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3:00 PM ET, March 28, 2011

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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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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Democrats Will Offer Additional $20 Billion in Budget Cuts  —  I feel like US fiscal policy is trapped on some kind of treadmill.  Democrats offer some level of budget cuts for the current fiscal year, Republicans reject anything less than what they've proposed, and then they put together …
Juan Williams / The Hill:
OPINION: Bachmann poses dilemma for Boehner, GOP majority  —  If Capitol Hill is really one big high school, the “It” girl of the moment is Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.).  —  A recent Gallup poll of Republicans found Bachmann had the second-highest positive intensity rating of any of the potential 2012 candidates in the GOP field.
Discussion: msnbc.com and Pirate's Cove
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Reid urges GOP to ditch Tea Party
Discussion: Cubachi and Weasel Zippers
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
HOW NOT TO NEGOTIATE, 101.... In just 11 days, if policymakers …
Fred Barnes / Wall Street Journal:
Republicans Are Winning the Budget Fight
Discussion: Betsy's Page and The Other McCain
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 …
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Jeff G. / protein wisdom:
Paging SEK... [updated]
Discussion: WorldNetDaily
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.
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.
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Jon Lee Anderson / New Yorker:
WHO ARE THE REBELS?  —  Three of the world's great armies …
Discussion: American Power and Newshoggers.com
Alexander Mooney / CNN:
TRENDING: 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.
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:   Trump: I want Hawaii governor ‘investigated’
Jennifer Epstein / The Politico:
Maine governor removes labor mural  —  A mural depicting vignettes of state and national labor history was removed over the weekend from Maine's Labor Department headquarters in Augusta, Gov. Paul LePage's office said Monday morning.  —  The 11-panel mural that includes images of worker strikes and …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
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New York Times:
He Dreamed He Saw Kim Jong-il
Discussion: Susan Campbell
Scottpowers / Orlando Sentinel:
How my wait in a closet almost brought down the White House  —  I was kidnapped.  —  That was news to me.  —  My paper and I conspired to cover this up, to protect Vice President Joe Biden and his staff from charges they had imprisoned me at a fundraiser last week.  —  That was news to me too.
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Jillian Rayfield / TPMDC:
Biden Team Apologizes For Using Storage Closet As Holding Room For Reporter
USA Today:
When standardized 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.”
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
The Libya Strategy That-Shall-Not-Be-Named  —  Like Andrew, I'm ambivalent about military action in Libya — not because the cause isn't just, but because Libya does not pose a significant national security threat to the United States (as Ross Douthat discusses here).  And I'm ambivalent because we don't know the game plan.
Discussion: Political Punch
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
A War By Any Name  —  Tonight, in a speech that probably …
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 …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
QUOTE OF THE DAY.... That disgraced former House Speaker sure does say strange things. … Yeah, just think about it.  Unless we all become conservative Christians, the next thing you know, prominent leaders might start cheating on multiple wives.  —  Oh wait.  —  Everything about Gingrich's little tirade is bizarre.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Eschaton
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Abe Levy / MySanAntonio.com:
Gingrich calls for return to religious roots
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and The Page
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Tom Toles on Gentrification  —  Much respect to Richard Layman for remembering and preserving this 1998 Tom Toles cartoon:  —  Funny.  —  Anonymous  —  Mass immigration from Latin America will not lead to the multiracial paradise liberals imagine.  Rather, it will lead to a stratified society …
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 …
Joe Hagan / New York Magazine:
A Strange Man Is Following You  —  Shouting about mind-control assassins, the 9/11 conspiracy, and the Bilderberg Group, radio host Alex Jones has cornered the bipartisan paranoia market.  —  A shadowy group of elites—mainly international bankers but also George W. Bush, Barack Obama …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Wire
BBC:
PJ Crowley: ‘No regrets’ over Bradley Manning remarks  —  Mr Crowley said he did not think the controversy would go as far as it did  —  Ex-US state department spokesman PJ Crowley, who quit after criticising the treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks, has told the BBC he has no regrets.
Discussion: The Raw Story and Newshoggers.com
Robert S. McElvaine / The Politico:
Haley Barbour, slavery and the Civil War  —  Haley Barbour, the Mississippi governor and likely 2012 Republican presidential aspirant, has recently made a series of missteps involving race and the Civil Rights Movement.  He seemed unclear about basic historical points.
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.
Discussion: Susan Campbell and Opposing Views
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
To rescue or not to rescue?  —  Walking along the beach, I hear a cry of help.  I look into the ocean and spy a woman thrashing about in the rough surf.  I shuck my shoes and toss my sunglasses and dash toward the water.  Suddenly, I hear a voice: “Do you have an exit strategy?”  —  Good point.
Discussion: Unfogged
Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Govs face budget blowback  —  It was supposed to be one of the clearest messages of the 2010 elections: Voters were finally fed up with government spending.  —  It felt like the usual rules had changed, and that Americans were worried enough about the size of government to support a new era of belt-tightening.
Myglesias / Yglesias:
Orphaned Works and Orphaned Political Causes  —  Julian Sanchez wonders about the political economy of “orphaned works”.  Granting that owners of valuable old content (Mickey Mouse, Batman) have a strong interest in preventing those works from coming into the public domain …
Kbh / Keith Hennessey:
Deficits are an important but incomplete metric  —  The budget debate will soon expand beyond the current short-term fight.  Negotiations on appropriations funding for the remainder of FY11 continue, and a government shutdown on April 9th is quite possible.
Discussion: Hot Air
 
 
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Peter Beinart / The Daily Beast:
Obama's Moral Case For War
Discussion: Eunomia
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Huckabee: 'I'm very much considering another run at the presidency'
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
White House says Libya decision based on ‘best interests’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Les Christie / CNNMoney.com:
13% of all U.S. homes are vacant
Tom Matzzie / The Huffington Post:
Anti-War, But Supporting Obama on Libya
Discussion: Susan Campbell
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Closed (Circuit)
Discussion: Pajamas Media
 Earlier Items: 
Harry / Crooked Timber:
Wisconsin comes to London
Discussion: Guardian, BBC and Balloon Juice
Kevin G. Hall / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Strong corporate profits amid weak economy - What's up with that?
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Salena Zito / Real Clear Politics:
GOP Can't Ignore Wisconsin Recall Battle
Discussion: Althouse
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Water Issues Worry Americans Most, Global Warming Least
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Goldblog is a Pro-J Street Blog
Discussion: Mondoweiss
UnionLeader.com:
Joe McQuaid's Publisher's Notebook: The newspaper's a year older; and we are still being blamed
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and The Page