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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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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Trayvon Martin and the End of Excuses — We have become a nation in which children have become expendable. Trayvon Martin is just the most recent example. — We executed children in this country until long after the rest of the world — except Iran — thought that was a good idea.
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msnbc.com, ThinkProgress, The Mahablog, Media Matters for America and CNN
Rene Lynch / Los Angeles Times:
Trayvon Martin case: ‘Blacks are under attack,’ says Jesse Jackson
Trayvon Martin case: ‘Blacks are under attack,’ says Jesse Jackson
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Weasel Zippers, americanthinker.com and The Right Scoop
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, Truthdig and Corrente
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Danish TV Host Mocks Obama for His Rhetoric — “Maybe the copy key got stuck on the presidential speechwriter's keyboard.” — Thomas Buch-Andersen, host of the Danish TV show Detektor, mocked President Obama's political rhetoric in a recent episode. “Obama used a metaphor from boxing …
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The Right Scoop, americanthinker.com and Conservatives4Palin
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Jerusalem Post:
'French teacher asked minute's silence for Merah' — French education minister calls for English teacher's suspension after she called Toulouse killer a “victim.” — By REUTERS/France 2 Television — France's education minister called for disciplinary proceedings against a teacher …
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americanthinker.com, Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
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Chuck Bennett / New York Post:
Horror movies — The Muslim fanatic who killed seven people …
Horror movies — The Muslim fanatic who killed seven people …
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PJ Media, Weasel Zippers and Atlas Shrugs
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Contempt of Court — How to lose friends and alienate justices. — (Best of the tube this weekend: Watch us preview the ObamaCare cases on “The Journal Editorial Report,” Saturday at 2 and 11 p.m. ET on Fox News Channel.) — Yesterday we noted that Linda Greenhouse of the New York Times …
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msnbc.com, Hit & Run and NewsBusters.org
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CNN:
CNN's GUT CHECK for March 23, 2012
CNN's GUT CHECK for March 23, 2012
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Whiskey Fire, JustOneMinute, Reuters, The Huffington Post and Politico
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
If Medicare Is OK, Obamacare Should Be Too
If Medicare Is OK, Obamacare Should Be Too
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Swampland and Washington Post
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.
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Weasel Zippers, americanthinker.com and The PJ Tatler
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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Jihad Watch and Weasel Zippers
m.jsonline.com:
GOP frontrunner Romney talks Ryan, ‘Obamacare’ and drilling — By Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel — Reaching out to conservative radio listeners, Republican Party presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney stepped up his Wisconsin primary campaign Thursday with a seven-minute appearance on the Charlie Sykes show on WTMJ-AM (620).
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The Maddow Blog, Ezra Klein and New York Magazine
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Rasmussen Reports:
Wisconsin GOP: Romney, 46%, Santorum 33%, Paul 8%, Gingrich 7%
Wisconsin GOP: Romney, 46%, Santorum 33%, Paul 8%, Gingrich 7%
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americanthinker.com, JSOnline, Hot Air, GOP 12, Washington Post and Althouse
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney Expands National GOP Lead
Romney Expands National GOP Lead
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Associated Press, Firedoglake and Campaign 2012
Michael Walsh / National Review:
The Consequences of No Consequences — Does anyone else notice the disconnect between stories such as this one, as noted by the estimable Walter Russell Mead: … And this one, about Sandra Fluke and her contraceptive demands: … Forget for the moment Read's implied connection between …
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Washington Post:
Mexico's middle class is becoming its majority — QUERETARO, Mexico — A wary but tenacious middle class is fast becoming the majority in Mexico, breaking down the rich-poor divide in a profound demographic transformation that has far-reaching implications here and in the United States.
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The Huffington Post
Jason Gilbert / The Huffington Post:
Tacocopter Aims To Deliver Tacos Using Unmanned Drone Helicopters … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Helicopters, Taco Helicopter, Tacocopter, Tacos, Tacos And Helicopter, Unmanned Drones, Technology News — Look, up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane!
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Unqualified Offerings and Marginal Revolution
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. …
Keith Laing / The Hill:
Obama: ‘Common sense’ transportation bill is ‘up to the House’ — President Obama used his weekly address to press House Republicans to accept the transportation funding bill that has been approved in the Senate on a bipartisan vote. — The current legislation that authorizes funding …
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 Raw Story, Guardian, The Huffington Post, Mashable!, Techland and TechCrunch
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Jim Yong Kim: President Obama's groundbreaking choice for World Bank president — Dr. Jim Yong Kim, President Obama's pick to head the World Bank for the next five years, is an old friend, so don't look for any objective journalism here. — But I would say it's an inspired and groundbreaking move.
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ThinkProgress, News Desk, Firedoglake, Guardian, Booman Tribune and The Raw Story
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