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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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ABCNEWS, CNN, Randy's Roundtable, Politico, The Lonely Conservative and Jammie Wearing Fools
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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 …
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ABCNEWS, Washington Wire and nation.foxnews.com
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Holder appoints 2 US attorneys to lead leaks probe
Holder appoints 2 US attorneys to lead leaks probe
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Crooks and Liars
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.
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School pulls patriotic song at graduation, but Justin Bieber's ‘Baby’ is OK — A Coney Island principal refused to let students sing “God Bless the USA” at a school ceremony — but Justin Bieber's “Baby” was suitable. — A controversial Coney Island principal has pulled the plug on patriotism.
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Nice Deb, Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative, Gothamist, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
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 …
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TBogg, No More Mister Nice Blog and Washington Monthly
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 …
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Politico, Weasel Zippers, The Moderate Voice and Jammie Wearing Fools
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.
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CNN and ThinkProgress
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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) …
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UrbanGrounds, Ed Driscoll, Marathon Pundit and Hot Air
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.
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Prairie Weather and Connecting.the.Dots
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.
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Althouse
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Obama tells activists ‘change is hard,’ in video message to Netroots Nation — President Obama taped a surprise video message for activists attending the progressive Netroots Nation conference, telling them that “change is hard, but we've seen it's possible.”
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The Daily Beast and Hot Air
Mohamed Ibrahim / Reuters:
Al Qaeda Offshoot Offers Camels for Obama's Head, Hens for Hillary Clinton's — The al Qaeda affiliate in Somalia has mocked the new $33 million bounty on its top leaders heads by offering its own bounty for President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - 10 camels for Obama and 20 chickens for Clinton.
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americanthinker.com, Mediaite and Jihad Watch