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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.
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David Weigel / Slate:
James O'Keefe Versus NPR — The video sting artiste publishes the latest work from his shop — a covertly taped interview with then-NPR Foundation senior VP for development Ron Schiller and current senior director of institutional giving Betsy Liley. Shaughn Adeleye and Simon Templar posed …
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AmSpecBlog and Patterico's Pontifications
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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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Freshman Democrat Joe Manchin: Obama has ‘failed to lead’ on budget — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is planning to rip President Barack Obama on his budget proposals in a Senate floor speech Tuesday, a rare rebuke from a freshman Democrat who's clearly worried about the politics …
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Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Wisconsin's Walker accuses Senate Democrats of blocking negotiations
Wisconsin's Walker accuses Senate Democrats of blocking negotiations
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Politics Daily, JSOnline, The Page and Taylor Marsh
Wall Street Journal:
In Wisconsin, Both Sides Dig In
In Wisconsin, Both Sides Dig In
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Dane101, Firedoglake, ThinkProgress and Mediaite
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Sessions: Democrats proposing ‘fake cuts’ to budget
Sessions: Democrats proposing ‘fake cuts’ to budget
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ABCNEWS and The Daily Caller
John Bresnahan / The Politico:
Senate Democrats ask for help with their 2012 slogan
Senate Democrats ask for help with their 2012 slogan
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Moe Lane, The Lonely Conservative, Questions and Observations and Don Surber
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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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 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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RealClearWorld, Guardian, democracyarsenal.org and The Talking Dog
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Washington Post:
Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay — President Obama signed an executive order Monday that will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who continue to pose a significant threat to national security.
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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:
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ThinkProgress, The Atlantic Online and The Politico
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
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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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.
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
Gary Locke / Washington Post:
Drawing the stars for charity — There is no such thing as a short dinner when Bill Clinton is in the house. The 42nd president, bless his heart, loves to talk. And talk. And then talk some more. — Of course he was the last guest to leave Sunday's Kuwait-America Foundation dinner …
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Lynn Sweet and NewsBusters.org
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.
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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 …