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New York Times:
Obama Meeting Fails to End Stalemate Over Federal Budget — WASHINGTON — President Obama and Congressional leaders said Wednesday that a late-night White House bargaining session produced no budget breakthrough that would avert a government shutdown this weekend but agreed the two sides …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WOULD BOEHNER SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT OVER PLANNED PARENTHOOD?.... The good news is, Democrats and Republicans have reportedly reached a general agreement on the size of the cuts for the rest of the fiscal year. As of this morning, the package is up to $34.5 billion, from $33 billion …
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The Caucus
The Hill:
Boehner: ‘Far more than one provision’ holding up agreement — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he is less optimistic about averting a government shutdown one day after a White House meeting failed to lead to a breakthrough in talks. — Reid (D-Nev.) said he is significantly …
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Taylor Marsh and Daily Kos
NationalJournal.com:
Reid Says Government Shutdown Likely
Reid Says Government Shutdown Likely
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Firedoglake, The Hill and TPMDC
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Rifts Within Both Parties Test Leaders in Budget Fight
Rifts Within Both Parties Test Leaders in Budget Fight
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The Hill, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, msnbc.com and The Agonist
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Boehner: I'm with the tea party
Boehner: I'm with the tea party
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George's Bottom Line, Pat Dollard, Washington Post, The Reaction, The Gateway Pundit and The Moderate Voice
Carrie Dann / msnbc.com:
Reid on shutdown: “It looks like it's headed in that direction”
Reid on shutdown: “It looks like it's headed in that direction”
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Poynter and Outside the Beltway
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Senate rejects block to EPA climate regs
Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Costs of federal shutdown would be felt far and wide
Costs of federal shutdown would be felt far and wide
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American Spectator
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Pence Lets Truth Slip On Uncompromising Stance: 'We're Trying To Score A Victory For The Republican People' — The federal government appears to be hurtling towards a shutdown following the inability of congressional negotiators to reach a compromise last night on a continuing resolution.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, SFGate, CNN, The Hill and Washington Monthly
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Washington Post:
Donald Trump. Seriously? — Donald Trump finished second in the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll testing the 2012 Republican presidential field. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel DunandIn the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal poll, businessman and reality television star Donald Trump finished second behind …
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Washington Monthly, Wonkette, Latest Open Salon Blog, USA Today, The Raw Story and The Politico
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Barbour, Bryant lead in Mississippi
Barbour, Bryant lead in Mississippi
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GOP 12, The Raw Story and Hullabaloo
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
OBAMA: Get Used To High Gas Prices. “Obama needled one questioner who asked about gas prices, now averaging close to $3.70 a gallon nationwide, and suggested that the gentleman consider getting rid of his gas-guzzling vehicle.” — High gas prices aren't a bug, they're a feature.
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
White House fears gas prices could tank Obama
White House fears gas prices could tank Obama
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The Daily Caller, Scared Monkeys, Right Wing News, James Pethokoukis and Associated Press
City Room:
Cathie Black Is Out as City Schools Chancellor — Cathleen P. Black with Deputy Mayor Dennis M. Walcott, who will replace her as schools chancellor, at a news conference in January. — 11:44 a.m. | Updated Cathleen P. Black, a magazine executive with no educational experience who was named …
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The Atlantic Online, Ben Smith's Blog, News Desk, New York Magazine, The Wire and Gawker
Lauraklairmont / CNN:
Obama friend arrested in Hawaii — (CNN) - A friend of President Barack Obama was arrested Monday for allegedly soliciting sex from an undercover officer posing as a prostitute, according to CNN affiliate Hawaii News Now. — Robert Richard Titcomb, 49, was arrested with three …
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Booman Tribune and New York Magazine
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Minna Sugimoto / Hawaii News Now:
President Obama's close friend arrested during prostitution sting — HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - One of President Obama's closest friends is scheduled to appear at Honolulu District Court next month, after he allegedly solicited sex from an undercover officer.
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Telegraph:
First homosexual caveman found — Archaeologists have unearthed the 5,000-year-old remains of what they believe may have been the world's oldest known gay caveman. — The male body - said to date back to between 2900-2500BC - was discovered buried in a way normally reserved only for women …
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AOL News, The Raw Story and iOwnTheWorld.com
Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
Obama's support among blacks slips unexpectedly, Hispanics too — Barack Obama rode to a comfortable presidential election win in 2008 on the electoral wings of a coalition based on liberal whites, independents and blacks, especially blacks. — Obama lost much of his independent support during …
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Proof Positive and Weasel Zippers
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Approval Slips Among Blacks, Hispanics in March
Obama Approval Slips Among Blacks, Hispanics in March
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Moe Lane
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
I Can't Help Myself — Sullivan: … The Ryan/GOP Plan, as has been pointed out to Sullivan a hundred times now with little to no effect, slashes taxes by trillions and makes up for those tax cuts by slashing trillions in services to our neediest members of society.
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The Daily Dish and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Ross Douthat:
Notes on the Ryan Budget
Notes on the Ryan Budget
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AmSpecBlog, The TrogloPundit, The Daily Dish, TPMDC, Wonk Room, National Review and Yglesias
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
EVEN THE THREAT OF A SHUTDOWN IS EXPENSIVE.... If congressional Republicans go through with their threat and shut down the government tomorrow night, the costs will be considerable. It's ironic that those hoping to cut the budget will force a shutdown that's needlessly expensive.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Quinnipiac University:
Obama Hits Losing Trifecta In Florida, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Increased Support For Offshore Drilling — President Barack Obama hits a losing trifecta with Florida voters: They disapprove 52 - 44 percent of the job he is doing; they prefer an unnamed Republican challenger …
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msnbc.com, Don Surber, Pundit Press, Post on Politics, Hotline On Call and National Review
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Election fraud allegations fly in close Wisconsin Supreme Court race — Wisconsin citizens and election experts are questioning the veracity of the state's Supreme Court race, which the Associated Press reports left-wing legal activist JoAnne Kloppenburg won by 204 votes over Justice David Prosser …
Matt Bai / New York Times:
Mario Cuomo Still Believes — You would think that Mario Cuomo would have been proud to watch his son Andrew sworn in as governor of New York last New Year's Eve, ascending to the job his old man held for 12 years. Apparently, you would be wrong. — “You really want to know how I felt?” the elder Cuomo asked me last month.
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Amendment that says climate change is occurring fails in House — The House rejected a Democratic amendment Wednesday that would have put the chamber on record backing the widely held scientific view that global warming is occurring and humans are a major cause.
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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit, Taegan Goddard's …, New York Times, Pirate's Cove and Climate Progress
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Glenn Beck To Andrew Napolitano: You Should Replace Me (VIDEO) … Fox News , Glenn Beck , Video , Andrew Napolitano , Glenn Beck Fox News , Glenn Beck Replacement , Judge Napolitano , Glenn Beck Leaving Fox News , Glenn Beck Napolitano , Glenn Beck Show Ending , Media News
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Elisabeth Rosenthal / New York Times:
Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears — The starchy cassava root has long been an important ingredient in everything from tapioca pudding and ice cream to paper and animal feed. — But last year, 98 percent of cassava chips exported from Thailand …
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Pirate's Cove and AmSpecBlog
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Federal Departments Lay Out Plans in the Event of a Government Shutdown — WASHINGTON — With the possibility of a government shutdown looming, Obama administration officials raced Wednesday to identify essential government services that would have to be provided if the government ran out of money.
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The Politico, Washington Post and ProPublica
Taffy Brodesser-Akner / Salon:
I can't believe my best friend is a Republican — I love everything about Janet — except how she stands for all the things I find bad and wrong in the world — Janet and I would likely have never met, save for the thing that unites so many women across divides of income and age: fat.
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Vox Popoli, Betsy's Page, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Other McCain