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2:35 PM ET, May 30, 2012

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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: Firedoglake, Bloomberg, msnbc.com, CNN, ABCNEWS, The Moderate Voice, New York Times, ThinkProgress, theGrio, The Maddow Blog, americanthinker.com, Pat Dollard, The PJ Tatler and PoliPundit.com

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: ABCNEWS, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh, Riehl World View, Outside the Beltway, Stop The ACLU, Sweetness & Light, CNN, Mediaite, New York Magazine, msnbc.com and Hot Air

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: Washington Post, Politico, American Prospect, The Maddow Blog, National Review, TheBlaze.com and Daily Kos

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

Discussion: Christian Science Monitor, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Raw Story, The Brody File, Daily Kos, msnbc.com and Erin Burnett OutFront

CNN:
Planned Parenthood's new ad zeroes in on Romney

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Taylor Marsh and The Gateway Pundit

Justin Berrier / Media Matters for America: Fox & Friends Drops The Veil, Produces Four-Minute Anti-Obama Attack Ad

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

Discussion: New York Times, Mediaite, Jezebel, Hot Air, Sweetness & Light, National Review and Connecting.the.Dots

Chris Moody / ABCNEWS:
Planned Parenthood Action Fund launches $1.7 million ad campaign attacking Romney

Discussion: CNN

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 …

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: Politico, ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers, Macleans.ca and msnbc.com

Natasha Mozgovaya / Haaretz:

Obama awards rock icon Bob Dylan highest Presidential honor — Several members of Jewish community among those awarded the Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama. — U.S. President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to musician Bob Dylan during a ceremony on May 29, 2012 in White House in Washington.

Discussion: Weekly Standard, National Review, Weasel Zippers and Pat Dollard

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: The Heritage Foundation, Michelle Malkin, Pat Dollard, Marathon Pundit and iOwnTheWorld.com

Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:

‘Obama ... Stressed He Probably Knows About Judaism More than Any Other President’ — President Obama met yesterday with “about 20 Conservative Jewish community leaders, thanking them for the work they do to improve communities around the country and discussed their shared commitment to rebuilding the U.S. economy,” Haaretz reports.

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

Yitzhak Benhorin / Ynetnews:
Obama to rabbis: I'm vilified because of Muslim name

Discussion: Weasel Zippers

BuzzFeed:
President Obama, Polish Tabloid Cover Boy

Discussion: Mediaite and Weasel Zippers

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

Discussion: Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit, Shot in the Dark, Agence France Presse, Right Truth, The Other McCain and Chicago Boyz

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

Discussion: Patterico's Pontifications, LEE STRANAHAN dot COM, Flap's Blog, Riehl World View, Simple Justice, Sister Toldjah, The Other McCain, EBL, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, American Glob, American Power and Truth Before Dishonor

Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
“Injunction Imposed Over Blog Posts That Criticized Convicted Terrorist-Turned-Left-Wing Activist”

Discussion: hogewash, Truth Before Dishonor, All American Blogger, LEE STRANAHAN dot COM and OpenMarket.org

Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:

Romney Rebounds Among Women, While Obama's Favorability Slips — A sharp advance among women has boosted Mitt Romney to his highest favorability rating of the presidential campaign - albeit still an unusually weak one - while Barack Obama's personal popularity has slipped in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll.

Discussion: Washington Post, Hot Air and The Page

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: The Huffington Post, Washington Monthly, Weekly Standard, Washington Post, The Moderate Voice, Weasel Zippers, Ballot Box, RedState, Thoughts and Rantings, msnbc.com, American Spectator, theGrio, Capitalist Preservation, Moe Lane and USA Today

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

Discussion: 2.0: The Blogmocracy and Moe Lane

Byron York / Campaign 2012:

Team Romney: Not gonna play repudiation game — Mitt Romney's refusal to repudiate Donald Trump sends a signal, both to Democrats and the voting public: With the nation's future at stake in this November's election, Romney will not accommodate calls that he disown supporters who make ill-considered …

Discussion: GayPatriot, Campaign Stops, The Lonely Conservative, Hot Air, Moe Lane, The Right Sphere and National Review

Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Romney, on His Big Day, Finds Himself Upstaged

Discussion: Washington Post, The Caucus, Washington Monthly, BuzzFeed, 2012 Decoded, Sweetness & Light, Reuters, Balloon Juice, ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, The Mahablog, The Page, TheBlaze.com, CBS Philly and GayPatriot

William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:

Hundreds of Cherokees form new group to challenge Elizabeth Warren — A new group of over 150 Cherokees and growing has formed with the purpose of forcing Elizabeth Warren to give up her false claim to Cherokee heritage. — The group has a new blog, Cherokees Demand Truth from Elizabeth Warren, and corresponding Facebook page:

Discussion: Boston Herald, BREITBART.COM, Weekly Standard, The Jawa Report, Cherokees Demand Truth …, The Daily Caller, hogewash and The Volokh Conspiracy

Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: CHEROKEES DEMAND TRUTH FROM ELIZABETH WARREN

Discussion: Pat Dollard

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 …

BuzzFeed:

New Tumblr Lampoons Romney Campaign's iPhone App For Misspelling “America” — The Romney campaign launched a new iPhone app last night that allows users to overlay pro-Romney text with images and share with friends on social media. User were quick to note the app misspelling America “Amercia.

Discussion: Naked DC

Doug Gross / CNN: Romney iPhone app misspells ‘America’ to Web's delight

Dallas Voice:

BREAKING: ExxonMobil shareholders again reject LGBT employment protections (with photos) — ExxonMobil shareholders have again voted down a proposal to add gay and transgender employees to the Irving-based corporation's nondiscrimination policy. — Meeting at the Meyerson Symphony Center …

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.

Investor's Business Daily:

A No Confidence Vote For Obamanomics — Economy: Consumer confidence took a “surprise” tumble in May, as home prices hit 10-year lows. Tell us again why economists keep calling bad economic news about Obama's so-called recovery “unexpected”? — Analysts had predicted …

Discussion: The Conference Board, Randy's Roundtable and Wake up America

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, Gawker, Washington Free Beacon and Say Anything

Adam Harrington / CBS Chicago:

Downstate Lawmaker Screams, Throws Papers Over Pension Reform Bill — SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CBS) — A downstate lawmaker screamed, yelled and threw papers Tuesday, as he expressed frustration about the Democrat-led plan to overhaul the state pension system. — A state House pension reform bill endorsed …

Discussion: Gawker, New York Magazine and The Raw Story

Chris Edwards / Cato Institute:

We Can Cut Government: Canada Did — Chris Edwards is the director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute and editor of www.DownsizingGovernment.org. — Two decades ago Canada suffered a deep recession and teetered on the brink of a debt crisis caused by rising government spending.

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)