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8:00 PM ET, April 21, 2011

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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Poll Finds Lack of Passion for Republican Candidates  —  With less than a year to go before the Iowa caucuses, Republican voters have yet to form strong opinions about most of their potential candidates for president in 2012, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
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Alexander Mooney / CNN:
Trump says he'll reveal ‘interesting things’ on Obama  —  (CNN) - Possibly-serious Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is giving few details about the investigation he claims to have launched in Hawaii to get to the bottom of where President Obama was born, but the business mogul …
Meghan McCain / The Daily Beast:
Trump to McCain: 'You're Hired!'
Discussion: Mediaite, Wonkette and Gawker
Donald J. Trump / USA Today:
Trump's view: Obama, come clean
Discussion: TPMDC and Mediaite
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Poll: 45 percent of Republicans think Obama born out of US
Discussion: Wake up America and FrumForum
Shira Toeplitz / Roll Call:
Ensign to Resign, Heller Likely Successor  —  Sen. John Ensign will announce within the next 24 hours that he plans to resign from the Senate, according to a well-placed source.  —  The Nevada Republican announced March 7 that he would not run for re-election in 2012, saying …
Discussion: John Ensign …, Mediaite and FrumForum
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Karoun Demirjian / Las Vegas Sun:
JOHN ENSIGN TO RESIGN FRIDAY, HELLER LIKELY REPLACEMENT  —  WASHINGTON — Sources confirmed this afternoon that embattled U.S. Sen. John Ensign will resign from office on Friday, opening the door for Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval to appoint Rep. Dean Heller to finish out the term.
Washington Post:
Nevada Sen. John Ensign to resign  —  Nevada Republican Sen. John Ensign is expected to resign from office in the near future.  (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jessica Ebelhar) Embattled Nevada Sen. John Ensign (R) announced Thursday night that he will resign from office in early May …
Ballot Box:
Sen. Ensign to resign  —  Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) will resign his seat, a source confirmed to The Hill.  —  The resignation could come as soon as Friday, according to Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston, who first reported the news.  —  Ensign is under a Senate Ethics Committee investigation …
Steve Benen / Washington Monthly:
WHEN POLITIFACT BECOMES POLITIFALSE.... Independent fact-checking outlets play an important part of the political discourse, or at least have the potential to.  With a lot of figures making all kinds of claims, voters should have reliable sources they can turn to in order to help separate fact from fiction.
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Politifact.com Truth-O-Meter rulings from National:
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee: “Seniors will have to find $12,500 for health care because Republicans voted to end Medicare.”  —  The Truth-o-Meter says: Pants on Fire!  Democrats say Republicans voted to end Medicare and charge seniors $12,000
Brian Beutler / TPMDC:
PolitiFact Insists Republicans Don't Want To End Medicare (VIDEO)
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Seeing the Forest
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Knowledge Counts  —  There's always a bit of a problem …
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Mike Huckabee / Huck PAC:
Response to Glenn Beck  —  This week Glenn Beck has taken to his radio show to attack me as a Progressive, which he has said is the same as a “cancer” and a “Nazi.”  What did I do that apparently caused him to link me to a fatal disease and a form of government that murdered millions of innocent Jews?
Sabato's Crystal Ball:
The Map  —  The Crystal Ball's First 2011 Take on 2012's Electoral College  —  Larry J. Sabato, Director, U.Va. Center for Politics  —  With 18 months to go until November 2012, there is exactly one use for a current projection of the 2012 Electoral College results.
Colby Itkowitz / Pennsylvania Ave.:
Barletta town hall gets heated over Medicare  —  Reminiscent of the August 2009 town halls when members of Congress faced angry constituents over health care reforms, a public forum in Carbon County with Rep. Lou Barletta Wednesday night provided a glimpse of the strong emotions stirred by a Republican plan to alter Medicare benefits.
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Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Paul Ryan, Rand Paul Clash Privately Over Budget
Discussion: FrumForum
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan's Plan To End Medicare Stirs Anger At Pennsylvania Town Hall Event
Discussion: Swampland, The Caucus and Hullabaloo
Ben Smith / The Politico:
New Labor plan: Nationwide protests  —  In a major strategic shift, the Service Employees International Union plans to use its giant political operation to try to build a grassroots movement of public protest and organization similar to the massive show of pro-labor support that overran Madison, Wis. last month.
Discussion: RedState
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Martha Raddatz / ABCNEWS:
U.S. Sends Armed Drones to Libya  —  President Obama has given approval for two armed American Predator drones to operate over Libya, according to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.  —  The U.S. has flown armed drones in Libya for the past several weeks, but they have been used only for surveillance.
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John Bolton / bostonherlad.com:
Obama wobbly on Libya
Tim Hetherington / Associated Press:
Gates says Obama has approved use of armed Predator drones in Libya
Discussion: Hot Air, Corrente and Mother Jones
Matt Miller / Washington Post:
‘The Shining’ — national debt edition  —  Remember that great scene in the 1980 film classic, “The Shining,” when the wife comes upon the typewriter of the Jack Nicholson character, who's supposed to have been working night and day for months on his novel?  To her horror, she finds thousands …
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Chris Good / The Atlantic Online:
What Gary Johnson Brings to the GOP Presidential Race  —  Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson has just announced his candidacy for president, and, finally, a Republican is actually running.  Johnson didn't announce an exploratory committee, or that he's thinking about running.
Discussion: Slate, Hot Air, Hit & Run and Reuters
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Michael Muskal / Los Angeles Times:
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson announces he'll seek GOP presidential nomination
Stephanie Condon / CBS News:   Gary Johnson announces presidential run
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Annoying Hypocrisy Trope  —  Gregg Easterbrook: … This is one of the most annoying tropes in existence, on both the left and the right.  The point of laws is to provide a level playing field, and no one is a hypocrite for following existing law even if they think it should be changed.
Discussion: Modeled Behavior
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Gregg Easterbrook:
Why Obama should pay more in taxes
Discussion: The Daily Dish
Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Invitation to Israeli Leader Puts Obama on the Spot  —  WASHINGTON — A Republican invitation for Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to address Congress next month is highlighting the tensions between President Obama and Mr. Netanyahu and has kicked off a bizarre diplomatic race …
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Abdullah Gul / New York Times:
The Revolution's Missing Peace
Discussion: Power Line, Israel Matzav and Daily Kos
New York Post:
Trump blasts Seinfeld pullout  —  Donald Trump wasn't laughing when funnyman Jerry Seinfeld canceled an upcoming appearance at a benefit for his son's Eric Trump Foundation.  —  Seinfeld pulled out of the Sept. 13 event benefiting the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital because he disagrees …
Steven Ertelt / LifeNews.com:
More Companies Pull Ads From Wonkette After Trig Palin Post  —  More companies have joined Papa Johns, Huggies and Vanguard in dropping ads from the liberal, pro-abortion blog Wonkette after it ran a crass post mocking Sarah Palin and her son trig, who has Down Syndrome.
James Pethokoukis:
Budget group: New Obama budget plan would fail, could cause tax trigger to be pulled  —  The bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has taken a crack at deciphering President Barack Obama's murky new budget plan, called the “Framework for Shared Prosperity and Shared Fiscal Responsibility.”
The Onion:
Mitt Romney Haunted By Past Of Trying To Help Uninsured Sick People  —  BELMONT, MA—Though Mitt Romney is considered to be a frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the national spotlight has forced him to repeatedly confront a major skeleton in his political closet …
Discussion: Washington Post and Boston Globe
 
 
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CNN:
Man wanted for questioning after attempted bombing at Colorado mall
Discussion: Crooks and Liars and Boing Boing
Kirk Johnson / New York Times:
Debate Over ‘Birther’ Bills Among States' Lawmakers
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
President predicts Pelosi will again be Speaker of the House
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Brandon Keim / Wired Science:
Gut-Bacteria Mapping Finds Three Global Varieties
Discussion: Need to Know
60 Plus Association:
Seniors Thank Rep. West for Protecting Medicare in New Radio Ad
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ij.org:
Nashville's Sedan Drivers Fight City Effort To Run Them Off the Road
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Obama Gets An Unwelcome Serenade at Fundraiser
Discussion: The Jawa Report and RedState
 Earlier Items: 
Susan Dominus / New York Times:
The Crash and Burn of an Autism Guru
Discussion: FrumForum, Feministe and Pharyngula
David Hill / Washington Times:
Business owner casts reasonable doubt on accuracy of speed cameras
SusanAnne Hiller / Big Journalism:
What if the Birthers Are Right?  —  Inside the political vacuum …
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Iowa professor's response to GOP prompts outrage
 

 
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