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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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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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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 …
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GayPatriot, Talking Points Memo and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Kyle Mantyla / rightwingwatch.org:
Fischer: Grenell Resignation a ‘Huge Win’ for the Religious Right
Fischer: Grenell Resignation a ‘Huge Win’ for the Religious Right
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Daily Kos, Mediaite, Good As You, Towleroad News #gay and ThinkProgress
Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney spokesman, resigns
Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney spokesman, resigns
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MLive.com
Evan McMorris-Santoro / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Gay Republicans Dismayed As Openly Gay Romney Staffer Resigns
TPM2012 — Gay Republicans Dismayed As Openly Gay Romney Staffer Resigns
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Infidel753, The Impolitic and Balloon Juice
Arlette Saenz / ABCNEWS:
Richard Grenell, Openly Gay Romney Spokesman, Resigns From Post
Richard Grenell, Openly Gay Romney Spokesman, Resigns From Post
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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 …
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Newt Gingrich / CNN:
New Obama campaign video: Gingrich vs. Romney in his own words
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Obama and Romney Vie for Mayor Bloomberg's Endorsement
Obama and Romney Vie for Mayor Bloomberg's Endorsement
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Politico, NY Daily News, ABCNEWS and The Caucus
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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Jim Inhofe / CNN:
Inhofe fires off on Obama over trip
Inhofe fires off on Obama over trip
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The White House:
Excerpts of the President's Address to the Nation from Afghanistan
Excerpts of the President's Address to the Nation from Afghanistan
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The Moderate Voice, Truthdig and Taylor Marsh
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Football spiked: Obama to address nation on Bin Laden anniversary live from Afghanistan
Football spiked: Obama to address nation on Bin Laden anniversary live from Afghanistan
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New York Times, USA Today, GayPatriot, Sister Toldjah and Pirate's Cove
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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Good As You, Towleroad News #gay, Truth Wins Out and Joe. My. God.
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Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's whopper about an Ohio River bridge — (LARRY DOWNING/REUTERS) “I sent them a jobs bill that would have put hundreds of thousands of construction workers back to work repairing our roads, our bridges, schools, transit systems, along with saving the jobs of cops and teachers and firefighters …
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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
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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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
Anarchists Wanted to Attack NATO, Republican Convention: Feds
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HotAirPundit and Rush Limbaugh
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
Happy May Day! CNN reports: … Cyco, Skabby, Tony …
Happy May Day! CNN reports: … Cyco, Skabby, Tony …
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The Gateway Pundit, The Other McCain, Hit & Run and The Jawa Report
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.
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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 …
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Jared Bernstein
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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The Incidental Economist
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.
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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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