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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:

The Newt Gingrich campaign implosion — Newt Gingrich's top staff quit en masse Thursday, throwing into question whether his already troubled presidential campaign can continue. — Two sources close to the situation confirmed that campaign manager Rob Johnson, strategists Sam Dawson and Dave Carney …

Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:

Gingrich presidential campaign implodes — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign imploded Thursday afternoon with his entire senior staff resigning en masse, according to multiple sources familiar with the moves. — “When the campaign and the candidate disagree on the path …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, GOP 12, Mario Piperni dot Com, Sky Dancing, Politics, Democratic Strategist, Towleroad News #gay, Trail Blazers Blog, Dependable Renegade, The Political Carnival, Booman Tribune, FrumForum, AmSpecBlog and Mad Kane's Political Madness

Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:

Gingrich's entire paid Iowa campaign team resigns — Newt Gingrich's entire team of paid Iowa campaign staff, as well as his national spokesman and senior aides in New Hampshire and South Carolina, have resigned en masse, a staffer told The Des Moines Register.

Discussion: TPMDC, USA Today, The Atlantic Online, ABCNEWS, Daily Kos, The New Republic, Washington Post, Swampland, Lez Get Real, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, Gawker, The Note and Verum Serum

Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:

The Problem Was the Wife — The problem was the wife. Aides to Newt Gingrich have resigned from his presidential campaign in protest of what they felt was a takeover by Callista Gingrich, the candidate's wife since 2000. — The euphemism offered by departing staffers was they disagreed with Gingrich's “strategy” for the campaign.

Discussion: Pajamas Media and The New Republic

Rick Santorum / Associated Press:

Senior Gingrich aides resign campaign en masse — Other staffers say the former speaker intends to stay in the 2012 race — Below: — msnbc.com staff and news service reports — WASHINGTON — Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich's campaign manager, senior strategists …

Discussion: Firedoglake, msnbc.com, National Review, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, Pajamas Media, TPMDC, Weasel Zippers, New York Magazine, Sister Toldjah, RedState, Crooks and Liars, Wizbang, Shakesville, HotAirPundit and Pam's House Blend

Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Newt's staff joins the literati's minions

Discussion: MyFox Atlanta, CNN, The Note, Hullabaloo and National Review

The Caucus:
Gingrich's Senior Campaign Staff Resigns

Discussion: FiveThirtyEight and Wonkette

Sabato's Crystal Ball: Gop 2012 Update: The Big Tease

Jgalloway / Political Insider:
His staff resigns en masse, but Newt Gingrich says campaign ‘begins anew Sunday’

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, TPMDC, Politisite, Weigel, iOwnTheWorld.com and Reuters

Real Clear Politics:
Will Newt Gingrich's Demise Be Rick Perry's Rise?

Discussion: Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog, Pajamas Media, The Daily Caller, Hit & Run, Weasel Zippers, Wake up America and Ricochet Conversation Feed

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Report: Gingrich faces mass resignations from campaign

Discussion: The Note, Guardian, The Politico and Michelle Malkin

Alec Baldwin / The Huffington Post:

Anthony Weiner Is a Modern Human Being — My friend Morgan Rank owned an art gallery in East Hampton several years ago. He moved to Italy, living in the quiet countryside there for nearly a decade. We had lost touch and then, at an art event in New York, someone approached me and said, “Morgan is back.”

Discussion: PopWatch, The Daily Caller, FishbowlDC, Salon, New York Magazine and Shakesville

New York Post:

Weiner says he has no plans to resign following sexting scandal — A defiant Rep. Anthony Weiner said today that he's not resigning. — In an exclusive interview with The Post, Weiner, 46, said the sexting scandal that has plagued him for the past week is not reason enough to give up his House seat.

Discussion: Washington Post, Hotline On Call, Gothamist, TPMDC, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Politics, The Hill, Taylor Marsh, National Review, Gawker and Pajamas Media

The Note:
Anthony Weiner Should Not Resign Constituents Say in New Poll

Discussion: CNN, Hit & Run, ABCNEWS, blogs.abcnews.com and Ricochet Conversation Feed

Emily Goodin / The Hill:
Lawmaker tweeting falls in week after Rep. Weiner's troubles

Discussion: The Politico, newsfeed.time.com, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post and Gawker

Rock Hackshaw / Room Eight:
NOTE TO ANTHONY WEINER: DO NOT RESIGN.

Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk and Ben Smith's Blog

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Democrats ready for full-court press to push Weiner into resigning; Update: “Dug in”

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, Reuters, Pajamas Media, GayPatriot and Datechguy's Blog

Scott / Power Line: Smiling through the apocalypse

Ryan Kellett / Washington Post:

Help analyze the Palin e-mails — UPDATE: We have had a strong response to our crowdsourcing call-out on the Palin e-mails. We've reconsidered our approach and now would like to invite comments and annotations from any interested readers. — Here's how to participate:Over 24,000 e-mail messages …

Discussion: Pajamas Media, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »

Derek Willis / The Caucus:

Help Us Review the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records — On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin's e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-mails …

Discussion: Hot Air, Runnin' Scared, Weasel Zippers, M.JOSEPH SHEPPARD'S …, Conservatives4Palin, Wizbang, Pajamas Media, National Review and NewsBusters.org, more at Mediagazer »

New York Times:
Alaska to Release Sarah Palin's E-Mail

Discussion: The Daily Caller, USA Today and Washington Post

Lesley Wroughton / Reuters:

Exclusive: Clinton in talks about possible move to World Bank — (Reuters) - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said Thursday.

Discussion: blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Money Game, Washington Post, Swampland, New York Magazine and Associated Press

New York Post:

Professor disaster — No billions or trillions needed — here's the simplest num ber to describe the dismal state of the US economy: — One. — With the departure of chief economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, that's the number of members from the original Obama economic team still working …

Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, RedState, National Review and GayPatriot

E. J. Montini / Arizona Republic:

Gabrielle Giffords' staffer talks about congresswoman's health — Pia Carusone knew the day would come when the questions about her boss, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, would become more indelicate. — After answering some of those questions, Carusone, Giffords' chief of staff, told me …

Discussion: News Desk, RADAR, The Hill, The Politico and Los Angeles Times

Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:

Romney to Skip Key Poll in Iowa — Mitt Romney will skip a key early test for Republican presidential candidates by forgoing the Iowa straw poll in mid-August, a decision that could recast the contest in the nation's first presidential nominating state. — The Iowa straw poll, held in Ames …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, St. Petersburg Times and Hot Air

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Romney will skip Iowa straw poll

Discussion: CNN

Ebindelglass / CBS New York:

Up To 8-Foot Long, 160-Pound Mountain Lion On The Loose In Greenwich, Conn. — GREENWICH, Conn. (CBSNewYork/AP) - There has been a wild animal alert issued in the northern suburbs. A mountain lion, yes, a mountain lion, is on the loose, reports CBS 2's Lou Young.

Discussion: Runnin' Scared and New York Magazine

Andy Barr / The Politico:

Sarah Palin film to get nationwide release — After debuts in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina later this month, the pro-Sarah Palin film “The Undefeated” is headed for nationwide release. — But first it will need to be scaled back: the current version contains so much profanity …

Discussion: CNN, Conservatives4Palin and New York Magazine

RealClearPolitics:

Maine's congressional districts must be redrawn — Clarke Canfield — A three-judge panel on Thursday ordered the state to redraw its congressional district boundaries before next year's election instead of waiting until the 2014 elections. — Maine is the only state that allows …

Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:

U.S. Chamber Of Commerce Fights Regulations On Penis-Deforming Chemicals — U.S. Chamber of Commerce president Tom Donohue — As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — one of the largest and most influential big business lobbying groups in the world …

Jaya Narain / Daily Mail:

The ultimate NHS indignity: Body of hospital patient left to die in corridor is ignored for hours... before staff simply drag him away — ‘He went to them for help and they left him out in the corridor to die’, says Peter Thompson's daughter — Nurses casually stepped over a patient as he lay dying on a hospital floor.

Discussion: Moonbattery and International Liberty

Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:

David Axelrod Tells Tim Pawlenty What He Can Google … WASHINGTON — The assumption that President Barack Obama's reelection campaign will be felled by poor economic news is partially premised on the idea that the Republican alternative can offer something both fundamentally different and alluring.

Discussion: The Hill and CNN

Peggy Gargis / Reuters:

Alabama governor signs nation's toughest immigration law — (Reuters) - Republican Governor Robert Bentley on Thursday signed into law a crackdown on illegal immigration in Alabama that both supporters and critics consider the toughest in the nation. — Under the new measure …

Discussion: Lez Get Real, Don Surber, Little Green Footballs, ThinkProgress and Shakesville

Patterico's Pontifications:

Evidence That Weiner Was Talking Dirty to Underage Girls? Part 2 — Here at patterico.com we have been covering the Weiner scandal from Day 1. In covering that story, we soon realized that one of the most disturbing aspects of the story was the possibility that Congressman Weiner had engaged in communications with underaged girls.

Discussion: Verum Serum

Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:

Massachusetts Republican: Undocumented Immigrant Rape Victims ‘Should Be Afraid To Come Forward’ — Massachusetts GOP state Rep. Ryan Fattman has such contempt for illegal immigrants that he believes undocumented women who are raped should be afraid to go to the police.

Discussion: Worcester Telegram & Gazette and Right Wing Watch

Zombie / Pajamas Media:

How a Teachers' Rally Made Me Anti-Education — I write this essay with a heavy heart. — I've always considered myself an ardent advocate for education. But a recent rally staged by teachers and students in favor of school funding forced me to reluctantly acknowledge an awful truth:

Discussion: Maggie's Farm and Joanne Jacobs