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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Obama's sequester deal-changer — Bob Woodward (woodwardb@washpost.com) is an associate editor of The Post. His latest book is “The Price of Politics.” Evelyn M. Duffy contributed to this column. — Misunderstanding, misstatements and all the classic contortions of partisan message management surround …
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Reuters, CNN and Weasel Zippers
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Does Obama have a plan? A conversation with David Brooks — David Brooks (David Burnett/Random House) … Ezra Klein: In the column, you said that the Obama administration doesn't have a plan to replace the sequester. I feel like I've had to spend a substantial portion of my life reading …
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Pirate's Cove, Daily Kos, NationalJournal.com, New Republic, The Plum Line, Stan Collender's Capital Gains …, The Maddow Blog, The Atlantic Online, Booman Tribune, Brad DeLong, Right Turn, American Prospect, Balloon Juice, Gawker, Hullabaloo, New York Times, Mother Jones, The Daily Caller and New York Magazine
Mary Katharine Ham / Hot Air:
ABC: Devastating sequester cuts? Give me a break! — If we lived in a perfect world, it would be Job No. 1 of every single news report on the sequester to give context to the cuts, so Americans know just how [huge] minuscule they are. Unfortunately, instead of illuminating the numbers …
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ABCNEWS, Ed Driscoll, Rush Limbaugh, National Review and Patterico's Pontifications
Steven T. Dennis / Roll Call:
White House Open to Two-Month Sequester Deal
White House Open to Two-Month Sequester Deal
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Taegan Goddard's …
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Splits Over Pressure to Slash Defense Budget
The GOP Splits Over Pressure to Slash Defense Budget
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The Maddow Blog, Right Turn and Washington Wire
Kurt Badenhausen / Forbes:
Detroit Tops 2013 List Of America's Most Miserable Cities — Forbes put Detroit Mayor Dave Bing on its cover in 2011 for a story with the optimistic headline: “City of Hope.” The premise was that the city had hit rock bottom and was poised for a turnaround. — “Right now, it's all about survival,” Bing told Forbes.
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Pirate's Cove, Weasel Zippers, U.S. News, Rush Limbaugh, WFPL, Washington Examiner and CBS Chicago
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Top Dems Reject House GOP's Violence Against Women Act: ‘Simply Unacceptable’ — Top Senate Democrats excoriated the competing House Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act hours after it was unveiled Friday. — Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the author of VAWA …
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Booman Tribune
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House GOP Unveils Competing Violence Against Women Act
House GOP Unveils Competing Violence Against Women Act
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The Maddow Blog
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Montana Bill Would Give Corporations The Right To Vote … A bill introduced by Montana state Rep. Steve Lavin would give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections: … The idea that “corporations are people, my friend” as Mitt Romney put it, is sadly common among conservative lawmakers.
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Flathead Memo and Prairie Weather
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Obama Administration Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down DOMA — “The Constitution ... requires that Section 3 be invalidated,” Obama's Supreme Court lawyer argues. — Edith Windsor — Image by Richard Drew / AP — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration urged the Supreme Court to strike …
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Advocate, Addicting Info, Back2Stonewall, alan.com and Daily Kos
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Indiana Bill Would Force Women To Undergo Two Transvaginal Probes To Take A Pill (UPDATED) — An abortion pill, officially known as RU-486, is the earliest available abortion option for a woman. A patient could be as little as one week pregnant and take the pill to terminate.
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Crooks and Liars and The Huffington Post
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
See Cartoon Instructions For How To Stone Adulterers — 122 Facebook likes, 500 Facebook shares. A very sanitized treatment of a bloody practice. (Updated) — WASHINGTON — An Islamist Facebook page uploaded a cartoon explaining how to stone adulterers on Wednesday that is getting …
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Obama's Backers Seek Big Donors to Press Agenda — President Obama's political team is fanning out across the country in pursuit of an ambitious goal: raising $50 million to convert his re-election campaign into a powerhouse national advocacy network, a sum that would rank the new group …
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Prairie Weather
Beth Healy / Boston Globe:
New York Times exec outlines Boston Globe sale process to employees — New York Times Co. vice chairman Michael Golden told Boston Globe employees Friday that the company has a duty to seek the highest bidder in a sale but hopes to leave the newspaper in responsible hands.
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Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Not Larry Sabato:
Fairfax County's Nightmare Is Over!!! — Great news breaking in Fairfax County this morning. Electoral Boards are split 2-1 in Virginia, one Republican, one Democrat and one member of the Governor's party. When Bob McDonnell was elected, the Fairfax GOP placed noted voter-fraud conspiracy …
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The Huffington Post and Blue Virginia
Jay Mayfield / Federal Trade Commission:
HTC America Settles FTC Charges It Failed to Secure Millions of Mobile Devices Shipped to Consumers — Company Required to Patch Vulnerabilities on Smartphones and Tablets — Mobile device manufacturer HTC America has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the company failed …
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New York Times and Los Angeles Times
Hal Hodson / New Scientist:
Spidey-sense suit tingles when someone gets too close — FOR Peter Parker, it was a tingling sensation that alerted him to an imminent threat. Now anyone can pretend to be Spider-Man by simply donning a suit that lets you feel how close you are to a nearby object. It can even let the wearer navigate with their eyes closed.
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Mashable!, Daily Mail and The Raw Story
Bill Hoffmann / NewsMax.com:
Teddy Turner: Jane Fonda Turned My Dad Into a Liberal — More ways to share... Mixx — Stumbled — LinkedIn — Vine — Buzzflash — Newstrust — Technocrati — Forward Article — Ted Turner was transformed from a staunch conservative into a bleeding-heart liberal …
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Examiner, The Gateway Pundit, nation.foxnews.com and The Daily Caller
David Weigel / Slate:
GOP Congressmen in Safe Seats Not Panicking About Sequestration — Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) (R) speaks as Rep. Reid Ribble (R-WI) (L) looks on during a news conference to announce the formation of the ‘Fix Congress Now Caucus’ May 16, 2012 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
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ThinkProgress, A plain blog about politics, Hot Air and Mother Jones
Timothy Egan / Opinionator:
Why Oscar Will Snub ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ — Sunday night is Oscar night, the 85th Academy Awards, high holy day for America's most influential cultural export. “Zero Dark Thirty,” once thought to be a favorite for best picture, has been pummeled on the way to the finish line.
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Pressing Issues
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Oscar Predictions, Election-Style
Oscar Predictions, Election-Style
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Wired, Poynter and Pressing Issues
Austin Wright / Politico:
F-35 grounding latest setback for troubled program — Defense officials have grounded Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II over an engine problem, POLITICO learned Friday, in the latest setback for the world's most expensive weapons program one week before automatic, across-the-board budget restrictions are set to take their bite.
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New York Times