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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Huckabee: Obama Grew Up “In Kenya” — During a radio appearance yesterday, Mike Huckabee repeatedly falsely claimed that President Obama grew up in Kenya. After questioning Obama's purported secrecy about the birth certificate, radio host Steve Malzberg asked Huckabee if “we deserve to know more about this man.”
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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Huckabee Questions Obama Birth Certificate — Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, said on Monday that he would “love to know more” about where President Obama was born and claimed — falsely — that Mr. Obama was raised in Kenya.
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Mother Jones, Mediaite and Swampland
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Huckabee didn't mean it — Mike Huckabee, who has never indulged paranoia about Obama's birth — and who has generally chided vitriolic attacks on the president and First Lady — pretty clearly misspoke in a radio interview today, prompting a boomlet of outrage. — Says his spokesman Hogan Gidley to POLITICO:
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Mother Jones and Media Matters for America
Emi Kolawole / Washington Post:
Huckabee claims inaccurately that Obama was raised in Kenya
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msnbc.com and The Political Carnival
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Huckabee: Obama grew up in Kenya
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Politics Daily, CNN and ABCNEWS
The Note:
Mike Huckabee Falsely Suggests Obama Grew Up In Kenya
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Swampland and George's Bottom Line
Andy Barr / The Politico:
He's no birther, but Huck claims Obama raised in Kenya
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Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
ThinkProgress:
Religious Coalition Tells The GOP That 'The Budget Shouldn't Be Balanced On the Backs Of The Poor' — In an address at the National Association of Religious Broadcasters Sunday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) made a moral case for the deep cuts passed by House Republicans, saying, “[i] …
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Cubachi, Don Surber and CNN
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
Gingrich Jumps In: First 2012 GOP Candidate — Sources: Former House Speaker Will form 2012 Exploratory Comm. — The 2012 presidential campaign is about to get its first big-name Republican. — ABC News has learned that Newt Gingrich will make the leap this week.
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:
In boost for GOP plan, Fed chief says cuts won't derail recovery — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says a plan from House Republicans to cut $61 billion in spending this year would not harm economic growth. — The GOP's proposed spending cuts, passed as part of a continuing resolution …
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The Huffington Post:
White House And House GOP At Odds Over Additional Two Weeks In Funding Measure
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Swampland, PostPartisan and Hullabaloo
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Approves Budget Measure to Avert Shutdown
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem senator: Senate has accepted House GOP spending plan
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The Politico, The Note, The Raw Story, ABCNEWS and Daily Kos
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:
Billions in Bloat Uncovered in Beltway — The U.S. government has 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more than 20 separate programs to help the homeless and 80 programs for economic development. — These are a few of the findings in a massive study of overlapping …
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U.S. Government Accountability Office:
Opportunities to Reduce Potential Duplication in Government Programs, Save Tax Dollars, and Enhance Revenue
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The Hill, Hit & Run, National Review, The Lonely Conservative, Associated Press, FT Alphaville, Liberty Pundits Blog, The Note and The Foundry
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Eric Holder: Black Panther case focus demeans ‘my people’ — Attorney General Eric Holder finally got fed up Tuesday with claims that the Justice Department went easy in a voting rights case against members of the New Black Panther Party because they are African American.
Bob Woodward / Foreign Policy:
How Rumsfeld misleads and ducks responsibility in his new book — Few people know the ins and outs of the Bush Administration as well as the Washington Post's Bob Woodward, who is flat-out disgusted with the evasions and elisions in Donald Rumsfeld's new book. Here he explains why: — By Bob Woodward
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News Desk, The Politico, Liberal Values, Philly.com, Emptywheel, The Daily Dish, Ben Smith's Blog and Oliver Willis
New York Times:
Ohio Set to Vote on Union Rights — COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican State Senators on Tuesday unveiled a new version of a bill governing public employee unions, saying the legislation would preserve the right of workers to bargain collectively, but Democratic lawmakers said it did not appear …
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The Political Carnival and Truthdig
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The Politico:
Darrell Issa fires press secretary Kurt Bardella in New York Times e-mail flap — House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) fired Kurt Bardella, one of Capitol Hill's top press secretaries, after he provided e-mailed correspondence with other journalists to New York Times reporter Mark Leibovich.
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Slate, Pundits Blog, The Caucus, USA Today, The Other McCain, Weigel, FishbowlDC, The Atlantic Online, CNN, Washington Wire, The Note, New York Magazine, News Desk, TPMMuckraker and FrumForum, more at Mediagazer »
Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Assange Complains of Jewish Smear Campaign — LONDON — The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, suggested in comments published on Tuesday that British journalists, including the editor of The Guardian newspaper, were engaged in a Jewish-led conspiracy to smear his organization.
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Weasel Zippers and Taegan Goddard's …
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Sunny Hundal / Liberal Conspiracy:
Assange goes off deep end - blaming Jews and Guardian in Private Eye — This is published in the latest edition of Private Eye (buy a copy!). — The article is titled, ‘A Curious Conversation With Mr Assange’ - and it is the phone version of a horrible car crash. (hat-tip @jamesrbuk)
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Salon, Runnin' Scared, FP Passport, The Raw Story and Moe Lane
Maggie / NOM Blog:
Breaking News: Sarah Palin Denounces Obama's DOMA decision (to NOM) — In response to a question from me, Sarah Palin offered this exclusive response to President Obama's DOMA decision: … Please cite www.nationformarriage.org as the source for this statement from Sarah.
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CNN, GOP 12, The Atlantic Online, Poliglot and The Page
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Dodd said last year he would not lobby — Former Sen. Chris Dodd (D) on Monday took the type of job he said last year he would not accept. — Dodd accepted the chairmanship of the Motion Picture Association of America — Hollywood's top lobbyist — on Monday.
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Tony Romm / The Politico:
Chris Dodd to lead MPAA
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OpenSecrets.org and Fire Andrea Mitchell!
Wall Street Journal:
A Union Education — What Wisconsin reveals about public workers and political power. — The raucous Wisconsin debate over collective bargaining may be ugly at times, but it has been worth it for the splendid public education. For the first time in decades, Americans have been asked …
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The Atlantic Online, protein wisdom, The Big Picture and Betsy's Page
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Rep. Rangel: Abolishing unions' collective bargaining ‘close to slavery’
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Weasel Zippers, The Hill and JammieWearingFool
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Wisconsin closely divided, but against Walker — There are two conclusions we can make from our poll on the Wisconsin conflict: the state is very closely divided, but it leans slightly to the union side of things rather than Scott Walker's on pretty much every question we asked.
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Brobinson / Fox Nation:
Exclusive: AWOL Democrats Experiencing ‘Dissension in the Ranks’ — Fox Nation has learned exclusively from a highly placed source within Wisconsin state politics that the fourteen AWOL Democrats are experiencing “dissension in the ranks.” State Sen. Julie Lassa (D) is pregnant and “extremely unhappy” about being on the run.
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Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, Maggie's Notebook, JSOnline, Whiskey Fire, Verum Serum and Moe Lane
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Fox News reporter appears to have lied about being ‘punched’ by protester — Fox News has been making a lot of hay about one of their reporters allegedly being “punched” by a protester in Madison, Wisconsin. — Turns out, that didn't happen. — Mike Tobin, reporting from amid …
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Salon, The Political Carnival and NewsBusters.org
Michelle Hunter / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Southern Decadence protest leader booked with masturbating at Metairie park — The Rev. Grant Storms, the Christian fundamentalist known for his bullhorn protests of the Southern Decadence festival in the French Quarter, was arrested on a charge of masturbating at a Metairie park Friday afternoon.
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WMUR:
Bill Would Make Some Airport Screening Sexual Assault — Those Convicted Would Be Tier III Sex Offenders — CONCORD, N.H. — A House committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday on a bill that would make it a sexual assault for an airport screener to touch or view a person's breast or genitals without probable cause.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Don Surber, Right Wing News and LewRockwell.com Blog
John Cook / New York Observer:
Was a Vanity Fair Editor Secretly Working for the Church of Scientology? — Gawker.com, where the author is employed as a staff writer, declined to publish this story. — Did the Church of Scientology use a Vanity Fair contributing editor to infiltrate and gather intelligence on the cult's enemies in the media?
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New York Magazine, Runnin' Scared and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
Christina Wilkie / The Hill:
Rep. Holt beats Watson the super-computer at ‘Jeopardy!’ — There are a lot of smart people on Capitol Hill. But none of them can claim quite the same brainy bragging rights as Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.). — On Monday, Holt beat IBM's super-computer, known as Watson, at a round of “Jeopardy! …
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CNN, JustOneMinute, Shakesville, The Fix and neo-neocon
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Rick Scott sued by Senators Joyner, Altman in Florida Supreme Court — Two Florida senators just sued Gov. Rick Scott in the Florida Supreme Court to stop him from killing a Tampa-Orlando bullet train. — Arthenia Joyner, D-Tampa, and Republican Thad Altman of Melbourne said Scott …
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New York Times:
Libyan Rebels, Invoking U.N., May Ask West for Airstrikes — BENGHAZI, Libya — In a sign of mounting frustration among rebel leaders at Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi's diminished but unyielding grip on power, the revolutionary council here is debating whether to ask for Western airstrikes …
Patrick Gavin / The Politico:
ANSWER THIS: ANDREW SULLIVAN — Andrew Sullivan has achieved the hat trick of Washington journalism: author, editor, blogger. And he's adding another item to his long and diverse résumé, announcing this week that he's leaving The Atlantic and taking his blog to the new Daily Beast/Newsweek venture in April.
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