very respectful of the traffic laws.
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The Politico:
Sarah Palin's bus tour leaves GOP cold — As it played out on TV this week, Sarah Palin's “One Nation” road trip of U.S. historical sites was a masterpiece of political mischief-making - a wild dash up the East Coast that delighted her fans and cornered the market on 2012 coverage for days on end.
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Edward Morrissey / CNN:
Media chase Palin, and her sway grows
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Ros Krasny / Reuters:
“The world is getting warmer”: Romney — (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy on Friday by saying he believes that humans are responsible, at least to some extent, for climate change. — “I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans …
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Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN announces 7 candidates in June 13 debate
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Andrew Breitbart Did Not Run ‘Weinergate’ Evidence Which Turned Out To Be Fake — The “Weinergate” story has been a veritable clinic in the pitfalls of new media-influenced journalism, and one such pitfall has come to a head. Andrew Breitbart has been repeatedly accused of engineering …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Republicans demand TV station yank ad claiming GOP plan would ‘end Medicare’ — Attention, people, this is important: The battle over whether it's true that the Republican plan would “end Medicare” is about to play out in a critical way in New Hampshire. — The National Republican …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House rebukes Obama on Libya — The House on Friday approved a resolution from House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) that scolds the Obama administration for failing to seek congressional authority under the War Powers Act for military operations in Libya. — The resolution demands …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
House Rebukes Obama Over Libya
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Daily Mail:
Did a pork-coated bullet kill Bin Laden? Yes, says firm who claim its pig fat gun oil is bought by U.S. military personnel — Was Osama bin Laden shot with a bullet soaked in pork fat, denying him a place in paradise? — Yes, if one rather shady website, that peddles gun oil containing liquefied pig fat, is to be believed.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
On the Maddeningly Inexact Relationship Between Unemployment and Re-Election — Make no mistake: The higher the unemployment rate in November 2012, the less likely President Obama is to win a second term. — But we should be careful about asserting that there is any particular threshold …
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Hiring in U.S. Slowed in May With 54,000 Jobs Added — After several months of strong job growth, hiring slowed sharply in May, raising concerns once again about the underlying strength of the economic recovery. — The Labor Department reported on Friday that the United States added 54 …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Wisconsin Dems to announce that they will try to recall Scott Walker — There's a long way to go, and the goal seems like a very tough one to reach, but Wisconsin Democrats are set to go for it: They will announce at their annual convention later today that they intend to launch an effort …
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Dorothy Rabinowitz / Wall Street Journal:
The Republican Who Can Win — The candidate would know Americans are more worried about their jobs and their savings than abstractions like ‘big government.’ — To win the presidency in 2012, the Republican candidate will require certain strengths. Among them, a credible passion for ideas …
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CBS Minnesota:
Police: Woman Stabs 2 Outside Bloomington Library — BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (WCCO) — Two people were stabbed in a seemingly random attack at a Twin Cities library. — After the incident Wednesday night at the Oxboro Library in Bloomington, 35-year-old Samira Abdalla Salim was arrested.
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Dan Hirschhorn / Reuters:
Haley Barbour: ‘Purity’ will lose 2012 race — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour issued a stern warning to conservatives on Friday: relent on ideological purity in the primaries or risk losing the general election. — “We're going to nominate someone for president who doesn't agree …
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Keith Schneider / New York Times:
Dr. Jack Kevorkian Dies at 83; Backed Assisted Suicide — Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the central figure in the tumultuous national drama surrounding assisted suicide, died Friday in a Michigan hospital. He was 83 and lived in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. — The cause of his death was not immediately known …
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Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Tim Pawlenty to deliver economy speech — After weeks of saying that he'll release his own budget plan but steering clear of details, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will deliver speech laying out his plan economic growth and spending cuts on Tuesday. — And he'll do it on Barack Obama's home turf in Chicago.
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Divided on Taxing the Rich to Redistribute Wealth — Public is split over enacting heavy taxes on the rich to redistribute wealth — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans break into two roughly evenly matched camps on the question of whether the government should enact heavy taxes on the rich …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Mistake of 2010 — Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a blog post about the “mistake of 1937,” the premature fiscal and monetary pullback that aborted an ongoing economic recovery and prolonged the Great Depression. As Gauti Eggertsson, the post's author …
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James Hohmann / The Politico:
George Allen apologizes for ‘macaca’ moment — 'You don't brood over mistakes. You learn from ‘em and you improve,’ Allen said. — George Allen apologized Friday for using the term “macaca” to describe a campaign tracker during his losing 2006 campaign. — “You don't brood over mistakes.
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Aharding / CNN:
Presidential hopefuls, entrepreneurs mob Faith and Freedom Coalition conference — Washington (CNN) - Someone pushed a baseball and a ballpoint pen at Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minnesota, through the scrum of reporters' note pads and tape recorders as she was chased up an escalator.
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Tyler Durden / zero hedge:
US Has To Create 250K Jobs A Month For 66 Months To Return To December 2007 Unemployment By End Of Obama's Second Term — It was difficult rerunning this chart with a straight face, make that near impossible, but here are the results. Following the most recent NFP disappointment …
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