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4:00 PM ET, March 25, 2011

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James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
‘Have You No Sense of Decency?’  The Wm.  Cronon Story  —  BEIJING, China.  I don't mean to keep butting in and have just a minute to type this out, but I think it's important to direct attention to a new abuse of power underway in Wisconsin.  —  William Cronon (right), whom I know very slightly …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
My Worlds Collide  —  This is a bizarre, ugly turn of events.  And for me it's a little weird because of the people involved.  I just found out about it from TPM Reader AS.  —  Bill Cronon — or William Cronon, as I think of him — is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin.
Bill / Scholar as Citizen:
Abusing Open Records to Attack Academic Freedom  —  A Tactic I Hope Republicans Will Rethink:  —  Using the Open Records Law to Intimidate Critics  —  Here's the headline: the Wisconsin Republican Party has issued an Open Records Law request for access to my emails since January 1 in response …
Kyodo News:
Fresh coolant injected, high-radiation water leaks in nuke crisis  —  Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it has begun injecting freshwater into the No. 1 and No. 3 reactor cores at the crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to enhance cooling efficiency, although highly radioactive water …
Discussion: National Review and Clusterstock
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CNN:
Japan reactor core may be leaking radioactive material, official says
Associated Press:
Dangerous breach suspected at Japanese nuke plant
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Huckabee Has Slight Edge, Palin Down, in GOP '12 Preferences  —  Romney, Palin would tie if Huckabee does not run  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Mike Huckabee tops a large list of potential GOP presidential candidates in current support for the party's 2012 nomination, with 19% of Republicans saying they are most likely to back him.
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Radio Iowa:
Senator Grassley says it's too early to make a presidential pick  —  Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says it's still too early for him to pick a favorite among the many possible presidential candidates making the rounds in Iowa.  Grassley, a Republican, says he first needs to know where the candidates stand …
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Sam Roecker / Iowa Democratic Party:
Grassley on the GOP Field: “Only two or three of them are qualified to be president”
Discussion: The Hill, Slate and Outside the Beltway
Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Lamestream Media: Reload or White Flag?  —  “Let's keep pivoting around media bias, and not get distracted with the vulgar personal shots.  Call out lies and set the record straight, but always keep the ball moving.  No one ever won a game only playing defense.”
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Sarah Palin hits back at ‘annoying little mosquito’ Bill Maher
David Kocieniewski / New York Times:
G.E.'s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether  —  General Electric, the nation's largest corporation, had a very good year in 2010.  —  The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States.  —  Its American tax bill?
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
Does Pawlenty Have a Sharia Problem?  —  Pawlenty's effort to expand Muslim homeownership could hurt him in the GOP primary.  —  Abid Lakhani wanted to buy a home.  —  Unfortunately, as an observant Muslim, his options were limited.  Many Muslims hold that the paying or charging of interest …
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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Pawlenty shut down Islam-friendly mortgage program
Discussion: Wonkette
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
CBO: Taxing mileage a ‘practical option’ for revenue enhancement  —  The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) this week released a report that said taxing people based on how many miles they drive is a possible option for raising new revenues and that these taxes could be used to offset the costs …
CBC News:
Election looms as government falls  —  Beginning of Story Content  —  It's official — the government has fallen from power, clearing the way for a spring election.  —  The opposition Liberals, NDP and Bloc Québécois came together Friday afternoon in a historic vote …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Reuters:
Canadian government falls, election set for May
Adam C. Smith / St. Petersburg Times:
Connie Mack will NOT run for U.S. Senate  —  U.S. Rep. Connie Mack IV won't run for U.S. Senate.  —  “I've got two small children and it's hard enough to get to spend a lot of good quality time now.  I have a wife.  They are all very important to me and at the end of the day family has to be number one …
Charles Krauthammer / Orange County Register:
The professor's war … President Obama is proud of how he put together the Libyan operation.  A model of international cooperation.  All the necessary paperwork.  Arab League backing.  A Security Council resolution.  (Everything but a resolution from the Congress of the United States …
Discussion: protein wisdom and Betsy's Page
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Austerity Delusion  —  Portugal's government has just fallen in a dispute over austerity proposals.  Irish bond yields have topped 10 percent for the first time.  And the British government has just marked its economic forecast down and its deficit forecast up.  —  What do these events have in common?
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Woops, Newt Did It Again: Trying To Defend Libya Flip-Flop, Gingrich Reverses Himself On Air Power  —  Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich went on Fox News last night to “attempt[] to clarify [his] stance on Libya,” as Fox itself put it, but only ran into more trouble.
Washington Post:
Number of black D.C. residents plummets as majority status slips away  —  Graphic: View how demographics in your neighborhood have changed over time.  —  The number of African Americans residing in the District plummeted by more than 11 percent during the past decade, with blacks on the verge …
New York Times:
Allies Are Split on Goal and Exit Strategy in Libya  —  WASHINGTON — Having largely succeeded in stopping a rout of Libya's rebels, the inchoate coalition attacking Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces remains divided over the ultimate goal — and exit strategy — of what officials acknowledged Thursday …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
Against The F-Word  —  During a debate over neoconservatism, Damon Linker insists that the ideology isn't fascistic: … Agreed (but one needs to recall Leo Strauss's early love affair with Mussolini and his contempt for what he saw as decadent liberal democracy).
Discussion: Prairie Weather
CNN:
Armey: Daniels should run for White House  —  (CNN) - Dick Armey wants Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels to run for president.  —  The chairman of FreedomWorks, a national organization that provides much of the organization behind the tea party movement, tells CNN that “Mitch is exactly the kind …
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Arizona Sheriff Arpaio and Steven Seagal send in the tanks to bust up chickens  —  America has gone crazy!  Well, Arizona certainly leads the way to bizzaro land with the actions of Sheriff Joe Arpaio.  And is there such a thing as Action Star Steven Seagal anymore?
Discussion: The Impolitic and Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
The Speech Obama Hasn't Given  —  What are we doing in Libya?  Americans deserve an explanation.  —  It all seems rather mad, doesn't it?  The decision to become involved militarily in the Libyan civil war couldn't take place within a less hospitable context.
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Lautenberg: Republicans “don't deserve the freedoms that are in the Constitution!”  —  Actually, it's difficult to hear Senator Frank Lautenberg's patronizing follow-up, because the right-to-life counterprotestors taping his remarks reacted vocally to the idea that an elected official …
Discussion: Right Wing News
Michael Slackman / New York Times:
Islamist Group Is Rising Force in a New Egypt  —  CAIRO — In post-revolutionary Egypt, where hope and confusion collide in the daily struggle to build a new nation, religion has emerged as a powerful political force, following an uprising that was based on secular ideals.
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
And While We're on the Subject of Reuters...  This is from a just-released Reuters news analysis of President Obama's alleged travails: … This, of course, is wildly inaccurate and misleading.  Say what you will about the second Iraq war, but George W. Bush made partnerships with many nations …
Sam Youngman / The Hill:
Obama tries to bring Congress in on Libya, will speak publicly  —  After days of intense criticism for not effectively communicating his goals in Libya, President Obama reached out to lawmakers by conference call Friday to “update” them on the operations and will speak publicly about the mission soon.
Discussion: CNN
Anthony Man / Broward Politics:
Former Congressman Ron Klein won't challenge Allen West in next year's election  —  Former U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, won't attempt to regain the congressional seat next year that he lost in the 2010 election to Republican Allen West.  —  “I'm not planning on running in [20]12,” …
 
 
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Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
QUOTE OF THE DAY.... On Fox News this morning, Bill Hemmer …
Washington Examiner:
Examiner Editorial: Anybody but Jamie Gorelick for FBI director
Reuters:
Radiation fears mount again in Japan after plant workers hurt
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Truthdig
Conchita Sarnoff / The Daily Beast:
How Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Got Off Easy
Discussion: FishbowlDC
James Joyner / Outside the Beltway:
Ford Stops Making Black Vehicles (Briefly)
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
ABCNEWS:
Giffords Able to Walk, Speak, Husband Says
Discussion: USA Today and Outside the Beltway
Associated Press:
Canadian general to take NATO command of Libya
Discussion: The Jawa Report
 Earlier Items: 
Kay Lazar / Boston Globe:
More opt for low-cost coverage
Discussion: Wonk Room and Obsidian Wings
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Anti-Union Push Picks Up Steam On Capitol Hill
Discussion: Daily Kos
Washington Post:
The GOP's Census problem
Discussion: Mother Jones
Charles Forelle / Wall Street Journal:
A Nation of Dropouts Shakes Europe
Discussion: Economix