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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 …
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, Politico, The Caucus and New York Times
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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nation.foxnews.com, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and New York Magazine
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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Washington Monthly, GOP 12, Mother Jones and The Maddow Blog
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney stands by invocation of Rev. Wright
Mitt Romney stands by invocation of Rev. Wright
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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, American Prospect and The Daily Caller
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, Guardian, Business Insider, The Stranger … and Mother Jones
Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Billionaire Rejects Proposal to Revive Jeremiah Wright Controversy
Billionaire Rejects Proposal to Revive Jeremiah Wright Controversy
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Politico, ABCNEWS, The New Republic, Washington Post, Towleroad News #gay, Mediaite and The Impolitic
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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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:
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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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
TEDChris:
TED and inequality: The real story — Today TED was subject to a story so misleading it would be funny... except it successfully launched an aggressive online campaign against us. — The National Journal alleged we had censored a talk because we considered the issue of inequality “too hot to handle.”
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Taylor Marsh, Gawker, The Stranger … and Business Insider
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Jim Tankersley / NationalJournal.com:
Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality
Too Hot for TED: Income Inequality
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The Huffington Post, Restoration Roundtable, Ezra Klein, Wonkette, Mother Jones, Truthdig, The Raw Story and The Stranger …
Ryan Cooper / The Orbital:
TED and Economic Inequality
TED and Economic Inequality
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Firedoglake, Restoration Roundtable, Business Insider and Hullabaloo
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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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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Crooks and Liars, Mashable! and ABCNEWS
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
WASHINGTON — After years of speculation, estimates and projections, the Census Bureau has made it official: White births are no longer a majority in the United States. — Non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 percent of all births in the 12-month period that ended last July …
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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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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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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, Business Insider, Firedoglake, Campaign 2012 and GOP 12
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, Advocate, Politico and ThinkProgress
United States Department of Labor:
Skip to page content — Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis — EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION — Program Contact: — TRANSMISSION OF MATERIAL IN THIS RELEASE IS EMBARGOED UNTIL — (202) 693-4676 — UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT — SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA
Kevin Roderick / LA Observed:
Brad Sherman mailers come with (or without) mom * — Some Valley voters are getting campaign mail that shows Rep. Brad Sherman with his wife, Lisa Kaplan Sherman, and their three young children. The lucky ones also get his mother, Lane Sherman, apparently photo-shopped in to the same park scene.
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Politico, BuzzFeed and Ballot Box
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
americanselect.org:
A Statement from Americans Elect — There is a desire among Delegates and millions of Americans who have supported Americans Elect to see a credible candidate emerge from this process. — However, the rules, as developed in consultation with the Americans Elect Delegates, are clear.
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Los Angeles Times
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Boehner: Keeping any parts of Obama health law ‘unacceptable’ — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) reiterated Thursday that he wants to repeal all of President Obama's healthcare law if the Supreme Court doesn't toss out the entire statute. — “We voted to fully repeal the president's healthcare law …
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protein wisdom, Associated Press and Ezra Klein
John H. Cushman Jr / New York Times:
Senate Confirms 2 Fed Board Nominees — WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday confirmed two nominees chosen by President Obama for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, overcoming Republican objections and bringing the seven-member board to full strength for the first time since 2006, before the economic crisis.
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