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2:20 PM ET, March 29, 2012

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Valerie Boey / Orlando and Central Florida News …:

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 …

Dan Riehl / BREITBART.COM:

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 …

Discussion: The Jawa Report, No More Mister Nice Blog, Orlando Sentinel, americanthinker.com and Ed Driscoll

Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:

Police surveillance video of Zimmerman may show head injury — Surveillance video of George Zimmerman arriving at a Sanford, Fla. police station indicates what may be an injury to the back of his head, a Daily Caller analysis shows. — ABC News published the video Wednesday evening.

Discussion: protein wisdom, ABCNEWS, Riehl World View, Salon, Examiner, Weasel Zippers, New York Magazine, Mediaite, Change of Subject and iOwnTheWorld.com

CBS News:
Bloomberg: We don't need vigilantes

Discussion: Washington Monthly and Runnin' Scared

Frances Martel / Mediaite:
New Police Video Shows George Zimmerman Unscathed On Night Of Trayvon Martin Shooting

Discussion: Connecting.the.Dots, Pirate's Cove, JustOneMinute, The Hinterland Gazette, Riehl World View, The Caucus, American Power, National Review, Althouse, Examiner and Bloomberg

The Christian / Christian Science Monitor:
New police video casts doubt on George Zimmerman injuries

Discussion: Washington Post, Hit & Run, MiamiHerald.com and The Reaction

Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Trayvon Martin: The 5 Key Unanswered Questions

Discussion: The Atlantic Online, JustOneMinute, Mediaite, Feministing, National Review, WWBT-TV, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Mahablog, Hullabaloo, The Hinterland Gazette and Shakesville

Matt Gutman / ABCNEWS:
Trayvon Martin Video Shows No Blood or Bruises on George Zimmerman

Discussion: msnbc.com, News Desk, Daily Kos, ThinkProgress, Colorlines, BuzzFeed, Examiner, Philly.com and DISSENTING JUSTICE

E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:

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.

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 …

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, RedState, US Politics and Talking Points Memo

Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:

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.

Discussion: Balkinization and Althouse

Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:

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 …

Discussion: American Prospect, Slate, The Incidental Economist, The Maddow Blog, Prairie Weather, Lawyers, Guns & Money, david-frum and New York Times

Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Political Memo: Whatever the Ruling in Health Case, Bipartisan Fallout

Discussion: The Moderate Voice, Washington Post, Wake up America, Prairie Weather, No More Mister Nice Blog, Hotline On Call, The Caucus and GQ

Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — Dems Warn Of ‘Grave Damage’ To SCOTUS If ‘Obamacare’ Is Struck Down

Discussion: Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, TBogg, Swampland, Mediaite and Salon

Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:

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 …

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, Jammie Wearing Fools, Questions and Observations, Scared Monkeys, americanthinker.com, Pirate's Cove and Patterico's Pontifications

Alan I. Abramowitz / Sabato's Crystal Ball:

The Early Outlook for the 2012 Congressional Elections: A Forecasting Perspective — In today's Crystal Ball, Alan Abramowitz — whose election models are among the best in the business — provides an early look at what they tell us about the race for the House and the Senate.

Discussion: RedState and Ezra Klein

Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House approves 90-day highway bill, dares Senate to reject it

Discussion: ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and Booman Tribune

Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
0-414 vote: House clobbers budget proposal based on Obama's 2013 plan

Discussion: Firedoglake, Wall Street Journal, The Heritage Foundation, Politico and Conservatives4Palin

Ezra Klein:
Wonkbook: House reaches bipartisan deal to reject Simpson-Bowles

Discussion: Bloomberg, Brad DeLong, Capital New York and americanthinker.com

Keith Laing / The Hill:
GOP shifts to offense in highway bill fight

Discussion: Firedoglake, ThinkProgress, Main Street and ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/*

Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Consistency: Obama budget fails to get a single Democratic vote ... again

Fox News:
House easily rejects Obama budget in tactical vote

Discussion: RedState

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Report: Gingrich and Romney held secret meeting — Newt Gingrich held a secret meeting with Mitt Romney ahead of the Louisiana primary on Saturday, according to news report citing an anonymous source close to the Gingrich campaign. — The two reportedly met at the hotel where Romney was staying in New Orleans.

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Wonkette, Shakesville and The Hill

Jay Firestone / jewishjournal.com:

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.

Discussion: Washington Monthly, Politico, The Hill, CNN, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The Raw Story, ThinkProgress, Guardian, Hot Air, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and NY Daily News

Ralph Z. Hallow / Washington Times:
Gingrich says no deal after a secret talk with Romney

Discussion: Politico, The PJ Tatler, CNN, americanthinker.com, The Moderate Voice and The Hill

Quinnipiac University:

Brown Is 10 Points Up In Ohio Senate Race Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Women Back Democrat By 17 Points — With a commanding lead among women, Ohio U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, the Democratic incumbent, leads Republican challenger Josh Mandel 46 - 36 percent, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

Discussion: Hotline On Call, Washington Wire and Campaign 2012

msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: Santorum's last chance (really, this is it)

Discussion: Washington Examiner and Riptide 2.0

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.

Discussion: Taegan Goddard's … and Business Insider

Associated Press:

Obama outspends Republican campaigns by millions — CHICAGO (AP) — With Republicans locked in a contentious and expensive primary, President Barack Obama has spent a small fortune in recent months to build and maintain a campaign operation that is larger, more diverse and more focused …

Discussion: The Hill, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers

Ben Geman / The Hill:

Senate defeats Dem measure to nix ‘Big Oil’ tax breaks, 51-47 — The Senate on Thursday thwarted Democratic plans to strip billions of dollars in tax breaks from the largest oil companies, just an hour or so after President Obama urged the chamber to kill off the deductions.

Discussion: The Caucus, InsideClimate News, The Maddow Blog and Daily Kos

Ben Armbruster / ThinkProgress:

Paul Ryan: The Generals Are Lying About Their Support For Obama's Pentagon Budget — Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said in February that he fully supports the Pentagon's new budget, which incorporates $487 billion in cuts over 10 years, saying it will …

Discussion: Daily Kos and Washington Times