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11:50 AM ET, June 1, 2011

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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 …
Discussion: Mediaite and Right Wing News
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Palin embraces unconventional strategy ahead of possible 2012 bid  —  Jersey City, New Jersey (CNN) - A presidential campaign typically begins at the micro-level in Iowa or New Hampshire, with small town meet-and-greets and well-timed endorsements from elected officials and grassroots leaders.
Discussion: Ballot Box and The Politico
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 …
Discussion: GOP 12
Keith Laing / The Hill:
Critics of Boeing lawsuit slam Obama Commerce secretary pick  —  Critics of the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) lawsuit against airplane manufacturer Boeing denounced President Obama's choice of a member of the airline's board of directors to be secretary of Commerce.
blogs.abcnews.com:
Sarah Palin, Donald Trump Meet In New York City Tuesday Night, Eat Pizza
Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Sarah Palin: Bus tour 'isn't about me'
Discussion: The Note
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.
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Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Anthony Weiner Is Not Doing Himself Any Favors  —  We won't pretend to know the truth behind Weinergate — whether Weiner was the victim of a hacker or prankster or conservative conspiracy, or whether he was personally responsible for sending a college girl a photo of a man's bulge over Twitter.
Anahad O'Connor / New York Times:
Lawmaker in Twitter Case Assails Reporters
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Rep. Weiner Has Angry Exchange With Capitol Hill Reporters Over Twitter Scandal
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Congressman says #Weinergate cybersecurity investigation vital in order to ‘ensure our national security’
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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Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Chris Christie won't run for president, but he'll visit Iowa this summer
Greg Robb / MarketWatch:
U.S. private sector adds 38,000 jobs in May: ADP  —  Economists had predicted monthly growth of roughly 175,000  — Front Page - News Viewer - Commentary - Markets - Investing - Personal Finance - Community - Games  —  WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Private-sector employment growth decelerated sharply …
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Kathleen Madigan / Wall Street Journal:
Private Jobs Post Tepid Rise
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg:
ADP: U.S. Added Fewer Workers in May
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
CNNMoney.com:   Job growth slows in May
Jon Huntsman / Wall Street Journal:
Our Current Time for Choosing  —  Anyone who disagrees with Paul Ryan's Medicare reforms has a moral obligation to propose an alternative.  —  This year marks the centennial anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth—and America finds itself at a crossroads that brings to mind the title …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Jon Huntsman's Supporter
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
One Person, One Vote? Not Exactly
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 …
The White House:
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION  —  The story of America's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community is the story of our fathers and sons, our mothers and daughters, and our friends and neighbors who continue the task of making our country a more perfect Union.
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Robert Dreyfuss / American Prospect:
Get Off the Warpath
Chris Geidner / Poliglot:
Obama Issues Pride Proclamation — With No Mention of Relationship Recognition
Discussion: AMERICAblog Gay
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.
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Jake Sherman / The Politico:
GOP heads to W.H. debt talks
Discussion: The Agonist
Sarah Anne Hughes / Washington Post:
Ku Klux Klan protests Westboro Baptist Church (Video)  —  Members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan. (Michael S. Williamson - THE WASHINGTON POST) As President Obama honored fallen soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday, three members of the Westboro Baptist Church protested …
Discussion: Cold Fury and Religion Dispatches
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 …
Ben Geman / The Hill:
New York AG sues feds over gas ‘fracking’  —  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman opened a new front Tuesday in battles over controversial natural-gas drilling projects with a lawsuit alleging that federal agencies are shirking environmental review of dangerous development techniques.
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
Gavyn Davies:
The classical view of the global recession  —  The disappointing economic data on US activity in recent months has brought a key policy debate back into focus.  Is there a chronic shortage of growth in the developed world, and if so what should be done about it?
Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
Airplane annoyance leads to brouhaha in the skies over D.C.  —  Before things got out of hand, it was a typical annoyance that happens once a flight gets airborne: A passenger hit the recline button and sent his seat intimately close to the lap of the guy sitting behind him.
Steyn Online:
CRIMINAL COMEDY  —  Steyn on Books  —  HAPPY WARRIOR  —  from National Review  —  I read The Joke, Milan Kundera's first novel, when I was a schoolboy.  Bit above my level, but, even as a teenager, I liked the premise.  Ludvik is a young man in post-war, newly Communist Czechoslovakia.
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 …
Discussion: pandagon.net and Gawker
Stars & Stripes:
Army Ranger to be awarded Medal of Honor  —  WASHINGTON — An Army Ranger who lost his right hand and suffered shrapnel wounds after throwing an armed grenade away from his fellow Soldiers will be the second living Medal of Honor Recipient from the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Discussion: UrbanGrounds and SWJ Blog
 
 
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Republicans May Need ‘Exit Strategy’ From Medicare Plan
Chicago Tribune:
Recipients of civil union license: ‘We wanted to make a statement’
Investor's Business Daily:
Obama Recovery Still Feeble After Two Years
Discussion: Hot Air and BizzyBlog
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Dana Goldstein / Washington Post:
Is the U.S. doing teacher reform all wrong?
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Richard Black / BBC:
Acid oceans turn ‘Finding Nemo’ fish deaf
Discussion: Right Wing News and Biased BBC
Wall Street Journal:
The Schumer Three-Step  —  How to vote for a law and then raise money …
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
State getting ready to release Palin emails
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
A Political Revival for Ralph Reed
Discussion: The Note
Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com:
Former Obama Secret Service Agent Running for Senate in Maryland
Discussion: Oliver Willis and Hotline On Call
BBC:
Four arrests after patient abuse caught on film
Discussion: Guardian and Biased BBC
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Wisconsin Dems 6. Wisconsin Republicans 0.