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9:45 AM ET, March 28, 2011

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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
Facebook May Hire Robert Gibbs, Former Obama Aide  —  Facebook is in talks to hire Robert Gibbs, President Obama's former White House press secretary, for a senior role in helping to manage the company's communications, people briefed on the negotiations said.
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
In 7:30 p.m. address, Obama to say Libya strikes averted catastrophe - Robert Gibbs may give up reelection campaign for big Facebook job - Amb.  Huntsman campaign-in-waiting amps  —  LYNN SWEET: “Obama 2012 national headquarters will be at [Chicago's] One Prudential Plaza …
Discussion: GOP 12
Lynn Sweet:
Obama's 2012 HQ: Will be in Chicago's Prudential Building. Exclusive
Discussion: The Hill and The Caucus
Jack Cashill / American Thinker:
Ayers affirms he wrote Dreams from my Father  —  Last Thursday evening at Montclair State University, with a video camera rolling, Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had written the acclaimed Barack Obama memoir, Dreams from My Father.  —  Unprompted, Ayers also noted that while Dreams deserves …
Wall Street Journal:
Fiscal Showdown Looms in Capitol  —  The White House and Democratic lawmakers, with less than two weeks left to avoid a government shutdown, are assembling a proposal for roughly $20 billion in additional spending cuts that could soon be offered to Republicans, according to people close to the budget talks.
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Senior adviser from 2008 rejoins Romney's team  —  (CNN) - A key adviser to Mitt Romney's 2008 bid for the White House is returning to the fold, another sign that the former Massachusetts governor is building up to what appears to be another run for the Republican presidential nomination.
Discussion: GOP 12
Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Are Winning the Budget Fight  —  The incremental approach is working and embarrassing Democrats.  Why should the GOP risk a government shutdown?  —  Some of the most disgruntled folks in Washington these days are conservative Republicans in Congress.
Discussion: Betsy's Page
New York Times:
Libyan Rebel Gains Could Be Fleeting, U.S. Military Says  —  TRIPOLI, Libya — As rebel forces backed by allied warplanes pushed toward one of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's most crucial bastions of support, the American military warned on Monday that their rapid gains could quickly be reversed without continued coalition air support.
Discussion: Guardian and The Page
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USA Today:
When test scores soared in D.C., were the gains real?  —  WASHINGTON — In just two years, Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus went from a school deemed in need of improvement to a place that the District of Columbia Public Schools called one of its “shining stars.”  —  Standardized test scores improved dramatically.
Discussion: Mother Jones and Balloon Juice
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
American Thought Police  —  Recently William Cronon, a historian who teaches at the University of Wisconsin, decided to weigh in on his state's political turmoil.  He started a blog, “Scholar as Citizen,” devoting his first post to the role of the shadowy American Legislative Exchange Council …
UnionLeader.com:
Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: The newspaper's a year older; and we are still being blamed  —  This past Thursday was an anniversary.  The “Union” part of the Union Leader begn its 149th year of continuous daily publication.  It was a weekly even earlier.  — > Jim Grady: RGGI benefits all Granite Staters (13)
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and The Page
Darci Kistler / CBS News:
The Reagan shooting: A closer call than we knew  —  Bob Schieffer on how quick thinking prevented a tragedy when a gunman fired on the president 30 years ago … It's one of those artifacts of the electronic age: Videotape of an ordinary afternoon that, in a matter of seconds, became etched forever in our memories.
Paul Krugman:
Wages and Employment, Yet Again  —  Oh, my.  Even Matt Yglesias doesn't quite get it.  —  Writing about Republican plans to raise employment by reducing it, he writes … Then he turns, rightly, to the problem of nominally denominated debt.  But look: even if we didn't have that problem …
Discussion: Yglesias and Marginal Revolution
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Myglesias / Yglesias:
The Alternative To Deflation Is Inflation
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Weigh Sociology Issue in Wal-Mart Discrimination Case  —  WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court considers on Tuesday whether hundreds of thousands of women can band together in an employment discrimination suit against Wal-Mart, the argument may hinge on the validity …
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Andrew Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
Welcome to Wal-Mart: The Biggest Case of the Term
Discussion: SCOTUSblog and CBS St. Louis
New York Times:
N.Y. Budget Deal Cuts Aid to Schools and Health Care  —  Culminating weeks of secretive negotiations and intense political jockeying, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and leaders of the Legislature on Sunday announced a $132.5 billion budget agreement that would cut spending, impose no major new taxes …
BBC:
Japan nuclear plant data error was ‘unacceptable’  —  The BBC's Mark Worthington says many people in Japan are becoming increasingly concerned about what is going to happen in the future  —  The Japanese government has attacked the operator of a crippled nuclear plant for “unacceptable” mistakes.
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Won't Intervene in Syria as Assad Differs From Qaddafi, Clinton Says  —  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the U.S. won't enter into the internal conflict in Syria the way it has in Libya.  —  “No,” Clinton said, when asked on the CBS “Face the Nation” program if the U.S. would intervene in Syria's unrest.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Hardly Settled in House, but Already in Hot Seat
Discussion: Balloon Juice and The Caucus
ThinkProgress:
REPORT: From Poll Taxes To Voter ID Laws: A Short History of Conservative Voter Suppression
The Muqata:
Talmud Study now Mandatory in South Korea
Discussion: Elder of Ziyon
Matthew Boyle / The Daily Caller:
Breitbart says ‘height of ingratitude’ for Huffington not to defend him against Van Jones racism allegations
Kendra Marr / The Politico:
Gary Johnson to launch 2012 presidential bid in April
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Deborah Cole / Agence France Presse:
Merkel party in German state poll disaster
Julian Sanchez:
Orphan Works  —  The ruling rejecting the Google Books settlement …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online
Political Punch:
Biden Team Apologizes to Reporter for Sticking Him In Closet
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
Billionaire self-pity and the Koch brothers