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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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New York Magazine, PERRspectives, Taylor Marsh, Washington Monthly, Feministe, Blue Virginia and BuzzFeed
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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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Politico, CNN, Wake up America, Scared Monkeys, The Other McCain and Jammie Wearing Fools
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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Instapundit, Don Surber, Weasel Zippers, 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
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, Power Line, Los Angeles Times and Macsmind
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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americanthinker.com, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, State of the Union, JustOneMinute, The PJ Tatler and protein wisdom
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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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Towleroad News #gay
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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Weasel Zippers, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Gateway Pundit 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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The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, 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
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
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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Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs, Harry's Place and Jihad Watch
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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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