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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Economy adds 115,000 jobs; unemployment drops to 8.1 percent  —  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.
Annalyn Censky / CNNMoney.com:
April jobs report: Hiring slows, unemployment falls  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hiring slowed in April and workers dropped out of the labor force in droves — not a good sign for the job market going forward.  —  The economy added just 115,000 jobs in the month, the Labor Department reported Friday …
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 …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job Growth Just 115,000 in April, Rate Drops to 8.1%  —  April's job report lived up to muted expectations, with the economy creating a meager 115,000 jobs during the month as the unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent.  —  Job creation in the private sector was slightly better at 130,000 …
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Added Only 115,000 Jobs in April; Rate Is 8.1%
Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
Employers in U.S. Added Fewer Jobs Than Forecast in April
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and The Page
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Economy added 115,000 jobs in April; unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent
Discussion: Ezra Klein
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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CNN:
FIRST ON CNN: Romney drops challenge for OH delegates  —  (CNN) - Governor Mitt Romney will drop his challenge for the four remaining delegates in Ohio, effectively giving them to Rick Santorum.  —  The delegates come from districts Santorum won but because he didn't have a full slate …
Discussion: GOP 12 and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Washington Post:
Romney faces a narrow path to 270 electoral votes, but his team remains optimistic
Los Angeles Times:
Obama campaign tailors message for key states and voters
Discussion: Washington Post and Ballot Box
Tim Mak / Politico:
Gingrich: Romney said untrue things
Discussion: CNN
Washington Post:
Post Poll: Obama leads Romney as campaigns converge on Virginia
Bob Kerrey / NY Daily News:
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 …
Discussion: Ballot Box and Hotline On Call
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Investor's Business Daily:   NBC Wags Dog For Bill Clinton, Who Let Osama Escape
Chris McGreal / Guardian:
Al-Qaida memo to Bin Laden warns of ‘cunning methods’ of US news networks
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Shot in the Dark
New York Times:
Clinton Cites ‘Progress’ on Chinese Dissident  —  BEIJING — In her first public comments on the dissident Chen Guangcheng since arriving in China, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Friday that she was encouraged by “progress” in a diplomatic crisis that has deeply embarrassed …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Dissident will be allowed to leave China
Discussion: National Review
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.
Discussion: Hot Air and Althouse
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Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Elizabeth Warren brings no peace to Dems
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The question we should be asking Elizabeth Warren.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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 …
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
Discussion: Reuters and The Raw Story
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BBC:   New rape claim in Strauss-Kahn inquiry in France
Indianapolis Star:
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.
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
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Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: The Case for Dick Lugar
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
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.
Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Ted Nugent to Keep Up Obama Flames  —  Ted Nugent speaks during a rally, Oct. 30, 2010 in Charleston, W.V. (Randy Snyder/Getty Images)  —  Ted Nugent, after a Secret Service investigation, a canceled Army concert and an outpouring of criticism, said presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney's camp …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity  —  Before the Great Recession, I would sometimes give public lectures in which I would talk about rising inequality, making the point that the concentration of income at the top had reached levels not seen since 1929.  Often, someone in the audience …
BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA PRAISES NAZI SUPPORTER IN JEWISH HERITAGE MONTH PROCLAMATION  —  President Barack Obama issued a proclamation yesterday in celebration of Jewish Heritage Month that lauded Nazi supporter Gertrude Stein, the Algemeiner reports.  —  Stein, who was Jewish, supported the puppet Vichy regime …
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Secondary Boycotts and the Breakdown of Civil Society
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
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