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Bob Woodruff / ABCNEWS:
John Edwards to Face Indictment Today — Unless a last-minute deal comes through, John Edwards will be indicted today on criminal charges after a two-year investigation seeking to connect the former senator to an allegedly illegal scheme to cover-up his extra-marital affair, ABC News has learned.
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
John Edwards indicted on campaign finance charges — View Photo Gallery — Former Sen. John Edwards launched his second bid for the presidency in Dec. 2006. In launching his 2008 bid, Edwards returned to the issue of poverty in America, using New Orleans as a backdrop to underscore …
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Outside the Beltway, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Taylor Marsh, The Volokh Conspiracy, Unfogged and Althouse
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Edwards Indicted in Campaign Fund Case — John Edwards, the former senator from North Carolina and presidential candidate, was indicted Friday morning by a grand jury in Raleigh on charges that he violated campaign finance law during his 2008 presidential campaign.
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The Maddow Blog, Gothamist and Fausta's Blog
WRAL-TV:
Edwards indicted; arrest warrant issued — RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal grand jury has indicted two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on four counts of illegal campaign contributions, one count of conspiracy and one count of false statements.
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Pajamas Media and Patterico's Pontifications
WTVD-TV:
John Edwards indicted
John Edwards indicted
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Fox Nation, Runnin' Scared, Pirate's Cove and Towleroad News #gay
Raleigh News & Observer:
Prosecutors indict John Edwards
Prosecutors indict John Edwards
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Salon, Michelle Malkin and Hot Air
New York Post:
Lewd-pic recipient worn out by Weiner scandal — By REUVEN FENTON in Seattle and JEANE MacINTOSH in NY — “Weinergate” has put a Seattle college cutie through the wringer — jeopardizing her academic dreams, embarrassing her family and shattering her privacy.
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Proof Positive, Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
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Skschust / CBS New York:
Weiner's Office Calls Police After CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer Asks For An Interview — WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork) — Congressman Anthony Weiner said Thursday he's finished talking about the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account. — But he still wouldn't say whether he's the one in the picture.
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Anthony Weiner and the law's peril — If you smell something burning, it is Anthony Weiner's future going up in smoke. — Weiner is a brash and bright Democratic congressman who represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Until recently, he was considered a leading contender to become …
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Top of the Ticket
Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
Weiner Now Silent Over Lewd Photo
Weiner Now Silent Over Lewd Photo
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The Other McCain
The Politico:
Sarah Palin's bus tour leaves GOP cold — As it played out on TV this week, Sarah Palin's “One Nation” road trip of U.S. historical sites was a masterpiece of political mischief-making - a wild dash up the East Coast that delighted her fans and cornered the market on 2012 coverage for days on end.
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CNN, Althouse, Pirate's Cove and Conservatives4Palin
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
'It's like following Princess Diana' — SEABROOK, N.H. — Sarah Palin's bus is plastered with a mockup of the U.S. Constitution. But her entourage — both the three-vehicle motorcade that includes the bus and the smaller, two-SUV version she uses for smaller events — hasn't been very respectful of the traffic laws.
Discussion:
William K. Wolfrum Chronicles, The Political Carnival and National Review
Edward Morrissey / CNN:
Media chase Palin, and her sway grows
Media chase Palin, and her sway grows
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Hot Air and Datechguy's Blog
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Amid media circus, Palin lays out policy positions
Amid media circus, Palin lays out policy positions
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Conservatives4Palin, Liberty Pundits Blog and Boston Herald
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
Hiring in U.S. Slowed in May With 54,000 Jobs Added — After several months of strong job growth, hiring slowed sharply in May, raising concerns once again about the underlying strength of the economic recovery. — The Labor Department reported on Friday that the United States added 54 …
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CNBC:
Paltry New Job Growth of 54,000 Sends Rate to 9.1% — U.S. employment rose far less than expected in May to record its weakest reading since September, while the jobless rate rose to 9.1 percent as high energy prices and the effects of Japan's earthquake bogged down the economy.
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Power Line, Michelle Malkin, Don Surber, Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway, Scared Monkeys and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Watch CNN Anchor's Deadpan Reaction To Sarah Palin's Version Of Paul Revere's Midnight Ride — Sarah Palin is in Boston today, meeting with supporters and other curious elements. She is also chatting about how meaningful being in such a historic region is to her on her One Nation tour.
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Outside the Beltway, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Sarah Palin's History Lesson: Paul Revere Warned The British
Sarah Palin's History Lesson: Paul Revere Warned The British
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Booman Tribune and Gawker
Jay Newton-Small / Swampland:
Palin's Set of Improbable Coincidences
Palin's Set of Improbable Coincidences
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Outside the Beltway
Keith Schneider / New York Times:
Dr. Jack Kevorkian Dies at 83; Backed Assisted Suicide — Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the central figure in the tumultuous national drama surrounding assisted suicide, died Friday in a Michigan hospital. He was 83 and lived in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. — The cause of his death was not immediately known …
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Above the Law, Runnin' Scared and The Powers That Be
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Andrew Breitbart Did Not Run ‘Weinergate’ Evidence Which Turned Out To Be Fake — The “Weinergate” story has been a veritable clinic in the pitfalls of new media-influenced journalism, and one such pitfall has come to a head. Andrew Breitbart has been repeatedly accused of engineering …
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Hot Air, POWIP, YID With LID and Big Government
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Mistake of 2010 — Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York published a blog post about the “mistake of 1937,” the premature fiscal and monetary pullback that aborted an ongoing economic recovery and prolonged the Great Depression. As Gauti Eggertsson, the post's author …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
On the Maddeningly Inexact Relationship Between Unemployment and Re-Election — Make no mistake: The higher the unemployment rate in November 2012, the less likely President Obama is to win a second term. — But we should be careful about asserting that there is any particular threshold …
Political Punch:
Speaker Boehner Throws Down the War Powers Act Gauntlet On Libya — In the immortal words of the vice president, this could be a big $%^ing deal: House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, is throwing what one Republican calls “a legal and political hot potato at the President.”
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New York Times:
House Sets Votes on Two Resolutions Critical of U.S. Role in Libyan Conflict
House Sets Votes on Two Resolutions Critical of U.S. Role in Libyan Conflict
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The Note, msnbc.com, Reuters, The Caucus and American Power
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Our salutary debt-ceiling scare
Our salutary debt-ceiling scare
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National Review and Betsy's Page
Mark Preston / CNN:
CNN announces 7 candidates in June 13 debate — Washington (CNN) — After months of criss-crossing the country and trying to woo potential supporters in early voting states, seven Republicans hoping to capture their party's presidential nomination will meet this month for the first New Hampshire debate of the 2012 election.
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The Political Carnival
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Rudy Giuliani sets ‘late summer’ timetable
Rudy Giuliani sets ‘late summer’ timetable
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The Note, REPUBLICAN REDEFINED, Ben Smith's Blog, Washington Wire and USA Today
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Won't Extend Bush Tax Cuts Again: Pledge To House Dems … WASHINGTON — In a meeting with House Democrats on Thursday, President Obama stressed that his administration would draw a firm line on taxes and revenues both in the deficit- and debt-reduction debates and in the buildup to the 2012 elections.
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Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Obama Rebuffs Democratic Plea To Be More Forceful
Obama Rebuffs Democratic Plea To Be More Forceful
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Firedoglake, Washington Post and Suburban Guerrilla
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Americans Divided on Taxing the Rich to Redistribute Wealth — Public is split over enacting heavy taxes on the rich to redistribute wealth — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans break into two roughly evenly matched camps on the question of whether the government should enact heavy taxes on the rich …
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The Blaze, UrbanGrounds, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller
New York Post:
Who'll save us from this ‘recovery’? — Private-sector job growth is ane mic, new jobless claims are still well over 400,000, the unemployment numbers are grim, manufacturing has slowed to a crawl, home prices are falling again, the dollar keeps sinking, 44 million people are now on food stamps …
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Pundit & Pundette and National Review