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Scott Baker / The Blaze:
Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts Announce New Agreement; Beck to ‘Transition Off’ Daily TV Program — Editor's note: After a great deal of speculation about Glenn Beck's future on television, here is the freshly-inked news release. There will be a couple of key headlines out of this …
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program — Updated | Glenn Beck will end his daily Fox News Channel program later this year. — His departure was jointly announced in a statement on Wednesday by Fox and Mr. Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts. The statement did not specify an end date for the show …
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New York Times:
Glenn Beck To ‘Transition Off’ Fox News Program … Fox News , Glenn Beck , Glenn Beck Fox News , Cable News , Fox News Glenn Beck , Glenn Beck Leaving Fox News Show , Glenn Beck Transition , Media News — Fox News and Glenn Beck announced Wednesday that Beck will “transition off of his daily program” later this year.
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David Weigel / Weigel:
Glenn Beck Will End Fox News Show
Glenn Beck Will End Fox News Show
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Glenn Beck's Fox News Show Ending
Glenn Beck's Fox News Show Ending
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The Washington Note
Jay Yarow / The Wire:
GLENN BECK PULLING SHOW OFF FOX NEWS
GLENN BECK PULLING SHOW OFF FOX NEWS
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AlterNet, The Other McCain and Inside TV
George Zornick / ThinkProgress:
Why Beck Is Out At Fox: Poor Ratings And Paranoid Rants
Why Beck Is Out At Fox: Poor Ratings And Paranoid Rants
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Booman Tribune
Paul Krugman:
Paul Ryan's Multiple Unicorns — Gosh. For a plan that supposedly sets a new standard of seriousness, Paul Ryan's vision (pdf) depends an awful lot on unicorn sightings — belief in the impossible. Let me review the top three unicorns. — First, the plan assumes that tax cuts will set off a literally unprecedented boom.
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Jacob Weisberg / Slate:
Republican Paul Ryan's budget proposal is brave, radical, and smart. — For the past 30 years, Republicans have been hypocrites about spending. They've raged against big government without ever proposing the kinds of cuts necessary to bring federal expenditures in line with tax revenues.
CEPR:
Representative Ryan Proposes Medicare Plan Under Which Seniors Would Pay Most of Their Income for Health Care — That is what headlines would look like if the United States had an independent press. After all, this is one of the main take aways of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) …
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CBO's Latest 10 Documents:
LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF A BUDGET PROPOSAL BY CHAIRMAN RYAN — ABSTRACT — The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has conducted a long-term analysis of a budget proposal by Chairman Ryan to substantially change federal payments under the Medicare and Medicaid programs, eliminate the subsidies …
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Nancy Pelosi Vows To Party Like It's 2005 With Paul Ryan's Draconian Medicare-Ending Budget Proposal — On a conference call with bloggers just a bit earlier, Nancy Pelosi drew repeated and explicit parallels between Paul Ryan's GOP budget proposal and the 2005 Social Security fight.
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Generational Divide Colors Debate Over Medicare's Future
Generational Divide Colors Debate Over Medicare's Future
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Rivlin: I don't back ‘Ryan-Rivlin’ plan
Rivlin: I don't back ‘Ryan-Rivlin’ plan
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NationalJournal.com:
Ryan Plan Pushes Optimism to the Outer Limits
Ryan Plan Pushes Optimism to the Outer Limits
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JSOnline:
With 100% of vote counted, Kloppenburg clings to narrow lead; recount expected — At left, Justice David Prosser speaks to supporters in Hartland. At right, Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg speaks to supporters in Madison. — By Patrick Marley, Jason Stein and Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel
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WTMJ:
Elections: Lake Mills Votes Give Kloppenburg Edge — By The Associated Press with Jay Sorgi — MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin's fight over union rights came to a head at the polls as voters split almost evenly over whether to re-elect a conservative-leaning justice or give his little-known opponent his seat on the state Supreme Court.
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JSOnline:
Kloppenburg declares victory — By Lee Bergquist of the Journal Sentinel — Supreme Court candidate JoAnne Kloppenburg declared victory Wednesday, based on results reported by the Associated Press. — The Associated Press shows Kloppenburg received 740,090 votes and incumbent David Prosser received 739,886 votes.
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Randy Radtke / lakemillsleaderonline.com:
Court Race May Come Down to the Town of Lake Mills (Updated)
Court Race May Come Down to the Town of Lake Mills (Updated)
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Wisconsin judicial race too close to call
Wisconsin judicial race too close to call
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Associated Press:
Recount deadline will be no later than April 20
Recount deadline will be no later than April 20
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Recount, retweet — I had the particular joy of riding …
Recount, retweet — I had the particular joy of riding …
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AmSpecBlog, National Review and Daily Pundit
KCCI-TV:
Teen Finds Campaign Worker At Back Door At 3AM — ANKENY, Iowa — A 15-year-old girl found a campaign worker from Alabama banging on her Ankeny family's back door early Wednesday morning. — Chloe Steward told KCCI she heard her dog barking around 3 a.m. and went to investigate.
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner, Obama budget call lasts three minutes — President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) had a brief phone call Wednesday as a government shutdown loomed, and Boehner told the president he is “hopeful” a spending deal can be reached, the Speaker's office said.
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Susan Crabtree / TPMDC:
White House Prepares For the Worst, Outlines Shutdown Plans
White House Prepares For the Worst, Outlines Shutdown Plans
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Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Senate moderates press Boehner
Senate moderates press Boehner
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Christian Heinze / GOP 12:
Bachmann: Why I'm qualified to be president — Michele Bachmann, after Bill O'Reilly asks her if she has the frame of reference to be the leader of the free world.
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Lauraklairmont / CNN:
Bachmann lists her presidential creds
Bachmann lists her presidential creds
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DEMANDS FOR AN ‘ALTERNATIVE’.... Yesterday afternoon, the lead story on Mark Halperin's “The Page” was the White House's mild rebuke of Paul Ryan's Republican budget plan. — Halperin's headline: “Obama Pans Ryan — Without Alternative.” — This was one of those cases in which the media establishment …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
‘THIS IS A CAUSE’.... The political world will mull over the details …
‘THIS IS A CAUSE’.... The political world will mull over the details …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
White House Says Shutdown Would Harm the Economy
White House Says Shutdown Would Harm the Economy
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Perry Bacon Jr / Washington Post:
West Wing briefing: Obama headed out of D.C. as shutdown looms — A fiery President Obama insisted Tuesday that if he and congressional leaders couldn't reach a deal to avert a government shutdown, “I want a meeting again tomorrow here at the White House.” — “I will invite the same folks that we invited today,” he added.
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Paul Krugman:
Memory Hole Alert — Wow. Yesterday afternoon I downloaded the tables from that Heritage report that's the basis for the Ryan plan. The first page looked like this: — You can see the unemployment forecast, with the amazing 2.8 percent prediction, in the fourth set of figures.
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
What If We Focused On The Long Term Climate Gap? — No matter how hard I try, I can't quite get my head around the combination of Washington's obsession with decades-away projected fiscal shortfalls and it's total lack of interest in decades-away projected climate disaster.
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