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Designer of Ann Romney's $1K Shirt Says It's Off The Rack — CHANTILLY, Va. — The fashion house that makes the nearly $1,000 blouse worn by Ann Romney on morning television earlier this week tells ABC News that they had nothing to do with the wardrobe choice, remarking that they'd prefer to stay out of politics.
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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 …
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Jada Wong / Styleite:
Ann Romney's Reed Krakoff Bird T-Shirt Costs $990 — Today Mitt and Ann Romney appeared on CBS's This Morning to talk about Barack Obama, Osama bin Laden, and a slew of other political things. Sharp eyes over at The Cut noticed that Ann was wearing a bird-printed t-shirt by Reed Krakoff.
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Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Ann Romney's $990 shirt - worth it?
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The Gateway Pundit, Washington Free Beacon, Taylor Marsh and Wonkette
Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
Richard Grenell Flap Had ‘Blown Over,’ Mitt Romney Campaign Staff Thought
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Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
The Richard Grenell Fiasco: How a Cynical Political Move Blew Up in Mitt Romney's Face
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Outside the Beltway, Truth Wins Out, The New Republic, Towleroad News #gay, The Daily Dish and Poliglot
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” …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Obama: ‘New York girlfriend’ was composite — One of the more mysterious characters from President Obama's 1995 autobiography Dreams From My Father is the so-called ‘New York girlfriend.’ Obama never referred to her by name, or even by psuedonym, but he describes her appearance, her voice, and her mannerisms in specific detail.
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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 …
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msnbc.com and Los Angeles Times
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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msnbc.com, World Now, Pundit & Pundette, New York Magazine, The Lonely Conservative, LifeNews.com and Los Angeles Times
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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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Weasel Zippers and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
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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.
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Senators urge Village Voice to pull online sex ads — A group of senators has introduced a resolution urging Village Voice Media to take down the “adult entertainment” section of its classified-ads site, Backpage.com. — In a statement released Wednesday, Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) …
Ginger Gibson / Politico:
Newt Gingrich drops out: ‘Truly wild ride’ is over — ARLINGTON, Va. — Newt Gingrich finally called it quits. — For all intents and purposes, his campaign was over months ago. — In a crowded hotel ballroom steps from a Washington, D.C.-area subway stop Wednesday afternoon …
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Washington Post, Deseret News, The Caucus, Rumproast, ABCNEWS, Truthdig and Washington Monthly
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Joel Siegel / Yahoo! News:
Newt Gingrich $4 Million in Debt; Staffers and Creditors Fume
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Fox News:
Candidate Gingrich ends campaign but vows to keep fighting as ‘Citizen’ Gingrich
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Sister Toldjah
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Newt Gingrich brings campaign to a close, with swipes at Obama, jokes at his own expense
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Crooks and Liars
John Sides / FiveThirtyEight:
Is Obama More Popular Than He Should Be? — It's well known that presidential approval ratings are a powerful predictor of election outcomes. President Obama's current 47 percent approval rating would be among the lowest approval ratings of any incumbent president who went on to be re-elected.
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Questions and Observations, Ezra Klein, Hot Air and The Monkey Cage
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
GOP seeks to portray President Obama as nation's divider-in-chief — Republicans are seeking to portray President Obama as the divider-in-chief, arguing the presidential candidate who trumpeted hope and change four years ago is now running an increasingly negative campaign.
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The Moderate Voice
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Romney mocks Obama moving ‘forward’ — Mitt Romney's first pooled fundraiser tonight in Virginia featured this bit of mockery of the Obama campaign's new slogan, “Forward:” … Romney also stayed out of trouble that he got into when he was feeling looser at a fundraiser not attended by the press …
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The Last Tradition and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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.
Hillary Chabot / Boston Herald:
Warren: I used minority listing to make friends — Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, fending off questions about whether she used her Native American heritage to advance her career, said today she enrolled herself as a minority in law school directories for nearly a decade …
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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 …
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Wife Of Key Legislator Behind North Carolina's Anti-Gay Amendment Claims It Would Protect ‘Caucasian’ Race — The wife of a prominent North Carolina state senator and supporter of Amendment 1 — a proposed ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage, civil unions …
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www2.journalnow.com, Advocate, Towleroad News #gay, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Stinque and Truth Wins Out
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