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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Rep. Anthony Weiner 'can't say with certitude' photo isn't him  —  Rep. Anthony Weiner says he “can't say with certitude” that the lewd photo of a man's crotch sent using his Twitter account to one of his followers isn't of him.  —  “I didn't send that picture out,” Weiner said in an interview with NBC News.
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Matt Lewis / The Daily Caller:
MSNBC is about to come out with what appears to be a terrific interview.  Luke Russert was just asking Rep. Anthony Weiner questions about his controversial Tweet, and Weiner appears to actually be answering.  Unfortunately, the live feed kept going out — so we will have to wait for MSNBC to air the full video in a bit.
New York Post:
Weiner's tweet-hearts  —  By S.A. MILLER in Washington and PERRY CHIARAMONTE AND CHUCK BENNETT in NY  —  It takes a certain type of woman to set his heart a-Twitter.  —  Rep. Anthony Weiner follows only a select 198 of his nearly 49,000 Twitter fans — and a surprising number of them are total babes.
First Read / msnbc.com:
Weiner 'can't say with certitude' that lewd photo isn't of him  —  From NBC's Luke Russert and Carrie Dann  —  Rep. Anthony Weiner said Wednesday that he can't say “with certitude” whether or not a lewd below-the-belt photo depicted his body, but he insisted that he did not tweet the picture …
Betsy Rothstein / FishbowlDC:
WeinerGate: What do Reporters Think?  —  And the Weiner saga continues.  Here's a quick conversation from this morning's MSNBC “The Daily Rundown” with host Chuck Todd and reporters, NJ's Major Garrett and the AP's Liz Sidoti.  The conversation, largely intelligent and serious, eventually degenerated into laughter.
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Mediaite
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Weiner: “I Can't Say With Certitude” That Picture Isn't Of Me  —  Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) talks to NBC News about the lewd picture scandal.  NBC's LUKE RUSSERT: “That's not a picture of you?”  REP. ANTHONY WEINER: “You know, I can't say with certitude.  My system was hacked.
Daily Mail:
Revealed: The glamorous Twitter girls followed by Congressman Weiner as he denies sending lewd picture  —  The New York Congressman under fire for allegedly sending a crotch picture to a female student faced fresh controversy today after it emerged he follows a string of glamorous women on Twitter.
The Note:
Anthony Weiner ‘Cannot Say with Certitude’ If Twitter Boxer Pic Is Him
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Anthony Weiner tries to move beyond Twitter mess
Discussion: Salon
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
GOP lawmaker rejects White House trip, says he won't be ‘lectured to’ by Obama  —  A freshman GOP lawmaker rejected an invitation to the White House on Wednesday, saying he didn't want to be “lectured” by President Obama.  —  “I have respectfully declined the president's invitation to the White House today …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Obama talks about lower taxes than Reagan; GOP members roll their eyes  —  Republicans attending a White House meeting on Wednesday didn't take kindly to President Obama telling them tax rates were higher during the Reagan administration.  —  GOP members engaged in a lot of “eye-rolling,” …
Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Glass Ceiling  —  Why Obama can't assume Republicans will ever make a deal on the debt ceiling.  —  For all the patriotic prattle about American exceptionalism, last night was a moment when our national politics seemed borrowed from the comic-opera irrelevance of Berlusconi's Italy.
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
A “Frosty” and “Frank” Meeting Between President Obama and House GOP
Discussion: The Note and Weasel Zippers
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney leads in Iowa, Cain surging  —  Mitt Romney has the lead in PPP's first Iowa poll since Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump exited the race, but with six different candidates polling in double digits it's clear this thing is wide open.  —  Romney polls at 21%.  Sarah Palin and Herman Cain are tied for second at 15%.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
One Person, One Vote? Not Exactly
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Majority gives thumbs down to Ryan plan  —  Washington (CNN) - A new national poll indicates that a majority of Americans don't like what they've heard so far about congressional Republicans' plans to change Medicare.  —  According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan: ‘Obamacare Ends Medicare As We Know It’
Eugene Kiely / FactCheck.org:
DNC Chair Throws Truth to ‘Wolves’
Discussion: Washington Post
New Jersey Online:
Gov. Christie arrives at son's high school baseball game in State Police helicopter  —  TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie arrived at his son's baseball game this afternoon aboard a State Police helicopter.  —  Right before the lineup cards were being exchanged on the field …
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Associated Press:
Christie Tells Iowa Donors He's Still Not Running
Discussion: WyBlog and Pundit Press
Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Palin to Visit S.C. as Part of Early-State Trifecta  —  JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will visit the first-in-the-South primary state of South Carolina later this month as part of her nationwide bus tour, RealClearPolitics has learned.  —  According to well-informed sources …
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Trump Says Palin Wants Him to Run
Discussion: GOP 12
Margo D. Beller / CNBC:
Wall Street Baffled by Slowing Economy, Low Yields: Trader  —  Wall Street is having a hard time figuring out what to do now that the U.S. economy appears to be sputtering and yields are so low, Peter Yastrow, market strategist for Yastrow Origer, told CNBC.
Alex Pareene / Salon:
Matt Drudge's disgusting race war awareness campaign  —  Matt Drudge's non-political obsessions used to be harmless things like “extreme weather” and “pictures of Olympic wrestlers.”  Since the election of Barack Obama, though, Drudge — the proto-blogger and reclusive creator of the noted Courier …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Sen. DeMint mulls White House bid  —  Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) says he is considering running for president after frustrated conservative activists have pleaded with him to run.  —  DeMint told The Hill that he has discussed a White House bid with his wife and will pray on the question …
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
77,000 fed employees paid more than governors  —  Government salaries put under scrutiny  —  ** FILE ** A congressional study revealed that 7,283 federal employees in Maryland made more than Gov. Martin O'Malley's $150,000 salary in 2009.  (Associated Press)
New York Times:
S.E.C. Case Stands Out Because It Stands Alone  —  At the height of the housing boom, the 26th floor of Goldman Sachs's former headquarters on Broad Street in Lower Manhattan was the nerve center of Goldman's fast-growing mortgage trading business.  —  Hundreds of employees worked closely in teams …
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Study finds many corporations pay effective tax rate of zero  —  A number of U.S. corporations had an effective tax rate of less than zero in recent years, a new study has found.  —  Citizens for Tax Justice released an examination on Wednesday that said that a dozen major companies had …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Janie Lorber / Roll Call:
Some Immigrants Turn to Tea Party  —  Lolita Mancheno-Smoak, an immigrant from Ecuador who once dreamed of becoming her country's president, has found an unlikely home in the tea party movement.  —  When she launched her campaign for county school board last week at Brion's Grille in Fairfax …
Discussion: Left Coast Rebel
Alex Fitzsimmons / NewsBusters.org:
Martin Bashir: Sarah Palin's Bus Tour ‘Breach of Federal Law’  —  MSNBC's Martin Bashir on May 31 insisted that Sarah Palin's bus tour amounts to a “breach of a federal law.”  —  Anchoring his eponymous program, Bashir scolded, “In fact, the whole thing could be in breach of a federal law …
CNBC:
150 Economists Back US Republicans in Debt Fight  —  More than 150 economists back U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner's call to match any increase in the debt limit with spending cuts of equal size, according to a letter released by the Republican leader's office Wednesday.
Discussion: Don Surber and HotAirPundit
The Politico:
GOP fears Kucinich resolution  —  Seeking to avoid a showdown over Libya, House GOP leaders have pulled back from a floor vote on a resolution by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) that would bar U.S. involvement in the NATO-led campaign to topple Muammar Qhadafi.
Discussion: Firedoglake and Eunomia
 
 
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Huckabee: Door open to 2012 presidential bid
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Ariane De Vogue / ABCNEWS:
The Legal Case Against John Edwards
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Associated Press:
Govt to lose $14B of auto bailout funds
Michael J. Totten / Pajamas Media:
Darkness in Palestine  —  Last summer I visited Hebron …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Robert Gehrke / Salt Lake Tribune:
Sources say Chaffetz is in against Hatch
Discussion: AmSpecBlog
Associated Press:
Daughter of prominent Iranian dissident dies in funeral scuffle with security forces
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67pc want Islamisation of society
Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
TV Executives Admit in Taped Interviews That Hollywood Pushes a Liberal Agenda (Exclusive Video)
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Hot Air
Associated Press:
Pa. 8th graders' field trip includes Hooters lunch
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com
Wall Street Journal:
After Hotel Attacks: Panic Buttons
Discussion: USA Today, Gawker and Law Blog
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Robert Lucas Argues That Barack Obama Is The Most Important Leader In American History
Sarah Anne Hughes / Washington Post:
Ku Klux Klan protests Westboro Baptist Church (Video)
Discussion: Cold Fury
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul, Supposed Defender Of Civil Liberties, Calls For Jailing People Who Attend ‘Radical Political Speeches’
 

 
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