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ABCNEWS:
Designer of Ann Romney's $1K Shirt Says It's Off The Rack — CHANTILLY, Va. — The fashion house that makes the nearly $1,000 blouse worn by Ann Romney on morning television earlier this week tells ABC News that they had nothing to do with the wardrobe choice, remarking that they'd prefer to stay out of politics.
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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 …
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Jada Wong / Styleite:
Ann Romney's Reed Krakoff Bird T-Shirt Costs $990 — Today Mitt and Ann Romney appeared on CBS's This Morning to talk about Barack Obama, Osama bin Laden, and a slew of other political things. Sharp eyes over at The Cut noticed that Ann was wearing a bird-printed t-shirt by Reed Krakoff.
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BAGnewsNotes, Mediaite, Indecision Forever, The Political Carnival and New York Magazine
Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Ann Romney's $990 shirt - worth it? — Like the shirt that Ann Romney was wearing on Tuesday? It'll cost you a pretty penny. — The bird print top, made by Reed Krakoff costs $990, a saleswoman at the designer's store in Manhattan told Styleite. The piece is part of the Krakoff's spring 2012 ready-to-wear collection.
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Taylor Marsh, Washington Free Beacon and Wonkette
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Richard Grenell Flap Had ‘Blown Over,’ Mitt Romney Campaign Staff Thought
Richard Grenell Flap Had ‘Blown Over,’ Mitt Romney Campaign Staff Thought
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The Daily Dish, GayPatriot, Denver Post, Outside the Beltway and Los Angeles Times
ABCNEWS:
Romney, In Cell Phone Video, Opines on Wealth
Romney, In Cell Phone Video, Opines on Wealth
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, Hot Air and Ricochet Conversations Feed
Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
The Richard Grenell Fiasco: How a Cynical Political Move Blew Up in Mitt Romney's Face
The Richard Grenell Fiasco: How a Cynical Political Move Blew Up in Mitt Romney's Face
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Truth Wins Out, The Daily Dish, The New Republic, Towleroad News #gay, Poliglot and Washington Post
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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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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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Barry's Imaginary Girlfriend — There has been a lot of hilarity today over the revelation that the “New York girlfriend” who plays a significant role in Barack Obama's autobiography Dreams From My Father did not, strictly speaking, exist. Rather, she was a composite or “compression” …
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Ed Driscoll and Wonkette
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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msnbc.com and Los Angeles Times
John Sexton / BREITBART.COM:
FRIENDLY FIRE: OCCUPIER HITS OCCUPIER WITH BRICK TO FACE — Yesterday afternoon, San Francisco protesters returned to 888 Turk Street, a vacant building they briefly occupied last month. After re-occupying the vacant building Tuesday, some members of the group climbed onto the roof …
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Weasel Zippers and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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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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Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Newt Gingrich drops out: ‘Truly wild ride’ is over
Newt Gingrich drops out: ‘Truly wild ride’ is over
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The Caucus, Rumproast, Truthdig, ABCNEWS and Washington Monthly
Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Warren: I used minority listing to make friends — Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Althouse, Weasel Zippers, The Volokh Conspiracy, Hot Air and ABCNEWS
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Howie Carr / Boston Herald:
White and wrong: On the reservation with Elizabeth Warren
White and wrong: On the reservation with Elizabeth Warren
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Washington Monthly
Amitai Etzioni / CNN:
Why Occupy May Day fizzled — Occupy Wall Street participants stage a march as part of May Day celebrations in New York — Editor's note: Amitai Etzioni is professor of international relations and director of the Institute for Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University.
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CANNONFIRE, Guardian and Wonkette
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Obama's Not-So-Hot Date With Wall Street
Obama's Not-So-Hot Date With Wall Street
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Washington Post, Hullabaloo, American Prospect and Politico
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Wife Of Key Legislator Behind North Carolina's Anti-Gay Amendment Claims It Would Protect ‘Caucasian’ Race — The wife of a prominent North Carolina state senator and supporter of Amendment 1 — a proposed ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage, civil unions …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney mocks Obama moving ‘forward’ — Mitt Romney's first pooled fundraiser tonight in Virginia featured this bit of mockery of the Obama campaign's new slogan, “Forward:” … Romney also stayed out of trouble that he got into when he was feeling looser at a fundraiser not attended by the press …
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The Last Tradition and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
John Sides / FiveThirtyEight:
Is Obama More Popular Than He Should Be? — It's well known that presidential approval ratings are a powerful predictor of election outcomes. President Obama's current 47 percent approval rating would be among the lowest approval ratings of any incumbent president who went on to be re-elected.
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NewsBusters.org blogs, Hot Air, The Monkey Cage and Ezra Klein
Amy Bingham / Reuters:
Water Guns Banned, Handguns Allowed at GOP Convention — In the politically-charged and likely protest-filled streets of Tampa, Fla., during the Republican National Convention in August, water guns will be strictly prohibited. Concealed handguns, on the other hand, will be perfectly legal.
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Firedoglake and ABCNEWS
Marquette Law School Poll:
Marquette Law School Poll shows Barrett leads Falk in recall primary; Walker and Barrett within single percentage point — Milwaukee, Wis. - With less than a week until the primary in the historic Wisconsin gubernatorial recall election, a new Marquette Law School Poll shows Tom Barrett …
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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