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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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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.”
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.
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USA Today, The Note, Salon, Mediaite, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Paul Revere's Ride, Reimagined by Sarah Palin
Paul Revere's Ride, Reimagined by Sarah Palin
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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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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 …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
House Rebukes Obama for Continuing Libyan Mission Without Its Consent
House Rebukes Obama for Continuing Libyan Mission Without Its Consent
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Outside the Beltway and PolitickerNY
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House rebukes Obama on Libya
House rebukes Obama on Libya
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Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
House Rebukes Obama Administration On Libya Intervention
House Rebukes Obama Administration On Libya Intervention
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The Moderate Voice, NewsWire and Taylor Marsh
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 …
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 — 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.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Rep. Weiner cancels speech at Wisconsin state Dem convention in wake of ‘Weinergate’
Rep. Weiner cancels speech at Wisconsin state Dem convention in wake of ‘Weinergate’
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Scared Monkeys, CNN and The Gateway Pundit
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 …
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Joe. My. God.
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
Andrew Breitbart Did Not Run ‘Weinergate’ Evidence Which Turned Out To Be Fake
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Weasel Zippers and American Power
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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The Politico:
Sarah Palin's bus tour leaves GOP cold
Sarah Palin's bus tour leaves GOP cold
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Edward Morrissey / CNN:
Media chase Palin, and her sway grows
Media chase Palin, and her sway grows
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Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, Conservatives4Palin and Datechguy's Blog
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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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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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Hiring in U.S. Slowed in May With 54,000 Jobs Added
Hiring in U.S. Slowed in May With 54,000 Jobs Added
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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 …
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 …
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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
Obama looking good in Iowa
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
George Allen Offers Emotional Apology For Macaca Incident — George Allen is really sorry about that macaca thing. Five years after he threw the slur at a Democratic tracker during the 2006 Senate campaign, Allen offered a long and emotional apology to a small crowd at the Faith and Family Conference.
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James Hohmann / The Politico:
George Allen apologizes for ‘macaca’ moment
George Allen apologizes for ‘macaca’ moment
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Hotline On Call
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.
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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 …
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Hot Air, The Foundry, Weasel Zippers and American Power
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.
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The Jawa Report
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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POWIP, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Jawa Report
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.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and HotAirPundit
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.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Don Surber and Prairie Weather
Ben White / The Politico:
What can Obama do to fix the economy? Not much. — President Barack Obama is heading into his reelection campaign with a flagging economy that appears incapable of producing the sustained job growth needed to push unemployment below crisis levels. — And there appears to be very little …
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Guardian, The Lonely Conservative, Don Surber and The Other McCain