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3:35 PM ET, June 4, 2013

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Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Erick Erickson Shows Everything That's Wrong With The GOP  —  Conservative pundit Erick Erickson doesn't like me.  This morning he wrote 900 words about why.  —  But the main thing his post reveals is what's wrong with Erickson - and with a Republican party that is built to appeal to people like Erickson.
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Erick Erickson / RedState:
On Conservative Reformers  —  There is a lot of back and forth chatter …
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Bob Woodward criticizes IRS ‘fiction’  —  The Washington Post's Bob Woodward says the Obama administration has explaining to do on the IRS scandal and needs to answer questions about who knew what, when.  —  “This fiction that somehow [The IRS is] totally an independent agency is absurd,” …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Accuse first and ask questions later  —  A third House committee joined the stampede to examine the IRS on Monday, and its chairman did exactly what you would expect somebody to do before launching a fair and impartial investigation: He went on Fox News Channel and implicated the White House.
Jack Gillum / Associated Press:
Emails of top Obama appointees remain a mystery  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes …
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Bush Administration Appointees Also Used ‘Secret E-mail Addresses’
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Obama Names 3 to Top Appeals Court in Challenge to Republicans  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama set a confrontation with Senate Republicans in motion on Tuesday morning by naming a slate of judges to a top appeals court and daring his rivals to block their confirmations.
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John Gramlich / Roll Call:
Obama's D.C. Circuit Picks Likely to Prompt GOP Outcry
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama dares GOP to block three nominations to critical court
Discussion: Politico
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Military brass oppose removing sexual assault cases from chain of command  —  Military leaders on Tuesday expressed unified opposition to stripping commanders of the power to decide where sexual assault cases are prosecuted.  —  In testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee …
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Stacy Kaper / NationalJournal.com:
Sandra Fluke Redux? Senate Stacks the Deck Against Reformers in Sexual Assaults Crisis
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Yahoo! News
Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
U.S. military chiefs balk at taking sex-assault cases out of commanders' hands
Valerie Strauss / The Answer Sheet:
Mississippi governor: Educational troubles began when ‘mom is in the workplace’ — VIDEO  —  Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R) said Tuesday that America's educational troubles began when women began working outside the home in large numbers.  —  Bryant was participating in a Washington Post Live event focused …
The Atlantic Wire:
The Latest Navy SEAL Book Could Impact the Military's Transgender Rules  —  In every Navy SEAL is a memoir, it seems lately.  Retired SEAL Kristin Beck's new memoir, published on Tuesday and titled Warrior Princess, is a bit different, though.  In it, Beck describes how …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
SEAL Team 6 Vet Comes Out As Transgender In New Memoir
Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Raw Story
The Daily Beast:
John McCain's Surprising Toast at Kissinger's 90th Birthday Party  —  At Henry Kissinger's 90th birthday party, the assembled VIP guests learned a piece of the past shared by the imprisoned Navy pilot and Nixon's secretary of state.  —  Henry Kissinger's 90th birthday party on Monday night …
Dr. Keith Ablow / Fox News:
Is Obama waging psychological warfare on Americans?  —  I believe that the Obama administration is conducting psychological warfare on conservative Americans.  Not only that but it is also waging this war on all Americans who previously viewed themselves, their country …
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Court's DNA Ruling Brings U.S. a Step Closer to ‘Gattaca’  —  The day that DNA cheek swabs officially became the new fingerprints deserves to be marked and remembered — and not just because of the inevitable march of technology.  —  No, the Supreme Court's 5-4 holding today in Maryland v. King …
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and Althouse
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Tara Bahrampour / Washington Post:
Baby boomers are killing themselves at an alarming rate, raising question: Why?  —  Last spring, Frank Turkaly tried to kill himself.  A retiree in a Pittsburgh suburb living on disability checks, he was estranged from friends and family, mired in credit card debt and taking medication for depression …
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Rubio: Senate immigration reform bill lacks 60 votes  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Tuesday said the Senate's immigration bill does not have 60 votes, contradicting Democrats who say it would pass the chamber in its current form.  —  Asked by FOX News if the bill approved …
Discussion: Politico
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Harry Reid says immigration bill on floor next week
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Death of Senator Places Christie in Difficult Spot  —  The death of Frank R. Lautenberg on Monday has left Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey with the kind of opportunity that politicians usually covet: the chance to give away a seat in the United States Senate.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Democrats' 2014 strategy: Own Obamacare  —  Scarred by years of Republican attacks over Obamacare, with more in store next year, Democrats have settled on an unlikely strategy for the 2014 midterms: Bring it on.  —  Party strategists believe that embracing the polarizing law …
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Citing Stand Your Ground, Jury Acquits Man Who Killed Wife's Lover  —  As trial approaches for the man who generated national controversy over Stand Your Ground laws when he shot dead 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a Florida street, a jury has acquitted another man under Florida's controversial law …
Arthur Brice / CNN:
Iran, Hezbollah mine Latin America for revenue, recruits, analysts say  —  (CNN) — An Argentine special prosecutor's accusation that Iran has established terrorist networks throughout Latin America has renewed debate over how big a threat that poses to the region and the United States.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Christie Likely to Announce Dates of Special Election  —  ABC News' Josh Margolin and Shushannah Walshe report:  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is holding a 1:30 p.m. press conference and and sources briefed on the governor's thinking say it's likely he will address the special election process …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Business Insider
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
House Republicans broken into fighting factions  —  On New Year's Day, in a cramped room in the Capitol basement, House Republican leaders faced an angry caucus.  Democrats had negotiated them into a corner — virtually every American would be hit with a massive tax increase unless …
 
 
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Jake Sherman / Politico:
Eric Cantor sidesteps questions about Issa ‘paid liar’ comment
Discussion: CNN
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Average Guest Speaker At IRS Conference Made More Than $9,000
Yahoo! News:
Video captures Jasper, Texas, police officers beating woman
Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare Bait and Switch
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Gallup overhauls polls after 2012 failure
Discussion: Politico and NationalJournal.com
Phil Mattingly / Bloomberg:
Holder Said to Tell Aides He's Fine as Leak Rules Review Starts
Discussion: theGrio
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Kurt Erickson / Pantagraph:
Ex-Miss America expected to run for Congress
Discussion: Roll Call, Reuters and Ballot Box
Charlotte Cowles / New York Magazine:
Hillary Clinton Made a Pantsuit Joke at the CFDA Awards
Nick Cumming-Bruce / New York Times:
U.N. Panel Reports Increasing Brutality by Both Sides in Syria Conflict
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Fighting education fanatics: Column
Sheera Frenkel / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. publishes details of missile base Israel wanted kept secret
Discussion: Israel Matzav
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Behind the Rise in House Prices, Wall Street Buyers
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Financial Times:
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