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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Gullible Center — So, can we talk about the Paul Ryan phenomenon? — And yes, I mean the phenomenon, not the man. Mr. Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee and the principal author of the last two Congressional Republican budget proposals, isn't especially interesting.
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Jared Bernstein, Prairie Weather, Paul Krugman and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Obama levels straight shots at Supreme Court and Ryan budget — ELON, N.C. — Conservatives are not accustomed to being on the defensive. — They have long experience with attacking the evils of the left and the abuses of activist judges. They love to assail “tax-and-spend liberals” …
Tim Cavanaugh / Hit & Run:
Was Obama's SCOTUS Attack Good Politics? (Special Dumbth Edition)
Was Obama's SCOTUS Attack Good Politics? (Special Dumbth Edition)
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The Gateway Pundit
Sam Baker / The Hill:
White House has diverted $500M to IRS to implement healthcare law — The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president's healthcare law. — The money is only part of the IRS's total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process.
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Ezra Klein, Weasel Zippers, The Heritage Foundation, americanthinker.com, Hot Air, Pirate's Cove and Weekly Standard
Salena Zito / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Romney campaign withdraws ad targeting Santorum while daughter is hospitalized — Mitt Romney's presidential campaign told stations across Pennsylvania to pull until further notice a television ad targeting fellow Republican candidate Rick Santorum because Santorum's daughter is ill. The ad was slated to begin airing this morning.
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Salena Zito / PittsburghLIVE.com:
Romney advertising blitz will run in Pennsylvania next week
Romney advertising blitz will run in Pennsylvania next week
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Hot Air, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, GOP 12, Washington Post and msnbc.com
New York Times:
Major Republican Super PAC Prepares to Take On Obama — American Crossroads, the biggest of the Republican “super PACs,” is planning to begin its first major anti-Obama advertising blitz of the year, a moment the Obama re-election campaign has been girding for and another sign that the general election is starting in earnest.
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Politico, American Prospect, msnbc.com, Shakesville, News Desk, Associated Press, Campaign 2012, ABCNEWS and The Page
Stephen J. Rose / The Atlantic Online:
How We Spend — And what that tells us about the economy — EVEN AMERICANS WHO think they know where their money goes probably have no idea how their spending compares with that of their parents or grandparents. But such figures yield a surprising picture of how our economy works—and how it's changing.
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Outside the Beltway
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
Fox Orlando Affiliate Calls Neo-Nazis ‘A Civil Rights Group’ — The National Socialist Movement flag, as featured on their website — A Fox Orlando affiliate decribed Neo-Nazis as “a civil rights group” on a television broadcast and online. The group of Neo-Nazis, known …
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The Raw Story, Towleroad News #gay, Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog!, Wonkette, NewsHounds blog and Hatewatch
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Jennifer Bisram / Orlando and Central Florida News …:
Civil rights group patrolling Sanford
Civil rights group patrolling Sanford
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Crooks and Liars, The New Civil Rights Movement and Firedoglake
BuzzFeed:
It's “Game On” In Chicago — One year in, the Obama campaign unleashes itself on America. Confident, cool, digitally dynamic. But are they getting cocky? — Amy Sly for BuzzFeed — CHICAGO, Ill. — On the evening of April 4, campaign manager Jim Messina gathered more than 300 staffers …
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ABCNEWS, GOP 12, Hot Air, Capital New York, Campaign 2012 and Politico
Jeralyn / TalkLeft:
NBC's Bad Edit Pre-dated Today Show And Still Appears on NBC News Sites — Saturday and Sunday, Reuters reported it had interviewed MSNBC News President Steve Capus and others at NBC and got “the fullest explanation yet” of the network's racially-charged, misleading edit of George Zimmerman's 911 call …
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JustOneMinute, PJ Media, Weasel Zippers and HotAirPundit
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
The BS Runs Deep At MSNBC
The BS Runs Deep At MSNBC
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Scared Monkeys, Les Jones, Reuters and NewsBusters.org
The Gallup Organization / Gallup:
Obama's Monthly Job Approval Edges Higher in March — Approval high among core supporters; still lags with Hispanics, low-income adults — PRINCETON, NJ — President Barack Obama's job approval rating averaged 46% in March, up from 45% in January and February, and significantly improved …
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Ballot Box and The PJ Tatler
BREITBART.COM:
O'KEEFE VOTER FRAUD INVESTIGATION: YOUNG MAN OFFERED HOLDER'S BALLOT — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has declared that there is no proof that in-person voter fraud is a problem. He's about to see proof that even he can't deny. — In a new video provided to Breitbart.com …
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Patterico's Pontifications
Jonathan Martinand Alexander Burns / Politico:
‘Orphan’ state parties worry GOP — National Republicans have begun to intervene in a handful of key Senate and House battlegrounds where state parties are in disarray, seeking to head off the possibility that local mismanagement could cost the party control of Congress.
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Washington Wire
Nicole Debevec / UPI:
Under the Supreme Court: High court agrees to consider corporate free speech post-Citizen United — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider taking another bite of the corporate political free speech apple recently, accepting a petition asking justices to summarily overturn …
Adam Bernstein / Washington Post:
Mike Wallace dies: Veteran journalist and former ‘60 Minutes’ correspondent was 93 — Advertisements for the CBS newsmagazine show “60 Minutes” once boasted that for anyone hiding a secret, four of the most dreaded words in the English language were “Mike Wallace is here.”
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News Desk, Poynter, The Huffington Post, Ed Driscoll, Hullabaloo and Media Decoder, more at Mediagazer »
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CBS News:
“60 Minutes” icon Mike Wallace dies at 93
“60 Minutes” icon Mike Wallace dies at 93
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CBS New York, The Jane Dough, Joe. My. God. and NewsHounds blog
Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Mike Wallace, CBS Pioneer of ‘60 Minutes,’ Dies at 93
Mike Wallace, CBS Pioneer of ‘60 Minutes,’ Dies at 93
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Media Decoder, The Agonist, Shakesville, New York Magazine, Hotline On Call, The Page, Towleroad News #gay, Politico and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »