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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Blanche Lincoln Poll — John Boozman will enter the Arkansas Senate race this weekend as the frontrunner. He leads incumbent Blanche Lincoln by an amazing 56-33 margin in our first poll of the race. — Lincoln's approval rating has sunk to just 27%, with 62% of voters in the state disapproving of her.
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Susan Davis / Washington Wire:
Poll Spells Trouble for Sen. Lincoln — If the election were held today, Sen. Blanche Lincoln would lose in a landslide, according to the latest polling from Public Policy. — The poll shows 33% of voters would pick the Arkansas Democrat, while 56% would vote for Republican Rep. John Boozman.
Fox News:
U.S. Attorney Steps Down From O'Keefe Case — James O'Keefe, accused of trying to tamper with the phones of Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, was “framed” by the media and the U.S. attorney's office, Andrew Breitbart, publisher of BigGovernment.com, told Fox News Monday.
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Are You Capable of Decency, Rahm Emanuel? — The newly-released mind-boggling, record-smashing $3,400,000,000,000 federal budget invites plenty of opportunity to debate the merits of incurring more and more debt that will drown the next generation of Americans. Never has it been possible to spend your way out of debt.
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CBC News:
Danny Williams going to U.S. for heart surgery — Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams is set to undergo heart surgery this week in the United States. — CBC News confirmed Monday that Williams, 59, left the province earlier in the day and will have surgery later in the week.
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National Post:
N.L. Premier Williams set to have heart surgery in U.S. — ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — Newfoundland Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery later this week in the United States. — Deputy premier Kathy Dunderdale confirmed the treatment at a news conference Tuesday …
Washington Post:
Military scaling back 'don't ask, don't tell' — President Obama's top defense officials will tell the Senate on Tuesday that the military will no longer aggressively pursue disciplinary action against gay service members whose orientation is revealed against their will by third parties, sources say.
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Fred Pearce / Guardian:
Leaked climate emails scientist ‘hid’ flaws — Exclusive: Key study by East Anglia professor Phil Jones was based on suspect figures — • How the location of weather stations in China undermines data — • How the ‘climategate’ scandal is bogus and based on climate sceptics' lies
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Ezra Klein:
Rep. Paul Ryan's daring budget proposal — The White House's 2011 budget is only the second-most interesting budget proposal released recently. First prize goes to Congressman Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, who's released a budget proposal that actually erases the massive long-term deficit.
Sally Jenkins / Washington Post:
Tebow's Super Bowl ad isn't intolerant; its critics are — I'll spit this out quick, before the armies of feminism try to gag me and strap electrodes to my forehead: Tim Tebow is one of the better things to happen to young women in some time. I realize this stance won't endear me to the …
Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
Obama Budget Would Impose Host of Tax Increases — Obama budget plan would imposes host of tax increases on businesses, wealthy families — While President Barack Obama is proposing to cut some taxes for companies that hire workers, his budget would raise a host of other taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals.
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Garance Franke-Ruta / Washington Post:
Sarah Palin magazine hits newsstands and convenience stores — One of the things Sarah Palin has sought to do since stepping down from the governor's office in Alaska is seize control of her image. So it is perhaps a sign of how difficult a task that remains for the GOP's former vice presidential nominee …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Huge Deficits May Alter U.S. Politics and Global Power — WASHINGTON — In a federal budget filled with mind-boggling statistics, two numbers stand out as particularly stunning, for the way they may change American politics and American power. — The first is the projected deficit in the coming year …
Rob Stein / Washington Post:
Abstinence-only programs might work, study says — Sex education classes that focus on encouraging children to remain abstinent can persuade a significant proportion to delay sexual activity, researchers reported Monday in a landmark study that could have major implications for U.S. efforts …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Ford vs. ‘young lady’ — Harold Ford, on Colbert, offers a remarkably hazy definition of “pro-life” and an unusual term to refer to his rival as he explained his shifting positions: — If you are looking for politicians who are static in thinking, I'm not your guy …
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Virginia Senate bills say no to requiring health insurance — RICHMOND — Virginia's Democratic-controlled state Senate passed measures Monday that would make it illegal to require individuals to purchase health insurance, a direct challenge to the party's efforts in Washington to reform health care.
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Stuart Schwartz / American Thinker:
The Fat Lady Sings for Keith Olbermann — “It ain't over until the fat lady sings.” — The fat lady is doing more than singing for Keith Olbermann. And, like most of the other women in the life of MS-NBC's premiere leftist sexist, she's not interested in dating him.
Washington Post:
Rising FHA default rate foreshadows a crush of foreclosures — The share of borrowers who are falling seriously behind on loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration jumped by more than a third in the past year, foreshadowing a crush of foreclosures that could further buffet an agency vital to the housing market's recovery.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Durbin and Schumer prepare for fight with donations to Senate colleagues — The second- and third-ranking Senate Democratic leaders are doling out huge sums of cash, laying the groundwork for a leadership race should Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid lose reelection.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
Obama administration is tone-deaf to concerns about terrorism — There is almost nothing the Obama administration does regarding terrorism that makes me feel safer. Whether it is guaranteeing captured terrorists that they will not be waterboarded, reciting terrorists their rights …
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Kbh / KeithHennessey.com:
The President's bigger budget — The President proposed his budget today. This is the budget for federal fiscal year 2011, which begins October 1 of this year. — Most people in Washington will focus on (1) the effects of the proposed budget on the deficit and (2) what the budget proposes …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
The Geezers' Crusade — We like to think that in days gone by, the young venerated the elderly. But that wasn't always so. In “As You Like It,” Shakespeare's morose character, Jaques, calls old age “second childishness and mere oblivion.” Walt Whitman hoped that the tedium and pettiness …
David Rogers / The Politico:
Murtha back in the hospital — Pennsylvania Rep. John Murtha was back in the hospital Tuesday after undergoing gallbladder surgery last week. — The Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington said that the 77-year-old Democrat was a patient in its intensive care unit but referred all questions about his condition to his family.
Jack Coleman / NewsBusters.org:
Ed Schultz on Visiting White House: ‘Almost a Shrine’ - to Obama — Agreed, this doesn't come as much of a shock. What's surprising is that Schultz said “almost”. — Here's Schultz on his radio show Friday talking about meeting with Obama advisor David Axelrod at the White House the day before …
Paul Krugman:
A Depressing Budget — I haven't gone through the budget proposal in detail yet. But there's no escaping the sense that this is a tremendous comedown from the hopes of a year ago. — As many have pointed out, the administration projects high unemployment for years to come: — BLS, OMB
New York Times:
Curveball Alters Talks on Wall St. Reform — WASHINGTON — President Obama's proposals to tax and curb the activities of Wall Street have thrown an unpredictable element into the debate over financial regulatory reform. They also have touched off an intensive new round of lobbying …
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