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6:55 PM ET, March 10, 2013

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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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Byron Tau / Politico:   Jeb Bush: No ‘Bush baggage’
Ben Geman / The Hill:   Jeb Bush: ‘I applaud the president’ for outreach to GOP lawmakers
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 …
Discussion: Smartypants
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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.
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
New problem for House GOP leaders: Rank-and-file may vote against rules  —  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 …
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Disruptions: Digital Era Redefining Etiquette  —  Some people are so rude.  Really, who sends an e-mail or text message that just says “Thank you”?  Who leaves a voice mail message when you don't answer, rather than texting you?  Who asks for a fact easily found on Google?
Discussion: Marbury and Gothamist
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
The five biggest lies about entitlement programs  —  Social Security and Medicare are big issues, and not everyone is telling the truth about them.  —  Social Security foes are lying when they say a significant portion of benefits goes to multimillionaires.  In fact, their share of benefits is minuscule.
Associated Press:
Afghan president accuses U.S., Taliban of collusion  —  Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most foreign troops leave — an allegation the top American commander in Afghanistan rejected as “categorically false.”
 
 
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Peter Beaumont / Guardian:
Saddam's statue fell, but nothing changed: the bitter regrets of Iraq's sledgehammer man
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IMF:
The Challenge of Debt Reduction during Fiscal Consolidation
Shikha Dalmia / Hit & Run:
Do Republicans Need a Conservative Version of the Welfare State to Win?
Discussion: Right Turn
David Alexander / Reuters:
U.S. Air Force stops reporting data on Afghan drone strikes
Gregory Wallace / CNN:
Obama meetings couldn't have prevented gridlock, Pelosi says
Discussion: Politico and The Democratic Daily
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Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
Quinn Formally Joins Race for New York Mayor
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
Congress blocked Kerry from offering Egypt more aid
Jerusalem Post:
Envoys work to end UN's Palestinian refugee status
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Awr Hawkins / BREITBART.COM:
GABBY GIFFORDS' HUSBAND BUYS AR-15
Danielle Avel / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: CALLING FOR INTIFADA ON THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit