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Zachary Roth / TPMMuckraker:
Tea Party NY Gov Candidate's E-Mails Exposed: Racism, Porn, Bestiality — An online news outlet in New York state has obtained dozens of emails, many of them racist and sexually graphic, which it reports were sent by Carl Paladino, the Tea-Party-backed Republican candidate for governor of New York …
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Edward Mason / Boston Herald:
Scott Brown snubs Sarah Palin, bags Tea Party rally — U.S. Sen. Scott Brown, whose stunning victory in January was fueled in part by Tea Party anger, has snubbed the fiery grassroots group and declined its invitation to join Sarah Palin Wednesday at a massive rally on Boston Common, the Herald has learned.
Cristina Corbin / Fox News:
Tea Party Rallies Remain a Cauldron for Conspiracy Theories — The Tea Party Express has toured state after state trying to kick up a debate about constitutional rights and cast doubt on the legality of the recently passed health care overhaul, all with an eye toward the 2010 elections.
Michael Graham / The Natural Truth:
An Angry Progressive's Picture Is Worth A Thousand “Angry, Right-Wing” Words
An Angry Progressive's Picture Is Worth A Thousand “Angry, Right-Wing” Words
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
White House kills Hillary SCOTUS buzz — The White House moved quickly today to squelch the widening speculation that Hillary Clinton could be nominated to the Supreme Court, as Senator Orrin Hatch suggested this morning. — “The President thinks Secretary Clinton is doing an excellent job …
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Another Name on President Obama's Supreme Court Short List — Last Friday we told you that President Obama's short list of possible nominees to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the US Supreme Court contains fewer than 10 names. — We told you that 7th circuit Court of Appeals Judge Diane Wood …
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
ObamaCare and the Supreme Court
ObamaCare and the Supreme Court
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Douglas Burns / Iowa Independent:
King, Bachmann co-opt abortion rights message to attack health reform
Mark Halperin / Time:
GOP Avoids Fight on Replacing Justice John Paul Stevens
GOP Avoids Fight on Replacing Justice John Paul Stevens
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
The Sarcasm of Sarah Palin — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin delivered a well-received speech on Friday at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, an address defined — as almost all of her public pronouncements have been in the 18 months since she emerged on the national political scene — by a stinging sense of sarcasm.
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Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
Sarah Palin- “I Love Marco Rubio!” — The 2010 Southern Republican Leadership Convention (SRLC) in New Orleans featured a star-studded line up of prominent Republican politcos, headlined by former Governor Sarah Palin. Palin's speech was well received, but it was what she said immediately afterwards that was most newsworthy.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Boehner: Repealing healthcare law GOP's ‘No. 1 priority’ — Repealing healthcare reform will be Republicans' “No. 1 priority,” their House leader said Monday. — House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said that repealing the healthcare legislation passed in Congress last month …
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Jamie Guzzardo / CNN:
Conn. bishops fight sex abuse bill — Hartford, Connecticut (CNN) — A bill in Connecticut's legislature that would remove the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse cases has sparked a fervent response from the state's Roman Catholic bishops, who released a letter to parishioners Saturday imploring them to oppose the measure.
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Tom Kington / Guardian:
Bishop ‘blames Jews’ for abuse row
Bishop ‘blames Jews’ for abuse row
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘BARTER WITH YOUR DOCTOR’.... Once in a great while, we get a peek at Republicans' health care ideals, but rarely do we see them articulated as candidly as Sue Lowden described them last week. — Lowden is a former state senator and chair of the Nevada Republican Party.
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Ezra Klein:
The political case for immigration reform — I'd say it's pretty unlikely that comprehensive immigration reform happens this year. But then, who cares what I think? Harry Reid is in charge of the Senate, and he says he's got 56 votes, and it's gonna happen.
Jay Heflin / The Hill:
Healthcare law to sock middle class with a $3.9 billion tax increase in 2019 — Taxpayers earning less than $200,000 a year will pay roughly $3.9 billion more in taxes — in 2019 alone — because of healthcare reform, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, Congress's official scorekeeper for legislation.
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Dixie Carter Dies / CBS News:
U.S., China Agree to Pressure Iran on Nukes — Chinese “Prepared to Work with U.S.” on Iran's Possible Nuclear Program, White House Aide Says after Obama-Hu meeting — (CBS/AP) The White House says President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao are instructing their diplomats …
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CNN:
Conan O'Brien coming to TBS … And the winner of the Conan O'Brien sweepstakes is ... TBS. — According to a press release sent out by the cable network (which, like CNN, is a unit of Time Warner), the comedian is joining TBS to host a late-night show that is expected to debut in November.
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Wall Street Journal:
Did FDR End the Depression? — The economy took off after the postwar Congress cut taxes — 'He got us out of the Great Depression. " That's probably the most frequent comment made about President Franklin Roosevelt, who died 65 years ago today. Every Democratic president from Truman …
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Obama: We're still working on our democracy — President Obama said Sunday that the United States is still “working on” democracy and a top aide said he has taken “historic steps” to improve democracy in the United States during his time in office. — The remarks came as Obama met …
Brad / Think Progress:
Don Blankenship Called Safety Regulators ‘As Silly As Global Warming’ — The death toll from Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch mine explosion last week has reached a total of 29 miners, the worst coal disaster in 40 years. When the disaster occurred, Massey was contesting millions of dollars …
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Washington Post:
Millions of unemployed may never recover — WASHINGTON — Despite recent job gains, one grim statistic casts a long shadow over the recovering economy and the futures of more than 6 million workers: Fully 44 percent of the nation's 15 million unemployed have been out of work for more than six months.
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Ben Pershing / Washington Post:
Bill to extend jobless benefits faces Senate showdown
Bill to extend jobless benefits faces Senate showdown
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Michael Barbaro / City Room:
Powell Says He Will Challenge Rangel — Assemblyman Adam Clayton Powell IV announced on Monday that he would challenge Representative Charles B. Rangel in this fall's Democratic primary, setting the stage for a deeply personal battle between two of Harlem's biggest political names and oldest foes.
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John Tierney / New York Times:
Hallucinogens Have Doctors Tuning In Again — As a retired clinical psychologist, Clark Martin was well acquainted with traditional treatments for depression, but his own case seemed untreatable as he struggled through chemotherapy and other grueling regimens for kidney cancer. Counseling seemed futile to him.