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Obama struggles in Kentucky, Arkansas — President Barack Obama continued to have trouble on Tuesday performing in Democratic primaries in traditionally conservative states, barely eking out wins in Kentucky and Arkansas. — The president didn't even have an opponent in Kentucky …
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A Gift For Snickering Pundits: A Map — In what has become a regular ritual this spring, the punditocracy is cracking itself up tonight over Barack Obama's embarrassingly poor performance in Democratic primaries in Appalachia and the Upland South. Two weeks ago 41 percent of Democratic primary voters …
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Hot Air, Washington Post, Moe Lane, Saint Petersblog, Mashable!, Weekly Standard, iOwnTheWorld.com and msnbc.com


Actually, the Obama spending binge really did happen — Until Barack Obama took office in 2009, the United States had never spent more than 23.5% of GDP, with the exception of the World War II years of 1942-1946. Here's the Obama spending record: — 25.2% of GDP in 2009 — 24.1% of GDP in 2010
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Politico, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, msnbc.com, Washington Free Beacon, Campaign 2012 and Liberal Values

Mini-Tuesday — I'm a little embarassed by the fact that in twelve or thirteen posts yesterday I didn't get around to mentioning it was a primary day in Kentucky and Arkansas. You will forgive me, I hope, a lack of excitement about the “story” of the president's weakness in these two states …
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New York Times and The Agitator

40% of Dem primary voters opt for ‘Not Obama’
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ABCNEWS, Wake up America, protein wisdom and New York Magazine

White House calls ‘BS’ on GOP criticism of Obama spending
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Weasel Zippers, Ricochet Conversations Feed and blogs.detroitnews.com

Rough Night... Obama Loses 36 Arkansas Counties to Unknown Democrat - Loses 67 Kentucky Counties to “Uncommitted”
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msnbc.com, The Lonely Conservative and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS

Obama challenged in Arkansas primary
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The Atlantic Wire, The Daily Caller, ABCNEWS, The Confluence, Balloon Juice, msnbc.com and Associated Press

4 in 10 Democrats desert Obama in Arkansas, Kentucky primaries
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Washington Post, CNN, Booman Tribune, Balloon Juice, ABCNEWS, Betsy's Page, The Gateway Pundit, GOP.com, Scared Monkeys, The PJ Tatler and Yahoo! News


GOP discovers that Mitt Romney could win — Top Republicans, long privately skeptical about their presidential prospects, are coming around to a surprising new view — that Mitt Romney may well win the White House this November. — Margin-of-error polling, fundraising parity last month …
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Op-Ed Contributor: Creating Jobs Wasn't Romney's Job — PRESIDENT OBAMA started his general election campaign by taking aim at Mitt Romney's job creation record at Bain, setting off a lively debate over the fairness of the attacks. — I am among those who have been drawn into the argument …
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Firedoglake, msnbc.com, CNN, Hit & Run, Yahoo! News, Washington Post, GOP 12, National Review and Daily Kos

Colin Powell Trashes Mitt Romney's Team Of Foreign Policy Advisers
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ThinkProgress

Democrats balk at Obama campaign's sustained attack on Bain Capital
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Politico, CNN, New York Magazine, Hot Air, Corrente, americanthinker.com, Associated Press, GOP.com, Weasel Zippers, ABCNEWS, Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon

“Pro-Choice” Americans at Record-Low 41% — Americans now tilt “pro-life” by nine-point margin, 50% to 41% — PRINCETON, NJ — The 41% of Americans who now identify themselves as “pro-choice” is down from 47% last July and is one percentage point below the previous record low in Gallup trends, recorded in May 2009.
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ABCNEWS, Washington Monthly, Ezra Klein, American Prospect, The Daily Caller, Politico, Daily Kos, The Hayride, Mother Jones, Hot Air, ThinkProgress, Weasel Zippers, LifeNews.com, Mediaite, Shakesville, Wonkette, American Spectator, Clayton Cramer's Blog, Washington Post and National Review

Free speech moment: Standing with Stacy McCain, Patterico, Liberty Chick, and Aaron Walker — I know what it's like to find out that you've been targeted for violence — real violence, as in being targeted for death by an extremist who has picked out his target based on nothing more than writing about politics.
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What Did Barbara Streisand Know... And When Did She Know It? — Share it! — Journalist Forced to Flee Home by Streisand-Funded Domestic Terrorist Bomber! — Juicy headline, eh? Guaranteed to bring in the page views. I can't imagine I'm the only one who's thought of this angle to the story.

After President Obama's announcement, opposition to same-sex marriage hits record low — Public opinion continues to shift in favor of same-sex marriage, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, which also finds initial signs that President Obama's support for the idea may have changed a few minds.
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The Hill, The Democratic Daily, Colorlines, Hullabaloo, The Daily Dish, The New Civil Rights Movement, pandagon.net, Reuters, Advocate and Good As You
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Strong Support for Gay Marriage Now Exceeds Strong Opposition
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The New Civil Rights Movement and ThinkProgress


FAKE EXPLICIT IMAGE OF S.E. CUPP REPORTEDLY APPEARS IN HUSTLER (GRAPHIC) — The Blaze has been alerted to a fake explicit image apparently published in Hustler magazine depicting GBTV host and conservative commentator S.E. Cupp engaged in a sex act with what appears to be a penis in her mouth.
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Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Campaign 2012 and FishbowlDC

Judicial Watch Obtains DOD and CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Raid Filmmakers — DOD Officials Disclosed to Filmmakers Identity of SEAL Team Six Operator and Commander; Ask Film Director to Withhold Operator's Name, 'because he shouldn't be talking out of school.'
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ABCNEWS, “The Lid”, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler
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Pentagon, CIA, White House opened up to Hollywood on bin Laden raid
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Power Line, Hot Air and Outside the Beltway

Doctor Who Helped Find Bin Laden Given Jail Term, Official Says
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ABCNEWS, BBC, Reuters and Lawyers, Guns & Money

Several George Zimmerman witnesses change their accounts — Evidence released last week in the second-degree-murder case against George Zimmerman shows four key witnesses made major changes in what they say they saw and heard the night he fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in Sanford.
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JustOneMinute, Bob Owens, The Raw Story, Weasel Zippers, Frederick Leatherman Law Blog and msnbc.com


How the Recovery Went Wrong — Of the 11 recoveries in the last 60 years, this one is at or near the bottom in job growth and every other economic indicator. — President Obama, in speech after speech, proudly makes the following point: Although we inherited the worst recession since the Great Depression …
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americanthinker.com and Betsy's Page


EXCLUSIVE: Here's The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO — And now for some more bombshell news about the Facebook IPO... Earlier, we reported that the analysts at Facebook's IPO underwriters had cut their estimates for the company in the middle of the IPO roadshow, a highly unusual and negative event.
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New York Magazine, Taylor Marsh, Reuters, Newsy, Mashable!, The Big Picture and Riehl World View


About Peter R Orszag — History Shows U.S. Can Stimulate Now, Cut Later — From 2017 to 2022, Social Security's normal retirement age is scheduled to gradually increase to 67. And I'll bet that not only happens as planned, but does so with little fanfare — which is pretty …
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The Caucus and Hit & Run

The public trial of Justice Roberts — Novelist John Grisham could hardly spin a more provocative fiction: The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a pivotal case according …
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Balkinization, The Volokh Conspiracy, Lawyers, Guns & Money, SCOTUSblog, New Yorker, Taking Note and National Review

Father Doesn't Know Best — Your parents spill a few secrets as they get older. — One night at dinner with my mom, I ventured that the rhythm method had worked well for her, given that there were six years between my sister Peggy and my brother Kevin, and six more between Kevin and me.
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The Mahablog, US Politics and Daily Kos

Obama's war on coal hits your electric bill — Obama's War on Coal has already taken a remarkable toll on coal-fired power plants in America. — Last week the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a shocking drop in power sector coal consumption in the first quarter of 2012.
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Nice Deb and The Gateway Pundit


Couric extends ‘open invitation’ to Palin — Katie Couric has extended an open invitation to Sarah Palin to guest on her forthcoming daytime talk show, Katie. — “She has an open invitation to come talk to me,” Couric said while previewing Katie in Orlando yesterday.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Orlando Sentinel