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Jackie Calmes / New York Times:
In Obama Budget, Social Programs Face a Cutback — WASHINGTON — President Obama next week will take the political risk of formally proposing cuts to Social Security and Medicare in his annual budget in an effort to demonstrate his willingness to compromise with Republicans and revive prospects …
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Left Furious With Obama For Backing Social Security Cuts — Liberals are mounting strong criticisms of President Obama amid news that his budget will include a Social Security benefit cut — an official endorsement of a policy compromise he's offered Republicans for years …
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Politico:
Boehner rejects Obama cuts-revenue proposal — House Speaker John Boehner immediately dismissed President Barack Obama's package of significant new entitlement cuts tied to new tax revenues, calling them “no way to lead and move the country forward.” — The White House had portrayed the proposal …
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Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Bad News Friday
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Paul Krugman:
Desperately Seeking “Serious” Approval
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Obama Budget: Administration Explains Why It Started With A ‘Compromise Proposal’
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Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama budget would cut entitlements in exchange for tax increases
Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
Why Obama's ‘Best-Looking Attorney General’ Comment Was a Gaffe — The system of beauty, the system of power, and Kamala Harris — President Obama's biggest gaffe yesterday when speaking of California Attorney General Kamala Harris was not in flirtatiously complimenting her as …
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Irin Carmon / Salon:
How to talk about a woman's looks — The president of the United States fails the test — again — There were, perhaps, stupider things said recently than “How did it become so difficult to call a woman good-looking in public?” but I didn't happen to hear them. So congratulations, Dylan Byers of Politico.
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama apologizes to Kamala Harris
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Ben Carson apologizes to Johns Hopkins — Maryland neurosurgeon Ben Carson, the nationally celebrated physician who has become a political lightning rod in recent weeks after his criticism of President Barack Obama and gay marriage, sent an apologetic email Friday to the Johns Hopkins …
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Tyler Durden / Zero Hedge:
People Not In Labor Force Soar By 663,000 To 90 Million, Labor Force Participation Rate At 1979 Levels — Things just keep getting worse for the American worker, and by implication US economy, where as we have shown many times before, it pays just as well to sit back and collect disability …
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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
Heading backward: The miserable March jobs report
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Jethro Mullen / CNN:
Embassies face decisions as tensions rise in North Korea — South Korean soldiers stand guard at a sentry post at the border with North Korea in the Demilitarized Zone near Imjingak, South Korea, on April 5, , as tensions have mounted on the Korean Peninsula. — HIDE CAPTION
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Reuters:
North Korea asks embassies to consider moving diplomats out
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Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
North Korea Sets Deadline For Diplomats To Leave: Next Wednesday
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Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Judge Orders Morning-After Pill Available for All Ages — A federal judge has ruled that the Unites States government must make the most common morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and under.
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Conservative Democrats Take Joint Plunge On Gay Marriage — North Dakota's Heitkamp and Indiana's Donnelly decided to support marriage equality together. — Image by Will Kincaid, File / AP — WASHINGTON — While America was talking about the latest unemployment numbers Friday …
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The Brody File: At Home With Rand Paul - April 4, 2013 — The Brody File show this week takes a closer look at Senator Rand Paul. We spent a couple days with him down in Kentucky. What makes him tick? We'll give you an in-depth look at his views on faith, war, marriage, abortion and much more.
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Allen Reed / The Eagle:
Texas A&M student body president to veto ‘Religious Funding Exemption Bill’ — Texas A&M student body president John Claybrook has vetoed legislation from the student senate aimed at letting students opt out of funding the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Resource Center …
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Condom scientist hits Hannity comment — The lead scientist of a federally funded condom research study is firing back at Fox News commentator Sean Hannity and other conservatives after they charged that the $423,000 project was wasteful spending. — “I would tell Sean …
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Judge Andrew P. Napolitano / Fox News:
FoxNews.com's Jana Winter should be praised, not threatened with jail time — While the press in Colorado is consumed with its coverage of the capital murder prosecution of James Holmes for the slaughter he perpetrated in a movie theater in the town of Aurora on July 20, 2012 …
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Brian Hughes / Washington Examiner:
Democrats have doubts about Obamacare too … President Obama is eager to build public support for his health care overhaul in the few months remaining before its implementation, but waning enthusiasm from Democrats threatens his effort right out of the gate.
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David Skolnick / Vindicator:
Worry about government secrecy, Woodward tells Youngstown crowd — After four decades of being one of the nation's best known and widely respected journalists, you'd think Bob Woodward has seen it all. — “But I wake up every morning haunted by what we don't know,” he said Thursday …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Urge to Purge — When the Great Depression struck, many influential people argued that the government shouldn't even try to limit the damage. According to Herbert Hoover, Andrew Mellon, his Treasury secretary, urged him to “Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers. ...
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Steven Nelson / US News:
The Associated Press Revises Another Politically Charged Term — Stylebook entry for ‘Islamist’ revised two days after ‘illegal immigrant’ dropped — Following on the heels of the Tuesday decision by The Associated Press to discontinue use of the term “illegal immigrant,” …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why Facebook Home bothers me: It destroys any notion of privacy — One of the great things about attending Facebook's events is that one gets to see Mark Zuckerberg mature as a chief executive and hone his presentation skills. And today, he didn't disappoint in his ability to spin the media corps.
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