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Tea Party Hypocrisy? Some Lawmakers With Tea Party Ties Are on the Government Dole — Which Tea Partiers Are Getting Hundreds of Thousands of Government Dollars? — The Tea Party swept into the 112th Congress with promises of cutting government spending.
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Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Odd Alliance: Business Lobby and Tea Party — The Tea Party does not have a presence in Indonesia, where the term evokes cups of orange pekoe and sweet cakes rather than angry citizens in “Don't Tread on Me” T-shirts. — But a Tea Party group in the United States, the Institute for Liberty …
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Tea Party group: ‘Cut it or shut it’ — A small but vocal group of Tea Party activists gathered outside the Capitol on Thursday to urge House Republican leaders to hold the line and push for deeper spending cuts in the federal budget. — Chanting, “Cut it or shut it” and “We want less,” …
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Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg:
Kennedy Pal Goes AWOL as Tea Party Cashes In: Margaret Carlson
Kennedy Pal Goes AWOL as Tea Party Cashes In: Margaret Carlson
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First Read / msnbc.com:
First thoughts: Caving in — White House and Democrats continue …
First thoughts: Caving in — White House and Democrats continue …
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Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
GMA Takes On ‘Tea Party Darlings On The Dole’
GMA Takes On ‘Tea Party Darlings On The Dole’
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Aaron_Sharockman / St. Petersburg Times:
Democrat chastized for saying ‘uterus’ on House floor — During last week's discussion about a bill that would prohibit governments from deducting union dues from a worker's paycheck, state Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando, used his time during floor debate to argue that Republicans are against regulations …
New York Times:
NATO Warns Rebels Against Attacking Civilians — WASHINGTON — Members of the NATO alliance have sternly warned the rebels in Libya not to attack civilians as they push against the regime of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, according to senior military and government officials.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Rubio Takes the Lead
Rubio Takes the Lead
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Bryan Preston / Pajamas Media:
NATO's now threatening to bomb Libya's rebels
NATO's now threatening to bomb Libya's rebels
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Susan Crabtree / TPMDC:
Clinton To Congress: Obama Would Ignore Your War Resolutions — Update: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), who asked Clinton about the War Powers Act during a classified briefing, said Clinton and the administration are sidestepping the measure's provisions giving Congress the ability to put a 60-day time limit on any military action.
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Judge Says Union Bargaining Bill Not In Effect — Sumi Amends Temporary Restraining Order — MADISON, Wis. — The contentious collective bargaining law that strips most public workers of nearly all collective bargaining rights and force them to contribute more to their pension and health plans …
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Sumi rules that union law not in effect; state to comply — By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — A state law to sharply curb union bargaining by public employees is not in effect, a Dane County judge ruled Thursday, continuing the turmoil over a measure that sparked massive protests …
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Jim Vicevich / Radio Vice Online:
Senator Dianne Feinstein: Missiles won't do it so ... it's time we arrest Gaddafi — I wish I were kidding with this headline, but I am not. The Senator from California knows air raids won't cut it. So far so good. So she believes it's time we ... arrest him? — My guess is if we could we would.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Feinstein: Let's “go in and arrest” Gaddafi
Feinstein: Let's “go in and arrest” Gaddafi
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Libyan rebels number less than 1,000?
Libyan rebels number less than 1,000?
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
SHOCKING DISCOVERY: The Day After 9-11 Van Jones Led Rally Where They Cheered American Killers (Video) — Hero of the Left- — Kristinn Taylor and Andrea Shea King reported recently at Big Government on a long lost video of Van Jones leading a rally in Oakland, California the day after 9-11 where they cheered the American killers.
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Shock: HuffPo Front Page Star Led Anti-American Rally - Day After 9-11!
Shock: HuffPo Front Page Star Led Anti-American Rally - Day After 9-11!
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Ari Berman / The Nation:
Jim Messina, Obama's Enforcer — In March 2009 the Campaign for America's Future, a top progressive group in Washington, launched a campaign called “Dog The (Blue) Dogs” to pressure conservative Blue Dog Democrats to support President Obama's budget. When he heard about the effort …
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The Note:
Obama Job Approval Rises Among Young Voters: Millennials More Likely To Vote Obama Than GOP Candidate In 2012 — ABC News' Michael Falcone reports: — President Obama's job approval rating among an important voting bloc — 18-29 year-olds — rose to 55 percent, a six percentage point uptick since …
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Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Poll: Young voters increasingly happy with Obama
Poll: Young voters increasingly happy with Obama
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Dominic Di-Natale / Fox News:
Japan's Nuclear Rescuers: ‘Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks’ — March 14: A Red Cross rescue worker, in red, is scanned for signs of radiation upon returning from Fukushima to his hospital in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture. — Workers at the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant …
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Rep. Gohmert: Libya Goal Is To “Deplete The Military” So Obama Can Call Up Private Army — 5 hours and 13 minutes ago — Matt Finkelstein — Last night on the House floor, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) offered a bizarre new theory about President Obama's decision to intervene in the Libyan crisis.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats consider proposing tax hikes — Senate Democrats are discussing plans to introduce tax policy changes that they say would raise federal revenues and broaden the budget debate beyond discretionary spending cuts. — Democrats feel they have been boxed by Republicans into a debate …
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Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul Mocks Newt Gingrich: ‘He Has More War Positions Than He Has Wives’ — Potential GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich has been in hot water lately after ThinkProgress caught him flipping his position on the Libyan war rapidly over the span of just a few weeks …
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Josh Rogin / The Cable:
Shah: GOP budget would kill 70,000 children — As Congress struggles to negotiate a budget deal to keep the government running, the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) told lawmakers Wednesday that the GOP version of the budget bill would result in the deaths …
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Marc Lacey / New York Times:
An Arizona Senate Race Waits to See if Giffords Emerges to Run — TUCSON — Representative Gabrielle Giffords is still in the hospital, but some of her most ardent backers are so enamored of the idea of her running for the Senate that they describe the inevitable campaign commercials …
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Debbie Siegelbaum / The Hill:
GOP says 5,000 non-citizens voting in Colorado a ‘wake-up call’ for states — Republicans on the House Administration Committee want to shore up voter registration rules in the wake of a Colorado study that found as many as 5,000 non-citizens in the state took part in last year's election.
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Guardian:
Revealed: Gaddafi envoy in Britain for secret talks — Exclusive: Contact with senior aide believed to be one of a number between Libyan officials and west amid signs regime may be looking for exit strategy — Colonel Gaddafi's regime has sent one of its most trusted envoys to London …
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Emily Miller / Human Events:
McConnell: All 47 GOP Senators Co-Sponsor New Balanced Budget Amendment — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) will announce on Thursday afternoon that all 47 Republican Senators have co-sponsored a “consensus Balanced Budget Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” HUMAN EVENTS has learned exclusively.
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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
The unbeatable Republican? — Massachusetts is a deeply Democratic state, one in which barely more than 15 percent of the seats in the state Legislature are held by Republicans and fewer than 15 percent of all registered voters belong to the GOP. So it's hardly surprising that national Democrats …
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
TRENDING: Trump warns of ‘greatest scam’ ever — (CNN) - It's official: Donald Trump is a “birther.” But he'd prefer you don't use that term. — Speaking to MSNBC Thursday, the business mogul and improbable presidential candidate reiterated much of what he has said in the last several days …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Exclusive: Ron Paul's $3M pot of gold — Ron Paul raked in roughly $3 million during the first quarter through his various political organizations, POLITICO has learned. — Though not all of that money can be transferred to a potential presidential campaign, the big haul demonstrates …
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Sarah Kliff / The Politico:
Kathleen Sebelius: Health care in U.S. like ‘a developing country’ — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says patient outcomes in the United States are like those in “a developing country” - and that they'll stay that way if the health care reform law is repealed.
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