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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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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
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 Hill and Crooks and Liars
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 …
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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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Taking Note, Wonkblog, CBS News, Campaign for America's Future, Mario Piperni dot Com, American Prospect, The Fix, The Plum Line and Daily Kos
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Senate Dem budget includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes
Senate Dem budget includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes
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The PJ Tatler
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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Washington Monthly, Jared Bernstein and Campaign for America's Future
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Paul Ryan budget slashes spending by $5.7 trillion to reach 10-year balance
Paul Ryan budget slashes spending by $5.7 trillion to reach 10-year balance
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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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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
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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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
Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Trump: Ashley Judd ‘a great candidate’
Trump: Ashley Judd ‘a great candidate’
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Hot Air, Mediaite, Twitchy and TheBlaze.com
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
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 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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Crooks and Liars, Wall Street Journal, nbcnewyork.com, The Last Refuge, Gawker, ThinkProgress and Jammie Wearing Fools
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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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Hit & Run, The Shark Tank, Althouse, Patterico's Pontifications, The Daily Caller and Weasel Zippers
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, 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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Jihad Watch
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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National Review
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.
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% …
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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JustOneMinute, Via Meadia, National Review, The Other McCain and The National Memo
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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Weasel Zippers, Washington Monthly, National Review, Colorlines and Gothamist
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters blogs:
Erin Burnett to Laura Bush: Should America Accept Anti-Semitism To Affect Change In Middle East? — CNN's Erin Burnett on Monday asked former first lady Laura Bush a truly disgusting question. — In a segment about the George W. Bush Institute's Women's Initiative Fellowship Program …
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Israel Matzav
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
James Clapper: Sequestration risks safety — Budget cuts mandated by the sequester will have an “insidious” impact on U.S. national security and on the ability of America's spy agencies to do their work, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday.
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TalkLeft, American Forces Press Service and Lawfare