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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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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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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Adweek, Big Journalism and The Jawa Report
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Papa Johns, Huggies, Vanguard Drop Ads on Blog Attacking Trig Palin — Three large companies have dropped their advertisements on the liberal, pro-abortion Wonkette blog after it ran a post earlier today bashing pro-life former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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Big Journalism, Mediaite, Right Wing News and Riehl World View
Geoffrey Dunn / The Business Insider:
Sarah Palin's Version Of Trig's Birth May Be More Troubling Than The Hoax
Sarah Palin's Version Of Trig's Birth May Be More Troubling Than The Hoax
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The Daily Dish, Ben Smith's Blog and FrumForum
Dana Loesch / Big Journalism:
Wonkette Makes Fun of Trig Palin, Calls Him “Retarded”
Wonkette Makes Fun of Trig Palin, Calls Him “Retarded”
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Conservatives4Palin, protein wisdom, Riehl World View and LifeNews.com
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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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...
Hans Bader / Washington Examiner:
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Liberals attack Paul Ryan …
BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Liberals attack Paul Ryan …
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Conservatives4Palin and National Review
Kat Stoeffel / New York Observer:
‘Glenn Beck Threw Me Under the Bus’: Breakfast with Andrew Breitbart … Over crème brûlée oatmeal on Monday, conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart talked sting videos. Mr. Breitbart explained to the Transom that Breitbart blog protocol requires undercover video kingpin James O'Keefe …
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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.
David Frum / FrumForum:
How to Beat Trump — This post by Ed Kilgore about Donald Trump seems to me very astute. … Here's the thing Republican leaders and pundits need to understand. (I said it yesterday, but let's say it again today.) America has not had a mass conversion to ideological libertarianism.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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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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Taylor Marsh, TPMCafe, No More Mister Nice Blog and LifeNews.com
C. J. Chivers / New York Times:
‘Restrepo’ Director and a Photographer Are Killed in Libya — BENGHAZI, Libya — Tim Hetherington, a conflict photographer who was a director and producer of the Afghan war documentary “Restrepo,” was killed in the besieged city of Misurata, Libya, on Wednesday, and three photographers working beside …
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David Friend / Vanity Fair:
Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya — Tim Hetherington, photojournalist, filmmaker, and Vanity Fair contributing photographer, was killed today while covering the conflict in Misrata, Libya. “Tim died about two hours ago,” said Peter N. Bouckaert, of Human Rights Watch, in Geneva, a friend of Hetherington's.
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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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Cubachi, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, PoliPundit.com, Fox Nation, Althouse and The Volokh Conspiracy
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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, UrbanGrounds, The BRAD BLOG and JSOnline
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Wisconsin Supreme Court challenger files for recount
Wisconsin Supreme Court challenger files for recount
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iOwnTheWorld.com, JSOnline and WisPolitics.com
The Politico:
GOP escalates demands on debt limit — 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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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, Maggie's Notebook, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
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, GayPatriot, Ben Smith's Blog, Washington Monthly and Wonkette
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John / Power Line:
Communicating With Employees? The Horror!
Communicating With Employees? The Horror!
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Erick's blog and ThinkProgress
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit:
MEGAN MCARDLE: “Have you noticed all the huge antiwar demonstrations in the last twelve months? Yeah, me neither. It turns out that a lot of the energy for the movement seems to have been provided by Democrats who are a lot less worried about wars conducted by Democratic presidents.
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Firedoglake, Moe Lane, Wizbang and Althouse
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Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Under Protest — Have you noticed all the huge antiwar demonstrations …
Under Protest — Have you noticed all the huge antiwar demonstrations …
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Mudville Gazette and iOwnTheWorld.com
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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The Lonely Conservative and The Page
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Gay Marriage Opponents Now in Minority — A poll from CNN this week is the latest to show a majority of Americans in favor of same-sex marriage, with 51 percent saying that marriages between gay and lesbian couples “should be recognized by the law as valid” and 47 percent opposed.
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.
Elizabeth MacDonald / FoxBusiness.com:
Government Cash Handouts Now Top Tax Revenues — U.S. households are now getting more in cash handouts from the government than they are paying in taxes for the first time since the Great Depression. — Households received $2.3 trillion in some kind of government support in 2010.
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The Lonely Conservative and Doug Ross