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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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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, The Mahablog and The Raw Story
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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CNN, Politico, Wake up America, Scared Monkeys, Jammie Wearing Fools and The Other McCain
The Express Tribune:
‘Sterling’ bounty offered for Obama, Bush — HARIPUR: — In an expression of solidarity with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) Chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, British parliamentarian of Kashmiri origin Lord Nazir Ahmed has announced a reward for the captor of US President Barack Obama and his predecessor George W Bush.
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Harry's Place, The Daily Caller, Atlas Shrugs, Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
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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JustOneMinute, Instapundit, Weasel Zippers, Don Surber, Taylor Marsh, Althouse and Hot Air
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Leigh Ann Caldwell / CBS News:
Geithner: Romney's statements on women “misleading and ridiculous” — Bob Schieffer interviews Timothy Geithner for the Sunday, April 15th edition of “Face the Nation” (Photo for CBS News by: Mary Calvert) — (CBS News) Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner pushed back on Mitt Romney's statements …
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ABCNEWS, Washington Post and Jezebel
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Axelrod TKO-ed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday — David Axelrod was shredded this morning by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. Wallace kept Axelrod on defense and off balance throughout. The major bloodletting occurred here: — Like his boss, Axelrod seems almost at a loss to respond once the talking points are challenged.
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Power Line, Fox News and Los Angeles Times
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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The Spectacle Blog, Weasel Zippers, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Gateway Pundit, The Moderate Voice and Macsmind
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, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, Power Line and Macsmind
New York Times:
Kabul Rocked by Gunfire and Explosions — By BY ALISSA J. RUBIN, GRAHAM BOWLEY and SANGAR RAHIMI — KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban staged multiple and sustained attacks across Kabul and eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, hitting the heavily secured diplomatic neighborhood of the Afghan capital …
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Washington Post, The Moderate Voice, Telegraph and The Agonist
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AP Member Choice Complete / Associated Press:
Taliban attack Afghan capital, 3 other cities
Taliban attack Afghan capital, 3 other cities
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Reuters, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and ThinkProgress
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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Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Anti-Abortion Bachmann Says Women Need To Make Their Own Decisions About Their Bodies — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) argued that women should be allowed to make choices over their own bodies, while blasting Obamacare on Meet The Press. Without noting the irony of the GOP war …
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The Raw Story and Gawker
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
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 and Booman Tribune
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Former Dem. Congressman Kennedy Alleges ‘Quid Pro Quo’ for Access to White House — Access to the Obama White House is in direct correlation to the amount of money donated to the president's reelection effort and the Democratic party, the New York Times reports today.
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