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11:05 PM ET, March 28, 2011

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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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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 …
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:
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.
The Smoking Gun:
What Is Donald Trump, Newborn Birther, Trying To Hide From Us?  —  Buster … What is Donald Trump hiding?  —  The multimillionaire developer has, overnight, become a leading voice of the “birther” movement, members of which doubt that President Barack Obama was born in the United States …
Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
Trump Goes Full Birther: ‘I Am Really Concerned’ Obama Not Born In USA
Discussion: Salon
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Trump: I want Hawaii governor ‘investigated’
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Obama's Libya speech: Libya is no Iraq
Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com:
Why Libya? Because We Could and Our Interests and Values Demanded It
People-Press.org:
Modest Support for Libya Airstrikes, No Clear Goal Seen
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and TPMDC
Jamie Dupree / Wsb-am Blogs:
Obama Libya Speech
Discussion: Danger Room and AmSpecBlog
Daniel W. Drezner:
What Obama's foreign policy speechwriter would REALLY like him to say tonight
Discussion: Slate
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.
Discussion: TPMDC
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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.
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Democrats Will Offer Additional $20 Billion in Budget Cuts
Washington Post:
Libyan rebels push toward Gaddafi's home town  —  Gallery: Conflict and chaos in Libya: As international airstrikes continue against forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, rebel fighters push forward.  —  RAS LANUF, Libya — Libyan rebels came under heavy fire …
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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” …
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 …
Jibran Khan / Asianews.it:
Two Christians killed, churches burned: extremists respond to Florida Koran burning  —  In Hyderabad and Lahore, a mob of Islamic fundamentalists targeted the Christian places of worship.  Desecrated several copies of the Bible.  Anti-American slogans and demonstrations in different cities of Pakistan.
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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Jack Cashill / American Thinker:
Ayers affirms he wrote Dreams from my Father
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Black Activist Confronts Bill Ayers With Facts  —  Truth to power!  Well done, young lady.
Discussion: Nice Deb
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 …
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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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.”
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Yglesias and Lawyers, Guns & Money
 
 
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Hot Air
Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Obama on Libya: Look, Just Trust Me On This
Discussion: RedState
Felix Salmon:
The NYT paywall goes live
Washington Post:
U.S. deploys low-flying attack planes in Libya
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Eunomia
Lauraklairmont / CNN:
Herman Cain assailed as ‘bigoted’ over Muslim remarks
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Tony Pugh / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
States broke? Maybe they cut taxes too much
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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New York Post:
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Discussion: Fox Nation, Mediaite and The Wire
Les Christie / CNNMoney.com:
13% of all U.S. homes are vacant
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
To rescue or not to rescue?  —  Walking along the beach, I hear a cry of help.
Discussion: Unfogged
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Tom Toles on Gentrification
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