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Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Minority Report — A photo of Obama's “army” originally posted on the campaign's Tumblr site and run in conjunction with a BuzzFeed story on the Obama campaign reveals a stunning lack of diversity among the president's Chicago staff. — The Obama campaign's Chicago headquarters has it all …
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The POH Diaries and americanthinker.com
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Barack Obama Campaign Attacks Mitt Romney Over Swiss Bank Account
Barack Obama Campaign Attacks Mitt Romney Over Swiss Bank Account
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BuzzFeed and New York Magazine
Mark Judge / The Daily Caller:
The end of my white guilt — My white guilt died on Good Friday, April 6, 2012. That was the day my bike got stolen. — I was at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., for the Stations of the Cross — the pre-Easter Catholic ritual of recounting the events …
BuzzFeed:
Why The Supreme Court Will Overturn ObamaCare — A fantasy mansion, and a locked room. — Via: Shutterstock.com — A conservative lawyer explained the logic for overturning ObamaCare as lucidly as I've heard, and on the condition of anonymity. — “The court is going to find …
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Ezra Klein and Washington Monthly
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Josh Hicks / Associated Press:
Obama's selective memory of Supreme Court history
Obama's selective memory of Supreme Court history
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Washington Post, ThinkProgress, News Corpse and ACS Blog
David Axelrod / CNN:
TRENDING: Grassley calls Obama ‘stupid’ on Twitter
TRENDING: Grassley calls Obama ‘stupid’ on Twitter
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TheGazette, The Other McCain and The New Republic
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: George Zimmerman Launches Website, Features Vandalized Black Cultural Center — According to NBC News correspondent Mara Schiavocampo, George Zimmerman has launched a new website: … On the website — therealgeorgezimmerman.com — Zimmerman solicits donations to support his “living expenses and legal defense.”
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msnbc.com, Little Green Footballs, The Moderate Voice, Addicting Info, The Raw Story and Gawker
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Hoopster In Chief Puts Own Image on Ball — Using a special basketball festooned with his own image, President Obama shot some hoop today with former NBA players, Harlem Globetrotters and kids attending the White House Easter Egg Hunt. — The “Shoot for Strength” activity took place …
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Mediaite and HotAirPundit
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama misses 7 baskets before he makes one
Obama misses 7 baskets before he makes one
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White House Dossier, The POH Diaries and Weasel Zippers
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Gay Couple Makes Case For Nondiscrimination Order At White House Egg Roll
Gay Couple Makes Case For Nondiscrimination Order At White House Egg Roll
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Poliglot and Towleroad News #gay
Associated Press:
Special prosecutor: Won't take Trayvon Martin death to grand jury, still investigating — ORLANDO, Fla. — Special prosecutor Angela Corey said Monday she will not take the Trayvon Martin shooting death before a grand jury. — Corey said she continues to investigate the case and will not involve …
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JustOneMinute, Outside the Beltway, Weasel Zippers, NewsHounds blog, Taylor Marsh and TalkLeft
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Limbaugh to Leave AM Station in Philadelphia — “The Rush Limbaugh Show” is leaving the dominant conservative talk radio station in Philadelphia, one of the biggest radio markets in the country. — In its place on the station, WPHT, will go “The Michael Smerconish Show,” hosted by Mr. Smerconish, a native of the city.
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ThinkProgress, Mediaite and Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!, more at Mediagazer »
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Jon Bershad / Mediaite:
Rush Limbaugh: If There Is A War On Women, Obama Is The Generalissimo
Rush Limbaugh: If There Is A War On Women, Obama Is The Generalissimo
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Crooks and Liars and Indecision Forever
CNN:
Romney: I speak with Gingrich more than Santorum — (CNN) - Mitt Romney, making a post-Easter appearance on the radio show of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, said he was in touch with rival Newt Gingrich more often than Rick Santorum, despite Santorum's advantage in the delegate count.
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Pundits Blog, Fox News, Hot Air and Washington Post
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Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds — President Obama's landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation's budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a member of the board that oversees Medicare financing.
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Weasel Zippers, nation.foxnews.com and HotAirPundit
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Helping the Poor is Now Apparently Anti-Bible — I see that fellow Orange Countian Rick Warren — he of Saddleback megachurch and Purpose Driven Life fame — is in the news again. He was on ABC's This Week yesterday, and Jake Tapper asked him what he thought about President Obama's suggestion …
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Religion Dispatches, Hullabaloo, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos and Washington Monthly
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Zimmerman family challenges Holder on New Black Panthers, says no arrests ‘based solely on your race’ — In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, obtained exclusively by The Daily Caller, a family member of George Zimmerman asked the nation's top law enforcement officer …
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Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, Michelle Malkin, Nice Deb and The Gateway Pundit
Atrios / Eschaton:
WANKER OF THE DECADE Runner Up #5 — Lord Will Saletan. — Choosing which of the Lords of Slate would make this list was a bit tough. Weisberg's had more overall responsibility for the years long wankfest that is Slate, and a fine practitioner of the Art of Wanking himself, but Saletan still edged him out.
Brendan Smialowski / Rolling Stone:
Why Obama's JOBS Act Couldn't Suck Worse — Boy, do I feel like an idiot. I've been out there on radio and TV in the last few months saying that I thought there was a chance Barack Obama was listening to the popular anger against Wall Street that drove the Occupy movement …
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The Huffington Post, Firedoglake, Hullabaloo and Guardian
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Sonia Sotomayor Is Our Country's First Disabled Supreme Court Justice — Over at the Plum Line, Jonathan Bernstein riffs off a White House infographic on judicial appointments to remind us that although the Senate has been pretty obstructionist when it comes to confirming judges …
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Mediaite, Outside the Beltway, The Volokh Conspiracy, Hot Air and New York Magazine
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Wisconsin State Senator Says Women Are Paid Less Because ‘Money Is More Important For Men’ — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) quietly repealed his state's equal pay law last week, a decision that will make it harder for victims of wage discrimination to sue for lost earnings and back wages.
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Addicting Info, Daily Kos, Indecision Forever, Feministing, Hullabaloo and Dependable Renegade
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Taking a Different Look at the Gender Gap — I have found over the years that when a narrative works its way into the collective wisdom, there is no way of changing it. So my goal here is quite modest: to get at least a handful of people to pause, take a deep breath and simply chew …
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Fox News, Campaign 2012 and The Daily Caller
Alex Tabarrok / Marginal Revolution:
New Cities … From an interesting Credit Suisse report, Opportunities in an urbanizing world (pdf). — I was surprised at how close the association is between state level GDP and the urbanization rate (Ryan Avent in The Gated City and Matt Yglesias in The Rent is Too Dammed High make similar points.)
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Free exchange and Mother Jones
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
74% of Republicans Say Romney ‘Definitely’ the Nominee — Ongoing Primaries Seen as Bad for the Party — ABOUT THE SURVEY — The analysis in this report is based on telephone interviews conducted April 5-8, 2012 among a national sample of 1,000 adults 18 years of age or older living …
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2012 Decoded and Ballot Box
Ned Martel / Washington Post:
Cable talkers' latest status symbol: A studio at home — Of the many categories of waste in American politics, consider the resources that go into cable-TV live shots. Thousands of barrels of fossil fuel are expended hauling a person to where the cameras are or a camera to where the person is.
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Firedoglake, TVNewser and New York Magazine
Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
The Myth of America's Decline — Washington now has added China, India, Brazil and Turkey to its speed-dial, along with Europe and Japan. But it will remain the chairman of a larger board. — The world balance of power is changing. Countries like China, India, Turkey and Brazil are heard …
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National Review and Via Meadia