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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 …
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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Left Coast Rebel, more at Mediagazer »
David Weigel / Weigel:
Glenn Beck Will End Fox News Show — His daily show, which began in January 2009, will end at some point this year. Business Insider has the full release while Beck's news site, The Blaze, is offline. … Beck's ratings had been collapsing, even as he remained one of the most popular hosts on TV.
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Wonkette, Washington Post and AmSpecBlog
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 and The Other McCain
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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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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The Atlantic Online, TPMDC, Director's Blog, The Political Carnival, Swampland, Paul Krugman and The New Republic
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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The Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, Guardian and The Raw Story
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.
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Nancy Pelosi Vows To Party Like It's 2005 With Paul Ryan's Draconian Medicare-Ending Budget Proposal
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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ThinkProgress, New York Times, New York Times, The Impolitic and Booman Tribune
NationalJournal.com:
Ryan Plan Pushes Optimism to the Outer Limits
Ryan Plan Pushes Optimism to the Outer Limits
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The Atlantic Online, Hullabaloo, The Hill, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Firedoglake
Meredith Shiner / The Politico:
Rivlin: I don't back ‘Ryan-Rivlin’ plan
Rivlin: I don't back ‘Ryan-Rivlin’ plan
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Hullabaloo, USA Today, TPMDC, Economy & Budget, The Note, National Review, DCCC and The New Republic
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Neglected Elements of Paul Ryan's Ripoff — Middle Class Tax Increases and Giveaways to Big Banks
Neglected Elements of Paul Ryan's Ripoff — Middle Class Tax Increases and Giveaways to Big Banks
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A plain blog about politics, New Deal 2.0 and Wonk Room
Wall Street Journal:
New Proposal Hits Old Hurdles of Budget Math
New Proposal Hits Old Hurdles of Budget Math
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Firedoglake and National Review
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
The Facts — First of all, his fancy presentation stacks the deck a bit.
The Facts — First of all, his fancy presentation stacks the deck a bit.
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The Atlantic Online
JSOnline:
Supreme Court race too close to call; Kloppenburg has narrow lead over Prosser — 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, Larry Sandler and Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel
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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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Swing State Project, Daily Kos and WisPolitics Election Blog
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Wisconsin judicial race too close to call
Wisconsin judicial race too close to call
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Riehl World View, CNN, HillBuzz.org, The Other McCain and Washington Post
WTMJ:
Elections: Lake Mills Votes Give Kloppenburg Edge
Elections: Lake Mills Votes Give Kloppenburg Edge
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Hotline On Call, Daily Kos, JSOnline, TPMDC and Mother Jones
Associated Press:
Recount deadline will be no later than April 20
Recount deadline will be no later than April 20
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Althouse and American Power
Ericcompas / It's academic:
Kloppenberg/Prosser Supreme Court election results
Kloppenberg/Prosser Supreme Court election results
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blue cheddar, Ben Smith's Blog, Firedoglake, TPMDC, Swing State Project, Little Green Footballs, The Political Carnival and Daily Kos
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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The Note and The Gateway Pundit
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
White House Says Shutdown Would Harm the Economy — WASHINGTON — The White House warned on Wednesday that a shutdown of the federal government would threaten the nation's fragile economic recovery. But negotiations over the budget remained stalled amid increasingly sharp rhetoric from lawmakers in both political parties.
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Calculated Risk
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
DEMANDS FOR AN ‘ALTERNATIVE’.... Yesterday afternoon …
DEMANDS FOR AN ‘ALTERNATIVE’.... Yesterday afternoon …
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The Impolitic and The Page
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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The Incidental Economist
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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Patterico's Pontifications, CNN and Booman Tribune
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Lauraklairmont / CNN:
Bachmann lists her presidential creds
Bachmann lists her presidential creds
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Cubachi, Taylor Marsh, Liberty Pundits Blog, GOP 12 and Outside the Beltway
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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JSOnline:
Abele defeats Stone for Milwaukee County executive — Chris Abele makes his victory speech at the Historic Pabst Brewery after beating Jeff Stone for the Milwaukee County Executive seat. Abele's wife, Miriam, is at right. — By Steve Schultze of the Journal Sentinel
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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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Clarion Advisory, The Gateway Pundit, YID With LID, Hot Air, Don Surber, Wizbang, Shakesville, Fox Nation and AMERICAblog News
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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Washington Monthly
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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Free exchange and Mother Jones
CBS San Francisco:
Man With Anti-Obama Sign Attacked In San Francisco — SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF/ BCN) — A man who set up a table with political literature and a sign opposing President Barack Obama was attacked in San Francisco's North Panhandle neighborhood, police and witnesses said Tuesday.