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5:55 PM ET, March 19, 2012

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Bristol Palin:
Mr. President, When Should I Expect Your Call?  —  You don't know my telephone number, but I hope your staff is busy trying to find it.  Ever since you called Sandra Fluke after Rush Limbaugh called her a slut, I figured I might be next.  You explained to reporters you called …
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Rick Santorum / CNN:
Santorum dings Romney while defending contraception stance
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney up big in Illinois
Charlie Riedel / ABCNEWS:
Pressure on Santorum to Deliver in Illinois
Discussion: GOP 12 and The Huffington Post
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Santorum: Brokered convention more likely, hard for rivals to hit ‘magic number’
Discussion: Politico, Shakesville, GOP 12 and Swampland
Roger Friedman / blogs.forbes.com/rogerfriedman:
Exclusive: Seller of Controversial Anti-Obama Sticker Says It's Not Racist  —  Exclusive: Paula Smith of Hinesville, Georgia has a company called Stickatude.com.  And they're selling their own version of an anti-Obama bumper sticker that reads “Don't Re-Nig 2012.”
Jeffrey Toobin / New Yorker:
HOLDING COURT  —  Brett M. Kavanaugh is a judge who sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which is often described as the second most important court in the country.  President George W. Bush nominated Kavanaugh to that post in 2003 …
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Jonathan Cohn / The New Republic:
Obamacare on Trial: Case of the Century?
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Althouse
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Krugman On ObamaCare - Just Make Stuff Up Faster Than The Opponents  —  Paul Krugman has decided to fight fiction with fiction in the health care debate, and when the opposition spreads BS, he will spread BS twice as hard.  Waddya expect from a former Enron adviser?  —  He correctly notes this Republican miscue:
Discussion: Campaign 2012
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Hurray for Health Reform
Brian Tashman / rightwingwatch.org:
Pastor Dennis Terry Introduces Rick Santorum, Tells Liberals and Non-Christians to ‘Get Out’ of America  —  Greenwell Springs Baptist Church pastor Dennis Terry introduced presidential candidate Rick Santorum and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins tonight in Baton Rouge, Louisiana …
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Obama blamed troubles on Fox News, book says  —  President Barack Obama blamed Fox News for his political woes in a private meeting with labor leaders in 2010, saying he was “losing white males” who tune into the cable outlet and “hear Obama is a Muslim 24/7,” according to journalist David Corn's new book, “Showdown.”
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS:
Axelrod ‘Mittzkrieg’ Comment Draws Fire From Jewish Group  —  A Republican Jewish group is demanding an apology from senior Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod after he referred to Mitt Romney's ad campaign in Illinois as “the Mittzkrieg.”  —  “The Mittzkrieg in Illinois isn't terribly inspiring …
Daily Mail:
THE TSA'S GREATEST HITS  — The TSA issued apologies to two grandmothers in their late 80s who said they were strip searched at New York's JFK Airport in January.  — In October, a TSA inspector found a vibrator in lawyer and feminist blogger Jill Filipovic's luggage …
Associated Press:
High court rejects Christian campus groups' appeal  —  WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court has turned down an appeal from Christian groups that challenged a discrimination policy at California state universities.  —  The justices on Monday are leaving in place a federal appeals court ruling …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Arizona Republic:
Arpaio sees media conspiracy against ‘birthers’  —  Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio believes that a media conspiracy “bigger than Watergate” is purposefully downplaying his volunteer posse's investigation of President Barack Obama's birth certificate.  —  Arpaio and the posse held …
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
'The Road We've Traveled:' A misleading account of Obama's mother and her insurance dispute  —  Narrator Tom Hanks: “He knew from experience the cost of waiting [on health care reform].”  —  President Obama : “When my mom got cancer, she wasn't a wealthy woman and it pretty much drained all her resources”
Discussion: Booman Tribune and Weasel Zippers
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Romney: ‘The economy is coming back’  —  So he said at a campaign stop in Springfield, Ill., this morning.  POLITICO's Reid Epstein:
Discussion: Daily Kos and Swampland
Geneva Sands / The Hill:
Romney: 'I don't see how a young American can vote' for a Democrat  —  GOP presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney said Monday he doesn't understand how young people could vote for Democrats.  —  “I don't see how a young American can vote for, well, can vote for a Democrat,” Romney said in a speech at the University of Chicago.
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Greg Wyshynski / Yahoo! Sports:
She's a Sens fan, her girlfriend's a Leafs fan and their marriage proposal during NHL game was adorable (VIDEO)  —  On Saturday night at Scotiabank Place, a Toronto Maple Leafs fan named Alicia stood on the ice during the second intermission wearing a blindfold.
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
A lion in winter  —  What's riveting about the documents taken from Osama bin Laden's compound, beyond the headline items about plots to kill American leaders, is the way they allow the reader to get inside the terrorist mastermind's head.  —  I've only seen a small sample of the thousands …
Andrew Gilligan / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Ken Livingstone: I will make London a beacon of Islam  —  Here is the full version of a story which appears in the print edition of today's Daily Telegraph:  —  KEN LIVINGSTONE has promised to turn London into a “beacon” for the words of the Prophet Mohammed in a sermon at one of the capital's most controversial mosques.
Discussion: Harry's Place and Jihad Watch
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
What Everyone Should Know About Trayvon Martin (1995-2012)  —  On February 26, 2012, a 17-year-old African-American named Trayvon Martin was shot and killed in Sanford, Florida.  The shooter was George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old white man.  Zimmerman admits killing Martin, but claims he was acting in self-defense.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Obama's pivot to deficit reduction, explained  —  So why did Obama and Democrats pivot so hard towards deficit reduction, and away from job creation, after the 2010 elections?  —  The question is one of the central conundrums of the Obama presidency.  The pivot led to a grueling series …
Discussion: Paul Krugman and US Politics
Alex Spillius / Telegraph:
Syria: ‘I am the real dictator’, declares Asma al-Assad  —  Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of Syria's president, told a friend that she was the “real dictator” in the family, according to leaked emails that suggest she holds a cherished place in the leader's inner circle.
Manuel Fabian Celis-Acosta / Los Angeles Times:
Gun-tracking operation caught top suspect, then let him go  —  Federal agents stopped the main target of the ill-fated Operation Fast and Furious in May 2010.  After they questioned him, he disappeared back into Mexico, and the program went on to spiral out of control.
Discussion: PJ Media
 
 
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Obama campaign raises $45m in February
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That Wishful Thinking About Tax Rates
The White House:
Presidential Proclamation — National Day of Honor
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
Noah Buries Lede
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Romney Admits GOP Education Policy is Intended to Kill Unions
Jamie Weinstein / The Daily Caller:
Media Matters for America is linked with Al-Jazeera …
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The Gallup Organization / Gallup:
U.S. Unemployment Ticks Down in Mid-March
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
David Ignatius is national security go-to guy
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David Carr / Media Decoder:
Gingrich Identifies His Real Opponent: Elite Media
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Robert Kuttner / American Prospect:
The Age of Double Standards
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There are many ways to gauge government integrity.
Andrew Restuccia / The Hill:
Republicans go on offensive over rumors Obama may tap emergency oil reserves