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3:10 PM ET, March 6, 2013

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Rory Carroll / New York Times:
In the End, an Awful Manager  —  IN Caracas, Venezuela, you could tell a summit meeting mattered to Hugo Chávez when government workers touched up the city's rubble.  Before dignitaries arrived, teams with buckets and brushes would paint bright yellow lines along the route from the airport …
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Christopher Hitchens / Slate:
What I learned about Hugo Chávez's mental health when I visited Venezuela with Sean Penn.  —  Less than a day after Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez's communication minister appeared on television to announce that the socialist leader was in failing health, Chávez has died.
William J. Dobson / Slate:
How his economically disastrous, politically effective ideology will haunt the country he ruined.
Discussion: The Lede, The Dish and IHT Rendezvous
Rebecca Ford / Hollywood Reporter:
Sean Penn on Hugo Chavez's Death: ‘I Lost a Friend’
Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
Why Democrats Shouldn't Eulogize Hugo Chavez
The Carter Center:
Statement From Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on the Death of Hugo Chavez
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Rand Paul launches talking filibuster against CIA nominee  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is staging a talking filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan to be director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).  —  “I'm here to filibuster John Brennan's nomination to be director of CIA,” Paul said on the Senate floor Wednesday.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
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Philip Ewing / Politico:
Rand Paul stops John Brennan action with filibuster  —  Sen. Rand Paul commandeered the Senate on Wednesday with an old-fashioned talking filibuster about what he said are the dangers of drone strikes against Americans inside the U.S., derailing the Senate's progress on the White House's nominee to head the CIA.
Discussion: The Week
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Ted Cruz Goads Eric Holder Into Admitting That Killing Americans With Drones On U.S. Soil Is Unconstitutional
New York Times:
Trying to Revive Talks, Obama Goes Around G.O.P. Leaders  —  WASHINGTON — With Republican leaders in Congress forswearing budget negotiations over new revenues, President Obama has begun reaching around them to Republican lawmakers with a history of willingness to cut bipartisan deals.
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Jake Novak / CNBC:
Boehner Wants Budget Deals ‘Out in the Open’  —  Supervising Producer for “The Kudlow Report”  —  House Speaker John Boehner told CNBC's Larry Kudlow on Wednesday that a long-term deal on entitlements is possible, and there's no good reason for the Obama team to have shut down the White House tour.
Discussion: Daily Kos, Post Politics and First Read
Politico:
Now Dems worry: Did Obama cry wolf?  —  President Barack Obama hopes to spark a pitchfork revolt against Republicans over sequester-induced budget cuts — but many Democrats fret that he's undermined that effort with an early strategy marred by hype, poor planning and muddled messaging.
Zev Chafets / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive Excerpt: Roger Ailes Off Camera  —  Roger Ailes is one of the most powerful—and controversial—characters in television media, pilloried by critics and many in the mainstream media and lionized by conservative viewers who can't get enough of his posse of charismatic hosts.
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Mike Allen / Politico:
THE REAL ROGER AILES — BILL GATES …
Discussion: FishbowlDC
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Greg Holyk / ABCNEWS:
Most Back Cuts Overall - But Not to the Military
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Chief White House Calligrapher Gets Paid $96,725 Per Year  —  With the White House closing its doors to public tour groups in order to save money for the sequester, it's worth remembering some of the other costs the White House incurs annually.  —  Like the “Chief Calligrapher,” …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Capitol janitors making ‘ends meet’ with overtime?  Nope  —  “You know, those Capitol janitors will not get as much overtime.  I'm sure they think less pay, that they're taking home, does hurt.”  — Gene Sperling, director of the White House economic council, on ABC News' “This Week,” March 3, 2013
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Donovan Slack / Politico:
6 Obama administration sequester claims shot down by fact checkers
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Guardian:
Revealed: Pentagon link to Iraq torture centres  —  Exclusive: General David Petraeus and ‘dirty wars’ veteran behind commando units implicated in detainee abuse  —  See the full-length documentary film of the 15-month investigation  —  The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the “dirty wars” …
Discussion: susiemadrak.com
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David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Revealed: Pentagon's Link To Iraqi Torture Centers
Discussion: Balloon Juice and Guardian
Carl Campanile / New York Post:
Mayor Bloomberg's new health crusade: too-loud earbuds  —  Now listen up, if you can.  —  Mayor Bloomberg — who has already cracked down on smoking, junk food, trans fats, salt and super-sized drinks — is embarking on a new crusade: preventing New Yorkers from going deaf.
Empire News:
Sam Mendes Won't Direct Bond 24  —  Exclusive on ‘a very difficult decision’  —  Bond may be back, but Empire can exclusively reveal that Sam Mendes won't be joining him.  At the BAFTAs recently, basking in the glow of Skyfall's triumph for Outstanding British Film, it seemed that Mendes …
Rob Wile / Business Insider:
Niall Ferguson: Paul Krugman's Style Of Debate Suggests He May Have Been Traumatized As A Child  —  Paul Krugman has been charging hard of late at people he believes espouse particularly dangerous economic recipes.  —  It's elicited some equal and opposite responses.
Discussion: Mediaite
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Holder defends prosecution of Web activist Swartz  —  Attorney General Eric Holder denied on Wednesday that agency officials acted inappropriately in their prosecution of Aaron Swartz, an Internet activist and co-creator of Reddit who killed himself earlier this year.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
WATCH: Bill O'Reilly Harasses Gay Colorado Speaker Over Child Molester Laws  —  As expected, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly is continuing his smear campaign against Colorado House Speaker Mark Ferrandino (D), who is openly gay, because of his opposition to instituting “Jessica's Law,” …
 
 
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Agoldberg / The Smoking Gun:
Cops: Perp Had Loaded Revolver In Her Vagina
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Roll Call:
Boehner Pledges to Stick to the ‘Hastert Rule’
Discussion: The Maddow Blog
Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times:
California, on Brink of Recovery, Braces for Setback on Federal Aid
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Gregory Gwyn-Williams, Jr / CNSNews:
Author Quotes Then-Professor Obama Saying, 'I Don't Believe People Should Be Able To Own Guns'
John Bachman / WSB-TV:
City looks to make gun ownership mandatory
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and The Raw Story
Katie Dvorak / The Hill:
Sequester won't interrupt collection of taxes from ‘ObamaCare’
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Not a Dictator  —  Obama's declaration of ineffectuality.
Discussion: Power Line and The Hill
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Baird Helgeson / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Minnesota Poll: A majority doesn't want gay marriage
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
GOP smackdown: Wonks vs. pols
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
McConnell campaign shakes it up with Harlem Shake
Lara Jakes / ABCNEWS:
Too Much Money Spent in Iraq for Too Few Results
Sam Baker / The Hill:
GOP lawmakers say spending bill should target contraception mandate
 

 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Christopher Palmeri / Bloomberg:
Sources: Shari Redstone does not plan to stay on the board of Paramount Global after the company completes its planned merger with Skydance Media

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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