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Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Obama's unsettling attack on the Supreme Court — There was something rather unsettling in President Obama's preemptive strike on the Supreme Court at Monday's news conference. — “I'd just remind conservative commentators that for years what we've heard is the biggest problem on the bench …
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama vs. Marbury v. Madison — The President needs a remedial course in judicial review. — President Obama is a former president of the Harvard Law Review and famously taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago. But did he somehow not teach the historic case of Marbury v. Madison?
Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — Top Legal Commentator Toobin Stands By Doomsday Prediction For Health Care Law — Hindsight hasn't changed Jeffrey Toobin's mind. — A week after oral arguments led him to predict that the Supreme Court will strike down a key piece of President Obama's health care law …
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
GOP senator accuses Obama of threatening the Supreme Court
GOP senator accuses Obama of threatening the Supreme Court
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Washington Post, MyFoxboston, The Maddow Blog and Booman Tribune
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Hearings Hurt Public Regard for both Health Care Law and Supreme Court
Hearings Hurt Public Regard for both Health Care Law and Supreme Court
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems wage pressure campaign on Supreme Court over health ruling
Dems wage pressure campaign on Supreme Court over health ruling
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National Review, The PJ Tatler, GOP 12 and ThinkProgress
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Three times Obama has said ‘marvelous’ — President Obama took a dig at Romney today for describing Paul Ryan's budget plan as “marvelous.” — “Marvelous... is a word you don't often hear about budgets,” he said. “That's a word you don't often hear generally.” — Except:
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USA Today and Washington Free Beacon
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Attacks House G.O.P. Budget — WASHINGTON — President Obama opened a full-frontal assault Tuesday on the budget adopted by House Republicans, condemning it as a “Trojan horse” and “thinly veiled social Darwinism” that would greatly deepen inequality in the country.
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American Prospect, The Enterprise Blog, Salon, Cato @ Liberty and Truthdig
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Paul Ryan: Obama distorting my budget plan — House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan swung back at President Barack Obama Tuesday after the president ripped the House Republican budget as a “Trojan horse” and “thinly veiled social Darwinism.” — In a statement, Ryan …
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Daily Kos
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: Paul Ryan budget plan is ‘Trojan horse’ — President Barack Obama on Tuesday will shred the House GOP budget as a “Trojan horse” built around radical right-wing, “thinly veiled social Darwinism” and the makings of a renewed recession. — That's the message he'll …
Carrie Budoff Brown / Politico:
Obama attacks, mocks Romney and Ryan budget
Obama attacks, mocks Romney and Ryan budget
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No More Mister Nice Blog
Sahil Kapur / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — Obama: Ryan Budget Is ‘Thinly Veiled Social Darwinism’
TPMDC — Obama: Ryan Budget Is ‘Thinly Veiled Social Darwinism’
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American Prospect
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama attacks Ryan budget as effort to ‘impose a radical vision’
Obama attacks Ryan budget as effort to ‘impose a radical vision’
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Crooks and Liars
New York Times:
Divide and Discriminate — When a light is shined into the dark corners of American politics, it's never pleasant to see what scurries away. Last week, a federal judge in Maine unsealed memos from the National Organization for Marriage, one of the most prominent groups fighting against same-sex marriage.
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Good As You, Firedoglake, Daily Kos, Towleroad News #gay, Poliglot, Human Rights Campaign and NOM Blog
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Washington Times:
NOM's Racial Politics Leave A Bitter Taste
NOM's Racial Politics Leave A Bitter Taste
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ThinkProgress and Good As You
Julia Preston / New York Times:
Noncitizens Sue Over U.S. Gay Marriage Ban
Noncitizens Sue Over U.S. Gay Marriage Ban
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American Prospect, Immigration Equality, The Raw Story, ThinkProgress and Althouse
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Santorum spokesman blames ‘vitriol’ against candidate for expected primary loss — Rick Santorum campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley said Tuesday that he's not sure his candidate will “pick up a single vote in D.C. because of the vitriol D.C. has for a someone like Rick Santorum who wants to shake things up.”
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Katrina Trinko / National Review:
Romney Wins over Donors by Warning of Huckabee-Palin Ticket at Convention
Romney Wins over Donors by Warning of Huckabee-Palin Ticket at Convention
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Hot Air, Guardian and Taegan Goddard's …
Quinnipiac University:
Santorum Leads Romney In Pennsylvania GOP Primary, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds …
Santorum Leads Romney In Pennsylvania GOP Primary, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds …
Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
Mitt Romney's Weakness Is Also Strength — or Is It?
Mitt Romney's Weakness Is Also Strength — or Is It?
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Washington Monthly
Sarah Devlin / Mediaite:
Gov. Nikki Haley On The View: 'Women Don't Care About Contraception' — Nikki Haley, the young Indian-American governor of South Carolina, was on The View to talk about her new book Can't Is Not An Option, but the segment ended up going in a surprising number of directions.
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Washington Monthly, The Raw Story and Palmetto Public Record
Mj Leeand Tim Mak / Politico:
Sarah Palin pokes fun at herself on ‘Today’ — Kicking off the highly anticipated battle of Sarah Palin vs. Katie Couric on the morning TV shows Tuesday, the former Alaska governor demonstrated that that she is more than comfortable poking fun of herself on national television.
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CNN, The Week and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Palin and Couric Have Their Morning Showdown. No Blows Landed.
Palin and Couric Have Their Morning Showdown. No Blows Landed.
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USA Today
Atrios / Eschaton:
WANKER OF THE DECADE - 9th Runner Up — Megan McArdle, aka Jane Galt. — I generally resist the urge to pay much attention, even as she's continued to fail upwards, as certain types of people do, though I occasionally peek in on people with sterner stomachs who do pay some attention.
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TalkLeft, The Impolitic and Hullabaloo
Matt Sledge / The Huffington Post:
Olympia Snowe: Birth Control Debate Is ‘Retro’ 1950s … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Michael Bloomberg, Emily's List, Heather Wilson, Lilly Ledbetter, Linda Lingle, Olympia Snowe, Sen. Olympia Snowe, Bipartisanship, Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, Olympia Snowe Birth Control, Politics News
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ThinkProgress, The Maddow Blog and Althouse
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Dana Rubinstein / Capital New York:
A Women's Fund event sends off Olympia Snowe and launches Sandra Fluke
A Women's Fund event sends off Olympia Snowe and launches Sandra Fluke
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Politico
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
STUDY: Traditional Marriage Fosters Anti-Woman Attitudes In Men — “Traditional marriage” frequently refers to the idea that marriage should be limited to opposite-sex couples, but for many social conservatives it also means that men work and women stay at home.
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The Huffington Post and Suburban Guerrilla
Lee Habeeb / National Review:
Too Young to Die — His name was Albert Vaughn. He was by all accounts a very good kid living in a very tough neighborhood. He was attending a party at a home that was supposed to be a haven for young inner-city Chicago teens back in April of 2008. The kids were there to enjoy some fun …
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PJ Media and Ed Driscoll
Gardiner Harris / New York Times:
White House and the F.D.A. Often at Odds — Nancy-Ann DeParle, the whip-smart and sometimes caustic White House deputy chief of staff, picked up The Wall Street Journal one summer day in 2010 and got an unwelcome shock. The Food and Drug Administration was proposing as part of the new health care law …
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Firedoglake, Mother Jones, Ezra Klein, News Desk and Brad DeLong
Edward P. Lazear / Wall Street Journal:
The Worst Economic Recovery in History — Since the second half of 2009, the U.S. economy has grown at a rate of 2.4%, a full percentage point below average long-term growth. — How many times have we heard that this was the worst recession since the Great Depression?
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New York Magazine, Ezra Klein, BizzyBlog and Brad DeLong
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Trump: Obama will start war with Iran for political boost — Reality television host and prominent Mitt Romney surrogate Donald Trump said Tuesday that he believe President Obama would begin a war with Iran because it would help him politically. — “I happen to think that the President …
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Politico
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama records intro for 50th anniversary airing of ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ — President Obama will record an introduction for the debut of a restored print of the 1962 movie “To Kill a Mockingbird” set to air on the USA cable network Saturday night, some fifty years after the debut of the classic film.
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Politico
Eric Shawn / Fox News:
4 Indiana Dems charged with election fraud in 2008 presidential race — From left, Butch Morgan, Pam Brunette, Beverly Shelton and Dustin Blythe were charged April 2, 2012, in an election fraud case from the 2008 Indiana Democratic primary. — Felony charges related to election fraud …
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The Gateway Pundit and Washington Free Beacon