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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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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 …

Romney Talks — In a 36-minute Wednesday Manhattan interview with Mark Halperin, Romney pushes back on President Obama's Bain attack, predicts he can drive unemployment down to six percent by the end of his first term and says he wants Washington to sit still during the lame-duck session.
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Obama Jobs Council Has Buyout Execs Despite Bain Attacks
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The Lonely Conservative and Washington Free Beacon


The Romney Interview Transcript - Bain Capital
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Weasel Zippers, Daily Kos and Washington Post

President Barack Obama delivers the commencement address to graduates of Joplin High School Monday …
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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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Washington Post, Hot Air, Saint Petersblog, Moe Lane, Mashable!, iOwnTheWorld.com, Weekly Standard and msnbc.com

Mini-Tuesday — I'm a little embarassed by the fact that in twelve …
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New York Times and The Agitator

White Resentment, Obama, and Appalachia
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Obama's region of doom
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Ballot Box, National Review, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler

Obama's Primary Challengers
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Daily Pundit and The Camp Of The Saints


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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“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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Colin Powell to Romney on Foreign Policy: ‘Come on, Mitt, Think’ — The former secretary of state criticizes the Republican candidate's contention that Russia is America's No. 1 enemy. — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell had some tough words for Mitt Romney's foreign-policy positions on Wednesday …
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Colin Powell Trashes Mitt Romney's Team Of Foreign Policy Advisers
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Marriage, Gay Republicans and the Election
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ABCNEWS, Towleroad News #gay and Mediaite


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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Romney Leads Obama in Florida: Polling Trending Emerging
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White House calls ‘BS’ on GOP criticism of Obama spending
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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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Free speech blogburst: Show solidarity for targeted conservative bloggers
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American Airlines Rejects Female Passenger Because Political Pro-Choice T-Shirt is “Inappropriate” — Yesterday I attended a meeting of pro-choice colleagues working to ensure women throughout this country get safe, compassionate abortion care. Today, I received an email from one of those colleagues …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, ThinkProgress, Weasel Zippers, Mother Jones, LifeNews.com, Hullabaloo and The Raw Story

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.

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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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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Pentagon, CIA, White House opened up to Hollywood on bin Laden raid
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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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Man Arrested for OWI with Zebra, Parrot in Front Seat of Truck — The zebra and parrot at the Reiter's home in Cascade. (KCRG/The Gazette) — DUBUQUE, Iowa - It sounds like the beginning of a joke. A man, a zebra, a parrot walk into a bar. — A Cascade man was arrested outside …
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Alan Simpson flips out at Calif. seniors — The nice thing about being out of office? You can say whatever you please. — Which is exactly what former Sen. Alan Simpson did in a harsh letter he sent to the California Alliance for Retired Americans and which was obtained by POLITICO:
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ABCNEWS and Hullabaloo


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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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 …