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The stunning chart that shows the Obama spending binge really happened — In a column on Tuesday, Rex Nutting of MarketWatch ran some budget numbers and concluded the following: … And here is Nutting's graph: — The shocking, contrarian piece was widely circulated in liberal circles …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Barack Obama, Fiscal Conservative! — It might seem incredible that a president who has signed into law the largest federal spending in history, who has run up $5 trillion in new debt, who has submitted budgets that propose increasing the national debt to $22 trillion-budgets so extreme …
Newt Gingrich / CNN:
GOP triple play: Romney, Trump and Gingrich to campaign together — (CNN) - Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney will be joined in Las Vegas next week by two of his backers: former candidate Newt Gingrich and reality television star Donald Trump.
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ThinkProgress, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Impolitic, Washington Monthly and thepage.time.com
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Romney Campaign Offers Chance To Dine With Donald Trump
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Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS, TheBlaze.com, Mediaite, Washington Wire, Ballot Box, Washington Post and Guardian
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Rachel Maddow fails the Carney test
Rachel Maddow fails the Carney test
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CNN, PoliticusUSA, American Prospect, Campaign 2012, Shakesville and Weasel Zippers
CNN:
Romney defends class size stance to teachers
Romney defends class size stance to teachers
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Reuters, Little Green Footballs, The Hill and New York Magazine
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
Romney's Roads to the White House
Romney's Roads to the White House
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BuzzFeed, 2012 Decoded, Hot Air and GOP 12
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Turnout — You have to hand it to Wisconsin's electorate: they are passionate about their politics. When we first polled the Dairy State's voters about Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plummeting approval ratings, many right-leaning types let the blogosphere know how We Ask America's minions …
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Hot Air, Pundit Press, Hit & Run, Wake up America, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Conservatives4Palin and The TrogloPundit
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Jon Walker / Firedoglake:
WI: Gov. Walker Looking Strong Before Recall
WI: Gov. Walker Looking Strong Before Recall
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WPRNews.org, FiveThirtyEight and Wisconsin Reporter
Robin Bravender / Politico:
Has recall election made Scott Walker a GOP hero?
Has recall election made Scott Walker a GOP hero?
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CNN, Althouse, Hot Air, National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, GayPatriot, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Moe Lane and Wisconsin Reporter
BuzzFeed:
Obama Appeared At 1996 Event Hosted By Socialist Group — It's a reminder that the President presented himself as much more progressive during his time in Chicago. In this little-seen advertisement that ran in the Hyde Park Herald in 1996, Obama was listed on a panel sponsored …
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Half Of Detroit'S Streetlights May Go Out As City Shrinks — Detroit Residents Stay In at Night as Lights Go Out — Detroit, whose 139 square miles contain 60 percent fewer residents than in 1950, will try to nudge them into a smaller living space by eliminating almost half its streetlights.
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Ed Driscoll, The Lonely Conservative, The PJ Tatler and Daily Pundit
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Hecklers mar Romney's visit to inner-city charter school in Philadelphia — PHILADELPHIA - When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school here Thursday to promote his new education agenda, he received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles …
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Political Economy, Washington Wire, Wonkette, Weasel Zippers, White House Dossier and Newsy
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Michael Fumento / Salon:
My break with the extreme right — I worked for Reagan and wrote for National Review. But the new hysterical right cares nothing for truth or dignity — Gosh! When did I end up in bed with Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber? Could it be because I did specialize in blowing things …
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Mother Jones, Liberal Values, The Daily Dish and Outside the Beltway
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CNN's Brooke Baldwin Takes Tony Perkins To The Woodshed: ‘Why Do Homosexuals Bother You So Much?’ — Tony Perkins has been particularly loud in recent days as a voice against equal rights of marriage for same-sex couples, arguing that one minority in the society cannot define religious sacraments that …
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The Raw Story
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Bill Clinton — SURROUNDED By Porn Stars in Monaco — SURROUNDED — By Porn Stars — EXCLUSIVE — Bill Clinton just out-Clinton'd himself — posing with two famous porn stars in Monaco moments ago ... and one of them's a real up-and-comer. — Clinton's in a Monte Carlo casino right …
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Elizabeth Warren says she knows she is part Native American ‘because my mother told me so’ — Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren said Thursday that she knows she has Native American ancestry because her mother told her so. — Warren's comments came after nearly four minutes …
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Ballot Box, Hot Air, Althouse, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Campaign 2012, Weekly Standard and The Hill
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Elizabeth Warren's identity politics
Elizabeth Warren's identity politics
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Hot Air and p m carpenter's commentary
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What Does President Obama's May Approval Rating Tell Us About His Reelection Chances? — According to a Gallup Poll analysis of recent polling data on the mood of the American public, President Obama appears to face a difficult road to winning a second term in November.
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Weekly Standard and Ricochet Conversations Feed
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Propaganda firm owner admits attacks on journalists — WASHINGTON - The co-owner of a major Pentagon propaganda contractor publicly admitted Thursday that he was behind a series of websites used to discredit two USA TODAY journalists who had reported on the contractor.
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Chris Matthews blasts 'horse's ass right-wingers' — Follow on Twitter:Follow @charliespiering — Chris Matthews: Jackasses, Stop Asking About Obama Speech from National Cable and Telecommunications Association on FORA.tv — Yes. Chris Matthews is sick of people making fun …
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ABCNEWS, “The Lid”, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and FishbowlDC
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Obama: Profit motives don't belong in the W.H. — DES MOINES, Iowa - President Obama celebrated the role Iowa played in his campaign in 2008 and took aim once again at Mitt Romney's business background at a campaign rally on the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday.
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Polls: Obama leads Romney in Florida, Ohio and Virginia — President Barack Obama leads Mitt Romney in Florida, Ohio and Virginia, according to new polls of the key 2012 swing states, although Obama's advantage has narrowed in recent months. — Obama leads Romney 48 percent to 44 percent …
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ABCNEWS, Washington Post and msnbc.com
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The Times-Picayune / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
New digitally focused company launches this fall with beefed up online coverage; The Times-Picayune will move this fall to three printed papers a week — A new company - the NOLA Media Group, which will include The Times-Picayune and its affiliated web site NOLA.com - was announced today by Ricky Mathews, who will become its president.
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Philly.com, Poynter, The Huffington Post, The Moderate Voice, Memphis Commercial Appeal, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Media Decoder
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S.E. Cupp Discusses Her Photoshopped Hustler Picture On The “View” … Sign-Up to receive Updates from TH — Breaking on TOWNHALL — Cupp in Hustler? Bleh. They had to have been desperate....or maybe Hengler wasn't available to fill the rethuglican witch role.
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Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, Mediaite, American Glob and TheBlaze.com
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
Marion Barry commits new gaffe while apologizing to Asians — D.C. Council member Marion Barry yesterday stepped up his campaign to mend relations with Asians, apologizing again for disparaging remarks he made about Koreans and Filipinos, and pledging to work to improve ties between them and African Americans.
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Jim Miklaszewski / msnbc.com:
New photos of alleged 9-11 mastermind may have been spirited out of ‘Gitmo’ — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen in one of the photos apparently taken at the Guantanamo detention center and published this week by an Islamist website. — U.S. military officials are investigating whether …
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Columbia cops arrest state representative for DUI, weapons possession — Columbia police officers have arrested a state representative for driving under the influence of alcohol and the unlawful carrying of a pistol. — S.C. Rep. Ted Vick, D-Chesterfield, is at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center awaiting …
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The Daily Caller and iOwnTheWorld.com
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Obama national co-chair works in private equity, like Romney — One of President Barack Obama's top campaign spokesmen is a private equity manager whose firm has shut down several factories and laid off hundreds of people amid a stalled economy. — Federico Pena's role at Vestar Capital Partners …
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Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Rich Johnston / Bleeding Cool Comic Book …:
Will Alan Scott, DC's Original Green Lantern, Be Reintroduced As A Gay Man? — Understand that this is not a firm story. Not like DC Comics renumbering all their New DCU comics to issues zero through September, say. — This is based on a number of well sourced people and involves considerable hearsay.
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The New Civil Rights Movement, Towleroad News #gay, Theo Spark, Hot Air and The Daily Caller
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FBI: Mayor hacked critical website — A New Jersey mayor and his son were arrested Thursday by the FBI for allegedly hacking into an email account and website tied to a recall effort — and then intimidating those associated with the site. — Felix Roque, 55, the Democratic mayor of West New York …
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New Jersey Online, Mashable!, Jammie Wearing Fools, New York Magazine and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Laurence Bhererand Pascale Dufour / New York Times:
Our Not-So-Friendly Northern Neighbor — WHEN Vladimir V. Putin first came to power in Russia, Quebecers could not help but laugh. Poutine, as he is called in French, is also the name of a Québécois fast-food dish made of French fries, gravy and cheese.
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US Politics, Crooks and Liars, Guardian and Montreal Gazette