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Al Baker / New York Times:
I.M.F. Head Is Arrested and Accused of Sexual Attack — The head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was taken off a plane by police at Kennedy International Airport on Saturday just minutes before it was to takeoff for Paris and was being held in connection …
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Guardian, Sky Dancing and Marginal Revolution
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New York Post:
IMF head Strauss-Kahn pulled off plane, arrested in alleged sodomy of hotel maid — The French political bigshot who heads the International Monetary Fund was arrested for allegedly sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid today — hauled off an Air France flight just moments before takeoff from Kennedy Airport, police said.
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The Daily Beast, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Gothamist and The Market Ticker
Fox News:
Huckabee Opts Against 2012 White House Bid — Mike Huckabee said Saturday there would be no sequel to his surprisingly strong 2008 White House bid, in which he won the Iowa Republican caucus and finished second in the primaries to Sen. John McCain. — “All the factors say go …
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Crooks and Liars, FiveThirtyEight, Weasel Zippers, TalkLeft, The Other McCain and Doug Ross
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Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Mike Huckabee Not Running For President in 2012 … WASHINGTON - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Saturday he will not run for the Republican presidential nomination, a significant development that removes one of the potential front-runners from contention and brings the slow-moving GOP primary process into sharper focus.
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The Reid Report, The Raw Story and CNN
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Mike Huckabee: ‘Things Will Get Crazier’ After Presidential Bid Announcement
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Huck: I've made '12 decision — Mike Huckabee said that he's now …
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Reuters, Ben Smith's Blog, FrumForum and Outside the Beltway
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Open thread: “The Decision”; Update: Huckabee not running; Update: Video added
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Mediaite, Cubachi and Washington Post
Dan Fastenberg / The Page:
“Once I Pull the Trigger Saturday Night, Things Will Get Even Crazier, As If That's Possible”
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Swampland, RedState, Pajamas Media and Taegan Goddard's …
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
New York Post, With Classy Cover, Lists Bin Laden Porn Titles — The New York Post has clearly done its homework to come up with the titles of the DVD's Osama bin Laden enjoyed at his compound. As part of an article titled “Porno Osama Had A Big ‘Jihad On’” his favorites were revealed. Among them:
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New York Post:
Porn stash found in bin Laden's lair — It wasn't just plots to kill Americans that got a rise out of him. — It turns out that terror titan Osama bin Laden had a stash of smut to liven up his lair. — Investigators poring over the tons of files, computer drives and other recordings hauled …
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Gothamist, Don Surber and The Jawa Report
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
New York Post Truly Outdoes Itself With ‘Osama Bin Wankin’ Porn Cover — On Monday, May 2nd, many New Yorkers awoke expecting their beloved bearer of ridiculous headlines, the New York Post, to come up with an insanely entertaining cover to celebrate the death of Osama bin Laden.
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Pajamas Media
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Four Dems vote ‘present’ on honoring Bin Laden mission
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Weasel Zippers, Don Surber and No More Mister Nice Blog
Glenn Davis / Mediaite:
Bill Maher: If You Celebrated Bin Laden's Death, You're Not Really A Christian
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Neela Banerjee / Los Angeles Times:
Obama to open Alaska petroleum reserve to new drilling — The broad energy plan, coming as gas prices continue to rise, would also fast-track environmental assessment of petroleum exploration elsewhere. — Reporting from Washington— President Obama will open Alaska's national petroleum reserve …
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The Gateway Pundit, Firedoglake, Pajamas Media, Doug Ross and FrumForum
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
Obama Shifts to Speed Oil and Gas Drilling in U.S.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Weasel Zippers
Darren Goode / The Politico:
Obama says drill — President Barack Obama is looking …
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Right Wing News, Wake up America and Fausta's Blog
Andrew Ferguson / Weekly Standard:
Converting Mamet — A playwright's progress — Three decades ago David Mamet became known among the culture-consuming public for writing plays with lots of dirty words. “You're f—ing f—ed” was a typically Mamet-like line, appearing without the prim dashes back in a day when playwrights …
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Power Line, Pajamas Media, alicublog and National Review
Matthew Yglesias / Yglesias:
Ron Paul And The Civil Rights Act — I watched Ron Paul on Hardball yesterday afternoon talking about his opposition to the Civil Rights Act and while this of course reminds you of his troubling racist associations, I think that's actually the least significant part of the story.
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality … and TPMDC
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Ron Paul's Racism
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DownWithTyranny!, CNN, Left Coast Rebel, Crooked Timber and ThinkProgress
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
Beyond parody — We'll probably learn later today whether Mike Huckabee is running for president, but while we wait, it's worth appreciating what else for the former Arkansas governor is up to. — This week, Huckabee launched a new educational company called Learn Our History.
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Barefoot and Progressive and Balloon Juice
Robert Zubrin / Wall Street Journal:
How We Can Fly to Mars in This Decade—And on the Cheap — The technology now exists and at half the cost of a Space Shuttle flight. All that's lacking is the political will to take more risks. — SpaceX, a private firm that develops rockets and spacecraft, recently announced it will field …
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Gingrich promises to slash taxes, calls Obama ‘food stamp president’ — MACON, Ga. — Newt Gingrich opened his presidential campaign here Friday night by introducing a jobs plan that would slash taxes and repeal an array of bureaucratic regulations. — Returning to the state where he launched …
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Yglesias, The Raw Story, ThinkProgress and newt.org
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New York Times:
Donors to G.O.P. Are Backing Gay Marriage Push — As gay rights advocates intensify their campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, the bulk of their money is coming from an unexpected source: a group of conservative financiers and wealthy donors to the Republican Party …
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PolitickerNY, Gothamist, Pam's House Blend and AMERICAblog Gay
Juana Summers / The Politico:
Herman Cain: We're not No. 2 — Herman Cain told Georgia Republicans Saturday that being No. 2 economically and militarily is “not in our DNA.” — The Atlanta businessman and former talk radio host delivered a rousing speech to party activists at the Georgia GOP's convention …
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