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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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Chicago Boyz
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
One Chart to Rule Them All: the Obama Budget Apocalypse — I modified an excellent Wall Street Journal graphic to illustrate just how tragic and ineffectual President Obama's proposed budget cuts are. — Consider the anticipated spending trajectory over the next decade as entitlement spending and interest payments balloon.
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Hot Air, National Review, Betsy's Page, Conservatives4Palin and Marathon Pundit
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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No More Mister Nice Blog, Salon, Grasping Reality …, AmSpecBlog, Ezra Klein, The Plum Line and driftglass
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
THE EXTRAORDINARY TIMING OF JIM DEMINT AND MIKE PENCE. …
THE EXTRAORDINARY TIMING OF JIM DEMINT AND MIKE PENCE. …
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SENATUS, The Daily Beast, United States Senator …, Ezra Klein, Booman Tribune and Balloon Juice
Associated Press:
Obama budget resurrects rejected tax increases
Obama budget resurrects rejected tax increases
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Washington Monthly, Mock, Paper, Scissors, Wonkette, RedState and Wall Street Journal
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Why Obama's Budget Is OK
Why Obama's Budget Is OK
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New York Times, The Moderate Voice, Yglesias, Economix, The Reality-Based Community and Washington Post
BBC:
Iran unrest: MPs call for death of Mousavi and Karroubi — Inside Iranian Parliament as a group of conservative MPs called for the execution of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi — Members of Iran's parliament have called for opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi to be tried and executed.
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The Jawa Report, Harry's Place and Gawker
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Washington Post:
Egypt inspires Iranian protesters; 2nd day of violent clashes in Bahrain, Yemen
Egypt inspires Iranian protesters; 2nd day of violent clashes in Bahrain, Yemen
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FP Passport and Firedoglake
Farnaz Fassihi / Wall Street Journal:
Protests Gather Steam in Tehran
Protests Gather Steam in Tehran
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Hot Air, Reuters, Mother Jones, The Maddow Blog, Voice of America, Firedoglake, Danger Room, Harry's Place, Guardian, EA WorldView and PBS
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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TPMMuckraker, FrumForum and The Page
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
The House approves Patriot Act extension, sends bill to Senate
The House approves Patriot Act extension, sends bill to Senate
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The Nation and Daily Kos
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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The Politico, The Foundry and Hit & Run
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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American Power, The Moderate Voice, CNN and HotAirPundit
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WMUR:
Romney Holds Big Lead In Primary Poll
Romney Holds Big Lead In Primary Poll
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Public Policy Polling, Real Clear Politics, Hot Air, The Hill, Weigel, GOP 12 and The Page
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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Weasel Zippers
DigiTimes:
Apple to expand iPhone screen size to 4-inches — Apple reportedly will change the screen size of iPhone to 4-inch for its fifth generation iPhone to compete with the Google Android platform in the 4- to 7-inch smartphone market, according to upstream component suppliers.
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Disruptors, Outside the Beltway, TechCrunch, Engadget and SAI, more at Techmeme »
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Truth or Consequences — What if Justice Scalia sued the New York Times for libel? — The following letter to the editor appeared in the New York Times Friday: … If this is true, Scalia's misconduct is even worse than Fein suggests. Not only has Congress considered legislation to repeal ObamaCare …
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Patterico's Pontifications
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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Booman Tribune, News Desk, New York Times, Politics Daily, FrumForum and The Page
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
'America's toughest sheriff' considering Arizona 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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The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys, HotAirPundit and FrumForum
The Politico:
Liberals launch anti-Darrell Issa crusade — Democrats are understandably obsessed with Darrell Issa — he's built himself up as a one-man investigative machine aimed straight at the Obama presidency. — But a handful of liberal political operatives in California — including …
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 …
Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Vanishing Act: ‘Advisers’ Seek Distance From a Report — A new study backed by pro-business groups takes a harsh stance on rules intended to bring transparency to the $600 billion derivatives market. The report, published on Monday, claims that proposed regulation could cost 130,000 jobs …
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The Big Picture, naked capitalism and The Baseline Scenario
Juana Summers / The Politico:
Trump: Gays yes, gay marriage no — Donald Trump may have some New Yorkers doing a double-take, after he expressed his opposition to same-sex marriage while also saying he digs the city's robust gay population. — “New York is a place with lots of gays, and I think it's great.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Rep. Ryan: GOP won't allow shutdown due to budget impasse — Republicans will pass short-term measures to keep funding the government rather than allow a shutdown, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday. — Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, said that if the GOP-held House …
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Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
Berlusconi to Face Trial in Underage Prostitution Case — ROME — A Milan judge on Tuesday ordered Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial in April on charges of paying an underage nightclub dancer for sex and abusing his office to help release her from police custody when she was detained for theft …
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The Jawa Report
Roni Caryn Rabin / New York Times:
Report Details Sabotage of Birth Control — Men who abuse women physically and emotionally may also sabotage their partners' birth control, pressuring them to become pregnant against their will, new reports suggest. — Several small studies have described this kind of coercion among low-income teenagers …
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Brilliant at Breakfast and Prairie Weather
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Experience Economy — Tyler Cowen's e-book, “The Great Stagnation,” has become the most debated nonfiction book so far this year. Cowen's core point is that up until sometime around 1974, the American economy was able to experience awesome growth by harvesting low-hanging fruit.
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Paul Krugman, EconLog and Daily Kos
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
More facts emerge about the leaked smear campaigns — As I noted on Friday, the parties implicated in the smear campaigns aimed at WikiLeaks supporters and Chamber of Commerce critics have attempted to heap all the blame on HBGary Federal ("HBGary") and its CEO, Aaron Barr.
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Bay Area BizTalk and The Majority Report …
CNN:
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood seeks political party status — Cairo, Egypt (CNN) — Egypt's banned Muslim Brotherhood will apply to become a political party, it announced Tuesday. — The Brotherhood “envisions the establishment of a democratic, civil state that draws on universal measures …
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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.
Glenn Beck:
Muslim Brotherhood at CPAC? — Has CPAC been ifiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood? That's what Pam Geller said on Friday afternoon.What did Glenn think? — “This is from CPAC, and I want you to know that I am not taking on CPAC at this point. I am going over the news and I am at the beginning of looking into this.
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Media Matters for America and Pajamas Media