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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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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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Wall Street Journal:
Fiscal Showdown Looms in Capitol — The White House and Democratic lawmakers, with less than two weeks left to avoid a government shutdown, are assembling a proposal for roughly $20 billion in additional spending cuts that could soon be offered to Republicans, according to people close to the budget talks.
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Democrats Will Offer Additional $20 Billion in Budget Cuts — I feel like US fiscal policy is trapped on some kind of treadmill. Democrats offer some level of budget cuts for the current fiscal year, Republicans reject anything less than what they've proposed, and then they put together …
Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Harry Reid: Tea party stalls a budget deal — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev. ) blamed the tea party wing of the Republican-controlled House Monday for troubled budget negotiations, saying fighting within the Republican caucus is stalling a deal. — “On our side of the negotiating table, we made a proposal,” Reid said.
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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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Juan Williams / The Hill:
OPINION: Bachmann poses dilemma for Boehner, GOP majority
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
HOW NOT TO NEGOTIATE, 101.... In just 11 days, if policymakers …
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Senate Dems, White House to offer $20B more in cuts; tensions rise
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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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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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Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
Trump Goes Full Birther: ‘I Am Really Concerned’ Obama Not Born In USA
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Trump: I want Hawaii governor ‘investigated’
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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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New York Times:
Rebel Advance Halted Outside Qaddafi's Hometown — BIN JAWWAD, Libya — Rebel forces' westward charge was repulsed on Monday by a barrage of tank and artillery fire from forces guarding one of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's most crucial bastions of support, while the American military warned …
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Jon Lee Anderson / New Yorker:
WHO ARE THE REBELS? — Three of the world's great armies …
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Tom Malinowski / The New Republic:
The Timeliness Paradox — Why isn't Obama getting credit for stopping an atrocity?
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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.”
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
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Life After Being Discharged From The Military Under 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' … WASHINGTON — Dustin White was ready to serve his country overseas. After signing up for the New Jersey National Guard at the age of 17 and going through a complicated, 24-week training to specialize …
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Spencer Ackerman / Danger Room:
U.S. Plan to End Libya War: Hope The Generals Quit
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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 …
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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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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Scottpowers / Orlando Sentinel:
How my wait in a closet almost brought down the White House — I was kidnapped. — That was news to me. — My paper and I conspired to cover this up, to protect Vice President Joe Biden and his staff from charges they had imprisoned me at a fundraiser last week. — That was news to me too.
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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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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Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
A Strange Man Is Following You — Shouting about mind-control assassins, the 9/11 conspiracy, and the Bilderberg Group, radio host Alex Jones has cornered the bipartisan paranoia market. — A shadowy group of elites—mainly international bankers but also George W. Bush, Barack Obama …
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Tom Toles on Gentrification — Much respect to Richard Layman for remembering and preserving this 1998 Tom Toles cartoon: — Funny. — Anonymous — Mass immigration from Latin America will not lead to the multiracial paradise liberals imagine. Rather, it will lead to a stratified society …
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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