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9:55 AM ET, April 30, 2012

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Jeff Himmelman / New York Magazine:
The Red Flag in the Flowerpot  —  Four decades after Watergate, there's something that still nags at Ben Bradlee about Deep Throat.  —  One day in early 2007, Bob Woodward poked his head into my office.  He and his wife, Elsa, had been out for dinner the night before with Ben Bradlee and his wife, Sally Quinn.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:   Woodward rejects New York mag piece
Dana Loesch / Twitchy:
Twitter, you have a problem: An infestation of radical flag-spam abusers … Hat tip to @Ed: … He is not alone.  —  And you will not be surprised to learn that at least one of the Twitter libs identified as a flag-spam ringleader also happens to be spearheading a Stop Rush Limbaugh effort online.
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Dana Loesch / Twitchy:
Twitter suspends another conservative account; Update: Chris Loesch free, flag-spam prog brigade still loose; Update: Loesch suspended again … Just as with @FreeMarket_US last week, Twitter has suspended the account of conservative Chis Loesch.  Chis is the husband of talk radio host …
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Dana Loesch / BREITBART.COM:
FREECHRISLOESCH: TWITTER AND CONSERVATIVES
Discussion: The Mental Recession
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Obama web video touts successes, unveils new 2012 slogan: ‘Forward’  —  The Obama campaign released a seven-minute long web video on Monday highlighting the president's first term accomplishments, contrasting them with the challenges he inherited from the prior administration.
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Laura MacInnis / Reuters:
Obama and Bill Clinton campaign together on economy  —  (Reuters) - Former President Bill Clinton gave a rousing endorsement of fellow Democrat Barack Obama in his first 2012 campaign appearance with the president on Sunday night, and helped him raise more than $2 million.
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
One year later, Obama team looks for lasting bin Laden bounce
Discussion: nation.foxnews.com
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Hardly a Close Ally, Clinton Teams With Obama to Raise Cash and Votes
Discussion: 2012 Decoded
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Legendary Paul Ryan  —  Mitt who?  —  The implosion of the Newt Gingrich presidential campaign—the first implosion, before the weird resurrection and inevitable second implosion—came because he used four words: right-wing social engineering.  He used the phrase, last May …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
The Ticket: Paul Ryan's Kinetic Rise in G.O.P.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Wasting Our Minds  —  In Spain, the unemployment rate among workers under 25 is more than 50 percent.  In Ireland almost a third of the young are unemployed.  Here in America, youth unemployment is “only” 16.5 percent, which is still terrible — but things could be worse.
Henry / Crooked Timber:
The Economist fails the Turing Test again  —  Five years ago I linked to a Bill Emmott column on the impending election of Nicholas Sarkozy thusly: … Now, his successor as editor at the Economist plays the same tune again, but even more crudely, deploring Sarkozy's probable successor.
Discussion: Discourse.net
Tjfang / CBS San Francisco:
Solyndra Not Dealing With Toxic Waste At Milpitas Facility  —  MILPITAS (CBS 5) — Three months ago, CBS 5 caught Solyndra tossing millions of dollars worth of brand new glass tubes used to make solar panels.  Now the bankrupt solar firm, once touted as a symbol of green technology, may be trying to abandon toxic waste.
New York Times:
Bigotry on the Ballot  —  North Carolina already has a law barring same-sex marriage, but the state's Republican-controlled Legislature is not satisfied.  It devised a measure to enshrine this obvious discrimination in the State Constitution and placed it on the ballot of the state's …
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Politico:
States could be in a bind on mandate  —  If the Supreme Court strikes down the health reform law's individual mandate, the states at the forefront of implementing the law could find themselves like Wile E. Coyote in the Road Runner cartoons: racing ahead only to discover there's no ground underneath their feet.
Discussion: Right Wing News
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
After Last Night  —  I watched Jimmy Kimmel's monologue at last night's White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in its entirety here.  The Hill also reported on the event, including President Obama's speech.  —  Kimmel was funny in spots, but as is always the case at these events …
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Mitt Romney's road to presidency this fall looks narrow on electoral map  —  It's no secret that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has a narrow path to win the presidency this fall.  Nowhere is that reality more apparent than when examining the electoral map on which Romney and President Obama will battle in November.
Anne Blythe / Raleigh News & Observer:
Young's wife returns to stand on Monday  —  Andrew and Cheri Young in a Hillsborough courtroom.  —  GREENSBORO — Cheri Young, the wife of former political aide Andrew Young, will resume testifying in John Edwards' trial Monday and might add new wrinkles to a story that veers between tragedy and farce with each disclosure.
Discussion: Washington Post
 
 
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Washington Examiner:
Medicare slush fund shows Obama's abuse of power
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Lawrence Summers / Financial Times:
Growth not austerity is best remedy for Europe
Oliver Wright / The Independent:
Eurozone crisis has a long way to go, warns Cameron
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