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Obama keeps up push to end gas, oil tax breaks
AP – Sat Apr 30, 4:33 pm ETPresident Barack Obama says oil companies are profiting from rising pump prices and he wants Congress to end $4 billion in annual tax breaks for the oil and gas industry. Full Story »
NH GOP gets back-to-back look at 2012 hopefuls
AP – Sat Apr 30, 4:45 pm ET- Video: Poll: NH Voters Would Pick Romney Over Obama WMUR Manchester
- Indiana GOP releases video lauding Daniels’ record Daily Caller – Sat Apr 30, 1:08 am ET
- Indiana governor vows to block federal funds for Planned Parenthood The Christian Science Monitor – Fri Apr 29, 8:38 pm ET
- Obama pledges help for illegal immigrant grads AP – Fri Apr 29, 8:52 pm ET
- Obama meets with wounded congresswoman Giffords AP – Fri Apr 29, 6:56 pm ET
- Stem cell research: Court gives Obama a victory, but policy still on trial The Christian Science Monitor – Fri Apr 29, 9:07 pm ET
- Obama trumps adversaries at Politico – Sat Apr 30, 11:30 pm ET
- Brown has surgery for cancerous growth at Politico – Sat Apr 30, 8:32 pm ET
- Obama mocks Trump's presidential ambitions AP – 25 mins ago
- Political perils abound in online rumor hothouse AP – Sat Apr 30, 10:54 am ET
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Seven killed as Syrian forces seize Daraa mosque
AFP – Sat Apr 30, 5:00 pm ET
AFP DAMASCUS (AFP) - Troops and snipers killed six civilians on Saturday in the flashpoint Syrian city of Daraa, activists said, as people buried scores of people killed in a "day of rage" on Friday. Full Story »
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Obama zings Trump at White House dinner
Reuters – 58 mins agoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama went to town on Donald Trump Saturday night, mocking his possible presidential ambitions in a sendup at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Full Story »
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FROM NOBODIES TO NOMINEES
David Shribman – Sat Apr 30, 8:02 pm ETWASHINGTON -- The conventional wisdom is that Barack Obama cannot be beaten. The root of this wisdom is the aphorism, sometimes attributed to former New York Gov. Benjamin B. Odell Jr. and sometimes to former House Speaker Joe Cannon, that you can't beat somebody (Obama) with nobody (any one of the dozen Republican nobodies, male and female, Trump and trumped). Full Story »
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NH forum: Romney wants to ‘hang’ Obama with misery index, Bachmann wants omnibus Obama repeal
Daily Caller – Sat Apr 30, 1:49 pm ETFive potential Republican presidential candidates gathered at a New Hampshire forum hosted by Americans for Prosperity on Friday night. Full Story »
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Only Huntsman can come from China
Daily Caller – Sat Apr 30, 1:05 pm ETJon Huntsman officially ends his tenure as U.S. Ambassador to China Saturday, and will switch gears into what many predict to be a presidential campaign. Full Story »
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Polls on Tea Party: Nearly 50 Percent Have Unfavorable Opinion of Movement
ContributorNetwork – Sat Apr 30, 3:42 pm ETA recent poll released by USA Today/Gallup indicates that the Tea Party may be gradually losing traction among Americans. It corroborates a poll conducted by CNN/Opinion Research Corporation conducted in March. Full Story »
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Activist sues Sarah Palin for $100K over traffic
AP – Sat Apr 30, 1:33 am ET
AP JUNEAU, Alaska - An activist is suing Sarah Palin for at least $100,000, claiming she undertook a campaign to "punish, embarrass, discredit and silence" him while she was Alaska's governor. Full Story »
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‘Huckabee for 2012′ seems more and more likely
Daily Caller – Fri Apr 29, 2:08 pm ETRumors swirled in the blogosphere mid-week that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee would not run for president in 2012. In denying the speculation, those in Huckabee’s corner revealed just how likely it is that Huckabee will run this cycle. Full Story »
Republican Presidential Candidates Vulnerable on Policy Positions
ContributorNetwork – Sat Apr 30, 3:42 pm ETMany of the Republicans considering a run for the presidency have taken policy positions in the past which might not make them very attractive to GOP voters should they decide to run in the primaries in 2012. Full Story »
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels coy on White House run
Reuters – Sat Apr 30, 3:24 pm ETIndiana Governor Mitch Daniels, a fiscal conservative seen as a possible formidable candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, said on Saturday he has not yet decided whether to run. Full Story »
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