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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
The long shadow of Barack Obama's identity crisis — The Washington Post has obsessed over an incident in which Mitt Romney allegedly cut the hair of a fellow high school student. The mainstream media paid plenty of attention to George W. Bush's “irresponsible youth,” and speculated about whether he had used cocaine.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
“Mitt and Ann Romney's marriage is strong because they believe they will live together in an eternal afterlife...”
“Mitt and Ann Romney's marriage is strong because they believe they will live together in an eternal afterlife...”
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Booman Tribune and The Gateway Pundit
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Rev. Wright urged to stay silent until after 2012
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The Spectacle Blog, Hot Air, Ed Driscoll, Power Line, Politico and CNN
Jodi Kantor / New York Times:
The Long Run: How the Mormon Church Shaped Mitt Romney
The Long Run: How the Mormon Church Shaped Mitt Romney
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The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice and Hullabaloo
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Obama super PAC slump continues — The pro-Barack Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is still struggling to keep up with GOP super PACs preparing to unleash millions of dollars in independent advertisements. — Priorities USA Action raised $1.6 million in April, according to federal records released late Sunday.
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RNC Chairman Says Republican Proposal For $10 Million Of Race-Baiting Anti-Obama Attack Ads Is Obama's Fault — In an interview on CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley this morning, host Crowley asked RNC Chairman Reince Priebus about a widely-denounced proposal for a pro-Mitt Romney outside group …
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Livewire, The Raw Story and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Campaign Spending Reports Released for April — Millions of dollars in outside money began pouring into Congressional contests around the country in April, while spending by presidential “super PACs” dropped off, according to records filed with the Federal Election Commission on Sunday and other data.
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‘Super PACs’ Changing How Political Operatives Operate — The intensifying flood of uncapped donations to outside political groups is transforming not just campaigns but the entire business of politics. — Once seasonal affairs, campaigns from the presidential race down to House contests …
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The Caucus and NewsBusters.org
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Chicago Police Attack Press, Use Bikes As Weapons — Tracey Pollock, a credentialed photographer for The UpTake, is attacked by police in Chicago during an anti-NATO protest on Saturday. Before the attack, police were using their bicycles as weapons to force back the crowd which was staging a march without a permit.
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Suburban Guerrilla, The Raw Story and The Agonist
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Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
Occupy Journalists Stopped, Searched, Handcuffed & Interrogated at Gunpoint
Occupy Journalists Stopped, Searched, Handcuffed & Interrogated at Gunpoint
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Los Angeles Times, The Raw Story, Philly.com, Suburban Guerrilla and The Agonist
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Boehner: ‘Not going to apologize for leading’ on debt-ceiling debate — House Speaker John Boehner said Sunday morning he's “not going to apologize for leading” by challenging President Obama to a potential debt ceiling stand-off this summer. — “The real issue here is will the president lead?”
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New York Times and The Hill
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Barack Obama's biographical brief edited repeatedly over 17 years, but Kenyan birthplace changed just weeks after his presidential run announced — The biography provided by Barack Obama to his literary agent specified his birthplace as “Kenya”. And, over the course of 17 years …
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Runnin' Scared, The Other McCain, The PJ Tatler and americanthinker.com
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“Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?” — That's the headline on yesterday's Associated Press story by Charles Babington. The headline appeared on the main Yahoo page, which is far more heavily trafficked than any newspaper, and was picked up, based on a Google News search, by several hundred newspapers.
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Lockerbie bomber dies in Libya hospital — Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence official who was sentenced to life in prison in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, has died, the Libyan government said on Sunday. He was 60. — The bombing of the Dec. 21 …
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US Politics, Guardian and ABCNEWS
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Suspects wielding hammers and batons attack diners at Tinley Park restaurant — Police investigate the scene at The Ashford House Restaurant, 7959 W. 159th Street, in Tinley Park, where a group of people entered and started assaulting patrons Saturday. Brett Roseman~Sun-Times Media
Hal Weitzman / Financial Times:
Factories begin to shift back to US — Two-thirds of big US manufacturers have moved factories in the past two years, with the most popular destination being the US, according to a survey being released on Monday by Accenture, the consultants. — The report provides some of the first …
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CARPE DIEM
Igor Bobic / Livewire:
Cory Booker ‘Very Uncomfortable’ With Attacks On Bain — Appearing on NBC's “Meet The Press” on Sunday, Newark, New Jersey Mayor and Obama surrogate Cory Booker said he was “uncomfortable” with the Obama campaign's attacks on Mitt Romney's record with Bain Capital.
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Democrats' Wisconsin Worry — Some Fear Walker's Surviving Recall Would Boost GOP's Chances in November — With little more than two weeks until Wisconsin's gubernatorial recall election, some Democratic and union officials quietly are expressing fears that they have picked a fight …
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Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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The end of fish, in one chart — Want to see how severely we humans are scouring the oceans for fish? Check out this striking map from the World Wildlife Fund's 2012 “Living Planet Report.” The red areas are the most intensively fished (and, in many cases, overfished) parts of the ocean …