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8:25 AM ET, March 2, 2011

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Phil / Dane101:
Wisconsin GOP Senator Glenn Grothman chased, trapped by hecklers, saved by Dem.  Rep. Hulsey  —  Phil Ejercito is a 29 year old freelance photographer based in Madison, WI.  His primary photographic services include (but are by no means limited to) live music, event coverage, politics and activism …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Breaking: Wisconsin GOP Senator Glenn Grothman Mobbed at Wisconsin Capitol (Video)  —  Breaking Report: Wisconsin Republican Glenn Grothman was just mobbed by a group of union thugs.  —  Republican youth leader Josiah Cantrall reported that the Republican Senator was mobbed by union thugs as he approached the capitol today.
Michelle Malkin:
Mob rule video: Unhinged crowd corners Wisconsin GOP senator shouting “F**k you,” “Shame!”  ; Update: A Fleebagger returns?  —  Scroll for updates...  I got bad chills up and down my spine watching this group of crazed, pro-union Madison thugs gang up on a lone conservative in a public space just trying to do his job.
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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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Huckagaffe  —  He's now withdrawn the statement that Obama grew up in Kenya and says he meant Indonesia.  Here's the original quote: … Well, how do you get a view of the Mau Mau revolution in Indonesia?  So I don't buy the mis-spoke explanation.  And Obama did not “grow up with” a Kenyan father and grandfather.
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:
David Weigel / Weigel:
Mike Huckabee is Not a Birther  —  Let's call this off right now.  I don't hear birtherism anywhere in Mike Huckabee's interview with Steve Malzberg. … Occam's razor: Huckabee is just ill-informed.  —  1) Barack Obama spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, with his Indonesian stepfather Lolo Soetoro.
Jack Shafer / Slate:
Unless they're paying beaucoup bucks, his transfer to New York makes no sense to me. … Like This Story  —  Follow Slate's Press Box … - The U.S. Has Frozen $30 Billion of Qaddafi's Assets.  Can We Spend It?  - John Roberts Writes the Funniest Sentence in Supreme Court History …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Issa press aide scandal is like bad reality TV
Sam Youngman / Ballot Box:
Late 2012 GOP start a boon for Obama  —  Hey, Newt, what's the rush?  —  That's what senior Democrats and White House officials enjoying the time off between campaigns are saying as former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) readies an announcement he is forming an exploratory committee for a White House run.
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Felicia Sonmez / 2chambers:
House passes stopgap funding to avert federal shutdown
Rich Lowry / National Review:
‘I already know I could win’  —  Dan already wrote a piece about it, but Chris Christie was in the office last week.  I just wanted to quote him more extensively on 2012.  I asked him whether he knew that, given the moment, there is a serious chance he could win the Republican nomination if he ran.
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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Christie: I could win the W.H.  —  Gov. Chris Christie said he knows he could win the White House if he ran for president next year.  —  The New Jersey governor and GOP rock star made the comments in an interview with the National Review last week while he was in Washington D.C.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and FrumForum
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.
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Holder: Gitmo may stay open beyond 2012  —  Attorney General Eric Holder left open the possibility Tuesday that the Guantánamo Bay terrorist prison camp might live on beyond President Obama's first term.  —  Asked in a congressional hearing whether the prison would be closed by November 2012, Holder said: “I don't know.
Discussion: FrumForum
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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Eric Lach / TPMDC:
Walker Unveils Budget — Says Cuts Will Be More Painful If Dems Don't Return  —  Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) gave a speech at the state Capitol Tuesday to unveil his budget for the next two years, even as the debate over his budget repair bill still rages.
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JSOnline:
Walker's budget cuts would touch most Wisconsinites
Discussion: Pajamas Media, AOL News and First Draft
Eric Lach / TPMDC:
Wisconsin Sheriff Pulled Deputies From Capitol, Says They Won't Be ‘Palace Guard’ (VIDEO)  —  At the same press conference where Dane County, Wisc., District Attorney Ismael Ozanne told reporters he found nothing criminal in Gov. Scott Walker's comments to a prank caller last week …
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Greg Bump / WisPolitics Budget Blog:
Mahoney: Officers aren't the “palace guard”
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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 …
Katherine Sellgren / BBC:
LSE investigates Gaddafi's son plagiarism claims  —  There were student demonstrations at the LSE last week over its links with Libya  —  The London School of Economics has confirmed it is investigating allegations that Colonel Gaddafi's son plagiarised his PhD thesis.
Discussion: Unqualified Offerings and Guardian
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Ohio Lawmakers Battle Over Union Bargaining Rights  —  COLUMBUS, Ohio — Republican state senators unveiled a new version of a bill governing public employee unions on Tuesday, saying it would preserve their right to collective bargaining, but Democratic lawmakers said the revisions failed …
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Mary Wisniewski / Reuters:
Ohio union plan like Wisconsin draws protests
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Reich To Rich: Redistribute Or Risk Angry Populace Turning On You!  —  Nice house there, rich guy.  Wouldn't wanna see nuthin' happen to it . . .  Robert Reich has actually argued that the rich should welcome redistributing more of their income to prevent an angry American populace from turning on them.
BBC:
Insurance and pension costs hit by ECJ gender ruling  —  Twins Emma and Nick Lane were quoted very different prices for car insurance  —  Insurers cannot charge different premiums to men and women because of their gender, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.
Discussion: Crooked Timber
 
 
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
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