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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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The Other McCain, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Mediaite, GOP 12 and The Lonely Conservative
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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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The Jawa Report and Hot Air
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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Hot Air, ABCNEWS, Sister Toldjah, National Review, Swampland, Guardian, The Lonely Conservative, Hit & Run, Campaign 2012, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Politico
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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.
Politico:
The dangerous new Obama book
The dangerous new Obama book
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Taylor Marsh, National Review, Reuters and Vanity Fair
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
‘Julia’ — Alas, Team Obama has omitted a few milestones from the life of Julia:
‘Julia’ — Alas, Team Obama has omitted a few milestones from the life of Julia:
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The PJ Tatler
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
Al-Qaida Hated Fox News And Thought MSNBC Is Not Neutral Because They Fired Keith Olbermann
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Mediaite, Guardian, Poynter, New York Magazine, Washington Free Beacon and Naked DC
ABCNEWS:
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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Gallup, Washington Wire, Washington Post, ThinkProgress, Indecision Forever, The Raw Story, Daily Kos, Deseret News, Politico and Yahoo! News
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Newt Gingrich / CNN:
Gingrich says he's already endorsed Romney, still critical
Gingrich says he's already endorsed Romney, still critical
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Politico and Conservatives4Palin
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
GOP voters want Santorum, Rubio for VP
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
Republicans rip Obama's handling of Chinese activist Chen
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Politico, CNN and p m carpenter's commentary
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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Mother Jones, Global Spin, Business Insider, The Heritage Foundation and CNN
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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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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Politico, BuzzFeed, Mediaite and HotAirPundit, more at Mediagazer »
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Keach Hagey / Wall Street Journal:
CNN Feels Heat on Ratings
CNN Feels Heat on Ratings
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Politico, Poynter, New York Magazine and TVNewser
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, Mediaite, NewsBusters.org blogs and Clayton Cramer's Blog, more at Mediagazer »
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
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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Politico, Outside the Beltway, CNN, Ballot Box and Reuters
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Sets $28-$35 IPO Range — Facebook Inc. set the price range for its initial public offering at $28 to $35 a share, in a landmark deal that would raise as much as $13.6 billion for the social network and insiders. — The preliminary price range would value the company at $77 billion to $96 billion.
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KNSD-TV, Guardian, New York Magazine, DealBook and AllThingsD
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.
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, Wake up America, Nice Deb, Moe Lane, HotAirPundit and White House Dossier
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 …
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, Marginal Revolution, TheMoneyIllusion, Ezra Klein and Mother Jones
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.
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.
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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CNN, Associated Press, nation.foxnews.com and Weasel Zippers
Shaun Waterman / Washington Times:
Russia threatens to strike NATO missile defense sites — Russia's most senior military officer said Thursday that Moscow would preemptively strike and destroy U.S.-led NATO missile defense sites in Eastern Europe if talks with Washington about the developing system continue to stall.
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Power Line, Wake up America, HotAirPundit, Conservatives4Palin and Clayton Cramer's Blog
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.
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Politico, The PJ Tatler and CNN