Top Items:
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
How To Lose The Sequestration Fight — Last night, the Senate proved it can fix big problems for real Americans — so long as they're rich, or relatively rich, or fly for business or what have you. — The short version is that late last night it took a break from its regular schedule …
Discussion:
No More Mister Nice Blog, Hit & Run, Gawker, National Review and Balloon Juice
RELATED:
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
12 Programs Congress Refuses To Save From Automatic Spending Cuts — After thousands of flight delays across the country this week, the United States Senate voted Thursday night to give the Federal Aviation Administration the flexibility to keep the nation's airports running smoothly.
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, The Fix, The Hill, The Huffington Post and The Progressive Pulse
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
The Democrats have lost on sequestration. — That's the simple reality of Friday's vote to ease the pain for the Federal Aviation Administration. By assenting to it, Democrats have agreed to sequestration for the foreseeable future. — (Elaine Thompson/AP)
Discussion:
Washington Post, Hullabaloo and Outside the Beltway
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
House Passes Bill to Ease Impact of Cuts on Air Traffic
House Passes Bill to Ease Impact of Cuts on Air Traffic
Discussion:
Mediaite, CNN, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, American Prospect and TomDispatch.com
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House passes bill to end FAA furloughs in victory for GOP
David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
Politicians Will Only Roll Back Parts of the Sequester That Hurt Them, Naturally
Politicians Will Only Roll Back Parts of the Sequester That Hurt Them, Naturally
Discussion:
Salon, msnbc.com, The Week, The Raw Story, Politico and ThinkProgress
Noam Scheiber / New Republic:
Senate Democrats' Shameful Cave on Flight Delays
Senate Democrats' Shameful Cave on Flight Delays
Discussion:
Associated Press, The Maddow Blog, WCTX-TV, U.S. News, New York Times, Daily Kos, Politico, Washington Monthly and Michelle Malkin
Keith Koffler / Reuters:
Obama's hubris problem — Tuesday morning, a peculiar announcement trickled out of the White House press office: President Barack Obama would be holding a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston bombings. At the White House. By himself. No press or other intruders allowed.
Discussion:
Sense of Events, The PJ Tatler and White House Dossier
RELATED:
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Tom Brokaw says ‘no thanks’ to White House Correspondents' Dinner — Tom Brokaw blames it all on Lindsay Lohan. — Last year, Brokaw became one of the biggest critics of the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner after he saw Washington buzzing around and about the troubled Hollywood actress …
Discussion:
Yahoo! News and Washington Monthly
Patrick Gavin / Politico:
Tom Brokaw says ‘no thanks’ to White House Correspondents' Dinner
Tom Brokaw says ‘no thanks’ to White House Correspondents' Dinner
Discussion:
Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Eric Moskowitz / Boston Globe:
Carjack victim recounts his harrowing night — The 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur had just pulled his new Mercedes to the curb on Brighton Avenue to answer a text when an old sedan swerved behind him, slamming on the brakes. A man in dark clothes got out and approached the passenger window.
Discussion:
New York Times, Business Insider, The Week, Gothamist, Daily Mail, The Daily Caller, Outside the Beltway, The Hinterland Gazette and CBS Boston
RELATED:
Eric Moskowitz / The Boston Globe:
Carjacking victim describes harrowing night
Carjacking victim describes harrowing night
Discussion:
Taking Note, News Desk, The Lede, Guardian, Boston Globe and First Read
Jon Pareles / New York Times:
George Jones, Admired and Copied Country Singer, Dies at 81 — George Jones, the definitive country singer of the last half-century, died Friday at a hospital in Nashville. He was 81. — He was hospitalized on April 18 with fever and irregular blood pressure, the Web site of Webster & Associates …
Discussion:
Taylor Marsh and alicublog
RELATED:
Brian Mansfield / USA Today:
George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81
George Jones, country superstar, has died at 81
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway, Wonkette and National Review
Andrew Dansby / Houston Chronicle:
Country legend George Jones dies
Country legend George Jones dies
Discussion:
Hit & Run and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Jammie Wearing Fools:
Surprise! Psycho Mother of Boston Bombers Also on Terror Watch List — Anyone watching the performances of this media darling can only come to a couple of conclusions: She's been lying through her teeth that her “good kids” had nothing to do with the Boston terror attack and it's probably a safe bet she put the elder son up to it.
Discussion:
CANNONFIRE, The Gateway Pundit, Althouse, Hot Air and The PJ Tatler
RELATED:
CNN:
Suspect separated from Boston victims
Suspect separated from Boston victims
Discussion:
Hot Air, The Week, The Gateway Pundit and Jammie Wearing Fools
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis:
National Income and Product Accounts — Gross Domestic Product, First Quarter 2013 (advance estimate) — Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 2.5 percent in the first quarter of 2013 …
Discussion:
ThinkProgress, Bloomberg, Wonkblog, Calculated Risk, Economix, Reuters, Business Insider, Hot Air, The Week and National Review
RELATED:
Wall Street Journal:
First-Quarter Growth, at 2.5%, Misses Expectations
First-Quarter Growth, at 2.5%, Misses Expectations
Discussion:
Real Time Economics, Bloomberg, Right Turn, MoneyBeat and White House Dossier
Leisa Zigman / KSDK-TV:
Former Congressman Todd Akin breaks silence: talks comeback, takes on Karl Rove — ST. LOUIS (KSDK) - Could Todd Akin be the new comeback kid? — The 65-year-old former congressman says don't rule him out. Nearly six months after losing the Senate race he continues to be attacked from all sides of the political spectrum.
Discussion:
The Hill, Daily RFT, msnbc.com, Politico, CNN, The Raw Story, Post Politics and Shakesville
David Brooks / New York Times:
Health Chaos Ahead — It was always going to be difficult to implement Obamacare, but even fervent supporters of the law admit that things are going worse than expected. — Implementation got off to a bad start because the Obama administration didn't want to release unpopular rules before the election.
Discussion:
JustOneMinute
RELATED:
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Democratic Senators Tell White House of Concerns About Health Care Law Rollout
Democratic Senators Tell White House of Concerns About Health Care Law Rollout
Discussion:
Hit & Run, Wonkblog, Wake up America, The Hill, Via Meadia, The Plum Line, Weekly Standard, Hot Air and Politico
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
OBAMA BACKS PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN POLITICAL FIGHT — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama vowed Friday to join Planned Parenthood in fighting against what he said are efforts by states to turn women's health back to the 1950s, before the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationwide …
Discussion:
CNN, Weasel Zippers, LifeNews.com, The Gateway Pundit and Jammie Wearing Fools
RELATED:
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama to Largest Abortion Provider: ‘God Bless You’
Obama to Largest Abortion Provider: ‘God Bless You’
Discussion:
Post Politics, Rush Limbaugh and National Review
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
Farm Loan Bias Claims, Often Unsupported, Cost U.S. Millions — In the winter of 2010, after a decade of defending the government against bias claims by Hispanic and female farmers, Justice Department lawyers seemed to have victory within their grasp. — Ever since the Clinton administration agreed …
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
The Presidential Wheel Turns — Disaffection for Bush gave us Obama. That explains the new affection for Bush. — Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 because he was not George W. Bush. In fact, he was elected because he was the farthest thing possible from Mr. Bush.
Discussion:
New York Times, Esquire, Wake up America, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Monthly, Taylor Marsh, ParaPundit, TheBlaze.com, Wonkette and alicublog
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The 1 Percent's Solution — Economic debates rarely end with a T.K.O. But the great policy debate of recent years between Keynesians, who advocate sustaining and, indeed, increasing government spending in a depression, and austerians, who demand immediate spending cuts, comes close — at least in the world of ideas.
Discussion:
Firedoglake, Campaign for America's Future, The Week and Prairie Weather
New York Times:
Debt, Growth and the Austerity Debate — IN May 2010, we published an academic paper, “Growth in a Time of Debt.” Its main finding, drawing on data from 44 countries over 200 years, was that in both rich and developing countries, high levels of government debt — specifically …
Discussion:
Paul Krugman, The Week, Firedoglake, The Big Picture, Vox Popoli, Jared Bernstein, Angry Bear, The Maddow Blog, Business Insider, CEPR and Washington Post
The Official White House Tumblr:
The White House, Tumbling Things — We see some great things here at the White House every day, and sharing that stuff with you is one of the best parts of our jobs. That's why we're launching a Tumblr. We'll post things like the best quotes from President Obama, or video …
Discussion:
BuzzFeed, Post Politics, BuzzFeed and Mashable
Carol Kuruvilla / NY Daily News:
Was this hottie deported from Saudi Arabia for being ‘too handsome’? — Religious police in the conservative country allegedly feared that three men from the United Arab Emirates were so handsome that ‘female visitors could fall for them.’ Whether or not Omar Borkan Al Gala is one of those three …
New York Post:
President's pick for French ambassador folded over ties to poker ring: sources — The Manhattan billionaire President Obama wanted to appoint ambassador to France turned down the prestigious position over ties to an alleged Russian mob-run poker ring that was laundered through a Carlyle hotel art gallery, sources told The Post.
Discussion:
Fortune, Gawker, Taegan Goddard's …, Business Insider, Jammie Wearing Fools and DealBook