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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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Guardian:
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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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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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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Felix Salmon:
April's jobs: Americans aren't working
April's jobs: Americans aren't working
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Ezra Klein, Business Insider, New York Times, Free exchange, Swampland, Washington Monthly, Brad DeLong and Moe Lane
Alan Kreuger / White House.gov Blog:
The Employment Situation in April
The Employment Situation in April
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Rational Irrationality, Wall Street Journal, ACS Blog and ABCNEWS
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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Hot Air, Ed Driscoll and 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.
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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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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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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ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and Center for American Progress
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Josh Lederman / Ballot Box:
Biden: This is not your father's GOP
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
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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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
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
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 and Stinque
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?
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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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.
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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Indecision Forever and Washington Post
Congressman Allen West / Facebook:
I am seriously concerned with the 13 percent unemployment number for Black Americans released today... As a Member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the House Small Business Committee, I am seriously concerned with the 13 percent unemployment number for Black Americans.
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Weasel Zippers, Washington Post, The Raw Story and Hotline On Call
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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Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Republicans say Obama running out of excuses to delay Keystone — Republicans on Friday ramped up pressure on President Obama to quickly approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline after developer TransCanada Corp. formally reapplied for a key federal permit. — “Today there is just one person standing …
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