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Michael Muskal / Los Angeles Times:
Obama launches reelection campaign with e-mail, web video — The president pledges to focus on his job, but will pick up the tempo of campaigning this month with several fundraisers. The campaign is hoping to raise a record $1 billion. — President Obama speaking in March (Jewel Samad / AFP/Getty Images))
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Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Announces Reelection Bid — President Obama opens his reelection campaign on Monday with a familiar cast of consultants; an economy that's improving, sluggishly; wars that he is struggling to extract himself from; and an implacable partisan fight in Congress that might shut down the government by week's end.
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Pajamas Media and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama launches reelection campaign with video — President Barack Obama launched his reelection campaign Monday morning with a web video posted on his website. — “It Begins With Us” features a series of supporters from around the country explaining why they support the president …
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Another Black Conservative, The Lonely Conservative, FrumForum and Taylor Marsh
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Begins Re-Election Facing New Political Challenges — President Obama confirmed Monday morning that he will seek another four years in the White House, launching a re-election campaign that will ask Americans to endorse the status quo over the increasingly vocal calls from Republicans for a fresh start in Washington.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Pawlenty ribs Obama's reelection announcement
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CNN and Pat Dollard
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama launches 2012 reelection bid with ‘it begins with us’ video
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Guardian, Fox News and Wall Street Journal
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Clinton: Shutdown would hurt GOP but might not be ‘traumatic’ for economy — A government shutdown might not have a “traumatic” effect on the economy, former President Bill Clinton said Monday. — Clinton, who faced a shutdown during his 1995 budget negotiations with congressional Republicans …
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The Politico, Connecting.the.Dots and FrumForum
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Sean J. Miller / The Hill:
The Hill Poll: GOP seen as more reasonable in spending-cut debate — A plurality of likely voters believes Republicans have been more reasonable than Democrats in the negotiations over spending cuts. — A new poll conducted for The Hill showed 41 percent polled said the GOP had been …
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Hot Air and National Review
Suzan Clarke / ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Bill Clinton Calls ‘Birther’ Doubts About Obama's Citizenship ‘Ludicrous’ — Former President Believes U.S. Should Arm Libya's Rebels — Continuing outcry by “birthers” — a small but vocal movement which questions whether President Barack Obama was actually born on U.S. soil …
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Ballot Box
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Bill Clinton to White House: Consider arming rebels — Former President Bill Clinton is calling on the Obama administration not to “shut the door” on the possibility of arming rebels fighting against Muammar Qadhafi's regime in Libya. — “I might need to know a little more …
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Weasel Zippers
Naftali Bendavid / Wall Street Journal:
GOP Aim: Cut $4 Trillion — Budget Plan Would Transform Medicare, Reset Budget Debate; Democrats Balk — Republicans will present this week a 2012 budget proposal that would cut more than $4 trillion from federal spending projected over the next decade and transform the Medicare health program …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Republicans Propose $4 Trillion in Cuts Over Decade
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Yglesias, Wonk Room, Paul Krugman and Marginal Revolution
The Politico:
Budget countdown: Deal or no deal?
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Yglesias, Right Wing News and Firedoglake
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
A Tea Party Star Stirs Iowans, and She Isn't Palin — WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Sarah Palin, the reigning heroine of many social conservatives, has given few signals that she will make a presidential bid. Mike Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses in 2008 on the strength of his appeal …
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CNN, Ballot Box, msnbc.com, The Politico, The Last Tradition and American Power
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP freshmen face big shutdown decision: fight or fall in line
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ABCNEWS, Taegan Goddard's … and Roll Call
Matt Welch / Hit & Run:
It Doesn't Get Any Clearer Than That: “Free speech is a great idea, but we're in a war” — Here's what Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said today about Florida pastor Terry Jones' burning of a Koran, which has been used an excuse by Afghanis to murder 22 people, including seven United Nations workers:
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National Review, NY Daily News, Weasel Zippers and Washington Times
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Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Lindsey Graham: 'Freedom of Speech is a Great Idea But We're in a War'
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Mediaite, NewsReal Blog and theblogprof
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Reid: 'We'll look into' Quran burning
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National Review, Weasel Zippers, Another Black Conservative, Althouse, Fox News, Jihad Watch, Sultan Knish, GayPatriot, The Lonely Conservative, UrbanGrounds, Instapundit, theblogprof, Pajamas Media, Hot Air, Fox Nation, Wizbang, Don Surber, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Dish, Flopping Aces, Michelle Malkin, The Jawa Report, The Last Tradition, Questions and Observations, Blue Collar Philosophy, Cold Fury and Daily Pundit
Ynetnews:
‘NYT refused to publish Goldstone retraction’ — Source close to South African judge claims he initially approached liberal publication to print his letter of regret - and was rejected. New York Times says in response it does not comment on editorial process — Eldad Beck
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Ben Smith's Blog and Elder of Ziyon
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Cathy Hayes / IrishCentral:
Samantha Power to be the next Secretary of State?
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Washington Post, Israel Matzav, Don Surber and Atlas Shrugs
The Politico:
Jon Huntsman, the rock ‘n’ roll years — Jonny Huntsman didn't quite make it through his senior year of high school, and the cause was pretty plain to his classmates. One recalled the long-haired, diffident Salt Lake City high schooler sitting next to him in history class “hitting his desk as if it were a piano.”
Discussion:
Ben Smith's Blog and GOP 12
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
A SUCKER'S BET.... The effort to pass a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year will be the principal challenge for policymakers over the next few days, but while that work continues, congressional Republicans will also start a massive fight over the next budget.
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That Mr. G Guy's Blog
Paul Krugman:
Diminished Individualism Watch — A few weeks back I commented on a George Will column in which he said that … So I think that it is my civic duty to report that yesterday, as I got off Amtrak 161 from Trenton to Washington — having spent 2 1/2 hours being made more amenable to collectivism …
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Grist
Nick Pryer / Daily Mail:
Is this the first ever portrait of Jesus? The incredible story of 70 ancient books hidden in a cave for nearly 2,000 years — The image is eerily familiar: a bearded young man with flowing curly hair. After lying for nearly 2,000 years hidden in a cave in the Holy Land, the fine detail is difficult to determine.
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Maggie's Notebook and theblogprof
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