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Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Jeff Sessions: Saying Millionaires Should Share Pain Is ‘Rather Pathetic’ … WASHINGTON — Having the Senate declare that millionaires should share more of the pain involved in putting America's financial house in order is “rather pathetic,” Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) declared Tuesday.
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Bob Cusack / The Hill:
McConnell: ‘We look a lot like Greece already’ — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) said Wednesday that the financial state of the U.S. is similar to bankrupt Greece. — Making the case for major spending reductions a day before congressional leaders will meet with President Obama …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Cantor: GOP willing to talk tax loopholes in debt negotiations
Cantor: GOP willing to talk tax loopholes in debt negotiations
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dem leader says he'll help GOP on debt-ceiling vote, but at a price
Dem leader says he'll help GOP on debt-ceiling vote, but at a price
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Marie Diamond / ThinkProgress:
Sen. Sessions: Asking Millionaires To Pay More Is ‘Rather Pathetic’
Sen. Sessions: Asking Millionaires To Pay More Is ‘Rather Pathetic’
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
CNN Cancels ‘In the Arena’ With Eliot Spitzer — 1:30 p.m. | Updated CNN on Wednesday cancelled Eliot Spitzer's 8 p.m. political talk show, “In The Arena,” and said it would shift Anderson Cooper's 10 p.m. nightly newscast into the time slot. — The cable news channel also said that Erin Burnett …
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Keach Hagey / The Politico:
CNN cancels Eliot Spitzer's show — CNN has taken Eliot Spitzer's “In the Arena” off the air, replacing it with “Anderson Cooper 360” at 8 p.m. in a shakeup that includes the launch of a new show with former CNBC star Erin Burnett. — The move strips the last remnants of the ill-fated …
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Jill Serjeant / Reuters:
CNN drops Eliot Spitzer TV talk show
CNN drops Eliot Spitzer TV talk show
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Bachmann surging, signs of weakness for Romney — When PPP polled New Hampshire in April Michele Bachmann was stuck at 4%. She's gained 14 points over the last three months and now finds herself within single digits of Mitt Romney. Romney continues to lead the way in the state with 25% …
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TPMDC, GOP 12, The New Republic, Gallup, Indecision Forever and Balloon Juice
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
The 2012 Horse Whisperers — Who's giving foreign-policy advice …
The 2012 Horse Whisperers — Who's giving foreign-policy advice …
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Neil King Jr / Wall Street Journal:
Pawlenty's Homespun Tale
Pawlenty's Homespun Tale
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Eunomia, Minnesota Independent, The Note, The Politico and ABCNEWS
Matthew Yglesias / ThinkProgress:
Barack Obama's Dangerous Embrace Of Economic Fatalism — Even as the Obama administration continues to defend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act from its critics, the White House appears to have sincerely pivoted away from the idea that a higher level of aggregate demand …
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Paul Krugman, The New Republic and TalkLeft
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James Pethokoukis:
Obama really might have made it worse — The Republican charge is a body shot aimed right at the belly of President Barack Obama's re-election effort: He made it worse. — No, not that White House efforts at boosting the American economy and creating jobs and “winning the future” …
Jennifer Haberkorn / The Politico:
What became of ‘repeal and replace’? — When they took control of the House, Republicans could barely stop talking about their plans to “repeal and replace” the health care reform law. — Six months later, they hardly talk publicly about those plans at all. And they're nowhere close to “replacing” the law.
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Ashley Halsey III / Washington Post:
House GOP expected to ax transportation funds
House GOP expected to ax transportation funds
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Casey Anthony / The Daily Beast:
Worse Than O.J.! — While the stunning Casey Anthony acquittal defied logic, O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark details how juries often delude themselves—and why this verdict trumps even her case. — Sick, shaken, in disbelief. As I listened to the verdicts in the Casey Anthony case …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Our surreal debate over taxing the rich — So it's come to this. Republican opposition to any kind of revenue increase as part of the deficit deal has grown so implacable that Dems will now hold a Senate vote tomorrow on the basic idea that millionaires and billionaires should help contribute to fixing our deficit.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Sky Dancing, The Democratic Daily and The New Republic
Damien Cave / New York Times:
Better Lives for Mexicans Cut Allure of Going North — AGUA NEGRA, Mexico — The extraordinary Mexican migration that delivered millions of illegal immigrants to the United States over the past 30 years has sputtered to a trickle, and research points to a surprising cause …
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Indecision Forever, Greg's Opinion, Swampland and The Business Insider
Heather Vogell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Investigation into APS cheating finds unethical behavior across every level — Across Atlanta Public Schools, staff worked feverishly in secret to transform testing failures into successes. — Teachers and principals erased and corrected mistakes on students' answer sheets.
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Kayla Webley / newsfeed.time.com:
Investigation Finds ‘Widespread’ Cheating in Atlanta Schools
Investigation Finds ‘Widespread’ Cheating in Atlanta Schools
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Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Michele Bachmann's husband shares her strong conservative values — Lake Elmo, Minn. — In an interview last year with a Christian- — radio talk show, Marcus Bachmann, a therapist who runs a faith-infused counseling center here, compared homosexuals to “barbarians” who “need to be educated, need to be disciplined.”
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Mitt Romney's initial fundraising goal: $50 million — Mitt Romney disclosed today that he raised $18.25 million in his initial fundraising report, but his goal for the first half of 2011 was $50 million, according to an email sent by a Romney consultant to a potential state finance aide at the end of last year.
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Power Line:
WHY CLIMATE CHANGE HAS BECOME THE “DEAD PARROT SKETCH” OF AMERICAN POLITICS — For years now the climate campaign and the politicized science community has been complaining that it has a “communications problem,” which can be solved if only they shout louder, or get the human car alarm former …
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James Delingpole / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
There has been no global warming since 1998
There has been no global warming since 1998
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Adam Clark Estes / The Atlantic Wire:
Watch a 50-Mile Wide Dust Storm Devour Phoenix — Now, we have a new reason to compare the Great Recession to the Great Depression: Steinbeck-style dust storms. Tuesday evening, a massive cloud of darkness known as a “habub” overtook Phoenix. The National Weather Service reports that the wall …
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Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
TSA warns airlines of ‘human bombs’ — Transportation security officials are warning airlines on Wednesday that “human bomb” terrorists may try to use surgically implanted explosives to blow up planes. — Though there is no intelligence about a specific plot, the Transportation Security Administration …
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Chuck KlostermanPOSTED / Grantland:
Q&A: Bill James on Crime — The father of sabermetrics on his new book and what makes a murderer — If you're interested in baseball, you're interested in Bill James — he's the inventor of sabermetrics, the ideological engine behind Michael Lewis' best-selling Moneyball …
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JSOnline:
Flynn calls looting, beatings in Riverwest barbaric — Shaina Perry remembers the punch to her face, blood streaming from a cut over her eye, her backpack with her asthma inhaler, debit card and cellphone stolen, and then the laughter. — “They just said 'Oh, white girl bleeds a lot …
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Vox Popoli, The Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain
Elaine Quijano / CBS News:
Policy shift in presidential condolence letters — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — NEW YORK - Most families who lose a loved one in the war zones receive a letter of condolence from the President of the United States. But there are a few who do not receive this honor.
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Fox News and The Politico
Rob Bluey / The Daily Caller:
White House uses Twitter to bully critics — President Obama's director of progressive media is obsessed with one particular conservative provocateur. Jesse Lee's duties at the White House include “online response” — and there has been no shortage of responses to one person who routinely communicates with him on Twitter.
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
ACORN continues to receive taxpayer cash, group says — In spite of a law aimed at de-funding the controversial organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is still receiving taxpayer money through an offshoot group. — Legal watchdog group Judicial Watch discovered …
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Darren Samuelsohn / The Politico:
Bill Clinton likens GOP effort to Jim Crow laws — Former President Bill Clinton Wednesday compared GOP efforts to limit same-day voter registration and block some convicted felons from voting to Jim Crow laws and poll taxes. — In a speech to liberal youth activists Wednesday …
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New York Times:
Antitax Extremism in Minnesota — How far will Republican lawmakers go to protect millionaires? Those who think a default on the federal government's credit seems implausible should take a sobering look at the “closed” signs dotting Minnesota. The Republican Party there readily shut …
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