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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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Little Green Footballs:
Heartland Institute Jumps the Shark — Just when you thought the right couldn't sink any lower, they prove you wrong! — elizajane — ENVIRONMENT • Fri May 4, 2012 at 9:34 am PDT • Views: 8,542 — The Right discovers an all new level of nutso creepiness …
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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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Felix Salmon:
April's jobs: Americans aren't working
April's jobs: Americans aren't working
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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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Jill Schlesinger / CBS News:
Unemployment rate drops, job creation stagnates
Unemployment rate drops, job creation stagnates
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Alan Kreuger / White House.gov Blog:
The Employment Situation in April
The Employment Situation in April
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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David A. Bell / The New Republic:
Midnight in Paris — The implosion of the French right. — To understand the state of the right wing in France, start by considering the name of Nicolas Sarkozy's political party, the country's major conservative political force. Founded a decade ago by Jacques Chirac as the Union …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Center-Right Meltdown Spreads
Center-Right Meltdown Spreads
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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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Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Kristol: Romney's Attacks On Obama For Handling Of Chinese Dissident Are ‘Foolish’ — Yesterday Mitt Romney attacked President Obama over the administration's handling of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng. Citing “very troubling developments,” Romney said yesterday was …
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Reuters, Associated Press, FP Passport and The Caucus
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New York Times:
China Opens Way for Dissident to Come to U.S.
China Opens Way for Dissident to Come to U.S.
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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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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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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?
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Hoyer, Cantor have a deal to extend Export-Import Bank — House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) late Friday formally unveiled a deal he has struck with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, whose charter expires at the end of the month.
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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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.
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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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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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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