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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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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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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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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Right's New Meme — Most of the GOP leadership is playing …
The Right's New Meme — Most of the GOP leadership is playing …
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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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Palin Visits Netanyahu's Residence
Palin Visits Netanyahu's Residence
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
“Why are you apologizing all the time?”
“Why are you apologizing all the time?”
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Conal Urquhart / Guardian:
Palin pulls out of Bethlehem visit
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Palin's take on Israel: Too apologetic
Palin's take on Israel: Too apologetic
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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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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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McCaskill to pay back taxes on plane
McCaskill to pay back taxes on plane
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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 …
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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Brobinson / Fox Nation:
Fact: Bush Had 2 Times More Coalition Partners in Iraq Than Obama Has in Libya — Coalition Forces / Iraq vs. Libya — Coalition Countries - Iraq - 2003 — Afghanistan, — Albania — Australia — Azerbaijan — Bulgaria — Colombia — Czech Republic — Denmark — El Salvador
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Massimo Calabresi / Swampland:
Why the U.S. Went to War: Inside the White House Debate on Libya
Why the U.S. Went to War: Inside the White House Debate on Libya
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George Kenney / The Huffington Post:
War Number Three
War Number Three
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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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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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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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Rocky Kistner / The Huffington Post:
Fresh Oil Continues to Wash Ashore in the Bayou — Fresh Louisiana crude washed into the beaches and dock areas near Grand Isle over the weekend, creating a sickening sight for the residents of this oil battered region. The reddish brown crude and oily sheen lapped onto the sandy and rocky shores …
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Amie Parnes / The Politico:
FLOTUS: ‘American dream’ 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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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
Poll: Only 50 Percent of Voters Back Obama's Handling of Libya
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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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Jason Easley / Politicususa:
Fox News Claims CNN Crews Acted As Human Shields For Gadhafi in Libya — Fox News has launched a smear campaign on CNN's patriotism by reporting that CNN crews were used a human shields and prevented a British attack on Gadhafi's compound in Libya. CNN denies the story …
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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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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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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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