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9:10 AM ET, March 28, 2012

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Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Obamacare's Supreme Court Disaster  —  Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli Jr. should be grateful to the Supreme Court for refusing to allow cameras in the courtroom, because his defense of Obamacare on Tuesday may go down as one of the most spectacular flameouts in the history of the court.
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James Carville / CNN:
Carville: A Supreme Court loss will help Democrats  —  (CNN) - While the Obama administration fights to protect the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, Democratic strategist and CNN contributor James Carville said a Supreme Court overruling may not be such a bad thing for the president, politically.
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: It is Kennedy's call (FINAL UPDATE 3:14 pm)  —  Analysis  —  If Justice Anthony M. Kennedy can locate a limiting principle in the federal government's defense of the new individual health insurance mandate, or can think of one on his own, the mandate may well survive.
Emily Ekins / Reason:
87 Percent of Americans Agree With Conservative Supreme Court Justices on Broccoli Mandate  —  The Associated Press reports:  —  Conservative justices on Tuesday sharply questioned whether the government can force Americans to buy health insurance.  In oral arguments over the new health care law passed …
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
John Roberts Court on trial  —  John Roberts is having his Bush v. Gore moment.  —  If the wily chief justice felt squeamish about leading the Supreme Court into an election-year political maelstrom, that was nowhere on display Tuesday, when the Roberts-led conservative majority signaled …
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Day 2 at the Court: Well, that Could Have Gone Better
Politico:
5 takeaways on health law arguments
Discussion: Firedoglake
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid slams Toobin, says justices' tough questions won't mean health law's demise
Discussion: Politico, Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Split in Questions on Insurance Requirement
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Fox News Commenters Spew Yet Another Deluge of Ugly Racist Hatred at Trayvon Martin  —  Yes, they're at it again.  The denizens of the comment forums on Fox News are spewing almost unbelievable amounts of racist hatred and sick violent fantasies in yet another thread: House Democrats Call …
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David Weigel / Slate:
When in Doubt, Smear the Dead Kid  —  In my younger, more innocent days, anyone who asked to follow me on Facebook got a little blue check mark next to “friend.”  The result, years later, is a large population of numbskulls who keep me abreast of the latest paranoid nonsense.
Fox News:
Media Matters writer ‘sorry’ after blasting Drudge for Martin photo
Discussion: Belmont Club and Mediaite
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Is There A Black Upper Class Bubble
Discussion: American Prospect and alicublog
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:   Racial-Relations Regression  —  The Trayvon Martin tragedy …
Matt Gutman / ABCNEWS:
Trayvon Martin Investigator Wanted Manslaughter Charge
Discussion: msnbc.com
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Registered Dem Killed Trayvon
Mike Allen / Politico:
Exclusive: Newt Gingrich cuts staff, aims at Tampa  —  Newt Gingrich is cutting back his campaign schedule, will lay off about a third of his cash-strapped campaign's full-time staff, and has replaced his manager as part of what aides are calling a “big-choice convention” strategy, communications director Joe DeSantis told POLITICO.
Tom Fontaine / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Santorum slips in Pennsylvania, survey finds  —  Rick Santorum appeared to be the Republican presidential candidate to beat in Pennsylvania a month ago.  —  With the state primary four weeks away, Santorum now finds himself nearly tied with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney among …
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Newt Gingrich / CNN:   CNN Poll: Majority in GOP say Gingrich and Paul should end bids
Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Elderly Couple In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet  —  Star erroneously linked Floridians to man who killed Trayvon Martin  —  With Twitter and Facebook continuing to explode with posts purporting to contain the address of George Zimmerman, property records and interviews reveal that the home …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Vetoed Human Elevator Bill  —  The former Massachusetts Governor vetoed a bill allocating money to improve elevators to comply with the American Disabilities Act.  —  What Romney's proposed car elevator might look like.  —  Source: dornob.com
BBC:
Syria forces ‘targeting children’  —  The Syrian authorities' treatment of children is “horrendous”, said the UN rights chief  —  Syrian authorities are deliberately and systematically targeting children, the United Nations' human rights chief, Navi Pillay, has told the BBC.
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Sen. Rand Paul: When Big Oil Screws Americans At The Gas Pump, ‘You Should Want To Encourage Them’  —  The top five oil companies in the United States have already made $5.8 billion in windfall profits from spiking gasoline prices this year.  Yesterday, Senate Republicans agreed to debate …
Matt Bai / New York Times:
Obama vs. Boehner: Who Killed the Debt Deal?  —  Almost immediately after the so-called grand bargain between President Obama and the Republican speaker of the house, John Boehner, unraveled last July, the two sides quickly settled into dueling, self-serving narratives of what transpired behind closed doors.
Discussion: Politico
Aaronmcquade / GLAAD:
Anti-Gay activists looking for glamorous, unintelligent celebrities to advance their cause  — Commentator Accountability Project  —  It sounds like a headline from the Onion, but strategy documents uncovered yesterday, from the nation's most prominent anti-gay marriage group …
CBS Miami:
NMB Students Turn Trayvon March Into Criminal Mischief Investigation  —  NORTH MIAMI BEACH (CBSMiami) — Thousands of students in South Florida have taken part in school walkouts as a way to protest the lack of an arrest in the Trayvon Martin killing at the hands of a volunteer neighborhood watch campaign.
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Greg Lukianoff / The Huffington Post:
The 12 Worst Schools For Free Speech In 2012  —  Free exchange of ideas is the lifeblood of any university, and for the second year in a row my organization, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), presents its list of the worst colleges and universities for freedom of speech.
Discussion: Hit & Run and UrbanGrounds
 
 
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Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Mobile and the news media's imploding business model | Michael Wolff
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM
Spokesman.com:
Idaho's forced ultrasound bill is dead
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Food Co-op Rejects Effort to Boycott Israeli-Made Products
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs and Israel Matzav
Congressman Allen West / Facebook:
Today on Capitol Hill there are lots of J-Street (Pro-Palestinian Jewish Organization) representatives...
Steve Keen / EconoMonitor:
A Primer on Minsky  —  My paper “Instability in Financial Markets …
Discussion: naked capitalism and Paul Krugman
Rasmussen Reports:
Ohio Senate: Brown (D) 43%, Mandel (R) 43%
New York Times:
Restrictions on Voter Registration in Florida Have Groups Opting Out
Discussion: Philly.com
 Earlier Items: 
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Obama made the wrong World Bank call
Discussion: Firedoglake
Jane L. Levere / New York Times:
Using a Light Touch to Attack a Dark Subject
Discussion: Grist and ThinkProgress
Carol E. Lee / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Makes Light of Missile-Shield Remark
Discussion: News Desk
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Bruning strong favorite in NE-Senate
Discussion: HotAirPundit
 

 
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Memo: WaPo's Matt Murray lays out plans for WP Ventures, the “third newsroom”; Krissah Thompson will be editor and Samantha Henig will be general manager

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Trump appoints Mark Burnett, the British TV executive who created and produced the reality show The Apprentice, as a special envoy to the UK

Liz Pelly / Harper's:
How Spotify used its Perfect Fit Content program to rig its system against musicians, filling popular playlists with “ghost artists” to cut its royalty payouts

 
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