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• Obama, leaders short of deal as shutdown looms (AP)
• Military families worry about looming shutdown (AP)
• Gates: Little impact on military from gay policy (AP)
• Will Libya stalemate force US out of its back-seat role? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Ahead of 2012, Florida voters sour on President Obama (The Ticket)
• Oregon legislature gets ‘Rick Rolled’ on YouTube (The Ticket)
• Wis. outcome fluid as votes roll in (Politico)
• House votes to kill EPA climate regs (Politico)
• US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts (AP)
• Social Security stopping mailed earning statements (AP)
• UN chief urges Gbagbo to exit gracefully (AP)
• CIA's Leon Panetta not eager to swap jobs: agency (Reuters)
• THANKS FOR RAISING MY TAXES -- WHAT ELSE CAN I DO FOR YOU? (Ann Coulter)
• Hold the lettuce and tomato: Bacon cologne hits retail shelves (Daily Caller)
• Democratic congresswoman complains she can’t afford to give up her paycheck in the event of a shutdown (Daily Caller)
• Quote: The Internet Through the Eyes of the Tea Party (The Atlantic Wire)
• John Boehner says ‘no daylight’ between him and the tea party (The Ticket)

Obama, leaders short of deal as shutdown looms (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:23 PM PDT AP - President Barack Obama and congressional leaders bargained and blustered by turns Thursday, still short of an agreement to cut federal spending and head off a midnight-Friday government shutdown that no one claimed to want.

Military families worry about looming shutdown (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 01:01 PM PDT AP - The threat to U.S. troops' paychecks during a government shutdown has rattled military families and others sympathetic to young soldiers, sailors, air crews and Marines fighting distant wars. More than concerns over closed courthouses or national parks, the military issue escalated the political feud Thursday in Washington.

Gates: Little impact on military from gay policy (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:14 PM PDT AP - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday reassured U.S. warfighters in Iraq that allowing gays to serve openly in the military will have little impact on the armed forces, an argument largely echoed by the top leaders of the Army, Air Force, Marines and Navy.

Will Libya stalemate force US out of its back-seat role? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 06 Apr 2011 03:32 PM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - As the Libya conflict appears to settle into a potentially protracted stalemate, the memory of President Obama’s demand that Muammar Qaddafi step down from power â€" essentially a call for regime change â€" is feeding a debate over what the president will or should do now to influence the outcome.

Ahead of 2012, Florida voters sour on President Obama (The Ticket) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 09:22 AM PDT The Ticket - In what could be a dismal sign for President Obama's 2012 re-election bid, a new poll finds a slim majority of Florida voters don't think he deserves a second term in the White House. A new Quinnipiac University survey finds 51 percent of likely voters in the key battleground state say Obama shouldn't be re-elected [...]

Oregon legislature gets ‘Rick Rolled’ on YouTube (The Ticket) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 07:29 AM PDT The Ticket - Unless you are a die-hard political junkie, most legislative debate videos are about as exciting as watching paint dry on a really humid day. But in what could be the most glorious political clip you watch all day, someone has assembled footage of Oregon state legislators and spliced it together into a recreation of Rick [...]

Wis. outcome fluid as votes roll in (Politico) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 02:24 PM PDT Politico - Canvassing efforts have the outcome of the Supreme Court race changing by the minute.

House votes to kill EPA climate regs (Politico) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 12:39 PM PDT Politico - The chamber nullifies greenhouse gas regulations and the scientific finding they’re based on.

US to use Facebook, Twitter to issue terror alerts (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:14 PM PDT AP - Terror alerts from the government will soon have just two levels of warnings — elevated and imminent — and those will be relayed to the public only under certain circumstances. Color codes are out; Facebook and Twitter will sometimes be in, according to a Homeland Security draft obtained by The Associated Press.

Social Security stopping mailed earning statements (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:25 PM PDT AP - Those yearly statements that Social Security mails out — here's what you'd get if you retired at 62, at 66, at 70 — will soon stop arriving in workers' mailboxes. It's an effort to save money and steer more people to the agency's website.

UN chief urges Gbagbo to exit gracefully (AP) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 10:47 AM PDT AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo (loh-RAHN' bahg-BOH') to leave for the sake of his peoples' well-being.

CIA's Leon Panetta not eager to swap jobs: agency (Reuters) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:19 PM PDT Reuters - Leon Panetta is happy as CIA director and has not been asked by President Barack Obama to consider changing jobs, the agency said on Thursday, as speculation swirled over changes in top U.S. security posts.

THANKS FOR RAISING MY TAXES -- WHAT ELSE CAN I DO FOR YOU? (Ann Coulter) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 03:11 PM PDT Ann Coulter - When Wisconsin Democrats fled the state in order to avoid voting on splendiferous public sector union contracts, did they happen to notice that the rest of the country is in the midst of a massive recession?

Hold the lettuce and tomato: Bacon cologne hits retail shelves (Daily Caller) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 12:14 PM PDT Daily Caller - Bacon lovers, jump in the air and click your heels! Now you, too, can smell like your favorite food without spending all day over a hot griddle. A Chicago-based company, Fargginay, has started hawking bacon-scented cologne.

Democratic congresswoman complains she can’t afford to give up her paycheck in the event of a shutdown (Daily Caller) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 12:04 PM PDT Daily Caller - With 8.8 percent unemployment across the country and more than 8 million people claiming unemployment benefits, one California congresswoman wants people to know they’re not the only ones facing financial hardship. Who else might be? The lawmaker herself.

Quote: The Internet Through the Eyes of the Tea Party (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 10:58 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - --The group Tea Party Patriots, in a posting on their website about the impending House vote on whether or not to repeal the FCC's rules on net neutrality. Mother Jones's Stephanie Mencimer was quick to note the irony of the Tea Party's opposition to net neutrality, given that the "whole movement has been organized online, making the Internet's level playing field a crucial element to its success."

John Boehner says ‘no daylight’ between him and the tea party (The Ticket) Posted: 07 Apr 2011 08:25 AM PDT The Ticket - House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) added fuel to the Democratic argument that he is bending to tea party pressure to force a government shutdown. During an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos airing Thursday, Boehner suggested he's in lockstep with the movement that's raising alarms over the current scale of federal spending. "There's no daylight [...]

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