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Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
THE VETTING: BEN SMITH RELEASES SELECTIVELY EDITED OBAMA RACE VIDEO — Earlier today, Buzzfeed's Ben Smith announced on Twitter that video researcher Andrew Kaczynski had released “the mysterious Harvard/Obama/race video that the Breitbart folks have been talking about.”
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Brett Smiley / New York Magazine:
Breitbart's Obama Video Is a Total Dud — That movie stunk. — Breitbart.com's explosive, blockbuster video that would expose Barack Obama as a radical commie who wasn't vetted by the media was almost entirely hype. — Breitbart.com's Editor-in-Chief Joel Pollak and Editor …
Andrew Golis / PBS:
The Story Behind the Obama Law School Speech Video — The web is abuzz today about video of a speech Barack Obama gave in 1990 (some reports have incorrectly identified the speech as occurring in 1991) at Harvard Law School defending the actions of Professor Derrick Bell.
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Joseph Williams / Politico:
1991 Obama video aired in 2008
1991 Obama video aired in 2008
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Shakesville, Addicting Info, ABCNEWS and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Michelle Horstman / The PJ Tatler:
A Few Fun Facts About Professor Derrick Bell Jr.
A Few Fun Facts About Professor Derrick Bell Jr.
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Doug Ross, The Gateway Pundit, protein wisdom, BREITBART.COM and Ed Driscoll
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Armed Forces Chairman Levin wants Limbaugh dropped from military radio — The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that he would “love” to see controversial conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh dropped from the Armed Forces Network.
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The Daily:
Obama adviser slams Romney for Limbaugh while planning to go on Maher — CHICAGO — While slamming Mitt Romney for not standing up to the “strident voices” on his side, a top Obama advisor is planning to spend some quality time with one on his own, The Daily has learned.
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Gene Weingarten / Live Q&A's:
Conversations / Live Q&A — Chatological Humor: Why 'fair comment …
Conversations / Live Q&A — Chatological Humor: Why 'fair comment …
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The Mahablog, Balloon Juice, The Daily Dish and No More Mister Nice Blog
CNN:
First on CNN: Levin says Limbaugh should be dropped from Armed Forces Network
First on CNN: Levin says Limbaugh should be dropped from Armed Forces Network
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Politico, The Moderate Voice, Sister Toldjah and The Raw Story
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Rush Limbaugh: Over 40 Advertisers Flee, Host Says 'Everything's Cool'
Rush Limbaugh: Over 40 Advertisers Flee, Host Says 'Everything's Cool'
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Mediaite, Firedoglake, Addicting Info, Tucson Citizen and Colorlines
Mj Lee / Politico:
Joe the Plumber blows a gasket on CNN — Samuel Wurzelbacher, who on Thursday morning accused CNN of being like TMZ and trying to trap him with “gotcha questions,” explained to POLITICO immediately following the tense interview that he is “sick of the gossip and drama.”
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Obama lobbying Dems over Keystone XL pipeline — President Barack Obama is intervening in a Senate fight over the Keystone XL oil pipeline and personally lobbying Democrats to reject an amendment calling for its construction, according to several sources familiar with the talks.
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Suzanne Goldenberg / Guardian:
Obama makes southern truck stop and pushes for $1bn green tax credits
Obama makes southern truck stop and pushes for $1bn green tax credits
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George Talbot / Breaking News from the Press-Register:
New poll shows Rick Santorum leading in Alabama GOP primary — A new poll released on the eve of Rick Santorum's first campaign visit to Alabama shows the former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania leading in the state Republican Party presidential primary. — The statewide poll conducted …
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Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Gingrich Cancels Travel to Kansas, Zeros In on Alabama, Mississippi
Gingrich Cancels Travel to Kansas, Zeros In on Alabama, Mississippi
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Eric Kleefeld / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Bachmann: ‘Health Care Dictator’ Could Decide How Many Babies You Can Have — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is warning that the Obama administration's contraception insurance mandate could put America on a slippery slope — to a totalitarian one-child policy.
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Wonkette, Hullabaloo and Dependable Renegade
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Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
Michele Bachmann: ‘Not Far-Fetched’ To Say Government Could Limit Number Of Babies Born Per Family
Michele Bachmann: ‘Not Far-Fetched’ To Say Government Could Limit Number Of Babies Born Per Family
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The Maddow Blog and Balloon Juice
Zandar / Angry Black Lady Chronicles:
Won't Be Long Now, Folks! — And the odds that we'll get to somebody dropping the ni-CLANG word on President Obama took a really big step forward today, along with bonus misogyny to boot. They say a picture's worth a thousands words, and judging from the latest Mike Lester political cartoon from the Rome …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Zandar Versus The Stupid
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Party of Hate — Millions of Americans voted for Barack Obama in the hope that he would be a trailblazer who would conduct the presidency in a new way. Well, he has: Obama has been the most divisive president in our modern history, unabashedly stirring up hate against not only his political enemies …
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Whiskey Fire
T.W. Farnam / Washington Post:
The Influence Industry: Obama gives administration jobs to some big fundraisers — Big donors considering whether to work the phones raising money for President Obama's reelection campaign might consider the fate of his 2008 bundlers. Many of them, it turns out, won plum jobs in his administration.
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TheBlaze.com and The Lonely Conservative
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Warns Apple, Publishers — Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing — The Justice Department has warned Apple Inc. and five of the biggest U.S. publishers that it plans to sue them for allegedly colluding to raise the price of electronic books, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Roll Call:
Rep. Jean Schmidt's Defeat Serves as Warning — Ohio Rep. Jean Schmidt had tough primaries before, but it's obvious she didn't see this one coming. — Podiatrist Brad Wenstrup defeated Schmidt by 6 points in Tuesday's GOP primary, likely ending the controversial Congresswoman's career.
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Dan Springer / Fox News:
Wind farms in Pacific Northwest paid to not produce — Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest — built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced — are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region's electricity grid …
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Moonbattery, Hot Air, Wall Street Journal and The Lonely Conservative
Jessica Winter / TIME Ideas:
Subject for Debate: Are Women People? — I've always assumed that women are fully autonomous human citizens—who vote, even!—but now I'm not so certain — From left: Catholic Bishop William Lori, the Rev. Matthew Harrison, Dr. Ben Mitchell, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik and Craig Mitchell …
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The Moderate Voice and Hullabaloo
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
VP Joe Biden raises money in St. Petersburg — ST. PETERSBURG — Vice President Joe Biden slipped into the bay area for a fundraiser Wednesday, where he cheered for the spirited Republican presidential primary to continue for as long as possible. — “God love them, as my mother would say.
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David Batty / Guardian:
Massive solar storm heading for Earth — Airlines and energy suppliers are on alert as the largest solar storm in five years threatens to disrupt flights and power lines — Airlines and energy suppliers are on alert as the largest solar storm in five years heads toward Earth, threatening to disrupt flights and power lines.
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The Last Tradition and Boing Boing
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama plays hard on and off court — For President Obama, politics translates to sports, and the two worlds often come together. — The president's goal — from the basketball court to the Scrabble board and campaign trail — say those who know him, is simple: He wants to win …
New York Times:
Texas Women's Clinics Retreat as Finances Are Cut — Leticia Parra, a mother of five scraping by on income from her husband's sporadic construction jobs, relied on the Planned Parenthood clinic in San Carlos, an impoverished town in South Texas, for breast cancer screenings, free birth control pills and pap smears for cervical cancer.
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