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SEALs slam Obama for using them as ‘ammunition’ in bid to take credit for bin Laden killing during election campaign — Serving and former US Navy SEALs have slammed President Barack Obama for taking the credit for killing Osama bin Laden and accused him of using Special Forces operators as ‘ammunition’ for his re-election campaign.
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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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Justin Sink / The Hill:
McCain on Bin Laden raid: 'The thing about heroes, they don't brag' — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) continued to hammer the Obama re-election team over its use of the death of Osama bin Laden in a campaign commercial, echoing Mitt Romney's statement that any president - including Jimmy Carter - would have made the same call.
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Jose A. Rodriguez Jr / Washington Post:
The path to bin Laden's death didn't start with Obama — Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. is a 31-year veteran of the CIA and the author of “Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives.” — As we mark the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death, President Obama deserves credit …
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Michael B. Mukasey / Wall Street Journal:
Michael Mukasey: Obama and the bin Laden Bragging Rights
Michael Mukasey: Obama and the bin Laden Bragging Rights
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Senators Reject Claim That Torture Helped Hunt for Bin Laden
Senators Reject Claim That Torture Helped Hunt for Bin Laden
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Washington Post
Joby Warrick / Washington Post:
Bin Laden's last stand: In final months, terrorist leader worried about his legacy
Bin Laden's last stand: In final months, terrorist leader worried about his legacy
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First Read / msnbc.com:
Obama, Romney engage over bin Laden decision
Obama, Romney engage over bin Laden decision
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney undermines his own argument about Bin Laden
Mitt Romney undermines his own argument about Bin Laden
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ThinkProgress, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Political Carnival and 2012 Decoded
Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
Taxes and Employment — Bruce Bartlett held senior policy roles in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack Kemp and Ron Paul. He is the author of “The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform - Why We Need It and What It Will Take.”
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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
House Republicans: No offsets for extending Bush-era tax rates
House Republicans: No offsets for extending Bush-era tax rates
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BBC:
Rupert Murdoch ‘not a fit person’ to lead News Corp - MPs — The MPs were “misled repeatedly”, says chairman John Whittingdale — Rupert Murdoch “is not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company”, MPs have said. — The culture committee questioned journalists …
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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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The Daily Caller
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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Ofer Aderet / Haaretz:
Pioneer of global peace studies hints at link between Norway massacre and Mossad — In several anti-Semitic remarks, Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung also defends ‘The Protocols of the Elders of Zion’ and says Jewish influence was one of the factors leading to Auschwitz. — Get Haaretz on iPhone
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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
Europe's Jew Hatred Isn't Just On The Fringe
Fox News:
5 arrested for allegedly trying to blow up Ohio bridge — URGENT: Five people described as anarchists were arrested Monday in a Cleveland-area park for trying to blow up a bridge, sources tell Fox News. — The public was never in danger from the explosive devices, which were inoperable …
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New York Times:
Elizabeth Warren's Ancestry Irrelevant in Hiring, Law Schools Say — Elizabeth Warren, the likely Democratic challenger to Senator Scott P. Brown in the closely watched Senate race in Massachusetts, released statements on Monday night from officials at all of the law schools …
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Victor Morton / Washington Times:
New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism — The Obama campaign apparently didn't look backwards into history when selecting its new campaign slogan, “Forward” — a word with a long and rich association with European Marxism. — Many Communist and radical publications …
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Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
Zuckerberg's Dinners with Girlfriend Help Spur Life-Saving Facebook Tool — Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Mark Zuckerberg formulate his latest big idea — harnessing the power of Facebook to help eliminate the critical shortage of organs …
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Organ Donation: Friends Saving Lives
Organ Donation: Friends Saving Lives
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Averages 47% Job Approval in April — Highest monthly average since last May — PRINCETON, NJ — President Obama's job approval rating averaged 47% in April, Obama's highest monthly average since last May, when he averaged 50% after U.S. Marines killed Osama bin Laden in a May 2, 2011, raid.
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Ballot Box and Firedoglake
Mike Dorning / Bloomberg:
Obama Fails to Stem Middle-Class Slide He Blamed on Bush — Barack Obama campaigned four years ago assailing President George W. Bush for wage losses suffered by the middle class. More than three years into Obama's own presidency, those declines have only deepened.
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Taylor Marsh, Ezra Klein, ABCNEWS, americanthinker.com and GayPatriot
Jared Hunt / Charleston Daily Mail:
Statewide poll gives Romney big edge over Obama — CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has a 17-point lead over President Barack Obama among West Virginia voters, according to new results from The West Virginia Poll. — The poll found Romney …
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New York Times:
Ties to Romney '08 Helped Fuel an Equity Firm — About a month after Mitt Romney ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination in February 2008, his eldest son, Tagg, and Spencer Zwick, the campaign's top fund-raiser, met with a beef company executive who had been a major campaign donor …
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Olga Lenkova / News and events …:
LGBT human rights abuse under the new “homosexual propaganda” law continues in St. Petersburg — Today 17 LGBT activists of St. Petersburg were arrested for carrying rainbow flags as part of the May 1st civil rights and freedom march on Nevsky prospect, city's main avenue.
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ThinkProgress and Towleroad News #gay
Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
What Brabender said, what he meant — Rick Santorum is scheduled to meet Mitt Romney Friday, marking the first time the two rivals will meet since Santorum pulled the plug on his campaign in early April. — There's already an air of awkwardness to the sit-down, in part …
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CNN, The Caucus and National Review
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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Politico, ThinkProgress and TBogg
Megan DeMarco / New Jersey Online:
Gov. Christie shakes off Jimmy Kimmel's jabs at his weight — TRENTON — Getting called fat isn't so bad when Sofia Vergara is there to make you feel better. — “When you have her next to you to console you, let me tell you, you don't care what the heck Jimmy Kimmel said,” …
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
NYPD Raids Activists' Homes Before May Day Protests — A day before Occupy Wall Street hopes to shut down New York and cities across the country in massive May Day protests, the NYPD visited at least three activist homes in New York and interrogated residents about plans for tomorrow's protest.
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