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Vanity Fair:
Becoming Obama — When Barack Obama met Genevieve Cook in 1983 at a Christmas party in New York's East Village, it was the start of his most serious romance yet. But as the 22-year-old Columbia grad began to shape his future, he was also struggling with his identity: American or international?
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Obama: ‘New York girlfriend’ was composite — One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called ‘New York girlfriend.’ Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.
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Weasel Zippers, Lynn Sweet and Wonkette
Joel Siegel / Yahoo! News:
Newt Gingrich $4 Million in Debt; Staffers and Creditors Fume — Newt Gingrich ends his White House dream today with his political committee facing a mountain of debts — owing about $4 million to scores of businesses and campaign workers around the country who fear they will never get paid.
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Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway, HotAirPundit and LewRockwell.com Blog
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CNN:
Second West Virginia Dem unsure about Obama — (CNN) - West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, a Democrat, said in an interview published Wednesday he's unsure if he'll vote for President Barack Obama in the upcoming general election. — Tomblin is the second prominent Democrat from West Virginia …
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Associated Press and HotAirPundit
Susan Page / USA Today:
USA TODAY interview: Gingrich ready to support Romney
USA TODAY interview: Gingrich ready to support Romney
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, ThinkProgress, ABCNEWS, Politico, Daily Kos, New York Magazine, Sunlight Foundation …, GOP 12 and Guardian
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
New Obama campaign video uses Gingrich to attack Mitt Romney
New Obama campaign video uses Gingrich to attack Mitt Romney
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CNN and The Other McCain
Newt Gingrich / CNN:
New Obama campaign video: Gingrich vs. Romney in his own words
New Obama campaign video: Gingrich vs. Romney in his own words
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ABCNEWS
Pam Spaulding / Firedoglake:
Wife of NC State Senator: Amendment One Needed ‘To Protect the Caucasian Race’ — I don't even know where to begin to unpack this trash. Chad Nance who is a freelance journalist in Winston-Salem and is covering the election here in NC, recorded the wife of NC Sen. Peter Brunstetter confirming …
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Holy Bullies …
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Jordan Green / The YES! Weekly Blog:
Racialized remark about marriage amendment attributed to state senator's wife — Chad Nance, a Winston-Salem freelance journalist who is currently active in electoral campaigning, says poll workers outside the early voting site at the Forsyth County Government Center in downtown Winston-Salem reported …
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Wonkette, Box Turtle Bulletin and Joe. My. God.
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 …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
A Paper Of Cowards — Drudge links to a Virginia Pilot editorial piece about a beating in Norfolk, VA experienced by two of their own reporters two weeks ago, but he misses the Obama connection that may explain the delay in their reporting. — Per the Pilot a mob of “at least 100” …
BuzzFeed:
New York Post Mocks Obama's Afghanistan Trip — Two schools of thought: Obama is at risk of being seen as politicizing national security. Or, any day spent talking about Osama Bin Laden, and not the economy, is a good one.
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BuzzFeed:
How The White House Smothered The News Of Obama's Trip To Afghanistan
How The White House Smothered The News Of Obama's Trip To Afghanistan
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Washington Post:
Chen Guangcheng leaves U.S. embassy; deal to guarantee his safety may be unraveling, friends say — BEIJING — Blind activist Chen Guangcheng, who fled de facto house arrest last month and sought refuge for six days at the U.S. Embassy, left the diplomatic compound on Wednesday …
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Jane Perlez / New York Times:
Blind Chinese Dissident Leaves U.S. Embassy for Medical Treatment
Blind Chinese Dissident Leaves U.S. Embassy for Medical Treatment
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Power Line, Xinhua News Agency, Poynter, IHT Rendezvous, Outside the Beltway, New York Magazine and Taylor Marsh
Gregory Phillips / FayObserver.com:
Berean Baptist pastor disavows advice to punch gay kids as a joke — A Fayetteville pastor says he was joking when he told parents in a sermon Sunday to hit children who show signs of being gay. — Sean Harris, pastor of Berean Baptist Church on Glensford Drive, said he does …
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Byron York / Campaign 2012:
The curious resignation of Richard Grenell — The political world is buzzing over the sudden resignation of Richard Grenell, the former spokesman for John Bolton at the UN who had signed on to serve as foreign policy spokesman for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign. Grenell was scheduled to begin work Tuesday, May 1.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Washington Post Rebuts Obama's Malicious Lie — Barack Obama never lets truth get in the way of political advantage. Nothing new about that; mendacity has been a consistent theme of his 3 1/2 years in office. But it seems that more media outlets are willing to call the president on his falsehoods these days.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's whopper about an Ohio River bridge
Obama's whopper about an Ohio River bridge
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protein wisdom, Balloon Juice, Questions and Observations and Hot Air
Sarah Grieco / KNSD-TV:
DEA Ignored All My Cries: Student — “They never came back, ignored all my cries and I still don't know what happened,” Chong said. — Daniel Chong, the UC San Diego student who was left in a Drug Enforcement Agency holding cell for nearly five days, said the time spent in his cell was a life-altering experience.
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San Diego …, Gawker, Colorlines, Hit & Run, The Raw Story, US Politics and msnbc.com
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Washington Post:
A better case for Keystone XL — THE CASE FOR ultimately approving the Keystone XL pipeline — always strong — has grown stronger. — A key environmentalist argument against Keystone XL has been that the project would encourage the extraction of bitumen, a particularly dirty oil-like substance, from the “oil sands” in Alberta.
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The Volokh Conspiracy
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
No, Kathleen Sebelius Does Not Need A Legal Memo To Ignore False Anti-Contraception Legal Arguments — Conservative media outlets are downright gleeful over a recent exchange between Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) and Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius that culminates …
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Christian News … and New York Post
CNBC:
Factory Orders Post Biggest Decline in Three Years — New orders for U.S. factory goods in March recorded their biggest decline in three years as demand for transportation equipment and a range of other goods slumped, government data showed on Wednesday. — The Commerce Department said orders …
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Hot Air and americanthinker.com
Peter Orszag / Bloomberg:
About Peter R Orszag — Bad Models Mistook Housing Bust for Dot-Com Bubble — In a speech last month about the financial crisis, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke trenchantly noted that the initial losses from the dot-com bust were about the same size as those from the housing meltdown …
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Real Time Economics and Jared Bernstein
The White House:
Presidential Proclamation — Loyalty Day, 2012 — BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — More than two centuries ago, our Founders laid out a charter that assured the rule of law and the rights of man. Through times of tranquility and the throes of change …
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Hit & Run and Vox Popoli
Bill Clinton / New York Times:
‘The Passage of Power,’ Robert Caro's New L.B.J. Book — “The Passage of Power,” the fourth installment of Robert Caro's brilliant series on Lyndon Johnson, spans roughly five years, beginning shortly before the 1960 presidential contest, including the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban missile crisis …
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ABCNEWS
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Police Seize Bombs, Rocks, Pry Bars & Bags of Sh*t From #Occupy Seattle Goons (Video) — The Seattle police made several arrests Tuesday at the #Occupy May Day protests. — They seized bombs, rocks, pry bars and bags of sh*t from these far left goons. — Via SeattlePD: These are homemade incendiary devices.
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The Jawa Report, Atlas Shrugs and Weasel Zippers
Matt Dobias / Politico:
GOP: Cut state bonuses for children's health care — House Republicans want to stop rewarding states for finding and enrolling low-income children in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program, and public health advocates are livid. — The Republicans say it's a smart fiscal move …
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Washington Monthly