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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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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 …
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Choice-based Medicare cost controls — Let's say it's 2027 and I've just turned 65. I fill out a Medicare application on-line and opt for a plan with superior heart coverage (my father died of a heart attack), not too much knee coverage and physical therapy (my job doesn't require heavy lifting) …
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Yglesias, National Review, Washington Post, The Incidental Economist and The Atlantic Online
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Paul Ryan Slams Medicaid's Middle Class Beneficiaries As The New Welfare Queens
Paul Ryan Slams Medicaid's Middle Class Beneficiaries As The New Welfare Queens
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Paul Krugman, Washington Monthly, Washington Post and Daily Kos
Erick Erickson / Erick's blog:
Paul Ryan is Not Jesus, But His Path To Prosperity Gospel is Really Good
Paul Ryan is Not Jesus, But His Path To Prosperity Gospel is Really Good
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The Politico, Cubachi, Yglesias, RedState, Big Government and AmSpecBlog
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Truly Pathetic — Why on earth did the Democrat speaking …
Truly Pathetic — Why on earth did the Democrat speaking …
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Paul Krugman, Don Surber, That Mr. G Guy's Blog, The Moderate Voice and TPMDC
Brian Faler / Bloomberg:
Republicans to Unveil Budget Calling for Sweeping Changes in Tax, Spending
Republicans to Unveil Budget Calling for Sweeping Changes in Tax, Spending
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AlterNet, Booman Tribune and American Spectator
appropriations.house.gov:
Another Continuing Resolution Introduced to Prevent Government Shutdown, Cut $12 billion in Spending — WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers today introduced another temporary funding measure - known as a Continuing Resolution (CR) - to prevent a government shutdown …
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Sara Jerome / The Hill:
Ex-NPR chief: House Republicans have thrust NPR into ‘turmoil’ — The change of power in the House has thrust NPR into “turmoil,” according to the former chief executive of the organization. — Vivian Schiller said NPR has been through a “very difficult” time in the past several months.
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Weasel Zippers and Fox Nation
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
GOP Leadership: White House Has Rejected Emergency One-Week Funding Measure … WASHINGTON — Congressional GOP leaders said on Tuesday that the Obama administration has informed them that it will oppose a last-ditch stopgap funding measure proposed by House Republicans to keep the government running for an additional week.
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Washington Monthly, The Hill and Swampland
George Zornick / ThinkProgress:
Behind Closed Doors, House Republicans Cheer A Possible Shutdown
Behind Closed Doors, House Republicans Cheer A Possible Shutdown
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Post, The Caucus and The Note
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
House GOP to distribute shutdown plan
House GOP to distribute shutdown plan
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CNN, The New Republic, The Sundries Shack, Left Coast Rebel, National Review, Politics, Daily Kos, The Lonely Conservative, The Hill, Fox Nation, Hot Air and The Hill
The Huffington Post:
Budget Deal Would Give Pentagon Extra Funds In Exchange For Social Program Cuts
Budget Deal Would Give Pentagon Extra Funds In Exchange For Social Program Cuts
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Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos and AMERICAblog News
New York Times:
Shutdown Looms as Talks on Stopgap Budget Fail
Shutdown Looms as Talks on Stopgap Budget Fail
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Philly.com, Swampland and Althouse
Andrew Stiles / National Review:
BREAKING: GOP Readies Short-Term CR as Budget Talks Break Down
BREAKING: GOP Readies Short-Term CR as Budget Talks Break Down
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The Politico, Nice Deb, The Lonely Conservative, Doug Ross and Pundit & Pundette
Huma Khan / ABCNEWS:
Countdown to Shutdown: Federal Agencies Make Preparations
Countdown to Shutdown: Federal Agencies Make Preparations
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The Moderate Voice
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Warning Signs Among the GOP — It's not inconceivable that Republicans might start seeing things go against them in the court of public opinion, starting with the current spending debate. — Until recently, Republicans were taking solace in a number of things as they looked forward to 2012.
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Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, msnbc.com, Hullabaloo, USA Today and Daily Kos
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Paul Ryan's Plan Counts On Reducing Unemployment To Below “Full Employment” Level — By Magic! — Tim Fernholz reports: “An analysis performed by the conservative Heritage Foundation at Ryan's request found the unemployment rate would be reduced to 4 percent in 2015 by Ryan's budget …
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The Incidental Economist and TPMDC
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Tim Fernholz / NationalJournal.com:
The Ryan Budget: Big Cuts, Bigger Questions — House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan's 2012 budget is estimated to cost $6.2 trillion less over 10 years than President Obama's plan, with an initial deficit of $950 billion next year that decreases, along with government debt, over time.
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American Power and Eschaton
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Maine Mural Controversy: U.S. Labor Department Says Put It Back Up Or Repay The Money … Department Of Labor , Department Of Labor Maine , Labor Mural , Labor Protests , Maine Mural , Paul Lepage , Paul Lepage Maine , Paul Lepage Maine Governor , Paul Lepage Mural , Politics News
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Daily Kos, Portland Press-Herald and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Department Of Labor steps into battle over Maine mural
Department Of Labor steps into battle over Maine mural
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Kennebec Journal and Weasel Zippers
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney leads in NH, Trump makes things interesting — Mitt Romney's still the clear early front runner to take the Republican primary in New Hampshire next year but for the first time in our polling of the race PPP finds someone within single digits of him...Donald Trump.
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The Politico, GOP 12, Taegan Goddard's …, Wonkette and Ballot Box
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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RedState, Right Wing News, Israpundit, The Gateway Pundit, YID With LID, Pajamas Media, Israel Matzav and Weasel Zippers
Telegraph:
Toby Harnden — Toby Harnden is the Daily Telegraph's US Editor, based in Washington DC. Click here for Toby's website. His email is toby.harnden@telegraph-usa.com. Follow him on Twitter here @tobyharnden and on Facebook here. His second book, Dead Men Risen, is available through Telegraph Books.
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Firedoglake and LewRockwell.com Blog
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Tom Bowman / NPR:
Gen. Petraeus Being ‘Seriously Considered’ For CIA Director, NPR Reports
Gen. Petraeus Being ‘Seriously Considered’ For CIA Director, NPR Reports
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ThinkProgress, Hot Air, The AfPak Channel, The Raw Story and CBS News
Paul Kengor / American Thinker:
Obama, The God That Failed — As someone who has studied, taught, and written about the Middle East for years, I'm the first to concede that President Obama has a tough task. What would I do about Libya if I were president? How about Egypt? — I'm not exactly sure.
Hannah Hess / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Racial slur led to fight with Illinois trooper, student says — CARLINVILLE • The politically connected head of Gov. Pat Quinn's Southern Illinois security detail used a racial slur against a black college student in a Carlinville bar, starting a fight that preceded the officer's resignation, the student says.
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Big Government, Moe Lane and That Mr. G Guy's Blog
Wall Street Journal:
Coburn vs. Norquist — The Senator is right on ethanol and, in this case, on tax subsidies. — Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma has a fighting chance to begin reforming Washington's bonehead ethanol policy. That is unless one prominent conservative organization manages to sabotage his effort.
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The Foundry and Pajamas Media
TMZ.com:
Scott Pelley To Replace Katie Couric At CBS — CBS network sources tell TMZ ... Katie Couric's replacement for the “CBS Evening News” will be Scott Pelley. — We're told Pelley, a veteran journalist and “60 Minutes” correspondent, is the choice of CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager.
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New York Post, Hot Air, JammieWearingFool, The Wire and ReelzChannel Movie News
New York Times:
Cowardice Blocks the 9/11 Trial — Last year, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. described a federal court trial for the self-professed mastermind of Sept. 11 attacks, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, as “the defining event of my time as attorney general.” On Monday, Mr. Holder's dream for demonstrating …
Mark Penn / The Huffington Post:
The Odds on Obama — Only two Democrats in the last 90 years have been reelected to a second term — Franklin Roosevelt and Bill Clinton. The rest of the Democrats have seen their presidencies cut short, and so the historical odds of Obama winning a second term are at first glance not encouraging.
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Balloon Juice
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Parody gets more views than real Obama launch — The National Republican Senatorial Committee's parody of Obama's 2012 campaign, released Friday, now has 665,000 views on YouTube. — Obama's real launch video, released yesterday: Just 168,000. — YouTube's metrics tend to lag a bit …
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techPresident and The Daily Caller
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
A Cigarette for 75 Cents, 2 for $1: The Brisk, Shady Sale of ‘Loosies’ — By 8:30 a.m., amid the procession of sleepy-eyed office workers and addicts from the nearby methadone clinic, Lonnie Loosie plants himself in the middle of the sidewalk on Eighth Avenue in Midtown.
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Runnin' Scared, That Mr. G Guy's Blog, City Room and Gothamist