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Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Palin Bus Tour Takes Extended Pit Stop — Less than a month after she appeared poised to shake up the Republican presidential campaign, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has once again receded from the 2012 limelight. — When Palin launched her “One Nation” bus tour on Memorial Day amid …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
No Joke: Sarah Palin Reportedly Quits One Nation Bus Tour Halfway Through — Real Clear Politics is reporting that Sarah Palin has taken an “extended hiatus” from her much ballyhooed One Nation Bus Tour. While the tour was never clearly defined with specific stops (especially to the media) …
Tomoneil / Awards Tracker:
Sarah Palin is definitely a candidate ... for an Emmy
Sarah Palin is definitely a candidate ... for an Emmy
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JammieWearingFool and GOP 12
Sahil Kapur / The Raw Story:
Report: Sarah Palin quits bus tour halfway through, retreats to Alaska
Report: Sarah Palin quits bus tour halfway through, retreats to Alaska
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Balloon Juice, Ben Smith's Blog, Pharyngula and Shakesville
Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
Sarah Palin Reportedly Quits Bus Tour Halfway Through
Sarah Palin Reportedly Quits Bus Tour Halfway Through
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JustOneMinute, Mock, Paper, Scissors, Hit & Run and The Daily Caller
David Weigel / Slate Magazine:
Nobody's Candidate — The media might love Jon Huntsman, but it's less clear that Republicans do. — The media create and the media destroy. Jon Huntsman announced his presidential bid to the kind of hype once reserved for a Pink Floyd reunion or a LeBron James signing …
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The Note:
The Note: Where's The Beef? Jon Huntsman Serves Up Tofu To GOP Base
The Note: Where's The Beef? Jon Huntsman Serves Up Tofu To GOP Base
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The Note:
Mr. Nice Guy Takes a Shot at Romney
Mr. Nice Guy Takes a Shot at Romney
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Washington Monthly, The Raw Story, And So it Goes in Shreveport, Weasel Zippers and The Hill
The Politico:
Pawlenty goes up on Iowa TV - His message: ‘If I can do it in Minnesota ...’ - Club for Growth warns …
Pawlenty goes up on Iowa TV - His message: ‘If I can do it in Minnesota ...’ - Club for Growth warns …
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Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Jon Huntsman at Liberty Park: The Next Wesley Clark?
Jon Huntsman at Liberty Park: The Next Wesley Clark?
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Washington Post and New York Magazine
Jose Antonio Vargas / New York Times:
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant — One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab. She handed me a jacket. “Baka malamig doon” were among the few words she said. ("It might be cold there.") When I arrived at the Philippines' Ninoy Aquino International Airport …
Rolling Stone:
Climate of Denial — Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison? — AL GORE — The first time I remember hearing the question “is it real?” was when I went as a young boy to see a traveling show put on by “professional wrestlers” one summer evening in the gym …
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CBO's Latest 10 Documents:
CBO'S 2011 LONG-TERM BUDGET OUTLOOK — ABSTRACT — This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report presents the agency's projections of federal spending and revenues over the coming decades. Under current law, an aging population and rapidly rising health care costs will sharply increase federal spending …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
CBO: We'll only have giant deficits if Congress wants giant deficits — The Congressional Budget Office just released the latest edition of its long-term budget outlook (pdf), and it shows the same thing as always: If Congress lets the Bush tax cuts expire or offsets their extension …
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Crooks and Liars, Washington Monthly, The Hill, Associated Press and Hullabaloo
Conn Carroll / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — CBO: Stimulus almost doubled U.S. debt
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — CBO: Stimulus almost doubled U.S. debt
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Michelle Malkin and USA Today
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Michele Bachmann's Holy War — The Tea Party contender may seem like a goofball, but be warned: Her presidential campaign is no laughing matter — Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing.
Mike Dorning / Bloomberg:
Americans Worse Now Than When Obama Inaugurated by 44%-34% Margin in Poll — Two years after the official start of the recovery, the American people remain pessimistic about their current economic circumstances and longer-term prospects. — Fewer than a quarter of people see signs …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Poll: 3 in 10 sure they'll vote Obama
Poll: 3 in 10 sure they'll vote Obama
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David Beasley / Reuters:
Staff quit because “I'm different,” Gingrich says — (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday attributed the mass resignations among his campaign staff to the fact that he is “very different” from mainstream politicians. — “Philosophically …
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Ballot Box and Indecision Forever
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Dylan Howard / RADAR:
Tobey Maguire Sued Over Multi-Million Dollar Illegal Poker Game; DiCaprio, Affleck & Damon Involved — Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire is among more than a dozen high-profile Hollywood celebrities being sued in connection with a mega-millions illegal gambling ring that ran high-stakes underground poker games …
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Maggie's Notebook, Flap's Blog, National Review, ArtsBeat and Opposing Views
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
House Opens New Challenge to Obama Over Libya Mission — WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in the House of Representatives are moving to address head on the escalating tensions over President Obama's authority to continue the military mission in Libya, unveiling two proposals …
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RedState, Weigel and The Huffington Post
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Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
John Boehner not swayed by John McCain
John Boehner not swayed by John McCain
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The Note and Outside the Beltway
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Obama's Spending Cuts
Obama's Spending Cuts
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post, The New Republic, Rortybomb, A plain blog about politics and Grasping Reality …
The Investigative Project on Terrorism:
CAIR Loses IRS Status — Donations to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) no longer are tax deductible after the organization was among 275,000 tax-exempt organizations purged earlier this month by the Internal Revenue Service. — The groups failed to file required annual reports …
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Spiegel Online:
Left Party — Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic. — A Map without Israel — Germany's Left Party Faces Charges of Anti-Semitism — Left Party floor leader Gregor Gysi is concerned that the term “anti-Semitism” is used too often.
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The Moderate Voice, National Review and normblog
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New York Post:
NBC gives Donald a Trump-sized raise to $160M — Playing the presidential card has paid off for Donald Trump. — The real-estate mogul and reality-TV host — who kept viewers and the NBC network guessing until the last minute whether he would make a serious run at the Oval Office …
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Feministing, ThinkProgress, Salon and New York Magazine
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release — Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April indicates that the economic recovery is continuing at a moderate pace, though somewhat more slowly than the Committee had expected. Also, recent labor market indicators have been weaker than anticipated.
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The Atlantic Online, Guardian, Fortune, Calculated Risk, New York Times, Real Time Economics and Weigel
Jennifer Martinez / The Politico:
Six GLAAD board members resign amid AT&T flap — Six board members of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation have resigned amid the fallout over the organization's letter in support of AT&T's proposed bid for wireless rival T-Mobile, a person familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
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Wall Street Journal:
Florida Lawmaker Faces Ethics Review — WASHINGTON—A congressional ethics panel is investigating allegations that Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings sexually harassed a member of his staff, according to people familiar with the matter. — The investigation of Mr. Hastings is being conducted …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
100 Days — There is something crazy about what is going on in our country today. Our fiscal condition continues on an unsustainable path, the European currency is heading for a crackup, the Arab world is in the midst of a crackup, unemployment is creeping upward and basically our two parties …
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The Atlantic Online and Balkinization
Marta H. Mossburg / Baltimore Sun:
Reverend Wright brings his anti-American crusade to Baltimore — Marta Mossburg writes that Obama's former pastor urges blacks to disavow their country — Forget hope and change; victimization is in. Dropped by the president and dismissed as a racist by many Americans …
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Sister Toldjah, Maggie's Notebook, Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs and JammieWearingFool
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dems lost the argument over the deficit, because they never engaged it — In case you need further evidence that the Dem decision to effectively endorse the right's austerity/cut-cut-cut frame is only harming themselves, check out the internals of the new Bloomberg News poll.
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Washington Monthly, The Moderate Voice and A plain blog about politics
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Feds crack down on campus flirting and sex jokes — TAGS: - 1950s - colleges - Department of Education - Duke lacrosse team - foundation for individual rights in education - greg lukianoff - Iowa State University - Kangaroo courts - Kentucky - Marsupial justice - Michael Barone …
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The Other McCain, Cato @ Liberty and The Lonely Conservative