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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Bill Clinton hits a home run in Wisconsin.  Will it be enough?  —  Bill Clinton, in his speech in Wisconsin just now, framed the recall election as a stark choice between unity and division, between cooperation and conflict, and between shared prosperity and right wing winner-take-all economics.
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BuzzFeed:
The Number That Will Matter In Wisconsin  —  In the epic showdown between Big Blue and Big Red, Walker's margin may be the number being watched from Chicago and Boston.  A Walker blowout means trouble for the president.  —  Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (L) and Republican Wisconsin Governor …
Tim Mak / Politico:
Bill Clinton slams Scott Walker agenda
Discussion: msnbc.com
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Bill Clinton rallies Wisconsin Democrats to vote Walker out in next week's recall
Discussion: Politico
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Orlando Sentinel:
George Zimmerman's bond revoked in shooting of Trayvon Martin  —  In a new motion, prosecutors accused Zimmerman and his wife of lying to the judge during a bond hearing about money they collected for his defense.  —  Prosecutors allege Zimmerman's wife knew about the donations her husband …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Zimmerman Bond Revoked  —  Here is a plot twist:  —  URGENT: A judge on Friday revoked the bond of the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and ordered him returned to jail within 48 hours.  —  Circuit Judge Kenneth Lester said that George Zimmerman and his wife …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
CNN:
Judge revokes Zimmerman's bond
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Shakesville
CNN:
Poll: Obama-Romney race tied; Obama supporters appear more energized  —  Washington (CNN) - The race for the White House remains very close, according to a new national poll, partly because neither President Barack Obama nor Republican challenger Mitt Romney have a clear advantage on issue number one - the economy.
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BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Wins Over The Right By Confronting Obama
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Romney Just THRASHED Obama On The Jobs Report On CNBC
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
The New Jobs Report: Ooof
Bill Clinton / CNN:
TRENDING: Romney smiles at Clinton compliment
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Bill Clinton / CNN:
TRENDING: Bill Clinton, predicting Obama win, calls Romney's business career ‘sterling’
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran  —  WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's …
Brian McGrory / The Boston Globe:
Warren: 'I won't deny who I am'  —  Elizabeth Warren, outside her childhood home in Norman, Okla., last year.  She said her parents had to elope because her father's family disapproved of her mother's Native American ancestry.  —  She has given clumsy answers, evaded questions …
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Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: ELOPED?  ELIZABETH WARREN'S PARENTS MARRIED IN RELIGIOUS CEREMONY  —  Last night, in an interview with the Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren claimed that her parents were forced to elope because her father's family objected to her mother's Native American heritage:
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Weasel Zippers
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Warren: My parents had to elope because my mother was 1/16th Cherokee, or something; Update …
David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement:
Exclusive: One Million Moms Deletes ‘Green Lantern Is Gay’ Post After Flood Of Pro-Gay Comments  —  Just a few minutes ago, One Million Moms on their Facebook page issued a “warning,” linked to an ABC News story, reporting that D.C. Comics character Green Lantern is gay …
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ABCNEWS:
Jeb Bush Proves He Won't be VP  —  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush emphatically told reporters today he is not going to be a candidate for vice president.  —  “It's not in the cards for me,” Bush said.  “I don't know how many times I have to repeat this.  I have been repeating it for the last two years.
Discussion: The Hill and GOP 12
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Democrat Van Hollen tells Jeb Bush he should be criticizing his brother
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Jeb Bush, Grilled on Capitol Hill, Differs from Party on No-Tax Pledge
Discussion: Taking Note
Alan B. Krueger / White House.gov Blog:
The Employment Situation in May  —  Problems in the job market were long in the making and will not be solved overnight.  The economy lost jobs for 25 straight months beginning in February 2008, and over 8 million jobs were lost as a result of the Great Recession.
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US Creates 69,000 New Jobs, Unemployment Rate 8.2%
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
The road not taken  —  About a year ago, the job market looked …
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
The Charts That Should Accompany All Discussions of Media Bias  —  They are the ones presented this morning by John Sides, drawing on Pew analyses of positive, negative, and neutral press coverage of all Republican candidates and of President Obama through this past year.  —  Here's the trend in coverage of Mitt Romney.
William March / www2.tbo.com:
Federal officials order halt to purge of voter rolls  —  TAMPA —  County elections supervisors raised red flags, and then federal authorities weighed in Thursday to demand the state of Florida halt its ongoing push to remove thousands of voters from the rolls.
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Tom Curry / msnbc.com:   Risk of non-citizen voters at center of election year struggle in Fla. and Colo.
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Obama on nudity, drag-racing and how to write: 20 details from Maraniss' ‘Barack Obama: The Story’  —  In the forthcoming biography “Barack Obama: The Story,” due in bookstores June 19, David Maraniss tells the largely untold story of Obama's family, his life growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins  —  Highly religious Americans most likely to believe in creationism  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Americans Have No Idea How Few Gay People There Are  —  Surveys show a shockingly high fraction think a quarter of the country is gay or lesbian, when the reality is that it's probably less than 2 percent.  —  One in ten. It's the name of the group that puts on the Reel Affirmations gay …
Joe Palazzolo / Law Blog:
The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time  —  The law professor equivalent of career hits is the “number of times cited” in journals.  The stat is a measure of influence, not stroke, but a high citation count open doors, just the same.  Institutions consider them when doling out grant awards …
Andy Campbell / The Huffington Post:
Zombie Apocalypse: CDC Denies Existence Of Zombies Despite Cannibal Incidents … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Zombies, Alexander Kinyua, Ronald Poppo, Rudy Eugene, Cdc, Cdc Denies Zombies, Cdc Zombie Apocalypse, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Weird Science, Zombie Apocalypse , Weird News
Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Obama: I Regret Using ‘Polish Death Camp’ Phrase … FOLLOW:  —  Barack Obama , Video, Jan Karski, Obama Medal Of Freedom, Obama Poland, Obama Polish Death Camp, Obama Polish Death Camps, Polish Death Camp, Polish Death Camps, Politics News  —  WARSAW, Poland — President Barack Obama …
Discussion: Power Line
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Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Obama Friend Whitaker Denies Wright Allegation of Bribe
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Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Conservative editor: Young Americans ‘so frickin’ stupid' they shouldn't get to vote
Discussion: ThinkProgress, TBogg and aflcio.org
People.com:
Rielle Hunter's Tell-All Memoir Coming Out this Month
Discussion: msnbc.com, The Hill and Politico
BuzzFeed:
Obama: We'll Get Things Done When The Republican “Fever” Breaks
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Paul Krugman:
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
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Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Big Paychecks, Tiny Tax Burdens: How 21,000 Wealthy Americans Avoided Paying Income Tax
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