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Washington Post:
Obama turns to his bipartisan deficit commission's blueprint for reducing debt — Video: White House press secretary Jay Carney reiterated Monday that President Obama “regrets” his vote in 2006 as a senator against raising the debt ceiling. (April 11) — President Obama plans this week …
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Wall Street Journal:
President Open to Deal on Debt Cap — White House officials have opened the door to a deal with Republicans that would allow the U.S. to increase its ability to borrow, potentially easing worries in financial markets that the country might default on its debt.
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Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Obama to draw sharp contrast with GOP over deficit — In a speech Wednesday, the president is expected to call for higher taxes on wealthier Americans, as opposed to Republican plans to slash Medicare and Medicaid. — Reporting from Washington — President Obama will call for shrinking …
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Left Coast Rebel, Hullabaloo, Suburban Guerrilla and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF GOP FEARS OVER RYAN PLAN.... Congressional …
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF GOP FEARS OVER RYAN PLAN.... Congressional …
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The Politico
New York Times:
Republican Medicare Plan Could Shape 2012 Races
Republican Medicare Plan Could Shape 2012 Races
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CBS News:
Budget deal details: Cuts that aren't quite cuts — $38B in savings agreed to by GOP and Democrats averted a government shutdown, but new details indicate some accounting sleight-of-hand — Details of the $38 billion worth of spending cuts factoring in last Friday's 11th-hour budget …
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Six-month spending bill unveiled: What's cut and what's not — House and Senate appropriators revealed details of the 2011 spending-cut deal early Tuesday morning, missing a self-imposed midnight deadline. — In dueling press releases, House Republicans emphasized the magnitude of cuts …
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ABCNEWS and AMERICAblog News
Wall Street Journal:
Who's the Extremist Now? — The president would have shut …
Who's the Extremist Now? — The president would have shut …
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AmSpecBlog and The Lonely Conservative
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Obama prevents budget cuts to favorite programs
Obama prevents budget cuts to favorite programs
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Fox News, National Review, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Riehl World View and Balloon Juice
David Rogers / The Politico:
Budget deal isn't all about cuts
Washington Wire:
Trump Will ‘Probably’ Run as Independent If He Doesn't Win GOP Nomination — Donald Trump will “probably” run as an independent candidate for U.S. President in 2012 if he does not receive the Republican party's nomination, he told the Wall Street Journal in a video interview on Monday.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Trump says he'd ‘probably’ run as Independent if he loses GOP nod
Trump says he'd ‘probably’ run as Independent if he loses GOP nod
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and GOP 12
Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Michele Bachmann takes on heckler in Iowa — IOWA CITY, Iowa — Michele Bachmann said again Monday that the American intervention in Libya was a mistake — but this time she had to talk over a heckler who shouted vulgarities at her. — Jenny Watkins, 22, shouted at Bachmann …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Ron Paul antes up on abortion
Ron Paul antes up on abortion
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Top of the Ticket and Little Green Footballs
Washington Post:
Japan rates nuclear crisis at highest severity level — TOKYO — Japanese authorities raised Tuesday their rating of the severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis to the highest level on an international scale, equal to that of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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Daily Kos, The Democratic Daily, Suburban Guerrilla, The Agonist and AMERICAblog News
BooMan / Booman Tribune:
Our Structural Disadvantage — The intertubes are clogged with the choral wailing of frustrated liberals. Digby provides a good example, but the same is available pretty much anywhere else you'd think to look. … This is exactly right. But what's strange is that it almost seems to come as a surprise to people.
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Outside the Beltway, Hullabaloo, odd time signatures and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
House liberal DeFazio: Obama should start acting like a Democrat — President Obama needs to start acting like a Democrat by not caving for a second time and allowing the George W. Bush-era tax rates on the wealthy to expire, according to a founding member of the House Progressive Caucus.
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Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
What Impact Has The New York Times Paywall Had on Traffic? [STATS] — The New York Times' paywall has now been up for two weeks. What impact has it had on the popular website's traffic? More importantly, is the paywall working as intended, or is it taking a bite out of The New York Times' revenues?
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Liz Goodwin / Yahoo! News:
Chicago school bans homemade lunches, the latest in national food fight — Students who attend Chicago's Little Village Academy public school get nothing but nutritional tough love during their lunch period each day. The students can either eat the cafeteria food—or go hungry.
New York Times:
Pakistan Tells U.S. It Must Sharply Cut C.I.A. Activities — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number of Central Intelligence Agency operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan, and that it put on hold C.I.A. drone strikes aimed …
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David Blaska / Isthmus:
Blaska Blogs the smoking gun of the teachers union's illegal sick-out — Only a fool would think that the sick out that closed down Madison schools for five days in February was anything but an illegal, union-coordinated, illegal strike. — But there are a lot of fools in Madison, aren't there?
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Chicago Boyz
Catholic Culture:
1,000 attack non-Muslim village in Nigeria — Armed with machetes and guns, 1,000 militants attacked the village of Bar Arewa in the northern Nigerian state of Bauchi on April 7. “Almost every home in the village was destroyed, and some elderly people were reported to have been burnt …
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Weasel Zippers and Atlas Shrugs
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama's High-Speed Rail Project Gets $1.5 Billion Slashed In Budget Deal … WASHINGTON — As part of the final budget deal formally agreed to on Friday night, the Obama administration signed off on a big cut to a closely held transportation policy priority.
Roger Simon / The Politico:
Barack Obama faces problem on left, not right — I don't think Barack Obama will have a hard time defeating his Republican opponent in 2012, barring a financial meltdown or a major foreign crisis. It's a Democratic opponent he should worry about. — Obama continues to anger progressives …
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orchidforchange.com:
Statement & Account of Ramona Kitzinger, Waukesha Board of Canvassers member since 2004: — (Waukesha County Democratic Party)On Tuesday night, I received a voice message from someone in the office of Clerk Kathy Nickolaus informing me of a Wednesday canvass meeting, which I returned …
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The Politico:
D.C. Mayor Vince Gray arrested and released — Washington Mayor Vincent Gray and other top city officials were arrested on Capitol Hill on Monday during a protest of the budget deal House Republicans cut with President Barack Obama. — Gray and six city council members were released early Tuesday morning.
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TBD All News, The Caucus, Weasel Zippers and InvestmentWatch
Erin Einhorn / NY Daily News:
NY Democrats criticize Obama's budget compromise, with Rep. Rangel calling it ‘immoral’ — Rangel went so far as to call the deal ‘irresponsible’ and ‘immoral.’ — New York's congressional delegation trashed President Obama's budget compromise Monday, calling it “irresponsible,” “dangerous” and “immoral.”
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Weasel Zippers
Rand Simberg / Washington Examiner:
Opinion Zone — Half a century of human spaceflight — Tomorrow will be the fiftieth anniversary of the first time a human orbited the earth, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin rocketed into space, made almost a complete circuit around the planet, entered the atmosphere, and returned to terra firma.
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Moe Lane
Directorblue / Doug Ross:
Good news: Photos capture TSA repelling toddler terrorist threat with intrusive grope-downs of 6-year olds — This administration — and Janet Napolitano in particular — is simply out of control, that's all there is to it. — What possible excuse can someone use to grope a six-year old?
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Pajamas Media, Hot Air, The Blast and Atlas Shrugs