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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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Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Obama's War — The secret behind the bin Laden takedown is the president's new conception of terrorism. — Ever so gingerly, even as they praised President Obama's success against Osama bin Laden, some former senior Bush administration officials have sought to take a little credit for the mission themselves.
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
John Yoo: Obama Afraid To Capture Bin Laden (VIDEO) — John Yoo says President Obama is too afraid of the politics of Guantanamo Bay to capture and interrogate terrorists. — The former George W. Bush administration lawyer, Yoo wrote the infamous torture memos used to justify the …
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Daily Mail:
On this day of all days! Hundreds of militant Muslims stage mock funeral for Bin Laden outside U.S. embassy in London... as relatives of 7/7 terror attack victims weep at inquest just three miles away — A protest by hundreds of Osama Bin Laden supporters sparked fury outside the US Embassy …
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Pajamas Media and Weasel Zippers
Dan Froomkin / The Huffington Post:
Torture May Have Slowed Hunt For Bin Laden, Not Hastened It
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PERRspectives, Hullabaloo, Emptywheel and FrumForum
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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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, msnbc.com, The Note and Bloomberg
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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Eli Lake / Washington Times:
Evidence at bin Laden's home raises nuclear concerns
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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
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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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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Gawker, Wonkette, Salon, Right Wing Nut House, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Little Green Footballs, Weasel Zippers, Michelle Malkin and Pirate's Cove
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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, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
Conservative Bloggers Contend That President Obama Hates the American Flag
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Balloon Juice
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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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama to special ops team that killed bin Laden: ‘Job well done’
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Fox Nation and The Politico
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 …
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Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Politics, naked capitalism, Guardian, Free exchange, Early Warning and Marginal Revolution
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
P.S. Turns out now, those photos of Obama giving his ‘I caught Bin Laden’ speech were faked — Could the Obama White House communications folks have found anything else to step in over the presentation this week of their boss and the dramatic recounting and re-recounting of the execution …
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Taylor Marsh, Mudville Gazette and No More Mister Nice Blog
Spiegel Online:
Judge Files Complaint against Merkel over Bin Laden Comments — A Hamburg judge has filed a criminal complaint against Chancellor Angela Merkel for “endorsing a crime” after she stated she was “glad” that Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces. Meanwhile a new poll reveals that a majority …
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
A Motivational Poster for George W. Bush's Library — A motivational poster, sent in from a reader: — In case the font is too small, the words at the bottom are: “VINDICATION: When the loudest critic of your policies achieves his greatest success because of them.”
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The Lonely Conservative, The Gateway Pundit and Pajamas Media
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
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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Balkinization and Salon
Wall Street Journal:
Obama's ‘Gangster Politics’ — The president is about to order companies that do business with the federal government to disclose their political donations. — President Obama has officially kicked off his 2012 re-election campaign, and don't Republicans know it.
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Debbie Siegelbaum / The Hill:
Republican leaders blast disclosure order as ‘blatant’ assault on free speech
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The Politico, Weasel Zippers and The Lonely Conservative
Press Association:
Vote 2011: UK rejects alternative vote — The UK has voted overwhelmingly to reject changing the way MPs are elected - dealing a bitter blow to Nick Clegg on top of heavy Lib Dem poll losses. — Officials say 19.1m people voted in the second UK-wide referendum in history - a higher than expected turnout of 41%.
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Firedoglake, Guardian, Pajamas Media, Online NewsHour and Harry's Place
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Hélène Mulholland / Guardian:
Election results 2011: Lib Dems suffer worst losses in a generation
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