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Michael O'Brien / msnbc.com:
Romney's search for a VP appears to narrow — Mitt Romney's search for a running mate appears to have narrowed, as clues of whom Romney might select as his No. 2 begin to pile up in the media. — A campaign that prides itself on discipline had, to date, exacted tight control over the process …
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Romney: “Marco Rubio Is Being Thoroughly Vetted” — Goes on record after ABC report. — (Getty Images / Win McNamee) — Mitt Romney makes it official: “Marco Rubio is being thoroughly vetted as part of our process,” he said today, hours after an ABC report said he was not being considered as Romney's running-mate.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney: Marco Rubio is being seriously vetted as possible vice presidential choice — HOLLAND, Mich. — Mitt Romney told reporters here Tuesday that his vice presidential search team is vetting Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), one of the Republican Party's biggest young stars, to be his running mate.
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Booman Tribune, Los Angeles Times, FP Passport, White House Dossier, ABCNEWS, Naked Politics, blog.sfgate.com and The New Republic
Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Marco Rubio Not Being Vetted to Be Mitt Romney's Running Mate
Marco Rubio Not Being Vetted to Be Mitt Romney's Running Mate
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Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Rubio Ally Fingers Romney Adviser As Possible Leak Source
Rubio Ally Fingers Romney Adviser As Possible Leak Source
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Daily Kos, msnbc.com, Shakesville, Pat Dollard, Swampland, Business Insider, CNN, Mediaite, The Week and Politico
Colleen McCain Nelson / Wall Street Journal:
Clues Emerge on Romney's VP Pick
Jordan Fabian / Univision News Tumblr:
Marco Rubio, Jorge Ramos lock horns on immigration in first interview
Marco Rubio, Jorge Ramos lock horns on immigration in first interview
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Mediaite, Naked Politics, Washington Post, Business Insider and MiamiHerald.com
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Marco Rubio on Obama DREAM Job: ‘It Just Poisons the Well’ …
Marco Rubio on Obama DREAM Job: ‘It Just Poisons the Well’ …
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Firedoglake and Balloon Juice
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Elizabeth Warren loses it, lashes out at “right wing extremist” (me) — As you know, Elizabeth Warren has been caught in a series of at best misleading and at worst false responses since The Boston Herald first broke the story in late April that Harvard Law promoted her as Native American in the mid-to-late 1990s.
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Weasel Zippers and American Glob
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Michael Levenson / Boston Globe:
Vicki Kennedy rejects Scott Brown's proposed condition for hosting Senate debate — Victoria Reggie Kennedy today rejected Senator Scott Brown's request that she remain neutral in the unfolding Massachusetts US Senate race, a denial that could potentially scuttle a debate she proposed …
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2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, The Hill, Mediaite, The Impolitic, Daily Kos, Hotline On Call, CNN, The Raw Story, The Rightnewz and Politico
Chris Cassidy / Boston Herald:
Cherokee women to Elizabeth Warren: Stop ducking us!
Cherokee women to Elizabeth Warren: Stop ducking us!
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The Gateway Pundit
Larry McShane / NY Daily News:
Alec Baldwin punches Daily News photographer after obtaining marriage license in New York with fiancee Hilaria Thomas — ‘I knew he was going to attack me. I stepped back, and he kept coming,’ says News lensman — Alec Baldwin shoves Daily News photographer Marcus Santos after leaving the Marriage Bureau Tuesday morning.
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
BREAKING: After Issa and Holder Meet, Still No Documents, Contempt Charges Still Looming — The meeting between Attorney General Eric Holder and Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darrell Issa has ended after 20 minutes of discussion. Holder came with an offer of a briefing on Fast …
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RedState, Nice Deb and American Spectator
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Issa ‘disappointed,’ says Holder contempt vote will move forward — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Tuesday he plans to move forward with a vote Wednesday to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. — After a meeting with Holder Tuesday, Issa said he was “disappointed” …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Moderate Voice
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
No deal: After meeting, Issa says contempt vote on Holder is still on
No deal: After meeting, Issa says contempt vote on Holder is still on
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Influence Alley
Hunter Walker / Politicker:
‘Joe The Plumber’ Blames Gun Control For The Holocaust [Video] — “Joe The Plumber” and his shotgun in his new web video. (Photo: YouTube) — Samuel “Joe The Plumber” Wurzelbacher, the 2008 campaign microcelebrity and Ohio congressional candidate, has an interesting theory about the Holocaust.
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Firedoglake, Daily Kos, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, No More Mister Nice Blog, Ballot Box and The Jawa Report
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Hunter Walker / Politicker:
'Joe The Plumber's' Spokesman Explains His Holocaust Theories: ‘Joe Is A Student Of History’
'Joe The Plumber's' Spokesman Explains His Holocaust Theories: ‘Joe Is A Student Of History’
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Gawker and The Raw Story
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Joe The Plumber: Gun Control Caused The Holocaust
Joe The Plumber: Gun Control Caused The Holocaust
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Politicker, The Political Carnival and Wonkette
BuzzFeed:
Anti-Romney Protesters Say They're Paid To Heckle — Two protesters and an Obama official say “Good Jobs Now” protesters are compensated for their time. A protest leader denies it. — A few of the protesters outside Romney's rally, shortly before filing on to a charter bus parked down the street.
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The Right Scoop, Hot Air, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers, National Review and Betsy's Page
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney won't call on supporters to stop heckling Obama events
Romney won't call on supporters to stop heckling Obama events
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CNN, The Hill, Ballot Box, Weasel Zippers, Daily Kos and Jammie Wearing Fools
Jim Shella / WISH-TV:
Sources: Daniels will be next Purdue University president — WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WISH) - Purdue University officials plan to vote on a candidate for the school's next president this week - and WISH-TV has learned Gov. Mitch Daniels is the candidate in question.
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Business Insider, Ricochet Conversations Feed, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Politico and Donklephant
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Ezra Klein:
Grover Norquist's pledge to increase spending, deficits — Over in Bloomberg View, Ramesh Ponnuru passes the mic to Grover Norquist: … You hear this often from Republicans: The reason you can't make a deal that balances both spending cuts and tax increases is that the tax increases happen and the spending cuts don't.
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The New Republic
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Toby Harnden / Daily Mail:
Obama's grandfather tortured by the British? A fantasy (like most of the President's own memoir) — A new biography of Barack Obama has established that his grandfather was not, as is related in the President's own memoir, detained by the British in Kenya and found that claims that he was tortured were a fabrication.
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National Review
Yahoo! News:
Conflicting reports emerge over whether Hosni Mubarak has died — [Updated at 6:15 p.m. ET] Several senior Egyptian officials are now refuting a state news agency's report that former president Hosni Mubarak is “clinically dead.” Citing medical sources, the state-run MENA news agency reported …
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New York Times, The Jawa Report, CNN, Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Andrea Mitchell airs full Romney remarks — On her show today, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell responded to criticism of the network's decision to run an edited tape of Mitt Romney's remarks about the Wawa convenience store chain, but the network has not clarified why it ran the edited version of the tape.
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Ed Driscoll, NewsBusters.org blogs, Washington Post, The PJ Tatler, CNN, Michelle Malkin, The Daily Beast, Macsmind and The Powers That Be
Washington Post:
U.S., Israel developed Flame computer virus to slow Iranian nuclear efforts, officials say — The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected critical intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage attacks aimed at slowing Iran's ability …
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Hot Air, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Israel Matzav, Pirate's Cove, The PJ Tatler and Michelle Malkin
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama's Lawyer Demands Information on Group's Donors — The lawyer for President Obama demanded on Tuesday that Crossroads GPS disclose its donors, saying in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission that the group is plainly a “political committee” subject to federal reporting requirements.
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New York Magazine and Washington Post
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Lawrence O'Donnell Mocks Ann Romney for Riding Horses to Combat Multiple Sclerosis — With each passing day, the Obama-loving media stoop to new lows in attacking the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and his family. — On MSNBC's The Last Word Monday, host Lawrence O'Donnell mocked Ann Romney …
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The Radio Equalizer and Washington Wire
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
Why I Love Surface — The company's new tablet could be the iPad rival the tech world desperately needs. — I love the Surface. And that's true even though I know very little about it. At a top-secret press event in Los Angeles on Monday, I was allowed to spend only about 90 seconds with Microsoft's new tablet device.
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CNN, Gizmodo, BuzzFeed, Mother Jones, Associated Press, Mashable!, Brad DeLong and msnbc.com
Caroline May / The Daily Caller:
Dem activist slugs GOP congressman's wife with campaign sign — It's all fun and games until somebody gets slugged with a campaign sign — at least in Montana, where following the first U.S. Senate campaign debate this cycle, a Democratic activist hit one candidate's wife with a rolled up sign.
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Weasel Zippers
James Pethokoukis / The Enterprise Blog:
Is the U.S. economy losing jobs again? — The private sector is not fine, as some extremely worrisome economic news today emphasizes. — The government's April Job Opening and Labor Turnover report was, in the words of JPMorgan economists, “soft, lending some credence to the view …
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The Lonely Conservative and Washington Free Beacon
Bill Maher:
The Right Shift — Good news: last month, for the first time in weeks, Congress passed a bill! And wait until you hear what you get: by a vote of 78 to 20, the Senate voted to extend the life of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. ... People, please! Control yourselves! — Yes, the Import-Export Bank.
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Kerry slams ‘disgraceful’ climate denial — Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on Tuesday said there's a “calculated campaign of disinformation” on climate change that has stalled action on the issue and endangered the country. — “We are living through a story of disgraceful denial …
Discussion:
Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
Rush Limbaugh:
Bob Turner Stands with Kids as Libs Heckle Them for Singing Lee Greenwood Song — RUSH: Bob Turner was the president of Multimedia, which was a company that syndicated TV programs, and they syndicated mine in 1992 through 1996. Bob Turner was the president, and it was Bob Turner …
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The Jawa Report, Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, Politicker, Pat Dollard and American Glob
Chris Frates / Influence Alley:
Koch Brothers, Cato to Settle Control of Think Tank — CORRECTION: A prior version of this story was incorrect. Freedomworks is not funded by the Koch brothers. — The gang at National Journal reports: — The Cato Institute and famed Republican donors Charles and David Koch are set …
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The Volokh Conspiracy
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
Neal Rauhauser: Internet Super-Spy! — What service is Neal Rauhauser providing to his clients, including Brett Kimberlin's tax-exempt 501(c) Velvet Revolution? Is Rauhauser paid to sit around all day playing with his Twitter sockpuppets, plotting revenge against Greg Howard …
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American Power