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1:55 PM ET, May 3, 2012

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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 …
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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.
Ali Gharib / ThinkProgress:
EXPOSED: Romney Campaign Silenced Gay Spokesman To Avoid Confronting Hate Groups, Misled Reporters  —  When presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's openly gay foreign policy spokesman resigned under pressure from right-wing anti-gay groups, the campaign sought to minimize …
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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Walter Russell Mead / Via Meadia:
China Syndrome  —  No good deed goes unpunished; this must …
Discussion: Business Insider, Global Spin and CNN
Steven Jiang / CNN:
CNN Transcript: Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng
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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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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Fox News:
Issa sends out draft contempt order against Holder, says ‘Furious’ response ‘cannot stand’  —  Republican Rep. Darrell Issa has circulated a lengthy pair of documents making the case for holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress over his “refusal” to cooperate in an investigation …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Horror!... Neo-Nazi #Occupy Phoenix Protester Goes On Shooting Rampage - 5 Dead  —  Back in October we reported that Neo-Nazi Jason Todd Ready was patrolling the #Occupy Phoenix camp with AR-15′s.  —  Neo-Nazi Jason Todd (J.T.) Ready pictured on left patrolling the Occupy Phoenix protest …
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Cantor, Hoyer close to Ex-Im Bank deal  —  House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) are close to striking a deal on reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank, sources said Thursday.  —  Although the deal was not finalized as of Thursday, a House vote is considered likely next week.
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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:
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
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.
Carol Vogel / New York Times:
‘The Scream’ Sells for Nearly $120 Million at Sotheby's Auction  —  It took 12 nail-biting minutes and five eager bidders for Edvard Munch's famed 1895 pastel of “The Scream” to sell for $120 million, becoming the world's most expensive work of art ever to sell at auction.
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
Jason Hunsicker / Kirksville Daily Express …:
Rep. Zachary Wyatt: I am a proud gay man  —  Rep. Zachary Wyatt told members of the Missouri House of Representatives, reporters and the world Wednesday morning that he is gay while delivering a statement calling on members in the House GOP to withdraw support from House Bill 2051, the so-called “Don't Say Gay” bill.
 
 
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Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Bill Clinton: Hillary ‘never said a word to me’ about bin Laden raid
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Politicizing the drone debate
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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Justin Sink / The Hill:
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Discussion: CNN
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Treasury: Tax receipts not changing deadline on $16.4T debt limit
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Glenn Thrush / Reuters:
Rumsfeld scrapped raid - 6 years before calling OBL kill ‘easy call’
Discussion: Swampland, Daily Kos and Hit & Run
Jonathan Martinand Alexander Burns / Reuters:
The state both parties want
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Senators urge Village Voice to pull online sex ads
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
GOP strategy seeks to portray President Obama as nation's divider-in-chief
Discussion: The Moderate Voice