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Josh Rogin / The Cable:
How Obama turned on a dime toward war — At the start of this week, the consensus around Washington was that military action against Libya was not in the cards. However, in the last several days, the White House completely altered its stance and successfully pushed for the authorization …
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Imperial President — The president's speech was disturbingly empty. There are, it appears, only two reasons the US is going to war, without any Congressional vote, or any real public debate. The first is that the US cannot stand idly by while atrocities take place.
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Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
The Libya Question is Only About Libya — There's an argument against intervention in Libya that I keep seeing over and over. Here, for instance, is Andrew Sullivan: … And here's Ezra Klein: … Why intervene in Libya and not elsewhere is a question that needs to be asked.
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Yglesias, Opinionator, Washington Post and The Daily Dish
Marc Lynch / Foreign Policy:
The U.N.'s High Stakes Gamble in Libya
The U.N.'s High Stakes Gamble in Libya
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Yglesias, The Daily Dish, Eunomia and democracyarsenal.org
Daniel Larison / Eunomia:
Libyan Cease-Fire and the Moral Hazard of Intervention
Libyan Cease-Fire and the Moral Hazard of Intervention
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Guardian, democracyarsenal.org and Alas, a Blog
New York Times:
Obama Warns Libya, but Attacks Go On
Obama Warns Libya, but Attacks Go On
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JSOnline:
Dane County judge halts collective bargaining law — By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday, barring the publication of a controversial new law that would sharply curtail collective bargaining for public employees.
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Monica Davey / New York Times:
Judge's Order Blocks Law on Unions in Wisconsin
Judge's Order Blocks Law on Unions in Wisconsin
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The Reaction and Truthdig
Daily Mail:
The moment nuclear plant chief WEPT as Japanese finally admit that radiation leak is serious enough to kill people — The boss of the company behind the devastated Japanese nuclear reactor today broke down in tears - as his country finally acknowledged the radiation spewing from the over-heating reactors …
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San Francisco Bay Guardian, Doug Ross and Dean's World
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CBO's Latest 10 Documents:
PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF THE PRESIDENT'S BUDGET FOR 2012 — Letter to the Honorable Daniel K. Inouye — ABSTRACT — The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), with contributions from the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, has analyzed the President's budget submission for fiscal year 2012.
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Power Line, The Daily Caller and AmSpecBlog
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO: Obama budget worse than projected on 10-year deficit
CBO: Obama budget worse than projected on 10-year deficit
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Michelle Malkin, The Gateway Pundit and Cubachi
David Shribman / Associated Press:
CBO: Obama understates deficits by $2.3 trillion
CBO: Obama understates deficits by $2.3 trillion
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The Lonely Conservative and Weasel Zippers
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Biden mentions rape in criticizing Republicans — Vice President Joe Biden, speaking at a fundraiser in Philadelphia Friday, compared Republicans in Congress to people who excuse rapists by blaming their victims. — The vice president, known for speaking his mind and at times putting …
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CNN, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and JammieWearingFool
James O'Keefe / APP.com:
Hidden-camera activist James O'Keefe turns away APP videographer — have made headlines, apparently was not thrilled about the idea of being videotaped himself during a speech he gave Thursday evening. — O'Keefe, who spoke to about 100 members of the Bayshore Tea Party and their supporters …
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George Zornick / ThinkProgress:
Hidden Camera Activist James O'Keefe Refuses To Be Taped During Speech — Conservative activist James O'Keefe, who has gained notoriety for his hidden-camera stings of NPR executives, ACORN employees, teacher unions, and CNN reporters, gave a speech to a New Jersey Tea Party group today.
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Salon and The Political Carnival
Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:
War On The Poor: Minnesota Republicans Want To Bust Poor People Who Carry Cash — They're not just crazy, they're evil — and un-Christian, should they have the audacity to claim otherwise. If only we could force them to live like this, they wouldn't last a week: … It may not be right, Angel.
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FreakOutNation, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Wonkette, Alas, a Blog and Pharyngula
Nick Baumann / MoJo Articles:
GOP Bill Would Force IRS to Conduct Abortion Audits — Were you raped? Was it incest? And other questions the government's tax cops would have to ask women who've terminated pregnancies. — Post Comment — Under a GOP-backed bill expected to sail through the House of Representatives …
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Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
GOP Anti-Abortion Bill Will Force IRS Agents To Audit Abortions Of Sexual Assault Victims
GOP Anti-Abortion Bill Will Force IRS Agents To Audit Abortions Of Sexual Assault Victims
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Daily Kos and The Political Carnival
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Takedown: Ed Schultz Destroys Fox News' “No Looting in Japan” Theme — Boy, am I glad Ed Schultz dealt with this. It's been a Fox theme since yesterday, beginning on Megyn Kelly's show and continuing on all the way through tonight's O'Reilly Factor. It goes like this: Unlike here after Katrina …
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The Daily Dish
Yahoo! News:
‘Supermoon’ Rises: Biggest Full Moon in 18 Years Occurs Saturday Night — Thanks to a fluke of orbital mechanics that brings the moon closer to Earth than that it has been in more than 18 years, the biggest full moon of 2011 will occur on Saturday, leading some observers to dub it a “supermoon.”
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Ed Payne / CNN:
Weekend full moon the biggest in about 20 years
Weekend full moon the biggest in about 20 years
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New York Magazine and The Awl
Mark Levin / Facebook:
Ronald Reagan & George W. Bush — My friend Pete Wehner took my criticism of President George W. Bush and some of his most senior staff as a challenge to compare Bush to President Ronald Reagan. http://www.commentarymagazine.com/ 2011/03/17/answering-mark-levins- challenge/ Comparing Ronald Reagan …
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Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
Answering Mark Levin's Challenge
Answering Mark Levin's Challenge
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National Review, Riehl World View, AmSpecBlog, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog and Washington Post
Patterico's Pontifications:
The Greatest Blog Post Ever Written? — That might be hyperbole . . . but then again, it might not. … Who is saying these things? It is Lee Stranahan at the Huffington Post, a lefty for whom I have never had anything but the utmost respect. So much so that, when he was looking …
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Moonbattery and Biased BBC
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Is economics a science? (liquidity trap edition) — Not yet, apparently: — 1. If I Google “predictions liquidity trap model,” the first author who comes up is me. — 2. The second item which comes up is this article, which suggests a test: “A random coefficient estimation procedure …
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Modeled Behavior, EconLog, Yglesias, Mother Jones and Paul Krugman
The Daily Caller:
Fairweather media: CNN sends 400 reporters to royal wedding, only 50 sent to Japan — CNN alone will have a team of roughly 400 reporters, cameramen and crew assigned to the wedding. The network has 50 people on the ground working on the breaking news in Japan, plus others scattered in Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.
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Outside the Beltway
Playboy / PR Newswire:
Helen Thomas is Playboy's April Interview — A Candid Conversation with the Disgraced Dean of the White House Press Corps About her Rage against Israel, her Sympathy for Palestinians and Why she was Fired — /PRNewswire/ — “I knew exactly what I was doing - I was going for broke.
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The Gateway Pundit, The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Pajamas Media and The TrogloPundit
John Melloy / Fast Money:
US Cost of Living Hits Record, Passing Pre-Crisis High — One would think that after the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Americans could at least catch a break for a while with deflationary forces keeping the cost of living relatively low. That's not the case.
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Wonkette and Pajamas Media
David Brooks:
Form and Follow-Through — Today we rise up in defense of traditional values. For example, is it a good idea to have sex with somebody on the first date? Probably not. In the Journal of Family Psychology, Dean Busby, Jason Carroll and Brian Willoughby studied the effect of sexual timing on later marriage relationships.
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Balloon Juice, ECHIDNE of the snakes, Booman Tribune and Eschaton
BREITBART.COM:
Obama cancels public speech in Rio square: embassy — President Barack Obama has cancelled a public speech he was scheduled to deliver Sunday in a Rio square during his upcoming visit to Brazil, the US embassy in Brasilia said. — The speech in the historic plaza known as Cinelandia …
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Weasel Zippers and Scared Monkeys
John / Power Line:
One-Third of a French Fry Short of a Big Mac Meal — How can we put the current debate over the federal budget into a tangible perspective that anyone can understand? This morning I read a post by Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute in which he criticized the Washington Post's characterization …
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