From Andrea Mitchell Reports:
The Cardinals assembled in Rome face a daunting task: choosing Benedict XVI’s successor.
From Hardball:
It looks like Bob Woodward is waging war against the White House.
The veteran Washington Post journalist is stirring up a controversy for attacking President Obama over the looming across-the-board spending cuts that will take place on Friday unless Congress can hammer out a deal.
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From MHP:
Fifty years ago, President Kennedy declared, “We choose to go to the moon in this decade.” In order to put a man on the moon we had to have a scientific revolution–and we had one. We heavily funded scientific research and development. We emphasized teaching evidence-based science in our schools.
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From MHP:
During a committee debate on whether or not to reduce the penalty for simple assault, a New Hampshire state lawmaker on Tuesday suggested that certain people may like being involved in abusive relationships.
“Is 48 years long enough to erase centuries of systemic disenfranchisement of voters who belong to minority ethnic or racial groups?”
- Stephen A. Nuño, If men were angels, the Voting Rights Act would not be necessary
From Andrea Mitchell Reports:
As the rebellion in Syria against dictator Bashar al Assad continues to explode, the regime is still outgunning the opposition, most recently raining Scud missiles on civilian areas in Aleppo. With the death toll mounting, senior administration officials tell NBC NEWS that the U.S. will announce a policy shift.
File Photo: Picture dated 1997 shows Bashar al-Assad, son of President Hafez al-Assad. (Photo by Ramzi Haidar/AFP/Getty Images File)
From PoliticsNation:
Washington’s spending problem might be House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s favorite thing to complain about. The Virginia Republican has said “Washington has a spending problem” more times than any reasonable human being would try to count.
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From The Ed Show:
Yet another large company is facing a potential low-wage worker mutiny: Weight Watchers. According to a Tuesday New York Times report from labor reporter Steven Greenhouse, workers at the leading weight loss company have “have inundated an internal company Web site with complaints about poor wages and being pressured to work many hours unpaid.”
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From Hardball:
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is schooling a United States prosecutor who attempted to win a drug case by invoking race in the argument.
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First Rick Scott, and now add another GOP governor to the list of Republicans embracing the Medicaid expansion: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
Check out our updated map here.
Read more about Christie’s decision: http://on.msnbc.com/15h7WhY
