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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Progressives can't get past the Knowledge Problem — “If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?” — President Reagan, Jan. 20, 1981. — Economist Friedrich Hayek explained in 1945 why centrally controlled “command economies” …
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Ian Urbina / New York Times:
School Law Clinics Face a Backlash — ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Law school students nationwide are facing growing attacks in the courts and legislatures as legal clinics at the schools increasingly take on powerful interests that few other nonprofit groups have the resources to challenge.
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Strong earthquake hits Baja California — (CNN) — A string of earthquakes rattled the Pacific Coast of the United States and Mexico on Sunday, including a magnitude 6.9 quake that could be felt across Baja California, Arizona and southern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Kyl: GOP Willing To Filibuster Obama's Yet-To-Be-Named SCOTUS Nominee — The media have been in a flurry in recent weeks over whether Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will retire this summer. Today on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) already held open the possibility …
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Obama family attends Easter service in Southeast D.C. — President Obama and his family attended Easter Sunday service at Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a 2,500-member congregation in the poorest section of the nation's capital. — Hundreds of people began lining up in front …
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Frank Rich / New York Times:
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Obama! — NOT since Clark Kent changed in a phone booth has there been an instant image makeover to match Barack Obama's in the aftermath of his health care victory. “He went from Jimmy Carter to F.D.R. in just a fortnight,” said one of the “Game Change” authors, Mark Halperin, on MSNBC.
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Sean J. Miller / The Hill:
Survey: Four in 10 Tea Party members are Dems or independents — Four in 10 Tea Party members are either Democrats or Independents, according to a new national survey. — The findings provide one of the most detailed portraits to date of the grassroots movement that started last year.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Rush Limbaugh, Chris Matthews and the ‘regime’ question — On Friday, I asked Rush Limbaugh for his response to President Obama's description of him as “troublesome” and of his program as “vitriol.” Limbaugh told me he does not believe Obama is trying to do what is best for the country and added …
Telegraph:
David Petraeus for President: Run General, run — With many voters yearning for an outsider, and military officers looked up to, General David Petraeus could be a powerful presidential candidate and a potentially accomplished President. — Toby Harnden's American Way
Political Punch:
Greenspan: Financial Crisis Doesn't Indict Ayn Rand Theories — If the recent financial crisis reveals a problem with the Ayn Rand view that free markets can police themselves, Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan doesn't see it. Greenspan will testify before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission …
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Richard Gray / Telegraph:
Missing link between man and apes found — A “missing link” between humans and their apelike ancestors has been discovered. — The new species of hominid, the evolutionary branch of primates that includes humans, is to be revealed when the two-million-year-old skeleton of a child is unveiled this week.
Michael J. Burry / New York Times:
I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn't the Fed? — ALAN GREENSPAN, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, proclaimed last month that no one could have predicted the housing bubble. “Everybody missed it,” he said, “academia, the Federal Reserve, all regulators.” — But that is not how I remember it.
Jim Snyder / The Hill:
Summers: Economy has ‘long way to go’; recovery to accelerate — The economy has a “long way to go” before unemployment falls significantly, although job numbers will continue to improve, Lawrence Summers, the director for the National Economic Council, said Sunday.
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Wall Street Journal:
Karzai Slams the West Again — KABUL, Afghanistan—President Hamid Karzai lashed out at his Western backers for the second time in three days on Saturday, accusing the U.S. of interfering in Afghan affairs and saying the Taliban insurgency would become a legitimate resistance movement if the meddling doesn't stop.
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