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12:15 PM ET, May 4, 2012

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Tyler Durden / zerohedge.com/fullrss2.xml:
People Not In Labor Force Soar By 522,000, Labor Force Participation Rate Lowest Since 1981  —  it is just getting sad now.  In April the number of people not in the labor force rose by a whopping 522,000 from 87,897,000 to  —  88,419,000.  This is the highest on record.
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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 …
Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
U.S. Added Only 115,000 Jobs in April; Rate Is 8.1%
Shobhana Chandra / Bloomberg:
Employers in U.S. Added Fewer Jobs Than Forecast in April
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and The Page
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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Amy Bingham / ABCNEWS:
Ted Nugent to Keep Up Obama Flames  —  Ted Nugent speaks during a rally, Oct. 30, 2010 in Charleston, W.V. (Randy Snyder/Getty Images)  —  Ted Nugent, after a Secret Service investigation, a canceled Army concert and an outpouring of criticism, said presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney's camp …
CNN:
FIRST ON CNN: Romney drops challenge for OH delegates  —  (CNN) - Governor Mitt Romney will drop his challenge for the four remaining delegates in Ohio, effectively giving them to Rick Santorum.  —  The delegates come from districts Santorum won but because he didn't have a full slate …
Discussion: GOP 12 and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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 …
Tim Mak / Politico:
Gingrich: Romney said untrue things
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Deal Appears Near on Dissident, But Clinton Expresses Caution  —  BEIJING — China has agreed to accept an application by the dissident lawyer Chen Guangcheng to travel to the United States as a student, the State Department said on Friday, pointing to a quick resolution of an eight …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Dissident will be allowed to leave China
Bob Kerrey / NY Daily News:
President Obama's Bin Laden indiscretion  —  He spoke too soon and said too much  —  In the Situation Room of the White House on May 1, 2011, President Obama and his national security team receive an update on the Osama Bin Laden raid.  —  The operation that resulted in the death …
Discussion: Ballot Box and Hotline On Call
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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.
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
Henry Samuel / Telegraph:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn could face gang rape charges after US hotel orgy  —  Dominique Strauss-Kahn could face gang rape charges after an escort girl said the former International Monetary Fund chief and three others held her down and forced her to have anal sex.  —  Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Discussion: Reuters and The Raw Story
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BBC:   New rape claim in Strauss-Kahn inquiry in France
Maïa De La Baume / New York Times:
New Sex Allegations Against Strauss-Kahn
Discussion: msnbc.com, DCist and New York Magazine
Michael Graham / Boston Herald:
See the pale-faced Warren redden  —  Dances with truths about her ethnicity  —  Is “Liz Warren” how you say “affirmative action” in Cherokee?  —  When the “Faux-cahontas” story first broke, I looked at it mostly as a laugh line — a truth-stretching liberal hoist on the left's identity-politics petard.
Discussion: Hot Air and Althouse
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Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Elizabeth Warren brings no peace to Dems
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The question we should be asking Elizabeth Warren.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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 …
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.
Indianapolis Star:
Indiana senator: Poll gives Mourdock sizable lead over Lugar  —  A new poll shows Treasurer Richard Mourdock building a commanding lead over Sen. Richard Lugar.  —  The Howey/DePauw Indiana Battleground Poll, conducted by two prominent Republican and Democratic pollsters, shows Mourdock with a 48 percent to 38 percent lead over Lugar.
Discussion: Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
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Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: The Case for Dick Lugar
Discussion: PoliPundit.com
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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Virginia Postrel / Bloomberg:
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The White House:
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