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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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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Cutting-edge reporting from WaPo: Let's take an in-depth look at ... Romney's cruel high-school pranks — And so the general election media coverage begins. I guess the Washington Post ran out of stories based on Seamus the Roof-Ridin' Dog. Despite demonstrating zero curiosity …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Content of Romney's Character — A young Mitt Romney, relaxing with friends. — It is a horrendous coincidence of timing for Mitt Romney that the day after President Obama ceased his elaborate wink-and-nod game and endorsed gay marriage, Jason Horowitz reports that Romney bullied a gay classmate at his prep school.
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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.
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Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Romney Apologizes For ‘Hijinks’ But Won't Acknowledge Specific Attack — Mitt Romney offered a qualified apology for his behavior as a high school student, without specifically saying whether a report that he bullied a student thought by his classmates to be gay was accurate.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney apologizes for high school pranks that ‘might have gone too far’
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BuzzFeed:
AUDIO: Romney Apologizes For High School Bullying
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Romney on pranks: ‘Some may have gone too far, and for that I apologize’
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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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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 …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid: Democratic platform will include pro-gay marriage plank — The Democrats' top leader in Congress said Thursday that the party's platform will soon include a plank calling for the legalization of gay marriage. — “The president's in favor of it — I'm sure it will be [included],” said Reid.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A bipartisan call for Congressional action on gay rights
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Carlo Munoz / The Hill:
House Armed Services vote bans gay marriage on military bases
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Obama and Romney Alike Face Political Risks on Gay Marriage
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Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
Barack Obama's seven states of grief over gay marriage
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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:
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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 …
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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 …
John H. Cushman Jr / The Caucus:
Biden Got Out ‘Over His Skis,’ Says Obama
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Michael Barone / National Review:
Reelection Is Not Inevitable
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John Dickerson / Slate:
The Audacity of Evolution — Obama could blame Biden for forcing …
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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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James Hansen / New York Times:
Game Over for the Climate — GLOBAL warming isn't a prediction. It is happening. That is why I was so troubled to read a recent interview with President Obama in Rolling Stone in which he said that Canada would exploit the oil in its vast tar sands reserves “regardless of what we do.”
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New York Times:
Ultra-Orthodox Shun Their Own for Reporting Child Sexual Abuse — The first shock came when Mordechai Jungreis learned that his mentally disabled teenage son was being molested in a Jewish ritual bathhouse in Brooklyn. The second came after Mr. Jungreis complained, and the man accused of the abuse was arrested.
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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 …
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / Livewire:
Romney Gets Testy After Questions On Gay Marriage, DREAM and Pot — Mitt Romney would like to talk about the economy. He would apparently prefer not to talk about marriage equality, education for the children of illegal immigrants or medical marijuana. In an interivew with a CBS affiliate …
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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.
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TMZ.com:
George Clooney's House Under Mega-Lockdown for President Obama Event — George Clooney's L.A. home is getting the Fort Knox treatment for his big Obama fundraiser tonight — because TMZ has learned, security's so tight ... even the back-up has back-up. — Law enforcement sources tell TMZ …
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Tina Daunt / Hollywood Reporter:
Clooney's Obama Fundraiser Haul Could Hit Nearly $15 Million
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