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5:50 PM ET, March 12, 2013

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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Paul Ryan's budget: Social engineering with a side of deficit reduction  —  Here is Paul Ryan's path to a balanced budget in three sentences: He cuts deep into spending on health care for the poor and some combination of education, infrastructure, research, public-safety, and low-income programs.
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Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
Paul Ryan Accidentally Says He Is “Destroying The Health Care System”  —  Oops.  —  “This is something we will not give up on because we are not going to give up on destroying the health care system for the American people.”  —  View Video ›  —  House Budget Committee Chairman …
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Fox News Anchor Shouts Down Criticism Of Ryan Budget  —  Fox News host Bill Hemmer tried to shout down Rep. Chris Van Hollen's (D-MD) criticism of the GOP budget on Tuesday morning by loudly reading from Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) editorial promoting the newly-released Republican plan.
Discussion: NBCNews.com, Eschaton and Politico
Paul Ryan / Wall Street Journal:
The GOP Plan to Balance the Budget by 2023
James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas:
Unleash Paul Ryan!
Steve Kornacki / Salon:
A reality check for Ashley Judd  —  What she's really up against, if she does run against Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.  Inside the numbers and history  —  A report over the weekend suggested that actress Ashley Judd has decided to challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky next year.
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
McConnell: Obama's delayed budget like dropping a ‘bomb’ on legislative process
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Senate Democrats' budget includes nearly $1 trillion in new taxes
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Post Politics
James Hohmann / Politico:
Mitch McConnell to air reelection ads
Discussion: Roll Call, FatLip and The Caucus
Neil Munro / The Daily Caller:
Senate Democrats eye immigration blitz after recess
Discussion: Power Line and Hot Air
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Humility or Cynicism?  Whatever is Driving Obama is Better Than Nothing  —  Tumbling polls have turned the president into the schmoozer-in-chief  —  President Obama's burst of congressional and public outreach coincides with declining poll numbers.  (AP Photo)
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Steven Thomma / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
McClatchy-Marist poll shows Obama tumbling in voters' eyes
Discussion: Mediaite, Post Politics and Hot Air
Politico:
Is he serious?  —  President Barack Obama's unusual tour …
Tanner Colby / Slate:
The troubling things I learned when I re-reported Bob Woodward's book on John Belushi.  —  John Belushi in Animal House, 1978 Courtesy of Universal Pictures  —  A little more than a week ago, during an interview with Politico, Bob Woodward came forward to claim he'd been threatened in an email by a …
Hillel Aron / The Informer:
Are the Koch Brothers Trying to Buy the Los Angeles Times?  —  The latest rumor about the next owner of the L.A. Times, which is for sale, is a doozy.  A bombshell.  It's a doozy wrapped in a bombshell exploding inside a Drudge siren.  —  Multiple sources tell L.A. Weekly that Charles and David Koch …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Report: Koch bros eyeing Tribune papers
Discussion: Philly.com
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New York Post:
Cleanup in aisle 1: Teen's ‘mourners’ trash Brooklyn shops
Discussion: Gothamist and Right Wing News
Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
Feds Spend $1.5 Million to Study Why Lesbians Are Fat  —  (CNSNews.com) - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $1.5 million to study biological and social factors for why “three-quarters” of lesbians are obese and why gay males are not, calling it an issue of “high public-health significance.”
New York Post:
The ‘fair share’ White House  —  Those who make the rules should play by them.  Especially a White House that lectures the rest of America about the importance of paying your “fair share” of taxes.  —  So we were struck by IRS reports that no fewer than 40 aides to President Obama still owe …
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Jeffrey Hess / NPR:
Soda Wars Backlash: Mississippi Passes ‘Anti-Bloomberg’ Bill … Mayor Mike and his public health edicts are having a rough ride.  —  On Monday, a state judge in Manhattan struck down New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's rule capping soda sizes.  And lawmakers in Mississippi are taking …
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Rush Limbaugh Sides With Rand Paul: ‘The Neocons Are Paranoid’  —  The most popular conservative demagogue in America signals that hawkish foreign policy dogma may be losing its hold on the GOP.  —  In the Spring of 2011, I wrote a widely ignored article arguing that the Republican Party's …
Associated Press:
Sarah Palin tackles ‘War on Christmas’ in new book  —  ‘Amidst the fragility of this politically correct era, it is imperative that we stand up for our beliefs before the element of faith in a glorious and traditional holiday like Christmas is marginalized and ignored,’ Palin says.
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Doubts about Johns Hopkins research have gone unanswered, scientist says  —  Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post - Daniel Yuan, pictured at his home in Laurel, raised doubts for years about the work of his colleagues in a Johns Hopkins medical research lab.  “The denial that I am hearing …
Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Hamas: ‘Declaration Of War’ If Obama Visits Temple Mount  —  WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Hamas is warning that if President Obama visits the Temple Mount it would be a “declaration of war” against the Islamic world.  —  Israel National News reports the terror group made the threat during …
Discussion: Jihad Watch
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
With Woeful Approval Rating, Pa. Gov. Corbett's Re-Election Hopes Look Dim  —  His constituents down on his job performance, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) approaches his 2014 re-election campaign in a politically precarious position, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Minnesota Legislator Interrupts Proceedings To Introduce Ex-Gay Friend  —  Debate on same-sex marriage will resume today in Minnesota as both the House Civil Law Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee host hearings on a proposed equality bill.  The legislation already has enough support …
New York Times:
For Detroit, a Crisis Born of Bad Decisions and Crossed Fingers  —  DETROIT — This city was already sinking under hundreds of millions of dollars in bills that it could not pay when a municipal auditor brought in a veteran financial consultant to dig through the books.
Steven Hayward / Power Line:
The Administrative State in One Photo  —  The then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (and may she remain forever a former Speaker) took a lot of ridicule during the debate over the passage of Obamacare when she said that we'd have to pass the bill to find out what's in it.  I thought the critics had this all wrong.
Discussion: National Review
Conservative Intel / Conservative Intelligence …:
Romney leads, GOP in Strong Position  —  In a hypothetical Republican Senate primary for the 2014 Michigan U.S. Senate race, Scott Romney (brother of Mitt) would begin the race as an early, though modest, front-runner Romney leads with 26% followed by Congressman Mike Rogers at 17% …
Discussion: Roll Call, Hot Air, msnbc.com, Wonkette and CNN
 
 
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Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
An Energy Coup for Japan: ‘Flammable Ice’
BBC:
Falklands referendum: Voters choose to remain UK territory
Joe Flint / Los Angeles Times:
NBCU News chief has long to-do list
Caitlin McDevitt / Politico:
Trump: Ashley Judd ‘a great candidate’
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Daniel Munoz / en.ria.ru:
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Jeffrey Toobin / News Desk:
For Obama's Judges, It's Already Late
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Michael Day / The Independent:
As cardinals gather to elect Pope, Catholic officials break into a sweat over news that priests …
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Associated Press:
Financial info on celebs, officials leaked online
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Cindy Adams / New York Post:
George Soros: Ex threw lamp at me
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The Myopic Empiricism of the Minimum Wage
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Bill Bolling:
Bolling Says No to Possible Independent Campaign for Governor
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters blogs:
Erin Burnett to Laura Bush: Should America Accept Anti-Semitism To Affect Change In Middle East?
Discussion: Israel Matzav
Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Outrageous!... Far Left Southern Poverty Law Center Puts “Singing Nuns” on Its Hate Groups Map
Arutz Sheva:
Volunteer who Opposed Dutch Hitler Admirers in Hiding
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