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How The White House Smothered The News Of Obama's Trip To Afghanistan — How the White House played whack-a-mole, and why I deleted my tweet. Drudge wouldn't budge. — Shortly before 9:19 a.m. this morning the Afghanistan-based 24-hour broadcast news station TOLONews tweeted that President Barack Obama had landed in Afghanistan.
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Will The Navy SEALs Swift Boat Obama? — The operators' resentment is real. And their criticism could undermine the president's clearest-cut victory, the slaying of America's most notorious enemy. — President Barack Obama making a statement on the death of Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
On Surprise Trip to Kabul, Obama Signs Afghan Pact — KABUL, Afghanistan — President Obama made a surprise trip here on Tuesday to sign a landmark strategic partnership agreement between the United States and Afghanistan in a midnight ceremony meant to mark the beginning of the end of a war that has lasted for more than a decade.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney heckled at event with Giuliani — Mitt Romney was heckled Tuesday at a New York City event marking the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death. — Romney was campaigning with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani at an event at the firehouse where the city of New York set …
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Jim Inhofe / CNN:
Inhofe fires off on Obama over trip — (CNN) - Longtime Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma criticized President Barack Obama over the president's surprise trip to Afghanistan Tuesday, describing the visit as “campaign related” and an “attempt to shore up his national security credentials.”
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Football spiked: Obama to address nation on Bin Laden anniversary live from Afghanistan
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ABCNEWS:
Obama Greets Troops in Afghanistan on Bin Laden Anniversary
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: The attacks begin
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives — Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.
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Kyle Mantyla / rightwingwatch.org:
Fischer: Grenell Resignation a ‘Huge Win’ for the Religious Right — It was just last week that Bryan Fischer was declaring that if Mitt Romney wants to win in November, he'd “better start listening to me.” And the first thing that Romney needed to do was fire Richard Grenell …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney's Openly-Gay Spokesperson Resigns After Facing Pressure From Anti-Gay Right Wing
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Dan Riehl / BREITBART.COM:
OCCUPY LEADERS APPARENTLY INVOLVED IN BRIDGE BOMB PLOT, SUSPECTS NAMED — One of the leaders of the Occupy Cleveland movement, Brandon Baxter, is one of those arrested for today's terrorist plot to bomb a bridge in Cleveland. Occupier Brandon Baxter appears to have gotten the guidance he sought.
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David Ariosto / CNN:
5 arrested in alleged plot to blow up Cleveland-area bridge
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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
Happy May Day! CNN reports: … Cyco, Skabby, Tony …
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Stable Hand / The Jawa Report:
OccupyCleveland Cancels May Day Event After Bomb Suspects Arrest (Updated)
Mike Waterhouse / WEWS-TV:
FBI arrests five people who allegedly tried to blow up Brecksville bridge, discussed other targets
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Michael Scott / Plain Dealer:
FBI arrests 5 accused of plotting to blow up Ohio 82 bridge in Cuyahoga valley
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Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Elizabeth Warren's embattled campaign: Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago — Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago — Desperately scrambling to validate Democrat Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage amid questions about whether she used her minority status to further her career …
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The NYT reports that “officials involved” …
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Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Victims of Communism Day — Today is May Day. Since 2007, I have been commemorating this day here at the Volokh Conspiracy as Victims of Communism Day. Various other websites and blogs have promoted the same concept. In time, we hope to make this a worldwide commemoration similar to Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
House Republicans: No offsets for extending Bush-era tax rates — House Republicans say they have no plans to pay for the extension of the Bush-era tax rates, a move that could erase the deficit reduction they have achieved since winning their majority in the chamber in 2010.
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“Black Bloc” Occupiers Turn On Media — Protesters attacked photographers, and sought to seize their cameras, during May Day protests, journalists say. “One girl walks up to one of the photogs and nailed him right in the face,” says Village Voice's Muncy. — Source: @CSMuncyPhoto
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads in Virginia — Barack Obama continues to look like the favorite to win Virginia this fall. He has a 51-43 lead over Mitt Romney in the state. We have consistently found Obama leading in Virginia by margins similar to his 6 point victory there in 2008- he led Romney by 6 in December …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Trashed Mission District businesses want answers — (05-01) 16:39 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Business owners in San Francisco's Mission District, cleaning up after a night in which protesters damaged more than 30 stores and restaurants and vandalized cars, questioned Tuesday why activists had singled …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
President Obama, campaigner in chief — The preezy of the United Steezy is making me queasy. — I'm not troubled by President Obama's slow jam with Jimmy Fallon, who dubbed the commander in chief “preezy” during Obama's appearance on late-night TV. No, preezy is making me queasy …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Republican Judge Jerry Smith Blocks Pro-Planned Parenthood Order Just Hours After It Was Issued — Last month, Republican Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith pitched a tantrum in open court, demanding that the Department of Justice respond to some imprecise political rhetoric by President Obama in an attempt to embarrass the president.
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Glen Johnson / Boston Globe:
Brown says daughter, 23, insured under health law — Senator Scott Brown, who won office vowing to be the 41st vote to block President Obama's health care law and who has since voted three times to repeal it, acknowledged Monday that he takes advantage of it to keep his elder daughter on his congressional health insurance plan.
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Kevin Fallon / The Atlantic Online:
The Death of Must See TV: A Former Executive on NBC's Rise and Fall — A conversation with Warren Littlefield, who ran NBC's entertainment division from 1993 to 1998 — “One network, one night, for one decade.” That's how Warren Littlefield describes the magic of Must See TV.
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New York Post:
Anguish of Edwards' pal wife — By TARA PALMERI in Greensboro, NC, and CHUCK BENNETT in NY — The wife of John Edwards' former top aide broke down in tears yesterday as she testified about the insane demands Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, made as the witness helped hide the affair.
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