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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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Behind Richard Grenell's Departure, a Right-Wing Storm — It was the biggest moment yet for Mitt Romney's foreign policy team: a conference call last Thursday, dialed into by dozens of news outlets from around the globe, to dissect and denounce President's Obama record on national security.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Meets With Conservative Media Off The Record … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Ann Romney, Daily Caller, National Review, Washington Examiner, Conservative Media, Media News, Mitt Romney 2012, Powerline, Reince Priebus, Right Wing News …
Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:
EXPOSED: Romney Campaign Silenced Gay Spokesman To Avoid Confronting Hate Groups, Misled Reporters — When presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's openly gay foreign policy spokesman resigned under pressure from right-wing anti-gay groups, the campaign sought to minimize …
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Melinda Liu / The Daily Beast:
Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton's Plane — In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast's Melinda Liu, blind dissident Chen Guangcheng says he's been abandoned by American officials at a Chinese hospital and begs to leave the country on Hillary Clinton's plane.
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Republicans rip Obama's handling of Chinese activist Chen — Republican lawmakers on Thursday assailed the Obama administration's handling of human rights activist Chen Guangcheng. — A State Department deal ensuring that Chen would be able to remain safely in China quickly unraveled Wednesday …
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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
China Syndrome — No good deed goes unpunished; this must …
China Syndrome — No good deed goes unpunished; this must …
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Steven Jiang / CNN:
CNN Transcript: Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng
CNN Transcript: Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng
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Politico:
The dangerous new Obama book — Months before Barack Obama knew Mitt Romney would be his political opponent in 2012, the president knew the identity of his foremost literary challenger: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Maraniss, who had been reaching out to Obama's old friends, classmates and lovers for the past several years.
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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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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).
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: The freaky quadruple deaky “tanning mom” clip — It's come to this. — Via Mediaite, I've been looking around all day for a palate cleanser. And now, at last, I've found it. Trust me: Whatever you have on your news palate right now, this'll clean it right out. Doesn't matter how important it is.
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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Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
On Hannity, Michelle Malkin Tears Into Juan Williams' Comparing Occupy Violence To Tea Party ‘Racism’ — Sean Hannity brought in Michelle Malkin and Juan Williams to discuss the Occupy movement on Wednesday night. As Hannity and Malkin criticized the movement's violence, Williams defended it …
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Jonathan Karl / Yahoo! News:
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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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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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Sen. Kirk leaving rehab facility three months after suffering stroke — Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) is leaving the rehabilitation facility where he had most recently been recovering from a stroke he suffered in January. — He will continue his recovery at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago while living at home.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Jon Will's gift — When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father's 31st birthday — the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years. That is understandable. — The day after Jon was born, a doctor told Jon's parents that the first question …
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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.
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Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
AP survey: Steady job gains to sustain US recovery — WASHINGTON (AP) - Hiring through the rest of 2012 will lag the brisk pace set early this year. But it will be strong enough to push the unemployment rate below 8 percent by Election Day. — That's the view that emerges …
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Arizona Republic:
Gilbert mass killing: Border militia leader identified as shooter — A border militia leader on Wednesday shot and killed four people at a Gilbert home, including a toddler, before committing suicide, sources said. — Sources identified the shooter as Jason “J.T.” Ready …
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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: … Just because the Cleveland 5 are all Occupiers, spout Occupy rhetoric, and used an Occupy camp to plan their attempted bombing, that doesn't mean Occupy has anything to do with it. How were the peace-loving, violence-abhoring Occupiers supposed …
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Methodists Vote Against Ending Investments Tied to Israel — The United Methodist Church, the nation's largest mainline Protestant denomination, voted against two proposals on Wednesday to divest from companies that provide equipment used by Israel to enforce its control in the occupied territories.
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
My Grandfather Had High Cheekbones ‘Like All the Indians Do’ — Speaking to a reporter on a local news station in Boston, Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts cited her ancestor's “high cheekbones” (quoting an aunt) as evidence of her Native American heritage:
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Rebel Pundit / BREITBART.COM:
MAY DAY PROTESTORS CANNOT EXPLAIN THEIR SIGNS OR THEIR CAUSE — Yesterday at Chicago's Union Park for the May Day march, I found group of protesters from the Asociación de Vendedores Ambulantes (Street Vendors Association) holding signs from the Chicago Community and Workers' Rights.
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Frank Newport / Gallup:
Catholics' Presidential Pick Differs by Ethnicity, Religiosity — Catholics overall are evenly split between Obama and Romney — PRINCETON, NJ — Catholic voters in the United States are evenly split in their support for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for president, mirroring the national trend.
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
CNN Feels Heat on Ratings — Cable Pioneer Rarely Beats Rivals Fox and MSNBC; Spotlight on Network Chief — The last time there was a presidential election, CNN made television history by beating every other network in the ratings on election night. — It is shaping up to be a different story this year.
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