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12:20 PM ET, May 10, 2012

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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
House strikes back on gay marriage  —  Just hours after President Barack Obama publicly backed gay marriage, the House struck back and passed a measure aimed at reinforcing the Defense of Marriage Act.  —  With a 245-171 vote, the House voted to stop the Justice Department from using taxpayer funds …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Why ABC's Robin Roberts got the exclusive  —  For President Barack Obama's ground-breaking interview on gay marriage, the White House turned to a friendly face - ABC's Robin Roberts.  —  She's a respected journalist who knows both Barack and Michelle Obama well, isn't regarded as a difficult …
Politico:
Biden blamed; politics drove timing  —  Joe Biden just might go down in history as the guy who forced Barack Obama to publicly announce his private support for gay marriage.  —  But the vice president is no hero in the West Wing, and administration officials are struggling to cast Obama's truly historic …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
News Analysis: Obama's Watershed Move on Gay Marriage  —  President Obama's endorsement of gay marriage on Wednesday was by any measure a watershed.  A sitting United States president took sides in what many people consider the last civil rights movement, providing the most powerful evidence …
BuzzFeed:
How Barack Obama Lost Hollywood  —  Last time they fell in love, volunteered, gave millions, but now “they hate him.”  Can gay pride and a Clooney bash make his star twinkle again?  —  Source: flickr.com  —  LOS ANGELES, Calif. — On Tuesday night, comedian Jon Lovitz stood in the green room …
Discussion: Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama on Biden: ‘Got Out a Little Bit Over His Skis’  —  Vice President Joe Biden is at least part of the reason President Barack Obama came out in favor of same sex marriage yesterday, the president admitted in the interview on the issue with ABC's Robin Roberts:
Discussion: JustOneMinute, Althouse and Instapundit
Elliott Abrams / Weekly Standard:
‘On My Behalf’  —  The debate over same sex “marriage” has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.  Then there is Barack Obama.  —  In his ABC interview, the president pretended that his much touted “evolution” had now led him, ineluctably, to speak out now, today; he simply could longer stay silent.
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Gay Marriage Reversal Means Cash For Obama
John Cook / Gawker:
Barack Obama's Bulls**t Gay Marriage Announcement
John Dickerson / Slate:   The Audacity of Evolution  —  Obama could blame Biden for forcing …
Rick Klein / Yahoo! Good Morning America:
President Obama Affirms His Support for Same Sex Marriage
Rush Limbaugh:
Obama Declares War on Traditional America
Discussion: Good As You and Poynter
Steve Clemons / The Atlantic Online:
Bring It On: Obama Rallies the Base With Gay Marriage Endorsement
Matthew Dowd / The Huffington Post:
The Facts: Gay Marriage Didn't Tilt 2004 Election
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents  —  BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School.  Back on the handsome campus …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney on prank: ‘Back in high school I did some dumb things’  —  Mitt Romney said Thursday that “back in high school I did some dumb things” but insisted that the prep school pranks chronicled in a news story were never intended to target gay students specifically.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
CNN:
TRENDING: Obama hits Romney with ‘Etch A Sketch’  —  (CNN) - President Barack Obama labeled presumptive challenger Mitt Romney's comments that took credit for the auto industry's recovery as an “Etch A Sketch moment.”  —  “I think this is one of his Etch A Sketch moments.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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CNN:
Team Obama trumpets same-sex marriage stance
Charles Babington / Associated Press:
AP-GfK Poll: Women, blacks, help Obama in new poll
CNN:
Dinner with Clooney, Obama nets $15 million
Rasmussen Reports:
Wisconsin Recall Election: Walker 50%, Barrett 45%  —  Embattled Republican Governor Scott Walker holds a five-point lead over his newly nominated Democratic challenger Tom Barrett in Wisconsin's special recall election.  —  A new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey shows that 50% …
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Obama's careful line on same-sex marriage
Discussion: JSOnline
Katherine Ellison / The Atlantic Online:
An Inconvenient Lawsuit: Teenagers Take Global Warming to the Courts  —  Industry giants say their case is misguided.  But that isn't stopping a group of high school students from using the legal system to make environmental demands.  —  Alec Loorz turns 18 at the end of this month.
Public Religion Research Institute:
May PRRI/RNS Religion News Survey  —  ▶ Read the news release here.  —  ▶ Read RNS story here.  —  ▶ Read the Topline Questionnaire, including the survey methodology here.  —  The 2012 Election  — Overall, Obama maintains a significant lead over Romney among voters …
Discussion: CNN and GOP 12
Robert J. Barro / Wall Street Journal:
Robert Barro: Stimulus Spending Keeps Failing  —  If austerity is so terrible, how come Germany and Sweden have done so well?  —  The weak economic recovery in the U.S. and the even weaker performance in much of Europe have renewed calls for ending budget austerity and returning to larger fiscal deficits.
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Jobless claims fall, trade gap widens  —  (Reuters) - The number of Americans submitting new applications for jobless benefits edged down last week, easing concerns the labor market was deteriorating after April's weak employment growth.  —  While the claims data indicated the economy remained …
 
 
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Chairman Reince Priebus / reincepriebus's Diary:
While the Middle Class is Hurting, Obama Hobnobs with Hollywood
Discussion: The Hill, BuzzFeed and Business Insider
National Review:
Marriage and the Presidency  —  At least President Obama …
CNN:
Syria calls Damascus blasts ‘suicide’ attacks
ABCNEWS:
Obama Pays Tribute to Songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
Europe's failed experiment in tax-hike austerity
Discussion: Doug Ross
Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
How the felon won
Discussion: The Jawa Report
 Earlier Items: 
ABCNEWS:
Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum put out a statement …
New York Times:
Obama's New Courting of Hollywood Pays Off
Discussion: The Caucus
Scott Gottlieb / RealClearMarkets:
The Obama Health Plan Will Squeeze the Middle Class
Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Leading Democratic Primary Candidate for Senator from Maine Calls for Court-Packing
Peter Taylor / BBC:
‘Vomiting and screaming’ in destroyed waterboarding tapes
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Shep Smith: ‘Wrong side of history’
 

 
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