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First Read / msnbc.com:
Romney offers policy details at closed-door fundraiser — PALM BEACH, FL — Mitt Romney went well beyond his standard stump speech at a closed-door fundraiser on Sunday evening, and offered some of the most specific details to date about the policies he would pursue if elected.
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Sara Murray / Wall Street Journal:
Romney Specifies Deductions He'd Cut — PALM BEACH, Fla.—Mitt Romney, speaking at a private fundraising event on Sunday, offered the first details of deductions he would eliminate or limit in order to offset the income tax cut he has proposed for all taxpayers.
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GOP 12, Ezra Klein, The Raw Story and ABCNEWS
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Ann Romney: Controversy over Hilary Rosen remark an ‘early birthday present’ — Ann Romney, the wife of GOP front-runner Mitt Romney, told supporters at a private fundraising event on Sunday that last week's Hilary Rosen controversy was an “early birthday present.”
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Runnin' Scared and The Mahablog
Bloomberg:
Secret Service Sex Scandal Upsets Obama Trip — President Barack Obama came to Colombia seeking to erase an image of the U.S. in Latin America as overassertive Yankees who exploit the region at will. He left with the stereotype reinforced. — The sixth Summit of the Americas …
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New York Post:
20 US agents could be involved in Colombian hooker woe — Prostitutes walk a street of Cartagena, Colombia, as heads of state meet in the city for the Americas Summit. Headlines from this weekend's gathering have focused on an embarrassing scandal involving prostitutes and members of President Obama's security detail.
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NY Daily News, nation.foxnews.com and Jammie Wearing Fools
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Rep. Issa: Secret Service misconduct allegations reveal ‘pattern of behavior’ — “We clearly have lost confidence and we need to get that confidence back,” said Issa of the allegations. — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Monday that the recent scandal involving Secret Service agents …
Telegraph:
British Peer Lord Ahmed suspended after ‘offering £10m bounty on Barack Obama and George Bush’ — A controversial British peer has been suspended from the Labour Party amid reports that he offered a £10 million bounty for the capture of President Barack Obama and his predecessor President George W Bush.
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Daily Mail:
Labour peer suspended after he ‘offered £10m for capture of Barack Obama’ …
Labour peer suspended after he ‘offered £10m for capture of Barack Obama’ …
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Washington Monthly
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
British Lord Offers Bounty on Obama and Bush
British Lord Offers Bounty on Obama and Bush
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National Review
Greg Tepper / The Times of Israel:
Israeli TV report shows air force gearing up for Iran attack, says moment of truth is near — 'IAF expects losses, and knows it can't destroy entire Iranian program' — major Israel TV station on Sunday night broadcast a detailed report on how Israel will go about attacking Iran's nuclear facilities …
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Weasel Zippers, americanthinker.com and Israel Matzav
David J. Lynch / Bloomberg:
Obama Bid to End Too-Big-to Fail Undercut as Banks Grow — Two years after President Barack Obama vowed to eliminate the danger of financial institutions becoming “too big to fail,” the nation's largest banks are bigger than they were before the credit crisis.
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Weak jobs numbers raise pressure on Federal Reserve to adopt new stimulus
Weak jobs numbers raise pressure on Federal Reserve to adopt new stimulus
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Obama-DNC raise $53 million in March — The president's reelection campaign and the Democratic National Committee took in a combined $53 million in March through their various fundraising accounts, the Obama camp announced in a video Monday. — There were 190,000 first-time donors …
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americanthinker.com and Taegan Goddard's …
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: Romney Sells Inauguration Access, Nine Months Early — A cool $50,000 reserves your seat at the “presidential inaugural retreat.” Now all Mitt has to do is get elected! — Romney greeted supporters during a phone bank fundraiser last May in Las Vegas. — (AP / Julie Jacobson)
Mike Allen / Politico:
Playbook: Romney secrecy — COMING ATTRACTIONS - David Axelrod tells us the Obama campaign will make a major umbrella issue of what he calls “Romney's penchant for secrecy”: “George Bush felt it was appropriate to release the names of his bundlers. John McCain did. But not Mitt Romney.
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Mediaite
Zombie / The PJ Tatler:
Download your “Buffett Rule” 1040 forms here — Time to call his bluff. — Obama is still harping on the so-called “Buffett Rule” as some sort of miraculous tax hike, despite the fact that it would only pay off 1% of the debt that Obama has added since he became president.
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Politico, Right Wing News, Doug Ross, Michelle Malkin and Washington Examiner
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama: Buffett Rule not for equality
Obama: Buffett Rule not for equality
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ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, theGrio and Crooks and Liars
Alison Gendar / NY Daily News:
Congressman Ed Towns Bows Out — Incumbent Ed Towns was making calls Sunday night telling friends, supporters and some members of the New York delegation that he was dropping out of the race for the re-drawn 8th Congressional seat, two sources told the Daily News. — Calls to Towns and his staff were not immediately returned.
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Politicker, Daily Kos and New York Magazine
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Europe's Economic Suicide — On Saturday The Times reported on an apparently growing phenomenon in Europe: “suicide by economic crisis,” people taking their own lives in despair over unemployment and business failure. It was a heartbreaking story. But I'm sure I wasn't the only reader …
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Real Time Economics, Daily Kos, Paul Krugman and Calculated Risk