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Jennifer Cooper / John Ensign …:
ENSIGN TO RESIGN FROM OFFICE — Washington, D.C. - Senator John Ensign today announced his resignation as the 24th United States Senator from the state of Nevada. In a letter to Vice President Joe Biden tomorrow, Senator Ensign will state that his resignation from office is effective as of May 3, 2011.
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Nevada Sen. John Ensign to resign — Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign is expected to resign from office in the near future. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jessica Ebelhar) Embattled Nevada Sen. John Ensign (R) announced Thursday night that he will resign from office in early May …
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Karoun Demirjian / Las Vegas Sun:
JOHN ENSIGN TO RESIGN FRIDAY, HELLER LIKELY REPLACEMENT — WASHINGTON — Sources confirmed this afternoon that embattled U.S. Sen. John Ensign will resign from office on Friday, opening the door for Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval to appoint Rep. Dean Heller to finish out the term.
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Poll Finds Lack of Passion for Republican Candidates — With less than a year to go before the Iowa caucuses, Republican voters have yet to form strong opinions about most of their potential candidates for president in 2012, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
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Meghan McCain / The Daily Beast:
Trump to McCain: 'You're Hired!' — THE DAILY BEAST ON: — As Donald Trump flirts with a presidential run, he talks to Meghan McCain about his campaign strategy, his nights at the Holiday Inn, and why Romney won't be the Republican nominee. — Is The Donald serious?
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Trump says he'll reveal ‘interesting things’ on Obama
Trump says he'll reveal ‘interesting things’ on Obama
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The Hill, This Just In, Wonkette, Connecting.the.Dots, No More Mister Nice Blog and Pew Research Center …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHEN POLITIFACT BECOMES POLITIFALSE.... Independent fact-checking outlets play an important part of the political discourse, or at least have the potential to. With a lot of figures making all kinds of claims, voters should have reliable sources they can turn to in order to help separate fact from fiction.
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Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings from National:
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: “Seniors will have to find $12,500 for health care because Republicans voted to end Medicare.” — The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire! Democrats say Republicans voted to end Medicare and charge seniors $12,000
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Knowledge Counts — There's always a bit of a problem …
Knowledge Counts — There's always a bit of a problem …
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The Daily Dish
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
PolitiFact Insists Republicans Don't Want To End Medicare (VIDEO)
PolitiFact Insists Republicans Don't Want To End Medicare (VIDEO)
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Hullabaloo and Seeing the Forest
Mike Huckabee / Huck PAC:
Response to Glenn Beck — This week Glenn Beck has taken to his radio show to attack me as a Progressive, which he has said is the same as a “cancer” and a “Nazi.” What did I do that apparently caused him to link me to a fatal disease and a form of government that murdered millions of innocent Jews?
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Colby Itkowitz / Pennsylvania Ave.:
Barletta town hall gets heated over Medicare — Reminiscent of the August 2009 town halls when members of Congress faced angry constituents over health care reforms, a public forum in Carbon County with Rep. Lou Barletta Wednesday night provided a glimpse of the strong emotions stirred by a Republican plan to alter Medicare benefits.
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Paul Ryan, Rand Paul Clash Privately Over Budget
Paul Ryan, Rand Paul Clash Privately Over Budget
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan's Plan To End Medicare Stirs Anger At Pennsylvania Town Hall Event
Paul Ryan's Plan To End Medicare Stirs Anger At Pennsylvania Town Hall Event
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Swampland, The Caucus and Hullabaloo
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Map — The Crystal Ball's First 2011 Take on 2012's Electoral College — Larry J. Sabato, Director, U.Va. Center for Politics — With 18 months to go until November 2012, there is exactly one use for a current projection of the 2012 Electoral College results.
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protein wisdom, AmSpecBlog, Mediaite, Newsalert, Questions and Observations and James Pethokoukis
Ben Smith / The Politico:
New Labor plan: Nationwide protests — In a major strategic shift, the Service Employees International Union plans to use its giant political operation to try to build a grassroots movement of public protest and organization similar to the massive show of pro-labor support that overran Madison, Wis. last month.
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Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Labor Board Tells Boeing New Factory Breaks Law
Labor Board Tells Boeing New Factory Breaks Law
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Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media and Questions and Observations
John Bolton / bostonherlad.com:
Obama wobbly on Libya — Opponents of the Vietnam War — that seemingly endless, inconclusive, increasingly unpopular and ever-more-deadly and costly conflict — called it a “quagmire.” They said it was unwinnable and should never have been fought, and that America must avoid similar future wars.
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Tim Hetherington / Associated Press:
Gates says Obama has approved use of armed Predator drones in Libya
Gates says Obama has approved use of armed Predator drones in Libya
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Hot Air, Corrente and Mother Jones
Jasonhanna / This Just In:
Obama has OK'd use of drones in Libya, Gates says
Obama has OK'd use of drones in Libya, Gates says
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Firedoglake, The Moderate Voice and CNN
Office Of The Governor:
[Proclamation] Gov. Perry Issues Proclamation for Days of Prayer for Rain in Texas — Gov. Perry Issues Proclamation for Days of Prayer for Rain in Texas — Gov. Rick Perry has proclaimed the three-day period from Friday, April 22, to Sunday, April 24, as Days of Prayer for Rain in the State of Texas …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Invitation to Israeli Leader Puts Obama on the Spot — WASHINGTON — A Republican invitation for Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to address Congress next month is highlighting the tensions between President Obama and Mr. Netanyahu and has kicked off a bizarre diplomatic race …
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Abdullah Gul / New York Times:
The Revolution's Missing Peace
The Revolution's Missing Peace
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Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
What Gary Johnson Brings to the GOP Presidential Race — Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has just announced his candidacy for president, and, finally, a Republican is actually running. Johnson didn't announce an exploratory committee, or that he's thinking about running.
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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Gary Johnson announces presidential run
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Poll: One in four Americans think Obama was not born in U.S. — CBS News Poll analysis by the CBS News Polling Unit: Sarah Dutton, Jennifer De Pinto, Fred Backus and Anthony Salvanto. — A quarter of all Americans incorrectly think President Obama was not born in the United States, according to a new CBS News/ New York Times poll.
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Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Evidence Aside, State Lawmakers Debate ‘Birther’ Bills
New York Times:
Nation's Mood at Lowest Level in Two Years, Poll Shows — Americans are more pessimistic about the nation's economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obama's first two months in office, when the country was still officially ensnared in the Great Recession …
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The Daily Dish
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Obama says new task force will examine gas prices — RENO, Nev. - President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will try to “root out” cases of fraud or manipulation in oil markets, even as Attorney General Eric Holder suggested a variety of legal reasons may be behind gasoline's surge to $4 a gallon.
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The Onion:
Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People — BELMONT, MA—Though Mitt Romney is considered to be a frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the national spotlight has forced him to repeatedly confront a major skeleton in his political closet …
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Washington Post and Boston Globe
ij.org:
Nashville's Sedan Drivers Fight City Effort To Run Them Off the Road — Can government force transportation businesses to charge a minimum price to protect politically connected companies from competition? — That is the question the Institute for Justice (IJ) and its clients seek to answer …
New York Post:
Trump blasts Seinfeld pullout — Donald Trump wasn't laughing when funnyman Jerry Seinfeld canceled an upcoming appearance at a benefit for his son's Eric Trump Foundation. — Seinfeld pulled out of the Sept. 13 event benefiting the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital because he disagrees …
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Matt Miller / Washington Post:
‘The Shining’ — national debt edition — Remember that great scene in the 1980 film classic, “The Shining,” when the wife comes upon the typewriter of the Jack Nicholson character, who's supposed to have been working night and day for months on his novel? To her horror, she finds thousands …
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Inhofe Claims Fracking Has ‘Never’ Contaminated Water Supply One Day After Spill Contaminates Stream — Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is perhaps Congress' most reliable defender of dirty energy and evangelizer against the “hoax” of global warming. This morning, he took his message …
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Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
More Companies Pull Ads From Wonkette After Trig Palin Post — More companies have joined Papa Johns, Huggies and Vanguard in dropping ads from the liberal, pro-abortion blog Wonkette after it ran a crass post mocking Sarah Palin and her son trig, who has Down Syndrome.
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