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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
People Not In Labor Force Soar By 522,000, Labor Force Participation Rate Lowest Since 1981 — it is just getting sad now. In April the number of people not in the labor force rose by a whopping 522,000 from 87,897,000 to — 88,419,000. This is the highest on record.
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Rush Limbaugh, The Gateway Pundit, Questions and Observations, Taylor Marsh, Wake up America, RedState, The Mental Recession, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, americanthinker.com, Via Meadia, The Lonely Conservative, The PJ Tatler, Campaign 2012, The Other McCain and Washington Free Beacon
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Calculated Risk:
April Employment Report: 115,000 Jobs, 8.1% Unemployment Rate — From the BLS: … This was below expectations of 165,000 payroll jobs added. — Click on graph for larger image. — Job growth started picking up early last year, but then the economy was hit by a series of shocks …
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Free exchange, The New Republic, CNBC, Economist's View, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Firedoglake and ABCNEWS
Jason Lange / Reuters:
Hiring slows, spells trouble for economy, Obama
Hiring slows, spells trouble for economy, Obama
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Bloomberg, The Enterprise Blog and The Page
Felix Salmon:
April's jobs: Americans aren't working
April's jobs: Americans aren't working
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Ezra Klein, Free exchange, Swampland, Washington Monthly, Hot Air, Moe Lane, Planet Money and Brad DeLong
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Economic growth slows as nation adds only 115,000 jobs in April
Economic growth slows as nation adds only 115,000 jobs in April
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CNN, Reuters, Weasel Zippers, Michelle Malkin and Washington Free Beacon
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
New Jobs Slow; Unemployment Drops as Work Force Shrinks
New Jobs Slow; Unemployment Drops as Work Force Shrinks
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ABCNEWS, Business Insider, The Caucus, CNN, American Prospect, Economix, NewsBusters.org, Runnin' Scared, Daily Kos, Mother Jones, Gothamist and National Review
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
The awful April jobs report: Is the ‘real’ unemployment rate 11.1%?
The awful April jobs report: Is the ‘real’ unemployment rate 11.1%?
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WILLisms.com
Annalyn Censky / CNNMoney.com:
April jobs report: Hiring slows, unemployment falls
April jobs report: Hiring slows, unemployment falls
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CNN, GOP 12, Infowars, Fortune, The Stranger … and American Spectator
climateconference.heartland.org:
Our Billboards — Do You Still Believe in Global Warming? — Billboards in Chicago paid for by The Heartland Institute point out that some of the world's most notorious criminals say they “still believe in global warming” - and ask viewers if they do, too.
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Heartland Institute compares belief in global warming to mass murder — US thinktank launches poster campaign comparing Unabomber and Osama Bin Laden to those concerned about global warming — Leo blog : The Heartland Institute conference billboard in Chicago — It really is hard to know where to begin with this one.
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Mother Jones, DeSmogBlog, The BRAD BLOG, Mediaite, Stinque, iOwnTheWorld.com, ThinkProgress and The Agonist
Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
See the pale-faced Warren redden — Dances with truths about her ethnicity — Is “Liz Warren” how you say “affirmative action” in Cherokee? — When the “Faux-cahontas” story first broke, I looked at it mostly as a laugh line — a truth-stretching liberal hoist on the left's identity-politics petard.
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Althouse
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Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Harvard won't say if Liz Warren listed as minority — Harvard Law School lists one lone Native American faculty member on its latest diversity census report — but school officials and campaign aides for Elizabeth Warren refused to say yesterday whether it refers to the Democratic Senate candidate.
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JustOneMinute, Jammie Wearing Fools, The Caucus and National Review
Rolling Stone:
Beastie Boys Co-Founder Adam Yauch Dead at 47 — Influential rapper was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 — Adam Yauch, one-third of the pioneering hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died at the age of 47, Rolling Stone has learned. Yauch, also known as MCA, had been in treatment for cancer since 2009.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Awl, Feministe, Balloon Juice and Joe. My. God.
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TMZ.com:
MCA Adam Yauch Dead — Beastie Boys Rapper Dies at 47 — 11:30 AM PT — MCA's publicist just released a statement, writing, “It is with great sadness that we confirm that musician, rapper, activist and director Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch ... passed away in his native New York City this morning after a near-three-year battle with cancer.
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TechCrunch, Gothamist, The Daily Caller and Gawker
Frank Bajak / Associated Press:
Woman in Secret Service case calls agents ‘fools’ — BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A woman who says she was the prostitute who triggered the U.S. Secret Service scandal in Colombia said Friday that the agents involved were “idiots” for letting it happen, and declared that if she were a spy …
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Politico, Business Insider and New York Magazine
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Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Ted Nugent's Bizarre CBS Interview Culminates In Profanity-Laced Speech About Being Moderate — Musician and activist Ted Nugent sat down with CBS' Jeff Glor for his first on-camera interview since his talks with the Secret Service over comments he'd made about President Barack Obama …
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ABCNEWS, his vorpal sword and The Moderate Voice
Plain Dealer:
Mitt Romney issues Ohio challenge to President Obama — Welcome to Ohio. I have a simple question for you: Where are the jobs? — As we enter the fourth year of your term, unemployment is over 8 percent and has been for your entire term. Nearly 23 million men and women are unemployed …
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ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, The Hill, American Prospect, Daily Kos, The Caucus, Business Insider and Power Line
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Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn could face gang rape charges after US hotel orgy — Dominique Strauss-Kahn could face gang rape charges after an escort girl said the former International Monetary Fund chief and three others held her down and forced her to have anal sex. — Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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The Raw Story, BBC, Taylor Marsh and Reuters
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New York Times:
Deal Appears Near on Dissident, But Clinton Expresses Caution — BEIJING — China has agreed to accept an application by the dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng to travel to the United States as a student, the State Department said on Friday, pointing to a quick resolution of an eight …
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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Kristol: Romney's Attacks On Obama For Handling Of Chinese Dissident Are ‘Foolish’
Kristol: Romney's Attacks On Obama For Handling Of Chinese Dissident Are ‘Foolish’
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Reuters, Associated Press, FP Passport and The Caucus
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Republicans Use Crowdsourcing to Attack Obama Campaign — There was a time when a challenger like Mitt Romney could afford to sit back and wait to see whether a new message from an incumbent president would take hold. — Not any more. — The Twitter-fueled news cycle has been compressed …
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BuzzFeed, The PJ Tatler, Guardian, Washington Post and Power Line
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Gregory J. Krieg / ABCNEWS:
‘Forward’, ‘Julia’ and Sloganeering on Obama's Terms
‘Forward’, ‘Julia’ and Sloganeering on Obama's Terms
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BREITBART.COM, The Daily Caller and Wake up America
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
At Sunday Meetings, Team Obama Prepares for a Tough Fight — WASHINGTON — President Obama walks into the Roosevelt Room of the White House and takes his seat around a table. The West Wing, like on most Sunday evenings, is quiet except for the tight circle of advisers who gather for a confidential briefing on his re-election.
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CNN and Weasel Zippers
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Bob Kerrey / NY Daily News:
President Obama's Bin Laden indiscretion
President Obama's Bin Laden indiscretion
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Ballot Box and Hotline On Call
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney Speaks Out On Grenell Resignation: We Don't Select People Based On ‘Their Sexual Preference’ — Mitt Romney spoke out about the resignation of ex-foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell during an appearance on Fox News this morning. In doing so, the former Massachusetts governor failed …
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Washington Post, Mother Jones, Advocate, Taylor Marsh, American Prospect, The PJ Tatler, Firedoglake and The Huffington Post
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
FORWARD!... Obama to Officially Launch 2012 Campaign on Karl Marx's Birthday — From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. — You just can't make this stuff up. — Barack Obama will officially launch his 2012 re-election campaign on Karl Marx's birthday.
Erik Ortiz / NY Daily News:
Medical reports show Adolf Hitler used cocaine, suffered extreme flatulence — Records up for bid online through Alexander Historical Auctions reveal the Nazi leader's many quirks — An X-ray copy of Adolf Hitler's skull is part of the cache of medical documents on the Nazi leader given …
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The Moderate Voice
Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Biden: This is not your father's GOP — Vice President Joe Biden warned female voters against selecting Republican candidates on Friday, painting the GOP as a force that has obstructed progress on equal opportunities for women. — “This is not your father's Republican Party,” Biden told the annual conference of the YWCA.
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CNN
Wall Street Journal:
Wisconsin Recall Amnesia — Why aren't Democrats running against Scott Walker's union reforms? — Remember the Greek-style protests in Madison, the union sit-ins, the lawmakers who fled to Illinois to avoid voting on Scott Walker's collective-bargaining law last year?
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