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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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CNN, Politico, Outside the Beltway and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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The Daily Caller, Hot Air, p m carpenter's commentary and LewRockwell.com Blog
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
TIMELINE: How Jeb Bush Pulled A 360 On Immigration Reform — Jeb Bush completed a whirlwind one-week journey on immigration on Sunday, praising a Senate proposal to grant eventual citizenship for undocumented immigrants after attacking the idea in a newly released book he co-authored that was itself a reversal of his past position.
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The Huffington Post, ABCNEWS, Hullabaloo and The Daily Caller
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CNN:
Jeb Bush looks favorably on GOP's direction
Jeb Bush looks favorably on GOP's direction
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Politico, The Moderate Voice and Crooks and Liars
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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Washington Monthly, PoliticusUSA, Prairie Weather and p m carpenter's commentary
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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Little Green Footballs and Crooks and Liars
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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Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway and The Reaction
Eric Owens / The Daily Caller:
‘Toaster Pastry Gun Freedom Act’ proposed in Maryland — A Maryland state senator has crafted a bill to curb the zeal of public school officials who are tempted to suspend students as young as kindergarten for having things — or talking about things, or eating things — that represent guns, but aren't actually anything like real guns.
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UrbanGrounds, The Gateway Pundit, The Star Democrat and Scared Monkeys
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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The Moderate Voice
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.
New York Post:
Former Newark Airport TSA screener says the job does little to keep fliers safe — It is perhaps America's most unsafe airport. Despite being the launching point for one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 — Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania — Newark Airport has had numerous security violations since.
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Weasel Zippers and LewRockwell.com Blog
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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Washington Monthly and Marginal Revolution
IMF:
The Challenge of Debt Reduction during Fiscal Consolidation — Publication Date: Electronic Access: — Free Full text (PDF file size is 1,292KB). — Use the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this PDF file — Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.
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Paul Krugman, The Reaction and Hullabaloo