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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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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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April's jobs: Americans aren't working — There's a lot going on in this month's jobs report. The headline number of jobs created — 115,000 — is miserable: it's basically just enough to keep up with population growth. That's the number the markets look at.
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Ezra Klein, Free exchange, Swampland, Hot Air, ABCNEWS, Brad DeLong, Moe Lane and Planet Money

Economic growth slows as nation adds only 115,000 jobs in April — The nation's economy added 115,00 jobs in April while the unemployment rate dropped one-tenth of a point to 8.1 percent. — The figures are lower than a month ago and were also below what many analysts had expected.
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CNN, Reuters, Weasel Zippers, Michelle Malkin and Washington Free Beacon

The awful April jobs report: Is the ‘real’ unemployment rate 11.1%?
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New Jobs Slow; Unemployment Drops as Work Force Shrinks
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April jobs report: Hiring slows, unemployment falls
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Fortune, Infowars, GOP 12, American Spectator and The Stranger …

Employers in U.S. Added Fewer Jobs Than Forecast in April
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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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Global warming belief compared to murder
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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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Indiana senator: Poll gives Mourdock sizable lead over Lugar — A new poll shows Treasurer Richard Mourdock building a commanding lead over Sen. Richard Lugar. — The Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground Poll, conducted by two prominent Republican and Democratic pollsters, shows Mourdock with a 48 percent to 38 percent lead over Lugar.
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Down to the wire: Final ads released in Indiana Senate race
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Dick Lugar In Deep Trouble, A New Poll Finds
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The Moderate Voice

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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Elizabeth Warren brings no peace to Dems — Elizabeth Warren's stumbling efforts to douse the firestorm surrounding her claims of being a Native American minority have raised concerns among local and national Democrats who are questioning her campaign's competence.


Romney and Santorum Meet in Private — It was shrouded in secrecy, but some immediate details are coming out from the meeting held this morning between presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt Romney and his former rival Rick Santorum. — The met alone, face to face and without staffers during …
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Romney and Santorum meet at office of adviser
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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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Dissident will be allowed to leave China
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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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Ted Nugent to Keep Up Obama Flames
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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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New Sex Allegations Against Strauss-Kahn
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President Obama's Bin Laden indiscretion — He spoke too soon and said too much — In the Situation Room of the White House on May 1, 2011, President Obama and his national security team receive an update on the Osama Bin Laden raid. — The operation that resulted in the death …
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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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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

Source: Zimmerman says Trayvon circled his SUV, frightened him — George Zimmerman told investigators that while he was on the phone with a Sanford police dispatcher reporting Trayvon Martin as suspicious, the teenager was circling his vehicle on foot, a source familiar with the investigation told the Orlando Sentinel.
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MCA Adam Yauch Dead — Beastie Boys Rapper Dies at 47 — “Beastie Boys” rapper MCA — real name Adam Yauch — has died. — In 2009, MCA announced he was being treated for a cancerous parotid gland and a lymph node (below). He has since undergone surgery and radiation therapy.
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