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8:45 PM ET, June 3, 2011

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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.”

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, NewsWire, Comments from Left Field, Sky Dancing, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Gawker, Booman Tribune, Washington Monthly and TPMDC

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.

Discussion: Conservatives4Palin, The Policy Page, Top of the Ticket, GOP 12 and neo-neocon

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.

Discussion: USA Today, The Note, Salon, Mediaite, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Paul Revere's Ride, Reimagined by Sarah Palin

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: Washington Wire, Washington Post, Fox Nation, Fox News, The Lonely Conservative, Don Surber, Sister Toldjah and Gawker

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

Bipartisan Congress rebuffs Obama on Libya mission — Crossing party lines to deliver a stunning rebuke to the commander in chief, the vast majority of the House voted Friday for resolutions telling President Obama he has broken the constitutional chain of authority by committing U.S. troops …

Discussion: Hot Air, Speaker, Hit & Run, Associated Press, White House Dossier, Nice Deb and Pajamas Media

Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House rebukes Obama on Libya

Discussion: CNN, The Politico, The Nation, The Monkey Cage, National Review, Speaker and New York Magazine

Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
House Rebukes Obama Over Libya

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and PolitickerNY

The Politico:
Libya resolution clears House

Discussion: Political Punch and Hot Air

Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
House Rebukes Obama Administration On Libya Intervention

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: Little Green Footballs, YID With LID, Doug Ross, Conservatives4Palin, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Ben Smith's Blog, UNCOVERAGE.net, New York Magazine, Hotline On Call, Oliver Willis, Shakesville, AmSpecBlog, The Caucus and Connecting.the.Dots

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama looking good in Iowa

Discussion: Daily Kos and The Washington Independent

Ryan Lizza / News Desk:
The New Mitt — The most interesting aspect of the speech …

Discussion: Firedoglake, National Review and The New Republic

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.

Discussion: Big Government, Gothamist, Riehl World View, Weasel Zippers, Proof Positive, American Spectator, JammieWearingFool, Althouse, The Gateway Pundit and CBS New York

Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:

Breitbart Source for Weiner Smear Deletes Twitter Account — Today we find that Andrew Breitbart's source for the smear attack against Rep. Anthony Weiner, Dan Wolfe (aka @patriotusa76) has deleted his entire Twitter account. — There's been a bad smell about this story from the beginning, and it just got exponentially worse.

Discussion: News Desk and The Moderate Voice

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Rep. Weiner cancels speech at Wisconsin state Dem convention in wake of ‘Weinergate’

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, CNN and The Gateway Pundit

Roger Simon / The Politico:
Anthony Weiner and the law's peril

Discussion: CNN and Top of the Ticket

Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:

Edwards Pleads Not Guilty in Campaign Fund Case — John Edwards, the former Democratic senator from North Carolina, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he conspired to cover up an extramarital affair while running for president in 2008 by “secretly obtaining,” misusing …

Discussion: The Huffington Post, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Associated Press, Rumproast, Washington Post, AmSpecBlog, The Maddow Blog, TalkLeft, ThinkProgress, Hot Air, Left Coast Rebel, Fausta's Blog, Gothamist and Booman Tribune

Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
John Edwards indicted on campaign finance charges

Discussion: Slate Magazine, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, National Review, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, News Desk, Outside the Beltway, Mudville Gazette, Michelle Malkin, Taylor Marsh, The Volokh Conspiracy, Althouse, Unfogged and Patterico's Pontifications

Bob Woodruff / ABCNEWS:
John Edwards to Face Indictment Today

Discussion: USA Today, CBS News, Scared Monkeys, Wall Street Journal, The Moderate Voice, News Desk, TalkLeft, americanthinker.com, Ben Smith's Blog, The Hill, Taylor Marsh, Simply Left BehindThe … and The Politico

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.

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Conservatives4Palin, William K. Wolfrum Chronicles, The Political Carnival, National Review and Moe Lane

The Politico:
Sarah Palin's bus tour leaves GOP cold

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, The Daley Gator, Big Journalism, CNN, Pirate's Cove and Althouse

Edward Morrissey / CNN:
Media chase Palin, and her sway grows

Discussion: Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, Conservatives4Palin and Datechguy's Blog

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 …

Discussion: The Other McCain, YID With LID, POWIP, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Big Government, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and American Power

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 …

Discussion: National Review, The Moderate Voice, TPMDC, Paul Krugman, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, Ben Smith's Blog, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Oliver Willis

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.

Discussion: Jihad Watch

Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:

George Allen Offers Emotional Apology For Macaca Incident — George Allen is really sorry about that macaca thing. Five years after he threw the slur at a Democratic tracker during the 2006 Senate campaign, Allen offered a long and emotional apology to a small crowd at the Faith and Family Conference.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Raw Story

James Hohmann / The Politico:
George Allen apologizes for ‘macaca’ moment

Discussion: Hotline On Call

Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:

Pollster Stan Greenberg Warns Democrats To Face ‘The Real Economy’ … WASHINGTON — A prominent Democratic pollster has a blunt warning for the Party: Despite a turn in economic growth and job creation statistics, Americans perceive no change in a “real economy” of reduced wages and benefits.

Discussion: Democracy Corps, TalkLeft and Mother Jones

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 …

Neil Irwin / Washington Post:
Employers add fewest jobs in eight months; unemployment jumps to 9.1 percent

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Weasel Zippers, The Huffington Post, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, The Blaze, Firedoglake and Hamilton Place Strategies

Jared Bernstein / On the Economy:

Third Impression of the Jobs Report — OK, a slight bit more substance. — You never want to freak out over one month's numbers in this biz, but when a monthly result reflects other stuff going on in the economy—in this case, slowing growth—you want to give that monthly number a little more weight.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Taylor Marsh and Off the Charts Blog

cbpp.org:
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Discussion: Off the Charts Blog

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.

Discussion: SFGate, Bookworm Room, Atlas Shrugs and iOwnTheWorld.com

Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
Literature for SF's anti-circumcision measure stars “monster” rabbis and blonde superheroes

Discussion: Joe. My. God.

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 …

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Firedoglake, NewsWire, The Political Carnival, Outside the Beltway, AMERICAblog News and Daily Kos

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 …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Hamilton Place Strategies, Outside the Beltway, americanthinker.com, Prairie Weather and Lawyers, Guns & Money

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 …