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1:20 AM ET, June 6, 2011

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Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Palin Fans Trying to Edit Wikipedia Paul Revere Page  —  Man, you've gotta almost admire the sheer blind dedication of Sarah Palin's wingnut acolytes.  —  Now they're trying like crazy to edit the Wikipedia page for “Paul Revere” to make it match Palin's botched version of history.
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Jeff Spross / ThinkProgress:
Palin Doubles Down On Paul Revere History Lesson: 'I Didn't Mess Up'  —  As ThinkProgress reported, during a June 2 stop in Boston on her “One Nation” bus tour, Sarah Palin managed to spectacularly flub the historical account of Paul Revere's famed “Midnight Ride.”
Daniel Libit / The Daily:
The Daily learns tweet originated from app that pol used the night pic was posted  —  As the world has attempted to make sense of Rep. Anthony Weiner's claim that his Twitter account was hacked, a key clue has been missing: exactly how the notorious groin pic was posted online.
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Alison Gendar / NY Daily News:
Rep. Anthony Weiner's car is registered in New York but way out of date  —  After a week of facing questions about lewd Twitter photos, Rep. Anthony Weiner Saturday had more explaining to do: why his Nissan Pathfinder has New York license plates but a 2007 registration sticker.
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?
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 …
Ynetnews:
Syrian opposition: Anti-Israel rioters paid $1,000  —  Protestors at northern border promised $1,000 reward by Assad's regime, Reform Party of Syria claims; Israeli officials: Damascus encouraged rioters.  Syria says IDF killed 23 people, wounded 350; army says figures inflated  —  Ynet
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Samuel Sockol / Washington Post:
Israeli troops, Palestinian protesters clash at Golan Heights frontier
Michael Alan / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Wasserman-Schultz on Weinergate: It's Okay, He's a Democrat  —  Earlier this week, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz told CNN that Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is dealing with “a personal matter.”  That “personal matter” includes not knowing “with certitude” whether or not the, er …
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Boehner Spokesman: Auto Industry Revival Is ‘Nothing To Celebrate’  —  Last week, the Obama administration announced that Fiat has agreed to buy the final government share in Chrysler, officially completing that company's trip through federally managed bankruptcy.
Chuck Liddy / Raleigh News & Observer:
Prison sentence doomed Edwards plea deal  —  John Edwards and his daughter Cate make their way through the assembled reporters and photographers to a waiting car in front of the Hiram H. Ward Federal Building in Winston-Salem.  —  Just before John Edwards was indicted Friday …
Discussion: TalkLeft
Daily Mail:
DOW plunges into longest weekly losing streak since 2004 as Obama blames ‘Europe, earthquake and gas prices’ for economic woe  —  The Dow Jones industrial average and the Standard & Poor's 500 index are both headed for a fifth straight week of losses - the longest losing streak for the Dow since July 2004.
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Patterico's Pontifications:
More Weiner Messages to Young Girls?  Evidence the Media Was Duped into Dropping the Investigation  —  There are new reasons to question whether Rep. Anthony Weiner sent DMs to young girls besides Gennette Nicole — and whether he sent Nicole more flirtatious DMs than just that one picture.
Discussion: Runnin' Scared, POWIP and alicublog
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems double down on new spending after discouraging jobs report  —  House Democrats this week have amplified their calls for new spending on infrastructure and other federal projects in the face of May's discouraging job-creation figures.  —  Even as Republicans are insisting on “trillions” …
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
A G.O.P. Hopeful Gathers Momentum as More Voters Like What They Hear  —  MANCHESTER, N.H. — Michele Bachmann was campaigning just north of here, the Sarah Palin tour was rumored to be arriving soon, and Mitt Romney was on his way to announce his entry into the presidential race.
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Scarecrow / Firedoglake:
Scarecrow's Nightmare: Austan Goolsbee Defends President's Romney's Economic Plan  —  If I'd been asleep for the last decade and woke up to ABC This Week's interview of Presidential economic advisor Austan Goolgbee, I would assume that Mitt Romney won the 2008 election, that he was predictably …
Discussion: Economist's View and ThinkProgress
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Imtiyaz Delawala / ABCNEWS:
Austan Goolsbee: ‘Stiff Headwinds’ Slow Job Creation
 
 
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George Arbuthnott / Daily Mail:
‘Saint Bono’ the anti-poverty campaigner facing huge Glastonbury protest - for avoiding tax
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Mark Townsend / Guardian:
PM wins row with Nick Clegg over crackdown on Muslim extremists
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Susan Haigh / Associated Press:
Conn. Senate votes for pot decriminalization bill
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Getting Generic Drugs Approved For Use
Discussion: Modeled Behavior
Erica Diaz / New York Post:
Grandpa's gay of reckoning
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 Earlier Items: 
Jordan Fabian / Ballot Box:
Palin on the big screen
Scott Wong / The Politico:
Palin: Obama wants to ‘go down with this sinking ship’
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Los Angeles Times:
‘X-Men: First Class’ reminds us we are all mutants now
Discussion: Hit & Run
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Sunday Reflection: Hard to get good goons these days