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Ginger Gibson / Politico:
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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Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
40% of Dem primary voters opt for ‘Not Obama’ — If this was Chicago, John Wolfe would find a surprising number of building inspectors thoroughly checking the quite obviously faulty wiring in his law offices this morning. Most cars parked near his door would display parking citations on their windshields.
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protein wisdom, ABCNEWS and New York Magazine
Charles Mahtesian / Politico:
Obama's region of doom — It's not exactly news: there's a swath of the nation that can't stand Barack Obama. — Voters there didn't like him in 2008 and on Tuesday their disdain for the president resurfaced in Democratic primaries in Arkansas and Kentucky, where Obama won with less …
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The PJ Tatler
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Mini-Tuesday — I'm a little embarassed by the fact that in twelve …
Mini-Tuesday — I'm a little embarassed by the fact that in twelve …
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New York Times and The Agitator
Emily Goodin / Ballot Box:
4 in 10 Democrats desert Obama in Arkansas, Kentucky primaries
4 in 10 Democrats desert Obama in Arkansas, Kentucky primaries
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CNN, Washington Post, Booman Tribune, Balloon Juice, The Gateway Pundit, GOP.com, ABCNEWS, Scared Monkeys, The PJ Tatler and Yahoo! News
James Carroll / blogs.courier-journal.com:
Kentucky 2012 primary: President Barack Obama rejected by state Democrats in 67 counties
Kentucky 2012 primary: President Barack Obama rejected by state Democrats in 67 counties
Alec MacGillis / The New Republic:
A Gift For Snickering Pundits: A Map
A Gift For Snickering Pundits: A Map
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Taegan Goddard's …, Moe Lane, Mashable!, Washington Post, Saint Petersblog and Weekly Standard
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
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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CNN, American Prospect, The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh, americanthinker.com and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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Steven Rattner / New York Times:
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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CNN, msnbc.com, Hit & Run, Washington Post and GOP 12
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Democrats balk at Obama campaign's sustained attack on Bain Capital — Some influential Democrats on and off Capitol Hill are refusing to give President Obama political cover for his attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital. — Despite pushback from more than a half-dozen Democrats …
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Politico, Corrente, americanthinker.com, Associated Press, GOP.com, Weasel Zippers, ABCNEWS and Washington Free Beacon
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Ten ways you know the Bain attack is bombing
Ten ways you know the Bain attack is bombing
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Weekly Standard, Hot Air, The Huffington Post, Connecting.the.Dots, The Week, The PJ Tatler, iOwnTheWorld.com and Moe Lane
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
“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.
Judicial Watch:
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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Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Pentagon, CIA, White House opened up to Hollywood on bin Laden raid
Pentagon, CIA, White House opened up to Hollywood on bin Laden raid
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Power Line and Outside the Beltway
FilmLadd Blogs:
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.
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Patterico's Pontifications, Pundit & Pundette, The PJ Tatler and An Ex-Con's View
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LEE STRANAHAN dot COM:
Friday, May 25th Is “Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day”
Friday, May 25th Is “Everybody Blog About Brett Kimberlin Day”
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American Thinker, Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Truth Before Dishonor, Conservative Commune, Patterico's Pontifications, MareZilla.com, “The Lid”, Datechguy's Blog, Bookworm Room, Nice Deb, Goldfish and Clowns, The Other McCain, An Ex-Con's View, American Power, Conservative Hideout 2.0, The Lonely Conservative, Allergic to Bull, EBL, The Daley Gator, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Belmont Club, HillBuzz.org, The Sundries Shack and FilmLadd Blogs
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
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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Reuters, Taylor Marsh, Mashable!, Newsy, The Big Picture and Riehl World View
Harvey Golub / Wall Street Journal:
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
Washington Post:
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, pandagon.net, The New Civil Rights Movement, Advocate, Reuters and Good As You
Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Rep. Steve King: Immigrants are like dogs — Updated: On Monday, the Iowa GOP rep used a degrading metaphor to describe how America should select immigrants — [Updated below] — Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, compared immigrants to dogs at a town hall meeting yesterday …
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Des Moines Register, The Moderate Voice, Crooks and Liars, Addicting Info, ThinkProgress and The Maddow Blog
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Rep. King compares immigrants to dogs
Rep. King compares immigrants to dogs
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The Raw Story and Mediaite
Fox News:
Curvaceous client says Gloria Allred only fought for publicity — Super lawyer Gloria Allred cares more about cameras than clients, according to the buxom banker who sued after getting canned by Citigroup, allegedly because her assets were a distraction to co-workers.
Orlando Sentinel:
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, Weasel Zippers, msnbc.com and Frederick Leatherman Law Blog
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Obama, Romney locked in tight contest — President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference after the 2012 NATO Summit at McCormick Place in Chicago, May 21, 2012. — Despite a volatile and eventful past few weeks in the early presidential contest, President Barack Obama continues …
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Phil Kerpen / Fox News:
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
Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
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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The Volokh Conspiracy, SCOTUSblog, New Yorker, Balkinization, Taking Note, National Review and Online Library of Law …
Bloomberg:
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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Hit & Run
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
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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US Politics and Daily Kos
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Paul Ryan: I expect mandate for GOP — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan predicted Tuesday that November's elections could bring a broad mandate for the Republican Party to enact aggressive reforms to the nation's finances. — In a nearly 30-minute speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library …
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Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Hayride and Hot Air