memeorandum: Hillary Clinton's Grand Strategy to Beat the GOP: Take Bold Positions Early and Often (Brian Beutler/The New Republic)

8:55 AM ET, June 6, 2015

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Hillary Clinton's Grand Strategy to Beat the GOP: Take Bold Positions Early and Often — For the better part of 20 years now, Bill Clinton's presidency has been synonymous with a hazy political concept called triangulation. Since his advisers made the term famous, it has been used …

Discussion: Washington Monthly, National Journal, Booman Tribune and Democratic Strategist

Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:

The Coming Democratic Panic — Watch what happens if Hillary Clinton falls behind in the polls. — When a CNN poll last week showed Hillary Clinton leading Rand Paul by a single percentage point (48-47) and only three points ahead of Marco Rubio (49-46) and Scott Walker (49-46), it was mildly shocking.

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Benjamin Bell / ABC News:

Robert Reich Still Sees No ‘Convincing Explanation’ on Hillary Clinton Email … Robert Reich, who served during the administration of former President Bill Clinton as the secretary of labor, will appear on “This Week Sunday morning. Before his appearance, we asked him five questions …

Discussion: Bloomberg Business and The Daily Caller

Fox News:
‘Dividing Americans’: Potential GOP rivals assail Clinton over fiery voting law speech

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Los Angeles Times and hillaryclinton.com

Salvador Rizzo / NorthJersey.com:
Gov. Christie attacks Hillary Clinton on voter registration

Discussion: Liberaland, Bloomberg Business, New York Times, The Atlantic, ThinkProgress, Washington Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, Talking Points Memo, Washington Monthly and The Week

New York Times:

Rubios on the Road Have Drawn Unwanted Attention — Senator Marco Rubio has been in a hurry to get to the top, rising from state legislator to United States senator in the span of a decade and now running for president at age 44. — But politics is not the only area where Mr. Rubio …

Dylan Byers / Politico:
New York Times denies American Bridge was behind Rubio report

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Brent Scher / Washington Free Beacon:
Democratic Oppo Firm's Fingerprints on NYT Rubio Hit

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Washington Post:

Ben Carson's campaign faces turmoil amid staff exits and super PAC rivalry — The presidential candidacy of Ben Carson, a tea party star who has catapulted into the top tier of Republican contenders, has been rocked by turmoil with the departures of four senior campaign officials and widespread disarray among his allied super PACs.

Discussion: Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and Outside the Beltway

Los Angeles Times:

LAPD finds officers were justified in fatal shooting of mentally ill man, sources say — Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck and the Police Department's independent watchdog have determined that two officers were justified in fatally shooting Ezell Ford, a mentally ill black man whose killing …

Discussion: The Week, Reuters and Twitchy

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

Justice Scalia Blows Creationist Dog-Whistle During Graduation Speech At Catholic High School — Justice Antonin Scalia spoke on Thursday at his granddaughter's graduation from a Catholic high school in Bethesda, Maryland. During the speech, however, the sitting Supreme Court justice offered …

Discussion: New York Magazine, The Week, Daily Kos and Hullabaloo

Burgess Everett / Politico:

Anti-war activist confronts Sen. Tom Cotton — Hawkish Sen. Tom Cotton was confronted by an anti-war activist on Friday, provoking a tense and awkward exchange about the United States's role overseas. — Fred Boenig, whose son died in Afghanistan in 2010, was seated next to Cotton …

Discussion: Mediaite, Slantpoint, Daily Kos and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Lone Star Stumble — Remember the Texas economic miracle? In 2012, it was one of the three main arguments from then-Gov. Rick Perry about why he should be president, along with his strong support from the religious right and something else I can't remember (sorry, couldn't help myself).

Discussion: Hullabaloo and Washington Post

Cait Munro / artnet News:

Emma Sulkowicz Breaks New Ground With Troubling Video Performance — Emma Sulkowicz, the recent Columbia graduate who has taken the Internet by storm thanks to her year-long performance art project Mattress Performance: Carry That Weight, released a video, which shows two people …

Discussion: RedState, Gothamist, The Daily Caller, Slantpoint and Hit & Run

Cait Munro / artnet News:
Emma Sulkowicz Speaks Out About Her New Video Performance

Discussion: Daily Mail, The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers and The Other McCain

Brian Everstine / Air Force Times:

Carlisle: Air Force intel uses ISIS 'moron's' social media posts to target airstrikes — OPSEC isn't the Islamic State group's strong suit. — Airmen at Hurlburt Field, Florida, used social media posts by the insurgent group to track the location of an Islamic State group headquarters building.

Discussion: Hot Air, Washington Post and WQAD-TV

Fox News:

Jessa: Josh Duggar was ‘in puberty and a little too curious about girls’ — Jessa Seewald detailed the sexual abuse she and sister Jill Dillard experienced at the hands of their older brother Josh Duggar in a sit-down interview with Megyn Kelly, set to air Friday night during “The Kelly File” at 9 p.m.

Discussion: Raw Story and FOX2now.com

Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:

Tom Coburn On 2016: Cruz And Walker Not Ready For Primetime, America Won't Elect Another Bush — The former Republican senator from Oklahoma says that Rand Paul scares him to death, Ted Cruz and Scott Walker are not ready for primetime, Rick Perry is not capable enough, and America will not elect another Bush to be president.

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, The Reaction, Mediaite and Hot Air