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Sarah Palin To Host First Fox News Show Thursday - With LL Cool J — This is not an April Fool's joke. Sarah Palin will take her first stab at television hosting when she fronts a new Fox News series, Real American Stories, premiering Thursday April 1 at 10pmET.
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Still Surging: Fox News Has Best Quarter In Network History — Fox News had their best year of all time in 2009. Now that we've finished the first quarter of 2010, it's clear FNC is showing no signs of letting up - they just finished their best quarter ever, in total day total viewers.
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
Together At Last: Palin To Debut New Fox Show With Guest, L.L. Cool J
Together At Last: Palin To Debut New Fox Show With Guest, L.L. Cool J
Howard Fineman / Newsweek Blogs:
The Numbers Don't Lie — A Democratic senator I can't name, who reluctantly voted for the health-care bill out of loyalty to his party and his admiration for Barack Obama, privately complained to me that the measure was political folly, in part because of the way it goes into effect …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Democratic senator: Voting for ObamaCare was “political folly” — You know it and I know it, but it's always been an open question whether they know it too. I think Obama and Pelosi do. This was their chance to set the country on the path to welfare-state nirvana and they calculated …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
REAPING WHAT ONE SOWS ON THE CENSUS.... Prominent right-wing voices decided last year that the U.S. census was not to be trusted. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said the process could lead to “internment camps.” Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) called the census “invasive.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Iran Nuclear Scientist Defects to U.S. In CIA ‘Intelligence Coup’ — Shahram Amiri Disappeared Last June in Saudi Arabia, Reportedly Now Resettled in the United States — An award-winning Iranian nuclear scientist, who disappeared last year under mysterious circumstances …
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Militia Probe Included Undercover FBI Agent — An undercover agent was part of the federal investigation of a Michigan-based Christian militia group that allegedly planned to spark an uprising against the government by killing police officers, court documents show.
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Justin Elliott / TPMMuckraker:
For Hutaree, Militia Ethos Extended To Family Life
For Hutaree, Militia Ethos Extended To Family Life
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Daniel Larison / Eunomia:
Hating Us For Our Degeneracy — This morning Bret Stephens dusted off D'Souza's thesis on jihadism: … That must be why America was beset by jihadist attacks since at least 1948. Oh, wait, this never happened? How strange. That might mean that the decadence-as-cause …
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Obsidian Wings
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Lady Gaga Versus Mideast Peace — Are settlements more offensive than pop stars? — Pop quiz—What does more to galvanize radical anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world: (a) Israeli settlements on the West Bank; or (b) a Lady Gaga music video? — If your answer is (b) …
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Charles Johnson “Fairly Sure” the Tennesee State Flag is a Neo-Nazi Logo... And I'm fairly sure the Husky Ponytailed Blogger's a washed-up has-been... The link he provides goes to this picture: — Umm yeah, that's the Tennesee state flag... FAIL.
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For What It's Worth
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John McCain Calls For National Guard Deployment To The Border — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), under fire from the right for not being tough enough on immigration in his Senate primary race, has called on Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to dispatch National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Lo, the Mideast Moves — BRUSSELS — The passage of the U.S. health care bill is a major foreign policy victory for President Barack Obama. — It empowers him by demonstrating his ability to deliver. Nowhere is that more important than in the Middle East.
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Barry Rubin / RubinReports:
Just Say “No”: I Get Personally Invited to Help the Obama …
Just Say “No”: I Get Personally Invited to Help the Obama …
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The Jawa Report
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
RNC Fires “Young Eagles” Director — The RNC has fired the director of its young donors program after she approved an expense for a risque L.A. nightclub, multiple sources tell Hotline OnCall. — Allison Meyers, director of the RNC's “Young Eagles” program, was terminated yesterday …
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Henry Waxman's War on Accounting — Accounting basics: when a company experiences what accountants call “a material adverse impact” on its expected future earnings, and those changes affect an item that is already on the balance sheet, the company is required to record the negative impact …
Peter Baker / The Caucus:
Obama Defends Health Care Law — President Obama defended his health care program in an interview broadcast on Tuesday morning, portraying it as a “centrist approach” that Republicans are opposing mainly because they want “political benefit in November.” — Speaking on NBC's “Today” show …
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Peter Baker / The Caucus:
Obama Signs Bill on Student Loans and Health Care
Obama Signs Bill on Student Loans and Health Care
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Eric Zimmermann / The Hill:
Obama ropes in Romney on healthcare — President Obama tied his own healthcare reform law to Romneycare today, a growing theme that isn't helping the former Massachusetts Governor in his early positioning for 2012. — “I think that the Republican Party made a calculated decision …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Obama: My Plan Is Like Romneycare
Obama: My Plan Is Like Romneycare
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Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Companies Push to Repeal Provision of Health Reform — An association representing 300 large corporations urged President Obama and Congress on Monday to repeal a provision of the health care overhaul that prompted AT&T, Caterpillar and other companies to announce substantial charges for the current quarter.
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Obama Prepared to Move Agenda Forward With or Without GOP — ABC News' David Chalian Reports: In the aftermath of President Obama's health care victory without a single Republican vote, White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod still holds out hope for some bipartisan agreement on future policy proposals …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Palin Inc. — I'm increasingly convinced that Sarah Palin is running to head a media empire rather than a presidential campaign. — On that front, she is nothing short of an extraordinary success. She's got a multi-year gig at Fox News. She just signed a deal with Discovery's TLC for a documentary about her native Alaska.
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Julie Bykowicz / Baltimore Sun:
Ehrlich announces run for governor — Decision to challenge O'Malley comes after months-long ‘listening tour’ — Former Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. confirmed Tuesday that he will challenge Gov. Martin O'Malley this fall. — Ehrlich, the state's only Republican governor in a generation …
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NASA Data Worse Than Climate-Gate Data, Space Agency Admits — NASA can put a man on the moon, but the space agency can't tell you what the temperature was back then.
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Google Buzz Privacy Flaw Snags Another Victim: White House Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin — It's been several weeks now since the disastrous rollout of Google Buzz's initial social networking platform. It was on February 9ththat Google Buzz unleashed its newest foray into social media to compete with the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
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Half of Commercial Mortgages to Be Underwater: Warren — By the end of 2010, about half of all commercial real estate mortgages will be underwater, said Elizabeth Warren, chairperson of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel, in a wide-ranging interview on Monday.
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The Rich Can't Pay for ObamaCare — The president intends to squeeze an extra $1.2 trillion over 10 years from a tiny sliver of taxpayers who already pay more than half of all individual taxes. It won't work. — President Barack Obama's new health-care legislation aims to raise $210 billion …
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Assessing John Thune's 2012 chances — Photo by Melina Mara of the Washington Post — Today's candidate filing deadline in South Dakota marks the start of serious talk about Sen. John Thune's potential presidential campaign in 2012. — The Thune forces have been loathe to discuss …
Rdepriest / Arkansas News:
Blanche goes bogus — On the day that Lt. Gov. Bill Halter formally accepted the draft of national left-wing activists and announced he would run in the Democratic primary against U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a person close to Lincoln told me Blanche was going to get tough.
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Rail cops go great guns — Stand clear of the submachine guns. — In an unusual move, a heavily armed NYPD security battalion with enough firepower to wipe out Downtown Brooklyn descended onto the city's subway trains yesterday in response to suicide bombings in Russia that killed dozens of passengers in Moscow's subway.
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Bill Black: Not Dead Yet — New Deal 2.0 readers know that Roosevelt Institute Braintruster Bill Black isn't afraid to tell it like it is, and in recent weeks he's been turning up the heat on the banksters who defrauded the American public and brought the country to the brink of economic collapse.