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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Scarborough: ‘No One’ In GOP Establishment Thinks Romney Will Beat Obama — Unemployment stubbornly over 8%. His landmark piece of legislation in dire peril of being dumped by the Supreme Court. The “flexibility” moment with Putin's pawn. Does that sound like an invincible incumbent to you?
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American Prospect and Mediaite
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama doing better in Nevada — Nevada, more than any other state, symbolizes how much the Presidential race has changed over the last six months. — In October Barack Obama was unpopular there, with a 44/53 approval rating. That was the story in our Nevada polling through most of last year.
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GOP 12 and Taegan Goddard's …
David R. Dow / The Daily Beast:
Impeach the Supreme Court Justices If They Overturn Health-Care Law — The Roberts Court's rulings appear to be a concerted effort to send us back to the Gilded Age. If they dump the Affordable Care Act, writes David Dow, we should dump them. — You think the idea is laughable?
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protein wisdom, Instapundit, The Jawa Report, Power Line, The Volokh Conspiracy and Weasel Zippers
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Nancy Pelosi / CNN:
Pelosi's specific Supreme Court health care prediction
Pelosi's specific Supreme Court health care prediction
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Politico, ThinkProgress and protein wisdom
Andrew Koppelman / The New Republic:
The 1918 Case That May Have Foreshadowed Obamacare's Demise — It took decades for Congress to address the problem. When, at long last, federal legislation was passed, some people raised constitutional objections, but few took them seriously. The objections required the Supreme Court …
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American Prospect, Althouse, The Volokh Conspiracy and Balkinization
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Jan Crawford / CBS News:
Appeals court fires back at Obama's comments on health care case — (CBS News) In the escalating battle between the administration and the judiciary, a federal appeals court apparently is calling the president's bluff — ordering the Justice Department to answer by Thursday whether …
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Man Who Knew Too Little
The Man Who Knew Too Little
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Wake up America, Althouse, The Volokh Conspiracy, Maggie's Farm and Power Line
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Anti-Evolution ‘Monkey Bill’ Poised To Become Law In Tennessee — Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) announced yesterday that he will “probably” sign a bill that attacks the teaching of “biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning” …
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Little Green Footballs, Booman Tribune and Taylor Marsh
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Mj Lee / Politico:
James Carville: Rick Santorum is headless chicken — James Carville chose these colorful words to describe Rick Santorum after Mitt Romney swept three Republican primaries Tuesday: “He was like a chicken with his head chopped off. The chicken is dead. The only person that don't know it is the chicken.”
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The Hill
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msnbc.com:
First Thoughts: The writing is on the wall
First Thoughts: The writing is on the wall
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Washington Post, Townhall.com, iOwnTheWorld.com, Booman Tribune and Patterico's Pontifications
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Five things we learned Tuesday
Five things we learned Tuesday
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americanthinker.com, Washington Monthly and Scared Monkeys
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Sarah Palin's ‘rogue’ pick for VP: Allen West — Sarah Palin says there's one name at the top of her list if the Republican Party wants to “go rogue” in its pick for the vice presidential nominee: Rep. Allen West. — The former vice presidential candidate told Fox News's Sean Hannity …
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Washington Monthly, Crooks and Liars, Mediaite, Indecision Forever, CBS DC and Weasel Zippers
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Mj Lee / Politico:
John McCain kids about Sarah Palin for VP again
John McCain kids about Sarah Palin for VP again
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CBS Miami, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Wonkette
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Obama gets laughs and ‘amens’ at prayer breakfast — President Obama spoke strongly about his faith at an Easter Prayer Breakfast at the White House on Wednesday, at one point getting laughs while quoting Jesus as saying, “in this world you will have trouble.”
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CNN and Washington Free Beacon
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Investor's Business Daily:
Obama Alienates Canada And Mexico At Three Amigos — At the U.S.-Mexico-Canada summit, Mexican President Felipe Calderon, left, panned Obama for Fast and Furious, and Canadian PM Stephen... View Enlarged Image — Diplomacy: Most summits are mush-mouthed affairs full of pleasantries.
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Fausta's Blog
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Dumb Diplomacy Alienates Canada and Mexico, Costs Consumers
Dumb Diplomacy Alienates Canada and Mexico, Costs Consumers
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The Lonely Conservative
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Top Romney Surrogate Donald Trump Offers To Expose His ‘Very Very’ Impressive Genitals — Politico's Mike Allen reported last month that reality star/businessman/attention seeker Donald Trump is building his political stature as a top surrogate for Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney for President of the United States …:
Mitt Romney Delivers Remarks to the Newspaper Association of America — Location — Mitt Romney today delivered remarks to the Newspaper Association of America in Washington, D.C. The following remarks were prepared for delivery: — Over the last ten months, I've come to know a good deal …
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ThinkProgress, American Prospect, New York Times, Mediaite, Daily Kos and Guardian
Scott Wong / Politico:
Harry Reid loses procedural ruling on budget vote — The Senate's chief referee has issued a key ruling against Majority Leader Harry Reid, POLITICO has learned — a move expected to bring unwanted election-year pressure on the Nevada Democrat to act on politically dicey budget bills.
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The Heritage Foundation, Hot Air, National Review and The PJ Tatler
Paul Ryan / Facebook:
The President's Speech Distorts the Truth to Distract From His Failed Record — In today's disappointing speech, the President made a series of claims that are simply false. — The President's attacks began with an admission that his assumptions reflect White House spin, not our budget's substance …
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Ezra Klein, The Enterprise Blog and National Review
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
Wide Racial, Partisan Gaps in Reactions to Trayvon Martin Coverage — Most Republicans See ‘Too Much’ Coverage — OVERVIEW — The Trayvon Martin shooting is the public's top story for the second consecutive week. But interest in the teenager's death is deeply divided along partisan, as well as racial, lines.
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Politico
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Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Top Romney Surrogate: In General Election, Women Will See Romney's ‘Real Views’ — Tonight on CNN, Robert Ehrlich, Mitt Romney's Maryland campaign chair, suggested that voters — particularly women — would not be exposed to Romney's “real views” until the general election.
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The Moderate Voice, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Daily Kos
Sam Anderson / New York Times:
Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’ — In 1989, as communism was beginning to crumble across Eastern Europe, just a few months before protesters started pecking away at the Berlin Wall, the Japanese game-making giant Nintendo reached across the world to unleash upon America its own version of freedom.
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Poynter, Mediaite and AllThingsD, more at Mediagazer »
Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Khalid Sheik Mohammed to face death penalty trial — A senior Pentagon official Wednesday approved the death penalty trial at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four co-defendants who are accused of orchestrating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, a step that restarts …
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TalkLeft, Michelle Malkin, ThinkProgress and ACLU
New York Times:
Calling Radicalism by Its Name — President Obama's fruitless three-year search for compromise with the Republicans ended in a thunderclap of a speech on Tuesday, as he denounced the party and its presidential candidates for cruelty and extremism. He accused his opponents of imposing on the country a …
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Mitt's media lament — Speaking to the Associated Press luncheon that President Obama addressed Tuesday, Mitt Romney began with an extended riff on shortcomings of the political media: … Romney is hardly the first politician to bristle at his treatment at the hands of the press …
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Wonkette
Darius Dixon / Politico:
Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Mormonism off limits — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired back Wednesday at Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch's claim that Democrats would attack Mitt Romney's Mormon faith in the fall election, saying the charge was “nonsense” and that the issue of religion was off-limits.
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Associated Press, The Hill and Daily Kos