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Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Raid: Al Qaeda ‘Playbook’ Revealed — U.S. intelligence is now in possession of a veritable “playbook” of al Qaeda operations — from potential terror attack targets to information on international safe houses and top commanders — thanks to the Navy SEAL raid that took …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Rick Santorum: Obama 'Didn't Get Osama Bin Laden!' — Since President Obama's surprise announcement Sunday night that American forces had killed Osama bin Laden, conservatives and Bush loyalists have been trying to claim some of the glory and redeem the discredited torture policies of the Bush administration.
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Pam's House Blend and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Matt Hadro / NewsBusters.org:
Michael Moore: You ‘Hate Being an American’ If You Wanted Bin Laden Killed Without a Trial — Ever looking to criticize the American populace from his cardboard platform, filmmaker Michael Moore lashed out Thursday on CNN at supporters of Osama bin Laden's assassination.
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The Other McCain, Media Research Center, Left Coast Rebel, Examiner, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and The Talking Dog
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
John Yoo: Obama Afraid To Capture Bin Laden (VIDEO)
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Paul Krugman, Balloon Juice, American Power, Washington Post, CNN, Salon, UNCOVERAGE.net, Washington Monthly, Swampland and Outside the Beltway
Dan Froomkin / The Huffington Post:
Torture May Have Slowed Hunt For Bin Laden, Not Hastened It
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PERRspectives, Hullabaloo, Emptywheel, FrumForum and Wall Street Journal
Mallory Simon / This Just In:
Full statement from al Qaeda on Osama bin Laden's death
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, National Review and TalkLeft
CNN:
Santorum: Obama doesn't understand America — Columbia, South Carolina (CNN) - Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum had a ballroom packed with South Carolina Republican insiders all to himself on Friday night when he addressed the state party's annual fundraising banquet in Columbia.
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Outside the Beltway
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Graham to absentees: Come next time — COLUMBIA, S.C. — Sen. Lindsey Graham on Friday warned the Republicans who didn't show up this week for the state's first presidential primary debate, telling them “you sure as hell better come next time.” — And he jokingly warned a gathering …
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Weasel Zippers and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Democracy in America:
And they're off... RON PAUL made a pretty young couple's night …
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Slate Magazine, The Atlantic Online, The Daily Dish and The Daily Beast
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Inside the GOP debate: Pawlenty underwhelms, Cain struggles, Santorum scores
Michael O'Brien / Ballot Box:
Huntsman's service in administration gets pass from some GOPers
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Mother Jones, Ben Smith's Blog, Washington Post and msnbc.com
New York Times:
Probing Link to Bin Laden, U.S. Tells Pakistan to Name Agents — WASHINGTON — Pakistani officials say the Obama administration has demanded the identities of some of their top intelligence operatives as the United States tries to determine whether any of them had contact with Osama bin Laden …
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LewRockwell.com Blog and FrumForum
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Jeremy Bernstein / New York Review of Books:
That ‘Sweet Abbottabad Air’ — Children looking out over the compound of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan, May 3, 2011 — Sometime before he left the town that he founded in 1853—and where, a century and a half later, Osama bin Laden was discovered hiding out in a concrete mansion …
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New York Times and Online NewsHour
Eli Lake / Washington Times:
Evidence at bin Laden's home raises nuclear concerns
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Tried but Failed to Kill Yemeni Cleric — A U.S. drone strike in Yemen Thursday was aimed at killing Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical cleric suspected of orchestrating terrorist attacks in the U.S, but the missile missed its target, according to Yemeni and U.S. officials.
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Pat Dollard, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, msnbc.com and Gawker
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Brendan Abbot / Daily Express:
FURIOUS BIN LADEN SUPPORTERS VOW TO TAKE REVENGE — HUNDREDS of Osama bin Laden supporters clashed with English Defence League extremists today as a “funeral service” for the assassinated terror leader sparked fury outside London's US Embassy. — Police stepped in to separate …
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Hot Air and Atlas Shrugs
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Zombie / Pajamas Media:
SEIU drops mask, goes full commie — A May Day rally in Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the SEIU and various communist groups, as well as other unions, reflected yet another step in the normalization of self-identified communist and socialist ideologies in the Obama era.
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Power Line, Nice Deb, Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative, Pirate's Cove and Riehl World View
Juana Summers / The Politico:
Giuliani: Running a possibility — Rudy Giuliani called for a return to American exceptionalism Friday, telling a group of GOP lawyers gathered in the nation's capital that Ronald Reagan fundamentally changed how Americans felt about themselves. — Before Reagan was elected, Giuliani said …
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Reuters
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama to special ops team that killed bin Laden: ‘Job well done’
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The Politico and Fox Nation
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
WTF at WTC? Obama Has American Flag Removed From Ground Zero Site Moments Before Photo Shoot! [Updated: or Perhaps Tapper Just Confused All of Us] — ABC's Jake Tapper was on the scene. He disbelievingly tweeted: — Here's his photo of the take-down.
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Oliver Willis / Media Matters for America:
No, President Obama Didn't Have A Flag Removed From Ground Zero
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Runnin' Scared, Washington Monthly and Daily Kos
Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Conservative Bloggers Contend That President Obama Hates the American Flag
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Balloon Juice
JSOnline:
Unions might drop state status — Some would skip facing difficult annual recertification votes — By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — If Gov. Scott Walker's union bargaining measure becomes law and forces do-or-die recertification votes for public employee unions …
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Obama: Nation can't drill its way out of soaring gas prices — President Obama called for the elimination of billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks Friday, while stressing that the United States can't drill its way out of high gas prices. — “We can't just drill our way out of the problem …
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Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
Christian Reiermann / Spiegel Online:
Greece Considers Exit from Euro Zone — A protest against austerity measures in Athens. Greece is considering leaving the euro zone, according to sources in the German government. — The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information …
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Politics of Solipsism — The United States, as you know, was founded as a republic, not simply as a democracy. The distinction has been lost over the past few decades, but it is an important one. — The believers in a democracy have unlimited faith in the character and judgment …
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