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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.
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Politico, The Hill and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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.
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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 …
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seattlepi.com, Reuters and Business Insider
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
John Roberts Court on trial
John Roberts Court on trial
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Right Wing News, Erick's blog, msnbc.com and ABCNEWS
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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Salon, Capital New York, Prairie Weather, HotAirPundit, American Spectator and Crooks and Liars
Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Day 2 at the Court: Well, that Could Have Gone Better
Day 2 at the Court: Well, that Could Have Gone Better
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The Incidental Economist and The Reality-Based Community
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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Washington Post, Ezra Klein, Erick's blog, New York Times and Ricochet Conversations Feed
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Justices signal deep trouble for health care law
Justices signal deep trouble for health care law
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CBS News, Swords Crossed, Latest from Crain's … and Opinion L.A.
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, Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Split in Questions on Insurance Requirement
Justices Split in Questions on Insurance Requirement
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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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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 and Outside the Beltway
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
Newt Gingrich / CNN:
CNN Poll: Majority in GOP say Gingrich and Paul should end bids
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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Fox News, Booman Tribune and Brilliant at Breakfast
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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
Media Matters writer ‘sorry’ after blasting Drudge for Martin photo
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Belmont Club and Mediaite
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Is There A Black Upper Class Bubble
Is There A Black Upper Class Bubble
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American Prospect and alicublog
Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
TRAYVON MARTIN PARENTS TO TESTIFY IN CONGRESS
TRAYVON MARTIN PARENTS TO TESTIFY IN CONGRESS
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Little Green Footballs, protein wisdom and The Huffington Post
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Racial-Relations Regression — The Trayvon Martin tragedy …
Mj Lee / Politico:
Geraldo Rivera apologizes for ‘hoodie’ comment
Geraldo Rivera apologizes for ‘hoodie’ comment
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Crooks and Liars, Gothamist, msnbc.com, National Review, Mediaite, ThinkProgress, The Raw Story and Little Green Footballs
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, Scared Monkeys, Pundit & Pundette, Ed Driscoll and Washington Times
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
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Newsy, Mediaite, The Caucus, Daily Kos, The Maddow Blog, Business Insider and The Stranger …
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.
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Reuters, msnbc.com, americanthinker.com, Newsy, Guardian and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
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 …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Hullabaloo
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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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 …
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Towleroad News #gay, Gay Politics and Good As You
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Obama made the wrong World Bank call — Every now and then something crystallises how rapidly the world is changing. Last week's nomination by President Barack Obama of Jim Yong Kim as the next president of the World Bank presents one such moment. The story ought to proceed by tradition …
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Firedoglake
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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No More Mister Nice Blog and Jammie Wearing Fools
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Internet Broadcasting / WPLG-TV:
Police: Trayvon protesters ransack store
Police: Trayvon protesters ransack store
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Mediaite, ECHIDNE of the snakes, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Weasel Zippers, Riptide 2.0 and The Daily Caller
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.
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Hit & Run and UrbanGrounds