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Ron Johnson / Wall Street Journal:
ObamaCare and Carey's Heart — My daughter probably wouldn't have survived in a system where bureaucrats stifle innovation and ration care. — Today is the first anniversary of the greatest single assault on our freedom in my lifetime: the signing of ObamaCare.
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Kate Nocera / The Politico:
Anthony Weiner: Waiver might work for New York — Rep. Anthony Weiner said Wednesday he was looking into how a health law waiver might work for New York City. — Weiner, who is likely to run for mayor of New York, said that because of the city's special health care infrastructure …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
CNN Poll: Time doesn't change views on health care law — (CNN) - One year after President Barack Obama signed the health care reform bill into law, a new national poll indicates that attitudes toward the plan have not budged. — According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday …
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Weiner Says SCOTUS Will Rule Against Health Care Law, Paving Way For Public Option — This is more in the spirit of partypooping than of celebration. But on the first anniversary of the Affordable Care Act, one of the law's most dogged defenders, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) …
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Aaron Carroll / The Incidental Economist:
Senator Johnson's odd dislike of the PPACA
Senator Johnson's odd dislike of the PPACA
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Paul Krugman and No More Mister Nice Blog
David Weigel / Weigel:
Poll: One Year On, Most Favor Health Care Law or Wish It Was More Liberal
Poll: One Year On, Most Favor Health Care Law or Wish It Was More Liberal
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Cincinnati.com, Colorlines, Hit & Run, Hotline On Call, Daily Kos, The Politico, Taylor Marsh, Fox Nation and CNN
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
RON JOHNSON'S WRONG — AND OFFENSIVE — HEALTH CARE ATTACK. …
RON JOHNSON'S WRONG — AND OFFENSIVE — HEALTH CARE ATTACK. …
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The Moderate Voice and LifeNews.com
George Zornick / ThinkProgress:
Gingrich Criticized Obama For Not Intervening In Libya, But Now Criticizes Him For Intervening In Libya — Earlier this month, former Speaker of the House and current presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich was hammering President Obama for not intervening in Libya. Asked, “what would you do about Libya?”
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Newt Gingrich / Facebook:
My position on Libya — It is deeply troubling that there is so much confusion, lack of foresight, and little resolve coming from the President and his administration about what our mission and goals must be in the Libya engagement. — On March 3rd, President Obama said publicly that “it's time for Gadaffi to go.”
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David Weigel / Weigel:
Newt Gingrich Completely Changes Position on Libya in 16 Days — A pretty direct hit from ThinkProgress, if you ask me. Here's Newt Gingrich on March 7, on what he would do in Libya. … Here's Newt Gingrich from March 23. … Anyone want to try and reconcile these two interviews?
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Danny Yadron / Washington Wire:
Gingrich: No Flip-Flop in My Libya Positions
Gingrich: No Flip-Flop in My Libya Positions
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George Zornick / ThinkProgress:
Caught In Libya Flip-Flop, Newt Gingrich Offers Incoherent And Contradictory Defense
Caught In Libya Flip-Flop, Newt Gingrich Offers Incoherent And Contradictory Defense
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People-Press.org:
Obama Tests Well at Start of Reelection Run — No Frontrunner in Slow-Starting GOP Race — Barack Obama currently fares as well against a generic opponent in the upcoming presidential election as George W. Bush did in April 2003, a time when Bush's job approval rating was much higher than Obama's is today.
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Fhardingj / CNN:
CNN Poll: Trump at 10 percent in hypothetical GOP battle
CNN Poll: Trump at 10 percent in hypothetical GOP battle
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
TRENDING: Trump again questions Obama's birthplace
TRENDING: Trump again questions Obama's birthplace
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Pew poll: Obama would deliver shellacking to generic Republican
Pew poll: Obama would deliver shellacking to generic Republican
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Hot Air, Washington Post, Liberal Values and National Review
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Dear Reuters, You Must Be Kidding — This is from a Reuters story on the Jerusalem bombing earlier today: … Those Israelis and their crazy terms! I mean, referring to a fatal bombing of civilians as a “terrorist attack”? Who are they kidding? Everyone knows that a fatal bombing …
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Crispian Balmer / Reuters:
Bombing near Jerusalem bus stop kills woman, 30 hurt
Bombing near Jerusalem bus stop kills woman, 30 hurt
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Elder of Ziyon, The Jawa Report and Biased BBC
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Cantor hits administration's handling of Israel after Jerusalem bomb attack
Cantor hits administration's handling of Israel after Jerusalem bomb attack
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The Political Commentator, Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and Israel Matzav
Mj Lee / The Politico:
Obama is keeping his peace prize … No comments yet. Be the first!
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Yoav Zitun / Ynetnews:
Egypt Air removes Israel from map — Jordan stretches to sea in online map by Egypt's largest airline, though it continues to fly to Israel — Egypt Air, the largest airline in Egypt, has removed Israel from the map - literally. On its website, Ynet has learned, Jordan's land reaches the Mediterranean Sea.
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Power Line, The Gateway Pundit, Maggie's Notebook and Atlas Shrugs
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Let Us Count the Ways . . . Why are many conservatives against the Libyan war? Is it, as alleged, political opportunism — given their prior support for the 2001 and 2003 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq? — No. Most of us support wholeheartedly our troops now that we are in …
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Steve Mistler / The Sun Journal:
LePage orders removal of labor mural, sparking outcry — AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage has ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting Maine's labor history from the lobby of the Department of Labor. — Worker advocates described the move as a “mean-spirited” provocation amid …
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Benjy Sarlin / TPMDC:
LePage's Office: People Complained Labor Mural Resembled “North Korea”
LePage's Office: People Complained Labor Mural Resembled “North Korea”
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Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
O'Keefe Says He Racked Up ‘Major Credit Card Debt,’ Needs To Raise $50K — Conservative provocateur James O'Keefe, fresh off his sting operation aimed at NPR, “must raise $50,000 quickly to keep moving forward” he said in an e-mail to supporters. — “Up 'til now, my friends and I have financed …
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes — All around the country, right-wing legislators are asking middle class Americans to pay for budget deficits caused mainly by a recession caused by Wall Street; they are attacking workers …
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Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
It's Official! Gay Republican Running for President — Retired California political consultant Fred Karger will be in DC today to file his paperwork with the Federal Election Commission officially declaring his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Dana Vachon / The Awl:
Arms So Freezy: Rebecca Black's “Friday” As Radical Text — Rebecca Black wakes somewhat too perfectly in the early scenes of her viral video, “Friday.” Her eyes open exactly as the clock beside her bed flashes seven. She wears full make-up. Rare for a teen, she isn't tired, longs not for any receding dreams.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Former top economist: Economic inaction ‘shameful’ — President Obama's former top economic advisor sharply criticized the federal government for failing to take more aggressive action against unemployment. — “I frankly don't understand why policy makers aren't more worried about the suffering …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Kristol: Palin probably won't, shouldn't be nominee — Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol was among Sarah Palin's earliest Washington admirers, and helped bring her to the national stage, but he said this week that while he still admires her, he questions her choices and doesn't think she …
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Matt Latimer / The Daily Beast:
The New GOP Warmongers — The Republican Party blasted Obama …
The New GOP Warmongers — The Republican Party blasted Obama …
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Sheila Marikar / ABCNEWS:
Hollywood Icon Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79 — Elizabeth Taylor Dies Following Hospitalization for Congestive Heart Failure — Oscar winning actress Elizabeth Taylor died today at Los Angeles, Calif.'s Cedars-Sinai Hospital. She was 79-years-old. — “She was surrounded by her children …
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Mel Gussow / New York Times:
A Lustrous Pinnacle of Hollywood Glamour
A Lustrous Pinnacle of Hollywood Glamour
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Kyodo News:
Neutron beam observed 13 times at crippled Fukushima nuke plant — Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday it has observed a neutron beam, a kind of radioactive ray, 13 times on the premises of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was crippled by the massive March 11 quake-tsunami disaster.
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Chris Moody / The Daily Caller:
If you're one of the millions of Americans still looking for a job, the federal government is hiring, and (especially for the unemployed), the pay is excellent. While the private sector job growth creeps along at a snail's pace, the roster of available federal jobs is booming.
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Panel on Anthrax Inquiry Finds Case Against Ivins Persuasive — WASHINGTON — A panel of psychiatrists who studied the medical records of Bruce E. Ivins found that the F.B.I.'s case that he mailed the anthrax letters in 2001 was persuasive, and that Dr. Ivins's decades-long history …
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