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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Treasury Attempts to “Blame Dodd” for AIG Bonuses  —  As Geithner tries to get out of the way of the AIG bonus train wreck, it looks like the designated sin eater is going to be Chris Dodd: … So Treasury says Chris Dodd did this?  In a word. . . no.  —  What they're talking about is a clause …
Rich Edson / FOXBusiness.com:
Amid AIG Furor, Dodd Tries to Undo Bonus Protections He Put In  —  Senator Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) on Monday night floated the idea of taxing American International Group (AIG) bonus recipients so the government could recoup the $450 million the company is paying to employees in its financial products unit.
Washington Wire:
Gibbs Peppered With Questions About AIG and Geithner
Discussion: TPMDC
Mary Kate Cary / US News:
Obama's Jay Leno Tonight Show Gig Will Diminish His Presidency  —  By Mary Kate Cary, Thomas Jefferson Street blog  —  When I was writing speeches for President Bush #41, we'd start working every Spring on the annual “joke” dinners—the Gridiron Club, the Alfalfa Club, and the White House Correspondents Dinner.
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Jorr / Christian Science Monitor:
Obama to appear on Leno - will he bring a teleprompter?  —  The news that President Obama will appear on Jay Leno's show Thursday night could be told in a couple ways depending on what type of site you're on.  —  More right-leaning: Faced with plummeting polls and Boston Tea Party …
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Obama to Appear Sunday on ‘60 Minutes’
Discussion: TIME.com
Eliot Spitzer / Slate:
It's not the bonuses.  It's that AIG's counterparties are getting paid back in full.  —  Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant: Why are AIG's counterparties getting paid back in full, to the tune of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars?
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Danny / The Note:
Obama Budget Chief: Numbers Looking Worse  —  ABC News' Teddy Davis reports:  —  President Obama's budget chief said Tuesday that he expects a forthcoming government revenue estimate to reflect a worsening economic picture.  —  “The numbers will be more negative than anticipated,” …
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Manu Raju / The Politico:
National debt hits record $11 trillion
Discussion: Political Punch
Conn Carroll / The Foundry:   Morning Bell: Accelerating Us Off a Cliff
The Huffington Post:
Santelli, Sen. Kyl Push Back Against “Outrage” Over AIG Bonuses  —  Defending AIG's right to award its senior executives $165 million in bonuses even after the company benefited from $170 billion in government bailout funds requires a certain amount of rhetorical or political dexterity.
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RushLimbaugh.com:
The Last Man Standing Speaks in Defense of AIG Bailout Bonuses
Blue Texan / Firedoglake:
Glenn Beck Comes Out in Favor of Paying AIG Executive Bonuses
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Whiskey Fire
Associated Press:
Begorra!  Irish PM trips over White House speech  —  Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition  —  WASHINGTON - Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was just a few paragraphs into an address at a St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House when he realized something sounded way too familiar.
Discussion: The Corner, Reuters and The Politico
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Kenneth T. Walsh / US News:
President Obama  —  Home > Nation & World > President Obama
Discussion: Top of the Ticket and The Swamp
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:   Members want Obama to mull Afghanistan
Fox News:
ACORN to Play Role in 2010 Census  —  The U.S. Census Bureau is working with several national organizations to help recruit 1.4 million workers to produce the country's 2010 census, including one with a history of voter fraud charges: ACORN.  —  FOXNews.com
Washington Times:
Guns on a plane  —  Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns  —  After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program.  No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control …
Brian Montopoli / CBS News:
Limbaugh"s Favorable Rating: 19 Percent  —  Limbaugh's Favorable Rating: 19 Percent  —  Over the past few weeks, the White House has been casting right-wing talk show host Rush Limbaugh as the head of the Republican Party, and based on a new CBS News poll, it appears they may be on to something.
Agence France Presse:
Canadians throw shoes to protest Bush  —  OTTAWA (AFP) — Three Canadians were arrested and others threw shoes in protest against George W. Bush on Tuesday when he gave his first post-presidential speech in western Canada's oil patch.  —  The footwear was tossed at an effigy …
Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Bush refuses to criticize Obama in Canada  —  CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Former President George W. Bush says he won't criticize President Barack Obama because Obama “deserves my silence,” and says he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
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Alan Scherstuhl / Runnin' Scared:
“Off With Those Pants”: Bill O'Reilly Seduces You in Clips From His Dirty Audiobook  —  Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets.  I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.  —  Those Who Trespass audiobook
Discussion: Salon
Al Kamen / Washington Post:
Tauscher to State  —  Word is that Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), chair of the House Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on strategic forces and a staunch superdelegate for presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, is in line for a top post at the State Department …
Discussion: MyDD and Swing State Project
David Enrich / Wall Street Journal:
Citi Losing Economist to Treasury  —  Citigroup Inc.'s chief economist is leaving the company for a job at the Treasury Department, according to an internal Citigroup memo.  —  Lewis Alexander, who has been at Citigroup since 1999 and before that worked at the Federal Reserve …
Discussion: RedState and JammieWearingFool
New York Times:
U.S. Weighs Taliban Strike Into Pakistan  —  WASHINGTON — President Obama and his national security advisers are considering expanding the American covert war in Pakistan far beyond the unruly tribal areas to strike at a different center of Taliban power in Baluchistan …
Discussion: Charlie Rose, Danger Room and MyDD
Iqbal Khattak / Pakistan Daily Times:
Female shoppers still elusive in Swat  —  MINGORA: It has been more than a month since the government and the Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) signed a peace deal in Swat but the shopkeepers at Cheena Market, once the busiest in Mingora city, are still waiting for female shoppers.
Discussion: Infidels Are Cool
Anne McIlroy / Globe and Mail:
Minister won't confirm belief in evolution  —  Researchers aghast that key figure in funding controversy invokes religion in science discussion  —  Canada's science minister, the man at the centre of the controversy over federal funding cuts to researchers, won't say if he believes in evolution.
Discussion: Pharyngula
Ameet Sachdev / Chicago Tribune:
Federal judge scolds prosecutor  —  Appeals Judge Richard Posner cites misconduct as conviction overturned  —  U.S. Appeals Judge Richard Posner is known for his provocative opinions, but his harsh criticism of a Chicago federal prosecutor surprises even close court observers.
Discussion: TalkLeft
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Mistrial by iPhone: Juries' Web Research Upends Trials  —  Last week, a juror in a big federal drug trial in Florida admitted to the judge that he had been doing research on the case on the Internet, directly violating the judge's instructions and centuries of legal rules.
Discussion: TalkLeft
Peter Foster / Telegraph:
North Korea launches perfect Italian pizza  —  North Korea has opened its first pizzeria after a decade of clandestine international research.  —  It has taken almost 10 years of work, but North Korea has acquired the technology to launch a project very dear to its leader's heart - the nation's first “authentic” Italian pizzeria.
The Wrap:
AOL Leaps Into Original News Content With PoliticsDaily.com  —  This story has been updated from its original version.  —  New Media is about to meet Old Media.  But not in the way you'd think.  —  AOL is about to launch a politics site, hiring well-respected political journalists …
 
 
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James Kelleher / Reuters:
Caterpillar cuts another 2,454 jobs
Kim Ghattas / BBC:
Iran shift  —  The Obama administration is finalising its policy for engaging Iran.
Discussion: Informed Comment
The Politico:
Fallout: Dems in disarray over AIG
Discussion: Associated Press
The White House:
PRESS SECRETARY ROBERT GIBBS
Bill Roggio / Weekly Standard:
Negotiations and Iran's Proxy War
Discussion: Hot Air
Domenico Montanaro / MSNBC:
GRASSLEY DISMISSES SUICIDE TALK AS RHETORIC
Joe Weisenthal / Clusterstock:
Obama's Favorite Company, Caterpillar, Lays Off 2500 More
Discussion: Right Pundits and Sister Toldjah
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Carla Marinucci / San Francisco Chronicle:
GOP turns on itself, risks losses in midterms
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Republicans Ask Obama to Withdraw Hill Nomination
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Yes, the Community Reinvestment Act Really Did Help Cause the Housing Crisis
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