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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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Valley Fever and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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
Matt Negrin / ABCNEWS:
Bush and Romney Talk After Elevator Endorsement — George W. Bush and Mitt Romney have connected. — Romney called Bush after the former president offered his fleeting support for the Republican candidate in an elevator this week, a person on Romney's campaign tells ABC News.
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CNN:
TRENDING: Romney campaign touts day one initiatives in first general election ad
TRENDING: Romney campaign touts day one initiatives in first general election ad
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msnbc.com, The Hill, ABCNEWS, Mashable!, Shakesville and Towleroad News #gay
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
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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CNN and Yahoo! News
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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Washington Post, Wake up America, The Smoking Gun, The PJ Tatler and msnbc.com
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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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Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Calculated Risk and Prairie Weather
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Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
DID ELIZABETH WARREN PLAGIARIZE HER ‘POW WOW CHOW’ RECIPES? — The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three …
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The PJ Tatler
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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ABCNEWS, Business Insider, Weasel Zippers, New York Magazine and The Daily Caller
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Biden on W. Va. felon vote: 'I don't blame people, they're frustrated, they're angry' — Here's a clip from Vice President Joe Biden's interview with WTOV-TV in West Virginia yesterday, the latest stop he's made this week, where he was asked about what he made of out-of-state incarcerated …
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Michelle Malkin, Mediaite, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Campaign 2012
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Sebelius stays away from contraception fight at Georgetown — Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius didn't mention the controversy over the administration's contraception mandate during a Friday commencement speech at Georgetown University.
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ThinkProgress
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Fury over birth-control mandate trails HHS Sec. Sebelius to Georgetown
Fury over birth-control mandate trails HHS Sec. Sebelius to Georgetown
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NewsBusters.org and ThinkProgress
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 …
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.
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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FT Alphaville, Firedoglake, Politico, Deal Journal, New York Magazine and ThinkProgress
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
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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Politicker and Mediaite
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, nbcchicago.com, GOP 12, msnbc.com, Washington Post and Campaign 2012
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
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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ThinkProgress, Towleroad News #gay and The Daily Dish
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, Betsy's Page, The Daily Caller and The Lonely Conservative
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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Mother Jones, Politico, ThinkProgress and Outside the Beltway
Chrystia Freeland:
Equal rights and the U.S. economy — Are equal rights good for the economy? Campaigns against discrimination, like the battles for women's rights and civil rights in the 1960s and the fight for gay marriage equality today, are usually framed as struggles for justice.
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ThinkProgress and Economist's View
Stephen Gray / PinkNews.co.uk:
French prime minister promises to implement equal marriage and adoption rights for gays — The new French prime minister has announced a commitment to implement new president François Hollande's pledge to equalise the laws on marriage for gay and straight couples.
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ThinkProgress and Towleroad News #gay
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Age of Innocence — The people who pioneered democracy in Europe and the United States had a low but pretty accurate view of human nature. They knew that if we get the chance, most of us will try to get something for nothing. They knew that people generally prize short-term goodies over long-term prosperity.
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Firedoglake, the daily howler and No More Mister Nice Blog