Top Items:
Jack Mirkinson / The Huffington Post:
Rush Limbaugh Advertiser Sleep Train Pulls Commercials In Wake Of Sandra Fluke ‘Slut’ Firestorm … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke Slut, Rush Limbaugh Sleep Train, Sleep Train, Sleep Train Rush Limbaugh, Slidepollajax, Media News
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Washington Post, The Maddow Blog, Daily Kos, Politicker, The Political Carnival, BuzzFeed and Gothamist
RELATED:
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
John Boehner: Rush Limbaugh ‘slut’ remark ‘inappropriate’ — Speaker John Boehner on Friday denounced radio host Rush Limbaugh's “slut” remarks aimed at Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke, but the Ohio Republican also jabbed at Democrats who have been fundraising off the fracas.
Discussion:
The Huffington Post, Mediaite and The Maddow Blog
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Georgetown Student Sandra Fluke Responds To Being Called ‘Slut,’ ‘Prostitute’ By Limbaugh — On Thursday, MSNBC's Ed Schultz conducted an exclusive interview with Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, the woman whom Rush Limbaugh mocked on his radio show earlier that day.
Tim Mak / Politico:
Carly Fiorina: Limbaugh ‘insulting’ — Carly Fiorina, National Republican Senatorial Committee Vice-Chairman, on Friday condemned Rush Limbaugh for calling college student Sandra Fluke a “slut.” — “That language is insulting, in my opinion. It's incendiary and most of all, it's a distraction.
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, msnbc.com, Erick's blog and ECHIDNE of the snakes
Rush Limbaugh:
Left Freaks Out Over My Fluke Remarks
Left Freaks Out Over My Fluke Remarks
Discussion:
Michelle Malkin, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, NewsBusters.org blogs, Jay Bookman and The Right Scoop
WPBF West Palm Beach's Channel 25:
Device Sent To Rush Limbaugh ‘A Business Opportunity’
Device Sent To Rush Limbaugh ‘A Business Opportunity’
Discussion:
WPTV, Crooks and Liars, Business Insider, Gawker and Jammie Wearing Fools
msnbc.com:
Limbaugh: Contraception advocate should post online sex videos
Limbaugh: Contraception advocate should post online sex videos
Discussion:
No More Mister Nice Blog, Philly.com, Don Surber and The Volokh Conspiracy
Leigh Ann Caldwell / CBS News:
Democrats urge Boehner to “repudiate” comments by Limbaugh on contraception testimony
Democrats urge Boehner to “repudiate” comments by Limbaugh on contraception testimony
Discussion:
Business Insider, NewsBusters.org blogs, Belmont Club, Politico and Gawker
Quinnipiac University:
Ohio GOP Race Going Down To The Wire, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Santorum At 35% To Romney's 31% — The Republican presidential face-off in Ohio is too close to call as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has 35 percent of likely Republican primary voters to former Massachusetts …
RELATED:
Bob Dole / CNN:
Santorum lumps McCain, Dole, H.W. Bush into losing clan of GOP moderates — Pasco, Washington (CNN) - Rick Santorum continued to cast himself as a scrappy fighter against a mighty Republican “establishment” late Thursday - even lumping together former presidents and former presidential hopefuls …
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, The Hill, Hot Air and Washington Post
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney holds small lead in Washington
Romney holds small lead in Washington
Discussion:
Ballot Box, GOP 12 and Shakesville
Shushannah Walshe / ABCNEWS:
Santorum: We Have a ‘Guerrilla Campaign’
Santorum: We Have a ‘Guerrilla Campaign’
Discussion:
GOP 12, Washington Post, CNN and The Page
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluff' — Dismissing a strategy of “containment” as unworkable, the president tells me it's “unacceptable” for the Islamic Republic of Iran to have a nuclear weapon. — At the White House on Monday …
Thomas Schaller / Salon:
Same sex, opposite impact — Marriage equality always seemed a losing issue for the left. That's all changed. Just ask Ken Mehlman — Rep. Anne Kaiser, D-Montgomery, an openly gay member of the Maryland General Assembly, holds Natalie Vincent, 10 months, the daughter of a member …
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Taegan Goddard's …, Steve Rothaus' Gay …, News Desk, Towleroad News #gay, Washington Post and Joe. My. God.
RELATED:
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Chris Christie: Marriage Equality Is Not About ‘Gay Rights’
Chris Christie: Marriage Equality Is Not About ‘Gay Rights’
Discussion:
The Daily Dish, Baltimore Sun, Sky Dancing and New Jersey Online
Gov. Martin O'Malley / The Huffington Post:
Dignity: Why I Signed Same-Sex Marriage into Maryland Law
Dignity: Why I Signed Same-Sex Marriage into Maryland Law
Discussion:
Washington Blade and LGBT|POV
Matt Labash / Weekly Standard:
Breitbart's Last Laugh — I woke up this morning to about ten emails from journalist friends asking if our mutual friend, Andrew Breitbart, was really dead. “Really” was the operative word. Some meant it in the traditional sense: Is it possible for the human inferno that Breitbart resembled …
Discussion:
FishbowlDC, Washington Examiner, Reason, americanthinker.com, Tim Blair and The Daily Caller
RELATED:
Nicholas Kamm / Rolling Stone:
Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche
Andrew Breitbart: Death of a Douche
Discussion:
The Daily Caller, New York Times, Wizbang, The PJ Tatler, Hot Air, Media Decoder, The Spectacle Blog, Daily Kos, UrbanGrounds, RedState, NewsBusters.org blogs, Instapundit, American Spectator, The Moderate Voice, The Heritage Foundation, Moonbattery, Ace of Spades HQ, Brisbane Times, The Reaction, Outside the Beltway, ThinkProgress, Balloon Juice, The Daily Beast, National Review, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Ed Driscoll, more at Mediagazer »
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Four Fiscal Phonies — Mitt Romney is very concerned about budget deficits. Or at least that's what he says; he likes to warn that President Obama's deficits are leading us toward a “Greece-style collapse.” — So why is Mr. Romney offering a budget proposal that would lead to much larger debt …
Discussion:
The Mahablog, Prairie Weather, LewRockwell.com Blog, Daily Kos and Economix
RELATED:
Noam Scheiber / The Daily Beast:
In Second Term, What Will Obama Do About Bush Tax Cuts?
In Second Term, What Will Obama Do About Bush Tax Cuts?
Discussion:
protein wisdom, The Enterprise Blog, Hot Air, Economist's View and Taegan Goddard's …
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Democrat: Letting Bush tax rates expire could stop sequestered cuts
Democrat: Letting Bush tax rates expire could stop sequestered cuts
Discussion:
ThinkProgress
ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: In '02 Romney Touted D.C. Connections, Federal Funds — In a long-forgotten tape from the 2002 Massachusetts governor's race obtained by ABC News, Mitt Romney is seen touting his Washington connections and his ability to get millions of taxpayer dollars from the federal government.
Discussion:
The Raw Story, Daily Kos, National Review, GOP 12 and US Politics
RELATED:
Tim Mak / Politico:
George Will: Take Congress, not White House — Columnist George Will says the 2012 presidential race looks like it might be a lost cause for Republicans and believes that the primary goal of conservatives should be to retain control of the House and win the Senate so Congress …
Discussion:
Salon, The PJ Tatler, Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog, Business Insider and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Zeke Miller / BuzzFeed:
Santorum Loses His Cool During Interview With Cincinnati Radio Station Conversation with host Scott Sloan becomes a shouting match about birth control, before his cell phone drops the call. — Share on Facebook More on BuzzFeed Politics — YOUR REACTION? — MORE GREAT STUFF
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, The Right Scoop, GOP 12, Mediaite, Freedom's Lighthouse and BuzzFeed
Mark Stiemann / The Behavioral Economy:
Gallup's Unadjusted Unemployment Data Suggest Increase in BLS Adjusted Figure — Gallup finds U.S. unemployment, as measured without seasonal adjustment, to be 9.1% in February, based on almost 30,000 interviews with a random sample of Americans. When Gallup applies the .5-percentage-point …
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers, americanthinker.com, Washington Free Beacon and Campaign 2012
Russell Berman / Ballot Box:
Top Dem on House Approps committee announces retirement — Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, will retire at the end of 2012, he announced Friday. — Dicks, who was in line to chair the powerful appropriations panel if Democrats won control of the House …
Phil Angelides / New York Times:
Will Wall Street Ever Face Justice? — LAST week, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. proclaimed in a speech that when it comes to fighting financial fraud, the Obama administration's “record of success has been nothing less than historic.” Such self-congratulation is not only premature …
Discussion:
Firedoglake, Reuters and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*
RELATED:
Tim Geithner / Wall Street Journal:
Financial Crisis Amnesia
Financial Crisis Amnesia
Discussion:
American Prospect, The Enterprise Blog and Business Insider
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Breitbart Friend Reveals To Hannity: Obama Harvard Tapes Will Be Out ‘In A Week Or Two’ — On his program Thursday, Fox News' Sean Hannity spoke with Steve Bannon (producer of The Undefeated, among various other films) about a series of tapes Andrew Breitbart claimed to have about Barack Obama.
Discussion:
Wake up America, NewsHounds blog, Hot Air, americanthinker.com, The Right Scoop and Doug Ross, more at Mediagazer »
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Why Can't the Obama Administration Make Its Case Without Disseminating Hate? — Have we ever had an administration like Barack Obama's? An administration that tries to benefit from pitting Americans against one another? An administration that uses its billion-dollar slush fund …
Discussion:
KochFacts.com and Booman Tribune
Bryan Marquard / Boston Globe:
James Q. Wilson, 80, co-author of ‘Broken Windows’ community policing strategy, died today — James Q. Wilson, a political scientist who coauthored the influential “Broken Windows” article in The Atlantic Monthly in 1982, which became a touchstone for the move toward community policing …
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, The Spectacle Blog, National Review and Marginal Revolution