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3:15 PM ET, June 1, 2012

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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Obama Order Sped Up Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran  —  WASHINGTON — From his first months in office, President Obama secretly ordered increasingly sophisticated attacks on the computer systems that run Iran's main nuclear enrichment facilities, significantly expanding America's …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
US Creates 69,000 New Jobs, Unemployment Rate 8.2%  —  The American jobs engine hit stall speed in May, with the economy adding just 69,000 new jobs while the unemployment rate climbed to 8.2 percent.  —  As another summertime swoon looms, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported …
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James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
Miserable May jobs report suggests U.S. in recession red zone  —  [THIS POST WILL UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF PAGE AS EVENTS UNFOLD ...]  —  The May jobs report was a complete and utter disaster for the economy and, perhaps, President Obama's chances for reelection.
David Hogberg / Investor's Business Daily:   Core 25-54 Employment Rates Still Near Historic Lows
Timothy R. Homan / Bloomberg:
Employment In U.S. Increased 69,000 In May
Brian McGrory / The Boston Globe:
Warren: 'I won't deny who I am'  —  Elizabeth Warren, outside her childhood home in Norman, Okla., last year.  She said her parents had to elope because her father's family disapproved of her mother's Native American ancestry.  —  She has given clumsy answers, evaded questions …
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Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: ELOPED? ELIZABETH WARREN'S PARENTS MARRIED IN RELIGIOUS CEREMONY
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Weasel Zippers
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Warren: My parents had to elope because my mother was 1/16th Cherokee, or something; Update …
Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Cherokees to protest Warren at convention
Bill Clinton / CNN:
TRENDING: Bill Clinton, predicting Obama win, calls Romney's business career ‘sterling’  —  (CNN) - Former President Bill Clinton, a stalwart backer of President Barack Obama who's already helped the incumbent Democrat raise funds for his re-election bid, said Thursday that Mitt Romney had a …
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BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Wins Over The Right By Confronting Obama  —  Behind his confrontational strategy: A bet that the base cares more about grit than policy, and doesn't want him to apologize for Donald Trump.  “This is right out of Breitbart's playbook,” says Thor.  —  Romey, in front of Solyndra Thursday.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:   Mitt the “Fighting Moderate”
Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMMuckraker  —  Justice Department Demands Florida Stop Purging Voter Rolls  —  The Justice Department sent a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner Thursday evening demanding the state cease purging its voting rolls because the process it is using has not been cleared under the Voting Rights Act, TPM has learned.
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CNN:
Florida defends voter roll ‘purge’ after protest from DOJ
Discussion: Colorlines
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Judge Opposes Restrictions on Florida's Voter Groups
ABCNEWS:
Jeb Bush Proves He Won't be VP  —  Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush emphatically told reporters today he is not going to be a candidate for vice president.  —  “It's not in the cards for me,” Bush said.  “I don't know how many times I have to repeat this.  I have been repeating it for the last two years.
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Democrat Van Hollen tells Jeb Bush he should be criticizing his brother  —  A top House Democrat slammed Jeb Bush on Friday for criticizing President Obama's economic policies while not condemning those of his brother, former President George W. Bush.  —  Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.) …
Dareh Gregorian / New York Post:
DC Comics Green Lantern relaunched as gay superhero  —  One of DC Comics oldest heroes is super-coming out.  —  The original Green Lantern - a DC Comics mainstay for the past 70 years - will be revealed to be a gay man in next week's issue of “Earth 2.”  —  Alan Scott - formerly …
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Darren Franich / PopWatch:
DC reveals gay superhero: James Robinson discusses the new (old) Green Lantern
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay and BuzzFeed
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
The Charts That Should Accompany All Discussions of Media Bias  —  They are the ones presented this morning by John Sides, drawing on Pew analyses of positive, negative, and neutral press coverage of all Republican candidates and of President Obama through this past year.  —  Here's the trend in coverage of Mitt Romney.
First Read / msnbc.com:
President Barack Obama speaks before signing the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank at the White House in Washington May 30, 2012.  —  *** Ouch for Team Obama: Why is this presidential race close?  And why might it get closer?  Look no further than today's jobs report for May, which is a gut-punch for Team Obama.
Discussion: Politico
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
Recall Election Could Foretell November Vote  —  WAUKESHA, Wis. — If this was ever an election just about Wisconsin, it is far more than that now.  —  With more than $30 million raised from conservative donors, many of them from other states, and visits from a who's who of high-profile Republican governors …
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Dave Levinthal / Reuters:
John Edwards case shines light on hard-to-enforce campaign finance laws  —  If you're a sketchy or careless politician with an urge to tempt campaign finance law - well, go for it.  —  Odds are that you'll get away with your misdeeds for years, dinged only by a paltry penalty - if any at all - well after the fact.
Discussion: Politico
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Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
Tensions Inside John Edwards Jury Room
Discussion: Washington Post
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama apologizes in writing for ‘Polish death camp’ verbal gaffe  —  President Obama has penned a letter of apology expressing “regret” over using the phrase “Polish death camps” in a ceremony earlier this week, which has drawn heavy criticism from Polish officials.
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Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Obama Tells Donors Health-Care Fight May Loom After Court Rules  —  Obama Needs More Time to Redo Health Care  —  President Barack Obama is confiding to Democratic donors that he may have to revisit the health-care issue in a second term, a position at odds with his publicly expressed confidence …
ThinkProgress:
Morning Briefing: Disappointing Jobs Report Calls GOP's Austerity Policies Into Question  — The U.S. economy added just 69,000 jobs in May, far below economists' expectations.  The report suggests that the GOP's deep spending cuts and other austerity measures have undermined growth.
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Shaila Dewan / New York Times:
Weak U.S. Hiring Adds to Global Gloom
Melissa Jeltsen / The Huffington Post:
Jay Townsend, GOP Spokesman: 'Let's Hurl Some Acid At Those Female Democratic Senators' … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  New York, Video, Barry Caro, Jay Townsend, Jay Townsend Spokesman, Richard Becker, Nan Hayworth, New-York-Representatives, War On Women, Politics News
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:   GOP Congressional Spokesman: 'Let's Hurl Some Acid At Those Female Democratic Senators.'
Frank Newport / Gallup:
In U.S., 46% Hold Creationist View of Human Origins  —  Highly religious Americans most likely to believe in creationism  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years.
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
‘Fear of the Future’ Keeps Lid on Economic Growth: Greenspan  —  Investors could revolt at a moment's notice against high government deficit levels, jeopardizing chances at a recovery and potentially sending interest rates soaring, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told CNBC.
Wall Street Journal:
Holder's Racial Incitement  —  When looking for the Attorney General's motives, think lower.  —  The United States of America has a black President whose chief law enforcement officer, Attorney General Eric Holder, is also black.  They have a lot of political power.  So how are they using it?
Alan B. Krueger / White House.gov Blog:
The Employment Situation in May  —  Problems in the job market were long in the making and will not be solved overnight.  The economy lost jobs for 25 straight months beginning in February 2008, and over 8 million jobs were lost as a result of the Great Recession.
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
The Nonfarm Payrolls Report of Doom … - Republican Fears of Voter Fraud Are Based on Nightmares, Tall Tales, and Paranoia - The New Snow White: 14 Percent More Dwarfs, 100 Percent Less Charm Than the Original - DC Comics' Watchmen Prequels Are a Crime Against Its Creator …
 
 
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Chris Francescani / Reuters:
NY mayor blasts sugar ban critics: “That's a lot of soda”
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Campaign 2012
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Austerity Agenda  —  “The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity.”
Whet Moser / Chicago magazine:
The Politics of Mike Bost's Pension Rant: Upstate, Downstate
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Big Paychecks, Tiny Tax Burdens: How 21,000 Wealthy Americans Avoided Paying Income Tax
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
766,000 More Women Unemployed Today Than When Obama Took Office
 Earlier Items: 
David Jolly / Yahoo! Finance:
Euro Zone Unemployment Rises to a Record 11%
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House members slam Obama on closing Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site
WHBF-TV:
Controversial family book in Erie schools
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Brian Z. Tamanaha / New York Times:
How to Make Law School Affordable
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