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New York Times:
A Certificate of Embarrassment — With sardonic resignation, President Obama, an eminently rational man, stared directly into political irrationality on Wednesday and released his birth certificate to history. More than halfway through his term, the president felt obliged to prove that he was a legitimate occupant of the Oval Office.
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The Politico:
A new era of accusation and innuendo — President Barack Obama's appearance Wednesday in the White House briefing room to present a documented rebuttal of suspicions that he was not really born on U.S. soil was more than just a surprise. It was a decisive new turn in the centuries-long American history …
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American Power, Right Wing News, The Daily Caller, Climate Progress and Guardian
Tristero / Hullabaloo:
How Quickly We Forget — While this is a pretty good editorial, this paragraph: … is sloppy and misleading. Portraying Democratic presidents as the invidious “other” is what the extreme right always does. And it's not only quote mainstream unquote Republican leaders who go along with it.
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Balloon Juice and Eschaton
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Rand Paul has ‘birther’ demand for Trump: Prove you're a Republican — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday took a swipe at billionaire businessman Donald Trump, demanding to see his “Republican registration.” — While speaking at a breakfast with New Hampshire Republicans one day after …
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Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Rand Paul Questions Trump's Republican Credentials — CONCORD, N.H. - Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, opened a breakfast speech here Thursday at the Merrimack County Republican Committee with a new demand for proof - not of President Obama's citizenship, but of Donald Trump's Republican credentials.
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Outside the Beltway, YID With LID, New York Magazine, Washington Post, GOP 12, Ben Smith's Blog and The Huffington Post
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Epic: Lawrence O'Donnell Hammers NBC; Demands They Reveal Trump's Future Plans
Epic: Lawrence O'Donnell Hammers NBC; Demands They Reveal Trump's Future Plans
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NewsBusters.org, Connecting.the.Dots, Booman Tribune and The Atlantic Online
Associated Press:
Dozens of tornadoes kill 194 in 5 Southern states — PLEASANT GROVE, Ala. (AP) — Dozens of tornadoes spawned by a powerful storm system wiped out entire towns across a wide swath of the South, killing at least 194 people, and officials said Thursday they expect the death toll to rise.
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Mudville Gazette, Scared Monkeys, New York Times, The Gateway Pundit and RedState
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Lrathke / This Just In:
Live blog: Storms kill 162 in Alabama, 247 across South — [Updated at 12:38 p.m. ET] The death toll from severe weather in Alabama has reached 162, Alabama Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Yasamie August said Thursday. The overall death toll is as many as 247 people in six states.
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Gothamist, Salon and JammieWearingFool
Laura Hudson / ComicsAlliance.com:
Superman Renounces [SPOILER] in ‘Action Comics’ #900 — After recently undertaking a journey to walk — not fly — across the United States in the “Grounded” storyline and reconnect with the country and everyday Americans, Superman appears to be taking another step that could have major implications …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Great news: Superman to renounce his U.S. citizenship
Great news: Superman to renounce his U.S. citizenship
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Big Hollywood, UrbanGrounds and Right Wing News
David Frum / FrumForum:
The Birther Disgrace — Even for the small band that sustained …
The Birther Disgrace — Even for the small band that sustained …
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The Reaction, Taylor Marsh, American Spectator, Salon, The Atlantic Online, Firedoglake and Booman Tribune
Mireya Navarro / New York Times:
Solar Panels Rise Pole by Pole, Followed by Gasps of ‘Eyesore’ — ORADELL, N.J. — Nancy and Eric Olsen could not pinpoint exactly when it happened or how. All they knew was one moment they had a pastoral view of a soccer field and the woods from their 1920s colonial-style house; the next all they could see were three solar panels.
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Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
New Jersey NIMBYs Mad That Photovoltaic Panels Are Marring Their Previously Pristine Utility Polls — One of the most insane things about the contemporary United States of America is the ferocious small-c conservatism that people have adopted about aesthetic matters in which seemingly any change to the built environment is an outrage:
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Modeled Behavior and Eschaton
Lauraklairmont / CNN:
Daniels: No presidential decision yet — Washington (CNN) - Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels says he still has not decided whether he will be running for the GOP presidential nomination. — On the timing of when his decision would be announced he told the Indianapolis Star Thursday don't expect it this weekend.
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Indianapolis Star:
Governor weighs signing abortion bill
Governor weighs signing abortion bill
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Tim Alberta / Hotline On Call:
Daniels Faces Defining Decision On Abortion Bill
Daniels Faces Defining Decision On Abortion Bill
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AmSpecBlog
Rachel Rose Hartman / Yahoo! News:
Birtherist response highlights racial undertones of ‘debate’ — During the 2008 campaign, questions about John McCain's birth in the Panama Canal Zone on a U.S. military base prompted some to ask whether McCain was eligible to be president, since the Constitution stipulates that anyone …
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Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
Eric Bolling And The Case Of The Time Traveling Doctor
Eric Bolling And The Case Of The Time Traveling Doctor
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Mediaite, Wonkette, Holy Bullies …, Fox News, rubber hose and TPMDC
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
President Obama Tells Untruth in Birth Certificate Press Briefing
President Obama Tells Untruth in Birth Certificate Press Briefing
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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
Gross Domestic Product, 1st quarter 2011 (advance estimate) — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 1.8 percent in the first quarter of 2011 (that is …
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Economic Growth Slows to 1.8% Rate in Quarter
U.S. Economic Growth Slows to 1.8% Rate in Quarter
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Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, BBC, Clusterstock, New York Magazine and Gawker
Evan Axelbank / WPTV:
Rep. West says Medicare spells end of United States — Several booted from Boca town hall — BOCA RATON, Fla. - If those opposed to Rep. Allen West have their way, the 2012 election will be fought on his recent vote to privatize Medicare starting in 2023.
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Tory Dunnan / WPBF West Palm Beach's Channel 25:
Several Tossed From Congressman's Town Hall Meeting
Several Tossed From Congressman's Town Hall Meeting
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Crooks and Liars
Marist Poll:
4/28: Obama's Handling of the Economy at All-Time Low — Registered voters nationally are not satisfied with how President Barack Obama is handling the nation's economy. According to this McClatchy-Marist Poll, four in ten voters — 40% — approve of how the president is dealing …
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Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Focus on Medicare — Party Leaders Sense Advantage in Republicans' Proposed Overhaul of Program — Congressional Democrats, on the defensive for months on federal spending issues, see an opportunity to seize the political initiative by pushing to the forefront a House Republican plan to overhaul Medicare.
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Washington Post, MyFox Philadelphia, The Politico and The Huffington Post
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Dems use royal wedding in effort to tie GOP to oil industry
Dems use royal wedding in effort to tie GOP to oil industry
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The Politico, The Daily Caller and The Huffington Post
Rasmussen Reports:
National GOP Primary Poll: Trump 19% Romney 17% Huckabee 15% — Republican primary voters at this early stage of the game now give billionaire developer Donald Trump the edge over presumptive favorites Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee in the race to be the GOP's presidential nominee in 2012.
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GOP 12, Mediaite, Pajamas Media and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Honoring Those Who Said No — IN January 2004, Spec. Joseph M. Darby, a 24-year-old Army reservist in Iraq, discovered a set of photographs showing other members of his company torturing prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison. The discovery anguished him, and he struggled over how to respond.
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Blog of Rights, Lawfare and Balloon Juice
Shawn Millerick / New Hampshire Journal:
Poll: Mass. Republicans want ‘RomneyCare’ repealed — A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents in Massachusetts would like to see the 2006 health care law enacted by then-Gov. Mitt Romney and the state legislature repealed and replaced with something else …
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GOP 12 and The Politico