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5:45 PM ET, May 30, 2012

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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
‘Obama ... Stressed He Probably Knows About Judaism More than Any Other President’  —  President Obama met yesterday with “about 20 Conservative Jewish community leaders, thanking them for the work they do to improve communities around the country and discussed their shared commitment to rebuilding the U.S. economy,” Haaretz reports.
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Natasha Mozgovaya / Haaretz:
Obama awards rock icon Bob Dylan highest Presidential honor  —  Several members of Jewish community among those awarded the Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Barack Obama.  —  U.S. President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to musician Bob Dylan during a ceremony on May 29, 2012 in White House in Washington.
David Frum / david-frum:
It Wasn't a “Gaffe”  —  President Obama just slapped in the face one of America's closest allies in Europe.  I'm looking for comment in the American media, and I find ... wire stories reporting a spokesman's apology for the president's “misstatement”?  —  The president intended to honor Jan Karski …
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:   Barack Obama—Friend of Jews, Scholar of Judaism
Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Barack Obama has insulted 38 million Poles with his crass and ignorant ‘Polish death camp’ remark
Yitzhak Benhorin / Ynetnews:
Obama to rabbis: I'm vilified because of Muslim name
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and National Review
Associated Press:
Poles outraged over Obama's words on death camps
Mike Allenand Jim Vandehei / Reuters:
GOP groups plan record $1 billion blitz  —  Republican super PACs and other outside groups shaped by a loose network of prominent conservatives - including Karl Rove, the Koch brothers and Tom Donohue of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce - plan to spend roughly $1 billion on November's elections …
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Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Team Romney: Not gonna play repudiation game  —  Mitt Romney's refusal to repudiate Donald Trump sends a signal, both to Democrats and the voting public: With the nation's future at stake in this November's election, Romney will not accommodate calls that he disown supporters who make ill-considered …
Ed Andrieski / ABCNEWS:
Obama Campaign Mounts New Assault on Romney's Record as Massachusetts Governor  —  The Obama campaign is opening a new front in its war against GOP rival Mitt Romney, ABC News has learned, with planned attacks to begin this week on Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts and the campaign promises Democrats say he left unfulfilled.
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Romney's birth certificate evokes his father's controversy
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Dem poll: Walker recall battle is a dead heat  —  Many Washington pundits have declared the battle to recall Scott Walker all but over, and at least one public poll has shown Walker with a five point lead.  This has created a problem for labor and Dems, who worry that impressions that the race …
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John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Barrett Can't Name Any Schools Hurt by Walker's Collective Bargaining Reforms
Charles Franklin / Marquette Law School Poll:
Marquette Law School Poll finds Walker leads Barrett in Wisconsin recall
Discussion: Politico, Campaign 2012 and Althouse
Justin Berrier / Media Matters for America:
Fox & Friends Drops The Veil, Produces Four-Minute Anti-Obama Attack Ad  —  While Fox & Friends has long been a home for some of the most vicious, misleading, petty, and dishonest attacks on President Obama, they crossed a new ethical line today by producing and airing what is essentially a four-minute anti-Obama attack ad.
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Hundreds of Cherokees form new group to challenge Elizabeth Warren  —  A new group of over 150 Cherokees and growing has formed with the purpose of forcing Elizabeth Warren to give up her false claim to Cherokee heritage.  —  The group has a new blog, Cherokees Demand Truth from Elizabeth Warren, and corresponding Facebook page:
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Patterico's Pontifications:
Aaron Walker Arrested for Blogging?  Clearing Some of the Fog Surrounding Today's Litigation  —  Well, partially dispelling.  —  Aaron Walker (aka Worthing) was arrested today in a Maryland courtroom.  Several days ago, convicted bomber and perjurer Brett Kimberlin had obtained a …
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Romney Rebounds Among Women, While Obama's Favorability Slips  —  A sharp advance among women has boosted Mitt Romney to his highest favorability rating of the presidential campaign - albeit still an unusually weak one - while Barack Obama's personal popularity has slipped in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll.
Mike Flynn / BREITBART.COM:
ARTUR DAVIS, FORMER BLACK CAUCUS MEMBER, SWITCHES TO GOP  —  Artur Davis was first elected to Congress from Alabama in 2002.  The Harvard Law School grad was quickly tapped as a rising star among Democrats.  He became a Senior Whip for the caucus, co-chair the New Democrat Coalition …
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Artur Davis / Official Artur Davis:
A Response to Political Rumors
Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC  —  Senate Republicans Signal Big Shift On ‘Obamacare’  —  Senate Republicans are echoing the House GOP's shift in favor of some of the more popular “Obamacare” provisions, a sign that the party is uniting behind the strategy ahead of the election.  —  With a Supreme Court decision …
Julia Duin / Washington Post:
Serpent-handling pastor profiled earlier in Washington Post dies from rattlesnake bite  —  Mack Wolford, a flamboyant Pentecostal pastor from West Virginia whose serpent-handling talents were profiled last November in The Washington Post Magazine , hoped the outdoor service he had planned …
Discussion: The Raw Story, ABCNEWS and TheBlaze.com
Tim Hanrahan / Washington Wire:
‘Justice for Sale’ Keeps Top Ad Spot  —  Every week, Washington Wire provides a rundown of the top online political ads, based on data from Visible Measures.  —  The conservative group American Future Fund's “Justice for Sale” ad remained the top online political video for the week ended Sunday …
Discussion: Politico
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Romney campaign's surreal arguments about the economy
Investor's Business Daily:
A No Confidence Vote For Obamanomics  —  Economy: Consumer confidence took a “surprise” tumble in May, as home prices hit 10-year lows.  Tell us again why economists keep calling bad economic news about Obama's so-called recovery “unexpected”?  —  Analysts had predicted …
Doug Gross / CNN:
Romney iPhone app misspells ‘America’ to Web's delight  —  (CNN) — It's probably not the kind of thing voters will use to choose the leader of the free world.  —  But the Web was taking no shortage of presidential potshots Wednesday over Republican candidate Mitt Romney's new mobile app, which embarrassingly misspelled “America.”
Discussion: msnbc.com and Online NewsHour
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BuzzFeed:
New Tumblr Lampoons Romney Campaign's iPhone App For Misspelling “America”
Discussion: Naked DC
Jim Romenesko:
AP wants to get prostitutes away from its DC bureau  —  The Associated Press is trying to get its Washington, DC bureau designated a “prostitution free zone.”  —  THE MEMO:  —  From: Tobias, Ed  —  Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 08:58 AM  —  To: !  All WDC Staff  —  Subject: Prostitutes on 13th Street
Chris Edwards / Cato Institute:
We Can Cut Government: Canada Did  —  Chris Edwards is the director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute and editor of www.DownsizingGovernment.org.  —  Two decades ago Canada suffered a deep recession and teetered on the brink of a debt crisis caused by rising government spending.
 
 
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Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Judge Defends Sentence Imposed on Ex-Rutgers Student
Billy Hallowell / TheBlaze.com:
ALLAH WILL ‘BRING DOWN’ AMERICA'S SKYSCRAPERS: HORRIFIC NEW FARRAKHAN AUDIO PRAISING SHARIA LAW …
NY Daily News:
U.N. endorses Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as tourism leader
Discussion: The Daily Caller, RedState and IMAO
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Economically, Obama Is No Jimmy Carter
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Mythical Backlashes and Specious Explanations
Karen McMahan / JLF > CJ Exclusive:
EPA Agents, Police Officer Interrogate Asheville Emailer
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Erika Johnsen / Hot Air:
Spain scuttles clean-energy subsidies; promptly watches the industry go down like a sinking ship
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Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Sharpton And Alleged Trafficker Peddled TV Show
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Weasel Zippers
WRTV-TV:
Church Under Fire For Video Of Boy's Anti-Gay Song
Discussion: Advocate and The Raw Story
Adam Harrington / CBS Chicago:
Downstate Lawmaker Screams, Throws Papers Over Pension Reform Bill
Washington Examiner:
Are Obama's campaign aides fooling themselves?
Nick Squires / Telegraph:
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg left no tip after Rome lunch
Discussion: WyBlog, Outside the Beltway and Gawker
 

 
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