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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Paul Ryan Booed At Town Hall For Defending Tax Breaks For The Wealthy — ThinkProgress filed this report from a town hall meeting in Milton, WI. — Earlier this week, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) embarked on a series of town halls across his southern Wisconsin congressional district.
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Washington Post:
Poll shows Americans oppose entitlement cuts to deal with debt problem — Despite growing concerns about the country's long-term fiscal problems and an intensifying debate in Washington about how to deal with them, Americans strongly oppose some of the major remedies under consideration …
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Daily Kos:
Entitlement-hating Paul Ryan collected Social Security benefits until he was 18 — I guess it's only when social programs help other people that they're bad, because I haven't seen Paul Ryan acknowledging how Social Security benefits helped him and his family in trying times: … Continued below...
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Weasel Zippers, The Raw Story, Nice Deb and No More Mister Nice Blog
The Hill:
Dems needn't negotiate — Shudders went through the Beltway on Monday on the news that Standard & Poor's had lowered its outlook for U.S. debt because of its “fears” that the Democrats and Republicans wouldn't be able to come together to eliminate the deficit.
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The Politico and Hullabaloo
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
IGNORING ‘THE AMERICAN PEOPLE’.... Following up on an earlier item …
IGNORING ‘THE AMERICAN PEOPLE’.... Following up on an earlier item …
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WBUR, Eschaton and Little Green Footballs
Hans Bader / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Liberals attack Paul Ryan …
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Liberals attack Paul Ryan …
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Conservatives4Palin, POWIP and National Review
Heidi Przybyla / Bloomberg:
Budget Deal Forcing More Taxes, Spending Cuts Circulates in U.S. Congress
Budget Deal Forcing More Taxes, Spending Cuts Circulates in U.S. Congress
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Firedoglake
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Pawlenty to release budget plan
Pawlenty to release budget plan
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National Review, FrumForum and AmSpecBlog
Geoffrey Dunn / The Business Insider:
Sarah Palin's Version Of Trig's Birth May Be More Troubling Than The Hoax — This past week, the draft of an academic paper that focuses on the 2008 birth of Sarah Palin's son, Trig Paxson Van Palin, and the various theories that surround his birth, was made public prior to publication through …
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David Weigel / Weigel:
Boycotting Wonkette [UPDATE: Probation] — UPDATE: Wonkette editor Ken Layne looped me in on an e-mail to AdWeek, in which he wrote that Steuf has been admonished. … Behold the new media. On Monday evening, Wonkette's Jack Steuf posted a “children's treasury of Trig [Palin] crap” …
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The Jawa Report and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Wonkette Editor Comments on Reprehensible Birthday Greeting to Trig Palin — Political humor website Wonkette has long been trending toward nihilistic snark for snark's sake, but Jack Stuef's column “honoring” Trig Palin's birthday is about the most irredeemably vile, unfunny thing I've ever seen.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Pajamas Media and Big Journalism
Dana Loesch / Big Journalism:
Wonkette Makes Fun of Trig Palin, Calls Him “Retarded” — The Wonkette brand of Myspace satire strikes again. Calling him the “greatest prop in history,” Wonkette proceeds to make fun of the little boy on his birthday because that's what good writers who know about politics do.
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UNCOVERAGE.net, LifeNews.com and Riehl World View
Janny Scott / New York Times:
Obama's Young Mother Abroad — The photograph showed the son, but my eye gravitated toward the mother. That first glimpse was surprising — the stout, pale-skinned woman in sturdy sandals, standing squarely a half-step ahead of the lithe, darker-skinned figure to her left.
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C.J. Chivers / New York Times:
‘Restrepo’ Director and a Photographer Killed in Libya — BENGHAZI, Libya — Tim Hetherington, the conflict photographer who was a director and producer of the film “Restrepo,” was killed in the besieged city of Misurata on Wednesday, and three photographers working beside him were wounded …
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Trump Most Visible Among Possible GOP Contenders — Most View News about Deficit as Unchanging — SUMMARY OF FINDINGS — Donald Trump has drawn a lot of attention in a slow-starting race for the GOP nomination. Roughly a quarter of all Americans (26%) name Trump as the possible …
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Ed Kilgore / The New Republic:
Trumped — The GOP establishment's futile battle against Donald Trump.
Trumped — The GOP establishment's futile battle against Donald Trump.
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FrumForum, TPMCafe, No More Mister Nice Blog and LifeNews.com
Marist Poll:
4/20: Campaign 2012: Obama's Re-election Chances
4/20: Campaign 2012: Obama's Re-election Chances
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Hot Air and The Political Carnival
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Poll: Obama at 46 percent to Romney's 45
Poll: Obama at 46 percent to Romney's 45
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The Politico, Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go — Privacy fears raised as researchers reveal file on iPhone that stores location coordinates and timestamps of owner's movements — Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go - and saves every detail …
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Alasdair Allan / O'Reilly Radar:
Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves
Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves
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Nathan Goulding / National Review:
Apple is Logging and Storing All Your iPhone's Location Data
Apple is Logging and Storing All Your iPhone's Location Data
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Pajamas Media, Gothamist and Vox Popoli
Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican:
University of Iowa Professor Tells College Republicans to “F” Off — A University of Iowa professor felt the need to reply to a blast email by the College Republicans on Monday morning. Ellen Lewin, a professor of Anthropology and Gender, Women's & Sexuality Studies in the Department of Gender …
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National Review, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Myglesias / Yglesias:
The Right Bailing The Left Out On Spending — I wrote about this earlier in the specific context of Grover Norquist, but Elise Foley's account of the Obama administration's rapidly unraveling deficit reduction initiative is another illustration of the fact that at the moment the right is big government's best friend:
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James Pethokoukis:
The $4 trillion gap: Obama vs. Ryan, an apples-to-apples budget comparison — OK, let's try and actually compare the new Obama budget plan — “The Framework for Shared Prosperity and Shared Fiscal Responsibility” — with Rep. Paul Ryan's “Path to Prosperity.”
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The Sundries Shack, National Review, The Daily Dish and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
The Death of Roe v. Wade — Supporters and opponents of abortion seem to agree: It's no longer the law of the land. — Supporters and opponents of abortion agree on nothing. One side says this is a conversation about fertilized eggs; the other says it's about fetuses.
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Shakesville, Law Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Crooks and Liars, Guardian, National Review and msnbc.com
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama administration officials tried to keep S&P rating at ‘stable’ — The Obama administration privately urged Standard & Poor's in recent weeks not to lower its outlook on the United States — a suggestion the ratings agency ignored Monday, two people familiar with the matter said.
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Associated Press:
Otter Signs Order Banning Health Care Reform — Order Prohibits State From Receiving Federal Funds — BOISE, Idaho — Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter signed an executive order on Wednesday that prohibits receiving federal funding for or otherwise implementing the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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The Nation:
Big Brothers: Thought Control at Koch — On the eve of the November midterm elections, Koch Industries sent an urgent letter to most of its 50,000 employees advising them on whom to vote for and warning them about the dire consequences to their families, their jobs and their country should they choose to vote otherwise.
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Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, Ben Smith's Blog, Wonkette and Washington Monthly
George Stephanopoulos / George's Bottom Line:
Bachmann Says Obama's Certificate ‘Settles’ Birther Issue — For the first time, Rep. Michele Bachmann - who is actively considering a run for the White House in 2012 — has said that the birth certificate President Obama has released to the public puts an end to the “birther” issue.
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Obama Panel to Curb Medicare Finds Foes in Both Parties — WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans are joining to oppose one of the most important features of President Obama's new deficit reduction plan, a powerful independent board that could make sweeping cuts in the growth of Medicare spending.
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The New Republic, Liberal Values, National Review, Paul Krugman, Wonk Room, Modeled Behavior, Yglesias, Opinion L.A., Washington Monthly and Taylor Marsh
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