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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Paul Ryan's budget: Social engineering with a side of deficit reduction — Here is Paul Ryan's path to a balanced budget in three sentences: He cuts deep into spending on health care for the poor and some combination of education, infrastructure, research, public-safety, and low-income programs.
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Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
Paul Ryan Accidentally Says He Is “Destroying The Health Care System” — Oops. — “This is something we will not give up on because we are not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.” — View Video › — House Budget Committee Chairman …
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The Moderate Voice, The Hill and Crooks and Liars
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Anchor Shouts Down Criticism Of Ryan Budget — Fox News host Bill Hemmer tried to shout down Rep. Chris Van Hollen's (D-MD) criticism of the GOP budget on Tuesday morning by loudly reading from Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) editorial promoting the newly-released Republican plan.
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NBCNews.com, Eschaton and Politico
Paul Ryan / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Plan to Balance the Budget by 2023
The GOP Plan to Balance the Budget by 2023
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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
Unleash Paul Ryan!
Unleash Paul Ryan!
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Ross Douthat, Guardian and Outside the Beltway
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan's make-believe budget
Paul Ryan's make-believe budget
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CBS News, Taking Note, Wonkblog, Campaign for America's Future, American Prospect, The Hill, The Fix, The Plum Line, Mario Piperni dot Com and Daily Kos
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Ryan Budget Plan Aims to Roll Back Obama Agenda
Ryan Budget Plan Aims to Roll Back Obama Agenda
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CNN, The Huffington Post, The Hill, Washington Monthly, Campaign for America's Future and Jared Bernstein
Steve Kornacki / Salon:
A reality check for Ashley Judd — What she's really up against, if she does run against Mitch McConnell in Kentucky. Inside the numbers and history — A report over the weekend suggested that actress Ashley Judd has decided to challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky next year.
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Mediaite, Booman Tribune, Hot Air and First Read
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
McConnell: Obama's delayed budget like dropping a ‘bomb’ on legislative process
McConnell: Obama's delayed budget like dropping a ‘bomb’ on legislative process
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Politico, Washington Post and Post Politics
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Senate Democrats' budget includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes
Senate Democrats' budget includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes
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The PJ Tatler and Post Politics
James Hohmann / Politico:
Mitch McConnell to air reelection ads
Mitch McConnell to air reelection ads
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Roll Call, FatLip and The Caucus
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Senate Democrats eye immigration blitz after recess
Senate Democrats eye immigration blitz after recess
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Power Line and Hot Air
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Humility or Cynicism? Whatever is Driving Obama is Better Than Nothing — Tumbling polls have turned the president into the schmoozer-in-chief — President Obama's burst of congressional and public outreach coincides with declining poll numbers. (AP Photo)
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Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
McClatchy-Marist poll shows Obama tumbling in voters' eyes
McClatchy-Marist poll shows Obama tumbling in voters' eyes
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Mediaite, Post Politics and Hot Air
Politico:
Is he serious? — President Barack Obama's unusual tour …
Is he serious? — President Barack Obama's unusual tour …
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CNN, Wall Street Journal and Right Wing News
Tanner Colby / Slate:
The troubling things I learned when I re-reported Bob Woodward's book on John Belushi. — John Belushi in Animal House, 1978 Courtesy of Universal Pictures — A little more than a week ago, during an interview with Politico, Bob Woodward came forward to claim he'd been threatened in an email by a …
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Washington Monthly, Capital New York and Hit & Run, more at Mediagazer »
Hillel Aron / The Informer:
Are the Koch Brothers Trying to Buy the Los Angeles Times? — The latest rumor about the next owner of the L.A. Times, which is for sale, is a doozy. A bombshell. It's a doozy wrapped in a bombshell exploding inside a Drudge siren. — Multiple sources tell L.A. Weekly that Charles and David Koch …
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Beth Stebner / Daily Mail:
‘It sounds like a war zone’: Chaos in Brooklyn as 100 teenagers ‘riot’ on the streets following vigil of 16-year-old who was shot dead by NYPD plainclothes cops — Two plainclothes NYPD officers shot and killed a 16-year-old Brooklyn resident after police say he pointed a gun at officers on Saturday
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Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat — (CNSNews.com) - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of “high public-health significance.”
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Rush Limbaugh, Hit & Run, The Shark Tank, Althouse, Patterico's Pontifications, The Daily Caller and Weasel Zippers
New York Post:
The ‘fair share’ White House — Those who make the rules should play by them. Especially a White House that lectures the rest of America about the importance of paying your “fair share” of taxes. — So we were struck by IRS reports that no fewer than 40 aides to President Obama still owe …
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Roger Simon / Politico:
Save the sequester, crush the children!
Save the sequester, crush the children!
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NewsBusters blogs, CNN, americanthinker.com, TheBlaze.com and The Hill
Jeffrey Hess / NPR:
Soda Wars Backlash: Mississippi Passes ‘Anti-Bloomberg’ Bill … Mayor Mike and his public health edicts are having a rough ride. — On Monday, a state judge in Manhattan struck down New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's rule capping soda sizes. And lawmakers in Mississippi are taking …
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Washington Monthly, Weasel Zippers, Colorlines, National Review and Gothamist
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Rush Limbaugh Sides With Rand Paul: ‘The Neocons Are Paranoid’ — The most popular conservative demagogue in America signals that hawkish foreign policy dogma may be losing its hold on the GOP. — In the Spring of 2011, I wrote a widely ignored article arguing that the Republican Party's …
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Ross Douthat, The Dish, Mondoweiss and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Associated Press:
Sarah Palin tackles ‘War on Christmas’ in new book — ‘Amidst the fragility of this politically correct era, it is imperative that we stand up for our beliefs before the element of faith in a glorious and traditional holiday like Christmas is marginalized and ignored,’ Palin says.
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The Moderate Voice, Washington Monthly, Mediaite, The Raw Story and Post Politics
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Doubts about Johns Hopkins research have gone unanswered, scientist says — Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post - Daniel Yuan, pictured at his home in Laurel, raised doubts for years about the work of his colleagues in a Johns Hopkins medical research lab. “The denial that I am hearing …
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The College Fix and The Other McCain
Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Hamas: ‘Declaration Of War’ If Obama Visits Temple Mount — WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Hamas is warning that if President Obama visits the Temple Mount it would be a “declaration of war” against the Islamic world. — Israel National News reports the terror group made the threat during …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
With Woeful Approval Rating, Pa. Gov. Corbett's Re-Election Hopes Look Dim — His constituents down on his job performance, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) approaches his 2014 re-election campaign in a politically precarious position, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Minnesota Legislator Interrupts Proceedings To Introduce Ex-Gay Friend — Debate on same-sex marriage will resume today in Minnesota as both the House Civil Law Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee host hearings on a proposed equality bill. The legislation already has enough support …
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Advocate, The Raw Story and Towleroad News #gay
New York Times:
For Detroit, a Crisis Born of Bad Decisions and Crossed Fingers — DETROIT — This city was already sinking under hundreds of millions of dollars in bills that it could not pay when a municipal auditor brought in a veteran financial consultant to dig through the books.
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msnbc.com, JustOneMinute, National Review, Via Meadia, The National Memo and The Other McCain
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
The Administrative State in One Photo — The then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (and may she remain forever a former Speaker) took a lot of ridicule during the debate over the passage of Obamacare when she said that we'd have to pass the bill to find out what's in it. I thought the critics had this all wrong.
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Conservative Intel / Conservative Intelligence …:
Romney leads, GOP in Strong Position — In a hypothetical Republican Senate primary for the 2014 Michigan U.S. Senate race, Scott Romney (brother of Mitt) would begin the race as an early, though modest, front-runner Romney leads with 26% followed by Congressman Mike Rogers at 17% …