memeorandum: Axelrod: Fund-raising pitch cited Wright threat to combat super PACs (CNN)

11:40 AM ET, May 20, 2012

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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 …

Discussion: Algemeiner.com, Weasel Zippers and Fox News Insider

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.

Discussion: Daily Express, The Moderate Voice, CNN, Scared Monkeys, Israel Matzav and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Convicted in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing, Dies at 60

Discussion: Gothamist and americanthinker.com

Meghashyam Mali / The Hill: Report: Convicted Lockerbie bomber dies

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.

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The PJ Tatler, Althouse, Politico, americanthinker.com, Power Line and Weekly Standard

CNN:

Axelrod: Fund-raising pitch cited Wright threat to combat super PACs — (CNN) - David Axelrod on Sunday defended a fund-raising push on behalf of President Barack Obama's re-election that played off the threat of a proposed Republican-backed ad plan that would have linked the president …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Las Vegas Sun and New York Times

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.

Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
The Long Run: How the Mormon Church Shaped Mitt Romney

Discussion: Althouse and Balloon Juice

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.

Discussion: Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit, CNN and Truth Wins Out

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

Discussion: ABCNEWS, The Reaction, Taylor Marsh and GLAAD

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.

Discussion: Mediaite, NewsBusters.org, Taylor Marsh, American Power, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Politico and Weekly Standard

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.

Discussion: NewsBusters.org, Jammie Wearing Fools and Conservatives4Palin

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

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.