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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 …
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Right Wing News, Erick's blog, msnbc.com, CNN, ABCNEWS, Daily Kos and Taylor Marsh
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.
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Politico, Don Surber, The PJ Tatler and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Brookings Institute:
The Second Day of the Supreme Court's Hearing on the Health Care Law — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Care, U.S. Supreme Court — Henry J. Aaron, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies — After two days of oral arguments, it seems quite likely that the Supreme Court …
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The New Republic, Paul Krugman and Firedoglake
David Frum / david-frum:
Supremes Won't Save GOP From Itself on Obamacare
Supremes Won't Save GOP From Itself on Obamacare
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Taegan Goddard's …
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Kennedy: Individual Mandate Fundamentally Changes Relationship Of Gov't
Kennedy: Individual Mandate Fundamentally Changes Relationship Of Gov't
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americanthinker.com, Washington Post, Erick's blog, New York Times and Ricochet Conversations Feed
Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — After Rough Day In Court, An Optimistic View For Supporters Of ‘Obamacare’
TPMDC — After Rough Day In Court, An Optimistic View For Supporters Of ‘Obamacare’
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SCOTUSblog, Salon, Crooks and Liars, Capital New York, Mother Jones, Prairie Weather, HotAirPundit, American Spectator and Hot Air
Emily Ekins / Reason:
87 Percent of Americans Agree With Conservative Supreme Court Justices on Broccoli Mandate
87 Percent of Americans Agree With Conservative Supreme Court Justices on Broccoli Mandate
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seattlepi.com, Business Insider and Reuters
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid slams Toobin, says justices' tough questions won't mean health law's demise
Reid slams Toobin, says justices' tough questions won't mean health law's demise
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Politico, Mediaite and Weasel Zippers
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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americanthinker.com, Belmont Club and Mediaite
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Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Rep. Waters: ‘Stiff evidence’ death of Trayvon Martin a hate crime — Members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are doubling down in their investigation of the shooting death last month of Trayvon Martin in Florida, with one member on Wednesday leveling the accusation of “hate crime” at his shooter.
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Weasel Zippers and Rush Limbaugh
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs:
Fox News Commenters Spew Yet Another Deluge of Ugly Racist Hatred at Trayvon Martin
Fox News Commenters Spew Yet Another Deluge of Ugly Racist Hatred at Trayvon Martin
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Fox News, Booman Tribune and Brilliant at Breakfast
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Is There A Black Upper Class Bubble
Is There A Black Upper Class Bubble
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Booman Tribune, American Prospect, alicublog and Human Events
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Racial-Relations Regression — The Trayvon Martin tragedy …
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.
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CNN, The Hill, Fox News and Prairie Weather
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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The Moderate Voice, GOP 12, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway and msnbc.com
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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 …
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The Maddow Blog, US Politics and Washington Post
Newt Gingrich / CNN:
CNN Poll: Majority in GOP say Gingrich and Paul should end bids
Patricia Zengerle / Reuters:
Americans angry with Obama over gas prices — (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of Americans disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling high gasoline prices, although most do not blame him for them, according to a Reuters/Ipsos online poll released on Tuesday.
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ThinkProgress, Politico, Washington Post, Hot Air, Wonkette and HotAirPundit
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Greg Holyk / ABCNEWS:
Record Number See Romney Negatively; Obama Outpaces Him in Popularity
Record Number See Romney Negatively; Obama Outpaces Him in Popularity
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GOP 12
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box:
Romney's negatives hit new high, poll finds
Romney's negatives hit new high, poll finds
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Prairie Weather
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 …
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The Daily Caller, Business Insider, Scared Monkeys, The PJ Tatler, Pundit & Pundette, Ed Driscoll and Washington Times
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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.
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msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Brace yourself for another 5-4 decision — Brace yourself for another 5-4 decision... And such a decision would have two consequences: 1) feed the perception that the Supreme Court is as partisan as the other branches, and 2) satisfy no one... Yesterday was a bad day for the mandate …
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The Moderate Voice, Business Insider, The Caucus and Connecting.the.Dots
Bloomberg:
About Peter R Orszag — No Revenue Means Steep Social Security Cuts Under Romney — The basic contours of Mitt Romney's approach to Social Security reform are coming into focus, and the results aren't pretty. — Because Romney insists that any change include no additional revenue …
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 …
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Towleroad News #gay, Gay Politics and Good As You
Michelle Theriault Boots / The News Tribune:
Supporters of Proposition 5 ask opposition to pull TV, radio ad — Supporters of a proposed ordinance to extend anti-discrimination legal protections to gay and transgender people in Anchorage are asking an opposition group to pull a campaign ad that says day care centers would be forced to hire transvestites or face jail time.
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Towleroad News #gay