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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, Don Surber, 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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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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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
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, Mother Jones, HotAirPundit, American Spectator and Crooks and Liars
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
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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Campaign Stops, The Incidental Economist and The Reality-Based Community
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
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Justices signal deep trouble for health care law
Justices signal deep trouble for health care law
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Kennedy's “Heavy Burden of Justification” …
Kennedy's “Heavy Burden of Justification” …
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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:
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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Belmont Club and Mediaite
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
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.
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
Victor Davis Hanson / National Review:
Racial-Relations Regression — The Trayvon Martin tragedy …
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
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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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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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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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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Mediaite, ECHIDNE of the snakes, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, Weasel Zippers, Riptide 2.0 and The Daily Caller
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Jane L. Levere / New York Times:
Using a Light Touch to Attack a Dark Subject — Bolstered by a $50 million grant from Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York City, the Sierra Club is introducing its first major national video campaign to promote its Beyond Coal initiative. — The campaign features five videos …
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
EPA imposes first greenhouse gas limits on new power plants
EPA imposes first greenhouse gas limits on new power plants
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The Atlantic Online, Crooks and Liars, Swampland, Don Surber, Questions and Observations, Politico, Coal Tattoo and The PJ Tatler