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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
Part-time Nation: Was the April jobs report really the Obamacare jobs report? — US job growth in April beat economist expectations as nonfarm payrolls rose 165,000, and the jobless rate fell to a four-year low of 7.5%. But the report contained worrisome signs that President Obama's health care reform law …
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Nancy Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Forget the Unemployment Rate: The Alarming Stat Is the Number of ‘Missing Workers’
Forget the Unemployment Rate: The Alarming Stat Is the Number of ‘Missing Workers’
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Economic Policy Institute, Guardian, Daily Kos and Wake up America
Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
GREAT JOBS REPORT: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FALLS TO 7.5%, BIG UPWARD REVISIONS, 165,000 NEW JOBS
GREAT JOBS REPORT: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE FALLS TO 7.5%, BIG UPWARD REVISIONS, 165,000 NEW JOBS
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Calculated Risk, Associated Press, Hot Air, VodkaPundit, The Daily Caller and The Lonely Conservative
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Jobs Data Ease Fears of Sharp Slowdown in U.S. Economy
Jobs Data Ease Fears of Sharp Slowdown in U.S. Economy
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Economix, Reuters, Mother Jones, ThinkProgress, The Week, CNBC, Outside the Beltway, p m carpenter's commentary and Patterico's Pontifications
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
This Is The World's First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun (Photos) — The 3D-printed gun that Cody Wilson calls the “Liberator.” Click to enlarge. (Credit: Michael Thad Carter for Forbes) — Eight months ago, Cody Wilson set out to create the world's first entirely 3D-printable handgun. — Now he has.
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Wake up America, Business Insider, Hit & Run, American Spectator and TechCrunch
Miketoole / CBS Boston:
CBS News: Boston Marathon Bomb DNA Does Not Match Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Wife — BOSTON (CBS) - Female DNA and fingerprints found on a bomb fragment recovered from the Boston Marathon attacks do not match the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, CBS News reported Friday.
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The Gateway Pundit and The Right Scoop
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Investigators sharpen focus on Boston bombing suspect's widow — Federal law enforcement officials are sharpening their focus on the widow of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings after finding al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine and other radical Islamist material on her computer, according to law enforcement officials.
Discussion:
Hot Air and The Jawa Report
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Winning Hispanic vote would not be enough for GOP … After six months of mulling over November's election results, many Republicans remain convinced that the party's only path to future victory is to improve the GOP's appeal to Hispanic voters. But how many Hispanic voters do Republicans need …
Discussion:
Hullabaloo and Power Line
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Is Obama a Lame Duck Already?
Is Obama a Lame Duck Already?
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Daniel W. Drezner, Wonkblog, alicublog and Instapundit
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Why No One's Winning in Washington
Why No One's Winning in Washington
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Mother Jones and Yahoo! News
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Markey starts general with 4 point lead — PPP's first poll of the general election in the Massachusetts Senate special finds a close race, with Ed Markey leading Gabriel Gomez by a 44-40 margin. — Gomez is starting out as a pretty popular candidate, with 41% of voters rating him favorably to 27% with an unfavorable opinion.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Plum Line, Daily Kos, National Review, CBS Boston and Wall Street Journal
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
Ed Markey up by only 4 over Gabriel Gomez in Massachusetts
Ed Markey up by only 4 over Gabriel Gomez in Massachusetts
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Ballot Box and Outside the Beltway
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Wealthy exec poised to take on Al Franken — A wealthy Minneapolis finance executive appears poised to enter the race against first-term Democratic Sen. Al Franken. — In an email earlier this week, a private real estate company solicited assistance in finding a campaign headquarters …
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Red Racing Horses
Marco Rubio / Wall Street Journal:
The Immigration Reform Opportunity — Several Senate colleagues and I drew up a reform bill, and now Americans' input will help us improve it. — Next week, the Senate will begin making changes to and, hopefully, improve the immigration-reform legislation I introduced with several colleagues last month.
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Washington Monthly, The Huffington Post, 24Ahead, NBC Latino, Politico, The Hill, The Hugh Hewitt Show, Taylor Marsh, First Read, CNN, AL.com and The Daily Caller
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
How Marco Rubio is enticing conservatives on immigration reform
How Marco Rubio is enticing conservatives on immigration reform
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Mother Jones
Jon Favreau / The Daily Beast:
Leading From Below — Memo to everyone lambasting Obama for not getting along with Congress: The president is not all powerful. And he needs help from his supporters. By Jon Favreau. — He added the words in one of the later drafts. The announcement speech had been missing something …
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Booman Tribune, The Moderate Voice, The Dish, Politico, The Impolitic and p m carpenter's commentary
Tim Stanley / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Ukip is a very British revolution — The results aren't all in yet, but it's obvious what's happening: Ukip are the moral victors in yesterday's local elections. A party that was just two men on a golf cart ten years ago has placed second in South Shields and won county seats across the country.
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Hit & Run, BBC and National Review
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Nicholas Watt / Guardian:
Ukip success prompts Cameron to reach out and ‘show respect’
Ukip success prompts Cameron to reach out and ‘show respect’
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Booman Tribune
Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:
Former Bush Official Praises Nazis' Respect For Laws Of War In Defending Gitmo — A former Bush White House official on Thursday made the case that Nazi Germany had adhered to the laws of war during World War II when defending the Bush administration's decision to open the Guantanamo Bay prison for terror suspects.
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Washington Monthly, Mother Jones, The Dish, CNN and Hullabaloo
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Obama Blames U.S. For Gun Violence In Mexico — “Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States,” President Obama said during a speech at Mexico's Anthropology Museum. “I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms.
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protein wisdom, Weekly Standard, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and The Lonely Conservative
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Michelle Obama: Gun violence has children fearing death every day
Michelle Obama: Gun violence has children fearing death every day
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Politico, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
The Atlantic Wire:
The Drudge Report Fell Hard for This Fake Bloomberg Pizza Revenge Story — Plenty of people fell for a harmless, Onion-esque satire about pizza on Thursday night, but the biggest fish reeled in by the the humor site that likes to reel in big fish appears to be Matt Drudge.
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Business Insider, The Daily Currant, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Politico, susiemadrak.com and ProfessorBainbridge.com
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Washington Post suffers 85% earnings drop — The Washington Post Co. on Friday reported bad news for its newspaper division, with revenue totaling $127.3 million for the first quarter of this year — down four percent from 2012 — and an operating loss of $34.5 million.
Discussion:
Washington Monthly
Marie Saavedra / KASW-TV:
Company behind ‘My First Rifle’ under fire for child's shooting death — PHOENIX — Marketed as the best rifle to get your kids started shooting, the Crickett ‘My First Rifle’ has sold millions since its debut in 1996. — One of those weapons was a birthday gift to a 5-year-old boy in Kentucky.
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The Daily Caller and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Wall Street Journal:
Pentagon Bulks Up ‘Bunker Buster’ Bomb to Combat Iran — U.S. Upgrades Weapon to Penetrate Key Nuclear Site; Push to Persuade Israelis … A 2009 satellite image shows a suspected nuclear facility being built in Iran. — WASHINGTON—The Pentagon has redesigned its biggest “bunker buster” …
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The Week, Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, Israel Matzav, Via Meadia, Telegraph and Obsidian Wings
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
The Benghazi Talking Points — ADVANCE ARTICLE from the May 13, 2013 issue. — Even as the White House strove last week to move beyond questions about the Benghazi attacks of Tuesday, September 11, 2012, fresh evidence emerged that senior Obama administration officials knowingly misled …
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BizPac Review, Washington Free Beacon, The Jawa Report, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Power Line, Wake up America and Right Turn
Reid J. Epstein / Reuters:
Joe Biden hasn't told Obama about new gun plans — Vice President Joe Biden is planning a new gun control offensive - he just hasn't told the president yet. — Biden told a group of law enforcement officials Thursday that he is planning even more travel, with trips around the country …
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CNN, Yahoo! News, Daily Kos, Washington Post, Washington Wire, Weasel Zippers, The Week, Babalú Blog, Politico, ABCNEWS, First Read, Taylor Marsh, NRA-ILA News, msnbc.com and Public Policy Polling
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Cantor promises House vote to repeal ObamaCare soon — Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told House Republicans on Friday that they will soon get a chance to vote a full repeal of ObamaCare. — “While we have not locked in the timing, I expect that the House will vote on full repeal …
DealBook:
JPMorgan Caught in Swirl of Regulatory Woes — Government investigators have found that JPMorgan Chase devised “manipulative schemes” that transformed “money-losing power plants into powerful profit centers,” and that one of its most senior executives gave “false and misleading statements” under oath.
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The Huffington Post, Business Insider, naked capitalism and CANNONFIRE
Jerusalem Center For Public Affairs:
Iran's Plans to Take Over Syria — In mid-April, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah paid a secret visit to Tehran where he met with the top Iranian officials headed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Gen. Qasem Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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Weasel Zippers, Washington Free Beacon and TheTower.org
BBC:
Google edition adopts ‘Palestine’ — Internet giant Google has changed the tagline on the front page of its Palestinian edition from “Palestinian Territories” to “Palestine”. — It means the page www.google.ps now displays “Palestine” in Arabic under the main Google logo.
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FP Passport, Guardian and Joe. My. God.