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10:55 PM ET, June 4, 2011

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Kelly Heffernan-Tabor / digtriad.com:
Bank of America Gets Pad Locked After Homeowner Forecloses On It  —  Well, it has happened in Florida and involves a North Carolina based bank.  —  Instead of Bank of America foreclosing on some Florida homeowner, the homeowners had sheriff's deputies foreclose on the bank.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Howard Dean warns Dems Sarah Palin could beat Obama in 2012  —  Howard Dean, the former Democratic National Committee chairman who helped Democrats capture the White House in 2008, warns that Sarah Palin could defeat President Obama in 2012.  —  Dean says his fellow Democrats should beware …
Thomas M. Defrank / NY Daily News:
Anthony Weiner's bulging controversy a classic example of abysmal damage control  —  WASHINGTON - Weinergate ain't Watergate, not even close.  —  But they're both classic examples of abysmal damage control.  —  For such a savvy practitioner of the political game, Anthony Weiner has violated …
Discussion: Mediaite and JammieWearingFool
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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:   Weiner helping junk the country
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Echoes of Weiner's womanizing past ring in his present day package predicament
Discussion: The Other McCain and Doug Ross
Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Pakistani Militant Chief Is Reported Dead  —  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — One of Pakistan's most wanted militant commanders, Ilyas Kashmiri, was killed in an American drone strike in the tribal territory of South Waziristan, residents and a militant active in the area said Saturday.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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Rosslyn Beeby / The Canberra Times:
Climate of fear: scientists face death threats  —  Australia's leading climate change scientists are being targeted by a vicious, unrelenting email campaign that has resulted in police investigations of death threats.  —  The Australian National University has confirmed …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Religious Leaders: GOP's ‘Ayn Rand’ Budget Targets Poor, Goes Against Religious Values  —  While religious conservatives and Republican political leaders gathered at the Faith and Freedom Conference in Washington this weekend, another group of religious leaders held a small gathering across …
Bernard Gwertzman / New York Times:
Lawrence Eagleburger, a Top Diplomat, Dies at 80  —  Lawrence S. Eagleburger, a troubleshooting diplomat and senior foreign policy adviser to presidents who served the country for more than 40 years, including 42 days as secretary of state at the close of President George Bush's term, died on Saturday in Charlottesville, Va. He was 80.
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Jamie Klatell / The Hill:
Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dies
Discussion: CNN
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Edwards Case Casts Spotlight on a Long Reclusive Donor  —  Rachel Mellon, now 100 years old and long one of the richest women in America, has lived a life of maximum discretion and minimum exposure.  Even in her prime, in the 1960s, when she redesigned the White House Rose Garden …
Paul Krugman:
Yes, Medicare Is Sustainable In Its Current Form  —  I keep seeing people say that Medicare in its current form is not sustainable, as if that were an established fact.  It's anything but.  —  What is Medicare?  It's single-payer coverage for the elderly.
New York Times:
Obama Retools 2008 Machine for Tough Run  —  CHICAGO — Saddled with a faltering economic recovery, President Obama is rebuilding the campaign machinery that vaulted him into office, hoping it can overcome the challenges of persistently high unemployment and a fractured coalition of supporters.
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Judge reverses decision, allows O'Keefe to leave New Jersey  —  Controversial right-wing activist James O'Keefe is in Washington DC today attending the Faith and Freedom Conference.  O'Keefe is currently on federal probation after being found guilty in a case where “he was accused of trying …
The Note:
Jon Huntsman avoiding Iowa ‘For A Reason’  —  ABC News' Sarah Kunin reports:  —  Jon Huntsman has kicked off his three-day, eleven-stop tour of New Hampshire this weekend to appeal to voters in the state holding the nation's first primary.  —  Voters in Iowa, on the other hand, will not be awarded the same face time.
Washington Post:
The questionable legal case against John Edwards  —  Criminal violations of federal campaign financing laws require proof that the conduct was committed “knowingly and willfully.”  ' In the context of a regulatory scheme such as is involved here, these words of specific criminal intent require proof …
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David S Morgan / CBS News:
Expert: Edwards case difficult one to prosecute
Discussion: neo-neocon
 
 
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
What Do Economic Models Really Tell Us About Elections?
Andrew C. McCarthy / National Review:
End Medicare  —  Would you vote to save the Bernie Madoff scheme?
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Simon Romero / New York Times:
Where Prisoners Can Do Anything, Except Leave
Discussion: Gawker
James Cowie / Renesys Blog:
Syrian Internet Shutdown
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Still rogue, Palin embraces media
Discussion: Conservatives4Palin
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Bachmann: ‘This Is The Time’ For States To Outlaw Same-Sex Marriage
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Anna Badkhen / Foreign Policy:
The Lost Villages  —  Saying goodbye to a once-friendly land …
Russell Berman / The Hill:
‘Sign of the apocalypse’: Kucinich's GOP support on Libya
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
China Has Divested 97 Percent of Its Holdings in U.S. Treasury Bills