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12:15 PM ET, April 3, 2011

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Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:
President Obama intervenes in budget standoff  —  President Obama phones the House speaker and the Senate leader in an effort to broker a Republican-Democratic deal to avert a government shutdown.  —  Reporting from Washington —  As the budget stalemate lingered …
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Budget Battle to Be Followed by an Even Bigger Fight  —  WASHINGTON — Congress has yet to settle its first budget fight of the year but is already about to move on to an even more consequential fiscal clash.  —  Even as the two parties struggled over the weekend to reach a deal on federal spending …
Discussion: CNN
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Can the House “deem” a bill into law?
Ben Geman / The Hill:
Obama talks spending with Reid, Boehner as shutdown deadline looms
Discussion: CNN
James Hibberd / Inside TV:
Charlie Sheen's Detroit disaster: Boos, walk-outs for ‘Torpedo of Truth’  —  First the U.S. automaker recession, and now this.  Charlie Sheen unleashed his Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour on the Motor City on Saturday night to a crowd that began with an adoring standing ovation and concluded with booing and walk-outs.
John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine:
Have a Rotten Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone  —  So Richard Goldstone, the South African jurist who fronted the U.N. report bearing his name that alleged massive Israeli war crimes in the Gaza war of 2008-2009, has taken to the pages of the Washington Post to say, in effect, “never mind”:
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Peter Berkowitz / Hoover Institution:
The Goldstone Mess  —  Peter Berkowitz on The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict edited by Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, and Philip Weiss.  —  Adam Horowitz, Lizzy Ratner, and Philip Weiss, editors.  The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict.
Discussion: Pajamas Media and Israel Matzav
A. G. Sulzberger / New York Times:
Illinois Workers Find That a Death Penalty Ban Abolishes Their Jobs, Too  —  The day after the death penalty was abolished in Illinois in early March, Wendi Liss received a call from one of her clients, who was facing trial for murder and the prospect of being executed if found guilty.
Discussion: Althouse
Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:
Joseph Stiglitz: The Fate of The Top 1% Is Bound Up With How The Other 99% Live  —  Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that America's top economists are running around with their hair on fire?  (Or whatever passes for it with economists.)  Nobel Prize winner Joe Stiglitz in Vanity Fair sounds …
Ed Vulliamy / Guardian:
Dirty billions and Mexico's drugs war  —  As the violence spread, billions of dollars of cartel cash began to seep into the global financial system.  But a special investigation by the Observer reveals how the increasingly frantic warnings of one London whistleblower were ignored
Washington Post:
Libyan rebels struggle to explain rift  —  Gallery: Conflict and chaos in Libya: As international airstrikes continue against forces loyal to Moammar Gaddafi, rebels face difficult battle.  —  BENGHAZI, Libya — Libya's rebel military struggled Saturday to explain an apparent rift within …
Discussion: FrumForum and JustOneMinute
The Note:
Fmr. Nat.  Sec. Adv.  Jones: Yemen Trends ‘Not Good’  —  In his first interview since leaving the White House last fall, former Obama National Security Advisor Jim Jones warned that the way events were unfolding in Yemen were “not good.”  —  Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh …
Discussion: CNN
Raymond Colitt / Reuters:
Al Qaeda members hide in Brazil, raise money: report  —  BRASILIA (Reuters) - Al Qaeda operatives are in Brazil planning attacks, raising money and recruiting followers, a leading news magazine reported Saturday, renewing concerns about the nation serving as a hide-out for Islamic militants.
Mike Allen / The Politico:
House GOP to target ‘tens of trillions’ on entitlements — Bush war aide: Libya could become Obama's Iraq — Lessons learned: 'clear goals ... Don't sell public on a best-case scenario'  —  BULLETIN: President Obama plans to announce his reelection campaign early next week in an electronic message …
Discussion: Right Pundits
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Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
An Obama Insider, Running the Race From Afar
Laura Myers / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Romney slams Obama foreign policy, avoids Libya  —  Speaking in Las Vegas, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Saturday criticized President Barack Obama's foreign policy in the Middle East.  —  Romney said the president hasn't been tough enough on Iran and its nuclear program.
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Kasie Hunt / The Politico:
Mitt's health care defense
Discussion: The Note and FrumForum
Matt Viser / Boston Globe:   Romney comes for foreign policy, leaves defending Mass. health care
New York Times:
Trump for President in 2012?  Maybe.  Trump for Trump?  Without Question.  —  Something predictable happens to the ratings of Donald J. Trump's “Celebrity Apprentice” on NBC when he hints at running for president: They rise.  —  And when he talks about President Obama's birth certificate, they really rise.
Deb Riechmann / Associated Press:
UN envoy: UN workers killed running from bunker  —  KABUL, Afghanistan - Fearing for their lives, the U.N. workers dashed into a dark bunker hoping to escape the mob of Afghan protesters angry over the burning of a Quran by a Florida church.  —  Hope wasn't enough for three of them.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
CNN:
Huckabee wins 2012 county straw poll in South Carolina  —  Washington (CNN) - Mike Huckabee won a 2012 presidential straw poll conducted in a key South Carolina county Saturday.  —  The informal vote was the first of many upcoming straw polls taking place this month at grassroots GOP …
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Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
GOP 2012 hopefuls united against Planned Parenthood funding
Discussion: Cubachi and Liberty Pundits Blog
Aljazeera:
Libyan rebels ‘receive foreign training’  —  Rebel source tells Al Jazeera about training offered by US and Egyptian special forces in eastern Libya.  —  US and Egyptian special forces have reportedly been offering covert armed training to rebel fighters in the battle for Libya, Al Jazeera has been told.
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Colin Firth / CBS News:
FDIC Chairman: Foreclosure clean-up fund needed
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Jason Millman / The Hill:
List of health reform waivers keeps growing
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
Life Imitating Art?
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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
If there's no mission, when's it accomplished?
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
CA legislators threaten hearings if UCLA fires CARB whistleblower
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Pastor Terry Jones: ‘I may put Mohammed on trial’
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Palm Beach Post:
Caregivers for disabled call Scott's emergency 15 percent cuts of their payments ‘draconian’
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Mark Arsenault / Boston Globe:
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