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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
Charlie Sheen Calls Sarah Palin ‘Whore’ in Live Show
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Inside TV
Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:
President Obama intervenes in budget standoff — President Obama phones the House speaker and the Senate leader in an effort to broker a Republican-Democratic deal to avert a government shutdown. — Reporting from Washington — As the budget stalemate lingered …
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RedState, Associated Press, Roll Call and Washington Monthly
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Schumer: Declining support for Tea Party makes spending deal ‘much more likely’ — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that a decline in the Tea Party movement's popularity makes a federal spending deal “much more likely” as the April 8 deadline to avert a government shutdown approaches.
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Weasel Zippers
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Budget Battle to Be Followed by an Even 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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CNN and Outside the Beltway
Jake Sherman / The Politico:
John Boehner standing firm on budget
John Boehner standing firm on budget
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Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh, Fox News and FrumForum
Lucy Madison / CBS News:
Reid: U.S. should hold off arming Libya rebels — Dem. says U.S. should “wait and see” how Libyan opposition develops; GOP Sen. argues U.S. should send missiles, “taking the fight to Tripoli” — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Sunday he didn't think it was currently necessary …
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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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Weasel Zippers and Outside the Beltway
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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The Jawa Report and Cold Fury
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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Spectator, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, AOL News, TPMCafe, BBC, Guardian 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 and Israel Matzav
Kyodo News:
Absorbent yet to soak up radioactive water at Fukushima plant — Workers tried Sunday to block the leakage of highly radioactive water into the sea from the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant by injecting polymeric water absorbent that can soak up 50 times its volume …
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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.
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
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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Althouse
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
Washington Post:
Libyan rebels struggle to explain rift — Gallery: Conflict and chaos in Libya: As international airstrikes continue against forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi, rebels face difficult battle. — BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya's rebel military struggled Saturday to explain an apparent rift within …
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FrumForum and JustOneMinute
Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:
Joseph Stiglitz: The Fate of The Top 1% Is Bound Up With How The Other 99% Live — Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that America's top economists are running around with their hair on fire? (Or whatever passes for it with economists.) Nobel Prize winner Joe Stiglitz in Vanity Fair sounds …
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The Reality-Based Community
Mike Allen / The Politico:
House GOP to target ‘tens of trillions’ on entitlements — Bush war aide: Libya could become Obama's Iraq — Lessons learned: 'clear goals ... Don't sell public on a best-case scenario' — BULLETIN: President Obama plans to announce his reelection campaign early next week in an electronic message …
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Right Pundits
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
An Obama Insider, Running the Race From Afar
An Obama Insider, Running the Race From Afar
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CBS News, Ben Smith's Blog, Weekly Standard and AMERICAblog News