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Rasmussen Reports:
57% Want Military Response to North Korea Missile Launch — Fifty-seven percent (57%) of U.S. voters nationwide favor a military response to eliminate North Korea's missile launching capability. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that just 15% of voters oppose a military response while 28% are not sure.
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Lawyers, Guns and Money, The Corner, PoliGazette, The Politico, Pundit & Pundette, Don Surber, Daily Pundit and New York Times
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Michaelscherer / Swampland:
Signs At Obama's Speech in Prague — Signs at speech: “Yes You Can Stop The Radar” (As in the planned U.S. missile defense radar in the Czech Republic) — “Lead Change on the Climate” (This one was signed, “Greenpeace") — “Obama: Sorry For Berlusconi” (Not gonna guess)
New York Times:
Obama Seizes on Missile Launch in Seeking Nuclear Cuts
Obama Seizes on Missile Launch in Seeking Nuclear Cuts
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The Politico, Crooks and Liars, WhirledView, Time, The Swamp, Gateway Pundit, D-Day, Democrats.com, American Power and Jules Crittenden
Little Green Footballs:
Bush Bowed Too — More than a few people on the right are screaming that Barack Obama should be impeached for bowing to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. — Those of you who are buying into this hyperventilating nonsense need to see this video. (Click the image to watch.)
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The Moderate Voice
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Kos: Conservatives like to shoot cops — The boss has noted the tragedy in Pittsburgh, where a lone gunman killed three police officers trying their best to defend their community: … Today is Palm Sunday, and I'd ask Hot Air readers to keep these men and their families in your prayers.
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Tommy Christopher / Daily Dose:
Twitter Badness: DailyKos Frontpager, Kos Joke About Pittsburgh Cop Shooting
Twitter Badness: DailyKos Frontpager, Kos Joke About Pittsburgh Cop Shooting
Dennis B. Roddy / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Suspect in officers' shooting was into conspiracy theories — Richard Andrew Poplawski was a young man convinced the nation was secretly controlled by a cabal that would eradicate freedom of speech, take away his guns and use the military to enslave the citizenry.
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The Raw Story, 24Ahead, Firedoglake, Pam's House Blend, Daimnation!, Little Green Footballs, PERRspectives, Political Byline, The Impolitic and TBogg
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Elle Halliwell / NEWS.com.au:
40 per cent of Australian women wear a bra with a cup size DD or bigger — Cup runneth over ... Hannah Milward and Sarah Todd get a helping hand from Myer's Victoria Jubb / Sam Ruttyn — THE bra market is expanding, literally. Up to 40 per cent of Australian women now buy bras with a cup size …
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
David Gregory Tries To Union Bust Auto Companies; GM CEO Refuses To Play Along — Unlike David Gregory, I have never held a job that benefited from union representation. And in some of those jobs (real estate development comes to mind), I've felt that lack of collective bargaining …
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The Raw Story
The Atlantic Online:
How the Crash Will Reshape America — The Next Economic Landscape — The housing bubble was the ultimate expression, and perhaps the last gasp, of an economic system some 80 years in the making, and now well past its “sell-by” date. The bubble encouraged massive, unsustainable growth …
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The Huffington Post
Mohammed Tawfeeq CNN / CNN:
Six gay men shot to death in Iraq by tribe members — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Six gay men were shot dead by members of their tribe in two separate incidents in the past 10 days, an official with Iraq's Interior ministry said. — In the most recent attack, two men were killed Thursday …
James Doran / Guardian:
US watchdog calls for bank executives to be sacked — Elizabeth Warren, chief watchdog of America's $700bn (£472bn) bank bailout plan, will this week call for the removal of top executives from Citigroup, AIG and other institutions that have received government funds in a damning report …
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Clusterstock, The Strata-Sphere, The Huffington Post, Newshoggers.com, DownWithTyranny! and Firedoglake
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Axelrod hits back at Cheney: Not behaving like a ‘statesman’ — (CNN) — Top Obama adviser David Axelrod sharply criticized Dick Cheney's recent contention that the president's national security policies have made the country less safe, suggesting the former vice president is not behaving like a “statesman.”
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Macsmind
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Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Research Links Poor Kids' Stress, Brain Impairment — Children raised in poverty suffer many ill effects: They often have health problems and tend to struggle in school, which can create a cycle of poverty across generations. — Now, research is providing what could be crucial clues …
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Matthew Yglesias
Nikki Finke / Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily:
EXCLUSIVE: Fox News Fires Showbiz Columnist For “Promoting” Piracy — Updates FBI Joins Fox In Hunt For Stolen ‘Wolverine’ Pirated On Web — SUNDAY UPDATE: News Corp issued the following statement from Los Angeles today — “Roger Friedman's views in no way reflect the views of News Corporation.