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CNN:
TRENDING: Republicans request investigation of Obama travel — (CNN) - President Barack Obama isn't just playing politics - he may be committing fraud on the taxpayer's dime, the Republican National Committee charged on Wednesday. — In a letter to the Government Accountability Office …
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Washington Free Beacon:
Liberal Media Mock Obama for Faux Campaign — Members of the media are questioning the Obama administration's numerous “official business” trips to swing states, during which he has been giving stump speeches and raising campaign funds. — High-profile Washington reporters engaged in a line …
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Campaign 2012, Washington Post, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
Olivier Knox / ABCNEWS:
RNC calls for investigation into Obama's travel costs for ambiguously political trips
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
OVERNIGHT TECH: House weighs changes to cybersecurity bill after veto threat
OVERNIGHT TECH: House weighs changes to cybersecurity bill after veto threat
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Politico and CANNONFIRE
Mary Milliken / Reuters:
Kimmel to “feast on stupid comments” at White House dinner
Kimmel to “feast on stupid comments” at White House dinner
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NewsBusters.org, RedState, Mediaite and The Immoral Minority
KIRO-TV:
EXCLUSIVE: New Secret Service scandal centers on strippers, prostitutes in El Salvador — U.S. Secret Service agents brag they routinely use third-world prostitutes while conducting out-of-country security detail for Presidential visits — Sponsored Links — SEATTLE —
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Bad Day In Court for the Obama Administration — Some years ago, I worked on a big case in Alaska and spent a lot of time there. At that time, the local bar was buzzing about a lawyer who had a really bad day in court: he was kicked to death by a moose in the parking lot of the federal courthouse in Anchorage.
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David Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court skeptical of striking down Arizona immigration law
Supreme Court skeptical of striking down Arizona immigration law
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Romney fundraiser: Donors ‘coming out of the woodwork’ — Mitt Romney's fundraising has skyrocketed since he became the de facto nominee, a top Romney fundraiser told The Hill Wednesday evening. — “People are coming out of the woodwork,” said the fundraiser, who requested not to be named.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Mitt Romney's Debt to Newt Gingrich
Mitt Romney's Debt to Newt Gingrich
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Newt Gingrich / CNN:
Texas governor switches endorsement from Gingrich to Romney
Lachlan Markay / The Heritage Foundation:
VIDEO: EPA Official Compares Agency Enforcement to Roman Crucifixions — A video surfaced on Wednesday showing a regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency comparing his agency's philosophy with respect to regulation of oil and gas companies to brutal tactics employed …
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Campaign 2012, The Daily Caller, Scared Monkeys, Doug Ross, The Gateway Pundit, americanthinker.com, Hot Air, Nice Deb and Weasel Zippers
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Chris Francescani / Reuters:
George Zimmerman: Prelude to a shooting — (Reuters) - A pit bull named Big Boi began menacing George and Shellie Zimmerman in the fall of 2009. — The first time the dog ran free and cornered Shellie in their gated community in Sanford, Florida, George called the owner to complain.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: GOP backed into corner on student loans? — Is the battle over student loans shaping up as a rerun of the payroll tax cut fight, which by all accounts badly damaged the GOP? — Consider the parallels. Just as in the payroll tax cut battle, there's a looming deadline …
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Centrist lawmakers find themselves on losing end of 2012 races
Centrist lawmakers find themselves on losing end of 2012 races
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The Moderate Voice
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Pennsylvania Primary: Blue Dog Democrats Lose Seats
Pennsylvania Primary: Blue Dog Democrats Lose Seats
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Hotline On Call, republicreport.org, The Impolitic, ThinkProgress, Sacramento Bee, Taylor Marsh and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA'S FALLON APPEARANCE VIOLATED CAMPAIGN LAW — Last night, President Obama appeared on Jimmy Fallon's unwatchable show to “slow-jam the news.” By this, Fallon meant that Obama would read a campaign speech about student loans, Fallon would utter a few lines to back him up every so often …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
News, And Not News — The Times poses a puzzle on its front page today - in the world that brought us Trayvon Martin, what is news, and what is not news? In the course of asking they continue their non-coverage of Summer Moody and Matthew Owens, two stories with Trayvon Martin resonance that don't fit any comfortable Times template.
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Jamie Burch / www2.wkrg.com:
Career Criminal Arrested In Matthew Owens Beating
Career Criminal Arrested In Matthew Owens Beating
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The Daily Caller, Breaking News …, JustOneMinute, The Gateway Pundit and The Spectacle Blog
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Romney's principled, radical view for America — It turns out that there is at least one question on which Mitt Romney is not a flip-flopper: He has a utopian view of what an unfettered, lightly taxed market economy can achieve. — He would never put it this way, of course …
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Right Wing News, Campaign Stops, Daily Kos, The Maddow Blog, Ezra Klein and American Prospect
Noreen O'Donnell / The Daily:
Family misses flight after TSA screeners target disabled 7-year-old — Dina Frank, who is developmentally disabled, wound up on the TSA's radar at John F. Kennedy Airport — Dr. Joshua Frank, a pediatrician, and his 7-year-old daughter Dina, who has cerebral palsy.
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Senate approves changes to the U.S. Postal Service — Congress moved one step closer Wednesday to overhauling the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service by approving sweeping reforms to rebalance the mail agency's finances and help cut the size of its delivery network.
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Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
White House Correspondents' Dinner guest list: The latest — Newsweek/The Daily Beast Actress Reese Witherspoon; “The Help” star Viola Davis; J.R. Martinez of “Dancing With the Stars”; Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Gen. David Petraeus; Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand …
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Will Log Cabin endorse Romney? — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Blade file photo by Michael Key) — Mitt Romney swept a series of GOP presidential primaries this week as news surfaced that Newt Gingrich will suspend his campaign on Tuesday.
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Towleroad News #gay and Gay Politics
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Crossroads ad attacks Obama's ‘celebrity’ presidency — A new ad released Thursday by the conservative super-PAC American Crossroads seeks to use President Obama's “cool” status against him, appealing to the youth vote by asking how America's “biggest celebrity” has helped them find jobs.
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Stephen Hilger / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney's Appointment of Gay Aide Richard Grenell Signals New Attitude — Last week, Mitt Romney hired Richard Grenell as his new foreign policy spokesman. Grenell was President Bush's communications director at the United Nations for eight years, and has been a spokesman for a handful …
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Towleroad News #gay