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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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Conservatives4Palin, The Policy Page, neo-neocon, GOP 12 and Top of the Ticket
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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USA Today, The Note, Salon, Mediaite and REPUBLICAN REDEFINED
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
So Now All These People Will Apologize to Sarah Palin About Paul Revere, Right?
So Now All These People Will Apologize to Sarah Palin About Paul Revere, Right?
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The Gateway Pundit, Patterico's Pontifications and Sense of Events
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Paul Revere's Ride, Reimagined by Sarah Palin
Paul Revere's Ride, Reimagined by Sarah Palin
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Indecision Forever
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Golf summit for Barack Obama and John Boehner — President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will finally hit the links for a round of golf - and al fresco negotiation - on June 18, a White House official told POLITICO. — Obama's offer — and Boehner's acceptance …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
House Rebukes Obama for Continuing Libyan Mission Without Its Consent — WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted Friday to rebuke President Obama for continuing to maintain an American role in NATO operations in Libya without the express consent of Congress, and directed the administration …
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Outside the Beltway and PolitickerNY
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Bipartisan Congress rebuffs Obama on Libya mission
Bipartisan Congress rebuffs Obama on Libya mission
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House rebukes Obama on Libya
House rebukes Obama on Libya
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Touting auto recovery, Obama says ‘We still face some tough times’
Touting auto recovery, Obama says ‘We still face some tough times’
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The Politico and CNN
Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
House Rebukes Obama Administration On Libya Intervention
House Rebukes Obama Administration On Libya Intervention
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The Moderate Voice, NewsWire and Taylor Marsh
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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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama looking good in Iowa
Obama looking good in Iowa
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Daily Kos and The Washington Independent
Ryan Lizza / News Desk:
The New Mitt — The most interesting aspect of the speech …
The New Mitt — The most interesting aspect of the speech …
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Firedoglake, National Review and The New Republic
Zombie / Pajamas Media:
Proof that S.F.'s circumcision ban Is anti-Semitic — As you may have heard by now, San Francisco will be voting this November on whether or not to ban circumcision in the city. — Defenders of the measure say it's all about “human rights” and “protecting babies” from unnecessary procedures.
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Literature for SF's anti-circumcision measure stars “monster” rabbis and blonde superheroes — San Francisco's anti-circumcision measure will be decided by voters in November, but the literature for the movement aims to sway them with some disturbing images — including dark …
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Pajamas Media, Joe. My. God. and American Power
Fredreka Schouten / USA Today:
John Edwards indicted in affair coverup — WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury Friday indicted former North Carolina senator John Edwards for violating election laws by accepting nearly $1 million from supporters to cover up an extramarital affair during his 2008 presidential campaign.
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National Enquirer:
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS DUMPED BY MISTRESS!
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS DUMPED BY MISTRESS!
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The Gateway Pundit, Los Angeles Times, Fox Nation and The Daley Gator
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Trump jabs at China, Obama, Weiner and the press at voters' forum — Businessman Donald Trump once again called for the revenue from Iraq's oil reserves to be diverted to the U.S. Treasury and lambasted China, President Obama, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) and the press in a rambling speech Friday.
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Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC:
Donald Trump: I Could Win The Presidency As An Independent — So much for dropping out — Donald Trump tells TPM he believes he can win the White House as an independent candidate, keeping his name in the presidential game despite declaring last month he would not run for the GOP nomination.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and HotAirPundit
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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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Andrew Breitbart Did Not Run ‘Weinergate’ Evidence Which Turned Out To Be Fake
Andrew Breitbart Did Not Run ‘Weinergate’ Evidence Which Turned Out To Be Fake
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Weasel Zippers and American Power
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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Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Breitbart Source for Weiner Smear Deletes Twitter Account
Breitbart Source for Weiner Smear Deletes Twitter Account
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CNN:
TRENDING: House Democratic leadership privately push Weiner — Washington (CNN) - Members of the House Democratic leadership have talked repeatedly to Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-New York, to try to get him to end what several Democrats call an unwelcome political distraction, a member of the party's leadership tells CNN.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Politico, Top of the Ticket, Hot Air, The Other McCain and PolitickerNY
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 …
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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Frank Newport / Gallup:
More Than 9 in 10 Americans Continue to Believe in God — Professed belief is lower among younger Americans, Easterners, and liberals — PRINCETON, NJ — More than 9 in 10 Americans still say “yes” when asked the basic question “Do you believe in God?”; this is down only slightly from the 1940s …
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Hot Air, The Foundry, Weasel Zippers and American Power
John Hudson / The Atlantic Wire:
Barney Frank: What I Read — How do other people deal with the torrent of information that pours down on us all? What sources can't they live without? To find out, we regularly reach out to well-informed people to learn more about their media diets. This is taken from a conversation …
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Weasel Zippers, Hit & Run and FishbowlDC
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
James Arness, Marshal on ‘Gunsmoke,’ Dies at 88 — James Arness, who burnished the legend of America's epic West as Marshal Matt Dillon, the laconic peacemaker of Dodge City on “Gunsmoke,” one of the longest-running dramatic series in television history, died on Friday at his home in Los Angeles.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Don Surber and Prairie Weather
Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
Employers add fewest jobs in eight months; unemployment jumps to 9.1 percent — Employers pulled back sharply on job creation in May, and the unemployment rate took a surprising jump, according to new data Friday, confirming worries that the economy is losing momentum — and fast.
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Hiring in U.S. Slowed in May With 54,000 Jobs Added
Hiring in U.S. Slowed in May With 54,000 Jobs Added
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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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POWIP, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Jawa Report