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6:15 PM ET, June 10, 2012

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Steve Almond / New York Times:
Liberals Are Ruining America.  I Know Because I Am One.  —  In the spring of 2006, I quit my job as an adjunct professor at Boston College to protest the school's selection of Condoleezza Rice as commencement speaker.  My resignation letter, published online by The Boston Globe, went viral.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Axelrod: GOP seizing on ‘doing fine’ remark to avoid jobs debate  —  Senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod on Sunday punched back at Republicans who have seized on the president's remarks that “the private sector is doing fine,” arguing that the GOP was trying to distract from the president's jobs plan.
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John McCain / CNN:
Obama responsible for leaks, Holder has no credibility  —  (CNN) - Sen. John McCain continued his blitz against the Obama administration Sunday, saying the president was responsible for the recent national security leaks-whether he knew about them or not.  —  “It's obvious on its face …
Lee Smith / Weekly Standard:   Leaker-in-Chief  —  The Justice Department has launched …
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Eugenics, Past and Future  —  THE current issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine includes a portrait of Irving Fisher, a Yale economics professor in the 1920s and '30s and a giant of his field.  The author, Richard Conniff, takes note of Fisher's prodigious professional accomplishments …
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Obama's campaign asks supporters to grade its performance  —  President Obama's campaign is calling on supporters to grade its performance amid a difficult early June for his reelection bid against presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney.  —  “This campaign is ramping up, and the decisions …
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
We are now watching the Democrat Party implode, right before our eyes  —  What would you call a General who abandoned his troops on the battlefield?  I would call him “General Obama”.  The worst president in American history (Jimmy Carter just breathed a sigh of relief) …
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Gov. Walker splits with Romney, says firemen, teachers aren't ‘big government’  —  Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wis.) disagreed Sunday with Mitt Romney's conclusion that the failed recall election in Wisconsin was evidence that American voters want fewer public workers such as teachers and firemen.
Discussion: CNN and ThinkProgress
CBS News:
“Face the Nation” transcript, June 10, 2012: Walker, O'Malley, Trumka  —  PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO … SCHIEFFER: Today on FACE THE NATION, on the 40th anniversary of Watergate, a new flood of Washington leaks as the president looks for something good to say about a bad election-year economy.
Discussion: Althouse
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Poppy Chic  —  I FLEW down to Houston last year to have lunch with George Herbert Walker Bush.  —  “Did you come because you think I'm going to die?” he asked me with a wry smile.  —  Not at all, I replied, adding that I wanted to join him on his planned sky-diving excursion when he turned 90.
David Taintor / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Paul Krugman: If You Don't Know Someone Suffering Financially, You Must Be A Romney  —  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Saturday morning called the current state of the U.S. economy “incredibly awful.”
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
CNN:
Biden drenched by children with super-soakers  —  Washington (CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden's cordial annual media picnic turned into an all-out war between the vice president and children of journalists in attendance.  —  The vice president distributed high-powered water guns …
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Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
Mitch Daniels: Public-Sector Unions Shouldn't Exist … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Mitch Daniels, Scott Walker, Video, Mitch Daniels 2012, Mitt Daniels Unions, Public Sector Jobs, Collective Bargaining, Government Workers, Indiana, Mitch Daniels Mitt Romney, Mitch Daniels Scott Walker …
 
 
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Latino Growth Not Fully Felt at Voting Booth
Mohamed Ibrahim / Reuters:
Al Qaeda Offshoot Offers Camels for Obama's Head, Hens for Hillary Clinton's
Matt Viser / Boston Globe:
Romney camp aims to win over Hispanics
Discussion: Politico, Associated Press and The Page
Wall Street Journal:
Spain to Request EU Aid for Banks
Discussion: AMERICAN FUTURE and msnbc.com
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama looking to unwind with weekend golf game
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Weasel Zippers
Christina D. Romer / New York Times:
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Michelle Malkin:
Bloggers under fire: Arizona conservative lawyer/activist targeted by left-wing Arizona State Bar
 

 
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