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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 …
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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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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.
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Mitt Romney On His Reverend Wright Attack: ‘I Stand By What I Said, Whatever It Was’
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP struggles to banish ghost of Jeremiah Wright
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney stands by invocation of Rev. Wright
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Statement: Ricketts rejects ‘Ricketts plan’
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New York Times:
‘Super PAC’ Plan to Link Obama to Rev. Wright
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney invoked Wright with Hannity in the primary
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Jim Rutenberg / The Caucus:
Billionaire Rejects Proposal to Revive Jeremiah Wright Controversy
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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:
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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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 …
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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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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Philip Klein / Campaign 2012:
Ryan: GOP won't offer Obamacare substitute in 2012 — House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., on Thursday said Congressional Republicans would not unite around specific legislation to replace President Obama's national health care law this year, but would instead present an alternative market-based “vision.”
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Boehner: Keeping any parts of Obama health law ‘unacceptable’
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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 …
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.
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United States Department of Labor:
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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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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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