Top Items:
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.
RELATED:
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
Discussion:
USA Today, The Politico, Althouse, Associated Press, Weigel, The Note, Crooks and Liars, Ben Smith's Blog, ThinkProgress, Hot Air, Guardian, AlterNet, msnbc.com, Law Blog, Washington Post, AMERICAblog News, Pajamas Media, The Reality-Based Community, International Liberty, Wonkette, Daily Kos, JammieWearingFool, Outside the Beltway, Power Line, POWIP, Latest Open Salon Blog, American Power, UrbanGrounds, Nice Deb, Fox Nation, WisPolitics Election Blog and Firedoglake
Kevin Brennan / Hotline On Call:
Wisconsin Results Stem The GOP Tide
Wisconsin Results Stem The GOP Tide
Discussion:
Taylor Marsh, Washington Post and TPMDC
Thomas Ferdousi / Pundit Press:
Wisconsin City Caught Destroying Ballots
Wisconsin City Caught Destroying Ballots
Discussion:
The Political Carnival, POWIP, National Review, Pajamas Media and Althouse
WTMJ:
Elections: Kloppenburg Declares Victory But Race Still Too Close to Call
Elections: Kloppenburg Declares Victory But Race Still Too Close to Call
Discussion:
Hotline On Call, Daily Kos, TPMDC and MyDD
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)
Discussion:
Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Swing State Project, Daily Kos and WisPolitics Election Blog
Andy Szal / WisPolitics Election Blog:
Walker: Spring election results show disparity between Madison, rest of state
Walker: Spring election results show disparity between Madison, rest of state
Discussion:
TPMDC, JSOnline and The Blotter
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, Hot Air, Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller, Runnin' Scared, Jack & Jill Politics, Pat Dollard, No More Mister Nice Blog, Ben Smith's Blog, The Gateway Pundit, Daily Kos, Patterico's Pontifications, JOSHUAPUNDIT, Little Green Footballs and Pundit Press, more at Mediagazer »
Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Glenn Beck's Fox News Show Ending — From an April 6 press release:
Discussion:
Crooks and Liars, The BRAD BLOG, Mock, Paper, Scissors, pandagon.net and The Washington Note
David Weigel / Weigel:
Glenn Beck Will End Fox News Show
Glenn Beck Will End Fox News Show
Discussion:
Hendrik Hertzberg, Gothamist, Washington Post and ImmigrationProf Blog
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
Discussion:
The Wire, Booman Tribune and American Power, more at Mediagazer »
New York Times:
Glenn Beck To ‘Transition Off’ Fox News Program
Glenn Beck To ‘Transition Off’ Fox News Program
Discussion:
Left Coast Rebel and The Other McCain, more at Mediagazer »
The Daily Beast:
Glenn Beck, Fox Agree to Divorce
Glenn Beck, Fox Agree to Divorce
Discussion:
Salon, Hit & Run and Wonkette, more at Mediagazer »
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.
Discussion:
Washington Post, TPMDC, The Hill, The Daily Dish, Talking Points Memo, The Monkey Cage, The Cable, Feministing, The Confluence, National Review, Heritage Foundation, The Atlantic Online, The Democratic Daily, American Prospect, The Big Picture, The Mahablog, Connecting.the.Dots, Yglesias and Washington Monthly
RELATED:
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) …
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Crooks and Liars, Hullabaloo, Guardian and The Raw Story
CBO's Latest 10 Documents:
LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF A BUDGET PROPOSAL BY CHAIRMAN RYAN
LONG-TERM ANALYSIS OF A BUDGET PROPOSAL BY CHAIRMAN RYAN
Discussion:
Director's Blog, The Atlantic Online, PERRspectives, ThinkProgress, The Political Carnival, TPMDC, Swampland and Paul Krugman
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Nancy Pelosi Vows To Party Like It's 2005 With Paul Ryan's Draconian Medicare-Ending Budget Proposal
Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
CBO: Ryan Plan Shrinks Debt, Ups Private Share of Health Care Spending
CBO: Ryan Plan Shrinks Debt, Ups Private Share of Health Care Spending
Discussion:
NationalJournal.com
The Note:
John Boehner Cries Amid Government Shutdown Standoff — ABC's Jonathan Karl reports: — He did it again. — John Boehner was driven to tears again today. This time it happened at a closed-door meeting of House Republicans. — According to sources inside the meeting …
Discussion:
Firedoglake, CNN, The Politico, Washington Monthly, TPMDC, Roll Call, Balloon Juice, Taegan Goddard's …, Gawker and Hullabaloo
RELATED:
Russell Berman / The Hill:
White House meeting set; GOP readies $12B in spending cuts
White House meeting set; GOP readies $12B in spending cuts
Discussion:
The Politico, Ballot Box, The Hill, msnbc.com, Hot Air, Pundit & Pundette and The Foundry
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner, Obama budget call lasts three minutes
Boehner, Obama budget call lasts three minutes
Discussion:
CNN, The Note, GayPatriot, Don Surber and The Gateway Pundit
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
WSJ/NBC Poll: A Donald Trump Surprise — By Jonathan Weisman and Scott Greenberg — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appears to be the early front-runner in the largely unformed race for the Republican nomination for president, but real estate magnate Donald Trump may be a surprise contender …
Discussion:
GOP 12, Wall Street Journal, Daily Kos, The Hill and No More Mister Nice Blog
RELATED:
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Trump tied for 2nd in 2012 GOP field — Mark Murray writes:"You're fired" isn't a message Republican primary voters and Tea Party supporters are telling real-estate mogul Donald Trump, at least not yet. — According to the latest national NBC/WSJ poll, former Massachusetts …
Discussion:
The Hill, The Politico, Hot Air, Conservatives4Palin, Poll Watch Daily, The Political Carnival and Pajamas Media
Maggie Haberman / The Politico:
Donald Trump praised Nancy Pelosi as ‘the best’
Donald Trump praised Nancy Pelosi as ‘the best’
Discussion:
USA Today and The Raw Story
Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/WSJ poll: Government shutdown blame game
NBC/WSJ poll: Government shutdown blame game
Discussion:
Taegan Goddard's …, Associated Press, Outside the Beltway, The Hill, Daily Kos, HotAirPundit and The Page
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.
RELATED:
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Pawlenty staffer arrested in Iowa
Pawlenty staffer arrested in Iowa
Discussion:
CNN and The Political Carnival
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.
Discussion:
The Cable, Clarion Advisory, The Gateway Pundit, YID With LID, Don Surber, Hot Air, Wizbang, Fox Nation and Pundit & Pundette
RELATED:
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Obama says more work to do to create opportunity
Obama says more work to do to create opportunity
Discussion:
Instapundit, The Lonely Conservative, Clarion Advisory, Pajamas Media and HotAirPundit
Daily Mail:
'I'd kill myself first!' John Edwards ‘suicidal’ over facing jail, claim pals — Disgraced politician John Edwards is said to be deeply depressed - to the point of being suicidal - over the prospect of a criminal trial that could end with him being jailed if found guilty.
Discussion:
Pajamas Media and The Blaze
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
GOP lawyer drafts Obama impeachment — A prominent libertarian constitutional lawyer and civil libertarian has drafted an article of impeachment against President Obama over his attack on Libya, throwing down a legal gauntlet that could be picked up by some Congressional Republicans
John Marzulli / NY Daily News:
Judge gives ‘Juror No. 799’ indefinite jury duty after she makes racist remarks on questionnaire — An incensed federal judge sentenced a racist Brooklyn woman to indefinite jury duty on Tuesday after she trashed the NYPD and minorities. — “This is an outrage, and so are you!”
Discussion:
The Volokh Conspiracy and LewRockwell.com Blog
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
Gadhafi, in letter, asks Obama to end air strikes — WASHINGTON - Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has appealed directly to President Barack Obama to halt what the Libyan leader called “an unjust war,” and wished Obama good luck in his bid for re-election next year.
Discussion:
Blogcritics, Weasel Zippers, The Hill, Ben Smith's Blog and Associated Press
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.
Discussion:
TPMDC and Washington Monthly