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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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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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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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CANNONFIRE, Hot Air, Wake up America, The PJ Tatler, msnbc.com, Hullabaloo and newsfeed.time.com
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.
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
BuzzFeed:
Romney, Santorum Comment On Trayvon Martin — After weeks of silence, candidates follow Obama's statement. Santorum condemns law enforcement for dragging its feet, Romney calls it a tragedy. — Freddie Muse holds a sign at a rally to call for justice in the murder of Trayvon Martin at Leimert Park in Los Angeles, March 22, 2012.
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Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:
MSNBC's Karen Finney Smears: Racism of Limbaugh Had ‘Lethal Consequences’ in Killing of Teen
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American Power, The Daily Caller, RedState and protein wisdom
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Geraldo Rivera: 'The Hoodie Is As Responsible For Trayvon Martin's Death As George Zimmerman'
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Mj Lee / Politico:
Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin killed due to ‘hoodie’
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The Caucus, Taylor Marsh, Hot Air, Daily Kos, CNN and The Huffington Post
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Trayvon Martin Updates
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The Daily Caller, msnbc.com and Balloon Juice
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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Sister Toldjah, Hot Air, americanthinker.com and Taylor Marsh
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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
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Conversing In French — Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney spent time in France during his college years as a Mormon missionary. This video from a 2005 fundraiser proves he's got the ability to hold a conversation in the language. — Follow — More from Andrew Kac... ›
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Mediaite, The Political Carnival, BuzzFeed and GOP 12
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Expands National GOP Lead
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Firedoglake, USA Today and Campaign 2012
Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Romney leads by 14, hits key milestone in new national poll
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Politico, Hot Air, CNN, The Huffington Post and Polling Matters
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Santorum: I'll Support Whoever Wins The GOP Nomination
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The Maddow Blog, Mother Jones and msnbc.com
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller:
Rick Santorum is getting grief — even from some of his supporters …
Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
5 things Dems got wrong on health care
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CNN, Reuters, New York Times, Don Surber, Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog, ABCNEWS 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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The Hill, New York Magazine, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon, The Raw Story and naked capitalism
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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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Ineffective Greenhouse — A liberal legal legend's ludicrous ObamaCare defense.
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The PJ Tatler, NewsBusters.org, Don Surber, The Volokh Conspiracy, PoliPundit.com, National Review, American Power, Hit & Run and RADAMISTO
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
If Medicare Is OK, Obamacare Should Be Too
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Change of Subject and Swampland
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
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Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Newt Gingrich: ‘Elite Media’ Is Covering Up Obama's ‘Muslim Friends’
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mobile.nationaljournal.com, The Raw Story, rightwingwatch.org and Balloon Juice
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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DownWithTyranny!, Ezra Klein, The New Republic, Outside the Beltway, Felix Salmon, The Enterprise Blog, Guardian and Dartmouth Now
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Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
A Surprise World Bank Pick
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Crooks and Liars, Balloon Juice and Suburban Guerrilla
Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
College President Is Obama's Pick for World Bank Chief
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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, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Techland 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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Washington Monthly and Prairie Weather
BuzzFeed:
Obama Uses The Same Patronizing Line On Many, Many Foreign Leaders — Denmark's Thomas Buch-Andersen thought it was kind of sweet that Obama said his country “punches above its weight.” Then he realized that the president was saying the same thing to pretty much everyone. — BuzzFeed Politics
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Mediaite, The Right Scoop, FP Passport and minx.cc
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, Guardian, The American Conservative and Gawker
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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Baltimore Sun:
Individual mandate is constitutional — Supreme Court should find that key aspect of Obama's signature law is a legitimate exercise of Commerce Clause power — On Monday, the Supreme Court will commence a nearly unprecedented six hours of oral argument concerning the constitutionality …
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The Volokh Conspiracy and Balkinization
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