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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Newt calls Obama's Trayvon Martin comments ‘disgraceful’ — Per POLITICO's Ginger Gibson, Newt Gingrich accused President Obama of playing race: … Obama has gotten some criticism for discussing a pending legal matter. But the question of whether Martin's race was a factor in his death …
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Fox's Geraldo Rivera: “I Think The Hoodie Is As Much Responsible For Trayvon Martin's Death As George Zimmerman” — On the March 23 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Geraldo Rivera reacted to the killing of 17-year-old, unarmed Florida resident Trayvon Martin …
Congressman Allen West / Facebook:
I have sat back and allowed myself time to assess the current episode revealing itself in Sanford Florida... I have sat back and allowed myself time to assess the current episode revealing itself in Sanford, Florida involving the shooting of 17-year-old Treyvon Martin.
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msnbc.com, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Reuters, Hot Air, CNN and Campaign 2012
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Newt: Why does Obama ‘behave the way that people would think’ he's Muslim? — POLITICO's Ginger Gibson reports: … Gingrich frequently talks about how the media won't let him elevate the discourse to the “big ideas” and serious issues.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Washington Post, ThinkProgress and Washington Monthly
Geraldo Rivera / Fox News:
Trayvon Martin Would Be Alive but for His Hoodie — Demonstrators take to the streets during the Million Hoodie March, Wednesday, March 21, 2012 in New York. A few hundred people were marching in New York City in memory of Trayvon Martin, a black teenager shot to death by a Hispanic neighborhood watch captain in Florida.
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msnbc.com, Booman Tribune, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, CANNONFIRE, Hullabaloo and Wake up America
CNN:
CNN's GUT CHECK for March 23, 2012 — n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle — BREAKING: NEW GALLUP POLL SHOWS ROMNEY WITH DOUBLE-DIGIT LEAD OVER SANTORUM: “Mitt Romney's national support among Republican voters has surged in recent days …
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Reuters, Politico, The Huffington Post, Prairie Weather and Firedoglake
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Obama: “If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon”
Obama: “If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon”
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The Huffington Post, Associated Press, Corrente and Truthdig
BuzzFeed:
Romney, Santorum Comment On Trayvon Martin
Romney, Santorum Comment On Trayvon Martin
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Mediaite, BuzzFeed, Washington Post and ThinkProgress
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:
MSNBC's Karen Finney Smears: Racism of Limbaugh Had ‘Lethal Consequences’ in Killing of Teen
MSNBC's Karen Finney Smears: Racism of Limbaugh Had ‘Lethal Consequences’ in Killing of Teen
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RedState, The Daily Caller, American Power and protein wisdom
Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Newt Gingrich: ‘Elite Media’ Is Covering Up Obama's ‘Muslim Friends’
Newt Gingrich: ‘Elite Media’ Is Covering Up Obama's ‘Muslim Friends’
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The Raw Story, mobile.nationaljournal.com, rightwingwatch.org and Balloon Juice
Bloomberg:
MF Global's Corzine Ordered Funds Moved to JPMorgan, Memo Says — Jon S. Corzine, MF Global Holding Ltd. (MFGLQ)'s chief executive officer, gave “direct instructions” to transfer $200 million from a customer fund account to meet an overdraft in one of the brokerage's JPMorgan Chase & Co. …
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Washington Free Beacon, New York Magazine, naked capitalism, The Hill, Hot Air and The Raw Story
Alex Wong / ABCNEWS:
As Santorum Fires Gun, Woman Shouts 'Pretend It's Obama' — WEST MONROE, Louisiana - At a campaign stop at a firing range, while Rick Santorum was firing off some rounds, a woman shouted, “pretend it's Obama.” — Santorum, who was far from the woman, couldn't hear the comment as he proceeded with his target practice.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Conversing In French
Mitt Romney Conversing In French
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Mediaite, The Political Carnival, GOP 12 and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Santorum: I'll Support Whoever Wins The GOP Nomination
Santorum: I'll Support Whoever Wins The GOP Nomination
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The Maddow Blog and Mother Jones
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
If Medicare Is OK, Obamacare Should Be Too — The lawyers challenging the Affordable Care Act will offer many arguments next week, when they make their case in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. But their most central claim is that the law is “unprecedented”—that it represents …
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Change of Subject, Swampland and Hit & Run
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Adam Peck / ThinkProgress:
INFOGRAPHIC: The Affordable Care Act Turns Two
INFOGRAPHIC: The Affordable Care Act Turns Two
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Daily Kos, Ezra Klein, Joe. My. God. and The Hill
Telegraph:
Woman died after Muslim nurse refused to help as he was praying — An elderly woman was left on the floor at a care home for up to ten minutes because a nurse was praying, an inquest heard. — Alzheimer's sufferer Dorothy Griffiths, 87, was found sitting down after staff heard a bang …
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Rasmussen Reports:
Wisconsin GOP: Romney, 46%, Santorum 33%, Paul 8%, Gingrich 7% — Mitt Romney holds a double-digit lead over Rick Santorum in Rasmussen Reports' first look at the Wisconsin Republican Primary race. — A new statewide telephone survey shows that 46% of Likely Republican Primary Voters …
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Washington Post, JSOnline, Hot Air, GOP 12 and Althouse
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Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Expands National GOP Lead
Romney Expands National GOP Lead
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USA Today, Firedoglake, Associated Press, Campaign 2012 and FiveThirtyEight
Washington Post:
Jim Yong Kim, Dartmouth College president, tapped by Obama to head World Bank — President Obama on Friday nominated Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, a move that would turn the organization over to a physician and development expert as opposed to the bankers …
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Ezra Klein, DownWithTyranny!, The New Republic, Outside the Beltway, The Enterprise Blog, Felix Salmon, Dartmouth Now and Guardian
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Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
A Surprise World Bank Pick
A Surprise World Bank Pick
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Crooks and Liars, Balloon Juice and Suburban Guerrilla
Facebook:
Protecting Your Passwords and Your Privacy — In recent months, we've seen a distressing increase in reports of employers or others seeking to gain inappropriate access to people's Facebook profiles or private information. This practice undermines the privacy expectations and the security of both the user and the user's friends.
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The Huffington Post, Techland, TechCrunch, Mashable! and Guardian
Richard W. Stevenson / The Caucus:
After Palin, Expect a More Intense Vetting Process — Let's say you're moving steadily toward wrapping up the Republican presidential nomination and you allow yourself to begin thinking ahead to the question of a running mate. — Your party has a potentially devastating problem with Hispanic voters …
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Hot Air, Washington Monthly and Prairie Weather
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Santorum spokesman denies Obama-Ahmadinejad conflation in new ad — My conversation with Rick Santorum spokesman Hogan Gidley about the new Santorum ad in which images of President Obama are interspersed with images of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
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Hot Air, msnbc.com, The Other McCain, Ballot Box, Little Green Footballs and Pundit & Pundette
Ben Geman / The Hill:
White House was all-hands-on-deck as Solyndra collapse neared — Several key White House offices were involved with the Obama administration's messaging plans and other preparations as the collapse of the taxpayer-backed solar company Solyndra was imminent, newly released documents show.
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Arlen Specter's Memoir: The Five Steamiest Passages … REACT: — FOLLOW: — WASHINGTON — Arlen Specter, the former senator who served Pennsylvania for 30 years, is out with a new memoir that laments the loss of comity in the U.S. Senate, calls for televised oral arguments …
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The PJ Tatler, The American Conservative, Gawker and Guardian
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Republican primary turnout rebounds, is up overall — Reports of the GOP's turnout problems appear to have been slightly premature. — A Fix review of turnout in the Republican presidential nominating process shows that it has rebounded in recent weeks, and GOP voters are now turning …
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Toby Harnden / Daily Mail:
Top Republican says ‘Democrat front group’ is orchestrating illegal Rush Limbaugh robocalls — A top Republican official has accused Democrats of being behind a fresh wave of illegal robocalls made to voters across the country by a shadowy group calling itself ‘The Women of the 99 Percent’.
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