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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Senator Byrd is Ill; A Note on West Virginia's Vacancy Laws — The 92-year-old Senator Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in United States history, is seriously ill, according to his office. — Byrd has been hospitalized three times since 2009. If he were not to recover this time …
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Joe Holley / Washington Post:
West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd dead at 92 — Robert C. Byrd, a conservative West Virginia Democrat who became the longest-serving member of Congress in history and used his masterful knowledge of the institution to shape the federal budget, protect the procedural rules of the Senate and …
Martin Kady II / The Politico:
Robert Byrd dies at 92 — The Senate has lost one of its legends with the death of Robert C. Byrd, an orphan child who married a coal miner's daughter and rose from the hollows of West Virginia coal country to become the longest serving senator in U.S. history.
Adam Clymer / New York Times:
Robert Byrd, Respected Voice of the Senate, Dies at 92 — Robert C. Byrd, who used his record tenure as a United States senator to fight for the primacy of the legislative branch of government and to build a modern West Virginia with vast amounts of federal money, died early on Monday. He was 92.
Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Byrd, 92, ‘seriously ill’ in Washington hospital — Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) was admitted to a Washington-area hospital in “seriously ill” condition, his office said a news release Sunday. — The statement said that Byrd, 92, “was admitted to the hospital late last week suffering …
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Janie Lorber / New York Times:
Senator Robert Byrd Is Seriously Ill — WASHINGTON — Senator Robert C. Byrd, the longest-serving senator in United States history, is “seriously ill,” his office announced Sunday afternoon. — Mr. Byrd, a 92-year-old Democrat from West Virginia, was admitted to an undisclosed hospital late …
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U.S. SEN. ROBERT C. BYRD DIES AT 92 — CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Robert Carlyle Byrd, the longest-serving member of Congress in United States history, who spent much of his career as a conservative Democrat and ended it by fiercely opposing the war in Iraq and questioning the state's powerful coal industry, died Monday.
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U.S. officials say Karzai aides are derailing corruption cases involving elite — Top officials in President Hamid Karzai's government have repeatedly derailed corruption investigations of politically connected Afghans, according to U.S. officials who have provided Afghanistan's authorities …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Third Depression — Recessions are common; depressions are rare. As far as I can tell, there were only two eras in economic history that were widely described as “depressions” at the time: the years of deflation and instability that followed the Panic of 1873 and the years of mass unemployment …
Mark Steyn / The Corner on National Review Online:
Keystone Kanuck Kops — By: Mark Steyn — More fun from the G20 summit: — Having stood by watching as a mob trashed downtown businesses (and their own cruisers), the peculiarly insecure dweebs of the Toronto police are now threatening law-abiding passers-by (that would be Cop#3478) and beating up Guardian reporters:
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Alexi Giannoulias Subpoenaed For Blago Trial — CHICAGO (CBS) ― First it was President Barack Obama, then White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, now U.S. Senate Candidate Alexi Giannoulias is joining the Rod Blagojevich corruption trial subpoena list.
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Washington Post:
As Kagan confirmation hearings begin, Republicans struggle for line of attack — For weeks leading up to the start of Elena Kagan's Senate confirmation hearings Monday, Republicans have struggled to find a compelling line of attack to take against the Supreme Court nominee.
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
G-20 nations pledge to cut deficits despite Obama's push for stimulus — President Barack Obama's push for continued global stimulus in light of a tenuous economic recovery was largely pushed back at the G-20 as world leaders agreed to focus on deficit reduction.
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The Politico:
Theater of the absurd — On Wednesday, the same day President Barack Obama ousted his humiliated Afghanistan commander, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs walked into the Oval Office with more grim news: The cap on the gushing oil in the Gulf had been dislodged. — “What?”
The Daily Caller:
No, seriously! — David Weigel, who's been covering the right for the Washington Independent, will soon be heading to the Washington Post. — Weigel joins the Post on April 5, and will be launching a blog focused on the conservative movement, tea party activists, and how the GOP's preparing for November...
The Independent:
The last post: McChrystal's bleak outlook — President Obama lost patience with Runaway General's failed strategy — Sacked US General Stanley McChrystal issued a devastatingly critical assessment of the war against a “resilient and growing insurgency” just days before being forced out.
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