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3:40 AM ET, March 6, 2010

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Peter Grier / Christian Science Monitor:
John Patrick Bedell: Did right-wing extremism lead to shooting?  —  Authorities have identified John Patrick Bedell as the gunman in the Pentagon shooting.  He appears to have been a right-wing extremist with virulent antigovernment feelings.  —  Washington
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Michelle Malkin:
About the Pentagon shooter; Update: Stop playing games, MSM.
Inside Cable News:
Craig Crawford leaves MSNBC...  Longtime MSNBC analyst Craig Crawford has left the network...according to Craig Crawford...  And Crawford saves the real venom, and dirt, for the thread comments...  Crawford was a mainstay on MSNBC for a very long time and also one of the more level headed analysts they had.
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Craig Crawford / Craig Crawford's Trail Mix:
A Point of Personal Privilege  —  For those who might be interested - and you have every reason not to be - I am no longer with MSNBC.  Three months short of my current contract I sent the following to the boss, Phil Griffin: “Phil, Just wanted to give you the heads up that my situation …
Reid Wilson / Hotline On Call:
Massa To Resign  —  Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) will resign Monday at 5pm, a source close to the embattled incumbent tells Hotline OnCall.  —  Massa has been pressured by House Dems to step aside amid an ethics controversy that caused him to announce earlier this week he would not run for a second term.
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Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Eric Massa to resign from Congress  —  New York Rep. Eric Massa will resign his House seat on Monday at 5 pm, his office confirmed Friday to the Fix, a move that comes just days after he announced his plans to retire at the end of the year.  —  Massa acknowledged in a statement that …
The Politico:
Rep. Eric Massa to resign
Discussion: CNN and Gateway Pundit
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
GOP Strategy: Bleed Reconciliation Fix To Death With Byrd Rule  —  Senior Senate GOP leadership aides have settled on a new strategy that, they hope, will stall or kill the Dem health reform push: They are going to use the arcane “Byrd rule” to try to bleed the reconciliation fix to death and ensure that it never passes.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McCain calls for new ‘Gang of 14’ to stop Obama push on healthcare  —  Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is seeking bipartisan support to block Senate Democrats from using special parliamentary tactics to pass healthcare reform.  —  The Democratic strategy of using reconciliation to pass changes …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
If The Founders Had Wanted a Supermajority Requirement for the Senate, They Could Have Put One in the Constitution  —  Here's some abject nonsense from Judd Gregg as he tries to foster the misperception that the de facto supermajority created by routine filibustering is part of the Framer's vision of the constitution:
Discussion: The Reaction and The Daily Dish
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Judd Gregg:   Senator Gregg's Senate Floor Remarks on the Democrats' Health …
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Congressional estimates show grim deficit picture  —  WASHINGTON - A new congressional report released Friday says the United States' long-term fiscal woes are even worse than predicted by President Barack Obama's grim budget submission last month.  —  The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts …
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BREITBART.COM:
Obama calls ‘entrepreneurship summit’ with Muslims
Discussion: Riehl World View
Walter Alarkon / The Hill:
CBO: Deficits to average $1 trillion per year over the next decade
The Huffington Post:
Conservatives Turn Against Liz Cheney - As Bad As McCarthy  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  The backlash is growing against Liz Cheney after she demonized Department of Justice attorneys as terrorist sympathizers for their past legal work defending Gitmo detainees — and now it's coming from within deeply conservative legal circles.
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
CHENEY FACES BLOWBACK OVER CHEAP DOJ SMEAR.... This week …
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
The Siberian Methane Feedback Loop  —  As I mentioned yesterday, there's mounting evidence that global warming is about to reach a very dangerous feedback point in which thawing of the Arctic Ocean seabed allows increased levels of methane to leak into the atmosphere.
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Los Angeles Times:
White House reconsiders holding terror trials in civilian court  —  Suspected Sept. 11 plotters may be tried before military tribunals after all, administration officials say.  Holding the trials in civilian court is deemed ‘politically untenable.’  —  Reporting from Washington …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
New Palin scandal: Leno might have piped in some laughter for her jokes  —  Can you believe it?  Next thing you know, we'll be told that she doesn't even write her own lines.  Come to think of it, we were already told that.  And that was treated as a “scandal” too.
Eric Zorn / Change of Subject:
End Saturday mail: U.S. Postal Service can save billions, join the 21st century  —  The postmaster general of the United States floated the idea of eliminating the delivery of mail on Saturdays to help boost our nation's sagging postal bottom line.  —  In 1957.
The Huffington Post:
Insurers Set To Raise Prices, Walk Away From Consumers: Goldman Report  —  WHAT'S YOUR REACTION?  —  Read More: Goldman Steve Lewis, Healht Insurance, Health Insurance Goldman, Insurance Prices, Lewis Insurance.  Rates Premiums, Price Competition, Pricing Competition, Business News
Wall Street Journal:
The Lost Wages of Youth  —  Raising the minimum wage has put teens out of work.  —  There's plenty of competition, but our vote for the recent act of Congress that has caused the most economic hardship goes to the May 2007 law raising the minimum wage in three stages to $7.25 an hour from $5.15.
Douglas Elmendorf / Director's Blog:
Preliminary Analysis of the President's Budget  —  CBO has just released its preliminary analysis of the President's budget.  This analysis presents CBO's assessment of the budgetary outlook for the 2010-2020 period assuming enactment of the President's policy proposals and reflecting CBO's economic forecast …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
Rapper Jay-Z in the Situation Room  —  The Situation Room in the White House was reserved for national security meetings in previous administrations.  Apparently in the Obama administration it's used not only to map out campaign strategy, but for celebrity photo-ops as well:
Michael Muskal / D.C. Now:
Obama administration encouraged by steady unemployment rate [Updated]  —  Steady has become the new success as the national unemployment rate remained constant in what the Obama administration on Friday called an encouraging sign of economic improvement.  —  The unemployment rate held at 9.7% …
Discussion: Hot Air
 
 
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Earmarks Abuse Feared After Ethics Panel Ruling
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theblogprof:
Another symptom of the problem: Detroit school board President …
BBC:
US will not adopt ‘genocide’ bill
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Poizner described self as ‘pro-choice’
Discussion: Capitol Alert
The Note:
Romney on Palin Besting Him in ‘Late-Night Primary’: 'I've Got …
Discussion: GOP 12, Taylor Marsh and CNN
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John Cook / Gawker:
How ABC News' Brian Ross Staged His Toyota Death Ride
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog and Romenesko
Ezra Klein:
Sen. Michael Bennet: 'Nothing in the rest of the world operates …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
E-mails from National Academy of Sciences plot attacks on AGW skeptics
Andy Barr / The Politico:
Broun not sure if Obama is citizen