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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
Emi Kolawole / Washington Post:
Huckabee claims inaccurately that Obama was raised in Kenya — Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee got his facts wrong when he claimed twice during an interview Monday that President Obama was raised in Kenya. — During an interview with The Steve Malzberg Show, Huckabee said the president …
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msnbc.com and The Political Carnival
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Huckabee didn't mean it — Mike Huckabee, who has never …
Huckabee didn't mean it — Mike Huckabee, who has never …
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The Daily Dish, Mother Jones and Media Matters for America
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Huckabee: Obama grew up in Kenya
Huckabee: Obama grew up in Kenya
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CNN, Politics Daily and ABCNEWS
Andy Barr / The Politico:
He's no birther, but Huck claims Obama raised in Kenya
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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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Approves Budget Measure to Avert Shutdown — WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday passed a two-week budget measure that cuts $4 billion in federal spending, and Senate Democrats said they would quickly follow suit, averting any threat of a government shutdown when money runs out on Friday.
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The Huffington Post:
White House And House GOP At Odds Over Additional Two Weeks In Funding Measure … UPDATE: 3:00 p.m. — Senate Democrats will agree to House Republicans' two-week extension of government funding, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told reporters on Tuesday, passing over a White House request for a monthlong stopgap funding bill.
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Swampland, PostPartisan and Hullabaloo
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
In boost for GOP plan, Fed chief says cuts won't derail recovery
In boost for GOP plan, Fed chief says cuts won't derail recovery
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Ezra Klein, Econbrowser, Mother Jones, The Plum Line, msnbc.com, FrumForum and National Review
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem senator: Senate has accepted House GOP spending plan
Dem senator: Senate has accepted House GOP spending plan
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The Politico, The Note, Daily Kos, The Raw Story and ABCNEWS
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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Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Issa Fires Staff Member Who Shared E-mails With Times Reporter
Issa Fires Staff Member Who Shared E-mails With Times Reporter
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Politics Daily, Washington Post and The Raw Story
David Di Martino / Pundits Blog:
Issa-Leaks — Disturbing news out of Capitol Hill for those who work with and in media.
Issa-Leaks — Disturbing news out of Capitol Hill for those who work with and in media.
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The Politico
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, Emptywheel, The Daily Dish, Ben Smith's Blog and Oliver Willis
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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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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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.
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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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Assange Complains of Jewish Smear Campaign
Assange Complains of Jewish Smear Campaign
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Weasel Zippers and Taegan Goddard's …
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
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’
Rep. Rangel: Abolishing unions' collective bargaining ‘close to slavery’
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The Hill, Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
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, NewsBusters.org and Wonkette
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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Daily Kos, The Plum Line, AOL News, WisPolitics Budget Blog and The Political Carnival
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Skewed Sample Data Used In PPP Wisconsin “Do Over” Poll
Skewed Sample Data Used In PPP Wisconsin “Do Over” Poll
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Hot Air, Ezra Klein, neo-neocon, Nice Deb, The Plum Line, JSOnline, Swampland, POWIP, National Review, Don Surber, AlterNet, Da Techguy's Blog and Pajamas Media
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, Whiskey Fire, JSOnline, Verum Serum and Moe Lane
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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Don Surber, No More Mister Nice Blog, Right Wing News and LewRockwell.com Blog
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, The Fix, Shakesville and neo-neocon
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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WDSU-TV, Wonkette, AOL News, Towleroad News #gay, nancynall.com, Gawker and The Political Carnival
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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Runnin' Scared, New York Magazine and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
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.
Washington Post:
African Americans respond to Obama's shift on DOMA — When same-sex marriage was upended in California by popular vote in 2008, gay rights activists pointed to one factor: religious African Americans who came out in record numbers for President Obama but who also largely voted against the marriage proposal, according to exit polls.
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The Atlantic Online and Balkinization
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Sen. Boxer on PBS cuts: ‘Republicans have a vendetta against Elmo’ — Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that House Republicans want to strip government funding of PBS because they have a “vendetta against Elmo.” — Boxer made the comments during a floor speech where she made the case …
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Michelle Malkin, The Lonely Conservative, Cubachi, Weasel Zippers and Liberty Pundits Blog
Justin C. Worland / The Harvard Crimson:
Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Minister in Memorial Church, Dies at Age 68 — Reverend Peter J. Gomes, who oversaw Memorial Church for the past three and a half decades, died Monday evening after suffering a brain aneurysm and heart attack. He was 68. — His death was announced in an e-mail …
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New York Times, PostPartisan, News Desk, Politics Daily, Towleroad News #gay and PrawfsBlawg
Julie Bykowicz / Maryland Politics:
House panel delays gay marriage vote at least a day — Update: The House Judiciary Committee did not vote on same-sex marriage this evening. Delegates on the committee, even some sponsors, say they need more time to think. — The development comes after hours of talks between …
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Towleroad News #gay, Poliglot, Pam's House Blend, AMERICAblog Gay and Equality Matters