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4:50 PM ET, April 11, 2012

Top Items:

George Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin shooting, official says — Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey plans to announce as early as Wednesday afternoon that she is charging neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in the shooting of Trayvon Martin, according to a law enforcement official close to the investigation.

msnbc.com:

NBC: George Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin case — According to officials, authorities will pursue some type of criminal charges against George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case. NBC's Pete Williams report. — Updated at 2:57 p.m. ET: The special prosecutor in the Trayvon Martin case …

Discussion: JustOneMinute, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, NewsHounds blog and Feministing

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress: EXPERTS: Hannity Could Be Required To Testify About His Conversation With George Zimmerman

CBS News:
Zimmerman to be charged in Trayvon Martin case

Discussion: TalkLeft

Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
Eric Holder Praises Left-Wing Activist Al Sharpton, Says Facts, Law Will Guide Trayvon Martin Investigation

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, American Spectator, Colorlines, Law Blog and The BLT

John Schwartz / New York Times:
In Martin Case, Tough Choice Looms for Prosecutor

Discussion: The Huffington Post, Firedoglake, msnbc.com, ThinkProgress, PoliPundit.com, Colorlines, Guardian and Gawker

Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
George Zimmerman's Legal Team Cites Zimmerman's Phone Call To Sean Hannity As They Withdraw From The Case

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake and Taylor Marsh

Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings from National:

Mitt Romney: “Women account for 92.3 percent of the jobs lost under Obama.” — Romney campaign says women were hit hard by job losses under Obama — Mitt Romney's campaign wants you to know that the same president who argues for contraceptive coverage and suggests that a Congress …

CNN:

TRENDING: Obama campaign: Romney's greatest hits — (CNN) - President Barack Obama's re-election campaign marked the conclusion of the Republican primary - and the beginning of the general election campaign - with a nearly two-minute Web video splicing together clips of Mitt Romney's most conservative statements from the trail.

Discussion: Politico, ABCNEWS, Guardian, Washington Monthly, Towleroad News #gay and The New Republic

Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:

Romney Telegraphing Loss — As noted this morning, Wednesday April 11th is day one of the general election. But there are things I'm seeing that tell me that Mitt Romney is kicking off the campaign in a telling defensive posture. What I mean is that on various fronts, Romney is kicking off within Obama's campaign narrative.

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion

Alexander Burns / Politico:
National Organization for Marriage to back Romney

Discussion: ThinkProgress, New York Times, NOM Blog, Taylor Marsh, Advocate, Washington Monthly, Good As You and Towleroad News #gay

Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign On Defensive Over Equal Pay Law

Discussion: Washington Free Beacon, ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Feministing, Daily Kos and The Raw Story

Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney can't leave women voters to his wife

Discussion: Shakesville, Globe and Mail and The Jane Dough

Kyle Mantyla / rightwingwatch.org: Fischer: Electing a ‘Spiritually-Compromised Candidate’ Like Romney Will Weaken America

Rick Santorum / CNN:
Romney on Dems' ‘war on women’

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Politico, The Hill, Washington Wire, ABCNEWS, ThinkProgress, The Raw Story, Hot Air, Shakesville, Daily Kos, Cognitive Dissidence, Pirate's Cove, Washington Post and This Just In

John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Co-Founder Of NotMittRomney.Com's Reaction To Mitt Sewing Up The Nomination

Discussion: The Other McCain, New York Times, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Gateway Pundit

Justin Sink / The Hill:
Priebus: 'I'm going to double down' on ‘war on caterpillars’ remarks

Discussion: Politico and Ballot Box

Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Romney Camp Can't Explain How Obama's ‘War On Women’ Works

Discussion: ThinkProgress, CNN, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Livewire, Mediaite, The Maddow Blog, The Daily Caller, Wonkette and The Raw Story

Jonathan Mattise / Palm Beach Post:

Allen West hears cheers, jeers at town-hall meetings in Palm City, Jensen Beach — U.S. Rep. Allen West told about 90 largely supportive Palm City voters Tuesday that locally prioritized federal projects — such as the St. Lucie Inlet dredging — aren't going to matter if Washington officials don't address a mounting deficit.

Discussion: The Daily Caller, Politico, Crooks and Liars, Riptide 2.0, Washington Monthly, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, Suburban Guerrilla, Indecision Forever, New York Magazine, rightwingwatch.org, The Raw Story, Towleroad News #gay and INSTAPUTZ

Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:

Allen West: I've ‘Heard’ 80 House Democrats Are Communist Party Members … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Allen West, Allen West Barack Obama, Allen West Communist Party, Allen West Democrats Commies, Politics News — WASHINGTON — As many as 80 House Democrats are communists, according to Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.).

Discussion: American Prospect, Hot Air, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, The Maddow Blog, The New Civil Rights Movement, The Moderate Voice, Booman Tribune and Daily Kos

Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Allen West: Half the Democrats in Congress are Communists

Discussion: The POH Diaries, Weasel Zippers and Joe. My. God.

Darius Dixon / Politico:
Allen West: 80 communists in the House

Discussion: Roll Call, The Loyal Opposition, Outside the Beltway, Campaign 2012 and The Lonely Conservative

Jon Bershad / Mediaite:

Fox News Spokesperson Tells Mediaite: We Found The Mole (UPDATE) — So, when we asked readers how long it would take for Fox News to find the mole that Gawker had in their midst, did anyone put money down on “24 hours”? If so, it would appear that you just won the jackpot.

Discussion: Politico, Gawker, The Daily Caller, TBogg, BuzzFeed, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine, Wake up America, TVNewser, NewsHounds blog, Indecision Forever and The PJ Tatler, more at Mediagazer »

BuzzFeed:
Announcing Our Newest Hire: A Current C-SPAN Employee

Discussion: Mediaite, americanthinker.com and The Maddow Blog

Gabriel Arana / American Prospect:

My So-Called Ex-Gay Life — Early in my freshman year of high school, I came home to find my mom sitting on her bed, crying. She had snooped through my e-mail and discovered a message in which I confessed to having a crush on a male classmate. — “Are you gay?” she asked. I blurted out that I was.

Discussion: Truth Wins Out, Gay Politics, Towleroad News #gay and PinkNews.co.uk

Warren Throckmorton:
Robert Spitzer Retracts 2001 Ex-gay Study

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Truth Wins Out and Good As You

Raleigh News & Observer:

Amendment goes too far — We are native Southerners and we oppose legalizing same-sex marriage. — One of us (David), reared in Mississippi, has for more than two decades directed a think tank, the Institute for American Values, that aims to strengthen marriage and reduce divorce and unwed childbearing.

Discussion: Firedoglake, Towleroad News #gay, ThinkProgress, Good As You, Advocate and Joe. My. God.

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama at a high in North Carolina

Discussion: Ballot Box

Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:

National Review Fires Another Racist Writer — National Review Writer Robert Weissberg Speaks At White Nationalist Conference — Following the uproar over John Derbyshire's racist rant that led to his firing last week, National Review ended its relationship with another racist writer today.

Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com and Dependable Renegade

Rich Lowry / National Review:
Regarding Robert Weissberg

Discussion: Media Matters for America, The New Republic, The Atlantic Wire, Politico, Wonkette, Mediaite and The Spectacle Blog, more at Mediagazer »

Washington Post:

Poll: More Americans expect Supreme Court's health-care decision to be political — More Americans think Supreme Court justices will be acting mainly on their partisan political views than on a neutral reading of the law when they decide the constitutionality of President Obama's health-care law …

Discussion: Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars, TalkLeft, NewsBusters.org, ThinkProgress, Taegan Goddard's …, Los Angeles Times, Campaign 2012, Conservatives4Palin and New York Magazine

Ann Althouse / Althouse:
WaPo skews presentation of a poll on the Obamacare case to bolster the argument that the Court should defer to Congress.

Discussion: Wake up America, Weekly Standard and Washington Post

Cindy Adams / New York Post:

Too much ‘Boss’ for NJ gov — Bruce Springsteen's marathon, highenergy gig at MSG had a celebrity crowd rocking — except for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who was caught dozing by fans. — Christie — an ardent Boss buff who's said to have caught fellow New Jersey heavy-hitter Springsteen's show …

Discussion: New York Magazine, Hotline On Call and The Daily Caller

Quinnipiac University:
New Jersey Voters Back NYPD In Garden State 3-1, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Dems' Property …

Discussion: GOP 12, Washington Post, americanthinker.com, Hot Air, Politico and CNN

Bob Van Voris / Bloomberg:

U.S. Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple, Hachette — The U.S. sued Apple Inc. (AAPL), Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster in New York district court, claiming the publishers colluded to fix eBook prices. — CBS Corp. (CBS)'s Simon & Schuster …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, Media Decoder, Swampland, Wired, The BLT, TechCrunch, Law Librarian Blog, New York Magazine, The Daily Caller, FT Alphaville and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

State of Cool — Hillary is not going to President Obama's Democratic convention in Charlotte. Evidently, she's going to wait for her own. — There were intriguing developments on the presidential trail Tuesday, and I don't mean Rick Santorum dropping out.

Discussion: Reuters, Mediaite, Campaign 2012, msnbc.com, Daily Kos and Texts from Hillary

BuzzFeed:

Romney Starts Looking For A Veep — Gillespie will lead the hunt, a source says. Nobody wants another Palin. — Source: cache.daylife.com — WILMINGTON, Del. — The Republican primary campaign effectively ended yesterday, and Mitt Romney's aides and supporters have already begun turning …

Discussion: Booman Tribune and Hot Air