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9:10 PM ET, May 3, 2012

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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.
Discussion: Eschaton
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Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Republicans rip Obama's handling of Chinese activist Chen
Melinda Liu / The Daily Beast:
Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton's Plane
Justin Sink / The Hill:
In Virginia, Bachmann endorses Romney
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Politico
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 …
Discussion: 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 …
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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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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Tim Stanley / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Why it matters that Obama dated a composite and ate a dog
Politico:
The dangerous new Obama book
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.”
Discussion: Hot Air, 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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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:   The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports: … Just because the Cleveland 5 …
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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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Perry: ‘God help us’ if Romney loses
Discussion: CNN
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.
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.
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Business Insider
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 …
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.
Discussion: TMZ.com and Jammie Wearing Fools
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 …
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” …
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.
Olivier Knox / ABCNEWS:
Obama's Cinco de Mayo wish: Signing the DREAM Act  —  President Barack Obama hosted a Cinco de Mayo party at the White House — “even though it's only tres de mayo, we just like to get the fiesta started early around here” — and promised to push for a comprehensive overhaul of America's immigration policies if he's reelected.
Discussion: Yahoo! News 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.
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.
Discussion: Politico, The PJ Tatler and CNN
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Early Look at 2013 VA-Gov Race  —  If Mark Warner wants to be the next Governor of Virginia...he's probably going to be the next Governor of Virginia.  PPP's newest poll finds him blowing away the Republican field of candidates with a 53-33 lead over Ken Cuccinelli, a 53-32 advantage over Bill Bolling …
 
 
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
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Paul Krugman:
Feel the Confidence
Discussion: Eschaton and FT Alphaville
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Romney blasts Obama for opposing D.C. voucher program
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
GOP voters want Santorum, Rubio for VP
Discussion: Politico and CNN
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The Commonwealth Fund Blog:
Explaining High Health Care Spending in the United States: An International Comparison of Supply …
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Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Methodists Vote Against Ending Investments Tied to Israel
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