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Donald Trump delivers several F-bombs during his speech in Las Vegas … Also on KTNV.com Local News Headlines — Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - Real estate mogul Donald Trump may, or may not run for president. But Thursday in Las Vegas, he was sure sounding like a someone who's ready to jump into the race with both feet.
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Donald Trump drops F-bombs on Las Vegas crowd — Donald Trump on Thursday dropped a barrage of F-bombs at a massive Las Vegas rally where he blasted the president repeatedly and slammed politicians as “blood suckers.” — “Our leaders are stupid, they are stupid people,” …
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Taylor Marsh, CNN and Gothamist


Trump On China: ‘Listen You Mother F***ers’ (VIDEO) — Donald Trump has found a new way to separate himself from the crowd of would-be Republican presidential candidates. During a Las Vegas stump speech last night, Trump fired off several hearty f-bombs to a group of adoring fans.
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The Jawa Report and GOP 12

Titles announced for Prince William and Catherine Middleton — THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE PRESS SECRETARY TO THE QUEEN — The Queen has today been pleased to confer a Dukedom on Prince William of Wales. His titles will be Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus.
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Video: Paul Ryan Gets Standing Ovation at Town Hall Meeting — Greenfield, Wisc. — Paul Ryan received a standing ovation Thursday afternoon during the Q&A part of his meeting with constituents at a high school auditorium in a suburb of Milwaukee. — Ryan faced a larger number of hecklers …
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Weasel Zippers, GayPatriot and The Gateway Pundit
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Flim Flammed — Last year, when I described Paul Ryan as a flim flam man, many Beltway types were deeply annoyed. They had decided that he was serious and sincere — worthy of receiving fiscal responsibility awards — and did not want to hear any negatives.
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Washington Monthly, The New Republic and A plain blog about politics

How the journalist prom got out of control — On Thursday, the Washington Post editorializes that Donald Trump has been campaigning on “bogus” issues and that he should “cease and desist.” An article in the news pages the same day reports that the great orange charlatan's “simply wild speculation” has “almost no basis in fact.”
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Gawker, Yglesias, The Impolitic, No More Mister Nice Blog, Balloon Juice, The New Republic, The Politico and Poynter

Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia — The hip, transparent and social media-loving Obama administration is showing its analog roots. And maybe even some hypocrisy highlights. — White House officials have banished one of the best political reporters in the country …
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Don Surber, RedState, Poynter, Hot Air, Michelle Malkin, Taylor Marsh, Right Wing News, Emptywheel, Breitbart.tv, AmSpecBlog, Pajamas Media, Fox News, Betsy's Page and The Lonely Conservative


New Democratic money group to take on Republicans — Democrats with ties to the Obama White House on Friday are launching a two-pronged fundraising effort aimed at countering deep-pocketed GOP groups in 2012 — and adopting some of the same policies on unlimited, secret donations …
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CNN, USA Today, TPMDC, Hullabaloo, Ben Smith's Blog, Sunlight Foundation Blog, The Page and msnbc.com
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Obama alumni launch new outside group to boost reelection
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Deferments Helped Trump Dodge Vietnam — How the presidential aspirant avoided fighting for his country … Despite Donald Trump's claim this week that he avoided serving in the Vietnam War solely due to a high draft number, Selective Service records show that the purported presidential …

In U.S., Negative Views of the Tea Party Rise to New High — Republicans and conservatives are the most positive — PRINCETON, NJ — About half of Americans, 47%, now have an unfavorable image of the Tea Party movement, the highest since it emerged on the national scene.
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ThinkProgress, Little Green Footballs, CNN, Politics, Outside the Beltway, The Raw Story, Taegan Goddard's … and The Politico


Storms Kill Over 250 Americans In States Represented By Climate Pollution Deniers … “Given that global warming is unequivocal,” climate scientist Kevin Trenberth cautioned the American Meteorological Society in January of this year, “the null hypothesis should be that all weather events …


‘Change’ via executive power grab — Having lost the House of Representa tives in the last election, the Obama administration is now imposing “fun damental change” via executive order, regulatory fiat and political pressure. Talk about the unitary executive:
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Obama's Silence on Boeing Is Unacceptable
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Debt ceiling: More Democrats threaten to vote against raising borrowing limit — A growing number of Democrats are threatening to defy the White House over the national debt, joining Republican calls for deficit cuts as a requirement for consenting to lift the country's borrowing limit.


How the Law Accepted Gays — THE prestigious law firm King & Spalding has not fully explained its decision this week to stop assisting Congress in defending the law that forbids federal recognition of same-sex marriage. But its reversal suggests the extent to which gay men and lesbians …
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The Volokh Conspiracy and ACS Blog


NY1 Exclusive: Man Cleared In Central Park Jogging Case Demands Apology From Trump … One of the young men exonerated in the Central Park Jogger case has strong words for Donald Trump. — In an exclusive interview with NY1, Raymond Santana is demanding an apology from the real estate mogul who is now considering a run for president.
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The New Republic, Hit & Run and The Daily Caller

BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Virginia AG cancels King & Spalding work for state after “obsequious act of weakness” in DOMA case — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has terminated his office's relationship with King & Spalding, the Atlanta law firm that abrubtly dropped the U.S. House …
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Obama's Approval Ratings Down In Latest Poll — NH Voters Would Pick Romney Over Obama — MANCHESTER, N.H. — A struggling economy and concerns over health care are taking their toll on President Barack Obama's job approval numbers in New Hampshire. — According to the latest WMUR …
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CNN and Boston Globe


Conservative Congressman's Star Power Extends Beyond Florida District — FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Often, the most interesting thing about a person is the characteristic that lies beneath, that hidden thing that bobs up along the waves of time. — But the most compelling part …
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JustOneMinute, Left Coast Rebel, American Power and The Caucus


What is it about twin girls born day after Obama? — Today, Barack Obama blinked - releasing birth records he has hired lawyers to prevent the public from seeing, even at the expense of allowing U.S. Army Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin to be court-martialed and sent to prison for having dared ask questions …


Appeals court lifts ban on federal funding for stem cell research — Washington (CNN) - A federal court has given the Obama administration the go-ahead to continue funding embryonic stem cell research. — The controversial 2-1 decision Friday is a victory for supporters of federally-funded testing …
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The Politico

Huckabee decision will shape GOP presidential race — Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork — The shape of the Republican presidential race depends on Mike Huckabee. The primary season will be one kind of contest with the former Arkansas governor in the race, and another without him.

The Intimidated Fed — Last month more than 14 million Americans were unemployed by the official definition — that is, seeking work but unable to find it. Millions more were stuck in part-time work because they couldn't find full-time jobs. And we're not talking about temporary hardship.
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