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ABCNEWS:
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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The Politico, Mediaite, Maggie's Notebook, Sky Dancing, Salon, The Impolitic, National Review and The Huffington Post
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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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Crooks and Liars, Fox News, Cubachi, Taylor Marsh, The Last Tradition, Liberty Pundits Blog, The Impolitic and The Hill
David Weigel / Weigel:
The Tea Party Comes to D.C., in Small Numbers, On Message
The Tea Party Comes to D.C., in Small Numbers, On Message
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Hullabaloo and The Politico
Lauraklairmont / CNN:
Tea Party activist to GOP: ‘Take off your lace panties,’ cut more from the budget
Tea Party activist to GOP: ‘Take off your lace panties,’ cut more from the budget
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Blogcritics, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Washington Post
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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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Firedoglake, Hot Air, Ross Douthat, The Gateway Pundit, Salon, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com, Weekly Standard, Pat Dollard, Aljazeera, The Unreligious Right, Power Line, Questions and Observations, Eunomia, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Outside the Beltway, Cold Fury, The Jawa Report and The Cable
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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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protein wisdom
JSOnline:
Woman charged with email threats — By Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel — Madison - A 26-year-old woman was charged Thursday with two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts for allegedly making email threats against Wisconsin lawmakers during the height of the battle over Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill.
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Doug Ross
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The Underground Conservative:
Early Childhood Teacher Charged In Death Threats — Update V: Our very first Memeorandum thread. — Update IV: Linked by Real Debate Wisconsin. — Update III: Linked by The Other McCain. — Update II: Linked by Gateway Pundit. — Update: Charlie Sykes has this letter from the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
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The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, The Other McCain and Sister Toldjah
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 …
WISC-TV:
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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Moe Lane, Hot Air, Cubachi, Another Black Conservative, Weasel Zippers, POWIP, Pajamas Media and Pundit Press
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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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NewsBusters.org blogs, Big Hollywood and Nice Deb
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 — Libyan fixer's visit to London may show sons want way out
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Wall Street Journal, FrumForum and Hot Air
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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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Booman Tribune, AMERICAblog News and msnbc.com
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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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Feinstein: Let's “go in and arrest” Gaddafi — Jim Vicevich catches this suggestion from Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), usually considered one of the clearer Democratic thinkers on national security and the military in Congress. Air strikes haven't forced Moammar Gaddafi to flee Libya …
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Hit & Run, Doug Ross and Theo Spark
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Jim Vicevich / Radio Vice Online:
Senator Dianne Feinstein: Missiles won't do it so ... it's time we arrest Gaddafi
Senator Dianne Feinstein: Missiles won't do it so ... it's time we arrest Gaddafi
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Weasel Zippers
City Room:
Bronx Zoo Cobra Found Alive — The Egyptian cobra at the Bronx Zoo who had been missing for seven days has been located, officials said on Thursday. — The cobra is “alive and well,” James J. Breheny, the zoo's director, told dozens of reporters who had gathered for a 4 p.m. news conference at the zoo.
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Gothamist, The 6th Floor, The New Republic and New York Times
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Laura T. Coffey / msnbc.com:
Ssssearch is over: Missing Bronx Zoo cobra found
Ssssearch is over: Missing Bronx Zoo cobra found
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The Daily What
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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Michelle Malkin and Doug Ross
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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Kyodo News, Hot Air and HotAirPundit
Diana Olick / Realty Check with Diana Olick:
Banks Fight Mortgage Principal Reduction — At the end of a day-long negotiation session over the foreclosure paperwork mess at the Department of Justice, Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller and Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli came out for a brief chat with reporters. — They essentially said nothing.
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Firedoglake, Reuters and CNNMoney.com
Political Correction RSS:
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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, TPMDC, Booman Tribune, Indecision Forever, Wonkette, Talking Points Memo and Washington Monthly
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama up in Florida — It doesn't look like Florida will be losing its status as one of the most competitive states in the country at the Presidential level next year- voters in the state are almost evenly divided on Barack Obama's job performance and although he leads all six of the Republicans …
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Orlando Sentinel
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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Weasel Zippers and Say Anything
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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Firedoglake, TPMDC, The Raw Story and Taylor Marsh
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Wisconsin State Employees Union, AFSCME Council 24, threatens to boycott businesses that don't put up window signs supporting the union. — It's sending around a letter: … Which side are you on? Cue Pete Seeger. Neutral means you on the boss's side.
Paul Bedard / US News:
Pentagon Art: $600,000 Gurgling Toad Sculpture — A $600,000 frog sculpture that lights up, gurgles “sounds of nature” and carries a 10-foot fairy girl on its back could soon be greeting Defense Department employees who plan to start working at the $700 million Mark Center in Alexandria, Va. this fall.
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The Lonely Conservative, The Blaze and Verum Serum
KGTV-TV:
Alert Issued After Security Incident On Camp Pendleton — 3 Middle Eastern Men Tried To Enter Base Without Proper Authorization, Base Alert Says — SAN DIEGO — One of the nation's largest military bases is reportedly under tighter security after three Middle Eastern men tried to enter without proper authorization.
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UNCOVERAGE.net and The Gateway Pundit
Bruce Springsteen / APP.com:
Bruce Springsteen Letter to the Editor: Story on poverty, aid cuts gives voice to voiceless — Thank you for your March 27 front-page story by Michael Symons, “As poverty rises, cuts target aid.” The article is one of the few that highlights the contradictions between a policy of large tax cuts …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Rolling Stone, TPMDC, Hotline On Call and FAIR Blog
Associated Press:
Israel releases army map showing nearly 1,000 purported Hezbollah underground military sites — JERUSALEM — The Israeli military on Thursday released a map detailing what it says are nearly 1,000 underground bunkers, weapons storage facilities and monitoring sites built by the militant Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon.
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Jihad Watch, The Jawa Report, Ricochet.com, Elder of Ziyon, Atlas Shrugs and Washington Post
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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