Top Items:
Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum camp: Michigan's a tie — (CNN) - Armed with a new delegate count, a Rick Santorum adviser on Wednesday painted Tuesday's contests as a “disaster” for Mitt Romney. — John Brabender said the campaign's count proves Santorum and Romney are tied in delegates won …
RELATED:
Matt Vasilogambros / NationalJournal.com:
Gingrich Super PAC Rep: Santorum Could Win ‘If He Could Speak English’
Discussion:
The Hill and Washington Post
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Romney, Santorum tie for Michigan delegates
Discussion:
The Reaction, Washington Post, New York Times, Gawker, Don Surber, American Power, FiveThirtyEight and The Heritage Foundation
Ross Douthat / Campaign Stops:
What Mitt Lost While He Won
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, p m carpenter's commentary, Los Angeles Times and Prairie Weather
Michael Barone / Campaign 2012:
Romney appeal in affluent suburbs could change map
Discussion:
Moe Lane
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Limbaugh Calls Student Denied Spot At Contraception Hearing A ‘Slut’ — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown student whom House Republicans wouldn't let testify at a contraception hearing last week, a “slut” and a “prostitute” today, because …
RELATED:
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi: Limbaugh's ‘vicious attacks’ on student uncivilized — House Democrats went after Rush Limbaugh Wednesday for his attacks on a university student who recently testified before Congress on women's reproductive health. — Limbaugh on Wednesday called Georgetown Law Center student Sandra Fluke a …
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Romney comes out against ‘Blunt-Rubio’ — Jim Heath, a reporter for ONN-TV in Ohio, just Tweeted a remarkable piece of news: Mitt Romney told him he does not support the Blunt amendment, which would empower employers and insurers to deny health coverage they find morally objectionable.
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, Metro, The PJ Tatler, LifeNews.com, Daily Kos, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo and American Spectator
RELATED:
Sahil Kapur / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Romney Comes Out In Support Of Controversial Birth Control Bill — One day before a critical Senate vote that could loom large as a 2012 election issue, Mitt Romney came out for a congressional Republican measure designed to roll back the Obama administration's requirement that employer health plans cover birth control.
Discussion:
Little Green Footballs and Plutocrap
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Sen. Manchin will vote for Blunt amendment on contraceptive care
Discussion:
Power Line, CNN, The Hill and Sky Dancing
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
GOP divided on birth control?
Discussion:
New York Times, American Prospect, Daily Kos, Firedoglake and ThinkProgress
John S. Adams / Great Falls Tribune:
Chief U.S. District Judge sends racially charged email about president — HELENA — Chief U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull on Wednesday admitted to sending a racially charged email about President Barack Obama from his courthouse chambers. — Cebull, of Billings, was nominated …
Discussion:
The Reality-Based Community and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Max Abelson / Bloomberg:
Wall Street Bonus Drop Means Trading Aspen for Discount Cereal — Andrew Schiff was sitting in a traffic jam in California this month after giving a speech at an investment conference about gold. He turned off the satellite radio, got out of the car and screamed a profanity.
Discussion:
Firedoglake, DealBook, Jay Bookman, Shakesville, Mercury Rising, TBogg, Gawker, US Politics, Gothamist, Sky Dancing, Mock, Paper, Scissors, Boing Boing, RADAMISTO and Eschaton, more at Mediagazer »
RELATED:
Megan McArdle / The Atlantic Online:
Are the Rich Completely Undeserving of Sympathy?
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, No More Mister Nice Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Balloon Juice
Jerusalem Post:
‘19% of Israelis support non-US-backed Iran strike’ — Poll finds vast majority of Israelis against unilateral military strike on Iran, Israeli Jews prefer Obama over all republican rivals. — By IDF spokesperson — Only 19 percent of Israelis support an attack against Iran without …
Discussion:
Talking Points Memo and Israel Matzav
RELATED:
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Obama's Most Dangerous GOP Opponent: Netanyahu
Discussion:
Firedoglake, The Huffington Post, Israel Matzav and Balloon Juice
Barak Ravid / Haaretz:
Netanyahu will ask Obama to threaten Iran strike
Discussion:
New York Times, The Daily Dish, ABCNEWS, Mother Jones, LewRockwell.com Blog, ABCNEWS and Politico
Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV:
One Million Homophobic Moms Target Archie Comics And Toys R Us (UPDATED) — UPDATE: John Goldwater, c0-CEO of Archie Comics has responded to the story below. He writes; … Despite a few Fox News commentators, the introduction of gay characters and gay marriage into Archie Comics had gone down rather smoothly.
Discussion:
Mediaite, The Daily What, Towleroad News #gay, Dependable Renegade and rightwingwatch.org
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Three Percent — When you have a candidate few people really like, whose support is a mile wide and an inch deep, whose raison d'etre (a 4am fancy word) is fixing an economy that is fixing itself without him, and who only wins his actual, factual home state by three percentage points …
Discussion:
Booman Tribune, Jay Bookman, A Certain Enthusiasm, Balloon Juice and Washington Post
Jim O'Sullivan / Hotline On Call:
Poll Shows Brown Leading Warren by 10 — Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., leads Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren by 10 points in a private Massachusetts Senate race poll. — The poll, conducted by Opinion Dynamics for Boston-based consulting firm Mass Insight Global Partnerships …
Discussion:
Library Grape
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Bernanke warns lawmakers nation headed for ‘massive fiscal cliff’ — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned Congress Wednesday it risked taking the nation over a “massive fiscal cliff” at the end of the year. — The central bank's boss warned expiring tax cuts and spending cuts set …
Discussion:
Politico
RELATED:
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
Muslim Fascists' Virulent Jew-Hatred At The University of California-Davis Last Night — University of California-Davis has a disruptive group of Muslim brownshirts who take every chance they can to act in a disgusting manner to enforce the blasphemy laws under the sharia (restriction of free speech).
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit and Jihad Watch
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
“Spreading Santorum” Drops At Google; New Site Keeps Anal Sex Definition At Number One — As Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum loses two primary races to rival Mitt Romney, perhaps he can console himself with, ironically, another loss. Spreading Santorum, the page defining …
Discussion:
Politico, Balloon Juice, Eschaton, American Prospect, Wonkette, Towleroad News #gay, The Caucus and Slog
Adam Mann / Wired:
1 in 8 Chance of Catastrophic Solar Megastorm by 2020 — The Earth has a roughly 12 percent chance of experiencing an enormous megaflare erupting from the sun in the next decade. This event could potentially cause trillions of dollars' worth of damage and take up to a decade to recover from.
Discussion:
Gawker
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama: I'll veto bill that will provide water to California's Central Valley — I've called the judicially-imposed drought in California's Central Valley “the Dust Bowl Congress created” through its creation of the Endangered Species Act, invoked in this case by the Delta smelt, a fish that's not suitable for eating.
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit, Hit & Run and Ed Driscoll
Christian Hartsock / Big Journalism:
EXCLUSIVE: O'Keefe Files Suit Against Al Gore's Current TV, Keith Olbermann, David Shuster — Conservative filmmaker James O'Keefe filed suit for defamation this morning against Al Gore's CurrentTV, as well as “Countdown” host Keith Olbermann and guest host David Shuster …
Discussion:
Mediaite, Patterico's Pontifications and National Review
Stephen Adams / Telegraph:
Killing babies no different from abortion, experts say — Parents should be allowed to have their newborn babies killed because they are “morally irrelevant” and ending their lives is no different to abortion, a group of medical ethicists linked to Oxford University has argued.
Discussion:
National Review, Grim's Hall and Power Line
TMZ.com:
Davy Jones Dead — Monkees Singer Dies at 66 From Heart Attack — From Heart Attack — Davy Jones — lead singer of The Monkees — died after suffering a heart attack this morning ... TMZ has learned. — An official from the medical examiner's office for Martin County …
Discussion:
USA Today, msnbc.com, Little Green Footballs and Scared Monkeys
New York Times:
North Korea Agrees to Curb Nuclear Work; U.S. Offers Aid — WASHINGTON — North Korea announced on Wednesday that it would suspend its nuclear weapons tests and uranium enrichment and allow international inspectors to monitor activities at its main nuclear complex.
Discussion:
They gave us a republic, Algemeiner.com, Outside the Beltway and Truthdig
RELATED:
Victoria Nuland / US Department of State:
U.S.-DPRK Bilateral Discussions
Discussion:
New York Times, American Spectator, The Enterprise Blog, World Now, News Desk and msnbc.com
Senior Data Journalist, NY — 
Manager - Publishing Editorial, Manila — 
Oil Reporter, Singapore — 
Newsperson - State Govt. & Politics, CA — 
Business Reporter, SC — 
State Government Reporter, WA — 
Climate Crisis Columnist — 
Multimedia Journalist, CA — 
Community Engagement Mgr., DC — 
Senior California Politics Reporter, CA — 
Staff Writer - Business, NY — 
Team Editor - Opinion, ON — 
Assistant Correspondent, DC — 
Climate & Weather Reporter, MN — 
Senior Tech Editor, Remote US — 
Lead Business Reporter, TN — 
Managing Editor, WA — 
Private Credit Reporter, NY — 
Trending News Reporter, TX — 
City Correspondent, London — 
Legislative Reporter, CA — 
Reporter, PA — 
Visual Editor, Remote — 
Staff Writer, MI — 
Senior Political Reporter, DC — 
California Playbook Writer, CA — 
National Investigative Reporter, NY — 
Business & Gaming Reporter, NV — 
Coastal Climate Reporter, SC — 
Environment & Energy Reporter, CT — 
Coordinating Editor, OR — 
Editor, Remote US — 
Business Reporter, WA — 
Editor-in-Chief, AZ — 
