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11:15 AM ET, March 3, 2011

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Wall Street Journal:
Poll Finds Support Lacking for Entitlement Reductions  —  WASHINGTON— Less than a quarter of Americans support making significant cuts to Social Security or Medicare to tackle the country's mounting deficit, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, illustrating the challenge facing lawmakers …
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Mary Lu Carnevale / Washington Wire:
Daniels's ‘Truce’ Call Finds Strong Support in WSJ Poll
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Soldier Faces 22 New WikiLeaks Charges  —  WASHINGTON — The Army announced 22 additional charges on Wednesday against Pfc. Bradley Manning, the military intelligence analyst who is accused of leaking a trove of government files to WikiLeaks a year ago.  —  The new charges included …
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msnbc.com:
Manning faces new charges, possible death penalty  —  ‘Aiding the enemy’ is most serious of 22 new counts filed against private in WikiLeaks case  —  Below:  —  WASHINGTON — Following an intensive seven-month investigation, the Army on Wednesday filed 22 additional charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning …
David S. Cloud / Los Angeles Times:
Soldier in WikiLeaks case charged with aiding the enemy
iowahawk:
Longhorns 17, Badgers 1  —  Please pardon this brief departure from my normal folderol, but every so often a member of the chattering class issues a nugget of stupidity so egregious that no amount of mockery will suffice.  Particularly when the issuer of said stupidity holds a Nobel Prize.
Kenneth T. Walsh / US News:
Obama Says Race a Key Component in Tea Party Protests  —  In a new book, President Obama talks candidly about race and the presidency  —  African-Americans have been an integral part of the White House since it was built in part by slaves.  In Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans …
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Meredith Jessup / The Blaze:
ARE THEY SERIOUS?  ‘SHARIAH 4 AMERICA’ GROUP CALLS FOR ‘BURKHA’ ON STATUE OF LIBERTY  —  As we've reported, controversial UK Muslim cleric Anjem Choudary has called on Muslims to “rise to implement the Shari'ah in America,” starting with a planned demonstration in front of the White House on Thursday.
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ZIP / Weasel Zippers:
UK Cleric's “Shariah 4 America” …
Shariah 4 America:
The Islamic Demolition of the Statue of Liberty
Discussion: Moonbattery
Daniel Kahikina Akaka, U.S. Senator of Hawaii:
Akaka announces he will not run for re-election in 2012  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-Hawaii) issued the following statement today:  —  After months of thinking about my political future, I am announcing today that I have decided not to run for re-election in 2012.
Discussion: Daily Kos, RedState and The Caucus
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David Catanese / The Politico:
Akaka retiring  —  Hawaii Sen. Daniel Akaka announced late Wednesday …
Discussion: Hotline On Call and Politics Daily
Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
Huckabee: Obama Isn't From Kenya, But He's Still Anti-American  —  Mike Huckabee now says he knows President Obama wasn't born in Kenya and that he misspoke when he made that much-maligned comment earlier this week.  But on social conservative Bryan Fischer's radio show on Wednesday …
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Kyle / Right Wing Watch:
Huckabee And Fischer Agree That Obama's Childhood Instilled “Fundamentally Anti-American Ideas” In Him
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Fox News Takes Two Potential Candidates Off Air
Washington Times:
Obama is enabling jihad  —  U.S. interests sacrificed in favor of radical Islam  —  Al Qaeda and Iran are cheering on the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East, so why does the Obama administration think the Islamic extremists are losing?  —  On Tuesday at a Pentagon press briefing …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
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Bradley Klapper / Associated Press:
Reality leads US to temper its tough talk on Libya
Discussion: News Desk and FrumForum
Kara Spak / Chicago Sun Times:
Northwestern University defends after-class live sex demonstration  —  More than 100 Northwestern University students watched as a naked 25-year-old woman was penetrated by a sex toy wielded by her fiancee during an after-class session of the school's popular “Human Sexuality” class.
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Biden set to meet House, Senate leaders on spending cuts  —  Vice President Biden and congressional leaders will begin hammering out a deal on spending cuts Thursday.  —  The Capitol Hill meeting between Biden and Democrats and Republicans from the House and Senate is set for 4 p.m. It's …
Discussion: The Note
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Washington Post:
Obama invites congressional leaders to meet with Biden on budget
Discussion: The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Ohio Vote Puts Curbs on Unions in Reach  —  Ohio state senators narrowly approved a bill that would prohibit public-employee unions representing 400,000 state and local workers from bargaining over health benefits and pensions, while also eliminating the right to strike.
Stephen Gutowski / The Blast:
Anthony Weiner Berates, Belittles, and Insults Megyn Kelly During Interview  —  This all started off as an interview about whether or not Clarence Thomas should recuse himself from any future Supreme Court cases involving obamacare.  However, after Megyn Kelly pressed Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner …
Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
Videos become a weapon in union fights  —  Stung by allegations of incendiary, racist and homophobic rhetoric at tea party rallies last year, conservative activists with flipcams and camera phones have circulated at the union protests sprouting up across the country in hopes of catching violent …
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Tea party leader: John Boehner should go  —  A national tea party group is in revolt against House Speaker John Boehner and wants to see him defeated in a 2012 primary, arguing that he looks “like a fool” in the debate over spending cuts and makes less sense than actor Charlie Sheen.
Discussion: The Note and Outside the Beltway
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Chased by a tiger  —  NBC/WSJ poll suggests GOP is caught between a cliff (independents who might not like deep budget cuts) and a charging tiger (a Tea Party that does)... What's popular and unpopular to cut... The poll on Wisconsin and the state budget battles …
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Teachers Wonder, Why the Scorn?  —  The jabs Erin Parker has heard about her job have stunned her.  Oh you pathetic teachers, read the online comments and placards of counterdemonstrators.  You are glorified baby sitters who leave work at 3 p.m. You deserve minimum wage.
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Federalism For Some, Miniature American Flags For Others  —  Let's assume for the sake of argument that the White House knows it can't bring Republicans around on the health care law.  The GOP base doesn't really know what the law is, but they know they hate it, and until that fact changes …
Discussion: Yglesias
Abdon M. Pallasch / Chicago Sun Times:
Rahm Emanuel meets fake Twitter Rahm, says phony right on target  —  Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel admitted Wednesday that there were times, after a long day on the campaign trail, that he would read the profane diatribes of his alter-ego on @MayorEmanuel.com and think to himself, “My sentiments exactly!”
Allan Hall / Daily Mail:
‘This is my favourite killer outfit’: Face of Kosovan Muslim alleged to have shot dead two U.S. airmen at Frankfurt airport  —  This is the face of the man suspected of killing two U.S. soldiers in Germany in an Islamist rage.  —  The photo is from Arid Uka's Facebook page …
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Rep. Giffords on list of endangered Dems  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee included Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on its list of the most vulnerable incumbents released Thursday.  —  As Giffords remains in a Houston hospital where she is recovering from the gunshot wound …
Discussion: The Politico
Ian Urbina / New York Times:
Politics Seen to Limit E.P.A. as It Sets Rules for Natural Gas  —  When Congress considered whether to regulate more closely the handling of wastes from oil and gas drilling in the 1980s, it turned to the Environmental Protection Agency to research the matter.
Discussion: Philly.com and Climate Progress
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Bipartisan Senate duo wants Medicare to make payments to doctors public  —  Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) are collaborating on legislation to require the federal government to make public how much it pays doctors who participate in Medicare, a Senate staffer said.
Discussion: Wonk Room and Balloon Juice
The Politico:
Newt Gingrich's route: 2012 path paved with questions  —  Newt Gingrich appears poised to become the first major Republican to enter the race for president, a step that would give him a first-mover advantage in a slow-forming GOP field .  —  He'll need it.
 
 
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Democracy Now:
Idaho Students Stage Walkout to Oppose Teacher Layoffs, Collective Bargaining Curbs
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Daily Kos
JSOnline:
Largest unions pay leaders well, give extensively to Democrats
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and Hot Air
Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:
‘British martyr’ in new al-Qaeda video on web heightens concern over UK attack
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Jawa Report
Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Wife's Charity Offers Corporate Tie to a Governor
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Judson Berger / Fox News:
Illinois Officials Spar Over Order to Make List of Gun Owners Public
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Chris Christie: ‘I love collective bargaining’
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Associated Press
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Lobbyists join redistricting in N.Y.
Discussion: Hotline On Call
The Politico:
Senate ramps up Ensign probe
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 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Officials Disagree on Penalties for Mortgage Mess
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The Wisconsin protesters are losing their grip on reality.
Mark Helprin / Wall Street Journal:
The Decline of U.S. Naval Power
Discussion: ParaPundit
Brett Michael Dykes / Yahoo! News:
Proposed Texas immigration law contains convenient loophole for ‘the help’
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Paul Ryan: Romneycare ‘Not that Dissimilar to Obamacare’
Justin Elliott / Salon:
Sarah Palin's bizarre view of the First Amendment
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

 
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