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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Wow!... Obama Campaign Holds Protest Outside Romney Stop in Philly (Video) — When all else fails, stalk your opponent. — Mitt Romney visited an inner city school in Philadelphia today to discuss his education agenda. The Obama Campaign met him at the school and protested his visit outside.
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Lady Liberty 1885 and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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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 …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The PJ Tatler and The Heritage Foundation
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James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
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 …
Donovan Slack / Politico:
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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Politicker and Weasel Zippers
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
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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blogs.telegraph.co.uk, Hot Air, Politicker, Weasel Zippers, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and The PJ Tatler
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Forget Bain — Obama's public-equity record is the real scandal
Forget Bain — Obama's public-equity record is the real scandal
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Betsy's Page, National Review, americanthinker.com, The Daily Caller, The Lonely Conservative and UrbanGrounds
Mike Allenand Jim Vandehei / Politico:
Obama stumbles out of the gate — Nothing inspires Democrats like the Barack Obama swagger — the supreme self-confidence on stage, the self-certainty in private. — So nothing inspires more angst than when that same Obama stumbles, as he has leaving the gate in 2012.
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Stop The ACLU
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Newt Gingrich / CNN:
GOP triple play: Romney, Trump and Gingrich to campaign together
GOP triple play: Romney, Trump and Gingrich to campaign together
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ThinkProgress, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Monthly and The Impolitic
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Not Arrogant Any More — Confidence gives way to resignation.
Not Arrogant Any More — Confidence gives way to resignation.
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Hot Air, 2012 Decoded, Wall Street Journal and GayPatriot
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney Campaign Offers Chance To Dine With Donald Trump
Romney Campaign Offers Chance To Dine With Donald Trump
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Washington Wire, TheBlaze.com, Mediaite, Los Angeles Times, ABCNEWS, Ballot Box, Washington Post and Guardian
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Busted!... Obama Headlined a DEMOCRAT SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA Event in 1996 **FLIER** — Can we call him a socialist now??? — Barack Obama headlined a Democrat Socialists of America town hall meeting in Chicago in 1996. — Buzzfeed reported: — And don't forget about this...
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The POH Diaries and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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Patterico's Pontifications:
Convicted Bomber Brett Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser, Ron Brynaert, and Their Campaign of Political Terrorism — You're about to listen to one of the most bone-chilling pieces of audio you will ever hear. At least, it was to me when I first heard it. — It's a phone call that could have gotten me killed.
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Washington Examiner, The Political Commentator, The Other McCain, The American Catholic, Front Page Magazine, An Ex-Con's View, Allergic to Bull, The Mental Recession, Pundit & Pundette, Politicaljunkie Mom, Rhymes With Right, Datechguy's Blog, That Mr. G Guy's Blog, Popehat, The Lonely Conservative, Bob Owens, Truth Before Dishonor, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and therightplanet.com
Frances Martel / Mediaite:
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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American Power and The Raw Story
Chris Christoff / Bloomberg:
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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Outside the Beltway, CNN, Ed Driscoll, The Lonely Conservative, The PJ Tatler and Daily Pundit
Sean Sullivan / Hotline On Call:
Led by Walker, Republicans Winning Wisconsin Ad Spending Battle — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his Republican allies have outspent Democrat Tom Barrett and supportive groups more than 3-1 on TV ad buys during the three months leading up to the June 5 recall election, according to a Hotline On Call analysis.
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Taegan Goddard's … and Balloon Juice
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: S.E. Cupp and “The View” slam “Hustler” — Via Greg Hengler, a cleansing bit of feelgood bipartisan solidarity after yesterday's sleaze. Has anyone on the left actually defended the “Hustler” stunt, incidentally? Hasselbeck says here that she can't get NOW to pick up the phone …
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Moe Lane, The POH Diaries, ThinkProgress, American Glob and Mediaite
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Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
S.E. Cupp Discusses Her Photoshopped Hustler Picture On The “View”
S.E. Cupp Discusses Her Photoshopped Hustler Picture On The “View”
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The PJ Tatler
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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BuzzFeed
Shira Schoenberg / Union-News:
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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Politico, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, Althouse, Ballot Box, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Campaign 2012, Weekly Standard and The Hill
Charlie Spiering / Campaign 2012:
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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NewsBusters.org, “The Lid”, ABCNEWS, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and FishbowlDC
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Muslim Brotherhood Candidate Appears Set to Face Former Prime Minister in Egyptian Runoff — CAIRO — The Islamist candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood appeared set to face former President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister in a runoff to become Egypt's first freely elected president …
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americanthinker.com, Outside the Beltway and Guardian
Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: Mitt Romney's Moment — The GOP nominee explains why he thinks America is at an ‘inflection point.’ — It's been a good week for Mitt Romney. The polls are up, he's just off a two-day swing through Connecticut and New York, where he hauled in big donors and hard money …
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Politico, ABCNEWS and No More Mister Nice Blog
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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PolluterWatch Blog, Liberal Values, Mother Jones, The Daily Dish and Outside the Beltway
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Rick Perry tests his strength in Texas — After a disastrous 2012 presidential campaign that left his national political profile in tatters, Rick Perry is now embarking on an all-out effort to revive his standing in Texas and prove he's still a dominant force in the Lone Star State.
Gregory Korte / USA Today:
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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Business Insider, New York Magazine, ThinkProgress, The Raw Story and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
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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