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3:45 PM ET, March 11, 2013

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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Why Everyone Hates The White House Beat Now  —  BuzzFeed's new White House reporter explores the declining prestige of his “soul-killing” assignment.  —  The White House press corps is seen as Obama arrives to speak.  —  Image by Charles Dharapak / AP  —  WASHINGTON — Freshly minted …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Dems' big 2014 obstacle: President Obama  —  President Barack Obama says he's ready to do whatever it takes to help Democrats win the House next year — a feat that could make the difference between limping to the end of his presidency and going out with a bang.
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
40 Obama White House aides owe the IRS $333,000 in back taxes
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:   Donald Trump willing to fund White House tours
Jon Kyl / AEI:
Senator Joseph Lieberman to Join Senator Jon Kyl as Co-Chair of the American Internationalism Project at the American Enterprise Institute  —  Contact: Media Services, 202-862-5829 mediaservices@aei.org  —  Washington, DC (March 11, 2013) - American Enterprise Institute (AEI) …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Lieberman joins American Enterprise Institute  —  Former Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) is joining the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative think tank announced Monday.  —  Lieberman will serve as cochairman of the American Internationalism Project, alongside former Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.).
Discussion: Balloon Juice
Bryan Bender / The Boston Globe:
Chief of US Pacific forces calls climate biggest worry  —  CAMBRIDGE — America's top military officer in charge of monitoring hostile actions by North Korea, escalating tensions between China and Japan, and a spike in computer attacks traced to China provides an unexpected answer when asked …
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Alastair Gale / Wall Street Journal:
Pressure Rises on Korean Peninsula
Discussion: The Reaction
Madison Park / CNN:
North Korea declares 1953 armistice invalid
Discussion: KFOR-TV
Paul Krugman:
Breitbarted  —  OK, I'm an evil person — and my scheming has paid off.  —  On Friday I started hearing from friends about a fake story making the rounds about my allegedly filing for personal bankruptcy; I even got asked about the story by a reporter from Russian television, who was very embarrassed when I told him it was fake.
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Paul Ryan Reverses Himself Yet Again On Medicare Cuts  —  When he unveils his budget plan this week, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) will complete a 720-degree flip on President Obama's cuts to Medicare providers in the Affordable Care Act.  —  As he revealed on “Fox News Sunday,” Ryan's upcoming budget will sustain the cuts.
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Talking Points Memo:
Ryan's New Budget Repeals ‘Obamacare’
Peter Beinart / The Daily Beast:
Sunday Talk Interviews Show Why Jeb Bush Will Never Be President  —  The younger Bush may be flirting with a run, but for a Republican to seriously compete in 2016, he must publicly distance himself from George W. Bush—and in five interviews Sunday, Jeb showed he wouldn't do that if he could.
Discussion: Slate, The Dish and NBCNews.com
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Either Colin Powell's Facebook Was Hacked Or He Has Had a Sudden Change of Heart About George W. Bush
Discussion: The Verge
Howard Kurtz / The Daily Beast:
Matt Lauer's Bruising Year After Ann Curry's Ouster Devastated the ‘Today’ Show  —  The Today host tells Howard Kurtz that NBC mishandled Ann Curry's ouster and describes how the network is rebuilding the show.  Plus, his secret talks with Katie Couric.  —  One day last fall …
Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
Senators agree on path to legal status for illegal immigrants  —  Senators crafting a bipartisan overhaul of immigration laws agree on a path to legal status, aides say, but other hurdles remain.  —  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) speaks to journalists in January about a bipartisan immigration reform effort …
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First Read / NBCNews.com:
Budget battles return to Washington
Discussion: New York Times, Roll Call and msnbc.com
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
President Obama's numbers plummet in New York  —  President Barack Obama's approval rating in New York fell precipitously in the last month, according to a poll released Monday, and three-fifths of the state's registered voters now believe the country is heading in the wrong direction.
New York Times:
When to Say No  —  The State Department's latest environmental assessment of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline makes no recommendation about whether President Obama should approve it.  Here is ours.  He should say no, and for one overriding reason: A president who has repeatedly …
Patrick Wintour / Guardian:
Chris Huhne: I am sorry  —  Jailed ex-minister tells the Guardian he accepts responsibility for chain of events that led to prison and loss of political career  —  Chris Huhne, the jailed former cabinet member, has apologised unreservedly for lying for two years about asking his wife …
Discussion: National Updates and Spectator
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Smaller States Find Outsize Clout Growing in Senate  —  At left, the view toward Vermont from Washington County, N.Y., left.  Vermont got much more federal stimulus money than larger states.  “We never saw any of the positive impact of the stimulus funds,” said Peter Aust, top right …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Computer Algorithms Rely Increasingly on Human Helpers  —  Trading stocks, targeting ads, steering political campaigns, arranging dates, besting people on “Jeopardy” and even choosing bra sizes: computer algorithms are doing all this work and more.  —  But increasingly, behind the curtain …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Harvard Search of E-Mail Stuns Its Faculty Members  —  Bewildered, and at times angry, faculty members at Harvard criticized the university on Sunday after revelations that administrators secretly searched the e-mail accounts of 16 resident deans in an effort to learn who leaked information …
Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: Sequester has not hit home  —  WASHINGTON — The budget cuts in Washington have not hit home in America, at least not yet.  —  A plurality of Americans think federal spending cuts will have no effect at all on them or their families, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll.
Sofia Resnick / The Huffington Post:
New Family Structures Study Intended To Sway Supreme Court On Gay Marriage, Documents Show  —  Goal of conservative-backed parenting study was to influence SCOTUS decisions on gay marriage, docs show  —  WASHINGTON — The conservative funders who bankrolled a flawed and widely cited academic …
Discussion: Advocate and Holy Bullies …
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Outside Washington, Sequestration Begins To Inflict Pain  —  If beltway news reflected events in the country at large, the worst consequences of sequestration would amount to griping over politically motivated spending cuts, or programs spared.  —  That kind of coverage stems from a GOP effort …
Discussion: The Maddow Blog and Daily Kos
Kevin Bogardus / The Hill:
Scott Brown joins law and lobby firm  —  Former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) is heading to the private sector.  —  Brown has joined Nixon Peabody, a law and lobby firm, as counsel in the firm's Boston office.  The Massachusetts Republican, also a former state senator, will concentrate his practice on …
Discussion: Politico
Mark Tapscott / Washington Examiner:
Why do the Koch Brothers get all the sunshine? … Here's a couple of data points that bear serious thought this week by transparency advocates celebrating Sunshine Week and by everybody else who cares about protecting and preserving a free and independent press:
Discussion: Secrecy News
Mitchel Maddux / New York Post:
Attorney wants to exclude Jews from Abdel Hameed Shehadeh's upcoming terror trial  —  An attorney has hatched a shocking scheme to defend an accused terrorist in Brooklyn federal court: Purge the Jews.  —  Lawyer Frederick Cohn will ask a judge today to bar Jews from the jury hearing the case …
 
 
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Maria Puente / USA Today:
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Private Manning's Confidant
Aslinn Scott / The College Fix:
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Rep. Peter King fights kickboxing champion in fundraiser
Discussion: Politico, CNN and National Review
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