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9:50 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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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 …
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)
Brookings Institute:
The Second Day of the Supreme Court's Hearing on the Health Care Law
Emily Ekins / Reason:
87 Percent of Americans Agree With Conservative Supreme Court Justices on Broccoli Mandate
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, Mediaite and Weasel Zippers
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Day 2 at the Court: Well, that Could Have Gone Better
Fox News:
Media Matters writer ‘sorry’ after blasting Drudge for Martin photo  —  A senior analyst with the liberal activist group Media Matters tweeted an apology on Tuesday after calling journalist Matt Drudge a racist and accusing him of using a phony photo of Trayvon Martin.
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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 …
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 …
Fox News:
Elderly couple forced out of home after tweet claims killer of Trayvon Martin lives there
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and JustOneMinute
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 …
Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
Registered Dem Killed Trayvon
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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NBC's Garrett Haake / msnbc.com:
Romney cracks jokes, talks policy with Jay Leno  —  BURBANK, Calif. - Seated on Jay Leno's couch for the first time since announcing his second presidential bid, Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney faced a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday that covered everything from policy questions …
Discussion: US Politics and Washington Post
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Romney's negatives hit new high, poll finds  —  A new poll shows Mitt Romney, who is locked in a prolonged GOP nomination fight, with lagging approval ratings, raising questions about his strength in a likely November match-up with President Obama.  —  Half of those surveyed hold unfavorable views …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Greg Holyk / ABCNEWS:   Record Number See Romney Negatively; Obama Outpaces Him in Popularity
Newt Gingrich / CNN:   CNN Poll: Majority in GOP say Gingrich and Paul should end bids
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.
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ThinkProgress:
Morning Briefing: March 28, 2012  —  During oral arguments yesterday, some Supreme Court justices seemed skeptical of the Obamacare's individual mandate.  Today, the court will hear arguments about whether the law could survive if the mandate was struck down.
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 …
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.
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
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
Internet Broadcasting / WPLG-TV:
Police: Trayvon protesters ransack store  —  North Miami Beach Walgreens incident caught on video  —  Surveillance video: Protesters ransack store  —  NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -  —  North Miami Beach police said surveillance video shows dozens of high school students demonstrating …
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CBS Miami:
NMB Students Turn Trayvon March Into Criminal Mischief Investigation
 
 
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Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
GOP running out of gas on Solyndra
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
Congressman Allen West / Facebook:
Today on Capitol Hill there are lots of J-Street (Pro-Palestinian Jewish Organization) representatives...
Rasmussen Reports:
Ohio Senate: Brown (D) 43%, Mandel (R) 43%
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Sen. Rand Paul: When Big Oil Screws Americans At The Gas Pump, ‘You Should Want To Encourage Them’
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
Restrictions on Voter Registration in Florida Have Groups Opting Out
Discussion: Philly.com
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Obama made the wrong World Bank call
Discussion: Firedoglake
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
GOP scraps planned highway vote for a second day in a row
Discussion: Politico
Jane L. Levere / New York Times:
Using a Light Touch to Attack a Dark Subject
Discussion: Grist and ThinkProgress
Greg Lukianoff / The Huffington Post:
The 12 Worst Schools For Free Speech In 2012
Discussion: Hit & Run and UrbanGrounds
 

 
From Mediagazer:

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

 
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