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6:10 PM ET, March 30, 2012

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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Broccoli and Bad Faith  —  Nobody knows what the Supreme Court will decide with regard to the Affordable Care Act.  But, after this week's hearings, it seems quite possible that the court will strike down the “mandate” — the requirement that individuals purchase health insurance — and maybe the whole law.
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obamacare Is On Trial.  So Is the Supreme Court.  —  Before this week, the well-being of tens of millions of Americans was at stake in the lawsuits challenging the Affordable Care Act.  —  Now something else is at stake, too: The legitimacy of the Supreme Court.  —  Nobody knows how the justices will rule.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
News Analysis: Justice Anthony M. Kennedy May Be Key to Health Law Ruling  —  WASHINGTON — The way to frame a Supreme Court argument meant to persuade Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is to talk about liberty.  It is his touchstone and guiding principle, and his conception of liberty is likely …
CNN:
Obama: ‘Change is the health care reform we passed’
Discussion: Politico
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Supreme Court May Be Most Conservative in Modern History
Discussion: Ezra Klein
Terry / CNSNews:
Justice Breyer on Obamacare: 'I Haven't Read Every Word of That, I Promise'
Discussion: protein wisdom
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Current TV Dismisses Keith Olbermann  —  5:13 p.m. |  Updated Current TV said Friday afternoon that it had terminated the contract of its lead anchor, Keith Olbermann, scarcely a year after he was hired to reboot the fledgling channel in his progressive political image.
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Keach Hagey / Politico:
Olbermann out, Spitzer in on Current TV  —  Current TV has terminated its relationship with Keith Olbermann and will replace his show with a program hosted by Eliot Spitzer.  —  The complete memo:
Discussion: Truthdig and iOwnTheWorld.com
Current TV:
Open letter to the viewers of Current  —  To the Viewers of Current:  —  We created Current to give voice to those Americans who refuse to rely on corporate-controlled media and are seeking an authentic progressive outlet.  We are more committed to those goals today than ever before.
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Romney campaign: Release all transcripts of all meetings with foreign leaders  —  Via National Journal, the Mitt Romney campaign ratchets up the transparency game in a novel direction, in response to a call for Romney to release decades' worth of tax returns:
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Lara Seligman / NationalJournal.com:
Report: Obama Camp Calls For Romney Tax Returns
Discussion: Daily Kos and Wonkette
Mark Maremont / Wall Street Journal:
Obama Campaign Seeks Romney Tax Returns
Discussion: Business Insider
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Mitt Romney's PAC Funded Anti-Gay Marriage Group Under The Radar … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Video, Mitt Romney Gay, Election 2012, Free And Strong America, Marriage Romney, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney Gay Marriage, Romney Gay Marriage, Romney Gay Marriage Funding …
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Matthew O'Brien / The Atlantic Online:
Wall Street Thinks It Knows the Future of Obamacare—Why?  —  Nobody except Justice Anthony Kennedy knows what will happen to Obamacare.  But Wall Street, whose predictive powers are dubious, thinks it does.  The proof is in the healthcare stocks.  —  The below chart shows Aetna's stock price the past week.
Mj Lee / Politico:
Paul Ryan: Why I'm backing Mitt Romney  —  Rep. Paul Ryan threw his support behind Mitt Romney on Friday, hailing him as the “best person to beat the president” and warning that the Republican primary needs to come to an end soon.  —  “Who will make the best president?
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Mark Murray / msnbc.com:
NBC/Marist Poll: Romney leads in Wisconsin primary
Scott Walker / CNN:
Recall vote scheduled in Wisconsin, Republican ad war continues  —  (CNN) - The recall election against Republican Gov. Scott Walker was ordered on Friday by Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board, the board's public information officer confirmed to CNN.
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Hot Air
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Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
MasterCard, VISA Warn of Processor Breach  —  VISA and MasterCard are alerting banks across the country about a recent major breach at a U.S.-based credit card processor.  Sources in the financial sector are calling the breach “massive,” and say it may involve more than 10 million compromised card numbers.
NY Daily News:
George Zimmerman lost job as party security guard for being too aggressive, ex-co-worker says  —  Zimmerman at center of firestorm for fatally shooting unarmed teen Trayvon Martin last month  —  Trayvon Martin was shot along a dark walkway just behind Cheryl Brown's apartment while her son Austin …
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Roseanne Barr Joins Twitter Vigilante Crew  —  Star tweeted home address of George Zimmerman's parents  —  The comedian Roseanne Barr last night tweeted the home address of George Zimmerman's parents to her 110,000-plus Twitter followers, only to delete the posting after “not fully understanding that it was private not public.”
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Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect:
Willful Ignorance  —  This, from YouGov, tells you everything you need to know about contemporary race relations in a single, compact chart:  —  For 66 percent of white Americans to agree with this statement—"Irish, Italian, Jewish, and many other minorities overcame prejudice and worked their way up.
Discussion: American Power and Shakesville
Tim Mak / Politico:
C-SPAN hammers Sen. Saxby Chambliss  —  C-SPAN unloaded Friday on Sen. Saxby Chambliss after he charged that its televised proceedings of Congress were responsible for the partisan rancor in the Senate, pointing out the Georgia Republican had appeared on the network 599 times.
Byron York / Campaign 2012:
Biden: I don't want ‘real job...you have to produce’  —  Vice President Joe Biden offered a frank assessment of his career in remarks at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night.  According to a White House pool report, Biden, surrounded by the city's movers and shakers …
Wall Street Journal:
Not-So-Smooth Operator  —  Obama increasingly comes across as devious and dishonest.  —  Something's happening to President Obama's relationship with those who are inclined not to like his policies.  They are now inclined not to like him.  His supporters would say, “Nothing new there,” but actually I think there is.
Petula Dvorak / Washington Post:
A clinic's landlord turns the tables on anti-abortion protesters  —  Ricky Carioti/THE WASHINGTON POST - Todd Stave at his home in Rockville, Md. Stave founded a group, Voice for Choice to turn the tables on the anti-abortion protesters harassing his family.  The group now has about three thousand volunteers.
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Chart of the Day: Conservatives Don't Trust Science  —  A new study by Gordon Gauchat takes a look at public trust in science and finds that it's unchanged over the past few decades for most groups.  The one exception is conservatives, whose trust in science has plummeted:
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Dem treasurer admits stealing $7M  —  Kinde Durkee, once a trusted treasurer to dozens of California Democrats, pleaded guilty in the biggest campaign embezzlement case ever to hit U.S. politics.  —  In a federal court in Sacramento, Durkee admitted to stealing more than $7 million …
Discussion: CNN
Bruce Vielmetti / JSOnline:
Federal court throws out parts of public union law  —  By Bruce Vielmetti of the Journal Sentinel  —  A federal judge in Madison on Friday ruled that portions of Act 10 — which removed most collective bargaining for most public employees — are unconstitutional.
Discussion: Main Street
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
MSNBC, the Faux News Network  —  Liberals have been feverishly attacking Fox News for years now, irate that the Left's monopoly on television news outlets has been broken.  Conservatives, on the other hand, have tended to ignore MSNBC, even though that network is far more partisan, and less reliable, than Fox.
Discussion: Hit & Run
Brad Plumer / Ezra Klein:
Mega Millions frenzy: Can you ever beat the lottery's long odds?  —  The country is in the throes of lottery fever, with millions of people in multiple states buying up tickets for a chance at winning the Mega Millions jackpot Friday night, now at $540 million.  But are they suckers?
 
 
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
In Canada, the Lowly Penny's Time to Shine Nears an End
Discussion: Campaign 2012
J. Bradford DeLong / Brad DeLong:
Is a Grand Bargain Worthwhile?
New York Times:
Obama Clears Way for Measures Against Iran
Discussion: Truthdig
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
GOP Attorney General Suing Over Obamacare Supports Single-Payer: ‘I Trust The Government More’
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Carl Campanile / New York Post:
WATCH: Pol gets buss-ted!
Discussion: Gawker
BBC:
Diane Hill seriously burned pouring petrol in kitchen
Discussion: Guardian
Chicago Tribune:
13 shot, 2 dead in Chicago in six hours Thursday night
Jake Shermanand Anna Palmer / Politico:
Republicans retreat on gay marriage
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Josiah Ryan / The Hill:
Reid: No recess appointments this time
Discussion: ThinkProgress
 

 
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Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

Megan Graham / Wall Street Journal:
Ad software company Mediaocean buys Innovid, an ad tech company focused on CTV, for $500M; Innovid had a market cap of ~$240M at market close on November 20

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

 
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