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EXCLUSIVE: Robert Zimmerman interview — LAKE MARY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - For the first time since that fateful night on February 26, the father of a neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed an unarmed teenager sat down for a television interview. — Robert Zimmerman …
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New Police Video Shows George Zimmerman Unscathed On Night Of Trayvon Martin Shooting — ABC News has obtained exclusive video of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman on the night he shot the Florida teenager, speaking to police. While there is no audio, the video is key evidence …
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BLAME PALIN? ‘KILL ZIMMERMAN’ TWITTER ACCOUNT LAUNCHED — Barack Obama has remained silent as the usual suspects have been busy stirring up hate aimed at George Zimmerman, the Florida Hispanic involved in the shooting death of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin. Now the anger has taken a new twist …
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George Zimmerman on Police Surveillance — Tapes show neighborhood watchman on night of Trayvon Martin killing.
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Trayvon Martin: The 5 Key Unanswered Questions
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George Zimmerman's Father Relates George's Account of Encounter
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Trayvon Martin: Couple who fled home after Spike Lee tweet hires Morgan firm
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nation.foxnews.com, Ed Driscoll, The Hinterland Gazette, Riehl World View and The Raw Story

Rasmussen does a poll on whether Zimmerman is guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin.
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Connecting.the.Dots, Rasmussen Reports, The Caucus, Outside the Beltway and Bloomberg


Judicial activists in the Supreme Court — Three days of Supreme Court arguments over the health-care law demonstrated for all to see that conservative justices are prepared to act as an alternative legislature, diving deeply into policy details as if they were members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
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Political Memo: Whatever the Ruling in Health Case, Bipartisan Fallout — WASHINGTON — The law professor side of President Obama is highly intrigued by the Supreme Court hearings over the constitutionality of his health care law. He studied a summary of the arguments aboard Air Force …
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Hotline On Call, Washington Post, Prairie Weather and The Caucus


TPMDC — Dems Warn Of ‘Grave Damage’ To SCOTUS If ‘Obamacare’ Is Struck Down

White House has no contingency plans if health law is tossed
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CNN's Toobin discusses the Toobin factor
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FishbowlDC, Business Week and NewsBusters.org

Take It From Me: Defending Obamacare is Super-Hard
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Don Surber, Ezra Klein and Mother Jones


Sheldon Adelson on Newt: 'He's at the end of his line' — Sheldon Adelson, who with wife Miri, has given more than $15 million to the Newt Gingrich Super PAC Winning Our Future, said Monday he believes Gingrich is “at the end of his line” regarding the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
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Gingrich says no deal after a secret talk with Romney — Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich met secretly with GOP rival Mitt Romney on Saturday, according to a source close to the campaign, but the former House speaker says he has made no deal to end his bid for the GOP nomination.
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Top super-PAC donor Adelson says Gingrich ‘at the end of his line’ — Billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who has been the primary source of funding for Winning Our Future, the super-PAC supporting Newt Gingrich, said the candidate is “at the end of his line” on Wednesday.
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Gingrich: Like a struggling sports team, I'm not quitting
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Obama budget defeated 414-0 — President Obama's budget was defeated 414-0 in the House late Wednesday, in a vote Republicans arranged to try to embarrass him and shelve his plan for the rest of the year. — The vote came as the House worked its way through its own fiscal year 2013 budget proposal …
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0-414 vote: House clobbers budget proposal based on Obama's 2013 plan — The House on Wednesday night unanimously rejected an alternative budget proposal based on President Obama's 2013 budget plan, dispatching it in a 0-414 rout. — The vote came just hours after the White House cast …
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Conservative Judicial Activists Run Amok — The joke is on you, judicial restraint. — Five years ago, Jeffrey Rosen wrote a startling essay in the New York Times Magazine, describing a radical turn of events that is being borne out before our eyes. In the piece, Rosen described the rise …
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Tony Scalia's Retirement Has Started Early — Here's the deal. I think Justice Antonin Scalia isn't even really trying any more. It's been clear for some time now that he's short-timing his job on the Supreme Court. The job bores him. All these inferior intellects coming before him.
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The Supreme Court's Dark Vision of Freedom
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Rubio endorses Romney for president — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising star in the Republican Party and a favorite among conservatives to round out the party's ticket this fall, endorsed Mitt Romney for president on Wednesday evening. — Rubio's endorsement is a marker of support that many candidates had sought.
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TRENDING: Rubio endorses Romney, argues GOP should ‘come together’
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CNN Poll: Obama leads Romney and Santorum in November showdowns
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Marco Rubio Endorses Mitt Romney, Avoids Vice Presidential Speculation
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Romney gets flak over Wisconsin anecdote from long ago — Normal — false — false — false — EN-US — X-NONE — X-NONE — MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 — <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true" — DefSemiHidden="true" DefQFormat="false" DefPriority="99"

Limbaugh sees heat over comments turn down to a simmer — View Photo Gallery — Rush Limbaugh is no stranger to controversial statements: A month after conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh called Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “slut,” the heat on him is fading.
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WaPo: This Rush Limbaugh boycott has pretty much fizzled, huh?
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Mediaite and Michelle Malkin

Argument recap: Will Medicaid be sacrificed? (FINAL UPDATE 7:08 pm) — Analysis — Unless a closing oration by a top government lawyer stirs some real sympathy for the poor, the new health care law's broad expansion of the Medicaid program that serves the needy may be sacrificed …
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Argument recap: A lift for the mandate? (FINAL UPDATE 5:12 pm)
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Business Bets on the G.O.P. May Be Backfiring — WASHINGTON — Big business groups like the Chamber of Commerce spent millions of dollars in 2010 to elect Republican candidates running for the House. The return on investment has not always met expectations.
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Daniel W. Drezner, The Baseline Scenario and No More Mister Nice Blog