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Mark Halperin / Swampland:
The View from One Prudential Plaza: Why the Obama Campaign Is So Confident About Beating Romney — President Obama pauses while speaking at a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, on May 5, 2012 — Barack Obama's decision to base his re-election campaign outside of Washington seems to be working pretty darn well.
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BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Was Arrested For Disorderly Conduct In 1981 — The charges were dropped after Romney threatened to sue. “I was not a disorderly person,” Romney said. — Mitt Romney campaigns in Pittsburgh. — It's a little reported anecdote, but in 1981 presumptive Republican Presidential …
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Hot Air, his vorpal sword, The Reaction, JustOneMinute, Naked DC, Daily Kos, Associated Press, Catholic Bandita, Indecision Forever and GOP 12
BuzzFeed:
Romney Silent As Woman Says Obama Should Be Tried For Treason — A town hall bubbles over. — EUCLID, Ohio — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney didn't comment on a supporter's assertion that President Barack Obama should be tried for treason at a town hall event here.
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Plain Dealer, Mediaite, Business Insider, No More Mister Nice Blog, Race 4 2012, Daily Kos and Guardian
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama team: Romney must rebuke ‘extreme voices’ after ‘treason’ call at rally — President Obama's campaign is looking to seize on a pair of controversial comments by supporters at Mitt Romney's town hall meeting in Cleveland Monday, calling on the presumptive Republican nominee to “stand up to the extreme voices in his party.”
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The Caucus, The Hill, Politico, Connecting.the.Dots, Hit & Run, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Crowd, host steal attention at Romney event in Ohio — Mitt Romney's campaign stop outside of Cleveland, Ohio threatened to veer off message on a number occasions Monday, with supporters accusing President Obama of treason and criticizing the president for taking credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden.
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Daily Kos
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Romney Refuses To Stand Up To Woman Who Says Obama Should Be ‘Tried For Treason’ — At a town hall event in Ohio this afternoon, a woman asked Mitt Romney what he would do to roll back the size of government, and commented that President Obama “should be tried for treason.”
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Power Line, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Weasel Zippers, ABCNEWS, The Maddow Blog and The Stranger …
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Barack Obama Accused Of Treason At Mitt Romney Town Hall (VIDEO)
Barack Obama Accused Of Treason At Mitt Romney Town Hall (VIDEO)
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BuzzFeed, Politicker, RedState, Indecision Forever, Washington Free Beacon and Associated Press
Adam Goldman / Associated Press:
US: CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot — WASHINGTON (AP) — The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press has learned.
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ABCNEWS, Guardian, Politicker, Mediaite, Poynter, Daily Kos, Business Insider and The Stranger …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
W.H. embargoed Al Qaeda bomb threat — The Associated Press reports today that it learned last week of a thwarted Al Qaeda-affiliated plot to bomb a U.S.-bound airplane, but did not report on it because of an agreement with the White House and the CIA. However, the AP did decide to report …
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American Power, more at Mediagazer »
CBS News:
CIA thwarts new al Qaeda underwear bomb plot
CIA thwarts new al Qaeda underwear bomb plot
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The Moderate Voice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, msnbc.com, New York Magazine and Algemeiner.com
Carlo Munoz / The Hill:
CIA thwarts al Qaeda plot timed near bin Laden anniversary
CIA thwarts al Qaeda plot timed near bin Laden anniversary
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ABCNEWS
Daily Kos:
WTF? Democratic Party of Wisconsin Cancels post-primary Unity Rally — Tomorrow, Tuesday, May 8th, Wisconsin voters will vote in a special recall election primary. On the Democratic ballot for governor are four legitimate contenders. The winner of the Democratic primary will face Republican Governor Scott Walker on June 5th.
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National Review, RedState, Campaign 2012, Washington Free Beacon and Althouse
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Clinton hopes to see female US president — KOLKATA, India (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday she has no desire to make another run for the White House but hopes to see an American woman president in her lifetime. — Politely turning aside questions …
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Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Chelsea Clinton's Childhood: No Pizza, Cartoons on Weekdays
Chelsea Clinton's Childhood: No Pizza, Cartoons on Weekdays
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Gretawire
Doug Powers / Michelle Malkin:
Obama administration advises new French president: For sake of world economy, don't raise taxes and increase spending — “Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes...” — President Obama was quick to invite France's Socialist president-elect to Washington for a visit, but the White House …
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Ace of Spades HQ, Weasel Zippers, Campaign 2012 and Scared Monkeys
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
WATCH: White House Hounded By Questions About Obama's Same-Sex Marriage Position For 21 Minutes
WATCH: White House Hounded By Questions About Obama's Same-Sex Marriage Position For 21 Minutes
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Washington Post and Towleroad News #gay
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
W.H. won't say whether Obama supports gay marriage
W.H. won't say whether Obama supports gay marriage
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ABCNEWS, Catholic Bandita and Weasel Zippers
Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
The Washington Post Is In Even Worse Shape Than You Think — The Washington Post Co. reported its first-quarter earnings on Friday, and the news coming out of the newspaper division was mostly grim. The unit lost $22.6 million in the quarter, with revenue down 8% and revenue from print advertising specifically falling 17%.
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TechCrunch, Poynter, The Other McCain, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Eschaton, more at Mediagazer »
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Liz McMillen / Brainstorm:
A Note to Readers — When we published Naomi Schaefer Riley's blog posting on Brainstorm last week ("The Most Persuasive Case for Eliminating Black Studies? Just Read the Dissertations"), several thousand of you spoke out in outrage and disappointment that The Chronicle had published …
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Ricochet Conversations Feed and Balloon Juice
BuzzFeed:
Delta Pulls “Daily Show” Ads After Catholic Complaints — Catholic League chief Bill Donohue is still on his campaign against Jon Stewart for a weeks-old “vagina manger” bit. The next target: Kellogg's. — Catholic League president Bill Donohue declared an early victory in his campaign …
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ThinkProgress and Mediaite
Bloomberg:
Look Who's Pushing Homeowners Off the Foreclosure Cliff — One of the more confounding aspects of the U.S. housing crisis has been the reluctance of lenders to do more to assist troubled borrowers. After all, when homes go into foreclosure, banks lose money.
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Eschaton
The Daily Beast:
Why Can't Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice? — Despite his populist posturing, the president has failed to pin a single top finance exec on criminal charges since the economic collapse. Are the banks too big to jail—or is Washington's revolving door at to blame? Peter J. Boyer and Peter Schweizer investigate:
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Firedoglake, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Clayton Cramer's Blog
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
INFOGRAPHIC: House GOP's Deficit Reduction Efforts Dwarfed By Cost Of Tax Cuts For The Rich — House Republicans will today finalize their deficit reduction plans as required under the Budget Control Act, the deal reached last August to raise the nation's debt ceiling.
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Associated Press and Washington Monthly
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
This 93-Year-Old Grandmother Is Suing Pennsylvania Over Voter ID Laws — The first time Viviette Applewhite went to the polls, she cast her vote for John F. Kennedy. But this year, a strict new voter identification law will likely prevent the now-93-year old woman and many others in Pennsylvania …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and FreakOutNation
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Says He Wouldn't Close Corporate Tax Loopholes To Prevent Student Loan Interest Hike — GREENDALE, Wisconsin — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) told students at a town hall Friday that he would not support preventing a hike in their student loan interest rates if it was paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.
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ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Crooks and Liars
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Rick Berg, GOP Senate Candidate In North Dakota, Stumped On Minimum Wage (VIDEO) … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Video, North Dakota, North Dakota Democratic Party, Heidi Heitkamp, Minimum Wage, Rick-Berg, Rick-Berg-Campaign-Ad, Politics News — WASHINGTON — Rep. Rick Berg (R-N.D.) …
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The Maddow Blog and ThinkProgress
Boston Globe:
New Yorkers open their wallets for Brown — US Senator Scott Brown collected more itemized campaign donations from New York City than from any other city in America, including Boston and others in Massachusetts, during the first three months of this year, a Globe analysis of federal campaign records shows.
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Blue Mass Group, Capital New York, Ballot Box and ThinkProgress
Reuters:
Old feud appears to sink Obama's Fed nominees — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's two nominees to the Federal Reserve appear likely to fall victim to a long-running political feud, which would leave the central bank short-handed as it struggles with tough regulatory and monetary policy questions.
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New York Magazine, TheMoneyIllusion and Brad DeLong
ABCNEWS:
Rob Portman: No More Mr. Nice Guy — He's polite, smart and a little nerdy. But as Rob Portman has climbed to the top of the list of potential running mates for Mitt Romney, the political world is now seeing a different side of him: the attack dog. — Just over the past week …
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Washington Monthly