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9:20 AM ET, March 8, 2011

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Mj Lee / The Politico:
Obama's debt expert yells at kids  —  Alan Simpson referred to Snoop Dogg (left) and Eminem (right) in his tirade.  —  AP Photo  —  Alan Simpson might need to freshen up on his pop culture.  —  The co-chairman of President Obama's deficit commission tried to scold the elderly on Monday …
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Robert J. Samuelson / Washington Post:
Why Social Security is welfare
Discussion: Economist's View
Peter Maer / CBS News:
White House memo notes shortage of applicants for contest to have Obama to speak at high school graduation  —  The White House is ramping up an effort to promote a nationwide competition to decide which high school wins a commencement speech by President Obama.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Secret WH memo: Why aren't any high schools asking Obama to speak at commencement this year?
CNN:
Walker: Border meeting with Dems ‘ridiculous’  —  (CNN) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker on Monday dismissed as “ridiculous” a letter from a Democratic state Senate leader who suggested a meeting “near the Wisconsin-Illinois border” to discuss the state's budget impasse.
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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Wisconsin's Walker accuses Senate Democrats of blocking negotiations
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and The Page
The Note:
Wisconsin Standoff Intensifies: Governor Scott Walker Will Not Relent on Collective Bargaining Rights …
Discussion: The Politico and JSOnline
Natasha Vargas-Cooper / The Atlantic Online:
At a Wisconsin Town Hall, the Mood Turns Against Compromise
Michelle Malkin:
Missing: Marizela Perez  —  I just got off the phone with my family.  —  This is my beautiful cousin, Marizela Perez:  —  She is a University of Washington undergrad and she has been missing since Saturday afternoon, when she left the Rainier Beach neighborhood headed to the UW Seattle campus.
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KCPQ - Seattle's Q13 FOX News:
Her name is Marizela Perez and she apparently vanished at around Noon on Saturday, March 5th.  —  Q13 FOX News Online  —  SEATTLE —  Relatives of a missing UW student are asking for the public's help in finding her.  —  Her name is Marizela Perez and she apparently vanished at around Noon on Saturday, March 5th.
New York Times:
Discord Fills Washington on Possible Libya Intervention  —  WASHINGTON — Nearly three weeks after Libya erupted in what may now turn into a protracted civil war, the politics of military intervention to speed the ouster of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi grow more complicated by the day — for both the White House and Republicans.
Discussion: New York Magazine
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Guardian:
Obama ups pressure over no-fly zone
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
A Libyan Leader at War With Rebels, and Reality
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
Tea party steeped in redistricting  —  After making a raucous national debut and helping to power a grass-roots uprising that swept conservatives into office, tea party activists are now taking on a more sophisticated and decidedly insider-oriented electoral frontier: redistricting.
Discussion: Right Wing News
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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
NPR executives caught on tape bashing conservatives and Tea Party, touting liberals  —  A man who appears to be a senior National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller, has been captured on camera savaging conservatives and the Tea Party movement.  —  “The current Republican Party …
Pauline Jelinek / Associated Press:
Report says too many whites, men leading military  —  WASHINGTON - The U.S. military is too white and too male at the top and needs to change recruiting and promotion policies and lift its ban on women in combat, an independent report for Congress said Monday.
New York Times:
Florida Republicans at Odds With Their Leader  —  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Rick Scott, the conservative Republican billionaire who plucked the governor's job from the party establishment in November with $73 million of his own money and the backing of the Tea Party, vowed during his campaign …
New York Times:
Obama Clears Way for Guantánamo Trials  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama on Monday reversed his two-year-old order halting new military charges against detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, permitting military trials to resume with revamped procedures but implicitly admitting …
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Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Obama restarts Guantanamo trials
The Hill:
Obama to resume Gitmo military trials
Discussion: Hot Air and Liberty Pundits Blog
Michael Kinsley / The Politico:
Mitt Romney, the most transparent candidate  —  We're all for transparency these days, and if anything is transparently clear about American politics, it is that Mitt Romney will do or say anything to become president.  The best guess is that at heart he is an old-fashioned, business-oriented Republican.
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The Note:
Michael Steele: ‘Nothing Wrong with a Government Shutdown’
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Judicial Watch:
Rep. Alcee Hastings Sued by Employee for Sexual Harassment: “Unwelcome Sexual Advances” and “Unwelcome Touching”  —  Hastings Allegedly Retaliated Against Victim for Complaining About Conduct  —  Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption …
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Sessions: Democrats proposing ‘fake cuts’ to budget  —  Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on Monday said the Senate Democrat proposal to cut about $6.5 billion from FY 2010 levels proposes only “fake cuts” to government spending, and said a vote in favor of that proposal is a vote to “do nothing.”
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
No guts, no glory: GOP should heed lesson of '91  —  Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork  —  In early March 1991, all the smart people in politics knew one thing about the upcoming 1992 campaign: President George H.W. Bush was unbeatable.  —  Fresh from victory in the Gulf War …
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Nellie Andreeva / Deadline.com:
FIRED!  Charlie Sheen Axed From ‘Two And A Half Men’, He Fires Back & Vows To Sue  —  UPDATED: It's over for Charlie Sheen on the hit CBS comedy Two and a Half Men.  But his ongoing war with the series producer Warner Bros. TV is far from over, with lawyers for both sides expected to take the lead in the coming weeks.
Brad Johnson / ThinkProgress:
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Scott Brown Begs David Koch For Money  —  At the public dedication of MIT's David H. Koch Integrative Cancer Institute last Friday, Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) effusively thanked conservative billionaire David Koch for supporting his election in 2010 and made a plea for help in his re-election campaign next year.
Discussion: Salon, Politicususa, Wonk Room and Gawker
Voice of America:
Clinton Launches 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day  —  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the ‘100 Women Initiative’ at the State Department in Washington, March 7, 2011  —  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday launched the “100 Women Initiative …
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Senate Democrats ask for help with their 2012 slogan  —  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the campaign arm of Senate Democrats, needs your help.  No, not a check, at least not this time.  —  The DSCC wants help coming up with a new slogan for bumper stickers and other paraphernalia that it gives out this cycle.
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Why Fire Teachers?  —  ED Kain has been blogging a lot about teacher firings, and makes what I think is one of the better cases for the tenure/civil service/union protections from firing that teachers now enjoy. … Naturally, I'm going to be the mean person who steps in and argues in favor …
Discussion: Moe Lane
 
 
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Reuters:
Arab media says Gaddafi looking for exit deal
Discussion: Hot Air, New York Times and Gawker
Patrick Goodenough / CNSNews:
U.S. Taxpayers on the Hook As Obama Joins a New International Renewable Energy Agency
Discussion: Maggie's Notebook
Benjamin J. Dueholm / Washington Monthly:
Rules of Misbehavior  —  Dan Savage, the brilliant …
Discussion: Focal Point and pandagon.net
Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
President Obama Will Nominate Commerce Secretary Locke as US Ambassador to China
Discussion: Politics Daily and The 1600 Report
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump fires back at skeptical GOP senator: You're not that important
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Tom Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Newt Gingrich admits ‘unfortunate confusion’ in news about exploration plans
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