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10:55 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: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Crooks and Liars, Washington Post, Patterico's Pontifications, The Gateway Pundit, Comments from Left Field, NewsWire, Sky Dancing, The Moderate Voice, Gawker, Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune 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, GOP 12, neo-neocon, Top of the Ticket and Sense of Events

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

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

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

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: Weasel Zippers, Doug Ross, YID With LID, Hot Air, UNCOVERAGE.net, Conservatives4Palin, Little Green Footballs, Balloon Juice, Hotline On Call, Oliver Willis, New York Magazine, Shakesville, AmSpecBlog and The Caucus

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

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, HotAirPundit, The Lonely Conservative, Don Surber, Sister Toldjah, Gawker and White House Dossier

Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House rebukes Obama on Libya

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

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

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: American Glob, Datechguy's Blog, 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 — 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 …

Discussion: Joe. My. God. and American Power

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 …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, The Huffington Post, Outside the Beltway, PolitickerNY and Taylor Marsh

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Bipartisan Congress rebuffs Obama on Libya mission

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

The Politico:
Libya resolution clears House

Discussion: Political Punch

Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Touting auto recovery, Obama says ‘We still face some tough times’

Discussion: The Politico and CNN

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

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.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland and HotAirPundit

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

National Enquirer:
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: JOHN EDWARDS DUMPED BY MISTRESS!

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Los Angeles Times, Fox Nation and The Daley Gator

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

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

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, The Hill, Big Journalism, Scared Monkeys, Gothamist, Riehl World View, Proof Positive, Weasel Zippers, Althouse, JammieWearingFool, American Spectator and The Gateway Pundit

Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Breitbart Source for Weiner Smear Deletes Twitter Account

Discussion: News Desk

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

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.

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Politico, Hot Air, Top of the Ticket, 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 …

Discussion: Paul Krugman, National Review, Washington Monthly, The Moderate Voice, Daily Kos, TPMDC, 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

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 …

Discussion: 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 …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Hit & Run and FishbowlDC

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

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.

Discussion: Lawyers, Guns & Money, Don Surber and Prairie Weather

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

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: cbpp.org, Firedoglake, Taylor Marsh and Off the Charts Blog

Wall Street Journal:

A Texas Roundhouse for the Trial Lawyers — By making litigants pay for filing frivolous lawsuits, the Lone Star State will protect jobs and spur growth. — Two women get into a fight in the ladies' restroom at a restaurant. Afterward, they sue the restaurant owner, claiming someone should have been in there to break up the fight.

Discussion: Hot Air and Pajamas Media

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 …