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Bill McBride / Calculated Risk:
April Employment Report: 288,000 Jobs, 6.3% Unemployment Rate — From the BLS: … Click on graph for larger image. — The headline number was well above expectations of 215,000 payroll jobs added. — The first graph shows the job losses from the start of the employment recession …
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Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Payrolls jump in April as thaw hits jobs market — April nonfarm payrolls up 288,000; unemployment 6.3% — Job creation accelerated in April as the U.S. economy added 288,000 new positions, while the unemployment rate plummeted to 6.3 percent amid a sharp drop in the workforce.
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Patterico's Pontifications, Outside the Beltway and The Right Scoop
Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Report Shows Resurgence of Hiring but Has Downbeat Notes — The American economy gained steam in April, adding 288,000 jobs, while the unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent, the lowest level since September 2008. — After a sharp slowdown in December and January, and a modest improvement since then …
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
U.S. payrolls surge in April, jobless rate hits 5-1/2 year low — (Reuters) - U.S. job growth increased at its fastest pace in more than two years in April and the unemployment rate dived to a 5-1/2 year low of 6.3 percent, suggesting a sharp rebound in economic activity early in the second quarter.
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Midterm Calculus: Bursting the Democrats' Midterm-Turnout Bubble
Midterm Calculus: Bursting the Democrats' Midterm-Turnout Bubble
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John Dickerson / Slate:
Why the new Benghazi emails aren't a “smoking gun.” — Has the Benghazi “smoking gun” been found? Some White House critics believe that new documents wrestled from the White House by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, prove that the Obama administration concocted a cover-up …
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Washington Free Beacon:
NSC Spokesman: Dude, Benghazi Was Like Two Years Ago
NSC Spokesman: Dude, Benghazi Was Like Two Years Ago
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The PJ Tatler, The Week, Fox News, Hot Air, Twitchy, MichelleMalkin.com, Doug Ross and The Right Scoop
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Boehner calls on Kerry to testify about email in Benghazi subpoena
Boehner calls on Kerry to testify about email in Benghazi subpoena
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Doug Ross and The Daily Caller
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Lindsey Graham: White House Officials Are ‘Scumbags’ for Lying About Benghazi
Lindsey Graham: White House Officials Are ‘Scumbags’ for Lying About Benghazi
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Balloon Juice and The Huffington Post
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Lindsey Graham: White House officials ‘scumbags’
Lindsey Graham: White House officials ‘scumbags’
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New York Post:
Disgraced Clippers owner Donald Sterling is battling cancer — This could wind up being a pretty short ban. — Disgraced racist Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling is battling cancer — surprising those around him by beating the final buzzer for as long as he has, sources told The Post on Thursday.
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Angel Jennings / Los Angeles Times:
L.A. head of NAACP resigns in wake of Sterling scandal
L.A. head of NAACP resigns in wake of Sterling scandal
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Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
This Town Needs a Better Class of Racist
This Town Needs a Better Class of Racist
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Why Economics Failed — On Wednesday, I wrapped up the class I've been teaching all semester: “The Great Recession: Causes and Consequences.” (Slides for the lectures are available via my blog.) And while teaching the course was fun, I found myself turning at the end to an agonizing question …
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This Is Brad DeLong's …, Vox Popoli and Shakesville
New York Times:
Donors Weigh Jilting Christie for Jeb Bush — Jeb Bush's increasingly serious and public examination of a run for president is roiling the ranks of establishment Republican donors and fund-raisers who had planned to back Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey in 2016, forcing many of them to rethink …
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Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg:
Hiring in U.S. Kicks Into Higher Gear as Unemployment Plunges — The job-creation engine kicked into higher gear as U.S. employers boosted payrolls in April by the most in two years and the jobless rate plunged to the lowest since the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
Shadee Ashtari / The Huffington Post:
Janice Hahn Walks Out Of Event After James Dobson Calls Obama The ‘Abortion President’ — Janice Hahn James Dobson Janice Hahn Video Robert Aderholt Prayer and Meditation Robert Aderholt National Day of Prayer Janice Hahn National Day of Prayer Obama Abortion Abortion James Dobson
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Tina Brown / The Daily Beast:
Don't Run for President, Hillary. Become a ‘Post-President’ Instead — The political world and her most fervent fans may be exercised about a presidential bid. But she should forget it. If she wins, it's too much stress for too little return. — I know as much as anyone …
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Politico
Jeryl Bier / Weekly Standard:
Kerry Announces Enormous Pay Raises for Foreign National Embassy Staff — Secretary of State John Kerry addressed the staff of the U.S. embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Thursday as part of a seven-day trip through Africa. During his remarks, Kerry recognized the work of the foreign nationals employed …
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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
Apple, Facebook, others defy authorities, notify users of secret data demands — Major U.S. technology companies have largely ended the practice of quietly complying with investigators' demands for e-mail records and other online data, saying that users have a right to know in advance …
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Wall Street Journal, Gigaom, Techdirt and RedState
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Apathy in the Executive — John Paul II and Obama: a study in leadership contrasts. — Rome — Friends and I kept seeing groups of Poles who'd taken planes or 20-hour bus rides to be here for the canonization of John Paul II. They did not look wealthy.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
Obamacare Truthers Get Caught in a Lie on Delinquency Rate — One way to make Obamacare look bad: Count as unpaid the new enrollees whose premiums aren't even due yet! — First, the Obamacare Truthers—the Republicans and conservatives who insist that every piece of remotely positive news …
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Weekly Standard:
The Slush Fund — How Obamacare pays off insurers. — Widget tooltip — When the government provides medical care, it normally delegates the task. Under Medicare, Washington doesn't employ doctors, nurses, and hospitals to treat the elderly. It has to coax them to participate.