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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Weinergate Bombshell: New Woman Comes Forward Claiming Cache of Intimate Photos and Online Communications with Beleaguered Congressman — A new woman has come forward with what she claims are photographs, chats, and emails with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). These appear to undermine severely …
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Patterico's Pontifications:
More Weiner Messages to Young Girls? Evidence the Media Was Duped into Dropping the Investigation — [UPDATE 6-6-11 6:27 a.m.: As originally hinted at the end of this post, there is game-changing information out today — in the form of a new woman and new photos in the Weiner scandal.
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POWIP, Lisa Graas, Runnin' Scared, TBogg, American Power and alicublog
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
New #Weinergate info revealed: Porn star Miss Ginger Lee appears to have gotten more than one private message from Weiner — Newly uncovered information in the ongoing #Weinergate scandal raises more questions as to just how much private communication New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner …
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The Politico, JustOneMinute and Patterico's Pontifications
Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
'It's Me': Rep. Weiner Sends Playful Photo to New Friend — Earlier today, BigGovernment.com and BigJournalism.com revealed that a woman had come forward with what she claims are photographs, chats, and emails she exchanged with Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY). — The following photograph …
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Power Line, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and iOwnTheWorld.com
Michael Alan / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Wasserman-Schultz on Weinergate: It's Okay, He's a Democrat
Wasserman-Schultz on Weinergate: It's Okay, He's a Democrat
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Moe Lane, Scared Monkeys, GayPatriot, americanthinker.com and Verum Serum
Peter A. Diamond / New York Times:
When a Nobel Prize Isn't Enough — LAST October, I won the Nobel Prize in economics for my work on unemployment and the labor market. But I am unqualified to serve on the board of the Federal Reserve — at least according to the Republican senators who have blocked my nomination. How can this be?
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Letting a Diamond slip away — Last year, the Senate Banking Committee twice approved Peter Diamond's nomination to the Federal Reserve. And twice, the Senate wasn't allowed to vote on Diamond because Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and a handful of his far-right colleagues threw tantrums for unknown reasons.
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ThinkProgress
George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Exclusive - Rick Santorum Will Run for President: 'We're In It to Win' — And with that another Republican challenger jumped into the 2012 race this morning on “GMA.” — “We are ready to announce that we are going to be in this race and we're in it to win,” Rick Santorum told me.
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The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway, Boing Boing and Shakesville
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The Note:
Candidates Fighting For The Conservative Heart And Soul In 2012 (The Note) — By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter) — Nearly every major declared or potential Republican presidential candidate made a pilgrimage to an annual conference of social conservatives in Washington …
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The Hill and Washington Post
Sydney Morning Herald:
The dangers of bone-headed beliefs — Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies. — Not necessarily on the forehead; I'm a reasonable man. Just something along their arm or across their chest so their grandchildren could say, “Really?
Ben Tracy / CBS News:
Chronic unemployment worse than Great Depression — The unemployed have, on average, remained unemployed longer than in the 1930s; Employers wary of job gaps in resumes — There is an unfortunate adage for the unemployed: The longer folks are out of a job, the longer it takes them to find a new one.
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Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative and HotAirPundit
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
You know how Sarah Palin said Paul Revere warned the British? Well, he did. Now, who looks stupid? — You may have heard recently something about that Sarah Palin telling a reporter that Paul Revere warned the British on his famous rousing revolutionary ride.
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Hot Air and Conservatives4Palin
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Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Palin Fans Trying to Edit Wikipedia Paul Revere Page
Palin Fans Trying to Edit Wikipedia Paul Revere Page
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Firedoglake, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Taylor Marsh, The Reaction, Hullabaloo, The Moderate Voice, Balloon Juice, Gawker and ThinkProgress
James Slack / Daily Mail:
40 UK universities are now breeding grounds for terror as hardline groups peddle hate on campus — England's universities have become a breeding ground for extremism and terrorist recruitment, according to a disturbing government report. — Officials have identified 40 English universities …
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Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:
Universities ‘complacent’ over Islamic radicals, Theresa May warns
Universities ‘complacent’ over Islamic radicals, Theresa May warns
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Guardian and Jihad Watch
Andy Soltis / New York Post:
Court's dynamic NY duo — They're in a New York state of mind. — The newest members of the nation's highest court — local Obama appointees Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — have agreed with each other in all 23 cases they've voted on, which is a supreme rarity, observers said.
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City Room and americanthinker.com
Thom Shanker / New York Times:
Steeper Pullout Is Raised as Option for Afghanistan — WASHINGTON — President Obama's national security team is contemplating troop reductions in Afghanistan that would be steeper than those discussed even a few weeks ago, with some officials arguing that such a change is justified …
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JustOneMinute, ThinkProgress, msnbc.com, Guardian, Booman Tribune and The Caucus
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Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
How Bad Is The Employment Picture? This Bad — Via Business Insider, it's been called the scariest jobs chart you'll ever see, and every month it gets updated it just looks worse. — In other words, we are in the worst jobs recession since the Great Depression and we've just recently reached …
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Scared Monkeys, AMERICAN DIGEST, The Lonely Conservative and Power Line
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Vouchercare Is Not Medicare — What's in a name? A lot, the National Republican Congressional Committee obviously believes. Last week, the committee sent a letter demanding that a TV station stop running an ad declaring that the House Republican budget plan would “end Medicare.”
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Washington Post, The Politico, Prairie Weather, The Incidental Economist, Connecting.the.Dots and Paul Krugman