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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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No More Mister Nice Blog and Right Wing News
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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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Shows, Breitbart.tv, POWIP, Pajamas Media, The Jawa Report, Radio Vice Online and Doug Ross
The Underground Conservative:
Early Childhood Teacher Charged In Death Threats — Update IX: Linked by Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. … Update VIII: Linked by The Lonely Conservative. — Update VII: Linked by Jim Treacher at The DC Trawler. — Update VI: Linked by Freedom Eden. — Update V: Our very first Memeorandum thread.
Associated Press:
Unemployment rate falls to 2-year low of 8.8 pct.; employers add 216K jobs in March — WASHINGTON — The unemployment rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent in March, capping the strongest two months of hiring since before the recession began. — The economy added 216,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday.
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The Daily Dish, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit and FrumForum
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Michael Powell / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Added 216,000 Jobs in March; Rate at 8.8%
U.S. Economy Added 216,000 Jobs in March; Rate at 8.8%
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Economix, TalkLeft, Washington Monthly, Economist's View and AmSpecBlog
Bob Willis / Bloomberg:
U.S. Payrolls Grew 216,000 in March; Unemployment at 8.8%
U.S. Payrolls Grew 216,000 in March; Unemployment at 8.8%
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Don Surber
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Scott Brown blasts ‘irresponsible’ cuts — While some Senate Republicans are tacking right on the budget, Sen. Scott Brown is attacking proposed cuts coming from members of his own party as “irresponsible” and urging both sides of the aisle to come together on a bipartisan deal.
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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, scottbrown.senate.gov and FrumForum
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators itching to move on from 2011 spending-cut spat
GOP senators itching to move on from 2011 spending-cut spat
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Booman Tribune, Cubachi, The Last Tradition, The Impolitic and Taylor Marsh
Bruce Bartlett / Capital Gains and Games blogs:
Dopiest Constitutional Amendment of All Time?
Dopiest Constitutional Amendment of All Time?
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Washington Post, Angry Bear, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Politico
Wall Street Journal:
The Spending Fight — Republicans should realize they are winning the debate. — House Republican leaders and the White House are nearing a deal to finally close the books on the 2011 budget—six months into the fiscal year. The White House says it will accept spending cuts of $33 billion …
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Hot Air
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Richard E. Cohen / The Politico:
Republicans target left's pet causes
Republicans target left's pet causes
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ThinkProgress, The Camp Of The Saints and FrumForum
The Hill:
Boehner to GOP freshmen: ‘No number’ yet in budget talks
Boehner to GOP freshmen: ‘No number’ yet in budget talks
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Hit & Run, The Politico and CNN
Chris Hubbuch / La Crosse Tribune:
Democrats: We have the signatures in Kapanke recall effort — La Crosse area Democrats say they will file petitions today with enough signatures to trigger a recall election of Sen. Dan Kapanke, one of eight Senate Republicans targeted over votes to curtail collective bargaining rights for public workers.
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
A Word About Digital Subscriptions to The Huffington Post — Today marks a significant transition for The Huffington Post Media Group, as we introduce digital subscriptions for employees of The New York Times. It's an important step that we hope you will see as an investment in The Huffington Post …
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The Wire and TechCrunch
Lynn Sweet:
Obama's 2012 fund raising goal per Messina: “north of $750 million” — WASHINGTON — President Obama will register with the Federal Election Commission as a 2012 re-election candidate as early as Monday, I've learned, clearing the way for what may be the biggest campaign fund-raising drive …
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Ben Smith's Blog
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Gregory Simmons / ABCNEWS:
Tea Party Sen. Pat Toomey Won't Support Moderate Republican Olympia Snowe — Conservative Known for Taking Out Moderate Republicans Will Stay Neutral in Key Maine Senate Race — Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, is a ripe target for a Tea Party challenge as she runs for re-election next year.
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The Politico, CNN and Blogcritics
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
As Budget Talks Continue, Hard-Liners Get Support From Tea Party
As Budget Talks Continue, Hard-Liners Get Support From Tea Party
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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Daily Kos, Fox News, Crooks and Liars, The Hill, News Hounds, Hullabaloo and The Politico
Stephen Moore / Wall Street Journal:
We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers — More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined. — If you want to understand better why so many states—from New York to Wisconsin to California—are teetering on the brink …
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
More Americans Back Unions Than Governors in State Disputes — Nearly 8 in 10 adults in union households are following the issue closely — PRINCETON, NJ — With political battles over state budgets and collective bargaining still playing out to varying degrees in Wisconsin, Ohio, Indiana …
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Firedoglake, USA Today, Hotline On Call and The Political Carnival
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Uncovered: New $2 billion bailout in Obamacare — TAGS: - center for consumer information and insurance oversight - early retiree reinsurance program - obamacare — Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork — Investigators for the House Energy …
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The Lonely Conservative
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Mellon Doctrine — “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.” That, according to Herbert Hoover, was the advice he received from Andrew Mellon, the Treasury secretary, as America plunged into depression. To be fair, there's some question …
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Daily Kos and Economist's View
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
GOP launches mock ‘Obama 2012’ ad — The mock ad, which features Obama riding a unicorn over a rainbow, declares: “Four more years: America needs more changing.” — Republicans are taking aim at President Obama's impending reelection effort with a mock campaign ad outlining his first two years in office.
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Lynn Sweet and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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.
Bloomberg:
Libya-Owned Bank Got 73 Loans From Fed Discount Window After Lehman Fell — Arab Banking Corp., the lender part- owned by the Central Bank of Libya, used a New York branch to get 73 loans from the U.S. Federal Reserve in the 18 months after Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. collapsed.
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Wall Street Journal, DealBook, Economix, AMERICAblog News and Emptywheel
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Trump's shadow — First Read crystallizes the problem: — Donald Trump is going to be an amazing distraction.... On the one hand, if you're Mitt Romney, you probably like this. Trump — at least from now until June — takes oxygen away from Tim Pawlenty and Haley Barbour.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Defection Track — Everybody has questions and anxieties about our policy in Libya. My own position is this: I oppose the policy the Obama administration has described in various public statements. I support the policy the administration is actually executing.
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Guardian, Daniel W. Drezner, RealClearWorld and Connecting.the.Dots
Associated Press:
At least 8 UN workers killed in Afghanistan — Deaths occur when protests over a reported Quran burning in the US turn violent, official says — Below: — KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan officials say eight people have been killed at a U.N. office in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif when a Quran burning protest turned violent.
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Patrick Smith / Salon:
The art of getting the hell out of an airport — The best thing about Hong Kong's huge new terminal: Rail transport to the city. American airports don't come close — Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok — TAIPEI, Taiwan — Gotta love these big Asian airports. — Let's start with Hong Kong.
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Yglesias