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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Pileup at the White House  —  It has been a Junius Horribilis for President Obama.  —  Job growth has stalled, the Democrats have been humiliated in Wisconsin, the attorney general is facing a contempt-of-Congress citation, talks with Pakistan have broken down, Bill Clinton is contradicting Obama …
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
John Bryson's leave of absence adds to Obama's bad news  —  Commerce Secretary John Bryson stepped aside Monday, telling President Barack Obama he will take a medical leave of absence two days after he was involved in two car accidents near Los Angeles.  —  Bryson, whose spokeswoman …
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Hot Air and Moe Lane
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Commerce secretary's hit-and-run keeps Obama off message
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Democracy Corps:
Shifting the Economic Narrative  —  What is clear from this fresh look at public consciousness on the economy is how difficult this period has been for both non-college-educated and college-educated voters - and how vulnerable the prevailing narratives articulated by national Democratic leaders are.
Discussion: The Democratic Daily
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Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Does Mitt Romney need ‘Obamacare’?  —  Republicans are cheerleading for the Supreme Court to strike down President Barack Obama's health care law.  —  But there's one Republican who might be sorry: Mitt Romney.  —  There's fear in some GOP circles that if the court wipes the Affordable Care Act off …
Discussion: iOwnTheWorld.com and CNN
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney holds small lead in NC  —  PPP's newest North Carolina poll finds Mitt Romney leading Barack Obama 48-46.  It's a small lead but still significant in that it's the first time we've found Romney ahead in our monthly polling of the state since October.
Discussion: Ballot Box
First Read / msnbc.com:
Loss of wealth highlights economic anxiety
Tim Mak / Politico:
Jeb Bush comments have blogs in uproar  —  Conservatives in the blogosphere lashed out at Jeb Bush for saying that Ronald Reagan and his father, George H.W. Bush, would not have fit well in the modern Republican Party, ripping the former Florida governor as a “RINO” and dismissing his “steaming pile of nonsense.”
Jeff Kearns / Bloomberg:
Fed Says U.S. Wealth Fell 38.8% In 2007-2010 On Housing  —  The financial crisis wiped out 18 years of gains for the median U.S. household net worth, with a 38.8 percent plunge from 2007 to 2010 that was led by the collapse in home prices, a Federal Reserve study showed.
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Ylan Q. Mui / Washington Post:
Fed: Americans' wealth dropped 40 percent
Martin Crutsinger / Business Week:   Fed reports how much recession shrank US wealth
Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
The Fiscal Legacy of George W. Bush  —  Bruce Bartlett held senior policy roles in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack Kemp and Ron Paul.  He is the author of “The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform - Why We Need It and What It Will Take.”
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Sen. Cornyn calls on Holder to resign  —  Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Tuesday called on Attorney General Eric Holder to resign.  —  Cornyn, the head of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), has long been critical of Holder, but had so far resisted pushing for Holder to step down.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and “The Lid”
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Fred Lucas / CNSNews:
Holder: ‘I Stuck by My Guns’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Follower Problem  —  If you go to the Lincoln or Jefferson memorials in Washington, you are invited to look up in admiration.  Lincoln and Jefferson are presented as the embodiments of just authority.  They are strong and powerful but also humanized.  Jefferson is a graceful aristocratic democrat.
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain:
HUGE!  Neal Rauhauser's Vicious Lies Exposed by Yet Another Leaked E-Mail  —  Last night, I published an e-mail showing that Democrat political operative Neal Rauhauser, representing himself as an agent of Brett Kimberlin's Velvet Revolution, had used his connections to the “Anonymous” …
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Brooks Bayne / The Trenches:
BREAKING: Neal Rauhauser Believes SWATter is One of His Own
Bloomberg:
House Of Dimon Marred By CEO Complacency Over Unit'S Risk  —  JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) could have spotted trouble at its chief investment office long before traders there racked up at least $2 billion in losses.  One reason it didn't: Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon.
Discussion: US Politics
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Wall Street Journal:
J.P. Morgan Knew of Risks
Discussion: msnbc.com
Monica Davey / New York Times:
North Dakota Considers Eliminating Property Tax  —  BISMARCK, N.D. — Since Californians shrank their property taxes more than three decades ago by passing Proposition 13, people around the nation have echoed their dismay over such levies, putting forth plans to even them, simplify them, cap them, slash them.
IU News Room:
IU community mourns passing of Distinguished Professor and Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom  —  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  —  BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — The entire Indiana University community mourns the passing today of Distinguished Professor Elinor Ostrom, who received the 2009 Nobel Prize …
Reuters:
Top conservative says read my lips: Don't sign ‘no new tax’ pledge  —  Spinners and Winners  —  As a conservative Republican, Lindsey Graham has never had a problem promising not to raise taxes.  Like almost every other Republican member of Congress, during his last re-election campaign …
BuzzFeed:
Obama Sees Sharpest Drop In Donors From Western States  —  Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, and Idaho are home to the highest percentage of 2008 Obama donors who have yet to contribute $200 or more this year.  Analysts cite the issues, from climate change to the war in Iraq, and the economy.
Discussion: Flopping Aces
Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
THE ACADEMIC SCANDAL ELIZABETH WARREN AND HARVARD DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT  —  In 1990, Rutgers Professor Philip Shuchman charged Elizabeth Warren, along with Teresa A. Sullivan (above), the President of University of Virginia who resigned unexpectedly yesterday, and Jay Westbrook …
Boston Globe:
No mention of ‘bisexual,’ ‘transgender’ under Romney  —  Words brought halt to antibullying guide  —  Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, talks during a campaign stop in St. Louis, Mo. (Evan Vucci/AP Photo)  —  Former governor Mitt Romney's administration …
ThinkProgress:
Minnesota Priest Argues Catholics Can (And Should) Vote ‘No’ on MN Marriage Inequality Amendment  —  Minnesota priest Bob Pierson spoke out passionately on Sunday against Minnesota's proposed marriage inequality amendment.  Pierson argued that Catholics must be free to vote their conscience.
Discussion: Good As You
John Corvino / The New Republic:
Are Gay Parents Really Worse For Children?  How a New Study Gets Everything Wrong  —  Question: What do the following all have in common? … Give up?  The answer—assuming that they all have biological or adopted adult children between the ages of 18 and 39—is that they would all be counted as …
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Fines for foul mouths in Mass. town  —  A Massachusetts town is crying foul on residents with dirty mouths.  —  Middleborough, a town of about 20,000 residents in the southeastern corner of the state, voted 183-50 on Monday to empower police officers to issue a $20 fine for cursing in public, The Associated Press reported.
Jack Maddox / CNN:
Sheriff: Father kills man sexually abusing his daughter  —  (CNN) — A Texas father caught a man sexually assaulting his 4-year-old daughter and punched him in the head repeatedly, killing him, authorities said.  —  The father was casually acquainted with the alleged abuser, said Lavaca County Sheriff Micah Harmon.
 
 
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