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Fox News:
Obama warns ‘unelected’ Supreme Court against striking down health law — President Obama, employing his strongest language to date on the Supreme Court review of the federal health care overhaul, cautioned the court Monday against overturning the law — while repeatedly saying he's “confident” it will be upheld.
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NO QUARTER, National Review and Doug Ross
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: Supreme Court won't overturn health care law — President Barack Obama voiced confidence Monday that the Supreme Court will uphold his health care law in his first public remarks on the issue since the three days of oral arguments last week. — In a rare instance of a president weighing …
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CNN, ACS Blog, Weasel Zippers, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS, The Daily Dish and Towleroad News #gay
New York Sun:
Ex Parte Obama — It's been a long time since we've heard a presidential demarche as outrageous as President Obama's warning to the Supreme Court not to overturn Obamacare. The president made the remarks at a press conference with the leaders of Mexico and Canada.
Discussion:
Instapundit and neo-neocon
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Obama takes a shot at Supreme Court over healthcare — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took an opening shot at conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, warning that a rejection of his sweeping healthcare law would be an act of “judicial activism” that Republicans say they abhor.
Discussion:
Hot Air, The Greenroom and Hit & Run
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
Americans Are Worrying About the Constitution Again
Americans Are Worrying About the Constitution Again
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Global Public Square and Maggie's Farm
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The Self-Refuting Expert Witness The Orlando Sentinel Is Touting — Back on the Trayvon Martin killing audio expert Tom Owen is getting good press with his claim (broken by the Orlando Sentinel) that it is not George Zimmerman heard screaming for help on a 911 call. Here are CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Mediaite and the Boston Herald.
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TalkLeft, CNN and Feministing
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Michael Isikoff / msnbc.com:
FBI questions people in Trayvon Martin case, begins ‘parallel investigation’
FBI questions people in Trayvon Martin case, begins ‘parallel investigation’
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The Huffington Post, Daily Kos, TalkLeft, Weasel Zippers and The Week
Steve Senne / ABCNEWS:
Ann Romney Says Campaign Will ‘Unzip’ the Real Mitt — GREEN BAY, Wis. - Ann Romney defended her husband's sense of humor today during a radio interview, explaining that if people think the candidate seems too stiff at times as the host suggested, she thinks “we better unzip him and let the real Mitt Romney out.”
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Politico, The Reaction, Hot Air, The New Republic, Wonkette, Taylor Marsh, Rush Limbaugh, ThinkProgress, Don Surber, Ballot Box, The Impolitic, Crooks and Liars, Campaign 2012, The Hill, Boston Globe and Guardian
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Romney confronted over Mormon doctrines
Romney confronted over Mormon doctrines
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ABCNEWS, CNN, The Other McCain, The Hill and JSOnline
San Francisco Chronicle:
Oakland: 7 dead, suspect caught in school shooting — (04-02) 20:34 PDT OAKLAND — A quiet Christian college in Oakland became the site of one of the deadliest campus attacks in California history Monday when a disgruntled former student opened fire on his classmates, police say, killing seven people and injuring three.
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L.A. NOW, The Snitch and msnbc.com
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Approve Strip-Searches for Any Offense — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband.
BuzzFeed:
Pelosi Would “Love” Hillary To Be Democrats Nominee In 2016 — The former speaker hops on board the Clinton train. “Hasn't she been a magnificent Secretary of State?” — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has joined the growing ranks of politicians and public figures lining up behind a Hillary Clinton presidential bid in 2016.
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BuzzFeed, Washington Post, Weasel Zippers and Politico
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Hillary Clinton Won't Join Barack Obama On Campaign Trail
Hillary Clinton Won't Join Barack Obama On Campaign Trail
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Weekly Standard, USA Today, Power Line and News Desk
Darius Dixon / Politico:
Hillary Clinton slams Rush Limbaugh ‘verbal assault’
Hillary Clinton slams Rush Limbaugh ‘verbal assault’
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Mediaite, New York Magazine, The Moderate Voice and Daily Kos
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
'A Conservative Coup d'Etat' — How do our current political struggles look from outside? Here is a note from a reader in Holland, in response to The Hill's (never corrected) headline about the 51-47 “defeat” of a bill in the Senate: — The reader says:
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Master Feed, The New Republic, The Maddow Blog, Hot Air, Hullabaloo, Prairie Weather and Washington Monthly
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Trayvon Martin - Is Everything You Think You Know Just Media BS? — As a launch point, let me pick up on this throw-away comment made by Rod Dreher in his own comments section: — I do think Zimmerman was a paranoid guy — I make this judgment based on his frequent 911 calls over the past year …
Discussion:
Althouse
New York Post:
Md. woman won't share $105M lotto jackpot with McD's co-workers — By EVAN SERPICK and WILLIAM FARRINGTON in Baltimore and BOB FREDERICKS in NY — Mega Millions mania has plunged a Maryland McDonald's into a bubbling cauldron of controversy hotter than a deep-fried apple pie.
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Associated Press, The Week, Outside the Beltway, msnbc.com, FOX8.com, Jammie Wearing Fools and HotAirPundit
Rasmussen Reports:
52% in Wisconsin Support Recall of Governor Walker — A majority of Wisconsin voters now support the effort to recall Republican Governor Scott Walker. — A new Rasmussen Reports statewide survey shows that, if the recall election was held today, 52% of Likely Voters would vote to recall Governor Walker and remove him from office.
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The Raw Story, Washington Monthly and Politico
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Washington Post:
GSA chief resigns amid reports of excessive spending — The chief of the General Services Administration is resigning and two of her top deputies have been fired amid reports of excessive spending at a training conference at a luxury hotel that featured a mindreader, a clown and a comedian.
Discussion:
Politico, msnbc.com, The Jawa Report, The Daily Caller, ABCNEWS, Fire Andrea Mitchell!, Hit & Run and Washington Free Beacon
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler:
Video: Obama Campaign Disables Credit Card Verification, Accepts Donation from ‘Nidal Hasan’ — And Aunt Zeituni. Watch the video. — Click here to view the embedded video. — This video is a follow-up to Adrian Murray's facebook post over the weekend, in which he says that he donated …
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Atlas Shrugs, Power Line and Hot Air
Jerusalem Post:
‘Ministers told 300, would die in Iran attack’ — Security cabinet briefed on worst-case scenario in potential war with Iran, Channel 10 reports. — By REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl — In the event of an Iranian attack on Israel, less than 300 people would be killed during three weeks …
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Guardian and Israel Matzav
Jonathan Owen / Agence France Presse:
Man whose WMD lies led to 100,000 deaths confesses all — Defector tells how US officials ‘sexed up’ his fictions to make the case for 2003 invasion — NOTE: WE DO NOT STORE YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS(ES) BUT YOUR IP ADDRESS WILL BE LOGGED TO PREVENT ABUSE OF THIS FEATURE. PLEASE READ OUR LEGAL TERMS & POLICIES
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Hot Air, Outside the Beltway and The Jawa Report
Rose Garden / The White House:
Joint Press Conference by President Obama, President Calderon of Mexico, and Prime Minister Harper of Canada — PRESIDENT OBAMA: Please have a seat. Good afternoon, everybody. It is my pleasure to welcome two great friends and partners — President Calderón of Mexico and Prime Minister Harper of Canada.
Discussion:
The Volokh Conspiracy and White House.gov Blog
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Investors Are Looking to Buy Homes by the Thousands — RIVERSIDE, Calif. — At least 20 times a day, Alan Hladik walks into a fixer-upper and tries to figure out if it is worth buying. — As an inspector for the Waypoint Real Estate Group, Mr. Hladik takes about 20 minutes to walk through each home …
Discussion:
CARPE DIEM and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Alex Pappas / The Daily Caller:
Report: Rick Perry used painkillers to help him get through debates — Texas Gov. Rick Perry was under the influence of painkillers during televised presidential debates over the last year to help relieve severe back pain, according to a soon-to-be released eBook on the 2012 Republican race for president obtained by The Daily Caller.
Discussion:
The Other McCain, Mediaite, The Raw Story and Outside the Beltway
Wall Street Journal:
GOP, Romney to Raise Funds Jointly — In a move that shows Republicans are coalescing around the party's front-runner, Mitt Romney plans to begin raising money jointly with the Republican National Committee this week as both the candidate and the GOP brace for an expensive general-election fight against President Barack Obama.
Discussion:
Politico and New York Magazine
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Santorum Claims California Universities Don't Teach American History (Updated) — Rick Santorum has previously called colleges “indoctrination mills” that make students liberal and Godless, and labeled President Obama a “snob” for wanting kids to get educated. “Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college.
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The Raw Story, Booman Tribune, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mediaite and Wonkette