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• At rally, Tim Pawlenty adds tea party style to conservative credentials (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Tea Party faithful rally against taxes (AFP)
• Pawlenty, Cain address Tea Party rally in Iowa (Reuters)
• OC Republican allegedly sent offensive Obama email (AP)
• Nigerians out in force for presidential vote (Reuters)
• Obama committed to South Korea trade deal: Clinton (Reuters)
• Cuba's president Castro backs term limits (AFP)
• Palin returns with feisty, anti-establishment speech (Reuters)
• Nigeria bids for history in crucial presidential election (AFP)
• Castro: No accumulation of property under reforms (AP)
• Philadelphia Orchestra to seek bankruptcy protection (Reuters)
• Trump's Campaign Manager Quest (The Daily Beast)
• `Tea-Paw?' Ex-Minn. governor courts tea partyers (AP)
• France says it does not aim to topple Arab leaders (Reuters)
• President Obama Not the First Person to Have Trouble with an Open Mic (ContributorNetwork)

At rally, Tim Pawlenty adds tea party style to conservative credentials (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 15 Apr 2011 08:13 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - The street vendors selling “Don’t Tread on Me” flags and Sarah Palin bobblehead dolls left no doubt that the tea party had again come to Boston Friday. But the man here to address them was was perhaps less immediaty recognizable â€" and he came here to help change that.

Tea Party faithful rally against taxes (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 02:20 PM PDT AFP - As spending debates rage in Washington, thousands of conservative Tea Party loyalists rallied nationwide Saturday against taxes and big government, fired up for a 2012 US election battle.

Pawlenty, Cain address Tea Party rally in Iowa (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 02:06 PM PDT Reuters - Likely Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, speaking to conservative Tea Party backers, separated himself from potential party rivals like Donald Trump over the "birther" issue on Saturday

OC Republican allegedly sent offensive Obama email (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 01:50 PM PDT AP - A Southern California Republican Party official is under fire after allegedly sending an email that included an altered photo depicting President Barack Obama as an ape.

Nigerians out in force for presidential vote (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 01:13 PM PDT Reuters - Tens of millions of Nigerians voted on Saturday in the most credible presidential election for decades, with early results pointing to a close race between President Goodluck Jonathan and rival Muhammadu Buhari.

Obama committed to South Korea trade deal: Clinton (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 05:14 PM PDT Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Sunday the Obama administration was committed to passing a long-delayed free trade agreement with South Korea, and that the pact was ready for review by Congress.

Cuba's president Castro backs term limits (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 04:08 PM PDT AFP - President Raul Castro, whose brother Fidel led Cuba for almost five decades, opened a Communist Party Congress Saturday proposing term limits of a maximum 10 years for top leadership spots.

Palin returns with feisty, anti-establishment speech (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 03:26 PM PDT Reuters - Conservative Sarah Palin returned to the U.S. political arena on Saturday after several months absence with a feisty speech attacking both the establishment Republican Party and Democratic President Barack Obama and proclaiming "the 2012 elections begin here."

Nigeria bids for history in crucial presidential election (AFP) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 03:01 PM PDT AFP - Millions of Nigerians voted Saturday in a crucial presidential election as Africa's most populous nation sought to make history by holding its cleanest polls for head of state in nearly two decades.

Castro: No accumulation of property under reforms (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 02:53 PM PDT AP - President Raul Castro drew a line in the Caribbean sand across which Cuba's economic reforms must never go, telling delegates to a key Communist Party summit on Saturday that he has rejected dozens of suggested reforms that would have allowed the concentration of property in private hands.

Philadelphia Orchestra to seek bankruptcy protection (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 02:40 PM PDT Reuters - The Philadelphia Orchestra, one of the nation's "Big Five" symphonies, on Saturday voted to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a board member said.

Trump's Campaign Manager Quest (The Daily Beast) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 01:02 PM PDT The Daily Beast - You’re hired? Over the past three weeks, Donald Trump has quietly interviewed three candidates for campaign manager of his potential 2012 presidential run—including scandal-plagued Evangelical lightning rod Ralph Reed.

`Tea-Paw?' Ex-Minn. governor courts tea partyers (AP) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 12:25 PM PDT AP - Republican Tim Pawlenty, "T-Paw" to his supporters, has increasingly tied himself to the new crop of grass-roots activists in the 2012 presidential campaign.

France says it does not aim to topple Arab leaders (Reuters) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:44 AM PDT Reuters - France is not trying to overthrow leaders in the Arab world, despite being at the forefront of the air campaign against Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Saturday.

President Obama Not the First Person to Have Trouble with an Open Mic (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 16 Apr 2011 11:41 AM PDT ContributorNetwork - President Barack Obama is making headlines for a few lines that were caught by a live microphone in a candid situation. The president was overheard speaking with donors after general media had already exited from a Chicago fundraiser. Some of his comments included harsh criticism of Republicans and statements like "You think we're stupid?"

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