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11:30 AM ET, May 20, 2012

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Associated Press:
Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi dies in Libya, family says  —  TRIPOLI, LIBYA - Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison …
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Reuters:
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi has died in Libya: brother  —  TRIPOLI (Reuters) - The former Libyan intelligence officer convicted of the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am flight over Lockerbie, Scotland that killed 270 people has died, his brother said on Sunday.  —  Abdel Basset al-Megrahi …
Discussion: Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
BBC:
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi ‘dead’  —  Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the only person convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing above Scotland, which killed 270 people, has died at home in Libya, his brother has told news agencies.  —  Megrahi, 59, was convicted by a special court in the Netherlands in 2001.
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:   Report: Convicted Lockerbie bomber dies
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Convicted in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing, Dies at 60
Discussion: Gothamist and americanthinker.com
JSOnline:
We recommend Walker; his removal isn't justified  —  Scott Walker's policies are controversial, but arguments over policies - no matter how sharp - aren't reason enough to end a governor's term.  —  No governor in recent memory has been so controversial.  No governor in America is so polarizing.
Donovan Slack / Politico:
NAACP backs gay marriage  —  CAMP DAVID - The board of the NAACP, one of the nation's oldest and largest African American advocacy organizations, has passed a resolution supporting gay marriage in the wake of President Obama's public endorsement of same-sex unions.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
NAACP endorses gay marriage as ‘civil right’
Discussion: Politico
Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:   NAACP offers Obama political cover on gay marriage
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
In Largely Symbolic Move, N.A.A.C.P. Votes to Endorse Same-Sex Marriage
Discussion: Mediaite
NAACP:
NAACP PASSES RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF MARRIAGE EQUALITY
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Axelrod: Romney Bain record, not Mormon faith, is ‘fair game’  —  David Axelrod, senior strategist for President Obama's re-election campaign, said Sunday that the campaign “absolutely” repudiates any suggestion that Mitt Romney's Mormon faith would be a campaign issue.
Discussion: CNN
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Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
The Long Run: How the Mormon Church Shaped Mitt Romney
Discussion: Althouse and Balloon Juice
Campbell Brown / New York Times:
Obama: Stop Condescending to Women  —  WHEN I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.  In numerous appearances over the years — most recently at the Barnard graduation — he has made reference to how women are smarter than men.
Alan Dershowitz / NY Daily News:
Drop George Zimmerman's murder charge  —  New evidence suggests Trayvon Martin's killer acted in self-defense  —  A medical report by George Zimmerman's doctor has disclosed that Zimmerman had a fractured nose, two black eyes, two lacerations on the back of his head and a back injury on the day after the fatal shooting.
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Pelosi: Boehner going ‘over the edge’  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Sunday challenged Speaker John Boehner to move forward with cutting middle class tax rates and blasted him for calling for matching cuts before agreeing to raise the debt-ceiling limit.
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Politico and The Hill
ABCNEWS:
Rubio Comes Out Swinging at Obama at S.C. GOP Dinner  —  COLUMBIA, S.C. — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., doled out attacks on President Obama tonight in a high-profile speech before South Carolina Republicans, laying out aggressive criticisms of the president as he called him the most “divisive figure” in American politics.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Radley Balko / The Huffington Post:
Under Asset Forfeiture Law, Wisconsin Cops Confiscate Families' Bail Money … FOLLOW:  —  Drug Violence, Civil Asset Forfeiture, Asset Forfeiture, Bail, Bond, Brown County Wisconsin, Criminal Justice, Drug Prohibition, Green Bay, Politics News  —  When the Brown County, Wis. …
Discussion: The Agitator
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Charting Obama's Journey to a Shift on Afghanistan  —  It was just one brief exchange about Afghanistan with an aide late in 2009, but it suggests how President Obama's thinking about what he once called “a war of necessity” began to radically change less than a year after he took up residency in the White House.
Discussion: Politico and JustOneMinute
Frank Main / Chicago Sun Times:
‘NATO 3’ had targeted Obama campaign HQ, Rahm's house, police stations, prosecutors say  —  Attorneys for three men charged in Chicago with possession of an explosive device and conspiracy to commit terrorism say they were pulled over by police in Bridgeport last week.  Here is a video circulated by Occupy Chicago.
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Three charged in plot to firebomb Obama campaign headquarters
 
 
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