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NewsMax.com:
Exclusive to Newsmax: Donald Trump's Birth Certificate — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — Donald Trump, who has been making television appearances calling for President Barack Obama …
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Trump is now ‘really concerned’ about Obama's birthplace — (CNN) - He off-handedly questioned President Obama's birthplace last week - a comment that drew strong rebukes from some quarters - but now business mogul Donald Trump says he's more concerned than ever that the president was, in fact, not born in the United States.
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ABCNEWS, The Atlantic Online, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway and Little Green Footballs
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Trump's birther play — I asked longtime Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone, who is working on the unofficial “Draft Trump” effort, rather than the attempts at an official campaign, why Trump would embrace discredited theories about Obama's birth. — Stone emails with five reasons:
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ThinkProgress, The Daily Dish, Swampland and The Atlantic Online
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Trump fails to produce birth certificate — Donald Trump made headlines earlier today when he provided what he said was a copy of his birth certificate — but a quick check reveals it's actually not an official document. — The paper that Trump released says “Jamaica Hospital” …
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The Moderate Voice and AMERICAblog News
Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
Trump Goes Full Birther: ‘I Am Really Concerned’ Obama Not Born In USA
Trump Goes Full Birther: ‘I Am Really Concerned’ Obama Not Born In USA
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Salon
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Trump: I want Hawaii governor ‘investigated’
Trump: I want Hawaii governor ‘investigated’
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Outside the Beltway
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Reid urges GOP to ditch Tea Party — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday urged Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to ditch members of the Tea Party and cut a deal with Democrats to avert a government shutdown. — Reid insisted it is those GOP internal divisions that are threatening …
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
It's beginning to look a lot like a shutdown — (Alex Brandon - AP) Brian Beutler has a nice story running down the state of play on the budget negotiations. The takeaway is that Republicans aren't just insisting that Democrats cut as deep as the GOP wants, but that they also cut in the way the GOP wants.
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Republicans Prepare To Reject Final White House Budget Offer — It's been almost a week since House Republicans, Senate Democrats and the White House last sat down to hammer out a budget agreement, and the schedule's still blank. Accusations of bad faith are now flying from both sides.
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Juan Williams / The Hill:
OPINION: Bachmann poses dilemma for Boehner, GOP majority
OPINION: Bachmann poses dilemma for Boehner, GOP majority
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Senate Dems, White House to offer $20B more in cuts; tensions rise
Senate Dems, White House to offer $20B more in cuts; tensions rise
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National Review, The Hill and Open Congress
Jack Cashill / American Thinker:
Ayers affirms he wrote Dreams from my Father — Last Thursday evening at Montclair State University, with a video camera rolling, Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had written the acclaimed Barack Obama memoir, Dreams from My Father. — Unprompted, Ayers also noted that while Dreams deserves …
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Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
A BRIEF NOTE ON THE BILL AYERS VIDEO AND CASHILL'S CLAIMS OF HIS DREAMS AUTHORSHIP — Full disclosure: I am Blog Editor of The American Thinker — There's a video of Bill Ayers making the rounds of conservative blogs where the radical extremist “admits” to writing Obama's best selling autobiography Dreams of my Father.
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Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
A Birtherism Lexicon — Libertarian billionaire David Koch isn't a birther, exactly; he just thinks the president is a Marxist who got all his ideas from his father: … So Koch has his facts basically right; Obama didn't know his father very well. But he nevertheless insists …
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Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
U.S. Plan to End Libya War: Hope The Generals Quit — NATO is taking command of the Libya war. But the real strategy for victory over Moammar Gadhafi is found on the airwaves above Libya: communications frequencies telling his commanders to simply give up fighting.
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Fox News:
Obama Takes the Podium to Defend, Explain Libya Mission
Obama Takes the Podium to Defend, Explain Libya Mission
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Sister Toldjah, Susan Campbell and Fox Nation
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Life After Being Discharged From The Military Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Life After Being Discharged From The Military Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
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Yglesias
Jon Lee Anderson / New Yorker:
WHO ARE THE REBELS? — Three of the world's great armies have suddenly conspired to support a group of people in the coastal cities and towns of Libya, known, vaguely, as “the rebels.” Last month, Muammar Qaddafi, who combines a phantasmagorical sense of reality with an unbounded capacity for terror …
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Tom Malinowski / The New Republic:
The Timeliness Paradox — Why isn't Obama getting credit for stopping an atrocity?
The Timeliness Paradox — Why isn't Obama getting credit for stopping an atrocity?
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The Politico:
Obama's Libya speech: Full text as prepared for delivery — Here is the prepared text for President Obama's address on Libya Monday night: — Good evening. Tonight, I'd like to update the American people on the international effort that we have led in Libya - what we've done, what we plan to do, and why this matters to us.
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USA Today:
When standardized test scores soared in D.C., were the gains real? — WASHINGTON — In just two years, Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus went from a school deemed in need of improvement to a place that the District of Columbia Public Schools called one of its “shining stars.”
National Review:
Wisconsin Fight Goes to Court — As the dust settles in Madison, Wisconsin Republicans face a troubling coda: Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill is being tripped up in the courts. Union heavies smell blood. And the unruly parade of lefty activists and hulking Teamsters that occupied …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Facebook May Hire Robert Gibbs, Former Obama Aide — Facebook is in talks to hire Robert Gibbs, President Obama's former White House press secretary, for a senior role in helping to manage the company's communications, people briefed on the negotiations said.
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Penny Starr / CNSNews:
White House Announces ‘Greener’ Eggs, Packaging for Annual Easter Egg Roll
White House Announces ‘Greener’ Eggs, Packaging for Annual Easter Egg Roll
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Robert S. McElvaine / The Politico:
Haley Barbour, slavery and the Civil War — Haley Barbour, the Mississippi governor and likely 2012 Republican presidential aspirant, has recently made a series of missteps involving race and the Civil Rights Movement. He seemed unclear about basic historical points.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Barbour on the Late Unpleasantness
Barbour on the Late Unpleasantness
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Democracy in America
ThinkProgress:
After Paying Zero Income Taxes, GE Plans To Ask Its Union Workers To Make Wage And Benefits Concessions — Our guest blogger is Mike Elk, a freelance labor journalist and third generation union organizer based in Washington, D.C. You can follow him for more updates on Wisconsin on twitter at @MikeElk.
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Mark Boal / Rolling Stone:
The Kill Team — How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how their officers failed to stop them. Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon — By — Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
American Thought Police — Recently William Cronon, a historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin, decided to weigh in on his state's political turmoil. He started a blog, “Scholar as Citizen,” devoting his first post to the role of the shadowy American Legislative Exchange Council …
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Jon Wiener / The Nation:
Wisconsin's Cronon Affair: The Power of a Simple Fact
Wisconsin's Cronon Affair: The Power of a Simple Fact
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Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
EU to ban cars from cities by 2050 — Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years. — The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Maine governor removes labor mural — A mural depicting vignettes of state and national labor history was removed over the weekend from Maine's Labor Department headquarters in Augusta, Gov. Paul LePage's office said Monday morning. — The 11-panel mural that includes images of worker strikes and …
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