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2:25 PM ET, June 14, 2011

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Debate Swings Door Open for Perry, Closed for Palin  —  Most people have better things to do than to watch a presidential debate eight months in advance of the Iowa caucuses.  So when considering a debate like the one that took place among Republican candidates in New Hampshire tonight, it's important to be mindful of the following:
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Michele Bachmann steals the show at GOP debate  —  “Assume the position!”  CNN's John King ordered the candidates as they approached their lecterns just before airtime for Monday night's debate.  —  The Republican presidential contenders did as the moderator told them.
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  My take on the New Hampshire debate  —  Senior Political Analyst Follow Him @MichaelBarone  —  My Washington Examiner colleagues have given their ongoing reactions to the CNN/WMUR/New Hampshire Union Leader two-hour debate at St. Anselm's College (what a fab auditorium! …
The Politico:
Pawlenty beats hasty N.H. retreat  —  GOFFSTOWN, N.H. - Tim Pawlenty's puzzling decision at Monday's debate to abandon a new line of attack on Mitt Romney's healthcare record is prompting fresh doubts among members of his own party about his readiness to confront the GOP frontrunner.
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
New Hampshire Republican debate: Winners and losers  —  Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney answers a question as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, left, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, listen during the first New Hampshire Republican presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Monday, June 13, 2011.
The Politico:
Tim Pawlenty beats hasty New Hampshire retreat  —  First he tried to dodge, criticizing President Barack Obama's approach to health care reform.  —  King pushed harder: “You don't want to address why you called Gov. Romney's, ‘Obamneycare’?”  —  Pawlenty started backtracking …
A.Killough / CNN:
Romney takes a victory lap in New Hampshire
Discussion: The Note, ABCNEWS, GOP 12 and The Politico
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Citing his own past, Frank passes on Weiner judgment  —  Citing his own brush with sexual scandal, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said Tuesday that he's in no position to judge the lurid actions of colleague Anthony Weiner.  —  “Given these circumstances, where I was myself engaged in activity …
Discussion: National Review
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
National poll: Anthony Weiner's got to go
Discussion: Verum Serum
Associated Press:
Democrats wrestle with how to end Weiner scandal
Associated Press:
Obama: My family would be fine with just 1 term  —  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says his wife and daughters aren't “invested” in him being president and would have been fine had he decided against running for re-election.  But he says they believe in what he's doing for the country.
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The Politico:
FLOTUS tells of Obama's worry  —  'I see the sadness and worry that's creasing his face,' Michelle Obama said of her husband.  —  AP Photo  —  First lady Michelle Obama on Monday told a fundraiser in Southern California of the toll the presidency has taken on her husband Barack Obama.
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:   Obama: My family is ‘fine’ with one term
CNNMoney.com:
Wingnut debt ceiling demands  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A lot of politicians are weighing in with demands before they'll support raising the debt ceiling.  Most of their conditions are related to debt, such as put in place a debt reduction plan or cut spending.
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Statue of Liberty redux  —  A smart colleague reminds us that Ronald Reagan kicked off his formal general election campaign in 1980 with a Liberty Park speech, as Jon Huntsman is doing for his primary effort.  —  But there's another, more recent , and far more local, candidate who announced …
Discussion: The Note and GOP 12
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Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman getting into GOP presidential race
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
The Huffington Post:
Jon Huntsman 2012 Campaign For President Set To Lauch: AP Sources
Discussion: FrumForum, CNN and Wake up America
David Brooks / New York Times:
Pundit Under Protest  —  I'll be writing a lot about the presidential election over the next 16 months, but at the outset I would just like to remark that I'm opining on this whole campaign under protest.  I'm registering a protest because for someone of my Hamiltonian/National Greatness perspective …
Washington Post:
‘Paula Brooks,’ editor of ‘Lez Get Real,’ also a man  —  Just one day after the author behind a popular Syrian lesbian blog admitted to being a married, American man named Tom MacMaster, the editor of the lesbian news site Lez Get Real, with the tag­line “A Gay Girl's View on the World,” acknowledged that he is also a man.
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Mark Steyn / National Review:
Is Every Lesbian Blogger a Middle-Aged Man?
Discussion: BBC, Guardian and Moe Lane
Matthew Hendley / The Daily Pulp:
Allen West Violates Federal Law During Weekend Diving Trip  —  ​There's nothing really bad to say about Rep. Allen West going diving off the coast of Deerfield Beach with a bunch of military veterans — except for the fact that he violated U.S. federal law in the process, and provided pictorial of himself doing so.
ABCNEWS:
Newt Gingrich Charity Paid Cash To Gingrich For-Profit Business  —  A non-profit charity founded by Newt Gingrich to promote freedom, faith and free enterprise also served as another avenue to promote Gingrich's political views, and came dangerously close, some experts say …
Carrie Budoff Brown / The Politico:
Obama fundraiser underwhelms  —  The empty seats at President Obama's fundraiser in Miami, Fl. were hard to miss.  —  MIAMI, Fla. — A low-dollar fundraiser here Monday felt like a throwback to the 2008 campaign.  —  There was the same old soundtrack - including “City of Blinding Lights” …
host.madison.com:
Capitol Report: ‘Extraordinary’ session never before used to pass budget  —  If top Republican lawmakers move forward Tuesday with a plan to pass the state budget in “extraordinary session,” it will be the first time lawmakers have used this speedy political maneuver to pass a budget in at least 80 years.
Discussion: Firedoglake, TPMDC and Balloon Juice
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JSOnline:
Collective bargaining limits may rejoin state budget bill
Discussion: Hot Air and National Review
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Puerto Rico-Bound President Obama Courts Latinos, Raises Cash on Visit  —  President Obama today becomes the first sitting U.S. president in five decades to visit Puerto Rico on a trip meant to curry favor among mainland U.S. Latinos and raise some campaign cash.
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CNN:
Obama has political reasons for quick visit to Puerto Rico
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Fact-checking the GOP debate in New Hampshire  —  That was some collection of facts and statistics during the GOP debate in New Hampshire on Monday night that aired on CNN.  —  We're going to take an instant stab at some of them, and then perhaps come back later this week with a more extended look at other assertions.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal:
High Hopes at Miracle-Gro in Medical Marijuana Field  —  Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. has long sold weed killer.  Now, it's hoping to help people grow killer weed.  —  In an unlikely move for the head of a major company, Scotts Chief Executive Jim Hagedorn said he is exploring targeting medical marijuana …
Kristina Wong / ABCNEWS:
Hillary Clinton, the Comic Book  —  It reads more like a soap opera than a comic book, with its down-and-dirty details involving two of the most powerful political figures of our time: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  —  A new 32-page comic book entitled “Political Power: Hillary Rodham Clinton” …
LZ Granderson / CNN:
Are Weiner's women blameless?  —  Editor's note: LZ Granderson writes a weekly column for CNN.com.  A senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com, he has contributed to ESPN's “Sports Center,” “Outside the Lines” and “First Take.”  He is a 2010 nominee and the 2009 winner …
Discussion: Shakesville
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Obama stresses ‘need to accelerate the recovery’  —  President Obama was in North Carolina yesterday, touring a fast-growing manufacturer of clean energy lighting, and convening a meeting of his Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.  Of particular interest, though, were the president's comments …
Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Activists cry foul over FBI probe  —  CHICAGO — FBI agents took box after box of address books, family calendars, artwork and personal letters in their 10-hour raid in September of the century-old house shared by Stephanie Weiner and her husband.  —  The agents seemed keenly interested …
Ron Klain / Bloomberg:
About Ron Klain  —  Ron Klain is a senior executive with a private investment firm in Washington.  From 2009 to 2011, he was chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden and a senior adviser to President Barack Obama on the Recovery Act, judicial selection, and other policy matters.
Discussion: TalkLeft and Eschaton
 
 
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Eric Villency / The Huffington Post:
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Nflatow / ACS Blog:
Just What Is So Wrong with the War on Drugs?
Discussion: Hit & Run and Balloon Juice
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
Drug Shortages … Currently there are about 246 drugs …
Discussion: EconLog
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
DeMint ‘not considering’ presidential run
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Politico's VandeHei: ‘Not Any Single Reporter At Any Media Organization Thinks Palin Should Be President’
Discussion: The Politico and Riehl World View
The Hill:
OVERNIGHT ENERGY: High noon for ethanol
 Earlier Items: 
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
GLAAD's Troup Coronado Helped Put Bush Judges On the Bench
Discussion: The Gist
Sean Cockerham / Anchorage Daily News:
Earliest Palin emails missing from release
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Joan Biskupic / USA Today:
Clarence Thomas takes hard line on defendants
Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
Did Mitt Romney commit voter fraud when he cast a ballot …