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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Fox Anchor Calls Out Paul Ryan's Budget Plan: Repealing Obamacare Is ‘Not Going To Happen’ — On Sunday morning, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) stopped by Fox News Sunday to preview his new budget, which will be released in full on Tuesday. As it had the past two years, this year's version will call …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Ryan: 2016 White House bid now ‘more realistic,’ rules out running for Speaker — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says the prospect of running for president has become “more realistic” to him but he will not think about a 2016 bid before completing deficit-reduction talks.
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William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Sound and Fury — What to make of Rand Paul's 12 hours and 52 minutes of fame?
Sound and Fury — What to make of Rand Paul's 12 hours and 52 minutes of fame?
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p m carpenter's commentary, The Daily Caller, Hot Air and LewRockwell.com Blog
CNN:
Jeb Bush looks favorably on GOP's direction — (CNN) - As major voices within the Republican Party evaluate the GOP's next steps forward, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush sees promise. — “I'm excited that I think we're seeing the renewal of the conservative movement in the Republican Party …
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Jeb Bush: No ‘Bush baggage’ — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says a possible 2016 run for president would not be affected by his brother's lingering unpopularity. — “I don't think there's any Bush baggage at all,” Bush said on “Fox News Sunday” when confronted with a poll that showed almost …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
House GOP leaders blindsided by defections on spending vote — House Republican leaders have a new problem. They can't count on their members to support them on procedural votes. — Sixteen Republicans defected Wednesday in a vote on the rule governing consideration of a government-funding bill meant …
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Awr Hawkins / BREITBART.COM:
GABBY GIFFORDS' HUSBAND BUYS AR-15 — Mark E. Kelly, gun-control proponent and husband to former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, recently purchased an AR-15 (an “assault weapon,” he called it)—which he now says he intended as an illustration of the need for more stringent gun laws.
Peggy Noonan's Blog:
Two Senators — This is from not-for-attribution interviews with two Republican senators who attended the dinner with the president on Wednesday night at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington. — One was heartened and impressed by the meeting while retaining his skepticism as to whether …
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Colum Lynch / Washington Post:
Susan Rice as national security adviser? U.N. ambassador said to be front-runner. — UNITED NATIONS — Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who lost out in a bruising bid for the job of secretary of state, may have the last laugh. — Rice has emerged as far and away …
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Jeffrey Sachs / The Huffington Post:
Professor Krugman and Crude Keynesianism — I recently published a Washington Post op-ed called “Deficits do Matter” that was co-authored with talk-show host, commentator and former Congressman Joe Scarborough. The piece argues that high and rising levels of public debt are a real concern.
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Howard Fineman / The Huffington Post:
Ashley Judd Senate Run: Actress, Activist Planning To Declare Candidacy, Sources Say — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Ashley Judd, the 44-year-old actress and social activist, has told key advisers and political figures that she is planning to announce her candidacy for U.S. Senate here this spring.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Monstrous — This is a kind of blood-curdling story I just learned about this afternoon. Zerlina Maxwell is an acquaintance who I've watched from a distance as she builds a media career as a progressive pundit and activist — succeeding to an amazing degree while also getting a law degree.
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David Alexander / Reuters:
U.S. Air Force stops reporting data on Afghan drone strikes — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With debate intensifying in the United States over the use of drone aircraft, the U.S. military said on Sunday that it had removed data about air strikes carried out by unmanned planes in Afghanistan from its monthly air power summaries.
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New York Times:
How a U.S. Citizen Came to Be in America's Cross Hairs — WASHINGTON — One morning in late September 2011, a group of American drones took off from an airstrip the C.I.A. had built in the remote southern expanse of Saudi Arabia. The drones crossed the border into Yemen …
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Ryan Goodman / New York Times:
The Drone Question Obama Hasn't Answered
The Drone Question Obama Hasn't Answered
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Althouse, Guardian, his vorpal sword, emptywheel, Crooks and Liars, Liberal Values, Hullabaloo and Outside the Beltway