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James Hibberd / Inside TV:
Charlie Sheen's Detroit disaster: Boos, walk-outs for ‘Torpedo of Truth’ — First the U.S. automaker recession, and now this. Charlie Sheen unleashed his Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour on the Motor City on Saturday night to a crowd that began with an adoring standing ovation and concluded with booing and walk-outs.
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Alexander Marlow / Big Hollywood:
Charlie Sheen Calls Sarah Palin ‘Whore’ in Live Show — File this one in the “losing” category. From James Hibberd at Entertainment Weekly: … Until this point, the libertarian in me was truly pulling for Sheen to continue sticking it to the Hollywood Man and fulfilling his own personal definition of #WINNING.
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Inside TV
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Reid: 'We'll look into' Quran burning — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) told CBS's Bob Schieffer on Sunday that some members of Congress were considering some kind of action in response to the Florida Quran burning that sparked a murderous riot at a United Nations complex in Afghanistan and other mayhem.
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Michelle Malkin, Flopping Aces, Outside the Beltway, Pajamas Media, Weasel Zippers and The Last Tradition
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Hiram Reisner / NewsMax.com:
Reid: Probe of Quran Burning Considered — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says congressional lawmakers are discussing taking some action …
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Fox News, Breitbart.tv, Jihad Watch, Hot Air, RedState, The Jawa Report, Cold Fury and Blue Collar Philosophy
Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Reid: U.S. should hold off arming Libya rebels
Reid: U.S. should hold off arming Libya rebels
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Video Cafe blogs
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Budget Battle to Be Followed by a Bigger Fight — WASHINGTON — Congress has yet to settle its first budget fight of the year but is already about to move on to an even more consequential fiscal clash. — Even as the two parties struggled over the weekend to reach a deal on federal spending …
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Firedoglake, Mish's Global Economic …, The Hill, Outside the Beltway and CNN
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Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:
President Obama intervenes in budget standoff
President Obama intervenes in budget standoff
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Associated Press, Washington Monthly and Roll Call
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Schumer: Declining support for Tea Party makes spending deal ‘much more likely’
Schumer: Declining support for Tea Party makes spending deal ‘much more likely’
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Weasel Zippers
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
John Boehner standing firm on budget
John Boehner standing firm on budget
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Pat Dollard, Taylor Marsh, Washington Monthly, Fox News and FrumForum
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
Illinois Workers Find That a Death Penalty Ban Abolishes Their Jobs, Too — The day after the death penalty was abolished in Illinois in early March, Wendi Liss received a call from one of her clients, who was facing trial for murder and the prospect of being executed if found guilty.
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Wall Street Journal:
Free-Market Solutions for Overweight Americans — Sometimes we find it easy to identify a problem and impossible to think of a solution. Obesity is a good example. Almost everybody agrees that it is a growing burden on health systems and that it requires urgent attention from policy makers.
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Modeled Behavior and Marginal Revolution
JSOnline:
Walker: Unnamed co-candidate — I get it. — Scott Walker's name is not on any Wisconsin ballot this Tuesday. He was on a particular November ballot that a lot of people are trying their best to forget, especially if they are public employees who voted for him.
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The Moderate Voice
Cathy Hayes / IrishCentral:
Samantha Power to be the next Secretary of State? — Irish-born adviser now key to Obama foreign policy — A flattering New York Times profile has increased speculation that Samantha Power, the Dublin-born aide to President Obama, could be his next Secretary of State or National Security Adviser.
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Don Surber and Atlas Shrugs
Los Angeles Times:
Two workers' bodies recovered at Fukushima nuclear plant — The two are believed to have been killed when the tsunami struck. Meanwhile, Fukushima nuclear plant officials try to use concrete to stanch a leak of radioactive water, to no avail. — Members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense …
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Maggie's Notebook
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William J. Broad / New York Times:
From Far Labs, a Vivid Picture of Japan Crisis
From Far Labs, a Vivid Picture of Japan Crisis
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National Review
Clarion Advisory:
Food Stamp Graph... gulp — By Brice Buckley (Editor-at-Large, Clarion Advisory) 4-02-11 — According to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), 44,187,831 people were on food stamps at the beginning of February. — SNAP rolls up to the USDA and they sure do make neat graphs don't they?
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The Lonely Conservative, RedState, The Underground Conservative, Doug Ross, Pajamas Media and Left Coast Rebel
New York Times:
Trump for President in 2012? Maybe. Trump for Trump? Without Question. — Something predictable happens to the ratings of Donald J. Trump's “Celebrity Apprentice” on NBC when he hints at running for president: They rise. — And when he talks about President Obama's birth certificate, they really rise.
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Balloon Juice and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Al Sharpton: Donald Trump's Motives Are Racist
Al Sharpton: Donald Trump's Motives Are Racist
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THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Have a Rotten Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone — So Richard Goldstone, the South African jurist who fronted the U.N. report bearing his name that alleged massive Israeli war crimes in the Gaza war of 2008-2009, has taken to the pages of the Washington Post to say, in effect, “never mind”:
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Global Spin, New York Times, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Power Line, Spectator, AOL News, TPMCafe, Guardian, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Maggie's Farm
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Peter Berkowitz / Hoover Institution:
The Goldstone Mess — Peter Berkowitz on The Goldstone Report …
The Goldstone Mess — Peter Berkowitz on The Goldstone Report …
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Pajamas Media, Commentary Magazine, Israel Matzav and Doug Ross
Ed Vulliamy / Guardian:
Dirty billions and Mexico's drugs war — As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system. But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored
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Truthdig, Fausta's Blog, naked capitalism, TalkLeft and Emptywheel
Washington Post:
In St. Louis, a protest sign meets government arrogance — A dialectic of judicial deference and political arrogance is on display in St. Louis. When excessively deferential courts permit governmental arrogance, additional arrogance results as government explores the limits of judicial deference.
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Mike Huckabee wins South Carolina county straw poll — Mike Huckabee won a GOP straw poll in crucial early state South Carolina, further solidifying his status as a front-runner in a 2012 field that is still taking shape. — Huckabee won the York County GOP event on Saturday …
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