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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obama's oil flimflam — Yes, of course, presidents have no direct control over gas prices. But the American people know something about this president and his disdain for oil. The “fuel of the past,” he contemptuously calls it. To the American worker who doesn't commute by government motorcade …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Natural Born Drillers — To be a modern Republican in good standing, you have to believe — or pretend to believe — in two miracle cures for whatever ails the economy: more tax cuts for the rich and more drilling for oil. And with prices at the pump on the rise, so is the chant of “Drill, baby, drill.”
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Sarah Palin / BREITBART.COM:
BREITBART IS HERE — There is a new street art poster that's being emailed around and will no doubt eventually be spotted on a street corner near you. It's a gritty black and white image of Andrew Breitbart looking both battle-worn and ever vigilant with the caption: “BREITBART IS HERE.”
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Josh Barro / The Barrometer:
Santorum Promises Broad War on Porn — You had better not be watching what Rick Santorum thinks you're watching. (Image via Wikipedia) — The Daily Caller flags a little-discussed position paper on Rick Santorum's campaign website—his pledge to aggressively prosecute those who produce and distribute pornography.
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Steven Nelson / The Daily Caller:
‘Vigorous’ Santorum crackdown may catch Internet porn viewers with pants down
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Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Santorum: Obama DOJ favors ‘pornographers over children’
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rightwingwatch.org and GOP 12
Larry J. Sabato / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Romney Set to Dominate Race Through April — Three of the four candidates for the Republican presidential nomination — Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul — might soon agree with T.S. Eliot: for them, April may indeed be “the cruelest month.” — That's because their front-running rival …
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Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Romney moves up campaigning in suddenly crucial Illinois
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Dan Amira / New York Magazine:
RutherfordGate: Historian Responds to President Obama's Hayes Slur — Rutherford B. Hayes: Very much pro-phone. — It's not unusual for President Obama to criticize his Republican predecessors from time to time, but this morning, he targeted his scorn not at George W. Bush or Ronald Reagan, but ... Rutherford B. Hayes.
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Benjy Sarlin / 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPM2012 — Obama Mangles U.S., World History In Energy Speech
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama hits GOP on fuel rhetoric
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Eric Schmittand William Yardley / New York Times:
Suspect in Afghan Attack ‘Snapped,’ U.S. Official Says — WASHINGTON — The American staff sergeant suspected of killing 16 Afghan villagers had been drinking alcohol — a violation of military rules in combat zones — and suffering from the stress related to his fourth combat tour and tensions …
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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Texas Loses Entire Women's Health Program Over Planned Parenthood Law … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Video, Hhs Texas Family Planning Program, Hhs Texas Medicaid, Rick Perry Planned Parenthood, Rick Perry Women's Health Program, Texas Women's Health Program, Texas-Planned-Parenthood, Politics News
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Matthew Shelley / NationalJournal.com:
After Giving Limbaugh a Bye, Romney Blasts Maher — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney — The battle over potty-mouthed talk show hosts is getting partisan indeed. — After taking a pass on criticizing conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh for calling a Georgetown University student …
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Tim Boyle / ABCNEWS:
Rahm Emanuel Uses Limbaugh Controversy Against Romney
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Raymond Hernandez / City Room:
Ackerman Won't Seek Re-Election to Congress — WASHINGTON — Representative Gary L. Ackerman, a longtime member of Congress from Queens and Long Island, announced on Thursday that he would not seek re-election, an unexpected development that brings an end to a colorful political career.
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Jamie Klatell / Ballot Box:
Rep. Gary Ackerman will not seek reelection
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
At NCAA Tournament, Southern Miss Band Chants 'Where's Your Green Card?' At Hispanic Kansas State Player — During their school's NCAA Tournament game against Kansas State University today, members of the Southern Mississippi University band chanted, “Where's your green card?” at a Puerto Rican Kansas State player.
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Juana Summers / Politico:
Rick Santorum on official language: Puerto Ricans should speak Spanish too
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Jezebel, The Caucus and The Moderate Voice
Benedict Carey / New York Times:
Male Fruit Flies, Spurned by Females, Turn to Alcohol — They were young males on the make, and they struck out not once, not twice, but a dozen times with a group of attractive females hovering nearby. So they did what so many men do after being repeatedly rejected: they got drunk, using alcohol as a balm for unfulfilled desire.
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Outside the Beltway and Truthdig
David Catanese / Politico:
Dick Lugar vows to appeal ruling — For the moment, Dick Lugar can't even vote to save himself. — A local election board ruled Thursday that the six-term senator has abandoned his Indiana home and cannot cast a ballot in the state he represents. The Indiana Republican is up for re-election …
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The PJ Tatler
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Lynn Bonner / Raleigh News & Observer:
Hundreds march against same-sex marriage amendment — TAKAAKI IWABU - TIWABU@NEWSOBSERVER.COM — Demonstrators voice their opposition to the North Carolina Same-Sex Marriage Amendment on Thursday, March 15, 2012, at a rally behind the legislative building on Halifax mall in Raleigh. — marriage |
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David Morgan / Reuters:
Catholic bishops pressured Komen over Planned Parenthood — (Reuters) - When he visited the United States four years ago, Pope Benedict XVI blessed a box of silver ribbon-shaped pins for breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure and sent them to its founder, Nancy Brinker.
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The Reality-Based Community, Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Investor's Business Daily:
Bigot Chris Matthews' War On Catholics And Mormons — Bias: Having lost that tingly feeling up his leg, MSNBC's Chris Matthews savages GOP presidential candidates as belonging to cults. Well, at least they didn't spend two decades listening to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Dismissal of gun-rights suit upheld by 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel — A federal judge correctly dismissed a lawsuit against the city of New Orleans by a man who claimed that local law-enforcement authorities violated his constitutional right to bear arms, a divided panel …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
No, Obamacare's Cost Didn't Just Double. Sigh. — Sorting through the deceptive attacks on health care reform gets old, even for me. But on Wednesday the Republicans and their allies made a claim so obviously misleading that they, and the media outlets parroting them, must have known they spreading false information.
James Bamford / Wired:
The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) — The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah's Wasatch Range to the east and the Oquirrh Mountains to the west.
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