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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Top Romney Adviser Says Romney Can Change His Positions After The Primaries: 'It's Almost Like An Etch A Sketch' — Mitt Romney can't be held accountable for his extreme right-wing views, at least according to his campaign's senior adviser, who said the candidate should be given a …
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Walter Shapiro / Yahoo! News:
The other story of Mitt Romney's dog: Character Sketch
The other story of Mitt Romney's dog: Character Sketch
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Mother Jones
Niall Stanage / The Hill:
An air of inevitability grows around Romney after decisive primary win
An air of inevitability grows around Romney after decisive primary win
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CNN and Washington Times
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Etch A Sketches hit the trail
Etch A Sketches hit the trail
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Liberal Values, The New Republic, Daily Kos and The Impolitic
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Top Romney adviser: Mitt will erase his conservative positions once he's the nominee
Top Romney adviser: Mitt will erase his conservative positions once he's the nominee
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Los Angeles Times, RedState, Hot Air, Pundit & Pundette, The Maddow Blog, Washington Wire and GOP 12
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
G.O.P. Nomination Becoming a One-Man Race
G.O.P. Nomination Becoming a One-Man Race
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Daily Kos, The New Republic, The Daily Dish, msnbc.com, Washington Monthly, IMAO, Outside the Beltway and Indecision Forever
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Romney advisor says his conservatism can be erased
Romney advisor says his conservatism can be erased
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The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, Washington Post and The Right Scoop
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
‘Etch A Sketch’ Latest Gaffe From Romney Campaign
‘Etch A Sketch’ Latest Gaffe From Romney Campaign
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The Spectacle Blog and CNN
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Platform ‘Like An Etch A Sketch,’ Top Spokesman Says
Mitt Romney Platform ‘Like An Etch A Sketch,’ Top Spokesman Says
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The Caucus, CNN, Politico and New York Times
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus:
Jeb Bush Backs Romney and Urges End to G.O.P. Battle
Jeb Bush Backs Romney and Urges End to G.O.P. Battle
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New York Times, News Desk, msnbc.com, American Prospect, The Maddow Blog, New York Magazine and Prairie Weather
Ben Dimiero / Media Matters for America:
Jason Mattera Still Hasn't Found What He's Looking For — As part of the promotional rollout for his new book, Hollywood Hypocrites, Jason Mattera yesterday unveiled an ambush interview he conducted with U2 lead singer Bono. Or at least, that's who Mattera thought he had ambushed.
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Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Jason Mattera interviews someone — is it Bono? — Jason Mattera, editor at large at Human Events, is famous for rough-and-tumble journalism. Last year he created a sensation when he pulled something of a fast one on Vice President Biden. He distracted the veep by pretending he wanted to pose for a picture with him.
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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Carney: Backers of Ryan budget ‘deliberately ignorant’ on clean energy — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and the Republicans who support his budget plan are “aggressively and deliberately ignorant” when it comes to the need to invest in clean energy, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday.
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Ezra Klein:
Wonkbook: Why the Republican budgets make the poor pay — I don't think Paul Ryan intended to write a budget that concentrated its cuts on the poorest Americans. Similarly, I don't think Mitt Romney intended to write a budget that concentrated its cuts on the poorest Americans.
Joel Gehrke / Campaign 2012:
WH: Ryan ‘aggressively and deliberately ignorant’
WH: Ryan ‘aggressively and deliberately ignorant’
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Weasel Zippers, The Lonely Conservative, The Right Scoop and Pundit & Pundette
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan, helping the poor by hurting them
Paul Ryan, helping the poor by hurting them
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Praises 2008 Bank Bailout — Credits Bush, not Obama for saving the country from a Great Depression. A big policy statement on a tough day. — US Presidential candidate Mitt Romney speaks at his Illinois primary night party March 20, 2012 in Schaumburg, Illinois. — (Getty Images / DON EMMERT)
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NOM Blog:
The National Organization for Marriage Announces International “Dump Starbucks” Protest Campaign — Contact: Anath Hartmann or Elizabeth Ray (703-683-5004) — “Corporations should not take sides in a culture war that pits a company against the majority of the American people …
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Good As You, LGBTQ Nation, Human Rights Campaign, Box Turtle Bulletin, Balloon Juice and Towleroad News #gay
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Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life:
More See “Too Much” Religious Talk by Politicians — Santorum Voters Disagree — A new survey finds signs of public uneasiness with the mixing of religion and politics. The number of people who say there has been too much religious talk by political leaders stands at an all-time high since …
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The New Republic, msnbc.com, Outside the Beltway, CNN, Washington Monthly and Ballot Box
H. HooVer / Distriction:
Sign of the Times — Stephon stood just a few feet away from Barack Obama. The president, busy shaking hands, looked right at him. “It was like he was waiting for me to say something,” he said later. — So the 26-year-old Prince George's Community College student took his cue and spoke …
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Jezebel, ABCNEWS, Wonkette, Guardian, Towleroad News #gay, Washington Post, Boing Boing and Angry Black Lady Chronicles
NBC New York:
Occupy Protester Dumped Tub of Feces: Police — Police said Occupy Wall Street protesters were captured on surveillance video dragging a large receptacle of human urine and feces into a public space in Lower Manhattan — This is raw surveillance video of Occupy Wall Street protesters …
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Conservative Hideout 2.0
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
AP Fact Check: In 36 Years Of Data, Not A Shred Of Evidence That Drilling Reduces Gas Prices — Experts deny that drilling brings down gas prices, despite how often Republicans claim to have the “silver bullet.” Now, the Associated Press reports that an analysis of 36 years …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
BuzzFeed:
Gillibrand: Hillary Clinton Should Run In 2016 — In an exclusive interview with BuzzFeed Shift , New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand says she will be “one of the first to ask Hillary to run in 2016.” Gillibrand is a close Clinton supporter, and her words add weight to speculation about Clinton's plans.
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American Prospect, The Hill and Politico
Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Unanimous Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Property Owners in Sackett v. EPA — The Supreme Court today issued a unanimous decision in favor of the property owners in the important case of Sackett v. EPA [HT: GMU law student Matthew Roberts]. The opinions in the case (an opinion for the court …
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Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court allows Idaho couple to challenge EPA on wetlands ruling
Supreme Court allows Idaho couple to challenge EPA on wetlands ruling
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The Lonely Conservative
Julian Sanchez:
Fearing for Your Life — Most of the commentary on the Trayvon Martin case has focused on the growing mountain of evidence suggesting that shooter George Zimmerman, far from acting in “self defense,” was the instigator of the confrontation between the two late last month.
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The Huffington Post, News Desk, Guardian and Balloon Juice
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Did Obama delay stimulus spending to aid his reelection? — “Stimulus was supposed to be quick. In fact, they never intended to spend it and will not completely have effectively spent it until after the president's re-elect. Always looking at how do you get the maximum hit when the president was up for re-elect.”
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The Maddow Blog and Economist's View
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices' Ruling Expands Rights of Accused in Plea Bargains — WASHINGTON — Criminal defendants have a constitutional right to effective lawyers during plea negotiations, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a pair of 5-to-4 decisions that vastly expanded judges' supervision of the criminal justice system.
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