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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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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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Holly Bailey / ABCNEWS:
Biden: Romney's Foreign Policy is ‘Totally Out of Touch’ — Vice President Joe Biden says Mitt Romney's foreign policy views are dangerous and “totally out of touch” with the American people and could potentially lead a war-weary nation back “to the past we have worked so hard to move beyond.”
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Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Poll: Romney, Obama tied; voters say neither has plan for economy
Poll: Romney, Obama tied; voters say neither has plan for economy
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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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Washington Post, Campaign 2012, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
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, Doug Ross, The Gateway Pundit, americanthinker.com, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
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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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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
GOP Proposes Cuts In Health Prevention To Keep Student Loan Interest Rates From Doubling — House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) announced on Wednesday that the House will take up legislation to extend the Bush-era 2007 College Cost Reduction and Access Act, a measure to prevent interest rates …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, NPR, The Maddow Blog and Speaker
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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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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.
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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Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
The Only Reasonable Response Is Alarm — I'm not surprised that Michael Gerson, architect of “compassionate conservatism,” has convinced himself that this generation of Republican leaders is carrying on in his footsteps (via Mike Allen): … The Ryan budget does a lot of things.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
2 House Democrats Defeated After Opposing Health Law — WASHINGTON — The defeat of two conservative House Democrats by more liberal opponents in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary illustrates the strong hold the new health care law still has over committed Democratic voters and foreshadows …
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Washington Free Beacon and Eschaton
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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www2.wkrg.com, New York Times and Breaking News …
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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Henry Chu / World Now:
Liberia's Charles Taylor guilty of aiding, abetting war crimes — LONDON — In a landmark case, former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been convicted of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity through his arming of ruthless rebel groups in neighboring Sierra Leone in exchange for so-called blood diamonds.
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Joe. My. God.
David Miliband / New Statesman:
Exclusive: George Galloway's conversion to Islam — Jemima Khan, in an interview with the Bradford MP, reveals the background to his Muslim conversion. — In a wide-ranging interview in this week's issue of the New Statesman, George Galloway MP talks about his spectacular by-election victory …
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Telegraph, Guardian and Harry's Place
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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Reuters:
How Russia, Iran keep fuel flowing to Syria — (Reuters) - Russia and Iran are helping Syria import fuel which it needs for heavy vehicles including army tanks, allowing Damascus to avoid the full impact of tightening Western sanctions imposed over its violent suppression of dissent.
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Washington Free Beacon
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Vogue's flattering article on Syria's first lady is scrubbed from Web — It may have been the worst-timed, and most tin-eared, magazine article in decades. — “Asma al-Assad is glamorous, young, and very chic — the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies,” writer Joan Juliet Buck began …
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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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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Centrist lawmakers find themselves on losing end of 2012 races — Next year's Congress might be the most polarized yet thanks to the loss of centrist lawmakers — a trend emphasized in Tuesday's Pennsylvania primaries. — “The middle is getting squeezed,” ex-Rep. Tom Davis (Va.) …
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The Moderate Voice