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“The man in charge of running Arizona’s elections has gone to the birthers. Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he’s not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States and so he is threatening to keep the president off the ballot in November.” [TPM]

Each time we watch this — and we’ve watched it more than a few times — we find ourself focusing on a different region: Germany first, then Russia, then the Ottoman Empire, then Spain, and what’s that happening with the British Isles?

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“I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was.” —Mitt Romney, trapped in a cosmic vortex. [TPM]

Our guest columnist wasn’t paying attention in 1991.

Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.

Obama’s Literary Agent in 1991 Booklet: ‘Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii’ [Breitbart]

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“In a May 16 story about the death of go-go musician Chuck Brown, The Associated Press misspelled another musician’s first name. The correct spelling is Jimi Hendrix, not Jimmy Hendrix.” [AP/Yahoo, via @pourmecoffee]

Donna Summer Dead at 63 [TMZ]