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12:30 AM ET, March 29, 2011

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Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Trump fails to produce birth certificate  —  Donald Trump made headlines earlier today when he provided what he said was a copy of his birth certificate — but a quick check reveals it's actually not an official document.  —  The paper that Trump released says “Jamaica Hospital” …
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NewsMax.com:
Exclusive to Newsmax: Donald Trump's Birth Certificate  —  More ways to share...  Mixx  —  Stumbled  —  LinkedIn  —  Vine  —  Buzzflash  —  Newstrust  —  Technocrati  —  Forward Article  —  Donald Trump, who has been making television appearances calling for President Barack Obama …
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blog:
Trump's birther play  —  I asked longtime Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone, who is working on the unofficial “Draft Trump” effort, rather than the attempts at an official campaign, why Trump would embrace discredited theories about Obama's birth.  —  Stone emails with five reasons:
The Smoking Gun:
What Is Donald Trump, Newborn Birther, Trying To Hide From Us?  —  Buster … What is Donald Trump hiding?  —  The multimillionaire developer has, overnight, become a leading voice of the “birther” movement, members of which doubt that President Barack Obama was born in the United States …
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Trump is now ‘really concerned’ about Obama's birthplace  —  (CNN) - He off-handedly questioned President Obama's birthplace last week - a comment that drew strong rebukes from some quarters - but now business mogul Donald Trump says he's more concerned than ever that the president was, in fact, not born in the United States.
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Trump: I want Hawaii governor ‘investigated’
Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
Trump Goes Full Birther: ‘I Am Really Concerned’ Obama Not Born In USA
Discussion: Salon
The Politico:
Obama's Libya speech: Full text as prepared for delivery  —  Here is the prepared text for President Obama's address on Libya Monday night:  —  Good evening.  Tonight, I'd like to update the American people on the international effort that we have led in Libya - what we've done, what we plan to do, and why this matters to us.
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People-Press.org:
Modest Support for Libya Airstrikes, No Clear Goal Seen  —  Little Public Interest in Libyan Mission  —  After several days of airstrikes on Libya by the United States and its allies, the public has mixed reactions to the military operation.  Nearly half of Americans (47%) …
Discussion: Washington Post, CNN and TPMDC
Jamie Dupree / Wsb-am Blogs:
Obama Libya Speech
Discussion: Hit & Run and AmSpecBlog
Glenn Thrush / The Politico:
Obama's Libya speech: Libya is no Iraq
Tom Malinowski / The New Republic:
The Timeliness Paradox  —  Why isn't Obama getting credit for stopping an atrocity?
Daniel W. Drezner:
What Obama's foreign policy speechwriter would REALLY like him to say tonight
Discussion: The Duck of Minerva and Slate
Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
It's beginning to look a lot like a shutdown  —  (Alex Brandon - AP) Brian Beutler has a nice story running down the state of play on the budget negotiations.  The takeaway is that Republicans aren't just insisting that Democrats cut as deep as the GOP wants, but that they also cut in the way the GOP wants.
Discussion: Firedoglake and TPMDC
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Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
Republicans Prepare To Reject Final White House Budget Offer  —  It's been almost a week since House Republicans, Senate Democrats and the White House last sat down to hammer out a budget agreement, and the schedule's still blank.  Accusations of bad faith are now flying from both sides.
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Black Activist Confronts Bill Ayers With Facts  —  Truth to power!  Well done, young lady.
Discussion: Nice Deb
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
You've Come a Long Way, Baby  —  President Obama's unapologetic, freedom-agenda-embracing, not-shrinking-from-the-use-of- force speech.  —  I knew pretty early on during tonight's speech that President Obama had rejoined—or joined—the historical American foreign policy mainstream.
Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
EU to ban cars from cities by 2050  —  Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.  —  The European Commission on Monday unveiled a “single European transport area” …
Jibran Khan / Asianews.it:
Two Christians killed, churches burned: extremists respond to Florida Koran burning  —  In Hyderabad and Lahore, a mob of Islamic fundamentalists targeted the Christian places of worship.  Desecrated several copies of the Bible.  Anti-American slogans and demonstrations in different cities of Pakistan.
ThinkProgress:
After Paying Zero Income Taxes, GE Plans To Ask Its Union Workers To Make Wage And Benefits Concessions  —  Our guest blogger is Mike Elk, a freelance labor journalist and third generation union organizer based in Washington, D.C. You can follow him for more updates on Wisconsin on twitter at @MikeElk.
National Review:
Wisconsin Fight Goes to Court  —  As the dust settles in Madison, Wisconsin Republicans face a troubling coda: Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill is being tripped up in the courts.  Union heavies smell blood.  And the unruly parade of lefty activists and hulking Teamsters that occupied …
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
In an email to The Daily Caller on Monday morning, Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff alleged that conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart is not telling the truth about discussions they had regarding HuffPo's removal of his blog from its front page.  —  HuffPo removed Breitbart's blog …
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
A BRIEF NOTE ON THE BILL AYERS VIDEO AND CASHILL'S CLAIMS OF HIS DREAMS AUTHORSHIP  —  Full disclosure: I am Blog Editor of The American Thinker  —  There's a video of Bill Ayers making the rounds of conservative blogs where the radical extremist “admits” to writing Obama's best selling autobiography Dreams of my Father.
Adam Serwer / American Prospect:
A Birtherism Lexicon  —  Libertarian billionaire David Koch isn't a birther, exactly; he just thinks the president is a Marxist who got all his ideas from his father: … So Koch has his facts basically right; Obama didn't know his father very well.  But he nevertheless insists …
Discussion: Yglesias and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Jon Wiener / The Nation:
Wisconsin's Cronon Affair: The Power of a Simple Fact  —  More than a million people teach at colleges and universities in the United States, but only one faces a Republican demand for his e-mails: William Cronon, who teaches history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  —  Cronon is a brilliant historian.
Mark Boal / Rolling Stone:
The Kill Team  —  How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses - and how their officers failed to stop them.  Plus: An exclusive look at the war crime photos censored by the Pentagon  —  By  —  Early last year, after six hard months soldiering in Afghanistan …
Jon Lee Anderson / New Yorker:
WHO ARE THE REBELS?  —  Three of the world's great armies have suddenly conspired to support a group of people in the coastal cities and towns of Libya, known, vaguely, as “the rebels.”  Last month, Muammar Qaddafi, who combines a phantasmagorical sense of reality with an unbounded capacity for terror …
 
 
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Obama on Libya: Look, Just Trust Me On This
Discussion: RedState
Felix Salmon:
The NYT paywall goes live
ABCNEWS:
Cost of Libya: $600 Million for First Week
Discussion: Mediaite and Weasel Zippers
Washington Post:
U.S. deploys low-flying attack planes in Libya
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Eunomia
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13% of all U.S. homes are vacant
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
To rescue or not to rescue?  —  Walking along the beach, I hear a cry of help.
Discussion: Unfogged
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Tom Toles on Gentrification
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
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