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11:20 AM ET, May 30, 2012

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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:

President Obama Causes Outrage with Reference to ‘Polish Death Camp’ — Poles and Polish-Americans expressed outrage today at President Obama's reference earlier to “a Polish death camp” — as opposed to a Nazi death camp in German-occupied Poland. — “The White House will apologize …

Discussion: Power Line, Outside the Beltway, No More Mister Nice Blog, americanthinker.com, The Mental Recession, The Daily Caller, Conservative Commune, Freedom's Lighthouse, Weasel Zippers, Pat Dollard, Stop The ACLU, The Daily Dish, New York Magazine, WyBlog and Adrienne's Corner

premier.gov.pl:

Prime Minister Donald Tusk's statement on the words of United States President Barack Obama — The words uttered yesterday by the President of the United States Barack Obama concerning “Polish death camps” touched all Poles. We always react in the same way when ignorance, lack of knowledge …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers and msnbc.com

Agence France Presse:

Obama Nazi death camp gaffe ‘hurt all Poles’: PM — Poland's prime minister said Wednesday that remarks by President Barack Obama erroneously identifying a Nazi death camp as Polish had hurt all Poles and he expected more from the US than “regret”. — “I am convinced that our American friends …

Discussion: Marathon Pundit and iOwnTheWorld.com

BuzzFeed:
Poles Demand Obama Apology For “Polish Death Camps” Comment

Discussion: Wonkette, The Radio Patriot, Mediaite, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Washington Wire, Israel Matzav, Taylor Marsh, The Lonely Conservative, Chicks on the Right, BackyardConservative, Weekly Standard and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

premier.gov.pl:
Prime Minister on President Obama's speech

Discussion: Booman Tribune

Donovan Slack / Politico:
Obama ‘misspoke’ on ‘Polish death camp,’ spokesman says

Discussion: The PJ Tatler, Washington Free Beacon and White House Dossier

Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Barack Obama has insulted 38 million Poles with his crass and ignorant ‘Polish death camp’ remark

Discussion: Vodkapundit, Right Truth and Mcnorman's Weblog

E.L. / Eastern approaches:
Mind your language — FEW things annoy Poles more than being blamed …

Discussion: Macleans.ca, Poynter, The Huffington Post, HillBuzz.org, The Jawa Report and All American Blogger, more at Mediagazer »

Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Good news: Obama alienates Poland by referring to “Polish death camps”

Discussion: The Coalition Of The Swilling, Five Feet of Fury and Fire Andrea Mitchell!

Nancy Benac / Associated Press:
White House: Obama misspoke on ‘Polish death camp’

Discussion: Right Truth and The Other McCain

Mark Hosenball / Reuters:

Romney's birth certificate evokes his father's controversy — (Reuters) - Finally, there is definitive proof: The presidential candidate was born in the United States, and his father was not. — Yes, Republican Mitt Romney appears eligible to be president, according to a copy …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Sweetness & Light, Riehl World View, New York Magazine, Stop The ACLU, Hot Air, CNN, Mediaite and msnbc.com

CNN:

Planned Parenthood's new ad zeroes in on Romney — (CNN) - Planned Parenthood Action Fund unveiled an advertising campaign Wednesday in swing states painting Mitt Romney as the wrong choice for women, a critical voting bloc in the battle for the White House.

Discussion: Taylor Marsh, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit

Ashley Parker / New York Times:

Romney, on His Big Day, Finds Himself Upstaged — LAS VEGAS — It was supposed to be a day of triumph for Mitt Romney, when he would at last formally claim the Republican presidential nomination with a victory in the Texas primary. And Mr. Romney was to focus attention on an aggressive …

Discussion: BuzzFeed, Washington Post, Mediaite, 2012 Decoded, Reuters, Sweetness & Light, ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, The Atlantic Online, The Mahablog, The Page, CBS Philly and The Caucus

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
A new conspiracy theory: Is Romney a unicorn?

Discussion: Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Christian Science Monitor, The Brody File, No More Mister Nice Blog, msnbc.com, Daily Kos, Los Angeles Times and Gawker

Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Planned Parenthood Ads to Target Romney

Discussion: Mashable!, National Review and Connecting.the.Dots

Donald Trump / CNN:
TRENDING: Blitzer and Trump go at it over Trump's ‘birther’ claims

Mike Allenand Jim Vandehei / Reuters:

GOP groups plan record $1 billion blitz — Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives - including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - plan to spend roughly $1 billion on November's elections …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, The Moderate Voice, ThinkProgress, Bloomberg, New York Times, The Maddow Blog, americanthinker.com, The PJ Tatler and PoliPundit.com

Ed Andrieski / ABCNEWS:

Obama Campaign Mounts New Assault on Romney's Record as Massachusetts Governor — The Obama campaign is opening a new front in its war against GOP rival Mitt Romney, ABC News has learned, with planned attacks to begin this week on Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts and the campaign promises Democrats say he left unfulfilled.

Discussion: Politico, American Prospect, Washington Post, The Maddow Blog, protein wisdom, Taegan Goddard's …, Daily Kos and National Review

Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Team Romney: Not gonna play repudiation game

Discussion: Moe Lane, Hot Air, National Review and GayPatriot

New York Times:
Nomination His, Romney Steps Up Attack on Obama

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Wall Street Journal, The Caucus, Ballot Box, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, ABCNEWS and San Francisco Chronicle

First Read / msnbc.com:
The first place for news and analysis from the NBC News Political Unit. Follow us on Twitter.

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Jammie Wearing Fools

Seema Mehta / Los Angeles Times:
Gingrich defends Romney's appearance with Trump

Discussion: askmarion, ABCNEWS and American Thinker

Patterico's Pontifications:

Aaron Walker Arrested for Blogging? Clearing Some of the Fog Surrounding Today's Litigation — Well, partially dispelling. — Aaron Walker (aka Worthing) was arrested today in a Maryland courtroom. Several days ago, convicted bomber and perjurer Brett Kimberlin had obtained a …

David Hogberg / Capital Hill:

IBD At Kimberlin Hearing: Walker Handcuffed, 1st Amendment Muzzled — With all of the attention surrounding Brett Kimberlin, I attended Tuesday's hearing in his “peace order” vs. Aaron Walker in the District Court of Maryland for Montgomery County. In the end, the judge granted Kimberlin's peace order …

David Catanese / Politico:

Texas Senate primary: Ted Cruz, David Dewhurst to run-off — The Texas Senate race will go another round. — Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst failed to capture the 50 percent necessary to win the Republican nomination Tuesday, forcing him into an unpredictable nine week run-off campaign …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, americanthinker.com, Outside the Beltway and The Volokh Conspiracy

Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Ted Cruz forces runoff against David Dewhurst in Texas Senate race

Discussion: CNN and Lawrence Person's …

Artur Davis / Official Artur Davis:

A Response to Political Rumors — While I've gone to great lengths to keep this website a forum for ideas, and not a personal forum, I should say something about the various stories regarding my political future in Virginia, the state that has been my primary home since late December 2010.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, Washington Post, Ballot Box, msnbc.com, Thoughts and Rantings, theGrio, Capitalist Preservation and Moe Lane

Caroline May / The Daily Caller:
Penn. Democratic leader defects to GOP, cites Catholic faith as reason

Discussion: Moe Lane and 2.0: The Blogmocracy

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:

In Florida, Scott Administration Vows To Accelerate Voter Purge: ‘There Will Be More Names’ — The massive voter purge order by Governor Rick Scott in Florida has been plagued with errors, resulting in election officials notifying hundreds of eligible U.S. citizens that they are ineligible to vote.

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Daily Kos and US Politics

Amy Sherman / Tampa Bay Times:
Florida Democrats say Gov. Rick Scott leading ‘misguided’ effort to purge voters from state rolls

Discussion: ThinkProgress and Joe. My. God.

Julia Duin / Washington Post:

Serpent-handling pastor profiled earlier in Washington Post dies from rattlesnake bite — Mack Wolford, a flamboyant Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia whose serpent-handling talents were profiled last November in The Washington Post Magazine , hoped the outdoor service he had planned …

Washington Examiner:

Are Obama's campaign aides fooling themselves? — David Axelrod attends Gala Benefit For Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago With Sarah Jessica Parker And Harry Connick Jr on April 20, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jeff Schear/Getty Images for Ann and Robert H. Lurie Hospital of Chicago)

Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:

Stubborn Infection, Spread by Insects, Is Called ‘The New AIDS of the Americas’ — Chagas disease, caused by parasites transmitted to humans by blood-sucking insects, has been named “the new AIDS of the Americas” in a lengthy editorial published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases.

Discussion: Jezebel and The Daley Gator

Peter Whoriskey / Ezra Klein:

Job recovery is scant for Americans in prime working years — The proportion of Americans in their prime working years who have jobs is smaller than it has been at any time in the 23 years before the recession, according to federal statistics, reflecting the profound and lasting effects …

Discussion: Hot Air, Campaign 2012, Shakesville and Washington Free Beacon