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Washington Post:
Escort says Menendez prostitution claims were made up — View Photo Gallery — Sen. Robert Menendez: Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) has been embroiled in a controversy involving his relations with a Miami campaign contributor and the awarding of a security contract at a port in the Dominican Republic.
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David Martosko / The Daily Caller:
Washington Post report confuses one prostitute with another in bid to debunk Menendez allegations — The Washington Post mistook one prostitute for another Monday in a report that initially seemed to debunk a November 2012 Daily Caller exposé of New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez.
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Betsy's Page, The Week and Mediaite
Alyssa Rosenberg / ThinkProgress:
Theatrical Slut Shaming: Daily Caller Attacks Ashley Judd For Nude Scenes — It's a sign of how anxious the right wing is about the possibility that Ashley Judd might run for Senate against Minority Leader Mitch McConnell that the attacks on her have geared up before she's even formally entered the race.
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jobsanger, Politico, The Daily Caller, Liberal Values and Taylor Marsh
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Ashley Judd's War With Kentucky's Coal Industry Could Doom Candidacy
Ashley Judd's War With Kentucky's Coal Industry Could Doom Candidacy
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Weasel Zippers
Taylor Bigler / The Daily Caller:
Ashley Judd, potential U.S. Senate candidate, sure has done a lot of on-screen nudity
Ashley Judd, potential U.S. Senate candidate, sure has done a lot of on-screen nudity
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Mother Jones, The Immoral Minority, The Raw Story and Balloon Juice
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
GOP sniping over 2012 still going strong — Four months after taking an electoral pounding, Republicans can't agree on what went wrong in 2012 — let alone on a path to recovery. — Each week brings a new diagnosis of the party's woes. Karl Rove says it's candidate quality.
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Booman Tribune
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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
“In the real world we were kidding ourselves” — Newt Gingrich talks to Salon about why he and his party were so wrong about the election and the future of the GOP — There was a popular theory for much of the 2012 Republican presidential campaign that Newt Gingrich wasn't actually running …
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Liberal Values, The Political Carnival, Booman Tribune, Mother Jones and NBCNews.com
Donovan Slack / Politico:
Obama job approval tumbles — President Obama's job approval rating took a hit over the weekend, falling to its lowest level in the Gallup three-day average since his reelection. — His approval rating was 46 percent between Feb 29 and March 2, down from 53 percent a week earlier.
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msnbc.com, Power Line, Weasel Zippers, Scared Monkeys and The PJ Tatler
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Jeb Bush's Immigration Flip Flop Stuns Reformers — After years of building a reputation as the “good” Republican on immigration, Jeb Bush shocked the reform community on Monday by ruling out a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, a position solidly to the right of prominent GOPers like Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL).
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Chairman Rogers Introduces Continuing Resolution to Prevent Government Shutdown, Protect National Defense and Veterans — House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers today introduced a Continuing Resolution (CR) to prevent a government shutdown and continue government operations until the end …
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
House government funding bill seeks to soften blow from sequester
House government funding bill seeks to soften blow from sequester
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National Review and CNN
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Obama's Thirteen Words — Remember George W. Bush's famous “16 words”? They came from Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech, where Bush said: “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
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The Other McCain and Whiskey Fire
Pew Research Center:
Twitter Reaction to Events Often at Odds with Overall Public Opinion — The reaction on Twitter to major political events and policy decisions often differs a great deal from public opinion as measured by surveys. This is the conclusion of a year-long Pew Research Center study that compared …
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Washington Examiner, Poynter, Prairie Weather, Stuff.co.nz, Mashable! and CNN, more at Mediagazer »
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Pundits blowing it on sequester debate — Republicans are waving around a column by the New York Times' Bill Keller that pins the blame for the sequester on the President. The title is “Obama's fault,” and Keller's effort is reminiscent of plenty of other punditry we've seen that adopts …
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Daily Kos, New Republic, Right Turn, A plain blog about politics, AMERICAblog, The Daily Caller and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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David Lauter / Los Angeles Times:
Deficit reduction target reached, but no one's happy
Deficit reduction target reached, but no one's happy
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Campaign for America's Future and The Political Carnival
Roger Simon / Politico:
GOP wants crazy after all these years — In politics, snubs are more important than invites. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican and social conservative, has been refused a speaking spot at the Conservative Political Action Conference to be held next week just outside Washington .
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The Daily Caller
Pastor Scott / Scott Lively Ministries:
The Bi-Sexual T**d in the Gay Wedding Punchbowl — The next time you're at a “gay ' wedding with political, media or other important pro-gay-marriage celebrities, and one of them gets up with a glass of wedding punch to toast Partner A and Partner B for their courage to “be themselves,” …
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Firedoglake
Andrea Peterson / ThinkProgress:
The White House Agrees: It's Time to Legalize Cell Phone Unlocking — Two weeks ago, a petition asking the White House to act on a recent Library of Congress decision that restricted consumer use of cell phones reached the required threshold for a response.
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loc.gov, Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Daily Caller
Paul Krugman:
Urk, Charlie Rose Edition — Well, we'll see how it comes out after editing, but I feel that I just had my Denver debate moment: I was tired, cranky, and unready for the blizzard of misleading factoids and diversionary stuff (In 1997 you said that the aging population was a big problem!
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Business Insider, Politico and msnbc.com
Washington Post:
Obama's second-term Cabinet to play bigger policy role — President Obama, facing a limited window of time to enact an ambitious second-term agenda, is rounding out his Cabinet with relative outsiders and empowering them with more policymaking responsibility than secretaries had during his first term.
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Hot Air, Wonkblog and Washington Examiner
Jackie Kucinich / Associated Press:
Senators strike deal on gun trafficking — Gun trafficking and purchasing firearms with the intent of transferring them to someone else would become federal crimes under the bipartisan plan. — A bipartisan group of senators signed onto legislation that would strengthen gun trafficking …
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The Heritage Foundation
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner:
Michelle Obama: American Dogs need balanced diets, exercise too … During her Google Hangout today, First Lady Michelle Obama reminded the audience that dogs need a proper diet and exercise, just like children do. — The First Lady admitted that President Obama liked to tease their own dog …
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Scared Monkeys, The Hinterland Gazette, Babalú Blog, Rush Limbaugh, Weasel Zippers, Let's Move! and The Daily Caller
ThinkProgress:
GOP Congresswoman: I Opposed Domestic Violence Bill Because It Protected Too Many Groups — Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Monday openly admitted that she opposed the latest reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) because it included protections for LGBT, Native American, and undocumented victims of domestic violence.
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Video Cafe blogs, The Raw Story, Shakesville and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Gov. Chris Christie fumes over sequester — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Monday ripped Washington, D.C., for failing to get a deal to avert the sequester, charging “real leadership” was AWOL. — “I don't understand it, I don't understand why they haven't fixed it already.
New York Times:
Qualified Private Activity Bonds Come Under New Scrutiny — The last time the nation's tax code was overhauled, in 1986, Congress tried to end a big corporate giveaway. — But this valuable perk — the ability to finance a variety of business projects cheaply with bonds that are exempt …
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Prairie Weather and Washington Examiner
Bill Cotterell / Reuters:
Florida Medicaid expansion suffers legislative setback — (Reuters) - Florida Governor Rick Scott's plan to expand Medicaid coverage to cover about 1 million more poor people suffered a setback on Monday when the proposal failed to make it out of a key state legislative committee hearing.
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Human Events, protein wisdom, Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Napolitano promises to release more illegals — WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano promised to release more illegal immigrants into the United States, saying the budget sequester has left her no choice. — Several hundred detainees have already released because of the sequester, she insisted.
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