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11:15 PM ET, May 1, 2012

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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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BuzzFeed:
In Romney's Gay Rights Mess, Silence Wasn't An Option  —  The candidate stayed mum while his gay aide was being blasted by the right.  Now gay rights groups blame Romney, whose aides say it was never about sexuality.  —  (AP / Henny Ray Abrams)  —  With the departure of his openly gay …
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 …
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney spokesman, resigns
Discussion: MLive.com
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney's Openly-Gay Spokesperson Resigns After Facing Pressure From Anti-Gay Right Wing
Discussion: The Impolitic and Mediaite
Arlette Saenz / ABCNEWS:
Richard Grenell, Openly Gay Romney Spokesman, Resigns From Post
BuzzFeed:
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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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Signs Pact in Kabul, Turning Page in Afghan War  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — President Obama, speaking to an American television audience on Tuesday night from an American air base here, declared that he had traveled here to herald a new era in the relationship between the United States and Afghanistan …
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.”
CNN:
Excerpts of president's Afghanistan speech released
Discussion: ABCNEWS and The Stranger …
ABCNEWS:
Obama Greets Troops in Afghanistan on Bin Laden Anniversary
BuzzFeed:   Obama Looks To End Of Afghanistan War
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 …
Discussion: New York Magazine and Gothamist
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BuzzFeed:
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.
Jose A. Rodriguez Jr / Washington Post:
The path to bin Laden's death didn't start with Obama
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
Happy May Day!  CNN reports: … Cyco, Skabby, Tony... No word yet on Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, or Dopey.  —  Congratulations on another stunning public-relations victory, Occupy.  —  What's that?  “These guys don't have anything to do with Occupy!”  Hey, don't tell me, tell them.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:
Anarchists Wanted to Attack NATO, Republican Convention: Feds
Discussion: HotAirPundit and Rush Limbaugh
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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Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
Genealogist says Warren may be able to claim Cherokee heritage; Brown and Warren campaigns continue to trade barbs
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.
Adam Davidson / New York Times:
The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy  —  Ever since the financial crisis started, we've heard plenty from the 1 percent.  We've heard them giving defensive testimony in Congressional hearings or issuing anodyne statements flanked by lawyers and image consultants.
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 …
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 …
Rachel Rose Hartman / ABCNEWS:
Chris Christie: Wisconsin is the center of the political universe  —  New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday reminded Wisconsin voters that the impact of the recall decision before them holds major national implications.  —  “For the next five weeks, Wisconsin is going to be the center …
Discussion: CNN, The Reaction and Yahoo! News
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Katy Hall / The Huffington Post:
Breeze Beretta Johnston: Levi Johnston & Sunny Oglesby Announce Baby Name … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Levi Johnston, Video, Breeze Baretta Johnston, Breeze Beretta Johnston, Levi Johnston Daughter, Photo Galleries, Sunny Oglesby, Sunny Oglesby Baby, Politics News
Michelle Washington / HamptonRoads.com:
A beating at Church and Brambleton  —  The Virginian-Pilot  —  Wave after wave of young men surged forward to take turns punching and kicking their victim.  —  The victim's friend, a young woman, tried to pull him back into his car.  Attackers came after her, pulling her hair …
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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Ezra Klein:
Has Team Romney forgotten that the Bush years were terrible?
Discussion: Campaign 2012
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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David Brooks / New York Times:
Warfare or Courtship in 2012?  —  What sort of thing is a presidential campaign?
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Hullabaloo
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
DAILY COMMENT  —  As the legal and political worlds await …
Discussion: The Huffington Post and Hit & Run
BuzzFeed:
“Black Bloc” Occupiers Turn On Media
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Rubio faces credit card, Rivera, mortgage questions
Discussion: Washington Post
Charles Mahtesianand Jim Vandehei / Politico:
Congress: It's going to get worse
Kevin Fallon / The Atlantic Online:
The Death of Must See TV: A Former Executive on NBC's Rise and Fall
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Sometimes the death penalty is warranted
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