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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Leading GOPer chastises right wing group for comparing climate believers to mass murderers — As you may have heard, the Heartland Institute, a right-wing anti-climate-science think tank, has launched a billboard campaign that's getting widely pilloried on the Web — it compares people …
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Leo Hickman / Guardian:
Global warming belief compared to murder — US thinktank launches poster campaign comparing Unabomber and Osama Bin Laden to those concerned about global warming — It really is hard to know where to begin with this one. But let's start with: “What on earth were they thinking?”
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The Huffington Post, blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Business Insider, Green and The Daily Dish
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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Felix Salmon:
April's jobs: Americans aren't working
April's jobs: Americans aren't working
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Calculated Risk:
April Employment Report: 115,000 Jobs, 8.1% Unemployment Rate
April Employment Report: 115,000 Jobs, 8.1% Unemployment Rate
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Free exchange, The New Republic, CBS News, Econbrowser, ABCNEWS, American Prospect, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and NewsBusters.org
Alan Kreuger / White House.gov Blog:
The Employment Situation in April
The Employment Situation in April
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Wall Street Journal, Rational Irrationality, ACS Blog and ABCNEWS
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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protein wisdom, Reuters, WILLisms.com and The Page
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Abby Huntsman: Romney's Chen Guangcheng Criticism Was ‘Very Foolish’ — Abby Huntsman Livingston, daughter of the former presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, waded into the controversy surrounding the Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng today, lambasting both President Obama …
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ABCNEWS and The Raw Story
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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 Tales from the Trail
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Center-Right Meltdown Spreads — It appears the United States may not be the only country in which the unpopularity of a conservative agenda pushes conservatives even further to the Right. — At TNR, David Bell contemplates the incoherence of Nicolas Sarkozy's ideology …
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Firstpost, Guardian and Balloon Juice
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David A. Bell / The New Republic:
Midnight in Paris — The implosion of the French right.
Midnight in Paris — The implosion of the French right.
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Althouse
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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Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
See the pale-faced Warren redden
See the pale-faced Warren redden
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Ed Driscoll, Althouse and Hot Air
ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney's Eldest Son Has Twins Via Surrogate — O'HARA, Pa. - Tagg Romney, the eldest son of presidential candidate Mitt Romney, announced via Twitter that he and his wife Jen have new twin boys, delivered by a surrogate today. — “Happy 2 announce birth of twin boys David Mitt and William Ryder.
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
GOP's Violence Against Women Act Would Open Up Undocumented Victims To More Abuse … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Immigration, Video, Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, Sandy Adams, Chuck Grassley, Domestic Violence, Immigrant Rights, U-Visa, Undocumented Immigrants, Latino Politics, Vawa, Violence Against Women Act, War On Women, Politics News
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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
Ted Nugent's Bizarre CBS Interview Culminates In Profanity-Laced Speech About Being Moderate
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his vorpal sword, ABCNEWS and The Moderate Voice
Holly Bailey / Yahoo! News:
Obama's re-election rallies on Saturday to be blitzed by Romney campaign — Mitt Romney's campaign is working hard to steal President Barack Obama's spotlight this weekend, when the president is set to hold the first major rallies of his 2012 re-election campaign.
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ABCNEWS and The Caucus
Alexander Burns / Politico:
What Rick told Mitt — Rick Santorum urged Mitt Romney in a Friday meeting to address the “economic and family issues” that animated Santorum's own campaign for president, sources familiar with the conversation said. — The two met for nearly an hour at the Pittsburgh office of Brabender Cox …
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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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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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Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative and Althouse
New York Times:
New Sexual Assault Allegations Against Strauss-Kahn — PARIS — French prosecutors are seeking to widen an investigation of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, to look into accusations that he sexually assaulted a woman at a hotel in Washington in 2010 …
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Washington Post, msnbc.com, DCist and New York Magazine
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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 US hotel orgy
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The Raw Story, Taylor Marsh, BBC and Reuters
Ronald Brownstein / 2012 Decoded:
Will Hispanic Immigration Trends Hurt Obama in 2012? — The cresting of the great generation-long wave of legal and illegal immigration from Mexico won't meaningfully affect the political leverage of Hispanics in the U.S. for decades, if ever. But some Hispanic leaders worry …
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Washington Monthly
BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney's Secret Weapon To Woo Latinos? — His name isn't Marco Rubio. Senador Portman got a zero-percent rating from an anti-immigration group in 2003 — Portman appearing alongside Romney. — Source: 3.bp.blogspot.com — As Mitt Romney's campaign drags its feet with Hispanic outreach …
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Washington Monthly, GOP 12, Hot Air and msnbc.com
Glynnis MacNicol / Capital New York:
Juan Williams misses NPR; Ben Smith competes with Taco Bell Health Channel — Fox News political analyst Juan Williams misses working for NPR “big time.” — “Because that's such an informed and influential audience,” he told me last night at the swanky Industria Studios, a big loft and event space in the far West Village.
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Washington Post:
Romney faces a narrow path to 270 electoral votes, but his team remains optimistic — BOSTON — Mitt Romney faces a narrow path to win the presidency, one that requires winning back states that President Obama took from Republicans four years earlier and that has few apparent opportunities …
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Daily Kos, ABCNEWS, US Politics, New York Magazine, Washington Monthly, Prairie Weather and Wall Street Journal
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Christian Schneider / National Review:
Ryan: Obama's ‘Julia’ is ‘Creepy’ — Back in his Wisconsin district today to hold a series of listening sessions, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan commented on President Obama's latest campaign mascot, a hypothetical woman whom the campaign calls “Julia.”
ProPublica:
TSA Reveals Passenger Complaints ... Four Years Later — From intrusive pat-downs to body scans to perceived profiling, the Transportation Security Administration always seems to be the target of complaints. — Here's another one: It took the TSA almost four years to tell me what people complained about — in 2008.
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.