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Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
Employers in U.S. Added Fewer Jobs Than Forecast in April  —  Employers in the U.S. added fewer workers than forecast in April and the jobless rate unexpectedly declined as people left the labor force, underscoring concern the world's largest economy may be losing speed.
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and The Page
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
Economy adds 115,000 jobs; unemployment drops to 8.1 percent  —  The nation's economy added 115,00 jobs in April while the unemployment rate dropped one-tenth of a point to 8.1 percent.  —  The figures are lower than a month ago and were also below what many analysts had expected.
Discussion: CNN, Reuters, Michelle Malkin and Hot Air
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Economy adds 115,000 jobs in April; unemployment rate drops to 8.1 percent  —  The unemployment rate dropped a notch to 8.1 percent in April, the Labor Department reported on Friday, but the pace of job growth has fallen off, amid other signs that the economic recovery is losing momentum.
Discussion: CNBC and Ezra Klein
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Added Only 115,000 Jobs in April; Rate Is 8.1%  —  The United States had another month of disappointing job growth in April, the Labor Department said Friday.  —  The nation's employers added 115,000 positions on net, after adding 154,000 in March.  April's job growth was less than what economists had been predicting.
Discussion: Runnin' Scared, Economix and Gothamist
Investor's Business Daily:
NBC Wags Dog For Bill Clinton, Who Let Osama Escape  —  Media: NBC's presentation of “Rock Center with Brian Williams” last Wednesday night demonstrated that MSNBC's Chris Matthews isn't the only one who feels tingles up his leg when he talks with or about President Obama.
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Romney Speaks Out On Grenell Resignation: We Don't Select People Based On ‘Their Sexual Preference’  —  Mitt Romney spoke out about the resignation of ex-foreign policy adviser Richard Grenell during an appearance on Fox News this morning.  In doing so, the former Massachusetts governor failed …
Plain Dealer:
Mitt Romney issues Ohio challenge to President Obama  —  Welcome to Ohio.  I have a simple question for you: Where are the jobs?  —  As we enter the fourth year of your term, unemployment is over 8 percent and has been for your entire term.  Nearly 23 million men and women are unemployed …
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Washington Post:
Romney faces a narrow path to 270 electoral votes, but his team remains optimistic  —  BOSTON — Mitt Romney faces a narrow path to win the presidency, one that requires winning back states that President Obama took from Republicans four years earlier and that has few apparent opportunities …
New York Times:
Clinton Cites ‘Progress’ on Chinese Dissident  —  BEIJING — In her first public comments on the dissident Chen Guangcheng since arriving in China, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Friday that she was encouraged by “progress” in a diplomatic crisis that has deeply embarrassed …
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Joe Picard / The Hill:
Obama administration hits back on notion that it abandoned Chen in China
Discussion: Eschaton
Jamie Klatell / The Hill:
Chinese dissident Chen becomes political headache for Obama
Discussion: National Review
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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Washington Post:
Post Poll: Obama leads Romney as campaigns converge on Virginia
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
RNC campaign parodies Obama '08 sticker
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Plutocracy, Paralysis, Perplexity  —  Before the Great Recession, I would sometimes give public lectures in which I would talk about rising inequality, making the point that the concentration of income at the top had reached levels not seen since 1929.  Often, someone in the audience …
Tim Mak / Politico:
Gingrich: Romney said untrue things  —  Newt Gingrich accused Mitt Romney on Thursday of saying “things that weren't true,"but fell short of reasserting his claim that Romney was a liar.  —  “I still believe that the Romney campaign said things that weren't true,” said Gingrich on CNN's “Situation Room.”
Discussion: CNN
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Washington Examiner:
Klein: Obama is winning the general election
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:   Perry: ‘God help us’ if Romney loses
BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA PRAISES NAZI SUPPORTER IN JEWISH HERITAGE MONTH PROCLAMATION  —  President Barack Obama issued a proclamation yesterday in celebration of Jewish Heritage Month that lauded Nazi supporter Gertrude Stein, the Algemeiner reports.  —  Stein, who was Jewish, supported the puppet Vichy regime …
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Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
‘Julia’  —  Alas, Team Obama has omitted a few milestones from the life of Julia:  —  4 months: Julia's mother decides that giving birth will be hard on her figure.  She kills Julia.  Under Barack Obama, her right to do so is absolutely nonnegotiable.  —  10 years: Trapped in a failing …
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David Harsanyi / Human Events:
Who the hell is “Julia” and why am I paying for her whole life?
BBC:
New rape claim in Strauss-Kahn inquiry in France  —  Mr Strauss-Kahn had to resign as head of the IMF after he was accused of sexual assault  —  Magistrates in France have asked for a new investigation into alleged rape involving former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan.
Discussion: Telegraph and Reuters
Jonathan H. Adler / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Secondary Boycotts and the Breakdown of Civil Society  —  Activist groups of various political stripes are increasingly urging boycotts of companies not because of the companies' own behavior, but because of the behavior or speech of those the companies patronize or support.
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Bradley A. Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Welcome to Boycott Nation
Discussion: PointOfLaw Forum
 
 
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Obama's Cinco de Mayo wish: Signing the DREAM Act
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Colin Powell Says Iraq ‘Blot’ Teaches Need for Skepticism
Paul Krugman:
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