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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 …
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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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JustOneMinute, Fox News, Michelle Malkin, Little Green Footballs, CNN, TBogg, Mother Jones, americanthinker.com, WLS-TV, Weasel Zippers, Campaign 2012 and Daily Kos
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, The PJ Tatler, Hullabaloo and newsfeed.time.com
Alex Alvarez / Mediaite:
Geraldo Rivera: 'The Hoodie Is As Responsible For Trayvon Martin's Death As George Zimmerman'
Geraldo Rivera: 'The Hoodie Is As Responsible For Trayvon Martin's Death As George Zimmerman'
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Firedoglake, DISSENTING JUSTICE and Gothamist, more at Mediagazer »
Mj Lee / Politico:
Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin killed due to ‘hoodie’
Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin killed due to ‘hoodie’
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Hot Air, Daily Kos and The Huffington Post
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online:
Trayvon Martin Updates
Trayvon Martin Updates
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The Daily Caller, Mashable! and Hot Air
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus:
Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin Killing
Obama Speaks Out on Trayvon Martin Killing
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CNN, The Daily Caller, New York Times, Althouse, Connecting.the.Dots, Prairie Weather, The Lede, ACS Blog 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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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hot Air, americanthinker.com and Taylor Marsh
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Jonathan Easley / Ballot Box:
Romney leads by 14, hits key milestone in new national poll — Mitt Romney has broken through a key ceiling of support in the latest Gallup national GOP presidential poll. — Romney is the first candidate to hit the 40 percent mark in the poll, and now holds a 14 percent lead over Rick Santorum …
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CNN, Hot Air and The Huffington Post
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller:
Rick Santorum is getting grief — even from some of his supporters …
Rick Santorum is getting grief — even from some of his supporters …
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GOP 12, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway, The Hill, msnbc.com, Sister Toldjah, The Other McCain, ABCNEWS, Eunomia, Pundit & Pundette and American Spectator
Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum: ‘I would never vote for Barack Obama’
Santorum: ‘I would never vote for Barack Obama’
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The Hill, The PJ Tatler, The Raw Story, Political Watch and ABCNEWS
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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Campaign 2012, Left Coast Rebel, Hit & Run, Ezra Klein, American Prospect, The Huffington Post, ACS Blog, ThinkProgress and Prairie Weather
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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, ABCNEWS, Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog and Balloon Juice
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 …
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Ineffective Greenhouse — A liberal legal legend's ludicrous ObamaCare defense.
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, National Review, American Power, Hit & Run and RADAMISTO
Sarah Kliff / Ezra Klein:
Health reform at 2: Why American health care will never be the same
Health reform at 2: Why American health care will never be the same
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post and THEROOT.COM
Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
College President Is Obama's Pick for World Bank Chief — WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday named Jim Yong Kim, the president of Dartmouth College and a global health expert, as its nominee to lead the World Bank. — That makes Dr. Kim the front-runner to take the helm …
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Power Line, Associated Press, Guardian, Crooks and Liars, Firedoglake, msnbc.com, Daily Kos and The Maddow Blog
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Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
A Surprise World Bank Pick
A Surprise World Bank Pick
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Ezra Klein, Balloon Juice and Suburban Guerrilla
Don Lee / Los Angeles Times:
Obama nominates Dartmouth's Jim Yong Kim to be World Bank chief
Obama nominates Dartmouth's Jim Yong Kim to be World Bank chief
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ThinkProgress, Washington Free Beacon, Ezra Klein, Outside the Beltway, The Gateway Pundit and Booman Tribune
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
AP sources: Obama taps Jim Yong Kim for World Bank
AP sources: Obama taps Jim Yong Kim for World Bank
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Firedoglake, Washington Post and Mashable!
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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ThinkProgress, Reuters, The Huffington Post, Washington Post, Shakesville, Campaign 2012 and msnbc.com
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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ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly and Washington Post
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters.org:
MSNBC's Karen Finney Smears: Racism of Limbaugh Had ‘Lethal Consequences’ in Killing of Teen — MSNBC analyst and Democratic strategist Karen Finney disgustingly smeared Rush Limbaugh and several Republican presidential candidates on Thursday, charging that the racist hate of these conservatives had …
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American Power and protein wisdom
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Peter Allen / Daily Mail:
Outrage as teacher tells pupils to hold a minute's silence for Toulouse terrorist who killed seven because he was ‘victim of an unhappy childhood’ — Hundreds of people participated in a minute of silence to Merah's victims today at Capitol square in Toulouse
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The Jawa Report and Atlas Shrugs
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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Prairie Weather
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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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Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Richard Hanna, GOP Congressman, Tells Women To Give Their Money To Democrats … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Video, Equal Rights Amendment, GOP War On Women, Carolyn Maloney Equal Rights Amendment, Rep. Richard Hanna, Richard Hanna Equal Rights Amendment, Richard Hanna Women, Politics News
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The Hill, Citizen and 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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PRI, The Hill, CNNMoney.com, The Caucus, Green, ThinkProgress, Prairie Weather and InsideClimate News