memeorandum: The Republican Who Can Win (Dorothy Rabinowitz/Wall Street Journal)

5:45 PM ET, June 3, 2011

Top Items:

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, Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Booman Tribune, Gawker and TPMDC

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, Mediaite, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

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: GOP 12

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

Discussion: Indecision Forever

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

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

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

Bob Woodruff / ABCNEWS:
John Edwards to Face Indictment Today

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

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

WRAL-TV:
Edwards indicted; arrest warrant issued

Discussion: WTVD-TV, Associated Press, Pajamas Media, Pirate's Cove 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: Gothamist, American Spectator, Weasel Zippers, Michelle Malkin, Proof Positive, JammieWearingFool, Althouse, The Gateway Pundit and CBS New York

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

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

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, News Desk and Runnin' Scared

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, William K. Wolfrum Chronicles, The Political Carnival, Moe Lane and National Review

The Politico:

Sarah Palin's bus tour leaves GOP cold — As it played out on TV this week, Sarah Palin's “One Nation” road trip of U.S. historical sites was a masterpiece of political mischief-making - a wild dash up the East Coast that delighted her fans and cornered the market on 2012 coverage for days on end.

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

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: Ben Smith's Blog, Weasel Zippers, Hotline On Call, Oliver Willis and AmSpecBlog

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

Discussion: Daily Kos and The Washington Independent

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, Washington Monthly, Ben Smith's Blog, Paul Krugman, Oliver Willis and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

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

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: The Jawa Report and Jihad Watch

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: Firedoglake, Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos

The Huffington Post:

Haley Barbour Breaks With Eric Cantor On Disaster Relief … Eric Cantor , Haley Barbour , Budget Cuts , Video , Politics News , Barbour Disaster , Barbour Eric Cantor , Barbour Faith And Freedom , Barbour Tornadoes , Cantor Disaster Relief , Disaster Relief , Disaster Relief Budget Cuts …

Discussion: Washington Monthly and ThinkProgress

Dan Hirschhorn / Reuters:
Haley Barbour: ‘Purity’ will lose 2012 race

Discussion: The Note

Christian Heinze / GOP 12:

Huntsman: No truce on abortion — In his speech to the Faith and Freedom Conference today, Jon Huntsman emphatically denounced the idea of a truce on abortion. … Smart rhetorical move. He talks in economic terms ("deficit") about a social issue; thereby, highlighting both.

Discussion: Shakesville

The Note:
Huntsman Touts His Commitment to Life and Liberty

Discussion: CNN

Lydia Saad / Gallup:

Americans Divided on Taxing the Rich to Redistribute Wealth — Public is split over enacting heavy taxes on the rich to redistribute wealth — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans break into two roughly evenly matched camps on the question of whether the government should enact heavy taxes on the rich …

Discussion: Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, The Blaze, RedState, UrbanGrounds, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

The Mistake of 2010 — Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a blog post about the “mistake of 1937,” the premature fiscal and monetary pullback that aborted an ongoing economic recovery and prolonged the Great Depression. As Gauti Eggertsson, the post's author …

Discussion: Firedoglake, The Politico, Northern Reflections, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Marginal Revolution and Arkansas News

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:

Joel Rosenberg, RIP — One of Minnesota's heroes of personal liberty, a man who was a good friend to me when I needed him, unexpectedly passed away last night from complications arising from a heart attack the day before. Joel Rosenberg literally wrote the book on concealed carry — in fact, he wrote several of them.

Discussion: Shot in the Dark, The Blotter and Free Joel Rosenberg