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4:15 AM ET, April 22, 2011

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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 …
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Jennifer Cooper / John Ensign …:
ENSIGN TO RESIGN FROM OFFICE  —  Washington, D.C. - Senator John Ensign today announced his resignation as the 24th United States Senator from the state of Nevada.  In a letter to Vice President Joe Biden tomorrow, Senator Ensign will state that his resignation from office is effective as of May 3, 2011.
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 …
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.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Breaking: John Ensign to resign tomorrow
Ballot Box:
Sen. Ensign to resign
New York Times:
Nation's Mood at Lowest Level in Two Years, Poll Shows  —  Americans are more pessimistic about the nation's economic outlook and overall direction than they have been at any time since President Obama's first two months in office, when the country was still officially ensnared in the Great Recession …
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Poll Finds Lack of Passion for Republican Candidates
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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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.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan's Plan To End Medicare Stirs Anger At Pennsylvania Town Hall Event
Discussion: Swampland, The Reaction and Hullabaloo
John Bolton / bostonherlad.com:
Obama wobbly on Libya  —  Opponents of the Vietnam War — that seemingly endless, inconclusive, increasingly unpopular and ever-more-deadly and costly conflict — called it a “quagmire.”  They said it was unwinnable and should never have been fought, and that America must avoid similar future wars.
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Libya: Send in the Drones
Discussion: Associated Press
Tim Hetherington / Associated Press:
Gates says Obama has approved use of armed Predator drones in Libya
Discussion: Hot Air, Corrente and Mother Jones
Tom Humphrey / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
'Don't say gay' bill clears Senate panel  —  Register or log in using your account on these websites.  —  Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH  —  NASHVILLE - After some convoluted maneuvers, a Senate committee Wednesday approved a bill that will prohibit teachers from discussing homosexuality …
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?
Larry O'Connor / Breitbart.tv:
Joanne Kloppenburg's Really Bad Poker Tell: She KNOWS She Didn't Win Election  —  Check out that pregnant pause at 1:33 in.  This re-count is a sham.
Discussion: Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
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.
Alex Seitz-Wald / ThinkProgress:
Inhofe Claims Fracking Has ‘Never’ Contaminated Water Supply One Day After Spill Contaminates Stream  —  Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is perhaps Congress' most reliable defender of dirty energy and evangelizer against the “hoax” of global warming.  This morning, he took his message …
Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Democrats Sue to Force U.S. Election Agency to Reveal Political Donations  —  WASHINGTON — Unable to stanch the flow of corporate money to Republican causes, Democrats tried a new tack on Thursday by bringing a lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission to force the disclosure of tens of millions of dollars in secret donations.
Discussion: Fox News
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.
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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Gary Johnson announces presidential run
Haaretz:
Israel: New Gaza flotilla has ties to Hamas, terrorist organizations  —  Israel's ambassador to UN warns the organization not to allow new flotilla, planned for May, to launch; U.S., Germany also call on flotilla organizers to find other ways to deliver aid to Gaza.
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Julie Pace / Associated Press:
Obama says new task force will examine gas prices  —  RENO, Nev. - President Barack Obama said Thursday that the Justice Department will try to “root out” cases of fraud or manipulation in oil markets, even as Attorney General Eric Holder suggested a variety of legal reasons may be behind gasoline's surge to $4 a gallon.
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
Danielle Demetriou / Telegraph:
Radioactive iodine found in breast milk of Japanese mothers  —  The breast milk of four Japanese mothers has been found to contain small quantities of radioactive iodine.  —  The government faced calls for a full investigation into the impact of the nuclear disaster on mothers and babies following the discovery.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
JSOnline:
Candidates reach recount deal  —  Some areas to get hand tally in court race  —  By Jason Stein and Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel  —  Madison — Backing off stronger stances, Supreme Court Justice David Prosser and Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg found …
Discussion: Hot Air
ij.org:
Nashville's Sedan Drivers Fight City Effort To Run Them Off the Road  —  Can government force transportation businesses to charge a minimum price to protect politically connected companies from competition?  —  That is the question the Institute for Justice (IJ) and its clients seek to answer …
Discussion: Yglesias and Hot Air
Robert Frank / The Wealth Report:
Millionaire Tax Didn't Chase the Rich From New Jersey, Study Says  —  Anti-tax advocates contend that higher taxes on the wealthy lead to millionaire flight.  They say this has been seen in Maryland, Rhode Island, New Jersey and New York.  The rich are mobile, they say.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Times Company Profit Falls on Weak Ad Revenue  —  The New York Times Company reported a sharp drop in net income in the first quarter as the print advertising market remained stubbornly depressed for newspapers.  —  The company said net income fell 57.6 percent to $5.4 million, compared with $12.8 million in the quarter a year ago.
Donald J. Trump / USA Today:
Trump's view: Obama, come clean  —  On any given day, I receive hundreds of requests from television, radio and newspapers to provide comments on various topics.  There is not one interview when the “birther” issue is not raised multiple times during the conversation.
Discussion: TPMDC, Mediaite, Cubachi and Washington Post
Meghan McCain / The Daily Beast:
Trump to McCain: 'You're Hired!'  —  THE DAILY BEAST ON:  —  As Donald Trump flirts with a presidential run, he talks to Meghan McCain about his campaign strategy, his nights at the Holiday Inn, and why Romney won't be the Republican nominee.  —  Is The Donald serious?
David Weigel / Slate:
Wisconsin Democrats Laugh Off “Republican Recall Racket”  —  Today, a bit less than a week before the deadline, recall petitions are being filed against three Wisconsin Democratic senators.  State Democratic party spokesman Graeme Zielinski has given me the party's response to the petitions, which can be summed up as “ha, ha.”
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Obama's Likability Gap
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Salman Masood / New York Times:
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Gang Phan / International Business Times:
TEPCO: Fuel of the Fukushima plant No. 1 reactor could be melting
Discussion: Crooks and Liars
Shane D'Aprile / Ballot Box:
Gallup: Congressional approval at 17 percent
CNN:
Man wanted for questioning after attempted bombing at Colorado mall
Discussion: Boing Boing and Crooks and Liars
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Breitbart to Bashir: 'You're Insinuating I'm Racist Which is What MSNBC Does to Conservatives Every Day'
Brandon Keim / Wired Science:
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 Earlier Items: 
60 Plus Association:
Seniors Thank Rep. West for Protecting Medicare in New Radio Ad
Discussion: Ben Smith's Blog and Ballot Box
Ben Smith / The Politico:
New Labor plan: Nationwide protests
Discussion: RedState
Political Punch:
Obama Gets An Unwelcome Serenade at Fundraiser
Discussion: RedState and The Jawa Report
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
The Annoying Hypocrisy Trope
Discussion: Modeled Behavior
James Pethokoukis:
Budget group: New Obama budget plan would fail, could cause tax trigger to be pulled
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Susan Dominus / New York Times:
The Crash and Burn of an Autism Guru
Discussion: FrumForum, Pharyngula and Feministe