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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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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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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
Unleash Paul Ryan!
Unleash Paul Ryan!
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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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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Senate Democrats pepper Obama with questions on entitlements — Liberal Democrats challenged President Obama on Tuesday over his willingness to cut Social Security benefits. — At a meeting that lasted just less than 90 minutes, Obama was peppered by questions from Sens. Tom Harkin …
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Politico and The Political Carnival
George Stephanopoulos / ABCNEWS:
President Obama Won't Balance Budget ‘Just for the Sake of Balance’
President Obama Won't Balance Budget ‘Just for the Sake of Balance’
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Olivier Knox / Yahoo! News:
Obama meets with not-quite-united Senate Democrats
Obama meets with not-quite-united Senate Democrats
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James Hohmann / Politico:
Mitch McConnell to air reelection ads — Mitch McConnell plans to begin running television commercials in Kentucky on Thursday, 20 months before the election. — The Senate Minority Leader, who polls suggest is perhaps the most vulnerable Republican incumbent up in 2014 …
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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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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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Steve Kornacki / Salon:
A reality check for Ashley Judd
A reality check for Ashley Judd
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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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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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New York Post:
Cleanup in aisle 1: Teen's ‘mourners’ trash Brooklyn shops — A vigil for a teenager fatally shot by cops turned into a riot in Brooklyn last night, as a mob of outraged thugs ransacked stores, broke car windows and assaulted residents in East Flatbush. — The chaos erupted …
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Kasie Hunt / NBCNews.com:
Sources: NRA won't oppose background check deal - if Democrats cede tough records fight — Senators negotiating a bill mandating background checks for all gun buyers are privately expecting the National Rifle Association not to fight the measure — provided the legislation does …
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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Some Gun Measures Broadly Backed But the Politics Show an Even Split
Some Gun Measures Broadly Backed But the Politics Show an Even Split
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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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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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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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NLRB:
NLRB To Seek Supreme Court Review in Noel Canning v. NLRB — The National Labor Relations Board has determined not to seek en banc rehearing in Noel Canning v. NLRB, in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit held that the January 4, 2012 recess appointments of three members to the Board were invalid.
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
FRC: No Right to Have Sex Outside of Marriage, Society Should ‘Punish It’ — Family Research Council senior fellow Pat Fagan appeared alongside Tony Perkins, the head of FRC, on Washington Watch yesterday to discuss his article which claims that Eisenstadt v. Baird, the 1972 case that overturned …
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Bdisbrow / CBS San Francisco:
‘Killing Jews Is Worship’ Ad Campaign Rolled Out On SF Muni Buses — SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) - A controversy has been re-ignited this week as ten new ads go up on San Francisco Muni buses containing quotes used by terrorists. — “Killing Jews is worship that draws us closer to Allah,” …
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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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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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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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Warren Throckmorton:
NARTH Loses Tax Exempt Status — In September 2012, the tax exempt status of the National Association for the Research and Therapy of Homosexuality (NARTH) was revoked due to failure to file Form 990 for three consecutive years. The notice of revocation was yesterday according to the IRS website.
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
An Energy Coup for Japan: ‘Flammable Ice’ — TOKYO — Japan said Tuesday that it had extracted gas from offshore deposits of methane hydrate — sometimes called “flammable ice” — a breakthrough that officials and experts said could be a step toward tapping a promising but still little-understood energy source.
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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.
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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