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New York Times:
G.O.P. ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama — WASHINGTON — A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative campaigns of the “super PAC” era and attack President Obama in ways that Republicans have so far shied away from.
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Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
EXCLUSIVE: Romney ‘Repudiates’ Conservative Group's Planned Rev. Wright Attacks — In an exclusive interview with Townhall, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney rebuked a conservative group that is reportedly planning to assail President Obama over his 20-year relationship …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Mitt Romney On His Reverend Wright Attack: ‘I Stand By What I Said, Whatever It Was’ — Mitt Romney's campaign is apparently worried about being associated with a Republican proposal, first reported by the New York Times today, to run $10 million worth of racially-tinged ads attacking President Obama …
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ABCNEWS, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, BuzzFeed, Politico and The Huffington Post
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Statement: Ricketts rejects ‘Ricketts plan’ — Brian Baker, president of the Ending Spending Action Fund, has released the following statement on behalf of Joe Ricketts, the conservative billionaire behind the proposal to attack President Obama's connections to Rev. Jeremiah Wright,:
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP struggles to banish ghost of Jeremiah Wright — In a statement, Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades repudiates the plan being hatched by GOP operatives for an ad campaign tying Obama to Reverend Wright: … And that's good. The problem, though, is that it turns out that Romney himself attacked Obama …
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GOP 12, Mother Jones, The Maddow Blog and Campaign 2012
Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Billionaire Rejects Proposal to Revive Jeremiah Wright Controversy
Billionaire Rejects Proposal to Revive Jeremiah Wright Controversy
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ABCNEWS, New York Times, The Impolitic, Mediaite, Washington Post, Towleroad News #gay, The Daily Caller, Washington Wire and Business Insider
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney invoked Wright with Hannity in the primary
Romney invoked Wright with Hannity in the primary
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ABCNEWS, msnbc.com, Business Insider and American Prospect
New York Times:
‘Super PAC’ Plan to Link Obama to Rev. Wright
‘Super PAC’ Plan to Link Obama to Rev. Wright
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msnbc.com, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Mother Jones, Business Insider, The Stranger … and Guardian
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Ricketts flack says Wright attack plan has been rejected
Ricketts flack says Wright attack plan has been rejected
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ABCNEWS and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
THE VETTING - EXCLUSIVE - OBAMA'S LITERARY AGENT IN 1991 BOOKLET: ‘BORN IN KENYA AND RAISED IN INDONESIA AND HAWAII’ — Note from Senior Management: — Andrew Breitbart was never a “Birther,” and Breitbart News is a site that has never advocated the narrative of “Birtherism.”
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Little Green Footballs, Hot Air, Towleroad News #gay, Mediaite, NO QUARTER, americanthinker.com, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Ed Driscoll, The Daily Caller, The Lonely Conservative, Business Insider, The Jawa Report, iOwnTheWorld.com, New York Magazine, The Gateway Pundit, Atlas Shrugs, The PJ Tatler and Clayton Cramer's Blog
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Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Literary Agent Says 1991 Booklet was a Mistake — Breitbart News reports on a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama's then-literary agency which describes the author as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.” — Miriam Goderich issued the following statement to Political Wire:
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Little Green Footballs, americanthinker.com, The Daily Caller, Campaign 2012 and Business Insider
ABCNEWS:
Senators to Unveil the ‘Ex-Patriot Act’ to Respond to Facebook's Saverin's Tax ‘Scheme’ — Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again.
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Quentin Hardy / New York Times:
A Facebook Co-Founder Reflects on the Path Forward
A Facebook Co-Founder Reflects on the Path Forward
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Washington Wire, Guardian, Politico, Mashable!, DealBook, Newsy, TechCrunch, Wonkette, The Caucus and New York Magazine
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Dems take aim at Facebook founder for renouncing citizenship
Dems take aim at Facebook founder for renouncing citizenship
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ABCNEWS
Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — Facebook's Eduardo Saverin Likely Barred From Re-Entering U.S.
TPMDC — Facebook's Eduardo Saverin Likely Barred From Re-Entering U.S.
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Mashable!
Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Ben Stein: Obama's not very smart — Is President Obama smart? Ben Stein wouldn't put his money on it. — During an appearance on Fox News, the economist and actor said he doesn't consider the president to be very intelligent. — “Barack Obama is a smart man, you would say that, right?” host Bill O'Reilly asked.
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Lippmann's Ghost and Washington Monthly
TMZ.com:
Donna Summer Dead — Disco Legend Dies After Battle with Lung Cancer — DEAD AT 63 — EXCLUSIVE — 9:27 AM PST- TMZ has learned ... Donna died from lung cancer. Several sources are telling us Donna believed she contracted it by inhaling toxic particles after the 9/11 attack in New York City.
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Kiki Von Glinow / The Huffington Post:
Donna Summer Dead: Queen Of Disco Dies At 63
U.S. Census Bureau News:
Most Children Younger Than Age 1 are Minorities, Census Bureau Reports — The U.S. Census Bureau today released a set of estimates showing that 50.4 percent of our nation's population younger than age 1 were minorities as of July 1, 2011. This is up from 49.5 percent from the 2010 Census taken April 1, 2010.
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The Huffington Post, Guardian, The Informer, Los Angeles Times and Colorlines
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Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections …
WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections …
Kyle Clark / KUSA-TV:
Rep. Mike Coffman: Obama in his heart ‘not an American’ — “I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that,” Coffman said. “But I do know this, that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American.”
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Crooks and Liars, The Huffington Post, ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, Addicting Info, Livewire, Mediaite, The Maddow Blog and The Raw Story
Ryan Cooper / The Orbital:
TED and Economic Inequality — The above TED talk, by Richard Wilkinson, is from October 2011, and it's all about economic inequality. There's quite a lot of buzz today about another talk on economic inequality which was recorded, then quashed by TED officials.
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Firedoglake, Restoration Roundtable, Business Insider and Hullabaloo
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Jim Tankersley / NationalJournal.com:
Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality
Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality
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TEDChris, Business Insider, The Stranger …, Mother Jones, The Raw Story and Wonkette
Jim Tankersley / Restoration Roundtable:
The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You
The Inequality Speech That TED Won't Show You
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Truthdig, Ezra Klein, Gawker, The Stranger … and Business Insider
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Registers Personal Best 50% Favorable Rating — Up from 39% in February, but one of lowest for a presumptive nominee — PRINCETON, NJ — Fifty percent of Americans now have a favorable opinion of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, up from 39% in February and his highest by 10 percentage points.
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Power Line, Firedoglake, GOP 12, Business Insider, Campaign 2012 and Indecision Forever
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Movement among black North Carolinians on gay marriage —There's been a noticeable shift in the attitudes of African Americans in North Carolina toward rights for gay couples in the wake of President Obama's announcement last week that he supports gay marriage.
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Firedoglake, Politico, ThinkProgress, Advocate and BuzzFeed
New York Post:
RFK Jr.'s wife hangs herself — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife Mary arrive at Sen. Ted Kennedy's funeral in 2009. — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s estranged wife, Mary, who battled her husband's rumored philandering by turning to alcohol and prescription drugs, hanged herself in a barn …
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americanthinker.com and Politico
Fox News:
Autopsy of Trayvon Martin reportedly shows fatal bullet fired from ‘intermediate range’ — Trayvon Martin, pictured on left, was shot and killed by George Zimmerman on Feb. 26 outside a gated community in Sanford, Fla. Zimmerman, 28, has pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge …
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Weasel Zippers
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Biden Calls Himself ‘Middle Class Joe,’ Owns Mansion — Joe Biden, speaking in Ohio today, said that he is “tired of being called a ‘Middle Class Joe.’” — While it's not clear who actually calls the vice president that, it is clear that his house and finances tell a different story.
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Weasel Zippers
Gustin L. Reichbach / New York Times:
A Judge's Plea for Pot — THREE and a half years ago, on my 62nd birthday, doctors discovered a mass on my pancreas. It turned out to be Stage 3 pancreatic cancer. I was told I would be dead in four to six months. Today I am in that rare coterie of people who have survived this long with the disease.
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Guardian, Firedoglake, Runnin' Scared, New York Magazine and The Raw Story
Carol Marin / Chicago Sun Times:
Obama-Clinton? That's the ticket — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the keynote address to the New York Women's Foundation breakfast Thursday in New York. Marion Curtis~Starpix via AP — All eyes will be on Barack Obama as he comes home to Chicago this weekend for the NATO Summit.
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Washington Examiner and The Moderate Voice