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7:40 PM ET, February 19, 2013

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Politico:
Obama, the puppet master  —  President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House.  —  Not for the reason that conservatives suspect: namely, that a liberal press willingly and eagerly allows itself to get manipulated.
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Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
THINGS IN POLITICO THAT MAKE ME WANT TO GUZZLE ANTIFREEZE, PART THE INFINITY  —  Every sportswriter learns one simple rule in a very quick hurry — namely, that nobody out in your readership cares how hard you think your job is.  People, to paraphrase Michael J. Fox's channelling …
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
White House says it makes effort to grant press access to Obama
Discussion: ABCNEWS and Politico
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Ed Henry: 'This isn't about a golf game'
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Marco Rubio: The Electable Conservative?  —  Some commentators have expressed surprise upon learning about the very conservative voting record of Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union address last week.
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Joe Scarborough / Politico:
Tearing down the conservative echo chamber  —  A “Morning Joe” discussion from Tuesday is sure to set off extremists within the Republican Party who remain more interested in defending the GOP's losing ways than charting a new course to victory.  After Chuck Todd concluded that Republicans …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Hear Campaign Finance Case  —  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear a challenge to federal campaign contribution limits and issued decisions concerning a drug-sniffing dog, an international child-custody dispute and when the police may detain people while conducting a search.
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Ariane De Vogue / ABCNEWS:
Indiana Farmer Takes on Seed Behemoth Monsanto; Justices Skeptical of Farmer's Claim
Discussion: SCOTUSblog
momentoftruthproject.org:
A BIPARTISAN PATH FORWARD TO SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE  —  Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson are co-chairs of the Moment of Truth project and formerly co-chaired the President's bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.  —  The United States faces two big risks …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Why Does the New Simpson-Bowles Deficit Plan Look So ... Republican?  —  Please see update at bottom.  —  The new deficit reduction plan from Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles calls for $5 trillion in savings this decade — $6 trillion including interest — roughly the same as their outline in December 2010.
Discussion: The Dish, Wonkblog and Hullabaloo
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Report: New Simpson-Bowles plan
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
More Republican Denial  —  Conservatives keep reminding everyone that the sequester was Obama's idea.  But, says Michael Tomasky, that doesn't mean he's to blame for the current crisis.  —  Whose “idea” was the sequester, and why should it matter?  My Twitter feed these last couple of weeks …
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Who's afraid of the sequester's ax?  Not us, say Republican lawmakers  —  House GOP lawmakers say they do not fear political blowback if Congress fails to prevent $85 billion in automatic spending cuts from triggering in two weeks.  —  The cuts known as the sequester are almost certain …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Missouri Bill Makes It A Felony For Lawmakers To Propose Gun Safety Legislation  —  Yesterday, Missouri state Rep. Mike Leara (R) proposed legislation making it a felony for lawmakers to so much as propose many bills regulating guns.  Leara's bill provides that “[a]ny member of the general assembly …
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Missouri Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Make It A Felony To Propose Gun Control Legislation
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Tea party group pictures Rove in Nazi uniform  —  A top tea party group is taking its clash with Karl Rove to a new level, sending out a fundraising email Tuesday featuring a photoshopped image of the GOP operative in an SS uniform.  —  “Wipe the Smirk Off Karl Rove's Face,” …
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Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Report: Hagel Said Israel Headed Toward Apartheid, Netanyahu a ‘Radical’  —  Secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel said Israel is on its way to becoming an apartheid state during an April 9, 2010, appearance at Rutgers University, according to a contemporaneous account by an attendee.
David Brooks / New York Times:
What Data Can't Do  —  Not long ago, I was at a dinner with the chief executive of a large bank.  He had just had to decide whether to pull out of Italy, given the weak economy and the prospect of a future euro crisis.  —  The C.E.O. had his economists project out a series of downside scenarios …
Discussion: Balloon Juice
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Paul Krugman:
Data, Stimulus, and Human Nature
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Congress Approval Holding Steady at 15%  —  Up one point from January, but at the low end of the historical spectrum  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Americans' approval of Congress is at 15% in February, one percentage point higher than in January and exactly matching the 15% average for all of 2012.
Discussion: Politico and msnbc.com
Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple, Macs hit by hackers who targeted Facebook  —  (Reuters) - Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure that described the widest known cyber attacks against Apple-made computers to date.
New York Times:
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.  —  On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China's growing corps of cyberwarriors.  —  The building off Datong Road …
DSWright / Firedoglake:
Aaron Swartz's FBI File  —  When I heard the news of Aaron Swartz's suicide I was deeply saddened or more accurately profoundly irritated.  Why had the government - or should I say U.S Attorney Carmen Ortiz - wasted so much time and resources destroying someone over such an inconsequential act?
Discussion: Guardian
Joan Walsh / Salon:
Targeted killings: OK if Obama does it?  —  Salon exclusive: Study finds “liberals” more likely to favor targeted killings once they know it's Obama's policy  —  Civil libertarians have worried that some of President Obama's comparatively hawkish national security policies are silencing …
New York Times:
Oscar Pistorius Denies Murdering Girlfriend  —  PRETORIA, South Africa — Facing a charge of premeditated murder in the death of his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee track star and one of the world's best-known athletes, denied on Tuesday that he had intended to take her life …
Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
Prof Strips, Shows 9/11 Footage, Impales Stuffed Animal (VIDEO)  —  A science professor at Columbia University on Monday began a quantum mechanics lecture by stripping into his boxers and eating a banana while rap music played in the background.  —  Then it got weird.
NY Daily News:
WCBS-TV newsman Rob Morrison threatened to ‘kill his wife’ after he was arrested and accused of choking her; Police report paints angry anchorman as a boozy bully with an internet porn habit  —  Rob Morrison has a history of domestic violence and was arrested for assault in 2009 after a confrontation …
Discussion: Mediaite and Gawker
Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
59 percent of Americans oppose DOMA: poll  — Stumble upon something good?  Share it on StumbleUpon  — Send via Email  — Send this page to Print Friendly  —  New polls find growing support for marriage equality.  (Blade file photo by Michael Key)
Jared A. Favole / Washington Wire:
Biden: 'You Don't Need 30 Rounds.  Buy a Shotgun'  —  Vice President Joe Biden said people don't need high-capacity weapons to protect themselves and that the Obama administration's efforts to reduce gun violence amount to gun safety, not gun control.  —  “If you want to protect yourself …
Discussion: Freedom's Lighthouse
Wall Street Journal:
Christensen, Flier and Vijayaraghavan: The Coming Failure of ‘Accountable Care’  —  The Affordable Care Act's updated versions of HMOs are based on flawed assumptions about doctor and patient behavior.  —  Spurred by the Affordable Care Act, hundreds of pilot programs called Accountable Care Organizations …
NBC Southern California:
Police ID Gunman in OC Shooting Deaths  —  Four people are dead after a series of shootings and carjackings near freeways in Orange County that began after the slaying of a woman at a home in Ladera Ranch.  —  Map: Shooting Investigation Locations  —  The gunman was identified as Ali Syed …
 
 
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Robert Higgs / The Beacon:
Armen Alchian (April 12, 1914 - February 19, 2013)
Discussion: Marginal Revolution and EconLog
Kathleen Hennessey / Los Angeles Times:
Second term brings out a more relaxed Obama
Discussion: BizzyBlog, ABCNEWS and Mediaite
Bruce Bartlett / Economix:
Who Pays the Corporate Income Tax
Discussion: Mother Jones and AEIdeas
Washington Examiner:
No, California's economy is not growing faster than the rest of the country
Discussion: Hot Air and Ed Driscoll
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Colorado State Rep. Joe Salazar sorry for rape comment
Michael Lind / Salon:
Southern poverty pimps
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Andrew C. Revkin / Dot Earth:
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Elhanan Miller / The Times of Israel:
‘Sharon was about to leave two-thirds of the West Bank’
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Eric Shawn / Fox News:
Did Obama supporter vote 6 times in 2012? Ohio poll worker target of investigation
Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Weapons made with 3-D printers could test gun-control efforts
Discussion: Hot Air and AMERICAblog
Lori Ziganto / Twitchy:
War on women: Press secretary Carney sneers at female reporter; ‘I know you are just filling in’
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Scott Brown blames phone for unusual ‘Bqhatevwr’ tweet
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
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