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Myglesias / Yglesias:
Pity For The Rich — You can tell something's happening in the economic policy debate when you start reading more things like AEI's Arthur Brooks explaining that it would simply be unfair to raise taxes on the rich. Harvard economics professor and former Council of Economics Advisor chairman Greg Mankiw has said the same thing.
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Economist's View, Paul Krugman, iOwnTheWorld.com and The Reality-Based Community
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Arthur C. Brooks / Washington Post:
Obama says it's only ‘fair’ to raise taxes on the rich. He's wrong.
Obama says it's only ‘fair’ to raise taxes on the rich. He's wrong.
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Modeled Behavior
Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Locked and Loaded — Both parties are spoiling for a fight …
Locked and Loaded — Both parties are spoiling for a fight …
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Washington Monthly and The New Republic
Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Obama: No ‘silver bullet’ to bring down gas prices — President Obama said Saturday there are no easy answers for lowering gas prices, which are hovering above $4 a gallon, and criticized politicians who push plans to immediately reduce the price of gas. — “You see people trying …
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CNN, Little Green Footballs, The Politico, Michelle Malkin, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Power Line, JammieWearingFool and FrumForum
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Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Battered by gas prices White House starts attacks on oil companies — The White House has joined congressional Democrats in targeting oil companies with criticism for nearly $4 per gallon gas. — President Obama lashed out at oil companies — and the tax breaks they get from the government …
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Doug Ross, Marist Poll, FrumForum and The Hill
The Professor / Streetwise Professor:
The Department of Distraction Swings Into Action
The Department of Distraction Swings Into Action
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Power Line, Pundit & Pundette and Hit & Run
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
China's train wreck — Video: Is China's high-speed rail a model for U.S. transportation? Based on his travels in China, Washington Post editorial writer Charles Lane thinks not. — For the past eight years, Liu Zhijun was one of the most influential people in China.
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Hot Air and Power Line
Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
Florida Pastor says protest at Islamic Center will go on — Controversial Florida Pastor Terry Jones said he will follow through on his plan to protest outside an Islamic center in Michigan next week despite a judge's order to stay away from the mosque for three years, according to a report from the Detroit Free Press.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Truthdig
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Paul Krugman says “So, let's try another shot to the head.” — I realize he's talking about a misconception, and he has designated the misconception a “zombie,” and according to zombie lore, zombies are destroyed by shooting them in the head. But still. That's quite a violent way to talk …
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JustOneMinute
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Of Donald, Dunces and Dogma — I told myself that I wouldn't be dragged into Donald Trump's “birther” cesspool, yet here I am. — It became too much to ignore when he climbed to the top of the Republicans' admittedly weak field of presidential contenders and serious minds began to suggest …
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The Democratic Daily and Gallup
Michael Eisen / it is NOT junk:
Amazon's $23,698,655.93 book about flies — A few weeks ago a postdoc in my lab logged on to Amazon to buy the lab an extra copy of Peter Lawrence's The Making of a Fly - a classic work in developmental biology that we - and most other Drosophila developmental biologists - consult regularly.
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The Atlantic Online and The Volokh Conspiracy, more at Techmeme »
Washington Post:
Shameful U.S. inaction on Syria's massacres — FOR THE PAST five weeks, growing numbers of Syrians have been gathering in cities and towns across the country to demand political freedom — and the security forces of dictator Bashar al-Assad have been responding by opening fire on them.
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McClatchy Washington Bureau, Questions and Observations, Firedoglake, Maggie's Farm and Balloon Juice
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Gautham Nagesh / The Hill:
White House condemns Syrian government
White House condemns Syrian government
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The Gateway Pundit and iOwnTheWorld.com
Voice of America:
Listen to what VOA's Cecily Hilleary and Steve Bangley discovered after talking to Syrian eyewitnesses …
Listen to what VOA's Cecily Hilleary and Steve Bangley discovered after talking to Syrian eyewitnesses …
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Guardian, Washington Post and The Gateway Pundit
BBC:
Syria unrest: ‘Bloodiest day’ as troops fire on rallies
Syria unrest: ‘Bloodiest day’ as troops fire on rallies
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Syria Comment, Newshoggers.com, The Washington Note, Pirate's Cove, Jay Currie and The Reaction
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Statements on Syria — Obama, in what Crowley describes as a …
Statements on Syria — Obama, in what Crowley describes as a …
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Cubachi, Verum Serum and CNN
Wall Street Journal:
Shutter Fraternities for Young Women's Good — In the fall of 1984, a 17-year-old freshman at the University of Virginia named Liz Securro was invited to a fraternity party. While there, she was given a tour of the historic house and offered a cup of the dark green cocktail that was its specialty.
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The Other McCain, Althouse and Instapundit
New York Times:
President of Yemen Offers to Resign for Immunity — CAIRO — Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, agreed on Saturday to leave power after 32 years of autocratic rule, according to a top Yemeni official, but only if the opposition agrees to a list of conditions, including that he and his family be granted immunity.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Kyl statement stricken from the record — Jon Kyl's statement that 90 percent of Planned Parenthood's activities are related to abortion — which drew mockery when he explained it was “not intended to be a factual statement” — has been stricken from the Congressional Record. From POLITICO Pulse:
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Outside the Beltway, Runnin' Scared, Balloon Juice, Sunlight Foundation Blog and Gawker
John Shiffman / Philly.com:
Airport passenger screener charged in distributing child pornography — A passenger screener at Philadelphia International Airport is facing charges that he distributed more than 100 images of child pornography via Facebook, records show. — Federal agents also allege …
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Scared Monkeys and JammieWearingFool
Molly Hendrickson / WBAY-TV:
School District Employee Disciplined for Political Phone Call — A Sheboygan gas station owner is baffled after a mystery caller tells a clerk it's a bad idea to do business with a Sheboygan-area state senator. — It started Tuesday when a woman called Dick Hiers's Northeast Standard gas station …
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