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12:45 PM ET, May 3, 2012

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New York Times:
Behind Richard Grenell's Departure, a Right-Wing Storm  —  It was the biggest moment yet for Mitt Romney's foreign policy team: a conference call last Thursday, dialed into by dozens of news outlets from around the globe, to dissect and denounce President's Obama record on national security.
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Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney Meets With Conservative Media Off The Record … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Video, Ann Romney, Daily Caller, National Review, Washington Examiner, Conservative Media, Media News, Mitt Romney 2012, Powerline, Reince Priebus, Right Wing News …
BuzzFeed:
After A Twitter Win, Romney Meets The Online Right  —  A united front against Obama and the liberal media.  But: Huffington Post broke news of the meeting.  —  At the Republican National Committee yesterday, conservative online writers and bloggers who arrived to meet with Romney were also shown …
Melinda Liu / The Daily Beast:
Activist Chen Guangcheng: Let Me Leave China on Hillary Clinton's Plane  —  In an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast's Melinda Liu, blind dissident Chen Guangcheng says he's been abandoned by American officials at a Chinese hospital and begs to leave the country on Hillary Clinton's plane.
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Jane Perlez / New York Times:
Activist, Out of Embassy, Now Says He Wants to Leave China
Discussion: msnbc.com, Guardian and Taylor Marsh
Politico:
The dangerous new Obama book  —  Months before Barack Obama knew Mitt Romney would be his political opponent in 2012, the president knew the identity of his foremost literary challenger: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David Maraniss, who had been reaching out to Obama's old friends, classmates and lovers for the past several years.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Barry's Imaginary Girlfriend  —  There has been a lot of hilarity today over the revelation that the “New York girlfriend” who plays a significant role in Barack Obama's autobiography Dreams From My Father did not, strictly speaking, exist.  Rather, she was a composite or “compression” …
Combating Terrorism Center at West Point:
Letters from Abbottabad: Bin Ladin Sidelined?  —  Authors: Don Rassler, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, Liam Collins, Muhammad al-Obaidi, Nelly Lahoud  —  This report is a study of 17 de-classified documents captured during the Abbottabad raid and released to the Combating Terrorism Center (CTC).
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: The freaky quadruple deaky “tanning mom” clip  —  It's come to this.  —  Via Mediaite, I've been looking around all day for a palate cleanser.  And now, at last, I've found it.  Trust me: Whatever you have on your news palate right now, this'll clean it right out.  Doesn't matter how important it is.
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
On Hannity, Michelle Malkin Tears Into Juan Williams' Comparing Occupy Violence To Tea Party ‘Racism’  —  Sean Hannity brought in Michelle Malkin and Juan Williams to discuss the Occupy movement on Wednesday night.  As Hannity and Malkin criticized the movement's violence, Williams defended it …
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Jonathan Karl / Yahoo! News:
Bachmann: 'He Can't Beat Obama ... Not Going to Happen'  —  Michele Bachmann has finally decided to endorse Mitt Romney - 119 days after she dropped out of the race.  —  The endorsement will come at a joint Romney-Bachmann appearance on Thursday.  No doubt Bachmann will talk about the importance …
Arizona Republic:
Gilbert mass killing: Border militia leader identified as shooter  —  A border militia leader on Wednesday shot and killed four people at a Gilbert home, including a toddler, before committing suicide, sources said.  —  Sources identified the shooter as Jason “J.T.” Ready …
John Sexton / BREITBART.COM:
FRIENDLY FIRE: OCCUPIER HITS OCCUPIER WITH BRICK TO FACE  —  Yesterday afternoon, San Francisco protesters returned to 888 Turk Street, a vacant building they briefly occupied last month.  After re-occupying the vacant building Tuesday, some members of the group climbed onto the roof …
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Zombie / The PJ Tatler:
SF May Day Occupier hurls bricks and iron bars at police, injures bystander—live video
Rebel Pundit / BREITBART.COM:
MAY DAY PROTESTORS CANNOT EXPLAIN THEIR SIGNS OR THEIR CAUSE  —  Yesterday at Chicago's Union Park for the May Day march, I found group of protesters from the Asociación de Vendedores Ambulantes (Street Vendors Association) holding signs from the Chicago Community and Workers' Rights.
Discussion: The Daily Caller
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Politicizing the drone debate  —  During this week of retrospectives on the killing of Osama bin Laden, one of the most interesting public comments was White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan's speech formally affirming that “the United States government conducts targeted strikes …
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Jon Will's gift  —  When Jonathan Frederick Will was born 40 years ago — on May 4, 1972, his father's 31st birthday — the life expectancy for people with Down syndrome was about 20 years.  That is understandable.  —  The day after Jon was born, a doctor told Jon's parents that the first question …
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Catholics' Presidential Pick Differs by Ethnicity, Religiosity  —  Catholics overall are evenly split between Obama and Romney  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Catholic voters in the United States are evenly split in their support for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for president, mirroring the national trend.
Jonathan Martinand Alexander Burns / Reuters:
The state both parties want  —  The verdict is in: Barack Obama's 2008 victory in Virginia was not a fluke.  For the once reliably Republican state, competitive presidential elections are the new normal.  —  Just look at the candidates' schedules.  President Obama will make Richmond …
Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Hillary ‘never said a word to me’ about bin Laden raid  —  A year after the killing of Osama bin Laden, Bill Clinton revealed that despite being a former president and the husband of the secretary of state, he had no prior knowledge of the Pakistan raid.
Discussion: Politico
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Dubious donations (gangster government edition)  —  We have published a series of posts on Obama's “dubious donations” — i.e., the Obama campaign's invitation of fraudulent and illegal giving through the disabling of basic credit card/debit card verification devices.
Discussion: National Review
Paul Wiseman / Associated Press:
AP survey: Steady job gains to sustain US recovery  —  WASHINGTON (AP) - Hiring through the rest of 2012 will lag the brisk pace set early this year.  But it will be strong enough to push the unemployment rate below 8 percent by Election Day.  —  That's the view that emerges …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
DealBook:
Progress Is Seen in Advancing a Final Volcker Rule  —  A major new rule that has drawn the ire of Wall Street is on track for completion sooner than some bankers had expected, dashing the hopes of financial industry lobbyists, who have pressed for a delay.  —  Regulators are making significant progress …
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
My Grandfather Had High Cheekbones ‘Like All the Indians Do’  —  Speaking to a reporter on a local news station in Boston, Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts cited her ancestor's “high cheekbones” (quoting an aunt) as evidence of her Native American heritage:
U.Va. Center / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Readers React: Sloganeering on the Road to the White House  —  U.Va. Center for Politics  —  In 2008, Barack Obama used the phrase “Yes We Can” as part of his effort to energize millions of voters to support his presidential bid.  On Monday, the Obama campaign revealed its 2012 slogan …
Glenn Thrush / Reuters:
Rumsfeld scrapped raid - 6 years before calling OBL kill ‘easy call’  —  My colleague Mackenzie Weinger just posted a comment from former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld questioning just how tough a call President Obama made when he gave the kill order to the SEAL team targeting Osama bin Laden.
Discussion: Daily Kos and Hit & Run
 
 
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Ed Pilkington / Guardian:
Murdoch facing new challenge as US senator contacts Leveson over hacking
Discussion: US Politics, Politico and Boing Boing
ran.org:
Rainforest Action Network Renames Bank of America Stadium - “Bank of Coal”
Wall Street Journal:
Democrats in Convention Box
BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney No Habla Español
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller:
As I told you last week, some mischievous troublemaker created …
Politico:
GOPers flock to Ailes's Fox office
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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The Gallup Organization / Gallup:
U.S. Job Creation Nears Four-Year High
Justin Sink / The Hill:
RNC looks to bracket Obama re-election kickoff with ‘hype and blame’ messaging
Discussion: CNN
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Treasury: Tax receipts not changing deadline on $16.4T debt limit
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Senators urge Village Voice to pull online sex ads
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
GOP seeks to portray President Obama as nation's divider-in-chief
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Amy Bingham / Reuters:
Water Guns Banned, Handguns Allowed at GOP Convention
Discussion: Firedoglake
Jada Wong / Styleite:
Ann Romney's Reed Krakoff Bird T-Shirt Costs $990
 

 
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