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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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Early Childhood Teacher Charged In Death Threats — Update VI: Linked by Freedom Eden. — 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.
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, Breitbart.tv, Doug Ross and JSOnline
David Weigel / Weigel:
The Tea Party Comes to D.C., in Small Numbers, On Message — Tea Party Patriots and a small constellation of movement organizations held a rally near the Capitol just now, an attempt to back up the House and Senate GOP in the fight over the continuing resolution. — It was a small rally.
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Daily Kos, Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, News Hounds and The Politico
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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, Sky Dancing, Maggie's Notebook, Mediaite, Salon, The Impolitic, NationalJournal.com and National Review
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Tea Party group: ‘Cut it or shut it’
Tea Party group: ‘Cut it or shut it’
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Fox News, Cubachi, Taylor Marsh, Liberty Pundits Blog, The Last Tradition, The Impolitic, New York Times and The Hill
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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Swampland, Blogcritics and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
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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Hot Air, Another Black Conservative, The Gateway Pundit, Aljazeera, Ross Douthat, Pat Dollard, Salon, The Last Tradition, Weasel Zippers, iOwnTheWorld.com, Firedoglake, The Unreligious Right, Eunomia, Babalú Blog, Questions and Observations, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Cold Fury, Outside the Beltway, Power Line, Atlas Shrugs and Doug Ross
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New York Times:
2 Cabinet Officials Say U.S. Likely Won't Arm Libyans
2 Cabinet Officials Say U.S. Likely Won't Arm Libyans
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Los Angeles Times, Hot Air, Pat Dollard, Pajamas Media and Booman Tribune
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
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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OpEdNews, Wall Street Journal, Global Spin, FrumForum and Hot Air
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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 …
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
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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Reuters, Firedoglake and CNNMoney.com
Bruce Bartlett / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
Dopiest Constitutional Amendment of All Time? — Today, all 47 Senate Republicans introduced a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget. Full text available here. Presumably, this is the amendment that Republicans plan to demand as their price for increasing the federal debt limit.
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Angry Bear
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Emily Miller / Human Events:
McConnell: All 47 GOP Senators Co-Sponsor New Balanced Budget Amendment
McConnell: All 47 GOP Senators Co-Sponsor New Balanced Budget Amendment
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Cubachi, Hot Air, Liberty Pundits Blog and NewsBusters.org blogs
JSOnline:
Judge rules that Wisconsin's union law isn't in effect — State will comply, Walker says; next hearing is Friday — By Patrick Marley and Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — A state law to sharply curb union bargaining by public employees is not in effect …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, USA Today, FREEDOM EDEN, USW Blog, Firedoglake, The Hill and Washington Monthly
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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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AMERICAblog News, Booman Tribune and msnbc.com
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
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
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
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.
New York Times:
A Morning at an Israeli Checkpoint — PARIS — We have just returned from a week in Israel and Palestine. We organize a chamber music festival in Southwest France and are interested in bringing Israeli and Palestinian students to our master classes. — We had no trouble reaching Ramallah from Jerusalem by public transportation.
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NewsReal Blog, Elder of Ziyon and Israel Matzav
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
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
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Shades Of John Yoo — This is really alarming: … Look, there's no other way to describe this other than lawless. The Obama administration and its defenders in the civil-libertarian community have always maintained that, because it derives its authority from Congress …
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ProfessorBainbridge.com, Salon, The Daily Dish, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Outside the Beltway, Eunomia and JammieWearingFool
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