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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Governor Rick Scott Announces Florida Will Sue Obama Administration Over Voter Purge  —  During an appearance on Fox News Monday afternoon, Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) announced that the state will sue the Department of Homeland Security to obtain access to a database that it believes …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Florida to sue DHS in voter registration battle  —  Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) said he will sue the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to move forward with his controversial attempt to purge the voter rolls in his state of ineligible voters.  —  “I have a job to do to defend the right …
BuzzFeed:
Jeb Bush: No Place For Father, Reagan In Today's GOP  —  The “dysfunction” is “disturbing,” says the former Florida governor.  A pox on both parties.  —  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush on Capitol Hill earlier this week.  —  (Getty Images / Chip Somodevilla)
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Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  Norquist Lashes Back At Jeb Bush On Reagan, Taxes  —  Jeb Bush's remark that Ronald Reagan would be too moderate for today's Republican Party earned an aggressive rebuke from the gatekeeper of the anti-tax orthodoxy that permeates the modern GOP.
Ylan Q. Mui / Washington Post:
Fed: Americans' wealth dropped 40 percent  —  View Photo Gallery — Is the U.S. economic recovery stalling?:   The Labor Department reported June 1 that the nation's economy added only 69,000 jobs in May, bringing the unemployment rate to 8.2 percent.
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Family Net Worth Drops to Level of Early '90s, Fed Says
Jack Maddox / CNN:
Sheriff: Father kills man sexually abusing his daughter  —  (CNN) — A Texas father caught a man sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter and punched him in the head repeatedly, killing him, authorities said.  —  The father was casually acquainted with the alleged abuser, said Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon.
Clarence Page / Chicago Tribune:
What's with Wisconsin?  —  (Chris Walker, Chicago Tribune / June 5, 2012)  —  Let's give Wisconsin voters some credit.  While others try to find easy right-versus-left explanations for Gov. Scott Walker's decisive victory last week, Badger State voters appeared to be more worried about their state's purse.
Discussion: Firedoglake
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Conservative Super PAC (Briefly) Suggests Alcohol Involved In Commerce Secretary Incident  —  Image credit: American Crossroads via Twitter  —  ABC News' Michael Falcone reports:  —  UPDATED In a tweet sent Monday morning from the account of the Republican-aligned super PAC, American Crossroads …
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Kate Mather / L.A. NOW:
Commerce agency: Secretary John Bryson had seizure linked to crashes
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Karl Rove's Super PAC Jumps To Conclusions, Launches Attack On Commerce Secretary Who Suffered From Seizure
Discussion: Livewire, ABCNEWS, Mediaite and Mother Jones
Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW:
Commerce Secretary John Bryson accused in hit-and-run crashes
Mj Leeand Tim Mak / Politico:
Paul Krugman: President Obama ‘screwed up the line’  —  Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman on Monday slammed President Barack Obama's remark that the private sector is “doing fine,” calling it “unfortunate” and adding that the president “screwed up the line.”  —  “That was an unfortunate line.
Discussion: CNN and Business Insider
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
President Barack Obama wants his 2012 re-election campaign …
Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Did the Supreme Court Just Gut Habeas Rights?  —  The Supreme Court's decision on Monday not to hear appeals from a group of Gitmo detainees leaves the remaining 169 detainees at the facility with little chance of securing their freedom through US courts.  —  In the 2008 case Boumediene v. Bush …
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Associated Press:   SCOTUS turns down Gitmo appeals
Rush Limbaugh:
You're Not Special: Great Commencement Speech by David McCullough Jr.  —  RUSH: We're nearing the end, ladies and gentlemen, of commencement address season.  You're nodding your head like you know where I'm going.  There was the most amazing commencement address in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Issa: 31 Democrats Will Vote To Condemn Holder  —  Republican compares Fast and Furious scandal to Iran Contra, Watergate.  Republicans seek a contempt vote.  —  (AP / Carolyn Kaster)  —  House Committee and Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa told BuzzFeed today …
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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
House committee schedules contempt vote against Holder
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
John Sununu defends Romney's call for fewer teachers, says it was not a ‘gaffe’  —  Former New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu, a surrogate for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, defended the presumptive Republican nominee's comments that the nation should have fewer teachers …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Show Me Progress
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Anne Tergesen / Wall Street Journal:
Counting on an Inheritance?  Count Again.  —  The bad news: Many baby boomers are likely to get less money from Mom and Dad than they thought.  The worse news: They may have to help their parents financially instead.  —  Baby boomers: Get ready for a double whammy.
Discussion: Power Line, Hot Air and Gawker
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
America's Trust Deficit, Ctd  —  Joe Klein recently mourned the loss of trust in America.  Samuel Goldman labels this “liberal nostalgia”: … I fear he is right.  I also feel the gulf is deeper than even Joe, in his splendid missives from the road, acknowledges.
Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012:
CBC staff: Opposition to Obama is racist  —  Angela Rye, Executive Director of the Congressional Black Caucus, argued that President Obama has struggled during his first term due to racially-motivated opposition from conservatives who dislike having a black president.
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
‘Prometheus,’ Pregnancy, and the Persistence of Patriarchy  —  As should be obvious, there are massive spoilers for Prometheus in this post.  —  I've been thinking about many aspects of Prometheus, Ridley Scott's prequel to his Alien movies, but the one that's stuck with me most is the clearest continuation …
Discussion: The Hope For America and Cavalorn
Ryan Lizza / New Yorker:
THE SECOND TERM  —  What would Obama do if reëlected?  —  President Obama awaiting G8 leaders at Camp David last month.  He has an ambitious agenda, which, at least in broad ways, his campaign is beginning to highlight.  Photograph by Luke Sharrett.
Brian Tashman / rightwingwatch.org:
Tony Perkins on LGBT Pride Month: Why not ‘Adultery Pride Month’ or ‘Drunkenness Pride Month’?  —  Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council filled in for Sandy Rios on her morning talk show last week on the American Family Association's radio network and had to respond to a caller named J.R …
New York Post:
Police officer who fatally shot unarmed Bronx teen indicted, set to turn himself in  —  The police officer who shot dead an unarmed Bronx teen hiding in his bathroom in February is expected to turn himself in Wednesday on manslaughter charges, sources told The Post.
Discussion: Guardian and Gothamist
Dave Levinthal / Reuters:
FEC: OK to fundraise via text  —  The Federal Election Commission on Monday night unanimously voted to allow Americans to make political donations via text message, making Androids, iPhones and Blackberries the newest weapon in the battle to raise unprecedented amounts of money.
New York Post:
Schools Chancellor backs principal's decision to drop ‘USA’ song, keep Bieber  —  They're proud to be un-American.  —  City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott is standing behind a Brooklyn principal's controversial decision to pull the plug on a popular patriotic song that was scheduled to be performed at a kindergarten graduation.
Christine Stapleton / Palm Beach Post:
Ex-congressman got millions in land deal  —  Current Ag chief Putnam got rich in '05 selling land $20 million above appraised value.  —  VOTE ()  —  Adam Putnam — former congressman, current commissioner of agriculture and widely viewed as the future of Florida politics …
 
 
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