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David Martin / CBS News:
SEAL helmet cams recorded entire bin Laden raid — More accurate version of what happened includes details that bin Laden first emerged on third floor, retreated to bedroom after shot fired — WASHINGTON - A new picture emerged Thursday of what really happened the night the Navy SEALs swooped …
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Sources: U.S. grills ‘hostile’ bin Laden wives, via Pakistan officials — (CNN) — Three of Osama bin Laden's wives have been interrogated by U.S. intelligence officers under the supervision of Pakistani's intelligence service, according to sources in both governments.
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Reuters, The Daily Beast, This Just In, TalkLeft, The Gateway Pundit and Gawker
Jane Perlez / New York Times:
Pakistan Army Chief Balks at U.S. Demands to Cooperate — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Despite mounting pressure from the United States since the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, seems unlikely to respond to American demands to root …
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USA Today and National Review
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Bin Laden's preoccupation with U.S. said to be source of friction with followers
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Danger Room, more at Techmeme »
Avik Roy / National Review:
Mitt Romney's Illogical, Terrible Health-Care Address — Mitt Romney just gave a more articulate defense of Obamacare than President Obama ever has. He continues to believe that the individual mandate is a good idea, despite the fact that the “free-rider” problem is a myth.
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New York Times, Weigel, Hot Air, The Apothecary, Conservatives4Palin and Oliver Willis
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Scott Brown hails Romney's ‘courage’ in healthcare speech — Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's (R) healthcare speech drew quick support from fellow Bay State Sen. Scott Brown (R), who called Romney's defense of the state's healthcare plan “courageous.” — Brown, who's up for reelection …
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, FrumForum, Ballot Box and The Lonely Conservative
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Newt Gingrich Was More Supportive Of Individual Mandates Than Mitt Romney
Newt Gingrich Was More Supportive Of Individual Mandates Than Mitt Romney
The Note:
Has Mitt Romney's Massachusetts Health Care Law Worked?
Has Mitt Romney's Massachusetts Health Care Law Worked?
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Mother Jones, The Politico, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Taylor Marsh and George's Bottom Line
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Mitt Romney: No apologies for Mass. plan
Mitt Romney: No apologies for Mass. plan
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The Huffington Post, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and AmSpecBlog
Jan Crawford / CBS News:
Daniels closer to deciding on presidential bid — INDIANAPOLIS — With 1,100 people chanting “Run Mitch, Run,” Gov. Mitch Daniels took the stage here Thursday night and did something he's never done before: He introduced his wife Cheri, and then he turned the microphone over to her to address the sold-out crowd.
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Washington Post and The Page
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Mitch Daniels, the reluctant candidate — INDIANAPOLIS -It's becoming a recurring pattern: the more supporters of Mitch Daniels attempt to pump him up, the less he appears to want to run for president. — At a state Republican Party dinner here Thursday night, Daniels backers thronged a hotel ballroom …
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Osama bin Laden to al-Qaeda: 'Don't bother assassinating Joe Biden' — US officials have revealed that Osama bin Laden's diaries contain the rather startling conclusion that he didn't think Vice President Joe Biden was worth bumping off (hat tip: a tweet from my New York colleague Jon Swaine).
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Emptywheel, Weasel Zippers, Guardian, The Gateway Pundit, Pajamas Media, Prairie Weather, Gawker, Crooks and Liars, Suburban Guerrilla and Marbury
Elise Foley / The Huffington Post:
Tom Coburn Helped Cover Up John Ensign Affair: Senate Ethics Report … John Ensign , Senate Ethics Committee , Tom Coburn , C Street , Coburn Ensign Affair , Coburn John Ensign Affair , Cynthia Hampton , Doug Hampton , John Ensign Affair , John Ensign Scandal , John Ensign Tom Coburn …
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The Politico, Taylor Marsh and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Ensign Accused of Violating Laws, Senate Rules
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Balloon Juice, Taegan Goddard's …, Weigel, Washington Monthly and New York Times
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate ethics committee: Ensign violated federal laws
Senate ethics committee: Ensign violated federal laws
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The Reid Report, The Raw Story and Oliver Willis
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McConnell Ties Debt Limit to Spending Reductions — WASHINGTON — The Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, said Thursday that the debt ceiling debate provides Congress with a rare opportunity to make sweeping changes to entitlement programs and spending, and that he would not vote to raise …
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The Caucus and FrumForum
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
McConnell demands spending cuts, Medicare overhaul for deal on debt limit
McConnell demands spending cuts, Medicare overhaul for deal on debt limit
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Firedoglake
Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Laid-off government worker to Obama: “What would you do, if you were me?” — In one of the more personal exchanges from CBS News' town hall with President Obama, one audience member, a pregnant woman who recently found out she was being laid off from her government job …
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CBS News, Washington Post, FrumForum and The Lonely Conservative
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
President Obama, Completely Wrong on Reason for High Unemployment
President Obama, Completely Wrong on Reason for High Unemployment
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Sister Toldjah, The Gateway Pundit and Pajamas Media
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Superman Loves America Again - It's Official — In Action Comics #900, a back up strip by David Goyer, showed Superman announcing he was to go to the UN and give up his citizenship of the USA, so to ensure his actions were not mistaken for US government policy. — And the news exploded.
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Outside the Beltway, Big Hollywood, Hot Air and LewRockwell.com Blog
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Rand Paul Is Really Crazy — When the devoted follower of crackpot cult leader Ayn Rand gets elected to the Senate, you wind up having Congressional hearings filled up with feverish reasoning like this: … Except, of course, we already have a system that establishes the right to health care for elderly Americans.
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Salon, RedState and Top of the Ticket
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I.R.S. Moves to Tax Gifts to Groups Active in Politics — Big donors like David H. Koch and George Soros may owe taxes on their millions of dollars in contributions to nonprofit advocacy groups that are playing an increasing role in American politics. — The Internal Revenue Service confirmed …
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Prairie Weather, Truthdig, Ben Smith's Blog and Facing South
Gallup:
Americans Oppose Raising Debt Ceiling, 47% to 19% — Thirty-four percent don't know enough about the issue to say — PRINCETON, NJ — By a 47% to 19% margin, Americans say they would want their member of Congress to vote against raising the U.S. debt ceiling, while 34% don't know enough to say.
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Haley Barbour Shrugs As Mississippi Floods — Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour just gave small government a whole new meaning. Small, as in mean and cold-hearted. While Barbour bows and scrapes to the Conservative God of the Almighty Dollar, people are bracing to lose everything in what could be the worst flooding in history.
Ian Traynor / Guardian:
Europe moves to close borders in migrant row — European interior ministers agree to ‘radical revision’ of Schengen amid fears of a flood of migrants from north Africa — European nations moved to reverse decades of unfettered travel across the continent when a majority of EU governments agreed …
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ParaPundit and Instapundit
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U.S. State Department condemns ‘odious’ Ugandan anti-gay bill — Washington (CNN) — The State Department Thursday condemned a proposed bill in the Ugandan parliament that could make engaging in homosexual acts a capital offense punishable by death. The bill may be debated Friday by the Ugandan parliament.
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Pam's House Blend, Box Turtle Bulletin and Towleroad News #gay
Michael Moore / MichaelMoore.com:
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden — “The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different.” - Michael Moore in an interview last week — Last week, President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise and killed Osama bin Laden.
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Mediaite, Top of the Ticket and The Raw Story
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
McCain's Rejection of Torture Puts Brakes on Neocon Assault — We heard from Marcy that John McCain had a decent op-ed today in the Washington Post, denouncing torture and laying out the facts on the role of torture. He affirmed that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed lied under torture about key facts related …
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Emptywheel, Edison 2.0 and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality …
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Despite adviser's warnings, Obama calls bin Laden ‘jihad’ leader — It didn't get much attention over the weekend, but, in his interview with “60 Minutes,” President Barack Obama described Osama bin Laden as a leader of a global “jihad.” That's a word that he and his advisers generally avoid.
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Axel W. Caballero / The Huffington Post:
Immigrants For Sale — Georgia is the latest state to pass an anti-immigrant bill like SB1070, with Governor Nathan Deal expected to sign it tomorrow. Georgia is also home to the largest private prison in the country. Coincidence? Not even close. — It's hardly a secret …
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The Nation and Truthdig
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Dem Candidate Targets Asian Vote With Bizarre Ad: ‘We Minorities Should Stick Together’ — The jury's out on just how seriously Democratic candidate Dan Adler should be taken in the crowded primary to replace departed Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) in California's 36th district …
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Hot Air, Salon, Hit & Run, The Raw Story and Gawker
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Two Years In, Obama Says Full Recovery Will “Take Us Several Years” — PRESIDENT OBAMA: That's exactly right. So — so part of what's happened also is some structural changes in the economy. Where it used to be that there was broad-based shared prosperity, now if companies are doing really well …
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Don Surber, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit