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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 …
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The New Republic, Guardian and Capital Gains and Games blogs
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Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Federal Borrowing on Pace to Hit Debt Limit in Less Than Week — (CNSNews.com) - Federal borrowing is on pace to hit the legal limit on the national debt in less than a week. — As set in a law passed by Congress and signed by President Barack Obama on Feb. 12, 2010, the legal limit on the national debt is $14.2940 trillion.
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Patterico's Pontifications, RedState, The Lonely Conservative, Vox Popoli and The Page
The Politico:
GOP escalates debt-limit demands — One day after being named to a presidential task force to negotiate deficit reduction, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor fired off a stark warning to Democrats that the GOP “will not grant their request for a debt limit increase” without major spending cuts or budget process reforms.
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Washington Monthly, Boston Globe, The Foundry, Washington Post, MyDD, Dependable Renegade, Taylor Marsh, FrumForum, Pajamas Media and The Hill
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
How Republicans Can Win the Debt Limit Fight
How Republicans Can Win the Debt Limit Fight
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The New Republic
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Wonkette Editor Comments on Reprehensible Birthday Greeting to Trig Palin — Update: Wonkette's editor responds later in the post, but also, a reader hilariously bought the domain name JackStuef.com, which now redirects to the National Down Syndrome Society donation page. Lemons into lemonade.
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CNN, Scared Monkeys, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Big Journalism, Patterico's Pontifications, LifeNews.com, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Dish, YID With LID, The Daily Caller, Datechguy's Blog, iOwnTheWorld.com, Maggie's Notebook, Weasel Zippers, Pajamas Media, Hot Air, Riehl World View and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
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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” …
Caitlin Dickson / NationalJournal.com:
Wonkette Dukes It Out With Papa John's Pizza
Wonkette Dukes It Out With Papa John's Pizza
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AdAge, The Daily Caller, National Review and Big Journalism
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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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
STATISTIC OF THE DAY.... A New York Times/CBS News poll released this morning doesn't exactly portray rank-and-file Republicans in a positive light. … I might be able to spin this into a less-depressing result, noting that many of these Republican voters aren't aware of the natural-born citizen language …
The White House:
Remarks by the President at a Facebook Town Hall — Facebook Headquarters — THE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you so much, Facebook, for hosting this, first of all. (Applause.) My name is Barack Obama, and I'm the guy who got Mark to wear a jacket and tie. (Applause.) Thank you. (Laughter.)
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Washington Monthly, Oliver Willis and Political Punch
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama: Mistakes? Can't think of any.
Obama: Mistakes? Can't think of any.
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Weasel Zippers and Pajamas Media
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
RNC bests DNC in March fundraising — The Republican National Committee (RNC) outraised the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in March, but the DNC won the quarter by almost $3 million. — The DNC, in its monthly filing Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), reported $6.7 million in donations for the month of March.
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
The DNC's money — Even as Reince Priebus returns …
The DNC's money — Even as Reince Priebus returns …
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The Political Carnival
Wall Street Journal:
The Death of Right to Work — After 17 months and $2 billion, the NLRB sandbags Boeing. — We knew that Big Labor had political pull at the Obama-era National Labor Relations Board, but yesterday's complaint against Boeing is one for the (dark) ages. By challenging Boeing's right …
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Betsy's Page and Hot Air
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Ben Geman / The Hill:
Obama jabs ‘climate change deniers’ — President Obama called out Capitol Hill's “climate change deniers” Wednesday night at a Democratic fundraiser in California. — Obama, speaking at a San Francisco event for donors, called rising gasoline prices an economic drain on drivers …
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The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
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Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama sees his approval ratings drop after launching 2012 reelection bid
Obama sees his approval ratings drop after launching 2012 reelection bid
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Wall Street Journal
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
MSNBC Host Gets Hostile with Breitbart; Uses Media Matters Talking Points — The attack begins during the INTRODUCTION! The irony, of course, is that Mr. Bashir has had to suffer his own, very public accusations of selective editing.
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Associated Press:
SC Gov. Haley: Trump is calling, he's serious — COLUMBIA, S.C. — Real estate tycoon Donald Trump has called South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and is serious about a White House bid, the Republican governor said Wednesday. — “Anybody that thinks he's doing this for name recognition — that's just not true.
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The Moderate Voice, Ballot Box, Hotline On Call and Ben Smith's Blog
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
E.J. Dionne Jr.
E.J. Dionne Jr.
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Ballot Box, Washington Wire and Pew Research Center …
Michael Walsh / National Review:
The Tolerant Left — One thing you have to say about the Left: They never miss an opportunity to let the mask of hatred slip. It's practically Pavlovian; they are so invested in the myth of their own righteousness that their “tolerance” fetish goes right out the window whenever they suffer …
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Moe Lane and iOwnTheWorld.com
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Craig Robinson / The Iowa Republican:
University of Iowa Professor Tells College Republicans to “F” Off
University of Iowa Professor Tells College Republicans to “F” Off
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Maggie's Notebook, theblogprof, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
TRENDING: Trump says he'll reveal ‘interesting things’ on Obama — (CNN) - Possibly-serious Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is giving few details about the investigation he claims to have launched in Hawaii to get to the bottom of where President Obama was born …
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Wonkette
JSOnline:
Kloppenburg requests recount in state Supreme Court race — By Patrick Marley and Larry Sandler of the Journal Sentinel — Madison — Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg asked Wednesday for a statewide recount - the first in 22 years - to check the results in the April 5 state Supreme Court race …
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Kloppenburg - Full Statewide Recount ("Kloppenburg's Folly")
Kloppenburg - Full Statewide Recount ("Kloppenburg's Folly")
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POWIP, The Daily Caller, Associated Press, The Politico, WisPolitics.com, UrbanGrounds and The BRAD BLOG
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Former NM Gov. Gary Johnson launches presidential bid — Calling for a “reassessment of American government,” former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson (R) launched his 2012 bid for president Thursday on the steps of the New Hampshire state capitol. — In an email to supporters sent …
Bob Sechler / Wall Street Journal:
GE's Profit Jumps 77% — General Electric Co. reported a 77% increase in first-quarter earnings, lifted by marked improvement at its GE Capital financing arm and gains at most of its industrial units. — The company also boosted its quarterly dividend by a penny to 15 cents.
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Connecting.the.Dots
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Wisconsin Recall Fight Heats Up As Democrats Complain Of ‘Shots For Signatures’ Deals (AUDIO) … WASHINGTON — In an effort to gather enough signatures to trigger recall elections of state senators in Wisconsin, some backers are turning to peculiar, unconventional and, it appears, even intoxicating means.
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Yglesias, Washington Post and Weigel