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3:35 PM ET, March 31, 2011

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Mike McIntire / New York Times:
Odd Alliance: Business Lobby and Tea Party  —  The Tea Party does not have a presence in Indonesia, where the term evokes cups of orange pekoe and sweet cakes rather than angry citizens in “Don't Tread on Me” T-shirts.  —  But a Tea Party group in the United States, the Institute for Liberty …
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ABCNEWS:
Tea Party Hypocrisy?  Some Lawmakers With Tea Party Ties Are on the Government Dole  —  Which Tea Partiers Are Getting Hundreds of Thousands of Government Dollars?  —  The Tea Party swept into the 112th Congress with promises of cutting government spending.
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
GMA Takes On ‘Tea Party Darlings On The Dole’
Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg:
Kennedy Pal Goes AWOL as Tea Party Cashes In: Margaret Carlson
Susan Crabtree / TPMDC:
Clinton To Congress: Obama Would Ignore Your War Resolutions  —  Update: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), who asked Clinton about the War Powers Act during a classified briefing, said Clinton and the administration are sidestepping the measure's provisions giving Congress the ability to put a 60-day time limit on any military action.
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Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:   The Imperial President, Ctd
Gschwarzcnn / CNN:
Hillary Clinton's top score
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
On The Latest From Libya  —  I'm still absorbing this news and don't want to vent immediately, because there is still part of me that simply cannot believe that president Obama has already ordered covert action in Libya on one side in a civil war, and is now actively discussing whether to arm …
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New York Times:
C.I.A. Agents in Libya Aid Airstrikes and Meet Rebels  —  WASHINGTON — The Central Intelligence Agency has inserted clandestine operatives into Libya to gather intelligence for military airstrikes and contact rebels battling Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces, according to American officials.
New York Times:
NATO Warns Rebels Against Attacking Libyan Civilians
Ann Coulter / Human Events:
Obama Cried, Kids Died
Discussion: Maggie's Notebook
WISC-TV:
Judge Says Union Bargaining Bill Not In Effect  —  Sumi Amends Temporary Restraining Order  —  MADISON, Wis. — The contentious collective bargaining law that strips most public workers of nearly all collective bargaining rights and force them to contribute more to their pension and health plans …
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Douglas Stanglin / USA Today:
Syrian TV accuses detained Egyptian American of spying
Discussion: CNN, USW Blog and The Politico
David Rogers / The Politico:
Budget deal close with $33B in cuts  —  Budget talks came to life Wednesday but not without new tension between the White House and Senate Democrats, worried that the administration is too quick to agree to $33 billion in cuts to move Speaker John Boehner toward what remains a very uncertain deal.
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Aaron_Sharockman / St. Petersburg Times:
Democrat chastized for saying ‘uterus’ on House floor  —  During last week's discussion about a bill that would prohibit governments from deducting union dues from a worker's paycheck, state Rep. Scott Randolph, D-Orlando, used his time during floor debate to argue that Republicans are against regulations …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Democrats consider proposing tax hikes  —  Senate Democrats are discussing plans to introduce tax policy changes that they say would raise federal revenues and broaden the budget debate beyond discretionary spending cuts.  —  Democrats feel they have been boxed by Republicans into a debate …
Marc Lacey / New York Times:
An Arizona Senate Race Waits to See if Giffords Emerges to Run  —  TUCSON — Representative Gabrielle Giffords is still in the hospital, but some of her most ardent backers are so enamored of the idea of her running for the Senate that they describe the inevitable campaign commercials …
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Iowa GOP threatens effort to strip Florida of 2012 Republican convention  —  The chairman of Iowa's Republican Party on Thursday backed an effort to possibly move the 2012 Republican National Convention out of Florida if that state sticks to its January primary date.
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Ben Smith / The Politico:
S.C. Republicans escalate calendar feud
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Matt Negrin / The Politico:
Tapper offers Carney ‘straw men’  —  The temperature in the White House briefing jumped up Wednesday afternoon as Jake Tapper and Jay Carney vented some of their frustrations with each other publicly.  —  At one point, Tapper dissed Carney by saying he could provide a “room full of straw men” for the White House press secretary.
Ari Berman / The Nation:
Jim Messina, Obama's Enforcer  —  In March 2009 the Campaign for America's Future, a top progressive group in Washington, launched a campaign called “Dog The (Blue) Dogs” to pressure conservative Blue Dog Democrats to support President Obama's budget.  When he heard about the effort …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and msnbc.com
Zaid Jilani / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul Mocks Newt Gingrich: ‘He Has More War Positions Than He Has Wives’  —  Potential GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich has been in hot water lately after ThinkProgress caught him flipping his position on the Libyan war rapidly over the span of just a few weeks …
Steve Kornacki / Salon:
The unbeatable Republican?  —  Massachusetts is a deeply Democratic state, one in which barely more than 15 percent of the seats in the state Legislature are held by Republicans and fewer than 15 percent of all registered voters belong to the GOP.  So it's hardly surprising that national Democrats …
Discussion: Pundit Press and National Review
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Rubio Takes the Lead  —  Urges Congress to authorize military action, endorse regime change.  —  THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained the text of a letter freshman senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent tonight to the Senate majority and minority leaders.  In it, Rubio proposes that the Senate authorize …
Jonathan Allen / The Politico:
GOP plans $1 trillion cut to Medicaid  —  House Republicans are planning to cut as much as $1 trillion over 10 years from Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled, when they unveil their fiscal 2012 budget early next month, according to several GOP sources.
Discussion: FrumForum
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Abby Phillip / The Politico:
Shh!  Obama gets anti-secrecy award  —  The president accepted a transparency award in a closed, undisclosed meeting.  —  President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.
Stable Hand / The Jawa Report:
Israeli map shows nearly 1,000 Hezbollah sites  —  Hezbullah & UN flags flying side by side … Judith Levy links to a PDF which shows these images from IDF:
Stack / USW Blog:
A Well-Intentioned Bad Idea  —  International Vice President, United Steelworkers  —  By now anyone who had not yet heard of the Koch brothers has been introduced to them.  Every major newspaper and magazine has run an article about the brothers who until recently lived largely under …
Dominic Di-Natale / Fox News:
Japan's Nuclear Rescuers: ‘Inevitable Some of Them May Die Within Weeks’  —  March 14: A Red Cross rescue worker, in red, is scanned for signs of radiation upon returning from Fukushima to his hospital in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture.  —  Workers at the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant …
Sean J. Miller / Ballot Box:
Poll: Young voters increasingly happy with Obama  —  President Obama's job-approval rating among young people has gone up, even as his overall approval rating has hit an all-time low in certain surveys.  —  A new poll of 18- to 29-year-olds by Harvard University's Institute of Politics …
 
 
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
SHOCKING DISCOVERY: The Day After 9-11 Van Jones Led Rally Where They Cheered American Killers (Video)
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Cautious Boehner says $33B in spending cuts not a done deal
Discussion: FrumForum
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Schumer: Recognize Libyan rebels only if Lockerbie bomber locked up
Rep. Mike Pence / National Review:
Battling Big Abortion
Discussion: The Politico, Cubachi and Jill Stanek
Bennett Roth / Roll Call:
AARP Is Next on GOP Target List
Rasmussen Reports:
Just 21% Say U.S. Has Clearly Defined Mission in Libya
Discussion: Pajamas Media and HotAirPundit
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Maine GOP Legislators Looking To Loosen Child Labor Laws
Doug McKelway / Fox News:
Report Accuses DHS of Witness Tampering and Attempted Theft of Congressional Committee Documents
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit and Don Surber
Wall Street Journal:
Sokol Resigns After Stock Disclosure; Berkshire Succession Thrown Into Question
Discussion: Law Blog and The Atlantic Online
Tanya Somanader / ThinkProgress:
VIDEO: Indiana GOP Rep Says Women Will Pretend To Be Raped To Get Free Abortions