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Paul D. Ryan / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Path to Prosperity — Our budget cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from the president's budget over the next 10 years and puts the nation on track to pay off our national debt. — Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spend on less than one-fifth of the federal budget for the next six months.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Truly Pathetic — Why on earth did the Democrat speaking for the Democrats just now on Hardball say it was “courageous” but “politically stupid” for Paul Ryan to put up a plan to abolish Medicare and other federal social programs? That's the best he can do? “Courageous”? That's simply amazing.
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Moment of Truth — It was a season of fiscal perestroika. Last fall, the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission released a bold report on how to avoid an economic catastrophe. For a few weeks, the think tanks and government offices were alive with proposals to reduce debt and reform entitlements …
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The Reality-Based Community and Mother Jones
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New at WSJ: Paul Ryan announces that GOP's 2012 budget would cut $6.2 trillion in spending over 10 years
New at WSJ: Paul Ryan announces that GOP's 2012 budget would cut $6.2 trillion in spending over 10 years
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems ‘likely’ to offer budget alternative to Rep. Ryan's plan
Dems ‘likely’ to offer budget alternative to Rep. Ryan's plan
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Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
House GOP to distribute shutdown plan — Republican leaders are preparing the House for a government shutdown, as they plan to distribute a pamphlet about the mechanics of a partial congressional work-stoppage to all lawmakers' offices Tuesday morning, according to several senior House aides.
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Andrew Stiles / National Review:
BREAKING: GOP Readies Short-Term CR as Budget Talks Break Down — House Republicans are preparing a third short-term spending resolution in the event that a long-term compromise cannot be reached with Senate Democrats and the White House before April 8, GOP aides confirm.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Ahead of White House budget talks, Boehner rejects Dems' $33B in cuts
Ahead of White House budget talks, Boehner rejects Dems' $33B in cuts
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Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Bloody pig's foot sent to Rep. Peter King — Authorities intercepted a parcel this morning addressed to Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) containing a bloody pig's foot and a derogatory message, a source has confirmed to CBS News. — The parcel was intercepted at the Congressional mail facility in Landover …
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Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Source: Pig's foot sent to congressman's office — Washington (CNN) - A frozen pig's foot and a note laced with anti-Semitic rants were sent to Rep. Peter King's Capitol Hill office, a congressional source familiar with the situation confirmed to CNN Monday.
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The Politico, American Power and GayPatriot
First Read / msnbc.com:
Cops investigating pig's foot sent to Rep. Peter King's office
Cops investigating pig's foot sent to Rep. Peter King's office
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Runnin' Scared
Robert Costa / National Review:
Graham Responds to Steyn, Stuttaford — In response to the criticism by Mark Steyn and Andrew Stuttaford about his weekend comments on free speech and Koran burning, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) called me this afternoon to flesh out his thoughts on the matter. — Here is the transcript:
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Religion Does Its Worst
Religion Does Its Worst
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JSOnline:
Campaign to recall Wirch says it has enough signatures — The head of the campaign to recall Sen. Robert Wirch (D-Pleasant Prairie) says the group has gathered enough signatures to force a recall election. — Dan Hunt, chairman of Taxpayers to Recall Robert Wirch, says his organization has …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Wisconsin Dem senator could face recall — A petition against Wisconsin Democratic state senator is on the verge of triggering a recall against him amid fallout of the passage of the state's controversial union law. — The petition against state Sen. Robert Wirch has gathered …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Mitch Daniels to give education speech in Washington — Mitch Daniels has been mostly tethered to Indianapolis during a contentious legislative session, but he's planning a trip to Washington next month to deliver what's sure to be a high-profile speech on education.
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Tom Davies / Associated Press:
Indiana's first lady signs up for state GOP speech
Indiana's first lady signs up for state GOP speech
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JSOnline:
No degree, little experience pay off big — Just in his mid-20s, Brian Deschane has no college degree, very little management experience and two drunken-driving convictions. — Yet he has landed an $81,500-per-year job in Gov. Scott Walker's administration overseeing environmental …
Kenneth Rogoff / Financial Times:
History will rue US and Europe debt woes — Will 23rd-century historians look back on today's fiscal follies with the same mixture of bemusement and disdain with which we now view the financial affairs of 18th-century French kings? Policymakers throughout the world are trying to find ways …
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BBC:
Ivory Coast: Presidential residence ‘taken’ in Abidjan — The BBC's Andrew Harding watched pro-Ouattara fighters head into Abidjan — Forces loyal to Ivory Coast's UN-recognised president say they have captured the besieged incumbent's residence in the main city of Abidjan.
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Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
Ivory Coast Leader Cornered After U.N. and France Strike
Ivory Coast Leader Cornered After U.N. and France Strike
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Ynetnews:
ElBaradei: We'll fight back if Israel attacks Gaza — In interview with Arab newspaper, former IAEA chief says if elected as Egypt's next president he will open Rafah crossing in case of an Israeli attack — Former International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei …
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Kathleen Lucadamo / NY Daily News:
No fried food: Health Dept. workers cringe at new rules restricting foods, fragrances, decorations — No overbearing perfume. No obscene pictures. And definitely no French fries for work lunches. — That's the new edict for employees of the same city Health Department that brought …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
In a Reversal, Military Trials for 9/11 Cases — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, ending more than a year of indecision with a major policy reversal, will prosecute Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other people accused of plotting the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks before a military commission …
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Associated Press:
John Adler, Former New Jersey Congressman, Dies at 51 — TRENTON (AP) — John Adler, a New Jersey politician who worked his way up from town councilman to a term in Congress, died on Monday. He was 51. — A spokeswoman for Mr. Adler, a Democrat, confirmed the death.
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org blogs:
Sanders: Rich ‘Have Not Contributed One Nickel To Deficit Reduction’ — Bernie, put down the bong! — On Cenk Uygur's MSNBC show this evening, Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont who caucuses with the Dems, claimed that rich Americans “have not contributed one nickel to deficit reduction.”
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Tom Lauricella / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Crunched in Nasdaq Rebalance — Nasdaq is taking a bite out of Apple. — In a move likely to ripple across the stock market, Nasdaq OMX plans to announce Tuesday a rare rebalancing of its Nasdaq-100 index, which will reduce the big weighting of Apple Inc. The company currently makes up more than 20% of the index.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP keeps its powder dry as Obama runs unopposed — Chief Political Correspondent Follow Him @ByronYork — The 2012 presidential race is on. Barack Obama is now formally running for re-election. Unopposed. — Of course, that's only technically true; a number of Republicans are clearly running for the White House.
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Unrest in Yemen Seen as Opening to Qaeda Branch — WASHINGTON — Counterterrorism operations in Yemen have ground to a halt, allowing Al Qaeda's deadliest branch outside of Pakistan to operate more freely inside the country and to increase plotting for possible attacks against Europe and the United States …
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allAfrica.com:
Nigeria: Riots Erupt in Sokoto, Bauchi — Sokoto — Youths in Iraqi area of Sokoto metropolis yesterday sparked a violent protest over an alleged defilement on the Holy Qur'an. — The incident, according to eyewitnesses, came when a boy (name withheld) was discovered to have urinated on a copy of the holy around book the area.
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