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David Weigel / Weigel:
Why Obama Doesn't Need to Ask Congress Before Attacking Libya — It's simple: Most of Washington doesn't want him to. To coin a phrase: If they want the president to do it, that means it's legal. — Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of Congress's most prominent hawks, who must at this point …
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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
In Official Notification Two Days Later, President Obama Alerts Congress the US Joined a War — Amidst claims by members of Congress that they were insufficiently consulted, and ensuing White House pushback, President Obama Monday officially notified congressional leaders that at …
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The Other McCain, Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Hot Air, The Sundries Shack and The Lonely Conservative
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Webb critical of Obama's Libya operation: 'This isn't the way that our system is supposed to work' — Last week, the United Nations Security Council authorized the use of force in Libya to protect Libyan civilians from the country's dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
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Scared Monkeys and Weasel Zippers
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
GOP Senate candidate slams ‘Libya intervention’
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CNN and The Politico
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Right's New Meme — Most of the GOP leadership is playing …
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Washington Monthly, Washington Post, Swampland, Questions and Observations and Booman Tribune
Newsweek:
How Dumb Are We? — NEWSWEEK gave 1,000 Americans the U.S. Citizenship Test—38 percent failed. The country's future is imperiled by our ignorance. — What Don't You Know? Take the Quiz. — They're the sort of scores that drive high-school history teachers to drink.
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Newsweek:
Take the Quiz: What We Don't Know — The U.S. citizenship test is comprised of 100 questions, across five categories: American government, systems of government, rights and responsibilities, American history and integrated civics. Ten questions from the 100 are chosen randomly for the test-taker.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
PONDERING THE ‘HOW DUMB ARE WE?’ QUESTION.... Newsweek …
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The Note:
Sarah Palin To Israelis: “Why Are You Apologizing All The Time?” — ABC News' Mary Bruce Reports: Sarah Palin made her first pilgrimage to the Holy Land on Sunday, joining a long line of presidential hopefuls who have traveled to Israel prior to throwing their hat in the ring.
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The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, Associated Press, Salon, The Caucus, Politics and Booman Tribune
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Palin's take on Israel: Too apologetic
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NewsReal Blog, Politics, The Atlantic Online, Cubachi, Politics Daily and Ben Smith's Blog
David Catanese / The Politico:
McCaskill will sell ‘the damn plane’ — Sen. Claire McCaskill is selling the personal plane that has caused her turbulence in recent weeks after POLITICO revealed she used taxpayer money to cover the cost of political travel. — The first-term Democrat said she was very happy she was able …
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The Note, Michelle Malkin, CNN, TPMDC, Proof Positive and Weigel
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Mark Hemingway / Weekly Standard:
Breaking: Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Failed to Pay $287,000 in Property Taxes on Aircraft — In a conference call with reporters, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill just disclosed that she failed to pay $287,000 in property taxes related to her co-ownership of a private aircraft.
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The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air, Don Surber and Pajamas Media
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Sen. Claire McCaskill admits owing $287K in taxes on private plane
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RedState, The Politico, Ben Smith's Blog, The Lonely Conservative, National Review and The Caucus
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
AZ Senate President Russell Pearce Takes Tentherism To New Level: ‘You Are Not A Citizen Of The United States’ — One of the most radical offshoots of modern conservatism in the United States is called “tentherism,” which invokes the Constitution's Tenth Amendment to claim that a whole host …
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Booman Tribune, The Raw Story and Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality …
Scott A. Hodge / Tax Foundation:
No Country Leans on Upper-Income Households as Much as U.S. — During my recent testimony before the Senate Budget Committee ( found here), I cited an OECD statistic that the U.S. has the most progressive income tax system among industrialized nations. [1] This prompted one Senator to point …
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Power Line, Yglesias, TheMoneyIllusion, Mother Jones and The Lonely Conservative
Megan Scully / NationalJournal.com:
Costs of Libya Operation Already Piling Up — A U.S. F-16 fighter jet takes off from Aviano Air Base in Italy on Sunday. The cost of the first day of Operation Odyssey Dawn topped $100 million. — With U.N. coalition forces bombarding Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi from the sea and air …
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Speakeasy, The Atlantic Online, Balloon Juice, Weigel and Salon
Jon Boone / Guardian:
US army's ‘kill team’ in Afghanistan — Commanders brace for backlash of anti-US sentiment that could be more damaging than after the Abu Ghraib scandal — Commanders in Afghanistan are bracing themselves for possible riots and public fury triggered by the publication of “trophy” …
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Richard Hartley-Parkinson / Daily Mail:
For the sins of his father: Gaddafi's son ‘killed in kamikaze pilot attack on barracks’ — Colonel Gaddafi suffered a massive personal setback today when one of his sons was allegedly killed in a suicide air mission on his barracks. — Khamis, 27, who runs the feared Khamis Brigade …
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Guardian and Sky Dancing
Lauraklairmont / CNN:
CNN Poll: Most support no fly zone in Libya but not ground troops — Washington (CNN) - Seven in ten Americans support military action by the U.S. and other countries to establish a no-fly zone in Libya, a 14-point increase since last week, according to a new national poll.
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David Weigel / Weigel:
Poll: Only 50 Percent of Voters Back Obama's Handling of Libya
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Firedoglake and The Politico
Kate Golden / WisconsinWatch.org:
Analysis: Emails favored Walker 2-1 — One-third of positive emails from out of state … By Kate Golden — Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism — Gov. Scott Walker was right: The angry crowds in Madison didn't tell the whole story of how Wisconsinites felt.
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Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
Stock Footage of Minorities in Pawlenty's Presidential Announcement Video — Few minorities are featured in Tim Pawlenty's presidential announcement video, and, as it turns out, most of them were taken from Getty stock footage. — Pawlenty, who served as governor of Minnesota until January …
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ThinkProgress, The Political Carnival and Daily Kos
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
TOO ‘BROKE’ FOR IMMUNIZATION PROGRAMS?.... Part of the problem with the budget plan approved by House Republicans is that it has too many problems. For critics, it's hard to even know where to start with all the spectacular flaws, and Democrats have struggled — if they've even tried …
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The Maddow Blog
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Suzy Khimm / Mother Jones:
Death By a Single GOP Cut?
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Sky Dancing, Daily Kos, Little Green Footballs and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
Stephen M. Walt / Foreign Policy:
What intervention in Libya tells us about the neocon-liberal alliance — Last Wednesday I spoke at an event at Hofstra University, on the subject of “Barack Obama's Foreign Policy.” The other panelists were former DNC chair and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean and longtime Republican campaign guru Ed Rollins.
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The New Republic, The Reality-Based Community, Washington Post, Daily Kos, Hullabaloo, YID With LID and Eunomia
Matthew Shaer / New York Magazine:
Not Quite Copenhagen — Is New York too New York for bike lanes? — The biker careers against traffic; the driver veers into the forbidden lane; the jaywalker marches, oblivious. But only the sucker yields. — Photo-illustration by Peter Rad — On a blustery day this winter …
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Green, Grist, City Room, Gothamist and National Review
Mary Beth Schneider / Indianapolis Star:
Indiana Republicans at a loss without Democrats — Legislative timeline — Jan. 6: Indiana General Assembly goes into session, and after only nine minutes the first spat breaks out. Democrats object to the filing of right-to-work legislation, which would bar which bars companies and unions …
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TPMDC, The Maddow Blog and National Review
Fox News:
UNIVERSITY DOWNPLAYS STUDENT'S JIHAD THREAT — Montreal police are investigating a student who made threats against a conservative club at McGill University, even though university officials determined the student's threats about jihad and wanting to “shoot everyone in the room” were harmless.
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Jihad Watch and The Jawa Report
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
FLOTUS: ‘American dream’ true in Chile — First lady Michelle Obama on Monday lauded higher education as the engine that propelled her to a successful career, and the key reason her husband—whose own family “struggled to make ends meet” when he was a child — became president of the United States.
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The Lonely Conservative, The Blaze and Weasel Zippers
David Boaz / Britannica Blog:
What Ever Happened to the Antiwar Movement? — About 100 antiwar protesters, including Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, were arrested Saturday outside the White House in demonstrations marking the eighth anniversary of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. It's a far cry from the Bush years …
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Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Pajamas Media and Moe Lane
LaborUnionReport / RedState:
Wisconsin Judge Maryann Sumi & Her (SEIU, AFL-CIO) Political Operative Son — On Friday, unions scored a temporary victory to maintain their ability to collect union dues from Wisconsin public employees when Judge Maryann Sumi (the same judge who refused to order teachers back to work in February) …
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JSOnline, Pajamas Media, Doug Ross, The Lonely Conservative and The Gateway Pundit
Mark Krikorian / National Review:
They Know Who Wears the Pants in This Country — Look, I'm a sensitive New Age guy — I cook, I do laundry, I choke up at movies (well, Gladiator, anyway). But does anyone think our enemies abroad are as enlightened as we are about feminism? Steyn is right that the specific lesson they're learning …
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