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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney: Mothers Should Be Required To Work Outside Home Or Lose Benefits … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Ann Romney, Hilary Rosen, Romney Campaign, Ann Romney Hilary Rosen, Ann Romney Stay At Home Mom, Hilary Rosen Ann Romney …
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Washington Monthly, Feministe and Blue Virginia
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Romney Flashback: Poor Mothers Should Be Required To Work Outside The Home Or Lose Welfare — In case it wasn't already clear that last week's controversy over stay at home moms was entirely manufactured, this should put the question to bed. — Romney and allies cried that Democrats had declared …
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Little Green Footballs and Crooks and Liars
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Bill Maher: Ann Romney Has “Never Gotten Her A** Out of the House to Work” — The conservative outrage machine is going to churn on all cylinders over this one, I think — and rightly so. Not necessarily because Maher said something unusually contemptible here, but for reasons we'll discuss in a moment.
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The Moderate Voice, Power Line, Los Angeles Times, Macsmind and Mediaite
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Geithner calls Romney statements on women, economy ‘ridiculous’ — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner ripped presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Sunday, calling Romney's argument that women have been disproportionately hurt during the recession “a ridiculous argument.”
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Politico, CNN, Scared Monkeys, Wake up America, The Other McCain and Jammie Wearing Fools
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New York Post:
Secret Service hooker flap over $47 (or just 83,475 naughty lil' pesos) — By GEOFF EARLE in DC and DON KAPLAN in NY — A Secret Service agent shamed the United States after a wild night of babes and booze that ended in an argument with a Colombian hooker over as little as $47.
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Don Surber, Instapundit, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Althouse
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New York Times:
White House Opens Door to Big Donors, and Lobbyists Slip In — Last May, as a battle was heating up between Internet companies and Hollywood over how to stop online piracy, a top entertainment industry lobbyist landed a meeting at the White House with one of President Obama's technology advisers.
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Hot Air, protein wisdom, Weasel Zippers, JustOneMinute, americanthinker.com and State of the Union
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Romney Adviser Ed Gillespie Struggles To Defend Campaign's Major Economic Claim — Mitt Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie struggled to defend his campaign's central piece of evidence supporting its claim that President Obama is waging a war on women today.
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The Raw Story, The Caucus and Blue Virginia
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Maha / The Mahablog:
The Republican War Against Women — The Wall Street Journal wants us to know that Republicans can win the War Against Women. Seriously. I like this headline so much I screen captured it before some dweeb at WSJ wakes up and realizes what it says - — Anyway, WSJ thinks Romney …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Booman Tribune and Washington Monthly
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Fox News:
Cheney calls Obama ‘unmitigated disaster’ in post-surgery speech — Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the Wyoming Republican state convention at the Little America Hotel and Resort in Cheyenne, Wyo. — Dick Cheney, just weeks after undergoing heart transplant surgery …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and Macsmind
N. Gregory Mankiw / New York Times:
Competition Is Healthy for Governments, Too — SHOULD governments — of nations, states and towns — compete like business rivals? — The question is simpler to ask than to answer. But it reflects why conservatives and liberals disagree on many big issues facing the nation.
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Brad DeLong, The Reality-Based Community, No More Mister Nice Blog, Althouse and Greg Mankiw's Blog
Yusuf / Somaliland Sun:
Al-Shabaab execute al-Amriki — The al-Qaeda-allied group al-Shabaab executed US-born jihadist Omar Hammami on April 5th, according to unconfirmed Somali media reports. — Hammami, known as Abu Mansour al-Amriki, said he feared for his life from other al-Shabaab leaders because of strategic …
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The Gateway Pundit, americanthinker.com and Weasel Zippers
Robin Banerji / BBC:
Little boy lost finds his mother using Google Earth — An Indian boy who lost his mother in 1986 has found her 25 years later from his new home in Tasmania - using satellite images. — Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He was travelling with his older brother, working as a sweeper on India's trains.
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