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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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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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JustOneMinute, The Huffington Post, Reuters 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
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
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
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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alicublog
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. …
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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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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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 …
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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Mollie Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Newt Gingrich: ‘Elite Media’ Is Covering Up Obama's ‘Muslim Friends’ … REACT: — FOLLOW: — 2012 Election, Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich 2012, Obama Muslim, Elections 2012, Islam, Newt Gingrich, Video, Obama Islam, Politics News, President Barack Obama, Gingrich Obama Muslims, Politics News
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Newt: Why does Obama ‘behave the way that people would think’ he's Muslim?
Newt: Why does Obama ‘behave the way that people would think’ he's Muslim?
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Washington Post, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, ThinkProgress and Washington Monthly
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, The Enterprise Blog, The New Republic, Felix Salmon, Dartmouth Now and Crooks and Liars
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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
Jim Yong Kim: President Obama's groundbreaking choice for World Bank president
Jim Yong Kim: President Obama's groundbreaking choice for World Bank president
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ThinkProgress, News Desk, Firedoglake, Guardian, Booman Tribune and The Raw Story