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10:50 AM ET, March 8, 2011

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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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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
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?
Discussion: JustOneMinute
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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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
House GOP leader says healthcare fight won't drag down Romney  —  The GOP's fight against President Obama's healthcare law won't prevent Mitt Romney from winning a run for the White House, the second-ranking House Republican said Tuesday.  —  Conservative critics say the plan Romney implemented …
New York Times:
Florida Republicans Are 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:
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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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:
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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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 …
The Politico:
Some Dems on fence over cuts  —  The Senate has yet to hold a vote on the latest budget proposals, but Majority Leader Harry Reid already has a problem on his hands with a group of politically rattled moderates.  —  Several Democrats facing tough re-election races next year are not saying whether …
Discussion: Ezra Klein and Hot Air
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Sessions: Democrats proposing ‘fake cuts’ to budget
The Note:   Wisconsin Standoff Intensifies: Governor Scott Walker Will Not Relent on Collective Bargaining Rights …
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 …
Discussion: Moe Lane
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
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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CNN:
Walker: Border meeting with Dems ‘ridiculous’
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.
Discussion: The Note
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
Discussion: The Note, The Other McCain and CNN
New York Times:
Too Long to Wait  —  Seven months have passed since Proposition 8, California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages, was ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge in San Francisco following a much-publicized trial that turned up no evidence to justify the measure's denial of equal protection and due process.
Discussion: AMERICAblog Gay and Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
Caterpillar's Problem With Peoria  —  Why an American icon is looking beyond Illinois for its future.  —  Just over 100 ago, the company we know as Caterpillar began building track-type tractors at a plant on the banks of the Illinois River.  From these humble origins in East Peoria …
Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Business fights Obama's fix for sick corporate pensions  —  WASHINGTON — State and local government pensions aren't the only ones in trouble.  —  Corporate pensions, too, are woefully underfunded, and the federal agency that insures them against losses is facing a dangerous deficit that taxpayers may end up covering.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
 
 
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Jim Dyke signs on with Haley Barbour
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James C. Capretta / National Review:
Long-Term Budgeting, Obama-Style
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Voice of America:
Clinton Launches 100th Anniversary of International Women's Day
Reuters:
Arab media says Gaddafi looking for exit deal
Patrick Goodenough / CNSNews:
U.S. Taxpayers on the Hook As Obama Joins a New International Renewable Energy Agency
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Benjamin J. Dueholm / Washington Monthly:
Rules of Misbehavior  —  Dan Savage, the brilliant …
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Trump fires back at skeptical GOP senator: You're not that important
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Giffords aides tout Kyl after shooting
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