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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
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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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
ACLU Fighting Attempts to Suppress Anti-Islam Speech — By the way, I should stress — especially given the criticism that I've seen of the ACLU from some commenters — that ACLU chapters deserve praise for defending the anti-Islam speech in the two incidents I blogged about today …
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The Other McCain
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
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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
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 Volokh Conspiracy and The Atlantic Online, more at Techmeme »
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.
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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
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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Power Line and Hot Air
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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Don Surber, Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys and JammieWearingFool
Barry Ritholtz / The Big Picture:
Dollar's Biggest Decline? 2001-08 — The hand-wringing about the US dollar is rather late to the party. — Where were all you concerned dollar bulls earlier in the decade? It strikes me that like the late-to-discover inflation, you folks cannot spot a trend until it bites you in your collective asses.
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Historinhas and Paul Krugman
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Tom Lauricella / Wall Street Journal:
Dollar's Decline Speeds Up, With Risks for U.S.
Dollar's Decline Speeds Up, With Risks for U.S.
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FrumForum
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
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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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
Kase Wickman / The Raw Story:
NY allows conjugal visits for inmates in same-sex marriages — The New York state prison system recently changed its regulations to allow inmates in same-sex marriages or civil unions conjugal visits from their partners, as well as a tweak that will allow inmates to visit their partners if they are terminally ill.
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Pam's House Blend
Peter Wallsten / Washington Post:
Republicans facing tough questions over Medicare overhaul in budget plan — Video: All but four GOP House members voted for the budget plan devised by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). The proposal puts the future of Medicare in jeopardy and could be risky political move. (April 15)
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Booman Tribune, Jack & Jill Politics and TPMDC
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Ronald Brownstein / NationalJournal.com:
Locked and Loaded — Both parties are spoiling for a fight …
Locked and Loaded — Both parties are spoiling for a fight …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly and The New Republic
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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