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11:15 AM ET, May 4, 2012

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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.
Annalyn Censky / CNNMoney.com:
April jobs report: Hiring slows, unemployment falls  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Hiring slowed in April and workers dropped out of the labor force in droves — not a good sign for the job market going forward.  —  The economy added just 115,000 jobs in the month, the Labor Department reported Friday …
Calculated Risk:
April Employment Report: 115,000 Jobs, 8.1% Unemployment Rate  —  From the BLS: … This was below expectations of 165,000 payroll jobs added.  —  Click on graph for larger image.  —  Job growth started picking up early last year, but then the economy was hit by a series of shocks …
Jeff Cox / CNBC:
Job Growth Just 115,000 in April, Rate Drops to 8.1%  —  April's job report lived up to muted expectations, with the economy creating a meager 115,000 jobs during the month as the unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent.  —  Job creation in the private sector was slightly better at 130,000 …
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
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Added Only 115,000 Jobs in April; Rate Is 8.1%
Discussion: Economix, Runnin' Scared and Gothamist
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Economy added 115,000 jobs in April; unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent
Discussion: Ezra Klein
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 …
Los Angeles Times:
Obama campaign tailors message for key states and voters
Discussion: Ballot Box, Washington Post and ABCNEWS
Washington Post:
Post Poll: Obama leads Romney as campaigns converge on Virginia
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
RNC campaign parodies Obama '08 sticker
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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Bob Kerrey / NY Daily News:
President Obama's Bin Laden indiscretion
Discussion: Ballot Box and Hotline On Call
Chris McGreal / Guardian:
Al-Qaida memo to Bin Laden warns of ‘cunning methods’ of US news networks
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Shot in the Dark
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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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Dissident will be allowed to leave China
Discussion: National Review
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 …
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Elizabeth Warren brings no peace to Dems  —  Elizabeth Warren's stumbling efforts to douse the firestorm surrounding her claims of being a Native American minority have raised concerns among local and national Democrats who are questioning her campaign's competence.
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The question we should be asking Elizabeth Warren.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
climateconference.heartland.org:
Our Billboards  —  Do You Still Believe in Global Warming?  —  Billboards in Chicago paid for by The Heartland Institute point out that some of the world's most notorious criminals say they “still believe in global warming” - and ask viewers if they do, too.
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 …
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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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
 
 
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Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
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Associated Press:
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BBC:
New rape claim in Strauss-Kahn inquiry in France
Discussion: Telegraph and Reuters
Liz Goodwin / Associated Press:
DEA agents apologize for forgetting college student in cell for four days
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Secondary Boycotts and the Breakdown of Civil Society
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Smartest Guy in the Room
NPR:
Do Liberals Live Under A ‘Tyranny Of Cliches’?
Bloomberg:
Colin Powell Says Iraq ‘Blot’ Teaches Need for Skepticism
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
‘Julia’  —  Alas, Team Obama has omitted a few milestones from the life of Julia:
Paul Krugman:
Feel the Confidence
Discussion: Eschaton