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Bachmann: 'He Can't Beat Obama ... Not Going to Happen' — Michele Bachmann has finally decided to endorse Mitt Romney - 119 days after she dropped out of the race. — The endorsement will come at a joint Romney-Bachmann appearance on Thursday. No doubt Bachmann will talk about the importance …
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Romney blasts Obama for opposing D.C. voucher program
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ABCNEWS, EAGnews.org and The Heritage Foundation
Newt Gingrich / CNN:
Gingrich says he's already endorsed Romney, still critical
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Connecting.the.Dots, Ballot Box and Conservatives4Palin
BuzzFeed:
After A Twitter Win, Romney Meets The Online Right — A united front against Obama and the liberal media. But: Huffington Post broke news of the meeting. — At the Republican National Committee yesterday, conservative online writers and bloggers who arrived to meet with Romney were also shown …
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Washington Examiner:
Klein: Obama is winning the general election — The general election unofficially began nearly a month ago, and so far President Obama is winning. — This has nothing to do with poll numbers. Sure, Obama enjoys a statistically insignificant 3.7 percent edge over presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney …
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Hot Air and The Jawa Report
David Harsanyi / Human Events:
Who the hell is “Julia” and why am I paying for her whole life? — In the new Barack Obama campaign piece The Life of Julia, voters can “Take a look at how President Obama's policies help one woman over her lifetime — and how Mitt Romney would change her story.”
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
‘Julia’ — Alas, Team Obama has omitted a few milestones from the life of Julia: — 4 months: Julia's mother decides that giving birth will be hard on her figure. She kills Julia. Under Barack Obama, her right to do so is absolutely nonnegotiable. — 10 years: Trapped in a failing …
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Power Line
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
The cradle-to-grave, government-supported existence of “Julia”
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The Caucus, Sister Toldjah, Campaign 2012, Washington Post, Michelle Malkin and Hit & Run
Joe Picard / The Hill:
Obama administration hits back on notion that it abandoned Chen in China — The Obama administration pushed back Thursday evening on the notion that U.S. diplomats abandoned Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng when they let him leave the Beijing embassy on Wednesday.
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Republicans rip Obama's handling of Chinese activist Chen
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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
China Syndrome — No good deed goes unpunished; this must …
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The Daily Dish, Global Spin, The Daily Beast, Business Insider and Mother Jones
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point:
Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined? — Authors: Don Rassler, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Liam Collins, Muhammad al-Obaidi, Nelly Lahoud — This report is a study of 17 de-classified documents captured during the Abbottabad raid and released to the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC).
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Al-Qaida Hated Fox News And Thought MSNBC Is Not Neutral Because They Fired Keith Olbermann
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BuzzFeed:
Conservative Activist: More Navy SEALs to Attack Obama — Joel Arends, the man behind the ad hammering the White House for “taking so much credit” on Bin Laden, believes more Special Forces operators will come out against Obama. Arends objects to the term “swift boat.”
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Hot Air, The Last Tradition, Weasel Zippers and Hullabaloo
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Horror!... Neo-Nazi #Occupy Phoenix Protester Goes On Shooting Rampage - 5 Dead — Back in October we reported that Neo-Nazi Jason Todd Ready was patrolling the #Occupy Phoenix camp with AR-15′s. — Neo-Nazi Jason Todd (J.T.) Ready pictured on left patrolling the Occupy Phoenix protest …
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Tim Stanley / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Why it matters that Obama dated a composite and ate a dog — There was a brief media firestorm yesterday when Vanity Fair broke the news that Obama's famous “New York girlfriend” was a fiction. She appears in his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, described in some detail by her appearance, voice and mannerisms.
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Chris Ariens / TVNewser:
Another Misleading Edit Costs Another NBC News Employee Her Job — Lilia Luciano, a Miami-based NBC News correspondent, is no longer working for the network, TVNewser has learned. — Luciano last reported for NBC News March 31. Until that point, she had been reporting mainly on the Trayvon Martin story.
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Weasel Zippers, NewsBusters.org blogs, Mediaite and Clayton Cramer's Blog
NPR:
Do Liberals Live Under A ‘Tyranny Of Cliches’? … Conservative critic Jonah Goldberg says he's inspired to write when he gets annoyed. “Aggravation is a muse,” he says. And after speaking on a number of college campuses, he grew aggravated enough to write a book.
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Crooks and Liars and Los Angeles Times
Morgan Korn / Yahoo! Finance:
T. Boone Pickens: Biggest Deterrent To U.S. Energy Plan Is Koch Industries — Investor T. Boone Pickens has made a fortune over the years running an energy-oriented hedge fund, and in recent years he's been placing big bets on the natural gas and wind industries.
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ThinkProgress and Business Insider
Jonathan H. Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Secondary Boycotts and the Breakdown of Civil Society — Activist groups of various political stripes are increasingly urging boycotts of companies not because of the companies' own behavior, but because of the behavior or speech of those the companies patronize or support.
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Wall Street Journal and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Mitt Romney Commissioned Pro-America Pins, Made Them In China — At a fundraiser in Virginia last night, Mitt Romney touted his experinece running the Salt Lake City Olympic Games in 2002 — a familiar refrain — but also introduced a new rhetorical line about something more specific: lapel pins.
Washington Post:
Post Poll: Obama leads Romney as campaigns converge on Virginia — President Obama leads former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in Virginia but commonwealth voters are evenly divided on the White House's major policies, a new Washington Post poll shows. — Obama is ahead of Romney …
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The Caucus, Politico, CNN, Outside the Beltway, Ballot Box and Reuters
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
CNN Ratings Decline Stirs Worries — “Maybe CNN is just like an emergency room.” — That is what a longtime CNN employee theorized last year, during one of the channel's predictable defeats in the Nielsen ratings. — When elections and explosions happen, people tune in to CNN …
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Karl Smith / Modeled Behavior:
Rajan on Lessons from Recession — Tyler Cowen can't heap enough praise on this paper from Raghuram Rajan. — I am loathe to use such language, but at this late date I think it helps to be direct. The paper reads to me like nonsense on stilts. Ostensibly its about the ineffectiveness …
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Paul Krugman, TheMoneyIllusion, Ezra Klein, Mother Jones and Marginal Revolution
Bloomberg:
Colin Powell Says Iraq ‘Blot’ Teaches Need for Skepticism — Colin Powell says his erroneous address to the United Nations about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction provides a lesson to business leaders on the importance of staying skeptical and following their intuition.
Fox News:
Issa sends out draft contempt order against Holder, says ‘Furious’ response ‘cannot stand’ — Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has circulated a lengthy pair of documents making the case for holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his “refusal” to cooperate in an investigation …
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The Hill, Hot Air, Nice Deb, Wake up America, Moe Lane, HotAirPundit and White House Dossier
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
RNC campaign parodies Obama '08 sticker — The Republican National Committee is getting ahead of President Obama's official campaign kickoff in Ohio and Virginia on Saturday with a media blitz labeling his re-election drive the “Hype & Blame” tour. — The RNC will sell “Hype & Blame 2012” …
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