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9:40 AM ET, May 2, 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 …
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.
Discussion: Erick's blog and GayPatriot
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
Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012  —  Gay Republicans Dismayed As Openly Gay Romney Staffer Resigns
Discussion: Infidel753 and Balloon Juice
Arlette Saenz / ABCNEWS:
Richard Grenell, Openly Gay Romney Spokesman, Resigns From Post
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney's Openly-Gay Spokesperson Resigns After Facing Pressure From Anti-Gay Right Wing
Discussion: The Impolitic and Mediaite
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 …
CNN:
Excerpts of president's Afghanistan speech released
Olivier Knox / Yahoo! News:
Obama to make televised speech from Afghanistan at 7:30 p.m.
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Yahoo! Politics!
BuzzFeed:   Obama Looks To End Of Afghanistan War
Susan Page / USA Today:
USA TODAY interview: Gingrich ready to support Romney  —  WASHINGTON - Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, on the eve of suspending his roller coaster presidential bid, said in an interview with USA TODAY that he will embrace Mitt Romney's candidacy Wednesday and is ready to campaign for his former rival.
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
New Obama campaign video uses Gingrich to attack Mitt Romney  —  President Obama's campaign deployed an unusual surrogate to attack presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in a new web video: Republican Newt Gingrich.  —  The video released Wednesday, titled “Newt Gingrich: Frankly …
Discussion: CNN
ABCNEWS:
Newt Gingrich's Greatest Campaign Hits  —  Newt Gingrich didn't make it to Tampa, but his improbable, unpredictable and — yes — grandiose presidential bid produced some of the most memorable campaign moments I've ever witnessed.  —  So with Gingrich finishing his long farewell …
Newt Gingrich / CNN:   New Obama campaign video: Gingrich vs. Romney in his own words
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney heckled at event with Giuliani
Discussion: New York Magazine and Gothamist
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 …
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
“Occupy” Movement Was Infiltrated By FBI Informant In Cleveland Bridge Bombing Probe  —  Buster  —  The federal probe that resulted last night in the arrest of five purported anarchists for allegedly plotting to bomb an Ohio bridge began last year at an Occupy Wall Street rally in Cleveland …
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Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:
Anarchists Wanted to Attack NATO, Republican Convention: Feds
Discussion: HotAirPundit and Rush Limbaugh
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 …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Vox Popoli
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.
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Obama appears in ad for Warren  —  Via the Boston Globe's Glen Johnson, Elizabeth Warren's campaign is set to air an ad with President Obama, using footage in which he offered her strong praise.  —  “She's a janitor's daughter who has become one of the country's fiercest advocates for the middle class,” Obama says in the spot.
Discussion: Politicker
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
Eduardo Porter / New York Times:
China's Vanishing Trade Imbalance  —  America's economic imbalance with China has been a singular concern of policy makers for more than half a decade.  Senators Charles E. Schumer and Lindsey Graham wanted to punish China for pegging the exchange rate to the dollar in 2005 …
Discussion: Jared Bernstein
 
 
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's whopper about an Ohio River bridge
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Wall Street Journal:
Facebook's Roadshow to Start Monday; IPO Set for May 18
Discussion: New York Magazine and Boing Boing
Peggy McGuinness / Opinio Juris:
NY State Court Rejects DSK's Immunity Claim
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
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Rachel Rose Hartman / ABCNEWS:
Chris Christie: Wisconsin is the center of the political universe
Discussion: CNN and The Reaction
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
DAILY COMMENT  —  As the legal and political worlds await …
Discussion: Hit & Run and The Huffington Post
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Republican Judge Jerry Smith Blocks Pro-Planned Parenthood Order Just Hours After It Was Issued
 

 
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