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9:25 PM ET, March 18, 2012

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CNN:
Romney will win Puerto Rico's GOP primary, CNN projects  —  San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN) — Mitt Romney will win Sunday's Republican presidential primary in Puerto Rico, CNN projects, based on vote results obtained from local party and election officials.  —  At 6:50 p.m. ET …
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
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Kristina Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
Romney Wins Primary in Puerto Rico  —  Mitt Romney won the Puerto Rico Republican presidential primary contest on Sunday, winning all of the island's 20 delegates at stake because be took more than half of the votes.  —  The campaign for Puerto Rico's support served as a fresh reminder …
ABCNEWS:
Brown Teases Santorum About Using ‘Protection’  —  Sen. Scott Brown joked at a St. Patrick's Day that Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's secret service detail may be the first time he's ever “used protection.”  —  “I'm hopeful that all of you are actually following presidential politics.
Discussion: Politico
Pete Kasperowicz / Ballot Box:
Romney wins Puerto Rico GOP primary
Discussion: CNN
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Senator Scott Brown On Santorum's Security: “The First Time He's Actually Ever Used Protection”
Discussion: Jezebel
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Sen. McCain: Romney ‘improving dramatically’ as a GOP candidate
CNN:
Ed Gillespie: Romney benefits from longer primary season
Discussion: CBS News and Politico
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
McCain says Romney is ‘improving dramatically’
Discussion: CNN
Rick Santorum / CNN:
America doesn't need Romney as CEO
Discussion: Politico
Paul Krugman:
The Collapse of Employment-Based Coverage  —  Reed Abelson at Economix points us to a startling study on the effects of the Great Recession on health insurance.  You can see similar trends in the Census data, but for whatever reason this survey — carried out by a highly reputable group — is even stronger.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
C-Span Founder to Step Down as Chief Executive  —  Brian Lamb, who created the revolutionary nonprofit cable television network C-Span in the late 1970s and has been its public face ever since, is handing it over to two lieutenants, Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain.
Paul Krugman:
The Power of Plutocratic Pettiness  —  Via Rich Yeselson, Alec MacGillis has a fantastic piece in the New Republic (unfortunately paywalled) about how hedge fund managers' love for Obama has turned into blind, spitting hatred.  His main argument is that it's all about feeling disrespected:
Associated Press:
Israel shifts views on Iran  —  JERUSALEM - Despite saber-rattling from Jerusalem, Israeli officials now agree with the U.S. assessment that Tehran has not yet decided on the actual construction of a nuclear bomb, according to senior Israeli government and defense figures.
Joel B. Pollak / BREITBART.COM:
THE VETTING - HOLDER 1995: WE MUST ‘BRAINWASH’ PEOPLE ON GUNS  —  Breitbart.com has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public campaign to “really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”  —  Holder was addressing the Woman's National Democratic Club.
Miriam Raftery / East County Magazine:
SAN DIEGO TEA PARTY LEADER ARRESTED FOR KIDNAPPING, RAPE  —  Lemon Grove resident Michael John Kobulnicky, 50, a leader in the San Diego Tea Party and former regional director of the Southern California Conservative Party, is under arrest for allegedly kidnapping and raping a local woman on Fiesta Island.
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The White House:
Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness  —  NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.) …
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Kenneth Schortgen Jr / Examiner:
President Obama signs Executive Order allowing for control over all US resources
Discussion: The Volokh Conspiracy
Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
Progressivism and the authoritarian impulse  —  Performed rather perfectly by Stanley Fish, who — because he has spent an academic career immersed in the insular logic of the linguistic turn — is able to comfortably slide into a description of benevolent “liberal” tyranny that he counsels …
Discussion: EconLog and RedState
Joe Romm / ThinkProgress:
The Hunger Games: Post-Apocalypse Now For Young Adults  —  The revolution will be televised.  So will the post-apocalyptical fight to feed ourselves on a ruined planet.  —  Those are two key themes of the wildly popular YA trilogy that begins with The Hunger Games, whose movie version comes out this week.
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Emily Schultheis / Politico:
McCain: Stop contraception talk  —  Sen. John McCain said Sunday that the GOP needs to stop talking about contraception and that focusing on the issue is hurting voter perceptions of the party.  —  “I think we have to fix that,” the Arizona Republican said when asked by David Gregory on NBC's …
Discussion: Michelle Malkin and Weasel Zippers
 
 
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Obama: Most Fiscally Conservative President in Modern History?
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Prairie Weather
Rasmussen Reports:
New Low: 28% Give Supreme Court Positive Ratings
Discussion: Althouse and Campaign 2012
Washington Post:
Obama's evolution: Behind the failed ‘grand bargain’ on the debt
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: The AIDS Warriors' Legacy
Discussion: Towleroad News #gay
ABCNEWS:
Haley Barbour: Contested GOP Convention ‘Not Necessarily Bad’
Glenn Garvin / MiamiHerald.com:
The Kennedy assassination: Did Castro know in advance?
Discussion: The Raw Story and Guardian
BREITBART.COM:
PELOSI'S DAUGHTER: HBO UNCOMFORTABLE WITH ‘FREELOADING WELFARE QUEEN’ VIDEO
Discussion: Power Line
 Earlier Items: 
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Mitt Romney calls on Obama to fire ‘gas hike trio’ over rising prices
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Mediaite
Morteza Nikoubazl / Reuters:
‘Diplomat says Saudis are arming Syrian rebels’
Discussion: Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
New York Times:
The Banks Win, Again
Discussion: The Washington Note
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Is Elvis a Mormon?  —  TRUST Mitt Romney to be on top …
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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