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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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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 …
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Fox Nation, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and Shot in the Dark
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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.
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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?
Secret WH memo: Why aren't any high schools asking Obama to speak at commencement this year?
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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 …
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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.
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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Wisconsin's Walker accuses Senate Democrats of blocking negotiations — A chance to end the legislative standoff that has paralyzed the Wisconsin government for weeks seemed to slip away Monday after Gov. Scott Walker (R) accused the leader of the state Senate Democrats of blocking negotiations to end the impasse.
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The Note:
Wisconsin Standoff Intensifies: Governor Scott Walker Will Not Relent on Collective Bargaining Rights …
Wisconsin Standoff Intensifies: Governor Scott Walker Will Not Relent on Collective Bargaining Rights …
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The Politico and JSOnline
Natasha Vargas-Cooper / The Atlantic Online:
At a Wisconsin Town Hall, the Mood Turns Against Compromise
At a Wisconsin Town Hall, the Mood Turns Against Compromise
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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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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 …
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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.
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 …
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Moe Lane
The Politico:
Republicans divided over Muslim hearings — The top two House Republican leaders are divided over how to handle the bubbling controversy surrounding Homeland Security Chairman Peter King's hearing into “radicalization” in the American Muslim community. — Majority Leader Eric Cantor …
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Washington Monthly, New York Times and Religion Dispatches
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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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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 …
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Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Conservative group files suit against Hastings, alleging sexual harassment
Conservative group files suit against Hastings, alleging sexual harassment
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The Note, The Other McCain and CNN
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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And So it Goes in Shreveport, Politics Daily, JustOneMinute and The Politico
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.
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TMZ.com, Inside TV, ABCNEWS, TalkLeft, Big Hollywood, EW.com, Weasel Zippers, AmSpecBlog and Patterico's Pontifications
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Charlie Sheen / TMZ.com:
Warner Bros. has just fired Charlie Sheen from “Two and a Half Men.”
Warner Bros. has just fired Charlie Sheen from “Two and a Half Men.”
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alicublog, AmSpecBlog, The Other McCain, Politics Daily, New York Times, American Spectator, PopEater, Gawker, The Wire, Gothamist and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Drawing U.S. Crowds With Anti-Islam Message — FORT WORTH — Brigitte Gabriel bounced to the stage at a Tea Party convention last fall. She greeted the crowd with a loud Texas “Yee-HAW,” then launched into the same gripping personal story she has told in hundreds of churches, synagogues and conference rooms across the United States:
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The Atlantic Online and The Politico
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.
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Echidne / ECHIDNE of the snakes:
Our Ross Cares About the Gurlz — That would be Ross Douthat in his latest column. He truly, truly cares about the gurlz (well, straight gurlz) and wants them to be happy. In order to do that, he recommends that they use an aspirin held between the knees as the contraceptive choice.
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Feministing, TBogg, The Awl, The Daily Dish and Dana Goldstein
Tom Beaumont / Des Moines Register:
Newt Gingrich admits ‘unfortunate confusion’ in news about exploration plans — Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich acknowledged in a Des Moines Register interview Monday that his team bobbled the news last week before the announcement Thursday that he planned to begin raising money to explore seeking the 2012 GOP presidential nod.