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4:00 PM ET, April 23, 2012

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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama Bypass Rivals  —  WASHINGTON — One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda.  He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power …
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Judd Gregg / The Hill:
Why stay?  President, Congress should just go home until after the election  —  The president is in full campaign mode.  So is Congress.  The federal government has been put into a holding pattern until the November elections.  —  Like “Major, Major, Major” from “Catch-22,” …
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Booman Tribune
Jonathan H. Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
How President Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Executive Power
Discussion: Balkinization
Politico:
Obama's campaign whisperer  —  Barack Obama's top advisers are making a mid-"core" correction in their attacks on Mitt Romney — with a little nudge from Bill Clinton, who is finding a niche as an Obama campaign whisperer and fundraiser.  —  Late last year, as Romney galloped to the right …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Amnesia Candidate  —  Just how stupid does Mitt Romney think we are?  If you've been following his campaign from the beginning, that's a question you have probably asked many times.  —  But the question was raised with particular force last week, when Mr. Romney tried …
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Obama needs to find a theme soon
Leigh Ann Caldwell / CBS News:
Poll: Just three percent have favorable view of John Edwards  —  CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto.  —  (CBS News) With opening arguments in the trial of former U.S. senator and presidential candidate John Edwards set …
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Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
TheDC Morning: Dick Cheney over 10 times more popular than John Edwards
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
6 things to watch for at the John Edwards trial
Discussion: Hot Air and Guardian
Walter Shapiro / The New Republic:
How John Edwards Could Get Cornered By the Prosecution in His Campaign Finance Trial
Discussion: Election Law Blog
BuzzFeed:
Jon Huntsman Trashes GOP, Expresses Campaign Regrets  —  Former Republican presidential candidate compares his party to Communist China.  Says Reagan would have trouble winning GOP primary in this political environment.  Regrets opposition to 10-1 spending cuts to tax increase deficit deal.
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Darius Dixon / Politico:
Jon Huntsman explains China comment  —  Jon Huntsman on Monday attempted to explain comments comparing the Republican party to the Chinese communist party.  —  Huntsman, the former Utah governor, said on MSNBC on Monday that the night before he was “waxing philosophical” when he brought up Republicans and China.
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Romney's healthcare plan may be more revolutionary than Obama's  —  Instead of getting coverage at work, more Americans would shop for it on their own.  That would mean more choices — and more risk.  —  Republican candidate Mitt Romney says he would dump President Obama's healthcare overhaul and replace it with something else.
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
House GOP targets healthcare law with major cuts
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Report: Health law will save Medicare $200B
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Hit & Run
New York Post:
An $8 billion trick?  —  Call it President Obama's Committee for the Re-Election of the President — a political slush fund at the Health and Human Services Department.  —  Only this isn't some little fund from shadowy private sources; this is taxpayer money, redirected to help Obama win another term.
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Associated Press:
Gov't auditors call on Obama administration to cancel Medicare bonuses GOP sees as political
Discussion: Hit & Run
Journalism.org:
HOW THE MEDIA COVERED THE 2012 PRIMARY CAMPAIGN  —  LESS HORSE RACE THAN 2008  —  By Tom Rosenstiel, Mark Jurkowitz and Tricia Sartor of PEJ  —  Mitt Romney needed 15 weeks once the primary contests began to gain a secure hold over his party's nomination for president.
Richard Black / BBC:
White killer whale adult spotted for first time in wild  —  “Iceberg” is believed to be the first mature white orca observed  —  Scientists have made what they believe to be the first sighting of an adult white orca, or killer whale.  —  The adult male, which they have nicknamed Iceberg …
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Guardian
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Trayvon Martin Case - A Partially Parallel Shooting In Alabama  —  Reality generally does not provide the sort of parallel situations that would satisfy the rigors of social science.  However, let's go to Alabama for a shooting case from April 15 with many similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Darius Dixon / Politico:
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher can't enter Afghanistan  —  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Monday he was denied entry into Afghanistan because of his critical views of that country's government.  —  “Apparently, [Afghanistan President Hamid] …
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Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
Obama targets foreign nationals' use of new technologies in human rights abuses  —  President Obama issued an executive order Monday that will allow U.S. officials for the first time to impose sanctions against foreign nationals found to have used new technologies, from cellphone tracking …
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Obama: ‘National sovereignty is never a license to slaughter your people’
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Politico
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Yet another new survey shows that Republican supporters know more about politics and political history than Democrats.  —  On eight of 13 questions about politics, Republicans outscored Democrats by an average of 18 percentage points, according to a new Pew survey titled “Partisan Differences in Knowledge.”
Politics in Minnesota:
State GOP served with eviction papers for its St. Paul office space  —  The debt-plagued Republican Party of Minnesota is getting kicked out of its party headquarters near the state Capitol.  —  Massachusetts-based Hub Properties Trust filed paperwork in Ramsey County on Wednesday to evict …
Jeffry Scott / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Cynthia McKinney back and running for her old congressional seat  —  Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is preparing to run for her old 4th Congressional district seat on the Green Party ticket.  —  McKinney was defeated by 4th district incumbent Hank Johnson in 2006 …
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
President Obama Edits Out Climate Change From His Earth Day 2012 Proclamation  —  You'll be glad to know that in the last 12 months, that whole climate change problem went away.  At least that's the impression left from comparing President Obama's 2012 Earth Day proclamation with the 2011 one.
ABCNEWS:
Romney Spokeswoman in 2010: Marco Rubio is a “Wheeling-and-Dealing” “Lobbyist-Politician w/ “Questionable Ethics”  —  On his way to becoming a Republican superstar, Marco Rubio endured a bruising Senate campaign where his ethics, his integrity and even his commitment to conservative principles were under almost daily assault.
Discussion: GOP 12
 
 
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msnbc.com:
George Zimmerman released on bail in Trayvon Martin shooting case
James Surowiecki / New Yorker:
NO END IN SIGHT  —  The talk in Washington these days …
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Hill Poll: Romney leads in respect on working women issue
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Hugh Hefner: GOP ‘war against sex’
Discussion: Mediaite
Chicago News and Weather:
Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich Washing Pots in Prison, Looking Forward to Teaching Shakespeare
Discussion: Politico
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Ron Paul not quitting
Discussion: CNN
Reuters:
Suspected cyber attack hits Iran oil industry
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 Earlier Items: 
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
RNC Spokeswoman: Republican Economic Platform Will Be The Bush Program, ‘Just Updated’
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and The Mahablog
Reuters:
Sarkozy courts French far right after Hollande win
Allysia Finley / Wall Street Journal:
Can the Tea Party Defeat Dick Lugar?
Scott Sayare / New York Times:
For Results, Twitter Gets Out Early Word, in Code
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
West says Muslim Brotherhood being allowed to influence strategy
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Pushback for Romney Fund
 

 
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