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Stephen Moore / Wall Street Journal:
The Wisconsin Wobblies — Conservatives in Wisconsin are getting nervous that three Republican state senators may defect on the collective-bargaining reform vote. — Conservatives in Wisconsin are getting nervous that three Republican state senators may defect on the collective-bargaining reform vote.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Are Wisconsin Republicans preparing to break with Walker? — I don't know if these reports are true or not, and we should treat them with caution. But we now have two news outlets, one local and one national, claiming GOP defections from Governor Scott Walker may be in the works.
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The Atlantic Online, Daily Kos, The Mahablog and TPMDC
Rasmussen Reports:
Wisconsin Governor Walker: 43% Approval Rating — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker won his job last November with 52% of the vote, but his popularity has slipped since then. — A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Wisconsin Voters finds that just 34% Strongly Approve of the job he is doing …
Jon Terbush / TPMDC:
Rasmussen Poll: Almost Six In Ten Wisconsin Voters Disapprove Of Gov. Walker — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to strip public employee unions of most of their collective bargaining rights appears to be so unpopular, that a Rasmussen poll now finds that almost 60% of likely Wisconsin voters disapprove of his job performance.
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Maggie's Notebook, Rasmussen Reports and The Reality-Based Community
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Mike Huckabee: I didn't diss Natalie Portman — Mike Huckabee walked back his criticisms of actress Natalie Portman for “glamorizing” out-of-wedlock pregnancies Friday, with a statement insisting he was only talking about society and that he's glad the Oscar winner plans to wed her baby's father.
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The Other McCain
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
Huckabee clarifies Portman criticism
Huckabee clarifies Portman criticism
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Another Black Conservative, The Daily Caller, Us Weekly, Big Hollywood, Pajamas Media, Hot Air, E! Online, Indecision Forever and Taylor Marsh
Mike Huckabee / Huck PAC:
The Most Important Form of Government Is A Father, Mother and Children
The Most Important Form of Government Is A Father, Mother and Children
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Speakeasy, The Wire, The Note, Mediaite, Firedoglake, AmSpecBlog, GOP 12, National Review and Media Matters for America
Rachel Weiner / The Fix:
Why is Mike Huckabee criticizing Natalie Portman? (Poll)
Why is Mike Huckabee criticizing Natalie Portman? (Poll)
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Politics Daily, The Plum Line, Daily Kos and Behind the Numbers
Breaking Boston News, Weather & Sports:
Study: Staring at breasts increases heart health — GERMANY (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - Guys, listen up. A study says it is actually healthy to stare at a woman's breasts. — Five-hundred men participated in the German study. Half were told to refrain from looking at breasts for five years …
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The Jawa Report, POWIP, Fox Nation and Pajamas Media
David Leonhardt / Economix:
The Struggles of Men — 11:35 a.m. | Updated to correct percentage decline in median wages since 1969. — The Hamilton Project has produced a fairly stunning chart, suggesting that median real wages for men have dropped significantly more than is commonly understood:
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Yglesias, EconLog and Grasping Reality …
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Anna Holmes / New York Times:
The Disposable Woman — FORTY-THREE minutes into his “special live edition” with Charlie Sheen on Monday night, Piers Morgan finally got around to asking his guest a real question. Before that, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Sheen had mostly traded chuckles and anecdotes about multiday benders …
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James Wolcott / Vanity Fair:
It's Morgan In America
It's Morgan In America
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Taylor Marsh, Mediaite and New York Magazine, more at Mediagazer »
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
McConnell: White House offer to cut $6.5B is ‘unserious’ — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Friday rejected the White House's opening offer to cut an additional $6.5 billion in spending as “unserious.” — Speaking on the Senate floor, the GOP leader said that Republicans …
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The Note, The Politico, Hot Air, CNN, The Page and The Democratic Daily
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James Rosen / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
DeMint throws new wrench into legislative process
DeMint throws new wrench into legislative process
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Prairie Weather and Zandar Versus The Stupid
David Ariosto / CNN:
Walker tells absent Dems: Return or 1,500 get laid off — (CNN) — A Wisconsin Democrat was tackled by Capitol police as he tried to walk through a door in the state legislature, which has been closed to the public. — Assembly member Nick Milroy, a Democrat assembly member …
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Hot Air, This Just In and Pundit & Pundette
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host.madison.com:
Media sue Walker for release of e-mails — Two local news organizations sued Gov. Scott Walker Friday for alleged failure to respond to their requests for e-mails that the governor claimed were overwhelmingly in favor of his controversial budget repair bill.
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First Draft
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John Blake / CNN:
Are whites racially oppressed? — White marchers gather at Glenn Beck rally this summer. Were they driven by racial fears or patriotic sentiment? — (CNN) — They marched on Washington to reclaim civil rights. — They complained of voter intimidation at the polls.
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The Awl, Shakesville, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Runnin' Scared and Wonkette
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Boehner makes step toward defending DOMA in court — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took a step Friday toward formally defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court. — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) took a step Friday toward formally defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in court.
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The Politico, CNN, The Note and FrumForum
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Boehner promises Obama GOP cover if he takes first step on entitlement reform
Boehner promises Obama GOP cover if he takes first step on entitlement reform
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Mother Jones, Ezra Klein, msnbc.com, Daily Kos, Sky Dancing and The Fix
George Russell / Fox News:
U.K. Pulls Plug on United Nations Spending, in Move That is Bound to Hearten U.S. Critics — Critics of U.S. spending on the United Nations got a huge boost—and supporters of that spending, especially the Obama Administration, took a body blow—from an unlikely source this week …
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Cubachi, Weasel Zippers and Riehl World View
Amanda Carey / The Daily Caller:
HHS Secretary Sebelius admits to double-counting in Obamacare budget — During a hearing on Capitol Hill Thursday, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) admitted to double-counting in the Obamacare budget. — In her first appearance before the House Energy …
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YID With LID, Breitbart.tv, Fox Nation, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit, theblogprof and The Lonely Conservative
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE: GOP Senator Yanked Off Committee Speaks Out, Was Informed 30 Minutes Before Anti-Union Vote — On Wednesday, just moments before a key committee in the Ohio State Senate was to vote on a GOP bill that would effectively dismantle public employees' right to collectively bargain …
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The Political Carnival, NEWS JUNKIE POST and Wonk Room
aina.org:
Ethiopian Muslims Burn Down Five Churches, More Attacks Feared — Washington — International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that in the past two days, thousands of Muslims have razed five churches and the homes of two evangelists in Asendabo, Ethiopia.
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Atlas Shrugs and The Jawa Report
Ryan J. Reilly / TPMMuckraker:
Gaffney, Jones Fight For Soul Of Anti-Sharia Movement At Rally By White House (VIDEO) — Rev. Terry Jones, the man who rose to national prominence last fall when he announced (but later backed off off) a plan to burn copies of the Koran, was clad in a beat-up black leather jacket when he showed …
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Talking Points Memo
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
That Time Has Arrived — In our main editorial chat here at TPM I was just saying that with the new evidence of Gov. Walker going into the bunker-bound, ranting at his lackeys stage of this drama I figured that it could only be a few days before the first Gov. Walker “Hitler Downfall Parody Video” appeared on Youtube.
Michelle Malkin:
Hey, Eric Holder: Meet My People — We, the Unhyphenated Americans: Meet My People — My fellow Americans, who are “your people”? I ask because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who is black, used the phrase “my people” in congressional testimony this week.
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Crooks and Liars, Nice Deb and The New Republic
Todd Starnes / Fox News:
Connecticut Town Ordered to Pay for Union Workers' Coffee — A Connecticut town must provide their union workers free coffee and milk, according to a ruling from the State Board of Labor Relations. — The board also ordered town leaders to reinstate “Dress Down Fridays” for the union clerical and custodial workers.
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The Lonely Conservative
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
Arizona GOP Bill Would Let Gov. Brewer Create An Armed Militia For Whatever She ‘Considers Necessary’ — Arizona's GOP-run legislature has taken to marginalizing and villainizing the immigrant population with zeal — be it through SB 1070, HB 2191, or SB 1070 “on steroids.”
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Feathered Bastard, Speakeasy and The Huffington Post
Michael F. Cannon / National Review:
Mitch Daniels's Obamacare Problem — Mitt Romney isn't the only Republican presidential hopeful with an Obamacare problem: Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, were he to become the GOP's nominee, could also undermine the repeal campaign that has united the party's base and independent voters.
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Ezra Klein
Associated Press:
NASA satellite rocket launch fails, lands in ocean — WASHINGTON (AP) — A rocket carrying an Earth-observation satellite plummeted into the Pacific Ocean after a failed launch attempt Friday, the second-straight blow to NASA's weakened environmental monitoring program.
Alan Farnham / ABCNEWS:
Jobless Picture Improves, but Not for Everyone — Although More Americans Got Jobs in February, One Category of Workers Got Kicked to the Curb — Unemployment fell in February to 8.9 percent, and US companies added 192,000 people to their payrolls, but one category of workers is increasingly facing an overt form of discrimination.