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12:30 PM ET, February 20, 2013

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John Boehner / Wall Street Journal:
The President Is Raging Against a Budget Crisis He Created  —  Obama invented the ‘sequester’ in the summer of 2011 to avoid facing up to America's spending problem.  —  A week from now, a dramatic new federal policy is set to go into effect that threatens U.S. national security, thousands of jobs and more.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Shutdown isn't fight GOP wants  —  Republicans have decided that the sequester scheduled for March 1 — not a government-funding bill due at the end of March — is where they'll make their stand on spending cuts.  —  After the bruising political battles of the last Congress …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and First Read
Kori Schulman / White House.gov Blog:
Setting the Record Straight About the Sequester  —  In less than two weeks, dangerous across the board budget cuts are slated to take effect, potentially threatening hundreds of thousands of jobs, our national security and our economic recovery.  The President has laid out a specific plan …
John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
The PowerPoint That Proves It's Not Obama's Sequester After All  —  Republicans have taken to calling the deep cuts that could reverse our hard-won economic recovery 'Obama's Sequester.' But a July 2011 PowerPoint obtained by John Avlon shows the opposite may be true.
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Jon.Ralston / Ralston Reports:
Fahrenkopf opines on GOP's “idotic” stances, Christie's “French kiss,” the media's bias and more  —  What better place than the Las Vegas Country Club, where time seems to have stopped in 1974 or so, for a group of conservatives to gather to figure out how to capture the glory days.
NationalJournal.com:
The Senate's Most Conservative Member: Ever Heard of Him?  —  James Risch, an Idaho Republican, edges out his more well-known colleagues in the upper chamber.  —  When people think about conservative “all stars” in the Senate (if people ever actually think about such a thing), a few names probably come to mind.
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:   Koch World reboots
Manu Raju / Politico:
Joe Miller's return gives GOP establishment heartburn
Discussion: The Hill
Newt Gingrich / Human Events:
WHY KARL ROVE AND STUART STEVENS ARE PLAIN WRONG
Discussion: Politico
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court to consider limits on individual political contributions  —  The Supreme Court reentered the controversial field of campaign finance Tuesday, agreeing to consider a Republican challenge to decades-old limits on the total amount a person can contribute to candidates, political parties and political action committees.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Voting Rights Act In The Supreme Court's Crosshairs
Discussion: USA Today and SCOTUSblog
Patrick Marley / JSOnline:
Patience Roggensack, Ed Fallone advance out of Supreme Court primary
Discussion: Althouse
Dan Friedman / NY Daily News:
‘Friends of Hamas’: My role in the birth of a rumor  —  A Daily News reporter explains how he inadvertently created the myth that Chuck Hagel spoke to a non-existent group.  —  Daily News reporter Dan Friedman recounts the origin of a rumor he unwittingly started about Chuck Hagel (pictured) …
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail  —  February 20, 2013 - New Jersey Gov Flies High, Buries Unknown Dem, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Christie Close To Clinton, Leads Cuomo In '16 Pres Race  —  New Jersey voters today continue Gov. Christopher Christie's record-breaking 74 - 22 percent approval rating …
Jeffrey H. Anderson / Weekly Standard:
California Dept. of Transportation: ‘Be Sure to Black Out the ‘United States’ and [the] Motto’  —  For three years, a private citizen named Steve LeBard has led the effort to build a privately funded memorial in Orcutt, California—a tranquil small town located on the Golden State's gorgeous Central Coast—to honor military veterans.
Discussion: The Spectacle Blog
Donovan Slack / Politico:
Conan O'Brien to headline White House Correspondents' dinner  —  Late-night comedian Conan O'Brien has agreed to headline this year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, a source tells POLITICO.  —  O'Brien signed the contract Tuesday, according to the source who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Discussion: Mediaite
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John Schwartz / New York Times:
Obama to Flesh Out Plans for Infrastructure Projects
Discussion: msnbc.com and The Caucus
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Jackson Jr. pleads guilty to misusing campaign funds  —  Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal charges that he used $750,000 worth of campaign funds for personal purchases.  —  Jackson appeared at a federal courthouse in Washington D.C. to make his plea.
Discussion: Politico and CNN
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Katherine Skiba / Chicago Tribune:   Jesse Jackson Jr., Sandi Jackson expected to plead guilty
Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
Senate Minority Leader Fooled by Report in Military Version of The Onion  —  The best parody contains elements of truth.  Which might explain how the military's answer to The Onion suckered the Senate's Republican leader.  —  Meet The Duffel Blog, if you haven't already.
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Maddow Blog
Erik Ortiz / NY Daily News:
Body of missing Canadian woman, 21, found in water tank on Los Angeles hotel roof  —  Elisa Lam, of Vancouver, British Columbia, had travelled to California last month alone.  She was reported missing on Jan. 31.  Officials matched the body found inside a water tank Tuesday at the Cecil Hotel.
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Devil Made Them Do It  —  Senate Democrats try to dodge responsibility for ObamaCare.  —  “Powerful Democrats” subjected a top Obama administration health-care official “to withering criticism” last week, notes Walter Russell Mead.  When Gary Cohen, head of the Center for Consumer Information …
Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
Gas prices are on a mysterious climb  —  The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline has jumped 45 cents in the past 31 days, according to AAA, the fastest run-up since 2005.  —  Retail gasoline prices have climbed for 33 days in a row.  A month ago, a gallon of regular gasoline cost $3.30 …
Discussion: Hot Air and Informed Comment
Mark Gokavi / Dayton, Ohio, News and Information:
Woman claims she was fired for voting for Obama  —  DAYTON —  A Kettering woman alleges in a lawsuit that she was fired for voting for President Obama, a charge the company denies.  —  Patricia Kunkle is seeking in excess of $25,000 from Dayton-based defense contractor Q-Mark …
Discussion: Associated Press
Cristina Silva / Associated Press:
McCain defends immigration plan to angry residents  —  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona took center stage in the national immigration debate Tuesday as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano toured the state's border with Mexico and Sen. John McCain defended his proposed immigration overhaul to an angry crowd in suburban Phoenix.
Ulrike Putz / Spiegel Online:
How the Mossad Works: The Mystery of Israel's ‘Prisoner X’  —  An Israeli agent commits suicide in his prison cell.  Was he a traitor?  The mysterious case of “Prisoner X,” reported to be Australian-born Benjamin Zygier, provides an insight into the workings of the Mossad.
Greg Bishop / New York Times:
A Company That Runs Prisons Will Have Its Name on a Stadium  —  In recent years, where stadium naming rights could be sold, universities and professional sports teams have sold them — to airlines and banks and companies that sell beer, soda, doughnuts, cars, telecommunications, razors and baseball bats.
Donovan Slack / Politico:
Michelle Obama to hit the road for 'Let's Move!'  —  First lady Michelle Obama is going to go on tour to mark the third anniversary of her “Let's Move!” initiative and to highlight communities that have made progress in combating childhood obesity.  —  She announced the tour during an appearance on the “Rachael Ray Show” Wednesday.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
David R. Henderson / Wall Street Journal:
An Economist Who Made the Science Less Dismal  —  Armen Alchian never won a Nobel Prize in economics.  But no less than Friedrich Hayek said he ‘deserved’ one.  —  In 1975, I attended a week-long conference in Connecticut at which the star attraction was Friedrich Hayek.
Corrie MacLaggan / Reuters:
Republican Senator Cruz defends style a Democrat likened to McCarthyism  —  (Reuters) - First-term Republican Senator Ted Cruz of Texas on Tuesday staunchly defended his aggressive, in-your-face style that already is raising eyebrows in Washington and has led a Senate Democrat to suggest his tactics reminded her of McCarthyism.
 
 
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Jason Garcia / Orlando Sentinel:
Universal to drop health insurance for part-time workers
Discussion: Hot Air and NewsBusters blogs
Ron Charles / Washington Post:
Ron Paul is calling school to order
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
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Catherine Rampell / New York Times:
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David M. Drucker / Roll Call:
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Emily Schultheis / Politico:
McAuliffe, Cuccinelli in dead heat in Virginia
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Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters blogs:
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New York Times:
Forecast Is Dire on Budget Cuts, but Timing Is Disputed
Discussion: Right Turn
Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
Biden: Buy Shotguns, Not Assault Weapons
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Martha T. Moore / USA Today:
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Discussion: American Spectator
Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Rand Paul: Obama ‘histrionics’ over cuts
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
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