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8:50 AM ET, June 10, 2011

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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 …

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: Don Surber, Lisa Graas, The Other McCain, TPMDC, Pajamas Media, FrumForum, The New Republic and Mother Jones

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: Mother Jones, Political Insider, The Moderate Voice, Democratic Strategist, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, GOP 12, Trail Blazers Blog, Towleroad News #gay, Booman Tribune, The Political Carnival, FrumForum and AmSpecBlog

New York Times:
Gingrich Aides Quit en Masse Over Conflicts

Discussion: Prairie Weather and The BRAD BLOG

Jennifer Jacobs / Iowa Caucuses:
Gingrich's entire paid Iowa campaign team resigns

Discussion: TPMDC, ABCNEWS, Politisite, USA Today, Lez Get Real, Washington Post, Swampland, The Atlantic Online, Gawker, RedState, New York Magazine, The New Republic, Daily Kos, Outside the Beltway, Taegan Goddard's … and The Note

The Caucus:
Gingrich's Senior Campaign Staff Resigns

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

Discussion: CNN, Hullabaloo, The Note and National Review

Associated Press: Gingrich aides resign; campaign in question

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: Atlas Shrugs, JammieWearingFool, Lynn Sweet, Don Surber, Pajamas Media, Taylor Marsh and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »

Becky Bohrer / Associated Press:
Alaska poised to release Palin emails

Discussion: The Politico, Politisite and FrumForum

Derek Willis / The Caucus:
Help Us Review the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records

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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sarah Palin film to get nationwide release

Discussion: CNN, New York Magazine and Conservatives4Palin

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: Outside the Beltway, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Swampland, Money Game, The Daily Caller, New York Magazine, Washington Post and The Democratic Daily

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

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

Sean Collins Walsh / The Caucus:
A Date With Bill Clinton, for a Donation

Discussion: Hotline On Call

Jon Terbush / TPMDC:

Poll: Majority Of Weiner's Constituents Think he Should Stay In Office — While lawmakers from Rep. Anthony Weiner's (D-NY) own party have now begun to call for his resignation, a Marist poll released Thursday night finds that his constituents think he should stay.

Discussion: Donklephant, ThinkProgress and FrumForum

New York Post:
Weiner says he has no plans to resign following sexting scandal

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

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

Discussion: CNN, The Politico, Hit & Run, The Hill, JammieWearingFool, ABCNEWS and Ricochet Conversation Feed

Michael O'Brien / The Hill:

Romney will skip Iowa straw poll — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) said Thursday that he'd be skipping the influential August straw poll of potential Iowa caucusgoers. — Romney, who won the 2007 straw poll, announced through his campaign that he would skip the Ames Straw Poll this cycle …

Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog, The Note, CNN and HotAirPundit

Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Romney to skip Ames

Discussion: The Page and GOP 12

Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Romney to Skip Key Poll in Iowa

Discussion: Washington Post, MarketBeat, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, St. Petersburg Times, Moe Lane, Gawker, Talking Points Memo and FrumForum

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: Wall Street Journal, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, PopWatch, FishbowlDC, Salon, Shakesville and New York Magazine

Eric Kleefeld / TPMDC:

Rick Perry's Call For National Fasting And Prayer Causes Confusion In Iowa (UPDATED) — Post Updated: — After initial reports that Gov. Terry Branstad had signed on to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's call for a national day of fasting and prayer on August 6, Branstad's spokesman has now told …

Discussion: Balloon Juice, Booman Tribune and Wall Street Journal

Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Texas governor's urging for day of prayer causes stir in Iowa

Discussion: Lisa Graas, PolitickerNY and TPMDC

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 Lonely Conservative, The Gateway Pundit, RedState and National Review

The Politico:

Will rivalry make Sarah Palin run? — Will Sarah Palin's intensifying rivalry with Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) cause the former Alaska governor to run for president? — The first female Republican vice presidential nominee clearly believes she is the one who has paid the heavy dues …

Discussion: Lisa Graas, Big Journalism, SarahPAC, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Conservatives4Palin

Nicholas Watt / Guardian:
Sarah Palin snub by Margaret Thatcher aides infuriates US rightwing

Discussion: Boing Boing and The Daily Dish

Andy Newman / City Room:

Five People Shot on Boardwalk in Brighton Beach — The police investigated a multiple shooting on the Coney Island boardwalk near Brighton 5th Street on Thursday. — 11:30 p.m. | Updated For the latest updates, read the news article from Friday's paper.

Discussion: New York Times, New York Magazine and FrumForum

Michael Cooper / The Caucus:

A Guessing Game Over 11 Secret Words — What were the 11 words? It was an irresistible mystery. — When the federal government said it would finally release a declassified copy of the Pentagon Papers on Monday, 40 years after they were published by The New York Times, it initially said it would keep 11 words secret.

Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots and The Raw Story

Barak Ravid / Haaretz:

Haaretz exclusive: Secret cables show Israel's battle plan over Palestinian UN bid — Foreign Ministry documents outline instructions to envoys to thwart international recognition of Palestinian state. — Israel has started mobilizing its embassies for the battle against UN recognition …

Discussion: Guardian and Israel Matzav

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 Birkey / Minnesota Independent:

Archbishop Nienstedt: Gay marriage ban is not anti-gay — Archbishop John Nienstedt penned a column on Thursday defending the Catholic Church's decision to lobby for an amendment that would add a ban on same-sex marriage to the Minnesota Constitution. He said the amendment is not “anti-gay, mean-spirited and prejudicial.”

Discussion: Speakeasy, Lez Get Real and Lisa Graas

David Crary / RealClearPolitics:
Survey shows Americans' conflicted abortion views

Discussion: The Moderate Voice

Paul Krugman / New York Times:

Rule by Rentiers — The latest economic data have dashed any hope of a quick end to America's job drought, which has already gone on so long that the average unemployed American has been out of work for almost 40 weeks. Yet there is no political will to do anything about the situation.

Discussion: International Political … and Prairie Weather