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Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
A Cheer or Two for Sequestration — From left, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, and House Speaker John Boehner speak at a news conference on Tuesday in Washington. — A lot of liberals I read are very hot to trot with the idea that Congress should just repeal sequestration tout court.
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Bloomberg and Ross Douthat
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
212 Members Of Congress Ask Court To Strike Down DOMA — “DOMA imposes a sweeping and unjustifiable federal disability on married same-sex couples,” the Democratic members of Congress write. — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, left, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
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Equality On Trial and Good As You
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Sequester begins, with no end in sight for across-the-board cuts
Sequester begins, with no end in sight for across-the-board cuts
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The Moderate Voice, The Week and CNN
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate rejects rival bills to prevent $85B sequester spending cuts
Senate rejects rival bills to prevent $85B sequester spending cuts
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USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Politico, msnbc.com and Ballot Box
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
House Republicans Cheer Boehner's Refusal to Negotiate on Cuts — WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner, the man who spent significant portions of the last Congress shuttling to and from the White House for fiscal talks with President Obama that ultimately failed twice to produce a grand bargain …
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Washington Monthly, The Plum Line, A plain blog about politics, Taylor Marsh, The Maddow Blog, msnbc.com, Prairie Weather and Gawker
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First Read:
First Thoughts: Sequester Day caps off an absurd week — It's Sequester Day, and what an absurd week it's been... The GOP's mixed message: Some in the party are denouncing the cuts, while others are cheering them on... What happens next? Folks, Bill Bolling WANTS to run in Virginia's gubernatorial contest …
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Yahoo! News and Taegan Goddard's …
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Press corps to Woodward: Really? — Bob Woodward has suggested that the White House threatened him. Many of his colleagues in the press corps aren't buying it. — By the standards of this White House, a statement like the one senior White House official Gene Sperling wrote to Woodward last week …
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BuzzFeed, Hot Air, Power Line, The Raw Story, News Desk, No More Mister Nice Blog, Democracy in America, Reuters, Mediaite and Fox News Insider
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
Woodward vs. White House: Washington at its weirdest — Only in Washington does a tempest turn on the meaning of the word “regret.” — Only in Washington does the back and forth between a legendary journalist and a White House wonk turn into an epic talking-head fest and trending Twitter topic.
Harvard News:
If you might want to insult Harvard down the line, go elsewhere — If you think Harvard is a revolutionary communist hotbed, don't apply. If you think Harvard is full of “pinheaded” professors, don't enroll. And if you think Harvard pollutes the minds of its students …
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The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, nation.foxnews.com and Riehl World News
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Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:
Has Ted Cruz Hit The Tipping Point?
Has Ted Cruz Hit The Tipping Point?
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The PJ Tatler, FishbowlDC, National Review and The Reaction
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Why Scalia's ‘Racial Entitlement’ Quote Is Even Scarier Than You Think — Justice Antonin Scalia quite deservedly came under fire yesterday for his claim that a key provision of the Voting Rights Act is a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.” If the justice were looking to confirm every suspicion …
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Mother Jones, Connecting.the.Dots, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Taylor Marsh, Washington Post, News Desk and Democracy in America
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Akilah Johnson / Boston Globe:
Massachusetts official challenges Chief Justice Roberts' claim about voting
Massachusetts official challenges Chief Justice Roberts' claim about voting
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The Maddow Blog and First Read
Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
U.S. endorses limited gay marriage right — The Obama administration on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to rule in the case of California's Proposition 8 that same-sex marriage should be required in eight more states, beyond the nine that already permit it, although it stopped short …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Ben Bernanke, Hippie — We're just a few weeks away from a milestone I suspect most of Washington would like to forget: the start of the Iraq war. What I remember from that time is the utter impenetrability of the elite prowar consensus. If you tried to point out that the Bush administration …
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BBC:
Horsemeat scandal: Four new products test positive — Nearly 2,000 tests for horsemeat have been carried out by British retailers — Four beef products sold by Bird's Eye, Taco Bell and catering supplier Brakes have been found to contain horse DNA, the Food Standards Agency says.
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The Gateway Pundit, MyFOX8.com, Joe. My. God. and Gawker
Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider:
An Economic Tragedy That Everyone Saw Coming Is Now Unfolding In Europe... The European economy has been a trainwreck for a long time, but there have been varying stages of it. — From 2007 through 2010 or so, the European economy basically went through the same trajectory as the US.
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Paul Krugman and Hullabaloo
Bruce Henderson / The Charlotte Observer:
Duke Energy won't be repaid $10 million from DNC — Duke Energy won't be repaid the $10 million line of credit it guaranteed for Charlotte to host last year's Democratic National Convention, the company confirmed Thursday. — As the credit line came due, Duke made official what it had signaled …
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Weekly Standard and Post Politics
Fox News:
Romney likens 2012 race to ‘roller coaster,’ in exclusive ‘Fox News Sunday’ interview — Mitt Romney, in an exclusive interview with “Fox News Sunday,” said the end of the 2012 presidential race was like getting off a roller coaster. — “We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs.
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Politico, National Review, Gawker, The Fix and NBCNews.com
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Hail Armageddon — “The worst-case scenario for us,” a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told The Post, “is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens.” — Think about that. Worst case? That a government drowning in debt should cut back by 2.2 percent — and the country survives.
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Wall Street Journal, Hot Air and Betsy's Page
Katie Glueck / Politico:
10 best ‘sequestration’ anagrams — Any way you dice it, sequestration is roiling Washington as the Friday deadline for a deal looms — and it turns out you can dice it about 15,000 ways. The website wordsmith.org turned up 15,080 results for a search of “sequestration” anagrams.
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Liberals See A Trap After The Sequester — What really scares progressives isn't the automatic spending cuts; it's the grand compromise that may replace them. “Entitlements may get ensnared when we go to an alternate fix,” says Rep. Nadler. — Image by AP
David Weigel / Slate:
Why the Republican Party's sequestration strategy only makes Obama stronger. — The last halfhearted hopes of a sequestration fix died Thursday afternoon, with Senate Republicans voting to give more power to President Obama. The plan was anonymously titled S. 16—a missed opportunity …
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Business Insider, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Other McCain, Washington Wire and msnbc.com
Colin Campbell / Politicker:
Mayor Bloomberg: Don't Panic About the Sequester — Mayor Bloomberg in Washington earlier this week. (Photo: Getty) — At midnight tonight, a bevy of steep spending cuts will hit the federal government unless Congress and the White House agree to an alternative deficit-cutting proposal.
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Darlene Superville / Talking Points Memo:
Michelle Obama Not Surprised By Reaction To Oscars Appearance — CHICAGO (AP) — Michelle Obama says it was “absolutely not surprising” to her that her satellite appearance at the Academy Awards ceremony provoked a national conversation about whether it was appropriate …
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Lacey Rose / Hollywood Reporter:
Oscar-Nominated Doc ‘How to Survive a Plague’ to Become ABC Miniseries (Exclusive) — Filmmaker David France is prepping a dramatic adaptation, which will delve into more of the personal stories characters in the film. — “How to Survive a Plague” — The Oscar-nominated documentary feature …
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Joe. My. God., Good As You and New York Times