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10:35 AM ET, June 6, 2014

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Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: Bergdahl declared jihad in 2010, secret documents show  —  U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at one point during his captivity converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a “mujahid,” or warrior for Islam, according to secret documents prepared on the basis …
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Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Unraveling  —  How the Obama administration's story on Bowe Bergdahl and the Taliban fell apart  —  Late in the afternoon of Saturday, May 31, Barack Obama strode confidently to a lectern in the White House Rose Garden flanked by the parents of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Free him, then try him  —  (Uncredited/AP) - In this image taken …
Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
An Anatomy of the Right's Bergdahl Overreach
CNN:
CNN exclusive: Doctor in Senate says Bergdahl was drugged in video
Discussion: Hullabaloo
David Brooks / New York Times:
President Obama Was Right  —  Americans don't have a common ancestry.  Therefore, we have to work hard to build national solidarity.  We go in for more overt displays of patriotism than in most other countries: politicians wearing flag lapel pins, everybody singing the national anthem before games …
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New York Times:
The Rush to Demonize Sgt. Bergdahl  —  Four months ago, Senator John McCain said he would support the exchange of five hard-core Taliban leaders for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.  “I would support,” he told CNN.  “Obviously I'd have to know the details, but I would support ways of bringing …
Jeff Bell / Wall Street Journal:
43 beats 44, 48% to 42%.  —  This has to hurt: A plurality of respondents in a new Fox News poll “believe the administration of former President George W. Bush was more competent [than] the Obama administration,” the Hill reports.  “Forty-eight percent say the Obama administration is less competent …
New York Times:
Memories From Normandy  —  Beginning on June 6, 1944, more than 150,000 Allied troops landed on a broad stretch of beaches on the coast of Normandy, in German-held France.  Entrenched behind concrete walls and bunkers were more than 50,000 German soldiers.  Seventy years later …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Peter Baker / New York Times:   Obama Honors Moment of Liberation in Normandy
Laura Smith-Spark / CNN:
Obama: They defied every danger
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
KIRO-TV:
Seattle Pacific University shooting: Multiple victims, 2 shooters  —  Quick Facts:  — At least six people shot at Seattle Pacific University.  — At least one suspect in custody.  Police initially said two.  — School is about 10 min. from downtown Seattle with about 4,000 students.
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The Seattle Times:
1 dead, others hurt in shooting at Seattle Pacific University before student tackles gunman  —  One student is dead and at least two others were wounded in a shooting Thursday afternoon at Seattle Pacific University.  —  A Seattle Pacific University (SPU) student tackled a gunman who was reloading …
New York Times:
It's Not Too Soon to Pay Attention to Senate Polling  —  Just five months until November's midterm elections and already early polling results have countered some expectations.  In Arkansas, the Democrat Mark Pryor is showing surprising strength in a red state, and in North Carolina …
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Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Primary Winner: Poll Averages Prove More Accurate
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
CNN:
70 years later, D-Day vet Jim ‘Pee Wee’ Martin jumps again  —  Normandy, France (CNN) — Jim “Pee Wee” Martin acted like he'd been here before, like jumping from a plane is as easy as falling off a log.  —  Maybe that's because he had — 70 years ago.  —  “I'm feeling fine,” …
Kerry Picket / BREITBART.COM:
SPECIAL COUNSEL INVESTIGATING 37 CASES OF VA RETALIATION AGAINST WHISTLEBLOWERS  —  The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) announced on Thursday that it is presently investigating allegations from 37 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee whistleblowers at VA facilities in 19 states …
Discussion: Hot Air
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Dialing It In  —  One evening in March, during a visit to Italy, President Obama asked the U.S. ambassador to round up a bunch of—and I quote—"interesting Italians" for a dinner at the ambassadorial residence.  The history of the property, the Villa Taverna, goes as far back as the tenth century.
Discussion: alicublog and The PJ Tatler
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Climate Domino  —  Maybe it's me, but the predictable right-wing cries of outrage over the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rules on carbon seem oddly muted and unfocused.  I mean, these are the people who managed to create national outrage over nonexistent death panels.
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Schumer Drops by Graduations to Tell Same ‘Loser’ Story
Keith Koffler / The Great Debate:
Is Michelle running for the Senate?
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Edward Snowden took less than previously thought, says James Clapper
Juliette Garside / Guardian:
Vodafone reveals existence of secret wires that allow state surveillance
Discussion: PandoDaily and The Verge
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Rahm Emanuel: D.C. hero, Chicago goat
Discussion: ABC News
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Brad Molen / Engadget:
Google's secretive 3D-mapping project now has a tablet: here it is
Discussion: Guardian, The Verge and Mashable
Bruce Schreiner / Associated Press:
Paul weighing dual run for White House, Senate
Discussion: CNN and Shakesville
 Earlier Items: 
Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Southern-Fried Freedom Lovers Propel Libertarian Candidates
Discussion: Hit & Run
Tammy Vigil / KDVR.com:
Court mistake sets man free, but he's been sent back for 90 years after turning life around
Discussion: KFOR-TV
Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Paul has warning for released detainees
Discussion: Associated Press and The Raw Story
Jenna Levy / Gallup:
U.S. Uninsured Rate Holds Steady at 13.4%
Gretchen Livingston / Pew Research Center's …:
Growing Number of Dads Home with the Kids
Discussion: New York Times, WAMC and ABC News
CBS News:
Hillary Clinton's “Hard Choices”: Bergdahl, Benghazi and more