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5:15 PM ET, June 4, 2014

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Ralph Peters / National Review:
Why Team Obama Was Blindsided by the Bergdahl Backlash  —  Congratulations, Mr. President!  And identical congrats to your sorcerer's apprentice, National Security Adviser Susan Rice.  By trying to sell him as an American hero, you've turned a deserter already despised by soldiers …
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New York Times:
Can Bowe Bergdahl Be Tied to 6 Lost Lives? Facts Are Murky
Michelle Malkin / Townhall.com:
Exclusive: The Story You Haven't Yet Heard About Bowe Bergdahl's Desertion
Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Was Exchanged for Detainees at Guantánamo
Wall Street Journal:
Secret Videos Prompted Bowe Bergdahl Taliban Prisoner Swap
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Hillary Clinton Was Skeptical of Taliban-Bergdahl Swap
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Graham warns of Republican impeachment push over Gitmo  —  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned Wednesday that Republican lawmakers would call for President Obama's impeachment if he released more prisoners from Guantanamo Bay without congressional approval.  —  Republicans worry Obama may try …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA and CNN
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Donna Cassata / Associated Press:
Dem Leader Assails GOP Over Soldier Swap
Discussion: Politico
Greta Van Susteren / Gretawire:
THIS IS SO DANGEROUS!!!  What is WRONG WITH THE SECRET SERVICE???!!???  If Polish tabloids can get these pics (and video) with a camera lens, is there anyone who doesn't think the President is vulnerable to someone armed?  —  As you know, President Obama is traveling in Europe.
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Danika Fears / New York Post:
Obama snapped pumping iron at hotel gym  —  Even the president pumps iron at the hotel gym.  —  A fellow gym user snapped a few covert shots and video of President Obama lifting weights at a 5-star hotel in Warsaw, Poland — evidently without being seen by the president's security team — then posted them on his Facebook page.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Don't Harsh Our Mellow, Dude  —  The caramel-chocolate flavored candy bar looked so innocent, like the Sky Bars I used to love as a child.  —  Sitting in my hotel room in Denver, I nibbled off the end and then, when nothing happened, nibbled some more.  I figured if I was reporting …
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Maureen Dowd went to Colorado, ate some marijuana candy, and had an 8-hour freakout.
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Thad Cochran backers face agonizing choice  —  Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran's national backers awakened to a wrenching decision Wednesday: whether to continue pouring energy and cash into an effort to rescue a six-term incumbent who failed to win a majority of the vote in this week's primary.
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CNN:
Top takeaways from Tuesday's primaries
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Adam Weymouth / The Atlantic Online:
Thad Cochran, the Last of the Naive Republicans
Adam Auriemma / Wall Street Journal:
Solved: People Magazine's Hillary Clinton Cover Mystery  —  Attention Twitter: We can confirm that's not a walker.  —  Hillary Clinton's appearance on the cover of the People magazine raised some eyebrows Wednesday—and not for her comments on a potential run in 2016 or about Monica Lewinsky.
Discussion: The Awl, Hullabaloo, Mashable and Mediaite
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Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press:
NOW APPLICATION ‘INCONSISTENCIES’ VEX HEALTH LAW  —  FILE - This May 14, 2014 file photo shows Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Barack Obama's nominee to become secretary of Health and Human Services testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington.  More than 2 million people who got health insurance …
John Hult / Argus Leader:
Annette Bosworth arrested on perjury and election fraud charges  —  Former U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth has turned herself into the Minnehaha County Jail following the issuance of a warrant for her arrest.  —  Attorney General Marty Jackley issued the warrant for Bosworth this morning.
Kim Brooks / Salon:
The day I left my son in the car  —  I had no idea it would consume the next years of my life  —  The day it happened was no different from most; I was worried, and I was running late.  I was worried because in a few hours' time I was going to be enduring a two-and-a-half hour flight with my kids, ages 1 and 4.
Discussion: Unfogged and susiemadrak.com
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Supreme Court Denies Attempt To Stop Oregon Same-Sex Marriages  —  The National Organization for Marriage tried to get the Supreme Court to stop same-sex couples from marrying, but the court denied the request without comment on Tuesday.  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court denied …
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Oliver North Of All People Blasts Obama For Financing Terrorist Orgs In Bergdahl Swap  —  Naturally, Lt. Col. Oliver North has plenty to say about the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.  —  North, the former Reagan aide-turned-conservative commentator best-known for his central role …
Adam J. White / Weekly Standard:
Hot and Bothered: When Liberals Want Conservatives to Talk About Climate Change Instead of the Middle Class  —  “Everything reminds Milton of the money supply,” Robert Solow once said of his fellow Nobel-winning economist Milton Friedman at a symposium.  “Well, everything reminds me of sex, but I keep it out of the paper.”
eng.kremlin.ru:
Vladimir Putin's interview with Radio Europe 1 and TF1 TV channel  —  In the run-up to his visit to France, Vladimir Putin gave an interview to Radio Europe 1 news programme author and frontman Jean-Pierre Elkabbach and anchor of the evening news on TF1 TV channel Gilles Bouleau.
Discussion: CNN, Business Insider and Mediaite
 
 
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ThinkProgress:
Ohio May Take Away Low-Income Women's Access To The Most Effective Form Of Birth Control
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
Zany NRA Video Attacks Media For Labeling Shootings as “Shootings”
Discussion: Mediaite and Joe. My. God.
Paul Krugman / American Prospect:
The Rich, the Right, and the Facts: Deconstructing the Inequality Debate
Discussion: susiemadrak.com
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Left and Masculinity  —  My last post tried to pin …
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Russian jet ‘buzzed U.S. plane’
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Last Slide  —  Next up: In what's expected to be a highly competitive …
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Democrats embrace Medicaid expansion on trail
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Happiness in Short Supply in Iran
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