POLITICAL CARTOONS FOR THE WEEK ENDING 5/9/12:

Gay Marriage Issue Erupts

Dems Say Yes, GOP Says No, Voters Evenly Split

Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal (readersupportednews.org)

Obama Embraces Marriage Equality (thinkprogress.org)

The Problem With “States’ rights” Part 745, North Carolina Edition (alternet.org)

Major Labor Unions Back Obama’s Support for Marriage Equality (crooksandliars.com video)

Log Cabin Republicans: Obama Announcing Support for Marriage Equality Is “Offensive And Callous” (thinkprogress.org)

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France Rejects Austerity Measures

Germany Not Likely to Follow Suit

Greek Left Gets Mandate to Create Government — Says No to Bailout and Illegal Debt (thepeoplesvoice.org)

Sen. Bernie Sanders on the Backlash to Austerity and Ways to Boost the US Economy (crooksandliars.com video)

Austerity Can’t Be Just for Regular People (readersupportednews.org)

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Obama Launches Re-election Campaign

President to Focus on Key Accomplishments

The Obama Paradox: If Only Obama the Campaigner Could Be Obama the President (alternet.org)

Jon Stewart on the Right’s Cognitive Dissonance With Refusing to Give President Obama Credit for Anything (crooksandliars.com video)

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GOP Calls Out President

Promises Broken, Country in Crisis, Party Leaders Say

Ron Paul Terrifies the Red and Blue Team (yolasite.com)

Sen. Richard Lugar's Parting Words: Beware of Tea Party Extremists (readersupportednews.org)

Jon Stewart Criticizes Bryan Fischer, GOP For Richard Grenell Resignation (huffingtonpost.com video)

GOP Freshman Breaks With His Party to Support Planned Parenthood Funding (thinkprogress.org)

Scott Walker’s Billionaire Boys Club (readersupportednews.org)

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War on Terror Escalates

But War in Afghanistan to Be Re-evaluated

9/11 Defense Attorneys Denounce Guantanamo Court System as “Rigged, Unjust” (readersupportednews.org)

FBI Entrapment Snares More Victims (thepeoplesvoice.org)

CIA Catches Itself in New Underwear Bomb Plot (infowars.com)

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Chinese Dissident Cleared to Flee

But Worries for His Family Convince Him to Decline

Chinese Government Will Likely Approve Chen Guangcheng’s Study Abroad Application (alternet.org)

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In Other News

New Study Predicts Frack Fluids Can Migrate to Aquifers Within Years (propublica.org)

“I Want the Government in my Vagina!” Watch Kate Beckinsale, Judy Greer, and Andrea Savage Brilliantly Mock the Anti-Choice GOP (alternet.org viodeo)

Fukushima: A Nuclear War without a War: The Unspoken Crisis of Worldwide Nuclear Radiation (wakeupfromyourslumber.com)

Gold Rush Imperils Peru’s Rainforest (aljazeera.com)

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