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8:50 PM ET, March 8, 2011

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Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
NPR executives caught on tape bashing conservatives and Tea Party, touting liberals  —  A man who appears to be a senior National Public Radio senior executive, Ron Schiller, has been captured on camera savaging conservatives and the Tea Party movement.  —  “The current Republican Party …
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Mark Memmott / NPR:
In Video: NPR Exec Slams Tea Party, Questions Need For Federal Funds  —  NPR's then-senior vice president for fundraising Ron Schiller is seen and heard on a videotape released this morning telling two men who were posing as members of a fictitious Muslim Action Education Center that:
David Weigel / Weigel:
James O'Keefe Versus NPR  —  The video sting artiste publishes the latest work from his shop — a covertly taped interview with then-NPR Foundation senior VP for development Ron Schiller and current senior director of institutional giving Betsy Liley.  Shaughn Adeleye and Simon Templar posed …
Justin Elliott / Salon:
NPR sting also nets ... Pamela Geller?  —  Conservative activist James O'Keefe today released a sting video showing an NPR fundraising official saying impolitic things to a couple of (fake) potential Muslim donors.  A key part of the sting was the creation of a hoax website for the fake group …
Discussion: The Wire and Talking Points Memo
Aharding / CNN:
Activist says he targeted NPR because of Juan Williams firing
Discussion: The Politico
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
NPR responds to executive's comments
Discussion: Pajamas Media
Kerry Picket / Washington Times:   (video) NPR officers compare deniers of climate change to birthers and flat earth believers
David Mastio / Washington Times:
NPR seeks funding from Sharia backers
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Freshman Democrat Joe Manchin: Obama has ‘failed to lead’ on budget  —  West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin is planning to rip President Barack Obama on his budget proposals in a Senate floor speech Tuesday, a rare rebuke from a freshman Democrat who's clearly worried about the politics …
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Shira Toeplitz / The Politico:
Reid: Save federal funding for the cowboy poets!  —  File this under: Did Harry Reid just say that?  —  In the middle of his tirade against House Republicans' “mean-spirited” budget bill on the Senate floor Tuesday, the Senate Majority Leader lamented that the GOP's proposed budget cuts …
NY Daily News:
Rep. Pete King is right, say feds and cops: We don't get many tips from Muslim community  —  Cops and federal agents agree with Rep. Pete King that they don't get a lot of tipsters from the Muslim community - but they say that's true of many other communities.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP Sen. Lugar says he'll support House Republican spending cuts  —  Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), who faces a Tea Party-backed challenge in his 2012 primary, has withdrawn his stated opposition to House-passed spending cuts.  —  Lugar said Tuesday afternoon that he made a mistake …
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:   POOR DICK LUGAR WAS RIGHT THE FIRST TIME.... About three weeks ago …
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Blaming Democrats' ‘lack of action,’ House GOP prepares a second stopgap
John Ellis / The Business Insider:
Can Any One Of These People Beat President Obama?  —  To do so, one of these candidates has to win the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.  What follows is a cheat sheet of the strengths and weaknesses of each of the GOP presidential candidates and a quick assessment of where they stand now.
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog
CNN:
Intruder calls 911, afraid homeowner may have gun  —  (CNN) — This time it was the intruder who called 911.  —  A man who broke into a house in Portland, Oregon, called police — afraid the homeowner may have a gun.  —  The suspect, Timothy James Chapek, was in the bathroom taking a shower …
Michelle Malkin:
Searching for Marizela: An update  —  SEATTLE — The photo above from Marizela's friends/family shows the tattoo on her left inner arm that reads “lahat ay magiging maayos” — a Tagalog saying for “all will be well.”  —  Thanks so much to all of you for your prayers and for helping to spread the word across the Internet.
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Drive to recall Wisconsin GOP senators gaining steam, Dems say  —  So how's the drive to recall Wisconsin GOP state senators going?  If these new numbers the Wisconsin Democratic Party shares with me are accurate, it's already exceeding expectations in a big way.
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
After Praising 2009 Town Hall ‘Outrage,’ Sensenbrenner Overwhelmed By Progressive Town Hall Protesters  —  against Democrats who supported the health care overhaul, raucously disrupting the town hall meetings of these members of Congress.  —  One of the Republican members of Congress …
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Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Obama's new executive order on Guantanamo  —  (updated below)  —  President Obama yesterday signed an Executive Order which, as The Washington Post described it, “will create a formal system of indefinite detention for those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay” and …
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Washington Post:
Obama creates indefinite detention system for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
Ezra Klein:
Vilsack: ‘I took it as a slam on rural America’  —  Yesterday afternoon, I got an e-mail from a “usda.gov” address.  “Secretary Vilsack read your blog post ‘Why we still need cities’ over the weekend, and he has some thoughts and reflections, particularly about the importance of rural America,” it said.
Ezra Klein:
Senate Democrats weigh making big mistake on health-care reform  —  I'm getting some worried e-mails from Hill staffers who think Senate Democrats might rubberstamp a policy House Republicans passed to undermine the Affordable Care Act.  It's the sort of policy decision that won't get much attention …
Wall Street Journal:
Israel Considers Military ‘Upgrade’  —  JERUSALEM—Israel will need to boost military spending and may seek an additional $20 billion in U.S. security assistance to help it manage potential threats stemming from popular upheavals in the Arab world, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Monday.
JSOnline:
E-mails reveal possible Walker concessions on union bill  —  By Jason Stein, Patrick Marley and Don Walker of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison - Gov. Scott Walker's office released documents Tuesday detailing back-and-forth talks with Senate Democrats in Illinois about his union bargaining bill …
Washington Times:
NPR, PBS campaigns to keep federal funds called unlawful  —  NPR and PBS stations nationwide are rallying their audiences to contact Congress to fight against Republicans' proposed spending cuts, but some affiliates' pleas may violate laws preventing nonprofits or government-funded groups from lobbying.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Maine Republicans still want to get rid of Snowe  —  It's been clear for a long time now that Maine Republicans want to swap out Olympia Snowe for someone more conservative.  Our newest poll in the state finds that hasn't changed: only 33% of primary voters in the state say they would support Snowe next year …
Discussion: Yglesias, The Daily Dish and Weigel
 
 
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Fhardingj / CNN:
Obama headlines party fundraiser in Boston
Discussion: The Politico
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Missouri still very much a tossup
Discussion: Daily Kos
The Rumsfeld Papers:
New Video Released: Middle East Envoy
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
State and local workers: Gone but not off the books
Discussion: Mother Jones
Mike DeBonis / Mike DeBonis on Local Politics:
Fenty backs Gov. Scott Walker in Wisc. union fight
United States Senator Jim DeMint:
Republican Senators Introduce National Right to Work Act
Discussion: SENATUS and The Page
Karl Smith / Modeled Behavior:
Starving the Moral Beast
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 Earlier Items: 
William Galston / The New Republic:
Why Ohio Matters  —  Obama can't win the election without it.
Discussion: Weigel and neo-neocon
James Schneider / Fox News:
Trump Fires Back and Puts Senator in his Place
Discussion: CNN and Indecision Forever
Daily Mail:
Hundreds of council tax protesters storm courtroom in attempt to make citizens' arrest of judge
Discussion: LewRockwell.com Blog