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TRENDING: Nugent threatens death if Obama wins in November — (CNN) - Rocker Ted Nugent did little to quell his reputation as a conservative firebrand through comments at the National Rifle Association convention when he took aim (pun intended) at high profile members of the Barack Obama administration …
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Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
The Secret Service Says They Are Investigating Ted Nugent's Threatening Remarks Toward Obama — Ted Nugent's threatening remarks about President Obama at the annual National Rifle Association convention in St. Louis have earned him a follow-up conversation with the Secret Service.
Josh Glasstetter / rightwingwatch.org:
Nugent Compared Obama and Democrats to a Coyote that Needs to Be Shot
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Firedoglake, Joe. My. God. and Back2Stonewall
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Two To Wango Tango: Mitt Romney Sought Ted Nugent's Endorsement, Should Answer For It
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Michelle Obama: ‘This President Has Brought Us Out of the Dark and Into the Light’ — Michelle Obama made a remarkable claim when talking up her husband, President Barack Obama, at a campaign event earlier today in Nashville, Tennessee. — “I am so in,” Michelle Obama said toward the end of her remarks.
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
Michelle Obama: ‘This president has brought us out of the dark and into the light’ — First lady Michelle Obama hit the campaign trail in Nashville on Tuesday and told a packed crowd in a downtown office building that the campaign has an “amazing story to tell.”
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Power Line and Weasel Zippers
NPR:
Full Transcript: Michelle Obama Speaks To NPR
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The Hill, Weasel Zippers, Taylor Marsh, The Hill and Politico
Redaktionen / Fria Tider:
Shocking photos show Swedish Minister of Culture celebrating with “n*g*er cake” — Photos from the party at World Art Day have already been released on Facebook and are now going viral in social media. — The shocking photos show several established left-wing members of the Stockholm …
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The Local:
Minister in ‘racist circumcision outrage’ — Double click on a word to get a translation — Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth's participation in a “racist spectacle” in which she carved up a cake depicting a naked black woman has sparked outrage and prompted calls for the minister's dismissal.
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Colorlines, Guardian, Jezebel, Shakesville, Mediaite, msnbc.com and Feministe
Atrios / Eschaton:
THE ONE TRUE WANKER OF THE DECADE — Tom Friedman. — Tom Friedman, artist's conception. — Friedman possesses all of the qualities that make a pundit truly wankerific. He fetishizes a false “centrism” which is basically whatever Tom Friedman likes, imagining the Friedman agenda …
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The Impolitic, Hullabaloo, The Agonist, Brad DeLong and Lawyers, Guns & Money
ALEC:
ALEC Sharpens Focus on Jobs, Free Markets and Growth — Announces the End of the Task Force that Dealt with Non-Economic Issues — ALEC Sharpens Focus on Jobs, Free Markets and Growth — Announces the End of the Task Force that Dealt with Non-Economic Issues
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ColorOfChange, McClatchy Washington Bureau, Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake, thenation.com/blogs/117, Washington Post, Center for Media and Democracy, BillMoyers.com, American Prospect, New York Times, Daily Kos, The Raw Story, Colorlines, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
PROGRESSIVE VICTORY: ALEC Ends Its Guns And Voter Suppression Task Force
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Hot Air, Washington Monthly and The Maddow Blog
Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:
Chelsea Clinton, TV's Dork Diva, Struggles At NBC — Hillary and Bill have worked their way back into our hearts, and now it's Chelsea's turn. The only problem: she's “terrible” on television, as network executives privately admit. — Amy Sly for BuzzFeed
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Gawker, Jezebel, Wonkette, The PJ Tatler, New York Magazine, Indecision Forever, Don Surber, TVNewser and The Moderate Voice, more at Mediagazer »
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney up big, Clinton and Christie have early 2016 leads — PPP's newest- and perhaps final- poll on the national GOP race finds Mitt Romney running away with 54% of the Republican vote to 24% for Newt Gingrich and 14% for Ron Paul. Those numbers don't suggest Gingrich will have much of an ability …
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Politico, Weasel Zippers and Blue Virginia
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Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Christie Would Listen if Romney Asks Him to Be Running Mate
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Hot Air, The Daily Caller, The Hill and GOP 12
Andy Baio / Wired:
Memeorandum Colors 2012: Visualizing Bias on Political Blogs — I don't watch sports, but every four years, I lose myself in the horse race of the U.S. presidential elections. That competition kicked off in earnest Monday, as Gallup started its daily tracking polls for the general election between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
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Little Green Footballs and Doug Ross
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
Hey, if we're going to talk about how presidential candidates treated dogs decades ago, let's talk about how presidential candidates treated dogs decades ago. — Can you name the author of this quote? … Give up? That's Barack Obama, writing about his childhood with his stepfather Lolo Soetoro …
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ABCNEWS, Ed Driscoll, Hot Air and Michelle Malkin
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Catholic Bishop Claims Obama Is ‘Following a Similar Path’ To Hitler — In a mass proceeding a Catholic men's march this weekend, Bishop Daniel Jenky delivered a homily that appears better suited to an episode of the Glenn Beck Show than to a celebration of religious faith.
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rightwingwatch.org, The Political Carnival, Daily Kos and The Daily Caller
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama doing well in Florida — Barack Obama starts the general election with a 5 point advantage over Mitt Romney in Florida, 50-45. This is the biggest lead Obama's had in Florida over the course of five polls PPP's done in the state since the beginning of 2011.
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Daily Kos, The Political Carnival, New York Magazine, Washington Wire, Politicker, Politico and Eunomia
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Sen. Conrad backs off plan to vote on budget — Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) bowed to pressure from fellow Democrats on Tuesday and postponed a committee vote on a 2013 budget resolution, most likely until after the November elections.
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Campaign 2012
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Conrad announces budget markup for Wednesday
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Politico, Weekly Standard and Washington Free Beacon
Brian Tashman / rightwingwatch.org:
Tony Perkins blames Secret Service Prostitution Scandal on the Repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell — Yesterday Janet Mefferd hosted Family Research Council president Tony Perkins where they spent most of the time lamenting the inevitable nomination of Mitt Romney, as Mefferd was troubled by Romney's past …
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Advocate, Daily Kos, Mediaite, The Raw Story, Towleroad News #gay, Good As You, ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway and CBS News
Washington Post:
Inquiry points to wider Secret Service scandal involving as many as 21 women — Investigators believe that as many as 21 women were brought by U.S. Secret Service and military personnel to the Hotel Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia, last week during a night of carousing, a dramatic increase …
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The Huffington Post, The New Republic and Business Insider
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Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
Taliban commander turns self in... for reward on ‘Wanted’ poster — Sometimes, capturing a Taliban commander requires vast resources and complex operations. Last week in eastern Afghanistan, it hinged on an insurgent's “improbable stupidity,” as one U.S. official put it.
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Weasel Zippers, The Jawa Report and New York Magazine
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Kobach is not Mitt Romney's immigration adviser? — Como se dice “Etch a Sketch” en espanol? — Over the weekend, I noticed that Kris Kobach, Mitt Romney's unpaid immigration adviser — and the inspiration for Romney's “voluntary deportation” strategy - wasn't included …
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Univision News Tumblr, The Raw Story, The Maddow Blog and National Review
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Kobach Contradicts Romney Campaign, Says He Regularly Advises Senior Staff On Immigration Policy
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The Hill
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
One for the Country — I had to catch a train in Washington last week. The paved street in the traffic circle around Union Station was in such poor condition that I felt as though I was on a roller coaster. I traveled on the Amtrak Acela, our sorry excuse for a fast train …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Tara Palmeri / New York Post:
Edwards' ‘cut’ rate — NOW (left): John Edwards gets his hair done at Supercuts. THEN (right): The VP rocked designer coifs in 2004. — CHAPEL HILL, NC — Oh, how the mighty 'do has fallen! — Disgraced former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards, reviled for his costy coifs …
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Scared Monkeys, Mediaite, ABCNEWS, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Obama easily beating Romney among U.S. women: Reuters/Ipsos poll — (Reuters) - American women favor Barack Obama by a 14-point margin over Mitt Romney, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed on Tuesday, despite the recent partisan “Mommy Wars” flap over the role of women in society.
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The Political Carnival
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