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Nick R. Martin / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMMuckraker — Arizona Goes Birther: Secretary Of State Says It's ‘Possible’ Obama Won't Be On Ballot — The man in charge of running Arizona's elections has gone to the birthers. Secretary of State Ken Bennett now says he's not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States …
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Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
AZ Sect. Of State Threatens To Remove Obama From Ballot Without Birth Certificate Verification From Hawaii — Yesterday, there was a bit of hoopla over a 1991 bio of President Barack Obama, in which a literary agent incorrectly wrote he was born in Kenya — fuel to the birther fire, without a doubt.
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Mike Broomhead / www.kfyi.com:
Obama's Name On Ballot In Arizona In Jeopardy?
Obama's Name On Ballot In Arizona In Jeopardy?
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White House Dossier
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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Wall Street Journal:
Defiant Message From Greece
Defiant Message From Greece
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Campaign 2012, The Heritage Foundation and Calculated Risk
Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
A Greek Exit? Euro Zone May Be Ready
A Greek Exit? Euro Zone May Be Ready
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The Huffington Post, Washington Post and Business Insider
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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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
Rahm Emanuel ‘livid,’ not returning calls from Ricketts family
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Wonkette, Booman Tribune, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Connecting.the.Dots, Chicago Sun Times and The Hill
Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:
LATEST GOP AD PLAYER: A Lover of Bison, a Hater of Earmarks
LATEST GOP AD PLAYER: A Lover of Bison, a Hater of Earmarks
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Politico, Saint Petersblog and The Atlantic Online
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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Holly Bailey / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney's first general election ad makes ‘day one’ promises
Mitt Romney's first general election ad makes ‘day one’ promises
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Daniel Malloy / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Gingrich returns to the trail — backing Romney
Gingrich returns to the trail — backing Romney
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ThinkProgress, Daily Kos and msnbc.com
The Reliable Source / Washington Post:
Al Gore has a girlfriend: California donor and activist Elizabeth Keadle — Al Gore has been seriously dating Elizabeth Keadle, right, of California. (Joe Kohen/Getty; Jon Clark/Rancho Santa Fe Review) — It's never easy to re-enter the dating pool after years away …
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Business Insider, Weasel Zippers, New York Magazine and The Daily Caller
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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Firedoglake, Politico, Deal Journal, New York Magazine and ThinkProgress
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.
Alexander Bolton / Ballot Box:
Romney begins vetting veep picks — Mitt Romney's campaign has begun vetting running mates, a process that will narrow his list of possible veep picks. — The team for Beth Myers, the Romney adviser leading the search for the GOP's vice presidential nominee, has already contacted potential running mates …
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ABCNEWS, GOP 12, msnbc.com and Campaign 2012
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Lawmakers back indefinite detention for terror suspects in US — In two votes Friday morning, the House backed the president's powers to indefinitely detain terror suspects captured on U.S. soil. — Lawmakers rejected an amendment that would have barred military detention for terror suspects captured …
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Politico, ThinkProgress and Outside the Beltway
NME:
U2's Bono to become the world's richest musician tomorrow (May 18) — Singer will leapfrog Paul McCartney when Facebook hits the stock exchange — U2 frontman Bono will become the richest musician in the world tomorrow (May 18), overtaking Paul McCartney.
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New York Post, msnbc.com, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Obama's North Carolina math problem — Raleigh, North Carolina (CNN) — The state Democratic Party here is consumed with an ongoing sexual harassment scandal. The embattled governor is so unpopular she decided not to run for a second term. And supporters of same-sex marriage were dealt a crushing defeat at the ballot box last week.
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BuzzFeed, GOP 12 and Campaign 2012
Gonzalo Cordova / Indecision Forever:
Conservative Hashtag Games Are Ruining Twitter — Today Former White House Press Secretary Bill Burton attempted to start a hashtag game called #RomneyYachtNames. It's so unfunny and forced, it's exactly the kind of thing that would trend on Twitter. And it did, but not the way Bill Burton intended.
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Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller and The Lonely Conservative
Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Breaking News: Divided D.C. Circuit Panel Upholds Constitutionality of Voting Rights Act, Teeing Up Issue for Supreme Court — The Shelby County opinion is here. Judge Williams dissented. The court also issued a unanimous opinion in the related LaRoque case, finding the issue mooted …
The Age:
Wong's affirmation of gay families ‘a watershed’ — The exchange between Penny Wong and Joe Hockey on Q&A this week about gay parents is only about two and half minutes long. — Prompted by an audience question about why the shadow treasurer thinks he and his wife make better parents …
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Somini Sengupta / New York Times:
At Facebook, Peer Pressure to Spend Those Millions Quietly — MENLO PARK, Calif. — Wealth is here if you know where to find it. — Fabulous home theaters are tucked into the basements of plain suburban houses. Bespoke jeans that start at $1,200 can be detected only by a tiny red logo on the button.
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Sorry, Charlie — Bill Clinton is abandoning his old ally Charles Rangel, who is fighting for his political life as he seeks re-election to a 22nd term, The Post has learned. — Harlem Rep. Rangel won't be getting an endorsement from the former president, who will sit out the primary, a Clinton source said.
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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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Washington Free Beacon and Via Meadia
Meghan Neal / NY Daily News:
Second-grader Sean King gets in trouble for dressing in blackface as tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. — Student's costume for school history project causes controversy — Second-grader Sean King painted his face black to dress up as Martin Luther King, Jr. for a class project.
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