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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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Paul Ryan / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Plan to Balance the Budget by 2023  —  The goal can be reached, with no new taxes, while increasing spending 3.4% annually instead of the current 5%.  —  America's national debt is over $16 trillion.  Yet Washington can't figure out how to cut $85 billion—or just 2% of the federal budget …
Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan's make-believe budget  —  If Rep. Paul Ryan wants people to take his budget manifestos seriously, he should be honest about his ambition: not so much to make the federal government fiscally sustainable as to make it smaller.  —  You will recall that the Ryan Budget was a big Republican selling point in last year's election.
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Ryan Budget Plan Aims to Roll Back Obama Agenda
Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
Paul Ryan Accidentally Says He Is “Destroying The Health Care System”
Discussion: The Hill and Crooks and Liars
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
Unleash Paul Ryan!
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Paul Ryan budget slashes spending by $5.7 trillion to reach 10-year balance
Discussion: Econbrowser
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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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
In President's Outreach to G.O.P., Past Failures Loom  —  WASHINGTON — For all the attention to President Obama's new campaign of outreach to Republicans, it was four months ago — on the eve of bipartisan budget talks — that he secretly invited five of them to the White House for a movie screening …
Politico:
Is he serious?  —  President Barack Obama's unusual tour …
Discussion: Right Wing News
Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
McClatchy-Marist poll shows Obama tumbling in voters' eyes
Discussion: Post Politics and Hot Air
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.
Discussion: Politico, Booman Tribune and First Read
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
McConnell: Obama's delayed budget like dropping a ‘bomb’ on legislative process
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Budget likely in early April
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Washington Examiner:
Byron York: Ted Cruz pushes for vote to stop funding for Obamacare
Discussion: neo-neocon and Hit & Run
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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New York Post:
Cleanup in aisle 1: Teen's ‘mourners’ trash Brooklyn shops
Discussion: Right Wing News and Gothamist
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.”
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 …
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!
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.
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.
Discussion: National Review
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 …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
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.
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 …
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 …
Associated Press:
Financial info on celebs, officials leaked online  —  LOS ANGELES (AP) - Authorities and celebrities were grappling with how to respond to a website that posted what appears to be private financial information about top government officials and stars such as Jay-Z and Mel Gibson.
Discussion: CNN
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Outrageous!... Far Left Southern Poverty Law Center Puts “Singing Nuns” on Its Hate Groups Map  —  Outrageous... The far left Southern Poverty Law Center has once again put the “Singing Nuns” on its hate group map.  —  Here the Singing Nuns from Spokane sing “Ave Maria.”  —  A typical hate group, huh?
Meredith Melnick / The Huffington Post:
New York City Soda Ban Health Fallout: Bloomberg's Legislation Struck Down... Now What?  —  If all had gone according to NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's plan, today would have been the first day without super-sized beverages in New York City.  —  Known as the “soda ban,” …
Discussion: The Reaction
 
 
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Michael Day / The Independent:
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Bill Bolling rejects run as independent in Virginia governor's race
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Cindy Adams / New York Post:
George Soros: Ex threw lamp at me
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Rove Says Media Should Stop Calling Elections Prematurely (VIDEO)
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Bryan Caplan / EconLog:
The Myopic Empiricism of the Minimum Wage
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Benjamin Weiser / New York Times:
Officer Is Found Guilty in Cannibal Case
Discussion: The Raw Story
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters blogs:
Erin Burnett to Laura Bush: Should America Accept Anti-Semitism To Affect Change In Middle East?
Discussion: The Jawa Report
Reuters:
Falkland Islanders vote overwhelmingly to keep British rule
Discussion: The Week and The Gateway Pundit
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Dems Kick Off Efforts To Break GOP Filibuster Of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Arutz Sheva:
Volunteer who Opposed Dutch Hitler Admirers in Hiding
Discussion: Elder of Ziyon
Ryan Cooper / Washington Monthly:
How Does Jeff Sachs Explain the Great Recession?
Discussion: Sky Dancing and Brad DeLong