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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Edwards Indicted in Campaign Fund Case — John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina and presidential candidate, was indicted Friday morning by a grand jury in Raleigh on charges that he violated campaign finance law during his 2008 presidential campaign.
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Bob Woodruff / ABCNEWS:
John Edwards to Face Indictment Today — Unless a last-minute deal comes through, John Edwards will be indicted today on criminal charges after a two-year investigation seeking to connect the former senator to an allegedly illegal scheme to cover-up his extra-marital affair, ABC News has learned.
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
John Edwards indicted on campaign finance charges — View Photo Gallery — Former Sen. John Edwards launched his second bid for the presidency in Dec. 2006. In launching his 2008 bid, Edwards returned to the issue of poverty in America, using New Orleans as a backdrop to underscore …
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Edwards indicted; arrest warrant issued
Edwards indicted; arrest warrant issued
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John Edwards indicted
John Edwards indicted
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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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Washington Monthly, Booman Tribune and Gawker
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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.
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Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Sarah Palin Reveals Fascinating New Account of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
Sarah Palin Reveals Fascinating New Account of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
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The Note
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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CBS New York, Gothamist, The Other McCain, American Spectator, Michelle Malkin, Weasel Zippers, Proof Positive, Althouse and JammieWearingFool
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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.
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CNN, Stop The ACLU, Althouse and Conservatives4Palin
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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.
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William K. Wolfrum Chronicles, The Political Carnival and National Review
Edward Morrissey / CNN:
Media chase Palin, and her sway grows
Media chase Palin, and her sway grows
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Hot Air and Datechguy's Blog
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 …
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Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN announces 7 candidates in June 13 debate
CNN announces 7 candidates in June 13 debate
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Fox News, The Washington Independent, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED and The Political Carnival
Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Huntsman announcement within two weeks
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 …
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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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, YID With LID, Big Government, POWIP and Hot Air
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 …
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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 …
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Washington Monthly, Ben Smith's Blog, Paul Krugman and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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 …
Keith Schneider / New York Times:
Dr. Jack Kevorkian Dies at 83; Backed Assisted Suicide — Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the central figure in the tumultuous national drama surrounding assisted suicide, died Friday in a Michigan hospital. He was 83 and lived in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. — The cause of his death was not immediately known …
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Above the Law, Runnin' Scared and The Powers That Be
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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.
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The Jawa Report and iOwnTheWorld.com
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 …
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Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
THANKS BARACK... WOMAN FREAKS OUT IN AIRPORT AFTER BEING MOLESTED BY TSA (VIDEO) — THANKS BARACK— THANKS FOR TURNING AMERICA INTO A POLICE STATE where innocent women and children are molested so that the far left loons can feel good about not profiling. — After all, it would be racist to profile.
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Left Coast Rebel, Scared Monkeys, Fox Nation and HotAirPundit
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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 …
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Washington Monthly and ThinkProgress
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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 …
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Hot Air, RedState, The Blaze, 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 …
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The Politico, Northern Reflections, Marginal Revolution and Arkansas News
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.
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The Jawa Report and Jihad Watch