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7:20 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: The Moderate Voice, Comments from Left Field, Washington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune, Gawker 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, neo-neocon and GOP 12

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

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

Discussion: Indecision Forever

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, Riehl World View, Gothamist, 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: The Moderate Voice and News Desk

The Politico:
Anthony Weiner's talkathon isn't saying much

Discussion: Confederate Yankee

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

Discussion: CNN and Top of the Ticket

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

Discussion: CNN

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

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 …

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

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, Ben Smith's Blog, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, UNCOVERAGE.net, Conservatives4Palin, New York Magazine, Hotline On Call, Shakesville, Oliver Willis and AmSpecBlog

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

Discussion: Daily Kos and The Washington Independent

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

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

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

Richard L. Hasen / Slate Magazine: A Cover-Up, Not a Crime. — Why the case against John Edwards may be hard to prove.

Bob Woodruff / ABCNEWS:
John Edwards to Face Indictment Today

Discussion: CBS News, The Moderate Voice, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, News Desk, americanthinker.com, TalkLeft, 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, Big Journalism, CNN, Althouse and Stop The ACLU

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

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

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: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Other McCain, YID With LID, The Daily Caller, Big Government, POWIP, Hot Air 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: The Moderate Voice, National Review, TPMDC, Daily Kos, Paul Krugman, Washington Monthly, Ben Smith's Blog, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Oliver Willis

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

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly: The wake-up call — It's become something of a running joke …

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

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 …

Discussion: americanthinker.com

Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Debt Crisis

Discussion: Betsy's Page

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

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 Blaze, The Huffington Post, Firedoglake, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Hamilton Place Strategies

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

Gschwarzcnn / CNN:

Huntsman: Announcement very soon — Washington (CNN) - Jon Huntsman's official entry into the race for the White House won't happen before the June 13 GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire, but it could happen soon after the debate. — Speaking to reporters Friday after addressing …

Discussion: The Politico, GOP 12 and Mediaite

Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN announces 7 candidates in June 13 debate

Discussion: Fox News, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, The Washington Independent and The Political Carnival

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.

Discussion: Hotline On Call

Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
George Allen Offers Emotional Apology For Macaca Incident

Discussion: Outside the Beltway and The Raw Story

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.

Discussion: POWIP, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Jawa Report

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 …

Discussion: The Note

The Huffington Post:
Haley Barbour Breaks With Eric Cantor On Disaster Relief

Discussion: Washington Monthly and ThinkProgress

Daily Mail:

'I thought I was going to die... so I tried to kill as many as I could': Hero Gurkha receives bravery medal from the Queen — A Gurkha soldier who single-handedly defeated more than 30 Taliban fighters has been awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross by the Queen.

Discussion: The Jawa Report