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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Bachmann to form exploratory committee in June, possibly earlier — Washington (CNN) - CNN has exclusively learned that Rep. Michele Bachmann will form a presidential exploratory committee. The Minnesota Republican plans to file papers for the committee in early June, with an announcement likely around that same time.
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Adam Sorensen / Swampland:
Bachmann 2012: Good for the Media, Bad for the GOP — Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann is now threatening us with the idea of exploring a Presidential race, it was announced today. Well first, enough with the exploratory committees. They are a tired gimmick in Presidential races.
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Washington Post
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Bachmann rips ‘robed masters’
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Donald Trump Wants to See Barack Obama's Long-Form Birth Certificate — I keep trying to get out... they keep pulling me back in. I'm not a regular watcher of the View, so I originally missed the lengthy, mind-boggling discussion that its hosts had with Donald Trump over Trump's belief …
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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
Introducing the $184.27 Donald J. Trump Challenge — Donald J. Trump, star of a ratings-challenged prime-time show that has become the “dumping ground” for washed-up reality television talent, wants us to believe that he's ready to pump $600 million of his own money into a campaign for president.
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The Atlantic Online
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Top Ten Accomplishments of the UN No-Fly Zone — 1. The participation of the Muslim world in the United Nations no-fly zone over Libya has been underlined. The measure was called for by the Arab League, which has not in fact changed its mind about its desirability.
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NATO Agrees to Take Command of No-Fly Zone in Libya
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Hugs From Libyans
Hugs From Libyans
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Pete Kenworthy / WEWS-TV:
President Barack Obama gets locked out of White House — Staff wasn't ready for his return — Last Updated: 1 hour and 48 minutes ago — WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Barack Obama had to try a couple of doors at the White House before finally gaining access to the Oval Office on Wednesday.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
White House fires back at Boehner; Libya delay would have ‘cost lives’
White House fires back at Boehner; Libya delay would have ‘cost lives’
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — White House: Libya fight is not war, it's ‘kinetic military action’ — In the last few days, Obama administration officials have frequently faced the question: Is the fighting in Libya a war? From military officers to White House spokesmen up to the president himself …
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While Libya War Grows, Obama Team Denies It's a War
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Jack Goldsmith / Lawfare:
The Legal Reason Why the Obama Administration Won't Call the Libya Action “War”
The Legal Reason Why the Obama Administration Won't Call the Libya Action “War”
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Indiana prosecutor resigns over Walker email — Initially denied encouraging Wisconsin violence — Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism — This is an updated version. Read the Center's original version here. — An Indiana deputy prosecutor and Republican activist resigned Thursday …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Urgent leak investigation needed — A serious leak of classified information has just taken place — which, as we all know, is a dastardly crime for which the harshest punishment is merited. To make matters even more grave, this time the unauthorized disclosure has taken place during A Time of War …
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Balloon Juice
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Liberal Bias at NPR? — Surveys show that millions of conservatives choose NPR, even with powerful conservative alternatives on the radio. — On the day NPR chief executive Vivian Schiller lost her job, I was reporting from Egypt. That evening, I had dinner with employees from NPR's Cairo bureau.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Miranda is Obama's latest victim — One of the central pledges of Barack Obama's campaign was that — as he put it early in his presidency — the Bush administration had gone wildly wrong because it “established an ad hoc legal approach for fighting terrorism that was neither effective nor sustainable …
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Appeals panel: Supreme Court should take up collective bargaining law — By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — A state appeals panel said Thursday a case over a new collective bargaining should go directly to the state Supreme Court. — The move puts the issue squarely …
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The Real Death Panel: If ‘Obamacare’ Repealed, Some Patients Can't Go Back — If the health care reform law were to disappear tomorrow, Dallas Wiens would be in trouble. — Earlier this week, in a 15-hour procedure, Boston surgeons grafted a donor's face onto Wiens' skull.
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Washington Monthly
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Gaddafi's entourage sends out secret peace feelers — (Reuters) - Members of Muammar Gaddafi's entourage are putting out feelers to seek a ceasefire or safe passage from Libya, according to U.S. and European officials and a businessman close to the Libyan leadership.
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Jamison Foser / Media Matters for America:
CNN Contributor Accuses Obama Of “Manufacturing” Libya Crisis To Help Re-Election; Blames “Women Drivers” — I wonder how long someone who claimed in March of 2003 that President Bush had manufactured the Iraq war in order to win re-election would have remained employed as a CNN contributor?
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Impending decision by D.C. judge has implications for voter ID in Texas — Though Republican lawmakers remain unswayed by Texas Democrats' arguments that disenfranchising minority voters should outweigh unsubstantiated fears of polling place voter impersonation — the U.S. Department of Justice …
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It Begins... Unions Use Images of OKC Bombing in Collective Bargaining Ads — They will stop at nothing... The International Association of Firefighters is using tasteless images from the Oklahoma City Bombing to fight a state bill which changes how public safety labor unions and cities handle contract disputes.
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Paglia on Taylor: “A luscious, opulent, ripe fruit!” — Camille Paglia considers the “volcanic” Elizabeth Taylor — and all the unworthy starlets who could never match up … I remember reading your essay on Elizabeth Taylor from Penthouse in 1992 (it appeared in the collection “Sex, Art …
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Former aide to Sen. Ensign indicted — A former aide to retiring Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of violating conflict of interest laws. — The Justice Department announced the indictment late Thursday, which charges Doug Hampton with seven counts …
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Missing: Newt Gingrich's Tweets Before July 2010 — Newt Gingrich—presidential contender, friend of polar bears, opponent/supporter of the invasion in Libya—is a simple man drawn to simple pleasures. Long before launching his exploratory committee, he frequently chronicled his life's joys on his Twitter feed.
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Mark K. Matthews / Chicago Tribune:
NASA still ordered to waste $1.4 million a day — WASHINGTON — Congress has again failed to rid a temporary spending bill of language forcing NASA to waste $1.4 million a day on its defunct Constellation moon program. — Though Congress passed a new stopgap spending bill last week …
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Census: Nation Now 16% Hispanic — The Hispanic population surged 43% in the last decade and Hispanics now make up more than 16% of the nation's population, according to just-released Census figures. — The surge in Hispanics' share of the population, larger than demographers initially had expected …
Quinnipiac University:
Ohio Voters Divided On Second Term For Obama, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; But Voters Like Him More Than Gov. Kasich — Ohio voters are split 45 - 46 percent on whether President Barack Obama deserves a second term, but they favor him over an unnamed Republican 2012 challenger 41 …
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Wall Street Journal:
Forced Into Medicare — A federal judge tells seniors to take it or lose Social Security. — This week marks the first anniversary of ObamaCare, and if you are wondering where that coercive law is headed, we'd point to a case in federal court. That's where Judge Rosemary Collyer has ruled …
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