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Jake Tapper / Political Punch:
President Obama Issues “Signing Statement” Indicating He Won't Abide by Provision in Budget Bill — In a statement issued Friday night, President Obama took issue with some provisions in the budget bill - and in one case simply says he will not abide by it.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama signs bill to keep government open, but protects ‘czars’ — President Obama signed into law on Friday the hard-fought legislation to fund government and keep it running through the end of September. — The president signed the legislation he negotiated last week with House Speaker John Boehner …
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Rachel Rose Hartman / Yahoo! News:
Obama caught on audio slamming GOP
Obama caught on audio slamming GOP
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Pajamas Media, The Washington Note, CBS News, MyDD and The Hill
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Pandemonium! Dems Jam Republicans With Even More Conservative Budget — What was supposed to be a routine vote in the House — to knock down an amendment authored by conservative Republicans — turned into pandemonium on the House floor Friday, as Democrats tried to jam the plan through, and hang it around the GOP's necks.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Drama erupts on House floor as conservative budget goes down — House lawmakers defeated a proposal by conservative Republicans to make deeper cuts to spending and tax rates than those proposed in the Republican budget, but only after last-minute maneuvering by Democrats on the House floor.
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The Lonely Conservative, Weekly Standard, MyDD, Mother Jones, Balloon Juice, Washington Monthly, Riehl World View, FrumForum and American Power
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
How Democrats Railroaded Republicans Into Almost Passing A Budget Too Conservative For Them — When House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) heard Republicans were going to hold a vote on the extremely conservative Republican Study Committee budget, a lightbulb turned on in his head.
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Daily Kos, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Oliver Willis
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
House Approves Republican Budget Plan to Cut Trillions — WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Friday muscled through a budget plan that pares federal spending by an estimated $5.8 trillion over the next decade while reshaping Medicare in a proposal that immediately touched off a fierce clash with Democrats.
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
House Democrats Punk Republicans On Budget Vote (VIDEO)
House Democrats Punk Republicans On Budget Vote (VIDEO)
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — GOP and Tea Party deserve kudos …
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — GOP and Tea Party deserve kudos …
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Hot Air and AmSpecBlog
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: House Republicans Overwhelmingly Vote To Phase Out Medicare
BREAKING: House Republicans Overwhelmingly Vote To Phase Out Medicare
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Off the Charts Blog, Sky Dancing and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
JSOnline:
Ballots are now totaled: Prosser wins by 7,316 — Final margin is under threshold for free recount — By Mike Johnson and Larry Sandler of the Journal Sentinel — State Supreme Court Justice David Prosser emerged as the winner Friday over challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg in a heated election …
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Hot Air, Daily Kos, Swing State Project, Scared Monkeys, Weigel, National Review and Althouse
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Labor falls short in Wisconsin race — Liberal and pro-union groups failed to oust a conservative judge from Wisconsin's Supreme Court in an April 5 election, according to state vote totals finalized Friday. — Based on county canvassing totals, Judge David Prosser leads challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg …
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Game Over - Kloppenburg Loses to Prosser (and Truman)(and Palin)
Game Over - Kloppenburg Loses to Prosser (and Truman)(and Palin)
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Cubachi and The Gateway Pundit
Tiffany Hsu / Money & Company:
Three largest online poker sites indicted and shut down by FBI — The founders of the three largest online poker sites were indicted on Friday in what could serve as a death blow to a thriving industry. — Eleven executives at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and a number …
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Hit & Run, The Daily What and Papamoka Straight Talk
The Right Scoop:
Levin rips Donald Trump to shreds — Levin points out many things about Trump that show he is no conservative, but a few of the glaring ones are the fact that he support Charlie Crist over Marco Rubio twice, as well as calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush, accusing him of lying to get us in the war.
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Left Coast Rebel, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, National Review, Hot Air and NationalJournal.com
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Jon Meacham: Let's undo the Birther “horror” by repealing the natural-born citizen clause — In case you were wondering what the guy who used to edit Newsweek is up to these days, wonder no longer. I agree with him about the natural-born requirement, incidentally: It's one of the most antiquated …
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Tom Allard / Sydney Morning Herald:
Bomber detonates device as police in West Java begin Friday prayers — JAKARTA: A bomber detonated an explosive device just as police officers were about to start Friday prayers yesterday at their mosque in a compound in West Java, killing himself and injuring up to 25 others, some gravely.
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The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit and Doug Ross
Peter Berkowitz / Wall Street Journal:
Is Yale University Sexist? — Allegations about a ‘hostile environment’ for women could cost the university a half-billion in federal funding. — Last month, 16 Yale students and recent graduates filed a confidential complaint with the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights alleging …
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Instapundit and FrumForum
Vik Jolly / Orange County Register:
‘Irvine 11’ plead not guilty to disrupting UCI speech — SANTA ANA - Eleven current and former university students pleaded not guilty Friday to misdemeanor charges for disrupting the speech of an Israeli diplomat at UC Irvine last year. — Seven of the so-called “Irvine 11” …
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Jay Cost / Weekly Standard:
Morning Jay: Obama's Speech Was Meant to Reassure the Left — Lately, I've been staying up late at night because I'm just too stressed over the state of the union. Unable to sleep, I often find myself toggling between scores of Excel spreadsheets, crunching all sorts of numbers …
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The_Stir / Shine:
Chivalry is dead and you killed it, ladies — Sitting in traffic sucks, but it's the ultimate observation capsule for people-watching. Might as well scrutinize while you're stuck between a ditzy chick in a monster SUV and a tourist trying to snap pictures of the White House from the driver's seat.
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Associated Press:
Obama: Raise debt ceiling or risk global recession — CHICAGO (AP) — Failure by Congress to raise the U.S. debt limit “could plunge the world economy back into recession,” President Barack Obama declared Friday, and he acknowledged that he must compromise on spending with Republicans who control the House to avoid such a crisis.
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Ballot Box, The Hill and Firedoglake
Adam Gabbatt / Guardian:
Hundreds attend kiss-in outside John Snow pub after venue closes its doors — Soho pub which ejected gay couple for ‘obscene’ kissing closes in bid to thwart protest - but kiss-in continues right outside — • Follow today's developments in our kissing in public live blog
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msnbc.com, Towleroad News #gay and The Awl
Nouriel Roubini / Project Syndicate:
China's Bad Growth Bet — print recommend Send link clip secure rights — LONDON - I recently took two trips to China just as the government launched its 12th Five-Year Plan to rebalance the country's long-term growth model. My visits deepened my view that there is a potentially …
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JustOneMinute, Daniel W. Drezner and Economist
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Atlas Winced — Ayn Rand's work has been described as “a sermon with a cast”, and now, after 60 years, it finally has one. Paul Johanssen, whose directorial credits mostly include episodes of CW teen drama “One Tree Hill”, has now brought Atlas Shrugged to the Silver Screen.
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Time and Outside the Beltway