Top Items:
ABCNEWS:
Air Marshals Stop Alleged ‘Shoe Bomb’ Attempt On United Jet to Denver — Qatari Diplomat In Custody After Attempting to ‘Light Up’ His Shoes — Federal air marshals subdued a man who authorities say attempted to “light his shoes on fire” on a United flight from Washington Reagan to Denver Wednesday night …
Discussion:
New York Times, Associated Press, Left Coast Rebel, msnbc.com, The American Pundit, Jules Crittenden, Outside The Beltway, The Impolitic, Another Black Conservative, Hot Air, The Jawa Report, Fox News, Riehl World View, Mediaite, Below The Beltway, TalkLeft, Atlas Shrugs, PoliBlog, Political Byline, The Page, Talking Points Memo, Townhall.com, Wizbang, AMERICAblog News, American Power, The Political Carnival, TBogg and Beltway Confidential
RELATED:
Peter Slevin / Washington Post:
Two Republican stars — Palin and Bachmann — align for first time — MINNEAPOLIS — Two of the country's most popular Republicans, Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, teamed up Wednesday for a rollicking campaign rally that targeted President Obama as weak …
Discussion:
Firedoglake, Right Now, The Hill, culturekitchen, Open Left, Shakesville, Below The Beltway and Balloon Juice
RELATED:
The Note:
Perkins Warns Steele: ‘Republicans Are Not the Only Game in Town’
Perkins Warns Steele: ‘Republicans Are Not the Only Game in Town’
Discussion:
TPM LiveWire
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Palin, Bachmann enthrall Minn. rally
Palin, Bachmann enthrall Minn. rally
Discussion:
Think Progress, Left Coast Rebel, News Hounds, Taylor Marsh, TBogg, Power Line, Commentary and The Note
Christina Bellantoni / TPMDC:
GOPers Debate What's Worse — Keep Steele Or Face Media Blitz If He's Fired
GOPers Debate What's Worse — Keep Steele Or Face Media Blitz If He's Fired
Ezra Klein:
Cutting defense spending more popular than cutting education or Social Security — The chart above comes from Annie Lowrey, and is the single best explanation of why it's so much easier to say you want to cut government spending than it is to actually cut it.
RELATED:
Lacey Rose / Forbes:
Glenn Beck Inc — In his empire there's the ideology—and then there's the money machine. — Five and a half hours before showtime Glenn Beck still isn't quite sure how he'll provide tonight's entertainment, “The Future of History”—two hours of monologue (and answers to preselected questions) …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, Media Matters for America, Think Progress, Guardian, Plunderbund and TPM LiveWire
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Poll: Low Favorability Ratings for Sarah Palin — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continues to receive unfavorable ratings from the American public overall …
Discussion:
Dean's World, PostPartisan, No More Mister Nice Blog, Below The Beltway, The Eye and Riehl World View
Quinnipiac University:
Republicans Lead In Pennsylvania Senate, Governor Races, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Rendell Approval Up, While Obama Approval Is Down — Republican Pat Toomey is back on top 46 - 41 percent over Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania's seesaw U.S. Senate race, while Attorney General Tom Corbett …
Discussion:
Hot Air, The Hill, msnbc.com, Politics Daily, Real Clear Politics, Liberty Pundits dot net, USA Today, TPMDC, RedState and AmSpecBlog
RELATED:
Rasmussen Reports:
Election 2010: Colorado Senate — Colorado Senate: Norton 46%, Bennet 41% — Incumbent Democrat Michael Bennet has edged slightly closer to his strongest Republican rival, ex-Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton, in Colorado's U.S. Senate race. — The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey …
Drew Cline:
Romney: Obamacare is unconstitutional — In an interview at the Union Leader this morning, Mitt Romney said President Obama's health care plan was an unconstitutional violation of the 10th Amendment. — Romney has been saying that a key difference between his Massachusetts health care reform …
RELATED:
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Romney takes the 10th — The Union Leader's Drew Cline gets Mitt Romney to elaborate on his legal objections to health care legislation: — In an interview at the Union Leader this morning, Mitt Romney said President Obama's health care plan was an unconstitutional violation of the 10th Amendment.
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Linda Douglass leaving White House — Linda Douglass, the network TV correspondent who became a top pitchwoman for President Obama's health care plan, is leaving the White House. — She sounds like she needs a break; her last day is April 16, and she leaves for vacation the next day.
RELATED:
Mary Katharine Ham / Weekly Standard:
It's On: CBO Fielding VAT Questions From Congress — White House advisor Paul Volcker made news this week by calling a value-added tax (VAT) “not as toxic an idea” as it's been in the past for tackling the nation's deficit problem. Today, Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf confirmed he's …
RELATED:
Anita Kumar / Washington Post:
Virginia governor amends Confederate history proclamation to include slavery — RICHMOND — After a barrage of nationwide criticism for excluding slavery from his Confederate History Month proclamation, Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) on Wednesday conceded that it was “a major omission” …
Discussion:
The Atlantic Online, The Swamp, Politics Daily, American Spectator, NewsBusters.org, The New Republic, Right Now, Virginia Politics Blog, The Huffington Post, Jay Bookman, Yourish.com, Facing South, Commentary, Indecision Forever, Washington Monthly, AMERICAblog News and DISSENTING JUSTICE
RELATED:
CNN:
Suspect in Pelosi threats case weeps at court hearing — A man accused of threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wept Thursday as he talked to his attorney before a federal court hearing. — San Francisco, California (CNN) - A man accused of threatening House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wept Thursday …
Discussion:
The Politico
RELATED:
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Russia and U.S. Sign Nuclear Arms Reduction Pact — PRAGUE — With flourish and fanfare, President Obama and President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia signed a nuclear arms control treaty on Thursday and opened what they hoped would be a new era in the tumultuous relationship between two former cold war adversaries.
Discussion:
Associated Press, Little Green Footballs, Washington Post, The Moderate Voice, Wall Street Journal, The Caucus, Wonk Room, The Daily Beast, Indecision Forever, Bloomberg, Hot Air, RealClearWorld, Commentary, Danger Room, White House.gov Blog Feed, The Note, Washington Monthly, Guardian, The Politico and Time
Lumi Boldovici / chicagogop.com:
The Female Century vs The Hetaerae Century & The John Edwards “Affair” — Now, that the slogan “job creation” is being paraded by the democrats in office as an accomplishment of great significance meant to alleviate the serious economic precarious situation facing the country.
Discussion:
Mediaite, The Jawa Report, TPM LiveWire, The Political Carnival, culturekitchen, Newsweek Blogs and PopWatch
Sam Quinones / Los Angeles Times:
Humboldt County afraid of being uprooted from pot perch — As legalization of marijuana grows as a possibility, the Northern California enclave where weed culture thrives ponders its future. Would its pot economy wither or does greater opportunity await? — Garberville radio host Anna …
Bill Pennington / New York Times:
Augusta's Chairman Rebukes Woods — AUGUSTA, Ga. — The annual Masters address by the chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club is usually a routine, even humdrum, affair. The principal topic of conversation is often the speed of the greens, and the closest thing to controversy …
Jess Bravin / Law Blog:
Chief Justice Roberts on Obama, Justice Stevens, Law Reviews, More — Chief Justice John Roberts spoke at the Indiana University law school in Indianapolis on Wednesday. After an innocuous lecture about the court's makeup a century ago-anyone remember Justice Rufus Peckham?