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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
White Supremacist Hacks Trayvon Martin's Email Account, Leaks Messages Online — The racist smear campaign against Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen shot to death last month in Florida, has reached a new level of ghoulishness. A white supremacist hacker says he's broken into Martin's email …
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Washington Post:
Tracy Martin recounts police version of son Trayvon's death — A police detective told the father of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin that his son initiated two confrontations with the neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot him. — Tracy Martin, describing the police version of events …
David Remnick / News Desk:
Bruce and Trayvon: American Skin — Last night, I bolted work to catch the first show of two by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band in Philadelphia. I first saw Springsteen when he was the opening act for Chicago, in 1973 (which means I saw him even before Jon Landau branded him, indelibly, as “rock and roll's future").
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Examiner, MiamiHerald.com, ThinkProgress, msnbc.com and Feministe
Toddstarnes / Fox News:
Palin Believes Obama Orchestrated Martin Remarks — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said lawmakers need to tone down the rhetoric in the aftermath of the Trayvon Martin shooting and suggested that President Obama orchestrated remarks he made about the teenager's death.
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers, Little Green Footballs and Conservatives4Palin
Extra:
‘Extra’ Exclusive: Oprah Winfrey Sounds-Off on Trayvon Martin Tragedy — “Extra's” AJ Calloway sat down exclusively with Oprah Winfrey in St. Louis, where she spoke for the first time about the tragic death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. She also talked about cancelling Rosie O'Donnell's show …
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Weasel Zippers, EURweb, Los Angeles Times, Gothamist and Change of Subject
Matt Williams / Guardian:
Trayvon Martin aftermath video casts doubt on George Zimmerman's account
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msnbc.com, NewsBusters.org, The New Republic, Gothamist, Truthdig and New York Magazine
Kim Severson / New York Times:
Skittles Sales Up After Trayvon Martin Shooting
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Mediaite, Guardian and Weasel Zippers
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
How did legal observers and Obamacare backers get it so wrong? — I didn't mention this yesterday, but in his interview with me about the limiting principle, former Reagan Solicitor General Charles Fried was scaldingly critical of the willingness of the conservative bloc of Supreme Court justices …
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
A Moment of Silence for Obamacare — Prayers, depression, and Latin phrases. Obamacare looks to have had another very bad day. — The Supreme Court heard three days of oral argument on the Affordable Care Act — Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images. — It bears pointing out that for all …
New York Post:
A supreme shock for ‘La-La’ libs — The panicked reception in the mainstream media of the three-day Supreme Court health-care marathon is a delightful reminder of the nearly impenetrable parochialism of American liberals. — They're so convinced of their own correctness …
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New York Magazine, Patterico's Pontifications, Betsy's Page, Viking Pundit and Opinionator
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Overconfidence: the fatal flaw
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No More Mister Nice Blog and Taylor Marsh
Conn Carroll / Campaign 2012:
Breyer's unhinged Commerce Clause ramblings
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ACS Blog, Pundit & Pundette, Hit & Run, Wake up America and The Huffington Post
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
Tony Scalia's Retirement Has Started Early
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Althouse, his vorpal sword, Balkinization, Washington Free Beacon and THE WESTERN EXPERIENCE
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Paul Ryan: 'We don't think the generals are giving us their true advice' on budget — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) expressed skepticism Thursday that U.S. military leaders were being honest in their budget requests to Congress. — “We don't think the generals …
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Rep. Ryan's budget passed by the House with 10 GOP defections
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Ballot Box, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*, Hot Air, Daily Kos and Washington Free Beacon
David Rogers / Politico:
Paul Ryan budget passes on partisan vote
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The Hill and Indecision Forever
BuzzFeed:
Exclusive: Paul Ryan Will Endorse Romney — A source tells BuzzFeed the Budget Chairman's staff told Rick Santorum he'll back the frontrunner. — (Getty Images / Chip Somodevilla) — Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the icon of the anti-spending movement in the Republican Party …
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Byron Tau / Politico:
John Kerry: They're swiftboating Obama — Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has lent his name to a fundraising solicitation that raises the specter of millionaires and billionaires funding an outside effort against President Obama. — “When I was the Democratic nominee for president in one of the closest …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Un-Godly liars: the Catholic Bishops should just run for office if they want to be politicians — Un-Godly liars — I suspect that most of the smart Jesuits I've known in my life would weep to hear this drivel: … That's going to come as a hell of a surprise to the founders of this country.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House approves 90-day highway bill, dares Senate to reject it — The House on Thursday morning approved a 90-day extension of federal highway programs over the objections of angry Democrats, a move that dares Senate Democrats to reject the bill just days before federal authorization expires.
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Reuters, CNN, ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Booman Tribune
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Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Early Outlook for the 2012 Congressional Elections: A Forecasting Perspective
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RedState and Ezra Klein
Logan Smith / Palmetto Public Record:
Haley indictment imminent? Stay tuned... Two well-placed legal experts have independently told Palmetto Public Record they expect the U.S. Department of Justice to issue an indictment against South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on charges of tax fraud as early as this week.
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller:
Mitt Romney can thank President Obama's “flexibility” for Marco Rubio's endorsement. — In an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller, Sen. Rubio revealed that President Obama's recent “open mic” gaffe with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sparked his endorsement of Mitt Romney for president Wednesday night.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mitt Romney Made Fun Of John Kerry For Having A Large Home
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BuzzFeed, Daily Kos, Mediaite, Hot Air and Los Angeles Times
Apickering / Fair Labor Association:
Foxconn Investigation Report — Publication date: — Thursday, March 29, 2012 — On February 13, FLA launched an independent investigation into labor rights allegations at Foxconn, an Apple supplier in China. FLA assessors logged more than 3,000 staff hours inside the factories.
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GigaOM, BBC and Mike Daisey
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Paul Thompson / Telegraph:
Parents of murdered British students criticise Barack Obama — The parents of two British students murdered in Florida have criticised President Barack Obama for his lack of compassion over their son's deaths. — Shawn Tyson — His failure to respond to three letters sent to the White House …
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Power Line, Mediaite, The Right Scoop, Weasel Zippers, Don Surber and The Hinterland Gazette
Brian Brown / NOM Blog:
“Gay Marriage has Backfired...”, NOM Marriage News — “Gay marriage has backfired on the Democratic Party.” — With those words one of my personal heroes, New York State Sen Rev. Rubén Díaz (a Democrat from the Bronx) opened his press release titled, “What you should know.”
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Good As You and Holy Bullies …
Health Care at the High Court:
GOP Ad Uses Doctored SCOTUS Audio — The GOP ad released online earlier this week makes it appear Solicitor General Donald Verrilli gave a worse presentation than he did, a Bloomberg News analysis of the ad and the court's official audio recording shows. The full story follows:
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