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Colin Firth / CBS News:
President Obama on the mission to kill bin Laden — The president talks to “60 Minutes” in his first interview since the killing of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden — Whether we like it or not, Osama bin Laden changed America. With that September morning in 2001, he introduced fear …
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
President Obama dashes ‘Jimmy Carter’ label — So much for campaigning against Jimmy Carter. — In the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's death, Republicans are adjusting to a new political reality: with the bin Laden trump card now in President Barack Obama's possession …
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Pundit Press, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Right Wing News
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Whose Foreign Policy Is It? — For those with eyes to see, the daylight between the foreign policies of George W. Bush and Barack Obama has been shrinking ever since the current president took the oath of office. But last week made it official: When the story of America's post-9/11 wars is written …
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Ben Smith's Blog, Daily Kos, Lawfare, Truthdig and Wizbang
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
U.S. Raises Pressure on Pakistan in Raid's Wake
U.S. Raises Pressure on Pakistan in Raid's Wake
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New Yorker, Booman Tribune, Wonkette, New York Magazine, The Caucus, Taylor Marsh, The Other McCain, FrumForum, Hullabaloo and THE ASTUTE BLOGGER
Munir Ahmed / Associated Press:
Pakistan premier defends country in bin Laden case
Pakistan premier defends country in bin Laden case
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Daily Beast
Jim Sciutto / ABCNEWS:
Osama Bin Laden Aided by Rogue or Retired Elements of Pakistani Intelligence, Government Official Says
Osama Bin Laden Aided by Rogue or Retired Elements of Pakistani Intelligence, Government Official Says
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Hot Air, Questions and Observations, The Reaction, The Hill, The Daily Beast, Politics, Pat Dollard and FrumForum
The Politico:
Gay donors fuel Obama's 2012 campaign — President Barack Obama's reelection campaign is banking on gay donors to make up the cash it's losing from other groups of wealthy supporters who have been alienated and disappointed by elements of Obama's first term.
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Balloon Juice, Pam's House Blend, Taylor Marsh and Towleroad News #gay
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The Note:
Waiting For Superman? GOP Searching For 2012's ‘Plan B’ Candidate (The Note) — If there's one thing we know about Republican activists, donors and rank and file voters it's this: they aren't compelled by the current field of not-yet-official GOP presidential candidates and they're looking for alternatives.
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CNN, Cubachi, The Politico, NationalJournal.com and msnbc.com
Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Spokesman says Newt Gingrich to announce 2012 presidential bid Wed. on Facebook, Twitter
APNewsBreak: Spokesman says Newt Gingrich to announce 2012 presidential bid Wed. on Facebook, Twitter
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FrumForum
Shannon McCaffrey / Associated Press:
APNewsBreak: Gingrich announcing 2012 bid on Wed.
APNewsBreak: Gingrich announcing 2012 bid on Wed.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Hot Air
Juan Williams / The Hill:
OPINION: Ron Paul driving Republicans' White House campaign — Here's a news bulletin — it is becoming increasingly clear that we are living in a time when Republican politics are being shaped by a 75-year-old, 12-term Texas congressman with a son in the Senate.
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The Moderate Voice, JammieWearingFool and The Wire
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Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Romney's GOP Supporters Tilt Upscale; Palin's, Downscale — Huckabee's support leans to the right politically, to the South geographically — PRINCETON, NJ — Republican college degree holders are more likely than those without a degree to support Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, 21% vs. 13%.
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GOP 12, USA Today, CNN and National Review
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
2012 and the Republican rescue fantasy
2012 and the Republican rescue fantasy
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Red Dog Report and New York Times
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Unwisdom of Elites — The past three years have been a disaster for most Western economies. The United States has mass long-term unemployment for the first time since the 1930s. Meanwhile, Europe's single currency is coming apart at the seams. How did it all go so wrong?
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Yglesias, The Agonist, The Washington Note, Mother Jones, Prairie Weather and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Falsehood? Or Mostly Accurate Prediction? — Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler isn't so enamored with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius after she made this claim last week: … Kessler gives Sebelius three “Pincocchios” (out of a possible four) and offers this explanation:
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Wall Street Journal:
Home Market Takes a Tumble — Turnaround More Distant After 3% Drop, Steepest Quarterly Decline Since 2008 — Home values posted the largest decline in the first quarter since late 2008, prompting many economists to push back their estimates of when the housing market will hit a bottom.
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The Foundry, Free exchange, Shakesville, TalkLeft, The Big Picture, Mother Jones, The Lonely Conservative and Calculated Risk
Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
Osama Bin Laden wasn't on kidney dialysis, took herbal Viagra while living in compound — Osama Bin Laden wasn't on kidney dialysis - but he did need an herbal impotence drug. — “He believed in his own medication,” said his youngest widow, Amal al-Sadeh, who was shot in the leg …
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Matt Schneider / Mediaite:
Rosie O'Donnell: Without Due Process For Bin Laden, We May Be ‘Monsters’
Rosie O'Donnell: Without Due Process For Bin Laden, We May Be ‘Monsters’
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Verum Serum
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Randi Rhodes: Bush Knew Bin Laden's Location, Protected Him There
Randi Rhodes: Bush Knew Bin Laden's Location, Protected Him There
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NewsBusters.org and The Gateway Pundit
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Trump: ‘I Am The Least Racist Person There Is’ Because A Black Guy Won The Apprentice Six Years Ago — Potential presidential candidate Donald Trump has often found himself in hot water for making racially-tinged comments — saying in the span of a single press conference, for example …
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The Moderate Voice, Daily Kos and Ben Smith's Blog
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Democrats See Strategy to End Big Oil Tax Breaks — WASHINGTON — Linking two of the politically volatile issues of the moment, Senate Democrats say they will move forward this week with a plan that would eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies and divert the savings to offset the deficit.
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Prairie Weather, RedState, The Maddow Blog and Instapundit
New York Post:
Hobbling gasbag — Gasbag Keith Olbermann can't seem to wrangle staff for his Current TV show, “Countdown.” Still in need of an executive producer and other staff, famously difficult Olbermann has crawled back to his contacts at MSNBC, many of whom he offended while there, to beg for staff.
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Weasel Zippers, JammieWearingFool and The Daily Caller
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
Boehner goes to N.Y. to talk debt — House Speaker John Boehner will step up his efforts Monday to lay out a strategy for raising the debt ceiling to a crowd heavy on Wall Street players who are anxiously watching the fierce debate over the debt ceiling unfold.
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Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and Wonk Room
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James Rowley / Bloomberg:
Boehner Must Reassure Wall Street Leaders That Debt Ceiling Will Be Raised
Boehner Must Reassure Wall Street Leaders That Debt Ceiling Will Be Raised
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ThinkProgress and USA Today
Journalism.org:
WHERE PEOPLE GO, HOW THEY GET THERE AND WHAT LURES THEM AWAY — Whatever the future of journalism, much of it depends on understanding the ways that people navigate the digital news environment—the behavior of what might be called the new news consumer. — Despite the unprecedented level …
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Taegan Goddard's …, Online NewsHour and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »