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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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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, CNN and The Week
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
212 Members Of Congress Ask Court To Strike Down DOMA
212 Members Of Congress Ask Court To Strike Down DOMA
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Good As You
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, msnbc.com, Politico 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, Taylor Marsh, msnbc.com, The Maddow Blog, Gawker and Prairie Weather
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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 …
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.
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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, The Raw Story, Power Line, Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog, Democracy in America, Reuters, News Desk and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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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U.S. Offers Broad Support for Gay Marriage Rights
U.S. Offers Broad Support for Gay Marriage Rights
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Daily Kos, USA Today, The Plum Line, The Week and msnbc.com
Miranda Leitsinger / NBCNews.com:
Clint Eastwood to Supreme Court: Drop California's ban on same-sex marriage
Clint Eastwood to Supreme Court: Drop California's ban on same-sex marriage
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First Read, ABCNEWS, L.A. NOW, Washington Blade, The Huffington Post, Equality On Trial, The Raw Story, Advocate and Addicting Info
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
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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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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Connecting.the.Dots, Mother Jones, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Taylor Marsh, Washington Post, News Desk and Democracy in America
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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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
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
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 and Gawker
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Irked lawmakers say Kerry left them in the dark on Syria aid — Lawmakers on Thursday said the State Department left Congress in the dark about the administration's decision to aid rebel forces in Syria. — The leaders of the panels that cover foreign policy told The Hill they weren't briefed ahead …
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Hot Air and DownWithTyranny!
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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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Many Steps to Be Taken When ‘Sequester’ Is Law — WASHINGTON — At some point on Friday (no one will say precisely when), President Obama will formally notify government agencies that an obscure process known as sequestration is in effect, triggering deep, across-the-board budget cuts that will force federal spending to shrink.
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Michelle Jamrisko / Bloomberg:
Consumer Spending in U.S. Climbs Even as Taxes Hurt Incomes — Consumer spending in the U.S. rose in January even as incomes dropped by the most in 20 years, showing households were weathering the payroll-tax increase by socking away less money in the bank.
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Weasel Zippers and Riehl World News
Sam Masters / The Independent:
Green fatigue sets in: the world cools on global warming — Worldwide concerns about climate change have dropped dramatically since 2009 — Public concern about environmental issues including climate change has slumped to a 20-year low since the financial crisis, a global study reveals.
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The Daily Caller, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, The Dish and Ed Driscoll
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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