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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 …
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ThinkProgress, American Prospect, TalkLeft, Washington Post, The Maddow Blog, Gawker and CBS News
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Obama: 'If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon' — President Obama weighed in Friday on the shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, calling it a national tragedy - and saying that the young man reminded him of his own children. — “When I think about this boy, I think about my own kids,” Obama said in Rose Garden remarks.
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Weasel Zippers and americanthinker.com
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Geraldo Rivera: 'The Hoodie Is As Responsible For Trayvon Martin's Death As George Zimmerman' — Geraldo Rivera stopped by Fox & Friends Friday morning, where he gave his take on the Trayvon Martin shooting — particularly on the hoodie the teen was wearing the night he was shot.
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Firedoglake, DISSENTING JUSTICE and Gothamist, more at Mediagazer »
Mj Lee / Politico:
Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin killed due to ‘hoodie’ — Fox News host Geraldo Rivera said Friday he would “bet money” that Trayvon Martin wouldn't have been fatally shot by a neighborhood watch captain if the teenager hadn't been wearing a hoodie and he called on parents to stop their kids from going out in public dressed that way.
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Daily Kos and The Huffington Post
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Santorum leads in LA and other notes... Rick Santorum is headed for a commanding win in Louisiana on Saturday. We find him with 42% to 28% for Mitt Romney, 18% for Newt Gingrich, 8% for Ron Paul, and 2% for Buddy Roemer. — It's interesting to look at these numbers in the context of last week's results in Alabama and Mississippi.
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Firedoglake, Politico, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Booman Tribune, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Atlantic Online, Guardian and JSOnline
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Santorum: Might As Well Have Obama Over Romney
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The Hill, americanthinker.com, YID With LID, The Agonist, iOwnTheWorld.com and New York Magazine
Mike Allen / Politico:
Playbook: America's seniors
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Economist, Political Watch and Daily Kos
msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Health care takes center stage
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NPR, Business Week and Prairie Weather
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway:
Santorum: People May As Well Vote For Obama If Romney Is The Nominee
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Hot Air, Sister Toldjah, Eunomia, msnbc.com and Mother Jones
Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
Santorum suggests Obama preferable to ‘Etch-A-Sketch’ Romney
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Shakesville, Don Surber, Campaign 2012, BuzzFeed, Mediaite, CNN and Bangor Daily News, more at Mediagazer »
NBC's Andrew Rafferty / msnbc.com:
Santorum: GOP better off with Obama than ‘Etch A Sketch’ Republican
Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
5 things Dems got wrong on health care — President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies thought their political assumptions were airtight during the yearlong battle to overhaul the health care system. — Voters would reward them, they thought, even if Democrats muscled a bill through without Republican support.
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CNN, New York Times, Hot Air, ABCNEWS, No More Mister Nice Blog and Balloon Juice
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Julie Pace / Associated Press:
AP sources: Obama taps Jim Yong Kim for World Bank — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama will nominate Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, a surprise pick for the international financial institution's top job, senior administration officials said.
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Firedoglake, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Mashable!
Sarah Kliff / Ezra Klein:
Health reform at 2: Why American health care will never be the same — In February 2009, Michael Zucker told a group of high-paid surgeons something they did not want to hear: The way they earned a salary was about to change. — Zucker is the chief development officer at Baptist Health System, a five-hospital network in San Antonio.
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post and THEROOT.COM
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Ineffective Greenhouse — A liberal legal legend's ludicrous ObamaCare defense. — Linda Greenhouse is something of an institution of legal journalism. She became the New York Times's Supreme Court correspondent in 1978. Thirty years later, when she accepted an early-retirement package …
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Don Surber, The Volokh Conspiracy, American Power, National Review, Hit & Run, RADAMISTO, Opinionator and Ezra Klein
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Obamacare: The reckoning — Obamacare dominated the 2010 midterms, driving its Democratic authors to a historic electoral shellacking. But since then, the issue has slipped quietly underground. — Now it's back, summoned to the national stage by the confluence of three disparate events …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
It's Not About the Law, Stupid — Forget precedent. Ignore Scalia's musings. Next week's health care argument before the Supreme Court is all about optics, politics, and public opinion. — Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the Affordable Care Act, what many people know as Obamacare.
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American Prospect, The Huffington Post, ACS Blog, ThinkProgress and Prairie Weather
Maureen O'Connor / Gawker:
James O'Keefe's Panty-Stealing ‘Rape Barn’ Sex Scandal — It's a right-wing rabble-rouser showdown! Jazz-handed pimp impersonator James O'Keefe is at “#WAR” with a former Project Veritas colleague who is now blogging an O'Keefe tell-all involving stolen panties, drugged beers, a “rape barn …
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IvyGate
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Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Former James O'Keefe ‘Accomplice’ Reveals ‘Barn Incident’ And Harassment Complaint
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Patterico's Pontifications, Firedoglake, NADIA NAFFE, Crooks and Liars and Daily Kos
Barbara / The News Star:
Teacher fired after claims 3rd-graders had sex — Madison super tackles issues in classrooms — A Tallulah Elementary School teacher was dismissed after she was in the classroom while two third-graders were reportedly having oral sex under a table. A Madison Parish High School teacher …
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The Raw Story
New York Times:
U.S. Inches Toward Goal of Energy Independence — MIDLAND, Tex. — The desolate stretch of West Texas desert known as the Permian Basin is still the lonely domain of scurrying roadrunners by day and howling coyotes by night. But the roar of scores of new oil rigs and the distinctive acrid fumes …
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The Hill, ThinkProgress, CNNMoney.com, Green, Prairie Weather and InsideClimate News
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite:
Pres. Obama To Heckler: 'You Can Hold Your Own Rally. You're Being Rude' — During a rally Ohio State University on Thursday, President Obama's speech about energy was interrupted by a heckler. Pausing, Obama directly addressed the man, asking him not to interrupt. “You're being rude,” he said.
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CBS News
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Gov. Scott Walker rival: Stop union ‘fiction’ — Wisconsin state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout, a Democrat hoping to challenge Gov. Scott Walker, says she's looking forward to dismantling the Republican governor's “fiction” that union money is behind this year's recall election.
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