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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama To The Next Generation: Screw You, Suckers — The logic behind president Obama's budget has one extremely sensible feature: it distinguishes between spending that simply adds to consumption, and spending that really does mean investment. His analogy over the weekend …
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John / Power Line:
“Steep Cuts?” Even the Left Is Starting to Notice — Liberal press outlets are reporting, generally without criticism, the Obama administration's claim that its FY 2012 budget embodies “steep cuts” in federal spending over the coming decade. Since a picture is worth a thousand words …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE EXTRAORDINARY TIMING OF JIM DEMINT AND MIKE PENCE.... Almost immediately after President Obama's budget proposal was released, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) issued a statement condemning it. As the right-wing senator put it, the White House's budget “would push us over the edge into generational debt.”
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Paul Krugman:
The Great Abdication — Andrew Leonard is right: the Obama budget isn't going to happen, so in a sense it's irrelevant. But it still has symbolic meaning. What is Obama saying here? — The important thing, I think, is that he has effectively given up on the idea that the government …
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Salon, Grasping Reality …, AmSpecBlog, Ezra Klein, The Plum Line, driftglass and Wall Street Journal
Paul Krugman:
The New Obama Budget
The New Obama Budget
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Why Obama's Budget Is OK
Why Obama's Budget Is OK
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Yglesias, Washington Post and The Reality-Based Community
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE WRONG PRIORITY AT THE WRONG TIME.... The White House issued …
THE WRONG PRIORITY AT THE WRONG TIME.... The White House issued …
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The Politico:
Key 2012 early states cool to Palin — A new poll of New Hampshire voters is the latest in a string of surveys suggesting that if Sarah Palin chooses to run for president, she'll struggle in the crucial early states. — The WMUR Granite State Poll released late Monday afternoon puts Palin close …
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WMUR:
Romney Holds Big Lead In Primary Poll — Survey Shows Most Likely Voters Still Undecided — DURHAM, N.H. — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the early frontrunner in the New Hampshire Republican primary, according to a new poll. — The WMUR Granite State Poll shows Romney …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
House Votes to Extend Patriot Act Provisions — WASHINGTON — The House on Monday voted to reauthorize and extend through Dec. 8 three ways in which Congress expanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation's counterterrorism powers after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
House set to pass Patriot Act extension on second try
House set to pass Patriot Act extension on second try
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Richard E. Cohen / The Politico:
Ryan: W.H. budget is ‘bankruptcy’
Ryan: W.H. budget is ‘bankruptcy’
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Obama frames budget as thrifty, but with prudent investments
Obama frames budget as thrifty, but with prudent investments
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Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
Clinton to announce new ‘AfPak’ envoy — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has chosen a new special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, after months of delay and disagreements between the White House and the State Department over the parameters of the job that became vacant …
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Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Secretary Clinton: House Republican budget cuts will endanger national security
Secretary Clinton: House Republican budget cuts will endanger national security
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Ezra Klein:
The U.S. Government: An insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army — American politics is one long argument about what government should or shouldn't be doing, and how it should or shouldn't be doing it. It's rare that we step back, take in the larger picture and ask what it is doing.
Newsweek:
Wanted: A Grand Strategy for America — NEWSWEEK's new columnist on Obama's Egypt debacle and the vacuum it exposes. — Mandel Ngan / AFP-Getty Images — President Barack Obama in front of the Sphinx during a tour of the Great Pyramids of Giza following his landmark speech to the Muslim World on June 4, 2009.
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Popular Arizona sheriff considering a U.S. Senate run — Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Monday he is open to the possibility of running for the seat of retiring Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) in 2012. — Arpaio, the conservative sheriff famous for his hard-line anti-immigration stances …
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Lance M. Bacon / Army Times:
‘Punisher’ gets its first battlefield tests — XM25 ‘performs flawlessly’ in Afghanistan — The XM25 has changed the battlefield with only 55 rounds, and earned a new name among soldiers. They call it “the Punisher.” — Since its first contact Dec. 3, the XM25 has been in nine engagements …
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Farnaz Fassihi / Wall Street Journal:
Protests Gather Steam in Tehran — Thousands of Iranians gathered in several locations across Tehran Monday, heeding calls in recent days by opposition leaders to demonstrate in solidarity with Egyptian and Tunisian protesters who recently toppled their own regimes.
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Olivier Knox / Agence France Presse:
Clinton: Time for Iran to ‘open up,’ follow Egypt
Clinton: Time for Iran to ‘open up,’ follow Egypt
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Matt Cutts / The Official Google Blog:
New Chrome extension: block sites from Google's web search results — (Cross-posted on the Google Chrome Blog) — We've been exploring different algorithms to detect content farms, which are sites with shallow or low-quality content. One of the signals we're exploring is explicit feedback from users.
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Allison Hantschel / Firedoglake:
Late Night: Possibly We Should Stop Sucking So Much — By Brigadier Lance Mans, Deputy Director, NATO Special Operations Coordination Centre [Public domain via Wikimedia Commons — Dan, with his finger on something that's been bugging me forever: … The stories immediately post-9/11 …
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
What Does Bias Look Like? — So my post on the liberal slant in academia has garnered what I believe to be a record number of comments, many, even most of them, pretty angry. And as I predicted, the positions are very much reversed from the normal take on such things.
Matthew Duss / The Nation:
Letter From Herzliya, Neocon Woodstock — HERLIZYA, ISRAEL— The city of Herzliya sits about ten miles north of Tel Aviv on Israel's breezy central Mediterranean coast. Often referred to as the “Silicon Valley of Israel,” it's home to high-tech startups, palm tree-lined boulevards …
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Kim Smith / Arizona Daily Star:
Forde convicted in killing of Arivaca man, daughter — A Pima County jury convicted Shawna Forde today of two counts of first-degree murder in the May 30, 2009 deaths of Arivaca residents Raul Junior Flores and his 9-year-old daughter, Brisenia. — The jury also convicted Forde of attempted …
Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
New Civil Rights Commission Suspends Printing Of New Black Panther Report — Newly appointed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights closed their investigation of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case and suspended publication of hard copies of the report at a meeting last week.
cbpp.org:
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities — For Immediate Release — Statement: Robert Greenstein, Executive Director, on the President's Budget Proposal — The President's budget would take an important step toward addressing the nation's long-term fiscal challenge …
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Scott Lilly / Center for American Progress:
No, He Wouldn't—Would He? — House Speaker's State May Get $450 Million Extra — Leaders of the new majority in the House of Representatives promised to cut spending and eliminate earmarks. But House budget legislation filed Friday night contains a provision that looks very much like an earmark …
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Michael Medved / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Isn't Trying to ‘Weaken America’ — Some conservatives call the president the political equivalent of a suicide bomber: so consumed with hatred that he's willing to blow himself up in order to inflict casualties on a society he loathes. — Some conservative commentators may feel inclined …
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Outside the Beltway, Mediaite and The Page
Lynn Sweet / Politics Daily:
Michelle Obama to Promote Breastfeeding as IRS Gives Tax Breaks for Nursing … First lady Michelle Obama will be speaking out to remove barriers to breastfeeding, Politics Daily has learned, throwing the spotlight on nursing as a way to reduce childhood obesity.
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