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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Presidential Wheel Turns — Disaffection for Bush gave us Obama. That explains the new affection for Bush. — Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 because he was not George W. Bush. In fact, he was elected because he was the farthest thing possible from Mr. Bush.
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Washington Monthly, ParaPundit and alicublog
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Yes, George W. Bush Was a Terrible President, and No, He Wasn't Smart — More than three years still remained in George W. Bush's presidency when it had already collapsed by the end of 2005. The Bush revisionism industry has thus enjoyed an unusually long period of time in which to plan …
New York Times:
The Guantánamo Stain — All five living presidents gathered in Texas Thursday for a feel-good moment at the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, which is supposed to symbolize the legacy that Mr. Bush has been trying to polish. President Obama called it a “special day for our democracy.”
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Democracy in America, NewsBusters, CNN, Daily Kos, The Caucus and msnbc.com
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The 1 Percent's Solution — Economic debates rarely end with a T.K.O. But the great policy debate of recent years between Keynesians, who advocate sustaining and, indeed, increasing government spending in a depression, and austerians, who demand immediate spending cuts, comes close — at least in the world of ideas.
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New York Times:
Debt, Growth and the Austerity Debate — IN May 2010, we published an academic paper, “Growth in a Time of Debt.” Its main finding, drawing on data from 44 countries over 200 years, was that in both rich and developing countries, high levels of government debt — specifically …
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The Maddow Blog, Paul Krugman, The Big Picture, Business Insider, Angry Bear, CEPR and msnbc.com
Eric Moskowitz / Boston Globe:
Carjack victim recounts his harrowing night — The 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur had just pulled his new Mercedes to the curb on Brighton Avenue to answer a text when an old sedan swerved behind him, slamming on the brakes. A man in dark clothes got out and approached the passenger window.
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Gothamist, Daily Mail and Outside the Beltway
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Eric Moskowitz / The Boston Globe:
Carjacking victim describes harrowing night
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Sheldon Alberts / The Hill:
Senate passes measure to end airport delays — The Senate passed a bill on Thursday evening to end air traffic controller furloughs caused by the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester that have been blamed for mounting flight delays across the country.
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Firedoglake, Politico and Outside the Beltway
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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts — Gross Domestic Product, First Quarter 2013 (advance estimate) — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013 …
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New York Times, ThinkProgress, Bloomberg, Business Insider, National Review, Hot Air, americanthinker.com and Calculated Risk
Leisa Zigman / KSDK-TV:
Former Congressman Todd Akin breaks silence: talks comeback, takes on Karl Rove — ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Could Todd Akin be the new comeback kid? — The 65-year-old former congressman says don't rule him out. Nearly six months after losing the Senate race he continues to be attacked from all sides of the political spectrum.
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CNN, Politico, The Raw Story and Shakesville
Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Fox guest Michelle Malkin links Grover Norquist to Boston Marathon bombing — During an appearance on Fox News on Wednesday night, conservative commentator Michelle Malkin alleged that influential anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist was indirectly linked to the Boston Marathon bombing.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Hinterland Gazette and Booman Tribune
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — April 26, 2013 - Pennsylvania Voters Say Run Pittsburgh Marathon, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Many Voters Angry At U.S. Senate Gun-Control Vote — Watch Video: Assistant Director Tim Malloy discusses poll results — Run the Pittsburgh Marathon May 5 …
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NationalJournal.com, ThinkProgress, Politico, Post Politics, First Read, The Political Carnival and Outside the Beltway
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Senators Quietly Seeking New Path on Gun Control — WASHINGTON — Talks to revive gun control legislation are quietly under way on Capitol Hill as a bipartisan group of senators seeks a way to bridge the differences that led to last week's collapse of the most serious effort to overhaul the country's gun laws in 20 years.
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The Plum Line
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Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Schumer, McCain say gun control bills will return
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The PJ Tatler, Washington Examiner, Hot Air, Yahoo! News, Weasel Zippers and Michelle Malkin
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
A tale of two Scarboroughs: From rabid gun rights crusader to gun control advocate
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NewsBusters and Riehl World News
Esther Zuckerman / The Atlantic Wire:
Boston Magazine's Heart-Shaped Shoes: The Story Behind the Beautiful Cover — For their May cover, following the Boston Marathon bombing, Boston Magazine has created an indelible image made from shoes worn by the marathon's runners. The cover, while evoking the horror of the bombing, is primarily a forward looking message.
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ThinkProgress
Matt Taibbi / Rolling Stone:
Everything is Rigged: The Biggest Financial Scandal Yet — The Illuminati were amateurs. The second huge financial scandal of the year reveals the real international conspiracy: There's no price the big banks can't fix — By — Conspiracy theorists of the world …
Tarini Parti / Politico:
The Tea Party Caucus returns — The Tea Party Caucus is back in action with a new strategy and a growing membership. — Roughly 20 House Republicans attended a closed-door meeting Thursday evening in the Rayburn House Office Building, along with staffers from nearly 40 congressional offices …
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The Fix, The Maddow Blog and Taking Note
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Tom Brokaw says ‘no thanks’ to White House Correspondents' Dinner — Tom Brokaw blames it all on Lindsay Lohan. — Last year, Brokaw became one of the biggest critics of the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner after he saw Washington buzzing around and about the troubled Hollywood actress …
Lee Enterprises / Associated Press:
Rehberg considers another Senate run — HELENA — Former U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg said Thursday he isn't ruling out a run for the Senate seat being vacated by U.S. Sen. Max Baucus. — The Republican is coming off a bruising loss last year to Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester.
Politico:
‘This Town’: A Washington takedown — A year after signing a book contract to chronicle the incestuous ecology of insider Washington, New York Times writer Mark Leibovich was schmoozing his way through a going-away party for Joe Lockhart atop the Glover Park Group headquarters.
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Foreign Policy and FishbowlDC
Wall Street Journal:
Judge Made Miranda-Rights Call in Boston Bombing Case — FBI Wanted to Question Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Further Under Public-Safety Exception — A federal judge made the call to advise the Boston bombing suspect of his Miranda rights, even though investigators apparently still wanted to question …
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Crooks and Liars, americanthinker.com, msnbc.com, Business Insider, emptywheel, Outside the Beltway and National Review
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Dem leaders won't seek ObamaCare exemption — Republicans hammered Democrats for allegedly seeking to carve themselves out of a requirement in the healthcare law. — Democratic leaders said Thursday they're not seeking an exemption from a central requirement of ObamaCare …
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Says It Suspects Assad Used Chemical Weapons — WASHINGTON — The White House said on Thursday that American intelligence agencies now believed, with “varying degrees of confidence,” that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons, but it said it needed conclusive proof before President Obama would take action.
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IHT Rendezvous, News Desk, BBC, msnbc.com, New Republic, Gawker, Weekly Standard, JustOneMinute and Wired
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
McCain: White House looking for excuses not to intervene in Syria
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Reuters, The PJ Tatler, White House Dossier, National Review, The Reaction and USA Today
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