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3:00 PM ET, March 3, 2013

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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Romney: I Lost Because Minorities Love Obamacare  —  Earlier today, Fox News Sunday broadcast former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney first post-campaign interview.  In it, he blamed his loss on his poor performance among minorities, who he claimed were seduced by the President's promise …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Gawker
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Mitt Romney: ‘It kills me’ not to be president  —  Four months after he lost to President Barack Obama, Mitt Romney says “it kills me” not to be in the White House finding solutions to the nation's problems.  —  In his first television interview since the election, the former Massachusetts governor …
Discussion: CNN
Talking Points Memo:
Romney: ‘Obamacare’ Was Attractive To Minority, Low-Income Voters  —  Mitt Romney stood by his belief that President Obama was aided in his re-election by giving gifts to minority voters, during an interview that aired on “Fox News Sunday.”  —  “The president had the power of incumbency …
bigstory.ap.org:
Romney: Heart told him he'd win, until he saw Fla.
Elise Viebeck / Ballot Box:
Ann Romney: GOP never approached me about Kerry's seat
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Sperling Admits Obama Misled in Debate: The President Did Propose the Sequester  —  White House economic adviser Gene Sperling admits that, yes, in fact, the sequestration was President Obama's plan:  —  “We put forth the design of” the sequestration, Sperling finally admits after a long back-and-forth.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
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Maureen Callahan / New York Post:
Beat the press  —  Reporters reveal how the Obama administration threatens and controls the media  —  As coverage of last week's flare-up between Bob Woodward and the White House devolved into the granular parsing of words and implications and extrapolations and possible intent …
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
John Boehner: No government shutdown  —  The sequester is in effect, but House Speaker John Boehner says he won't force a government shutdown.  —  Boehner told “Meet the Press” the House will vote this week to keep the federal government operating through September, when the fiscal year ends …
Discussion: CNN and Outside the Beltway
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Sperling: I 'can't explain' Woodward's reaction
Washington Post:
Stymied by a GOP House, Obama looks ahead to 2014 to cement his legacy
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
McConnell: GOP standing firm against using ‘taxes to turn off the sequester’
Discussion: CNN and Politico
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Sperling on Woodward: 'I think he's a legend'
Discussion: Politico
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
This is why Obama can't make a deal with Republicans  —  File this under “Jonathan Chait is right.”  —  My column this weekend is about the almost comically poor lines of communication between the White House and the Hill.  The opening anecdote was drawn from a background briefing I attended …
Garrett Quinn / Mediaite:
Dennis Rodman 'Won't Apologize' For ‘My Friend’ Kim Jong Un's Murderous Regime: ‘We Do The Same Thing Here’  —  Former NBA start Dennis Rodman stood by his controversial trip to North Korea and remarks about its dictator Kim Jong-Un on ABC's This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
Madeleine Morgenstern / TheBlaze.com:
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT DISARMS GUNMAN...GETS SUSPENDED? … A Florida high school student wrestled a loaded gun away from another teen on the bus ride home this week and was slapped with a suspension in return.  —  The 16-year-old Cypress Lake High student in Fort Myers, Fla. told WFTX-TV there was …
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
The Scary Hidden Stressor  —  IN her introduction to a compelling new study, “The Arab Spring and Climate Change,” released Thursday, the Princeton scholar Anne-Marie Slaughter notes that crime shows often rely on the concept of a “stressor.”  A stressor, she explains, is a …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Vanessa Gera / Associated Press:
Lech Walesa Shocks Poland With Anti-Gay Words  —  Lech Walesa, the Polish democracy icon and Nobel peace prize winner, has sparked outrage in Poland by saying that gays have no right to a prominent role in politics and that as a minority they need to “adjust to smaller things.”
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
McConnell slams liberal super-PAC for tweet about wife's ethnicity  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Saturday blasted a liberal super-PAC for a tweet targeting his wife's ethnicity.  —  “They will not get away with attacking my wife in this campaign,” …
Discussion: CNN and Post Politics
Abdul Haq Omari / Afghanistan News-TOLOnews.com:
Pakistan Ulema Permits Suicide Attacks  —  The Chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council on Friday said that suicide attacks in Afghanistan are permitted as long as US forces are present in the country.  —  “Palestine is occupied by Israel, Kashmir by India, and Afghanistan by the US.
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Lisa Lundquist / The Long War Journal:
Pakistani clerics endorse suicide bombings, reject proposed peace conference
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs:
“CPAC Turns Away Pamela Geller”  —  I won't be at CPAC this year.  Every year AFDI organizes a must-see event, addressing issues that the Grover Norquist/Suhail Khan cabal refuse to address (jihad, sharia, the war on freedom in the West).  —  This year, I applied to speak and was ignored.
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Stephen Ohlemacher / Associated Press:
Tax bills for rich families approach 30-year high
Katerina Nikolas / Digital Journal:
Egypt unleashes Islamic morality police force
Discussion: The Jawa Report and Weasel Zippers
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Virginia's Feast on U.S. Funds Nears an End
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
‘Fight Club Dems’ Gotta Fight!
Discussion: Washington Examiner
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David Cameron / Telegraph:
Conservatives will battle for Britain's future
Discussion: Daily Mail, Guardian and BBC
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones
The Atlantic Online:
100 Years Ago, The 1913 Women's Suffrage Parade
Discussion: Hot Air
Nina Totenberg / Law:
In Voting Rights Arguments, Chief Justice Misconstrued Census Data