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3:40 PM ET, June 22, 2011

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Scott Conroy / Real Clear Politics:
Palin Bus Tour Takes Extended Pit Stop  —  Less than a month after she appeared poised to shake up the Republican presidential campaign, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has once again receded from the 2012 limelight.  —  When Palin launched her “One Nation” bus tour on Memorial Day amid …
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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
No Joke: Sarah Palin Reportedly Quits One Nation Bus Tour Halfway Through  —  Real Clear Politics is reporting that Sarah Palin has taken an “extended hiatus” from her much ballyhooed One Nation Bus Tour.  While the tour was never clearly defined with specific stops (especially to the media) …
Tomoneil / Awards Tracker:
Sarah Palin is definitely a candidate ... for an Emmy
Discussion: JammieWearingFool and GOP 12
Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
Sarah Palin Reportedly Quits Bus Tour Halfway Through
The Note:
The Note: Where's The Beef?  Jon Huntsman Serves Up Tofu To GOP Base  —  By MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) and AMY WALTER (@amyewalter)  —  As President Obama prepares to tell the American people tonight about his plan for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan …
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Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
Jon Huntsman at Liberty Park: The Next Wesley Clark?
Jose Antonio Vargas / New York Times:
My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant  —  One August morning nearly two decades ago, my mother woke me and put me in a cab.  She handed me a jacket.  “Baka malamig doon” were among the few words she said.  ("It might be cold there.")  When I arrived at the Philippines' Ninoy Aquino International Airport …
CBO's Latest 10 Documents:
CBO'S 2011 LONG-TERM BUDGET OUTLOOK  —  ABSTRACT  —  This Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report presents the agency's projections of federal spending and revenues over the coming decades.  Under current law, an aging population and rapidly rising health care costs will sharply increase federal spending …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
CBO: We'll only have giant deficits if Congress wants giant deficits  —  The Congressional Budget Office just released the latest edition of its long-term budget outlook (pdf), and it shows the same thing as always: If Congress lets the Bush tax cuts expire or offsets their extension …
Conn Carroll / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL  —  CBO: Stimulus almost doubled U.S. debt
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and USA Today
David Rogers / The Politico:
CBO warns debt could double GDP
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Rolling Stone:
Climate of Denial  —  Can science and the truth withstand the merchants of poison?  —  AL GORE  —  The first time I remember hearing the question “is it real?” was when I went as a young boy to see a traveling show put on by “professional wrestlers” one summer evening in the gym …
Mike Dorning / Bloomberg:
Americans Worse Now Than When Obama Inaugurated by 44%-34% Margin in Poll  —  Two years after the official start of the recovery, the American people remain pessimistic about their current economic circumstances and longer-term prospects.  —  Fewer than a quarter of people see signs …
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Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Michele Bachmann's Holy War  —  The Tea Party contender may seem like a goofball, but be warned: Her presidential campaign is no laughing matter  —  Close your eyes, take a deep breath, and, as you consider the career and future presidential prospects of an incredible American phenomenon named Michele Bachmann, do one more thing.
David Beasley / Reuters:
Staff quit because “I'm different,” Gingrich says  —  (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday attributed the mass resignations among his campaign staff to the fact that he is “very different” from mainstream politicians.  —  “Philosophically …
Discussion: Ballot Box and Indecision Forever
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Newt Gingrich had second line of credit at Tiffany and Co.
Dylan Howard / RADAR:
Tobey Maguire Sued Over Multi-Million Dollar Illegal Poker Game; DiCaprio, Affleck & Damon Involved  —  Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire is among more than a dozen high-profile Hollywood celebrities being sued in connection with a mega-millions illegal gambling ring that ran high-stakes underground poker games …
The Investigative Project on Terrorism:
CAIR Loses IRS Status  —  Donations to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) no longer are tax deductible after the organization was among 275,000 tax-exempt organizations purged earlier this month by the Internal Revenue Service.  —  The groups failed to file required annual reports …
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Washington Times:
GRAY: Taxpayers' subsidization of war on Fox News
Discussion: Fox Nation and Big Journalism
New York Post:
NBC gives Donald a Trump-sized raise to $160M  —  Playing the presidential card has paid off for Donald Trump.  —  The real-estate mogul and reality-TV host — who kept viewers and the NBC network guessing until the last minute whether he would make a serious run at the Oval Office …
Spiegel Online:
Left Party  —  Related articles, background features and opinions about this topic.  —  A Map without Israel  —  Germany's Left Party Faces Charges of Anti-Semitism  —  Left Party floor leader Gregor Gysi is concerned that the term “anti-Semitism” is used too often.
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Scott / Power Line:
God and damage control at Yale
Discussion: NY Post and JTA
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System:
For immediate release  —  Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April indicates that the economic recovery is continuing at a moderate pace, though somewhat more slowly than the Committee had expected.  Also, recent labor market indicators have been weaker than anticipated.
Jennifer Martinez / The Politico:
Six GLAAD board members resign amid AT&T flap  —  Six board members of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation have resigned amid the fallout over the organization's letter in support of AT&T's proposed bid for wireless rival T-Mobile, a person familiar with the matter told POLITICO.
Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
John Boehner not swayed by John McCain  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) isn't swayed by movement in the Senate to back U.S. military involvement in Libya, saying Wednesday that the House is leaning against authorizing President Barack Obama's actions in the North African dictatorship.
Discussion: The Note and Outside the Beltway
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Wall Street Journal:
Florida Lawmaker Faces Ethics Review  —  WASHINGTON—A congressional ethics panel is investigating allegations that Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings sexually harassed a member of his staff, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  The investigation of Mr. Hastings is being conducted …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
100 Days  —  There is something crazy about what is going on in our country today.  Our fiscal condition continues on an unsustainable path, the European currency is heading for a crackup, the Arab world is in the midst of a crackup, unemployment is creeping upward and basically our two parties …
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
GRAPH: Obama ‘Withdrawal’ Plan Would Leave More Troops In Afghanistan Than When He Began His Presidency  —  Today, President Obama is expected to announce the withdrawal of as many as 33,000 troops from the war in Afghanistan by the end of 2012.  While this announcement is largely being portrayed …
Discussion: New York Times and Newshoggers.com
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dems lost the argument over the deficit, because they never engaged it  —  In case you need further evidence that the Dem decision to effectively endorse the right's austerity/cut-cut-cut frame is only harming themselves, check out the internals of the new Bloomberg News poll.
Marta H. Mossburg / Baltimore Sun:
Reverend Wright brings his anti-American crusade to Baltimore  —  Marta Mossburg writes that Obama's former pastor urges blacks to disavow their country  —  Forget hope and change; victimization is in.  Dropped by the president and dismissed as a racist by many Americans …
 
 
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Ron Paul: ‘Nothing for Us to be Gained’ by Leaving Troops in Afghanistan
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Who is the Wicked Son?  —  Allison Benedikt's essay on the loss …
USPS:
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Justin Berton / SFGate:
Man flies US Airways in women's underwear (Photo)
Ella Ide / Agence France Presse:
Italy breaks ranks over NATO's Libya mission
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Wall Street Journal:
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Adam Ozimek / The Atlantic Online:
Tim Pawlenty Can Get 5% Growth (But He Needs Immigrants to Help)
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Americans' Views on Immigration Holding Steady
Discussion: The Politico
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Perry to make New Hampshire trip
Discussion: CNN, The Atlantic Online and GOP 12
National Review:
If the NY Senate Passes Gay Marriage, It's Republicans Who Will Take the Heat
Rasmussen Reports:
Just 8% Approve of Job Congress Is Doing
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Wall Street Journal:
Venezuelans Puzzle Over Their Leader's Health
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Critic of ATF gun-trafficking program raised no objection when briefed last year
Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
Feds crack down on campus flirting and sex jokes
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