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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.
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 and Mediaite
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 …
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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 …
Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
House Rebukes Obama Administration On Libya Intervention
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Touting auto recovery, Obama says ‘We still face some tough times’
Discussion: The Politico and CNN
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 …
National Enquirer:
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS DUMPED BY MISTRESS!  —  Desperate to stay out of jail, bad boy politi­cian JOHN EDWARDS begged his mistress and mother of his love child Rielle Hunter to cover up for him, but she flatly refused, sources say.  —  In a bombshell exclusive hitting newsstands …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Edwards Pleads Not Guilty in Campaign Fund Case
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
John Edwards indicted on campaign finance charges
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 …
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.
Discussion: The Politico
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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.
The Huffington Post:
Haley Barbour Breaks With Eric Cantor On Disaster Relief
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
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and American Power
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.
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
Discussion: News Desk
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 …
Ryan Lizza / News Desk:
The New Mitt  —  The most interesting aspect of the speech Mitt Romney gave Thursday, announcing that he is running for President, is how different it was from the one he gave in 2007.  Back then, Romney was making the transition from moderate governor of a liberal state to conservative stalwart …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama looking good in Iowa
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
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.
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cbpp.org:
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Discussion: Off the Charts Blog
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 …
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 …
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.
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
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama and the Debt Crisis
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Betsy's Page
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
A Texas Roundhouse for the Trial Lawyers
Discussion: Hot Air and Pajamas Media
Mark Blumenthal / The Huffington Post:
Pollster Stan Greenberg Warns Democrats To Face ‘The Real Economy’
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
George Allen Offers Emotional Apology For Macaca Incident
Daily Mail:
‘I thought I was going to die... so I tried to kill as many as I could’: Hero Gurkha receives …
Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Tim Pawlenty to deliver economy speech
Discussion: CNN
 Earlier Items: 
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Huntsman: Announcement very soon
Discussion: Mediaite, GOP 12 and The Politico
The Note:
Herman Cain Confident His Campaign Can Raise Enough Money to Beat Romney, GOP Candidates
Discussion: Hot Air, ABCNEWS and The New Republic
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Joel Rosenberg, RIP
Paul Krugman:
What A Drag  —  From Goldman Sachs, an estimate of the federal budget impact on growth.
Discussion: Grasping Reality …
Daily Mail:
Did a pork-coated bullet kill Bin Laden? …