memeorandum: Romney, Secret Service, GOP: Obama mocks them all (Michele Salcedo/Associated Press)

10:35 AM ET, April 29, 2012

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President Obama on Palin: What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? ‘A pit bull is delicious’ (VIDEO) — During his speech at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington on Saturday, President Obama used Sarah Palin's recent turn as a co-host on NBC's …

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Michele Salcedo / Associated Press:

Romney, Secret Service, GOP: Obama mocks them all — WASHINGTON (AP) — This year's primaries, the 2008 primaries, the General Services Administration scandal, even the Secret Service and Donald Trump were targets for President Barack Obama's scattershot humor at Saturday night's celebrity studded White House Correspondents Dinner.

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CNN:

TRENDING: Boehner explains jabs at Obama as ‘help’ — Washington (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner on Sunday described his amped-up rhetoric toward President Barack Obama in recent days as advice. — “The president is getting ... some bad advice,” Boehner said on CNN's “State of the Union.”

Bill Clinton / CNN:
Bill Clinton to appear at fund-raiser with Obama on Sunday

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Jon Boone / Guardian:

British doctor found beheaded in Pakistan — Body of Red Cross worker Khalil Dale found dumped by roadside in region afflicted by separatist and Taliban violence — The beheaded corpse of a British aid worker has been discovered in the Pakistani city of Quetta, almost four months after he was kidnapped.

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:

Senate Democrats plan another trap for Mitt Romney with female voters — Senate Democrats are planning a new ploy to put Mitt Romney and Republicans on the defensive with female voters. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will bring to the floor in coming weeks legislation …

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New York Times:

The iEconomy: Apple's Tax Strategy Aims at Low-Tax States and Nations — RENO, Nev. — Apple, the world's most profitable technology company, doesn't design iPhones here. It doesn't run AppleCare customer service from this city. And it doesn't manufacture MacBooks or iPads anywhere nearby.

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Joe Nocera / New York Times:

My Faith-Based Retirement — My 60th birthday is less than a week and a half away, and if there is one thing I can say with certainty it's that 60 is not the new 50. — My body creaks and groans. My eyes aren't what they used to be. I don't sleep as soundly as I did just a few years ago.

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Steven Malanga / Wall Street Journal:

How Retirement Benefits May Sink the States — Illinois is a lesson in why companies are starting to pay more attention to the long-term fiscal prospects of governments. — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently offered a stark assessment of the threat to his state's future that is posed …

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Steven Hayward / Power Line:

Is There Any Worthwhile Progressive Thing? Yes — Since I spend no small amount of time beating down on Progressivism and all things Progressive here, more than a few folks have noted the irony that I'm currently having my house painted inside and out by . . . Progressive Painting!

Maggie Haberman / Politico:

Cantor-allied Young Guns Network urges non-Republicans to vote in Lugar race — I reported the other day that the Young Guns Network, a group led by two former top aides to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, is spending $100,000 in the primary between Sen. Richard Lugar and state treasurer Richard Mourdock …

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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Cantor-allied group slams Mourdock as ‘extreme’

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Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:

American Enterprise Institute And Brookings Must-Read: ‘The Republicans Are The Problem’ … Two leading political scholars — representing the conservative American Enterprise Institute and the centrist Brookings Institution - have published a must-read article, “Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem.”

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KATU-TV:

City to pay man $250,000 after police mistake him as a tagger — Police left Dan Halsted badly bruised after they tackled and stunned him four years ago, thinking he was a tagger. — PORTLAND, Ore. - The City Council approved a $250,000 settlement Wednesday to a man mistaken by police …

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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:

TSA to My Mother-in-Law: 'There's an Anomaly in the Crotch Area' — Okay, I now have definitive proof that al Qaeda has actually won. It hasn't achieved the dissolution of the United States, or succeeded in murdering millions of Americans, or re-established the Caliphate …

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