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Rep. Tim Griffin / Politico:
Can Democrats retake the House in November? — Interviewed by POLITICO's Andrea Drusch — We have to do the fundamentals: get the message out, raise money and organize at a grassroots level. Assuming that we execute on all of those fronts and do what we need to do …
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Former AG Michael Mukasey: Obama Officials Drafted Memo to Blame Military If OBL Mission Failed (Video) — Leadership: Obama Administration Drafted Memo to Blame Military if OBL Mission Failed — Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey told Sean Hannity tonight that the Obama Administration drafted …
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Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Liz Cheney eyes the political stage — Liz Cheney has been making the rounds at Wyoming political events this spring and her desire to move back to the state has Republicans from Cheyenne to Washington buzzing about a potential future campaign. — With little fanfare, Cheney …
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Washington Monthly and The Political Carnival
Nicole Gelinas / City Journal:
The Life of Zachary — Imagining how the next generation will fare in the Obama administration's scenario — The Obama reelection campaign has created a fictional character, “Julia,” whose starring role in an online slideshow, “The Life of Julia,” has gone viral online.
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americanthinker.com, Ricochet Conversations Feed, Hot Air, National Review and TheBlaze.com
Jon Pareles / New York Times:
Adam Yauch, 1964-2012: Adam Yauch, a Founder of the Beastie Boys, Dies at 47 — Adam Yauch, a rapper and founder of the pioneering and multimillion-selling hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, died on Friday in Manhattan. He was 47. — His mother, Frances Yauch, confirmed his death.
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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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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
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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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, FP Passport and Tales from the Trail
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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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Republicans Use Crowdsourcing to Attack Obama Campaign
Republicans Use Crowdsourcing to Attack Obama Campaign
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New York Times, The PJ Tatler and ABCNEWS
Joe Biden / CNN:
Biden thumps GOP over Violence Against Women Act
Biden thumps GOP over Violence Against Women Act
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Politico and Ballot Box
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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David Cross / Movoto Real Estate Watch:
White House For Sale (Infographic) — Like it or not, the election season is here. Along with heated debates and campaign promises, the politically savvy will start tossing around a tried and true adage: The White House is for sale. — This got us thinking: What would the Executive Mansion in the heart of Washington D.C. fetch?
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Occupy Violence: It's Different, Somehow — The Occupy movement has a horrific record of violence. Occupy Wall Street Exposed has counted a dozen deaths, including three murders; more than a dozen rapes; more than 25 disgusting cases of indecent exposure, public defecation, etc …
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National Review
Washington Post:
The EPA is earning a reputation for abuse — MAYBE AL ARMENDARIZ — until Monday, one of the Environmental Protection Agency's top administrators — didn't mean his comments to sound quite how they did. But they didn't sound good. In a 2010 speech, now circulating online …
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The PJ Tatler and The Heritage Foundation
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
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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The Caucus, ABCNEWS and Business Insider
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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Power Line, Washington Wire, The Page and CNN
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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Politico, Indecision Forever and Washington Post
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.”