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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The WaPo On The Zimmerman Evidence - Are They Kidding? — The WaPo pretends to examine the newly released Zimmerman evidence. They get off to a promising start on the gunshot wound but deliver some dreadfullly incomplete information on other topics. — They lead well with the wound:
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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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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:
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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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 …
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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
OBAMA'S LIT AGENCY USED ‘BORN IN KENYA’ BIO UNTIL 2007
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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.
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Daniel Malloy / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Gingrich returns to the trail — backing Romney — WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich makes his first major appearance since leaving the presidential race this weekend and will try to boost Mitt Romney to a group that preferred Gingrich as the party's nominee: Georgia Republicans.
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Boehner: Keeping any parts of Obama health law ‘unacceptable’
Boehner: Keeping any parts of Obama health law ‘unacceptable’
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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 …
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Patrick Hechinger / nbcchicago.com:
Condi Puts Romney Veep Rumors to Rest — “Not going to happen,” she told the audience. “I love policy, I don't really love politics — Rice told a group of business leaders that she would not accept a VP role. — Condoleezza Rice won't be Mitt Romney's running mate, she said Thursday in Chicago.
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Alexander Bolton / Ballot Box:
Romney begins vetting veep picks
Romney begins vetting veep picks
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Lois Romano / Politico:
Meet the Rubios — WEST MIAMI, Fla. — Marco and Jeanette Rubio, sitting side by side on their brown sofa in their sunny house, could be any young couple musing about life: juggling four kids, a job that separates them, aging parents, their faith and whether or not to move. — Only they're not just any couple.
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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 …
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CNN:
TRENDING: Romney campaign touts day one initiatives in first general election ad — Washington (CNN) - Mitt Romney, the likely GOP presidential nominee, is using his first general election ad to highlight the policy priorities he would enact on his first day in office, asking voters, “What would a Romney Presidency be like?”
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Frankie Steele / Jerusalem Post:
Campaign calls for Americans in Israel to vote — Poll released exclusively to ‘The Jerusalem Post’ finds twice as many eligible voters in Israel prefer Romney to Obama. — Uncle Sam wants you to vote in the November 6 American election. Or at least a group of well-funded American immigrants to Israel do.
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New York Times:
‘Princelings’ in China Use Family Ties to Gain Riches — SHANGHAI — The Hollywood studio DreamWorks Animation recently announced a bold move to crack China's tightly protected film industry: a $330 million deal to create a Shanghai animation studio that might one day rival the California shops …
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Ron Sachs Communications:
New Sachs/Mason-Dixon Poll: Social Media Could Pave Path to Victory in 2012 Presidential Race — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -The most significant poll to date on the impact of social media in the 2012 presidential race reveals that almost 70 percent of likely voters believe the race will be heavily shaped by social media platforms.
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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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