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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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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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ParaPundit
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 …
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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Prairie Weather and The Week
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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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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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The BLT, Daily Mail and Outside the Beltway
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Eric Moskowitz / The Boston Globe:
Carjacking victim describes harrowing night
Carjacking victim describes harrowing night
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First Read
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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ThinkProgress, New York Times, Bloomberg, National Review, Hot Air, americanthinker.com and Calculated Risk
CNN:
Where is the suspects' father? — (CNN) — The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been moved from a Boston medical center to a federal Bureau of Prisons hospital about 40 miles away. — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had been receiving treatment for a variety of wounds …
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The Week
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Wall Street Journal:
Judge Made Miranda-Rights Call in Boston Bombing Case
Judge Made Miranda-Rights Call in Boston Bombing Case
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Crooks and Liars, msnbc.com, Business Insider, emptywheel, Outside the Beltway and National Review
Jonathon M. Seidl / TheBlaze.com:
MEGYN KELLY'S SURPRISE REVELATION: FBI WAS ‘SHOCKED’ TO SEE JUDGE ‘WALTZ’ IN AND GIVE SUSPECT MIRANDA RIGHTS
MEGYN KELLY'S SURPRISE REVELATION: FBI WAS ‘SHOCKED’ TO SEE JUDGE ‘WALTZ’ IN AND GIVE SUSPECT MIRANDA RIGHTS
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The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Politico, Telegraph, U.S. News and Hot Air
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Feds Further Investigating Role of Bomber's Wife
Feds Further Investigating Role of Bomber's Wife
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Jihad Watch, The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and The Daily Caller
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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Politico, Outside the Beltway and Wall Street Journal
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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 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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Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
A tale of two Scarboroughs: From rabid gun rights crusader to gun control advocate
A tale of two Scarboroughs: From rabid gun rights crusader to gun control advocate
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NewsBusters and Riehl World News
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Schumer, McCain say gun control bills will return
Schumer, McCain say gun control bills will return
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The PJ Tatler, Washington Examiner, Hot Air, Yahoo! News, Weasel Zippers, Michelle Malkin and BuzzFeed
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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msnbc.com, New Republic, Gawker, Weekly Standard and JustOneMinute
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
McCain: White House looking for excuses not to intervene in Syria
McCain: White House looking for excuses not to intervene in Syria
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Reuters, The PJ Tatler, White House Dossier, National Review and The Reaction
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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Politico and The Raw Story
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 …
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 …
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 and Booman Tribune
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Matthews: ‘All We Do Is Kill Arabs On International Television,’ ‘That Might Have Something To Do With Jihad’ — MSNBC host Chris Matthews noted on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al Assad, who has been accused by the White House of using chemical weapons, has few options available …