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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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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.”
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Obama launches reelection campaign with video
Obama launches reelection campaign with video
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
L.A. Times Announces Obama's New Campaign Website - http://www.latimes.com
L.A. Times Announces Obama's New Campaign Website - http://www.latimes.com
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Marc Ambinder / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Announces Reelection Bid
Obama Announces Reelection Bid
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The Huffington Post:
Barack Obama 2012 Campaign Officially Launches (VIDEO)
Barack Obama 2012 Campaign Officially Launches (VIDEO)
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Obama re-election launches with email, website
Obama re-election launches with email, website
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Will Paul Ryan Propose a Giant Tax Hike To Make Tax Cuts For the Rich Affordable? — Based on Carl Hulse's reporting from yesterday it's clear that Rep Paul Ryan (R-WI) intends to go through with his plan to replace Medicare with vouchers to buy private health insurance, and then cut spending on the vouchers.
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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 …
First Read / msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: He's in — In email and video to supporters, Obama announces his re-election bid... NBC's 2012 battleground map... Why Obama is in right now: It's all about raising the money. So why isn't Romney in yet?... Is Paul Ryan's budget plan — which revamps Medicaid and Medicare …
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Fox News:
(CROSSTALK) — WALLACE: Are we talking 20 percent? — RYAN: Our numbers are moving around right now, so we're basically trying to get government back toward its historic size. — WALLACE: Which is what? — RYAN: Right now we're at about 25 percent of GDP.
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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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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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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Group: GOP hopefuls support defunding Planned Parenthood
Group: GOP hopefuls support defunding Planned Parenthood
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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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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP freshmen face big shutdown decision: Fight or fall in line
GOP freshmen face big shutdown decision: Fight or fall in line
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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
KSM to be tried by military commission at Gitmo; Holder set to make announcement today — Attorney General Eric Holder today will announce that self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad will be tried in a military commission, CBS News has learned.
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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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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Bill Clinton to White House: Consider arming rebels
Bill Clinton to White House: Consider arming rebels
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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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Steve Chapman / Real Clear Politics:
Obama's ‘Bloodbath’: Can We Believe the Hype? — Remember when a crusading president, acting on dubious intelligence, insufficient information and exaggerated fears, took the nation into a Middle Eastern war of choice? That was George W. Bush in 2003, invading Iraq. But it's also Barack Obama in 2011, attacking Libya.
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Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Now Libya steps on President Obama's message — President Barack Obama's decision to intervene in Libya has presented him with a whole new set of political problems with members of both parties. But its most worrisome effect for the White House is the way it's undermining his efforts …
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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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Michael Barone / Washington Examiner:
GOP shouldn't panic if whites become a minority — Senior Political Analyst Follow Him @MichaelBarone — Are whites on the verge of becoming a minority of the American population? That's what some analysts of the 2010 census results say. Many go on, sometimes with relish …
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Rod Nordland / New York Times:
Afghan Officials Say 2 American Soldiers Killed in Shooting — KABUL, Afghanistan — Two American soldiers were shot to death by an Afghan policeman on Monday in northern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said. — The two Americans were involved in training the Afghan Border Police at a checkpoint …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Truth, Still Inconvenient — So the joke begins like this: An economist, a lawyer and a professor of marketing walk into a room. What's the punch line? They were three of the five “expert witnesses” Republicans called for last week's Congressional hearing on climate science.
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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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
John Phillips: Why Hillary Clinton must run in 2012 — If Hillary Clinton's primary voters and President Obama had their relationship status listed on their Facebook pages, it would change from “Married” to “It's complicated.” — To be fair, Hillary voters never fell in love with Obama, they just fell in line.
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The Radio Patriot, Don Surber and Sipsey Street Irregulars