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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, Datechguy's Blog, The Jawa Report and The Gateway Pundit
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, National Review and Big Journalism
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
Papa Johns, Huggies, Vanguard Drop Ads on Blog Attacking Trig Palin
Papa Johns, Huggies, Vanguard Drop Ads on Blog Attacking Trig Palin
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Big Journalism, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit, Riehl World View and Datechguy's Blog
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Liberal Website Wonkette Disgracefully Attacks Trig Palin On His Birthday
Liberal Website Wonkette Disgracefully Attacks Trig Palin On His Birthday
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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Ben Smith's Blog, The Daily Dish 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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Riehl World View, Conservatives4Palin, protein wisdom and LifeNews.com
Karl Rove / Wall Street Journal:
How Republicans Can Win the Debt Limit Fight — Democrats will have the upper hand if the GOP waits too long to move a budget through the House. — The debate over this year's budget is over. Next up: an even more contentious battle over raising the debt ceiling.
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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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Guardian and Capital Gains and Games blogs
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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Vox Popoli, The Lonely Conservative 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 Post, MyDD, FrumForum, The Hill and Pajamas Media
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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David Frum / FrumForum:
How to Beat Trump — This post by Ed Kilgore about Donald Trump seems to me very astute.
How to Beat Trump — This post by Ed Kilgore about Donald Trump seems to me very astute.
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Connecting.the.Dots, The Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog and Pew Research Center …
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
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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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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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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Washington Post:
Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros are killed documenting Libya fighting
Tim Hetherington, Chris Hondros are killed documenting Libya fighting
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msnbc.com, zenpundit.com, The Daily Beast, FrumForum and PopEater, more at Mediagazer »
David Friend / Vanity Fair:
Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya
Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya
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Guardian, CNN, The Daily What, Hot Air, Need to Know and Truthdig
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
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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Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
Victoria Ward / Telegraph:
Energy saving light bulbs ‘contain cancer causing chemicals’ — Fears have been reignited about the safety of energy saving light bulbs after a group of scientists warned that they contain cancer causing chemicals. — Their report advises that the bulbs should not be left on for extended periods …
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Verum Serum
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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The Hill:
Divided government hasn't paid off for the influence industry — Divided government hasn't been too great for K Street. — On Wednesday, lobby firms began to disclose their first quarterly revenue for 2011 as required under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA).
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Sunlight Foundation Blog, Washington Post, Reuters and Taegan Goddard's …
Jon Terbush / TPMDC:
Poll: 70% Of Tea Partiers Oppose Cuts To Medicare, Medicaid — Tea Partiers may say the government is too damn big, but when it comes to at least two federal entitlement programs, they sing a wholly different tune. — In a McClatchy-Marist poll released this week, 70% of registered voters …
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Balloon Juice and Newshoggers.com
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
How Apple tracks your location without consent, and why it matters — If you haven't yet enabled encrypted backups for your iPhone or iPad, now's definitely the time to start. Two security researchers have discovered a simple way to map out where you've been almost anywhere in the world—without any hacking involved.
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CNN, FrumForum, AMERICAblog News, The Politico and Washington Post
Gail Collins / New York Times:
The New Anti-Abortion Math — One of my favorite stories about the Texas State Legislature involves the time Senator Wendy Davis was trying to ask a colleague, Troy Fraser, some questions about a pending bill. Fraser deflected by saying, “I have trouble hearing women's voices.”
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The Mahablog, Daily Kos, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and Brilliant at Breakfast
Sara Jerome / The Hill:
Obama gets warm reception from Facebook crowd — President Obama took his re-election pitch to Silicon Valley Wednesday in an event at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. — Billed as a town hall meeting, and set up as an interview with questions culled from the users of Facebook …
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American Power
New York Times:
How Not to Plan for the Future — The agreement between Congress and the White House to virtually eliminate money for high-speed rail is harebrained. France, China, Brazil, even Russia, understand that high-speed rail is central to future development. Not Washington.
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