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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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ThinkProgress, Crooks and Liars, The Politico, New York Magazine, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Suburban Guerrilla, RedState, The Agonist, Daily Kos and Hot Air
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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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Washington Monthly, Yglesias, Washington Post, TalkLeft, The New Republic, The Page, Keith Hennessey and Daily Kos
Peter Nicholas / Los Angeles Times:
Obama to draw sharp contrast with GOP over deficit
Obama to draw sharp contrast with GOP over deficit
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Left Coast Rebel, Suburban Guerrilla and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Republican Medicare Plan Could Shape 2012 Races
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Washington Monthly, The Hill, Reuters, msnbc.com, The Caucus, The Page and The Politico
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With Government Shutdown Averted, Obama Surprises 8th Grade Students on School Trip to DC
With Government Shutdown Averted, Obama Surprises 8th Grade Students on School Trip to DC
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Risks to Boehner in Debt-Ceiling Brinkmanship
Risks to Boehner in Debt-Ceiling Brinkmanship
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Washington Monthly, The Daily Caller, Salon, Daily Kos, TPMDC, Reuters and msnbc.com
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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Associated Press, appropriations.house.gov, The Reaction and AMERICAblog News
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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
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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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GOP 12
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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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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
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Matt Smith / CNN:
Japan nuclear disaster tops scale
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
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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
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Ben Pershing / Washington Post:
Gray, D.C. Council members arrested in protest
Gray, D.C. Council members arrested in protest
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The Foundry, Firedoglake, MyDD and The Raw Story
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
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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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LewRockwell.com Blog and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
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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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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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
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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.
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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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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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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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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Two ObamaCare programs, four czars eliminated in budget cuts — House Republicans have released a summary of the final budget bill this morning that outlines the details of the $39 billion in cuts in the agreement between John Boehner and Barack Obama. The summary breaks down the cuts …
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The Daily Caller, Speaker and Moe Lane