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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Boehner Hires $5 Million Lawyer To Defend Unconstitutional Law — Earlier today, Speaker John Boehner's (R) office announced that American taxpayers would pay former Bush Solicitor General Paul Clement to defend the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act. Clement, a former law clerk …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Sky Dancing and Towleroad News #gay
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Boehner asks Pelosi to join him in cutting funds from the DoJ to defend DOMA — Speaker John Boehner asked House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi's for her support to cut funds for the Department of Justice and use them to defend the Defense of Marriage Act. — In a letter sent to Pelosi …
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ABCNEWS, CNN and Ben Smith's Blog
Ryan J. Reilly / tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com:
Lamar Smith Says Founding Fathers Didn't Want Gay Marriage
Lamar Smith Says Founding Fathers Didn't Want Gay Marriage
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TPMDC, Oliver Willis, Lez Get Real, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos and The Bilerico Project
Speaker:
Boehner Says DOJ Funds Should Be Cut to Pay for DOMA Defense; Asks Leader Pelosi to Join …
Boehner Says DOJ Funds Should Be Cut to Pay for DOMA Defense; Asks Leader Pelosi to Join …
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Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Wonk Room, Prop 8 Trial Tracker and FrumForum
David Ingram / The BLT:
Former Solicitor General Paul Clement Signs Up to Defend Marriage Law
Former Solicitor General Paul Clement Signs Up to Defend Marriage Law
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The Raw Story
Naftali Bendavid / Washington Wire:
Same-Sex Marriage Fight Heats Up
Jay Carney / White House.gov Blog:
President Obama and Vice President Biden's Tax Returns and Tax Receipts — Today, the President released his 2010 federal income and gift tax returns. He and the First Lady filed their income tax return jointly and reported an adjusted gross income of $1,728,096.
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The Atlantic Online, ProPublica, Mediaite, CNN, Fox News, The Page, Washington Post and Gawker
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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
Obamas' Tax Return Shows Lower Household Income Than in 2009
Obamas' Tax Return Shows Lower Household Income Than in 2009
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Pirate's Cove
Washington Post:
S&P lowers its outlook on U.S. debt; stocks decline — The ratings agency Standard and Poor's warned the United States on Monday that it could lose its coveted status as the world's most secure economy if lawmakers don't rein in the nation's nearly $14.3 trillion debt.
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Power Line, Yglesias and Mother Jones
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Paul Krugman:
S&P — OK, so Standard and Poors has warned that it might downgrade …
S&P — OK, so Standard and Poors has warned that it might downgrade …
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Felix Salmon, Doug Ross, Wall Street Journal, Real Time Economics, Daily Kos and The Mahablog
Matthew Saltmarsh / New York Times:
S.&P. Lowers Outlook for U.S., Sending Stocks Down
S.&P. Lowers Outlook for U.S., Sending Stocks Down
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The Atlantic Online, The Hill, Prairie Weather, Balloon Juice and Truthdig
Ben Rooney / CNNMoney.com:
U.S. credit rating outlook lowered by S&P
U.S. credit rating outlook lowered by S&P
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This Just In, The Politico, Sense of Events, Fortune, HyperVocal and Outside the Beltway
Gawker:
Roger Ailes Caught Spying on the Reporters at His Small-Town Newspaper — The small-town newspapers in New York's Hudson Valley that Fox News chief Roger Ailes owns with his wife Elizabeth are in a staff revolt after employees caught Ailes spying on them with News Corp. security goons. More »
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The New Republic, Salon, Runnin' Scared and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Evan McMorris-Santoro / TPMDC:
Trump Loses Conservatives Thanks To His Political Past — The latest tea leaf in the will-he-or-won't-he drama surrounding Donald Trump these days: the influential Club For Growth, the fiscal purists who were tea party before it was cool, are taking shots at Trump with both barrels.
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Swampland, Zandar Versus The Stupid, Washington Post, Salon, Gawker, Raw Replay and Balloon Juice
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The Politico:
What's Donald Trump really after? — Despite an almost universal refusal by Republican establishment figures and the press to take him seriously, Donald Trump is taking very concrete steps toward forming - and announcing - a presidential campaign. — He has interviewed at least two people …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Why did the anti-Palin protesters think it was right and good to shout her down? — The more I think about it, the less sense it makes to me. On Saturday, there was a planned Tea Party rally to take place at the King Street side of the Wisconsin Capitol. It was the usual “tax day” event …
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Andy Barr / The Politico:
Sarah Palin's website sparks White House buzz
Sarah Palin's website sparks White House buzz
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Cubachi, CNN and Liberty Pundits Blog
CEPR:
Douthat Makes It Up On Median Family Income — Ross Douthat struck another blow against fact-based arguments when he told readers that the median family of four has an income of $94,900. Douthat warned that if the Bush tax cuts are allowed to expire in 24 years the median family would be paying …
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Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality … and Eschaton
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
ABOUT THAT DOUTHAT COLUMN.... The New York Times' Ross Douthat …
ABOUT THAT DOUTHAT COLUMN.... The New York Times' Ross Douthat …
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Yahoo! Finance and The New Republic
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Why Did The Union Fight? — I've always thought there was something about the Lincoln administration's determination to fight and win the Civil War that was a bit odd. Secession gave the regionally based Republican Party large congressional majorities that wouldn't exist if southern states had representation in congress.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced — The New York Times won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday for its economics commentary and for its reporting on Russia in 2010, while The Los Angeles Times received the coveted public service Pulitzer. — The prizes, which are administered by Columbia University …
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Guardian and Phlog, more at Mediagazer »
Angelique Chrisafis / Guardian:
Andres Serrano's Piss Christ destroyed by Christian protesters — • Intruders vandalise photo day after Christian protest — • Exhibitor blames Sarkozy speech for inflaming issue — When New York artist Andres Serrano plunged a plastic crucifix into a glass of his own urine …
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Little Green Footballs, The Awl and Towleroad News #gay
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
TheDC Exclusive: Conservatives hit Beck for taking content without attribution — A number of conservative activists and bloggers say they're furious at media magnate Glenn Beck for what they call content theft. Over the past several years, Beck has relied on video, audio and written content …
Kyle Olson / Big Government:
AFSCME Union Threatens to ‘Weaponize’ Government Jobs — It's becoming clearer that the “public service” mentality is quickly slipping way from government employees, if it didn't hit the exits a long time ago. — Instead of government employees serving the public, it's clear now their belief is that the public exists to serve them.
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theblogprof, The Blaze and Pajamas Media
Dylan Smith / TucsonSentinel.com:
Brewer vetoes birther, campus gun bills — Also vetoes health care compact law — Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill Monday that would have required presidential candidates to provide their birth certificates to appear on the ballot, and another that would have allowed guns to be carried on school grounds.
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Valley Fever, Towleroad News #gay and The Gateway Pundit
Wall Street Journal:
Where the Tax Money Is — Obama targets the middle class while pretending to tax only the rich. — A dominant theme of President Obama's budget speech last Wednesday was that our fiscal problems would vanish if only the wealthiest Americans were asked “to pay a little more.”
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Krauthammer doubles down on the 'Trump is the GOP's Al Sharpton' claim — It turns out that George Will isn't the only conservative who isn't impressed with the Donald's effort to pump himself up for the White House. — On last weekend's broadcast of the syndicated weekend public affairs program …
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Hot Air
Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu / Arutz Sheva:
Obama, the Interpreter of the Message of Passover — Follow Israel news on and . — Passover recalls the bondage and suffering of Jews in Egypt and the miracle of the Exodus, but U.S. President Barack Obama says its message is reflected in Muslim uprisings.
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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and Atlas Shrugs
William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
It's Now Patriotic to Call Paul Krugman a ! @%$#%@ Hypocrite — For almost the entire two and one-half years I've been blogging I've had to put up with Paul Krugman accusing Republicans, conservatives and Tea Party supporters of inciting violence through heated rhetoric over policy differences, particularly Obamacare.
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Crooks and Liars, Rumproast, Left Coast Rebel, Mediaite, Washington Monthly, neo-neocon, That Mr. G Guy's Blog and Althouse
JSOnline:
Prosser declares victory, says recount unwarranted, costly — By Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — Justice David Prosser on Monday declared re-election victory over challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg and his advisers said a recount was unwarranted and would be too costly for taxpayers.
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TPMDC, Cubachi, Hot Air, Pajamas Media, The BRAD BLOG and Liberty Pundits Blog