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8:50 AM ET, May 18, 2012

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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:
Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA'S LIT AGENCY USED ‘BORN IN KENYA’ BIO UNTIL 2007
Discussion: Erick's blog and The PJ Tatler
Orlando Sentinel:
Encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin ‘avoidable,’ cops said in report  —  JACKSONVILLE - Newly released evidence in the case against George Zimmerman shows that Sanford Police believed the encounter between Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin was “ultimately avoidable,” if Zimmerman had …
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CNN:
Autopsy: Drug THC found in Trayvon Martin's system  —  (CNN) — Trayvon Martin had drugs in his system when he was fatally shot earlier this year by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, according to autopsy results released Thursday.  —  Martin's blood contained THC, which is the psychoactive ingredient …
Discussion: Right Wing News
Associated Press:
THC found in Martin's blood  —  ORLANDO, Fla. — Medical examiners found evidence of marijuana in Trayvon Martin's system after he was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer, an autopsy report released Thursday shows.  —  The report was included in a large amount of evidence released …
USA Today:
Police report: Trayvon Martin's shooting was “avoidable”
Discussion: CANNONFIRE and New York Magazine
Matt Gutman / ABCNEWS:
Trayvon Martin Had Drugs in System, Autopsy Found
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
New York Times:
Joe Ricketts Rejects Plan to Finance Anti-Obama Ads  —  Joe Ricketts, an up-by-the-bootstraps billionaire whose varied holdings include a name-brand brokerage firm in Omaha, a baseball team in Chicago, herds of bison in Wyoming and a start-up news Web site in New York, wanted to be a player in the 2012 election.
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Rahm Emanuel ‘livid,’ not returning calls from Ricketts family  —  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is not returning calls from the Ricketts family and is “livid” over a New York Times report that Joe Ricketts commissioned a proposal for a multimillion-dollar ad campaign linking President Obama …
Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:
LATEST GOP AD PLAYER: A Lover of Bison, a Hater of Earmarks  —  Add Joe Ricketts to the list of rich conservatives Democrats might have to track closely during the general election.  —  Ricketts is a lot of things: founder of TD Ameritrade, crusader against earmarks, bison meat tycoon …
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Florida Tries to Clear Illegal Voters From Rolls  —  MIAMI — In an attempt to clear the voter rolls of noncitizens, a move that had set off criticism and a threatened lawsuit, Florida election officials decided on Thursday to use information from a federal database to check a list of 182,000 voters …
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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney stands by invocation of Rev. Wright
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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Democracy Now:   “End This Depression Now”: Paul Krugman Urges Public Spending, Not Deficit Hysteria, to Save Economy
Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Ryan: GOP won't offer Obamacare substitute in 2012
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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Rolling Stone:
Donna Summer Dead at 63
Discussion: Lippmann's Ghost and Boing Boing
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Apocalypse Fairly Soon  —  Suddenly, it has become easy to see how the euro — that grand, flawed experiment in monetary union without political union — could come apart at the seams.  We're not talking about a distant prospect, either.  Things could fall apart with stunning speed, in a matter of months, not years.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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.”
Monica Langley / Wall Street Journal:
Inside J.P. Morgan's Blunder  —  CEO Dimon Blessed the Concept Behind Disastrous Trades; ‘Blood in the Water’  —  J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer James Dimon had just committed the most expensive blunder of his 30-year career, failing to detect the risk of trades …
Discussion: New York Magazine
DealBook:
Facebook Raises $16 Billion in I.P.O.  —  Facebook pulled it off.  —  As investors raced to get shares, the sprawling social network raised $16 billion on Thursday, in an initial public offering that valued Facebook at $104 billion.  —  The I.P.O. signals a rapid evolution for the company.
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.
Josh Lederman / The Hill:
DCCC brings in record $6.5 million in April  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) raised $6.5 million in April and has $25 million in the bank as it works to retake the majority in the House, according to fundraising figures obtained by The Hill.
Discussion: CNN
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Is Obama going to lose the Arkansas Democratic primary?  —  Via Jorge Bonilla in the Greenroom, who sounds the call for “Operation Razorback Chaos.”  Two words, my friends: Open primary.  —  It's magic time. … Wolfe opposes gay marriage so he's primed to benefit by drawing a contrast with O's recent “evolution.”
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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The Reliable Source / Washington Post:
Justice Breyer's Georgetown home hit by burglar
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Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Mitt Romney, Servant of the Right
Russ Choma / OpenSecrets.org:
Many Lawmakers Personally Invested in JPMorgan Chase
Discussion: Politico and Campaign 2012
Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
Pelosi: No to Provision Protecting Chaplains From Being Ordered to Act Against Faith: 'It's A Fraud'
Discussion: Right Wing News and Weasel Zippers
Washington Examiner:
For Dems, Bush is to blame — forever and ever
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CNN:
Romney to start airing first general election campaign ad Friday
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Wall Street Journal:
Bo's Ties to Army Alarmed Beijing
United States Department of Labor:
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Movement among black North Carolinians on gay marriage
 

 
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