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6:30 PM ET, April 3, 2011

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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.
Discussion: 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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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 …
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 …
Discussion: 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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Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:
President Obama intervenes in budget standoff
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Schumer: Declining support for Tea Party makes spending deal ‘much more likely’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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.
Discussion: Don Surber and Atlas Shrugs
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.
Discussion: 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.
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.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
William J. Broad / New York Times:
From Far Labs, a Vivid Picture of Japan Crisis  —  For the clearest picture of what is happening at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, talk to scientists thousands of miles away.  —  Thanks to the unfamiliar but sophisticated art of atomic forensics, experts around the world …
Discussion: National Review
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Kyodo News:
Absorbent yet to soak up radioactive water at Fukushima plant
Discussion: Boing Boing
Los Angeles Times:
Two workers' bodies recovered at Fukushima nuclear plant
Discussion: Maggie's Notebook
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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Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Al Sharpton: Donald Trump's Motives Are Racist
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?
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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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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Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Mike Huckabee wins South Carolina county straw poll
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David Ferguson / The Raw Story:
‘No cop in the state’ would arrest WI Senate dems
New York Times:
Cutting Out the Middleman  —  For six years, Doug Stafford …
Discussion: Daily Kos
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Qaddafi Son Proposes Peace Plan, Diplomat Says
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Washington Post:
In St. Louis, a protest sign meets government arrogance
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The Note:
Fmr. Nat. Sec. Adv. Jones: Yemen Trends ‘Not Good’
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FDIC Chairman: Foreclosure clean-up fund needed
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Washington Post:
Libyan rebels struggle to explain rift
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Raymond Colitt / Reuters:
Al Qaeda members hide in Brazil, raise money: report
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As the NYT Tech Guild goes on strike, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas offers the AI company's services to the NYT to help ensure election coverage is available

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

William Earl / Variety:
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