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4:55 PM ET, March 7, 2011

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David M. Drucker / Roll Call:
Ensign to Announce Retirement  —  Sen. John Ensign is expected to announce at an afternoon news conference in Las Vegas that he will retire rather than face a brutal 2012 re-election campaign, according to knowledgeable sources.  —  The Nevada Republican, who has been embattled since revealing …
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Karoun Demirjian / Las Vegas Sun:
John Ensign expected to announce he won't seek re-election in 2012  —  Sen. John Ensign speaks to the media about an affair he had with a former staffer Tuesday, June 16, 2009, at the Lloyd George Federal Building in Las Vegas.  Ensign is expected to announce today that he won't seek re-election in 2012.
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Plagued by scandal, Sen. Ensign announces he will retire in 2012  —  Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) announced his retirement Monday, ending months of speculation over whether the scandal-plagued Republican would forge ahead with another campaign in 2012.  —  Citing the “pain” that a …
Discussion: The Note, CNN and Prairie Weather
David Dayen / Firedoglake:
John Ensign Becomes 8th Senator to Announce Retirement
Discussion: Las Vegas Review-Journal and TPMDC
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
John Ensign to retire in 2012
Discussion: The Page
Domenico Montanaro / msnbc.com:
Reversal of fortune in Wisconsin  —  Domenico Montanaro writes:Over the weekend, liberal filmmaker Michael Moore said the fight in Wisconsin has “aroused a sleeping giant” for union rights across the country.  —  But the fight may have aroused a different “sleeping giant” …
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Wall Street Journal:
Democrats to End Union Standoff  —  Playing a game of political chicken, Democratic senators who fled Wisconsin to stymie restrictions on public-employee unions said Sunday they planned to come back from exile soon, betting that even though their return will allow the bill to pass …
Natasha Vargas-Cooper / The Atlantic Online:
At a Wisconsin Town Hall, the Mood Turns Against Compromise  —  REEDSBURG, Wisc.  — At a town hall meeting held in this rural community on Sunday afternoon, Republican state Sen. Dale Schultz faced loud opposition to a proposed compromise he said could end the legislative stalemate …
Discussion: Oliver Willis
Ezra Klein:
Wonkbook: Are we nearing the endgame in Wisconsin?
Jackie Long / BBC:
Will Sarah Palin run for president and can she win?  —  Ms Palin outlines factors that will influence whether she enters the running  —  Sarah Palin, one of the best known and most controversial figures in American politics, told BBC Newsnight she was weighing up whether the US was ready for an …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Cops, FBI: No arrest in Palin stalker case  —  A spokesman for the FBI's Anchorage field office denied British press reports that a stalker against whom Sarah Palin was granted a restraining order was arrested in Alaska.  —  The Mirror and Daily Mail reported, vaguely citing Palin family sources …
Discussion: BBC, Washington Post and Mirror.co.uk
Daily Mail:
Sarah Palin's gun-toting stalker arrested by FBI 50 miles from politician's home
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Sarah Palin Says The Wisconsin 14 Should Be Fired: 'They've Retreated, Not Reloaded'
JSOnline:
Top Senate Democrat wants meeting with Walker  —  By Jason Stein of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison — The leader of Senate Democrats hiding out in Illinois is seeking a face-to-face meeting with Gov. Scott Walker and the Senate GOP leader.  —  Senate Minority Leader Mark Miller (D-Monona) …
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CNN:   Wisconsin gov: Democratic senator's border meeting idea ‘ridiculous’
Josh Gerstein / The Politico:
Obama's hard line on leaks  —  The Obama administration, which famously pledged to be the most transparent in American history, is pursuing an unexpectedly aggressive legal offensive against federal workers who leak secret information to expose wrongdoing, highlight national security threats or pursue a personal agenda.
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Kevinliptak / CNN:
High court turns aside another lawsuit questioning Obama citizenship
Discussion: Indecision Forever
David Carr / New York Times:
The Fading Power of Beck's Alarms  —  Almost every time I flipped on television last week, there was a deeply angry guy on a running tirade about the conspiracies afoot, the enemies around all corners, and how he alone seemed to understand what was under way.
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Scott Baker / The Blaze:
NY TIMES COLUMNIST HAS A DREAM: MAYBE BECK AND FOX NEWS WILL BREAK UP!
Discussion: Examiner
Lolita C. Baldor / Associated Press:
Obama restarts Guantanamo trials  —  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama approved Monday the resumption of military trials for detainees at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, ending a two-year ban.  —  It was the latest acknowledgement that the detention facility Obama had vowed …
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New York Times:
Holding Firm on the Budget  —  After letting a highly destructive budget fight fester far too long, the White House finally stepped in late last week to negotiate with the House, which wants to eviscerate nondefense spending.  Senate leaders still seem shell-shocked by that breathtaking ruthlessness …
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Colin Firth / CBS News:
Homeless children: the hard times generation  —  Scott Pelley reports on the growing number of children who are falling victim to the financial crisis  —  Unemployment improved a bit last month but it is still nearly nine percent and the trouble is job creation is so slow …
Discussion: The Impolitic
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Charli Carpenter / Lawyers, Guns & Money:   60 Minutes: The Other America  —  If you missed this segment last night, please watch.
Jonathan Turley / Los Angeles Times:
Clarence Thomas' dangerous conceit  —  The Supreme Court justice argues that criticism of him is an attack on the court itself.  But a single justice doesn't define the institution.  —  Louis XIV of France was infamous for his view that there was no distinction between himself and the state …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / The Politico:
The liberal campaign against SCOTUS conservatives
Discussion: Hot Air and AmSpecBlog
David J. Lynch / Bloomberg:
Bonds Show Why Boehner Saying We're Broke Is Figure of Speech  —  House Speaker John Boehner routinely offers this diagnosis of the U.S.'s fiscal condition: “We're broke; Broke going on bankrupt,” he said in a Feb. 28 speech in Nashville.  —  Boehner's assessment dominates a debate …
Art Robinson / WorldNetDaily:
Democrats attack Republican candidate's children  —  In an effort to do my part in rescuing our country from the out-of-control Obama administration, last year I ran for Congress in Oregon's 4th District against 12-term incumbent, far-left Democrat Peter DeFazio, co-founder of the House Progressive Caucus.
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Liberal group pushes for $382 billion stimulus  —  Liberals have come up with a counterpoint to House Republicans' “cut and grow” austerity plan: have the government spend billions to hire millions of the unemployed.  —  With conservatives clamoring to cut federal spending and public sector jobs …
Discussion: The Impolitic
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Lack of GOP Front-Runner for 2012 Is Atypical  —  John McCain and Barry Goldwater the only GOP presidential nominees to emerge late  —  PRINCETON, NJ — The wide-open battle for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination — with nearly a three-way tie among Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Degrees and Dollars  —  It is a truth universally acknowledged that education is the key to economic success.  Everyone knows that the jobs of the future will require ever higher levels of skill.  That's why, in an appearance Friday with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, President Obama declared that …
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Conservative group files suit against Hastings, alleging sexual harassment  —  A conservative public-interest group filed a lawsuit on Monday against Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) alleging that he sexually harassed a former female staff member.  —  For two years, while Hastings served …
Discussion: Judicial Watch, The Politico and CNN
Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Supreme Court Overrules Kafkaesque DNA Decision  —  If any principle seems to guide the Texas legal system, it seems to be “establish a Catch-22 wherever possible.”  The latest example can be seen in Skinner v. Switzer, a case in which Texas refused an individual convicted of a capital crime access …
 
 
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