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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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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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Shows, Another Black Conservative, American Glob, Pat Dollard, Weasel Zippers, The Other McCain and Sister Toldjah
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING: WI Teacher Charged With Sending Death Threats to GOP Lawmakers — A Wisconsin early childhood teacher was charged with sending death threats to state Republican lawmakers. — Her name is Katherine Windels and she is a Wisconsin teacher. — Here's the criminal complaint.
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The Jawa Report, FREEDOM EDEN, Breitbart.tv, Doug Ross and JSOnline
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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Maggie's Notebook, Mediaite, The Politico, 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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Fox News, Crooks and Liars, Cubachi, New York Times, Taylor Marsh, Liberty Pundits Blog, The Last Tradition, 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
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 …
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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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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Hot Air, Firedoglake, Ross Douthat, The Last Tradition, The Gateway Pundit, Aljazeera, Salon, Pat Dollard, Babalú Blog, Weasel Zippers, Eunomia, iOwnTheWorld.com, Questions and Observations, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Unreligious Right, Cold Fury, Outside the Beltway, Atlas Shrugs, Power Line and Weekly Standard
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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
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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Cubachi, Moe Lane, Hot Air, Another Black Conservative, POWIP, Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media and Pundit Press
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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
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
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.
Discussion:
The Lonely Conservative, That's What She Said, Verum Serum and The Blaze
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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AMERICAblog News, Booman Tribune and msnbc.com
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
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
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
New York Times:
Without the Campaign Donors, This Wouldn't Be Possible — Even by Washington's low standards, the House's Republican freshmen are turning pandering into a high art. At a recent transportation hearing in his home district, Representative James Lankford of Oklahoma heaped praise on a panel of private sector witnesses.
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Power Line
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.
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Poll: Young voters increasingly happy with Obama — President Obama's job-approval rating among young people has gone up, even as his overall approval rating has hit an all-time low in certain surveys. — A new poll of 18- to 29-year-olds by Harvard University's Institute of Politics …
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The Moderate Voice, The only adult in the room and FrumForum
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David Brody / The Brody File:
Evangelical Leaders Say Donald Trump May Find Support From Social Conservatives — Some key national Evangelical leaders tell The Brody File that Donald Trump “may find support among social conservatives” if he runs for President and there's a “growing curiosity” about him within Evangelical circles.
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Hot Air, HotAirPundit and Right Wing Watch
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
The Politico:
Mitt Romney will start raising cash for 2012 run in April — A top Mitt Romney official told supporters on a conference call Thursday that the former Massachusetts governor is eyeing mid-to-late April to begin raising money for his eventual presidential campaign, according to call participants
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Taylor Marsh, Ben Smith's Blog and The Caucus
Manya Brachear / Chicago Breaking News:
Farrakhan defends Libya's Gadhafi as ‘brother’ — Warning that destruction could be on America's doorstep because it oppresses “God's chosen people,” Minister Louis Farrakhan, the controversial Nation of Islam leader, defended Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi today, calling the U.S. action in Libya hypocrisy.
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Weasel Zippers and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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
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
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.