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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives — Richard Grenell, the openly gay spokesman recently hired to sharpen the foreign policy message of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, has resigned in the wake of a full-court press by anti-gay conservatives.
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In Romney's Gay Rights Mess, Silence Wasn't An Option — The candidate stayed mum while his gay aide was being blasted by the right. Now gay rights groups blame Romney, whose aides say it was never about sexuality. — (AP / Henny Ray Abrams) — With the departure of his openly gay …
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Kyle Mantyla / rightwingwatch.org:
Fischer: Grenell Resignation a ‘Huge Win’ for the Religious Right — It was just last week that Bryan Fischer was declaring that if Mitt Romney wants to win in November, he'd “better start listening to me.” And the first thing that Romney needed to do was fire Richard Grenell …
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Rachel Weiner / Washington Post:
Richard Grenell, Mitt Romney spokesman, resigns
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney's Openly-Gay Spokesperson Resigns After Facing Pressure From Anti-Gay Right Wing
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Arlette Saenz / ABCNEWS:
Richard Grenell, Openly Gay Romney Spokesman, Resigns From Post
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BuzzFeed:
How The White House Smothered The News Of Obama's Trip To Afghanistan — How the White House played whack-a-mole, and why I deleted my tweet. Drudge wouldn't budge. — Shortly before 9:19 a.m. this morning the Afghanistan-based 24-hour broadcast news station TOLONews tweeted that President Barack Obama had landed in Afghanistan.
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Signs Pact in Kabul, Turning Page in Afghan War — KABUL, Afghanistan — President Obama, speaking to an American television audience on Tuesday night from an American air base here, declared that he had traveled here to herald a new era in the relationship between the United States and Afghanistan …
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Jim Inhofe / CNN:
Inhofe fires off on Obama over trip — (CNN) - Longtime Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma criticized President Barack Obama over the president's surprise trip to Afghanistan Tuesday, describing the visit as “campaign related” and an “attempt to shore up his national security credentials.”
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Football spiked: Obama to address nation on Bin Laden anniversary live from Afghanistan
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The White House:
Excerpts of the President's Address to the Nation from Afghanistan
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Romney heckled at event with Giuliani — Mitt Romney was heckled Tuesday at a New York City event marking the anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death. — Romney was campaigning with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani at an event at the firehouse where the city of New York set …
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BuzzFeed:
Will The Navy SEALs Swift Boat Obama? — The operators' resentment is real. And their criticism could undermine the president's clearest-cut victory, the slaying of America's most notorious enemy. — President Barack Obama making a statement on the death of Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: The attacks begin
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Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
Happy May Day! CNN reports: … Cyco, Skabby, Tony... No word yet on Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, or Dopey. — Congratulations on another stunning public-relations victory, Occupy. — What's that? “These guys don't have anything to do with Occupy!” Hey, don't tell me, tell them.
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Dan Riehl / BREITBART.COM:
OCCUPY LEADERS APPARENTLY INVOLVED IN BRIDGE BOMB PLOT, SUSPECTS NAMED
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Jason Ryan / ABCNEWS:
Anarchists Wanted to Attack NATO, Republican Convention: Feds
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David Ariosto / CNN:
5 arrested in alleged plot to blow up Cleveland-area bridge
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Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Elizabeth Warren's embattled campaign: Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago — Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago — Desperately scrambling to validate Democrat Elizabeth Warren's Native American heritage amid questions about whether she used her minority status to further her career …
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Noah Bierman / Boston Globe:
Genealogist says Warren may be able to claim Cherokee heritage; Brown and Warren campaigns continue to trade barbs
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The NYT reports that “officials involved” …
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Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Victims of Communism Day — Today is May Day. Since 2007, I have been commemorating this day here at the Volokh Conspiracy as Victims of Communism Day. Various other websites and blogs have promoted the same concept. In time, we hope to make this a worldwide commemoration similar to Holocaust Memorial Day.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Trashed Mission District businesses want answers — (05-01) 16:39 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Business owners in San Francisco's Mission District, cleaning up after a night in which protesters damaged more than 30 stores and restaurants and vandalized cars, questioned Tuesday why activists had singled …
Adam Davidson / New York Times:
The Purpose of Spectacular Wealth, According to a Spectacularly Wealthy Guy — Ever since the financial crisis started, we've heard plenty from the 1 percent. We've heard them giving defensive testimony in Congressional hearings or issuing anodyne statements flanked by lawyers and image consultants.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama leads in Virginia — Barack Obama continues to look like the favorite to win Virginia this fall. He has a 51-43 lead over Mitt Romney in the state. We have consistently found Obama leading in Virginia by margins similar to his 6 point victory there in 2008- he led Romney by 6 in December …
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Rachel Rose Hartman / ABCNEWS:
Chris Christie: Wisconsin is the center of the political universe — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday reminded Wisconsin voters that the impact of the recall decision before them holds major national implications. — “For the next five weeks, Wisconsin is going to be the center …
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Chris Christie's Islam Problem
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Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
House Republicans: No offsets for extending Bush-era tax rates — House Republicans say they have no plans to pay for the extension of the Bush-era tax rates, a move that could erase the deficit reduction they have achieved since winning their majority in the chamber in 2010.
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Republican Judge Jerry Smith Blocks Pro-Planned Parenthood Order Just Hours After It Was Issued — Last month, Republican Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith pitched a tantrum in open court, demanding that the Department of Justice respond to some imprecise political rhetoric by President Obama in an attempt to embarrass the president.
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BuzzFeed:
“Black Bloc” Occupiers Turn On Media — Protesters attacked photographers, and sought to seize their cameras, during May Day protests, journalists say. “One girl walks up to one of the photogs and nailed him right in the face,” says Village Voice's Muncy. — Source: @CSMuncyPhoto
Glen Johnson / Boston Globe:
Brown says daughter, 23, insured under health law — Senator Scott Brown, who won office vowing to be the 41st vote to block President Obama's health care law and who has since voted three times to repeal it, acknowledged Monday that he takes advantage of it to keep his elder daughter on his congressional health insurance plan.
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