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Experts: Wisconsin only 'Republican broke' (rawstory)
According to The Wisconsin State Journal some economists allege that Governor Scott Walker's budget crisis is a fabrication invented out of whole cloth and predicated on a series of tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy.

White House: Obama To Lay Out Spending Plan
White House: Obama To Lay Out Spending Plan (WLWT-TV Cincinnati)
President Obama will lay out new plans this week to reduce the federal deficit in part by seeking cuts to government programs for seniors and the poor, a top political adviser said Sunday, adding that Americans expect both sides to work together.

For First Time in Masters History, No Americans in Top 5 After 54 Holes (huliq)
Rory McIlroy, at the ripe old age of 21, stands at the verge of a Masters win, while for the first time in the history of the Master tournament, not one American player is inside the top five after 54 holes.

Critics Fault Retired Justice O'Connor Over Ethics (KIFI Idaho Falls)
Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor continues to hear cases in U.S. appeals courts while also playing a role in public policy issues.

Lend me your tired, your poor, your yuan
Lend me your tired, your poor, your yuan (Glenwood Post Independent)
So why do Republicans hate art, the elderly and children? Hint: Same reason parents hate their children when they say, "No." We could just leave it at that, but this is too much fun.

2 Nevada H.S. Students Die In Diving Accident (WNEM-TV Saginaw)
Two 17-year-old high school students from Carson City, Nev. died Saturday while Scuba diving in Monterey Bay, authorities said.

2 Nevada H.S. Students Die In Diving Accident 1 hr ago (WPXI)
Two 17-year-old high school students from Carson City, Nev. died Saturday while Scuba diving in Monterey Bay, authorities said.

Delay in child porn arrests angers neighbors (Big News Network - Maryland News)
Maryland U.S. attorney's office on March 29, matches the date of the raid with the date of the alleged infraction March 26, 2009.

Small plane crashes into Calif. storage facility
Small plane crashes into Calif. storage facility (WSVN-TV Miami Beach)
Authorities in Southern California say a small plane carrying four people has crashed into storage facility near an airport.

Deal To Avert Government Shutdown Saves $38 Billion - Bush Tax Cut Deal Spent $150 Billion (thinkprogress)
Extending the Bush tax cuts "would result in a $200 billion to $300 billion cost to the US Treasury compared to what had been expected" in one year — or $100 to $150 billion in six months. So while they very nearly shut down the government to extract painful spending cuts, Republicans had already wiped out those spending cuts many times over with the revenue lost from extending the Bush tax cuts.

CHART: As Services For Main Street Are Gutted, Richest Pay Lowest Taxes In A Generation (thinkprogress)
Last night President Obama and congressional negotiators cut a deal to keep the government running, cutting " $38.5 billion under current funding levels, per Republican demands," and $78 billion below what Obama called for in his initial 2011 budget. Yet as Republicans and Democrats continue to battle over the deficit within a political framing that includes taking aim at Pell Grants for low-income students — which Obama preemptively proposed to cut, calling summer grants "too expensive," while Republicans want far deeper cuts than that — Head Start funding, and other programs from Main Street Americans, there is one group of Americans that seems to be getting away without having any sacrifices demanded of them: the very richest.

Middle Class Group Analyzes Ryan Plan, Finds a 'Roadmap to Ruin' (alte)
TheMiddleClass.org, the website that evaluates legislation and congressional votes based on their impact on middle-class people, is being officially reintroduced today with a scathing indictment of the House Republican budget proposal for fiscal year 2012 drafted by Rep. Paul Ryan. The resolution that Ryan has branded a "path to prosperity" is "a real 'roadmap to ruin' for both low-income and middle-class people," the website's analysis says. "It catastrophically weakens the safety nets that seniors and other economically vulnerable people depend on for their basic needs, and it does the same to the stepping stones that millions of people depend upon to aid their climb up the economic ladder. At the same time, it would lock in lower tax rates for the wealthiest individuals and corporations, and would take insufficient steps toward ending billions in tax giveaways to corporations and the super-rich."

GOP Offers No Death Panels, Just Death From Lack of Care (blogs.alte)
Republicans concocted death panels in an attempt to terrify Americans about health care reform, then propagated the lie because they wanted insurance corporations to profit from illness and injury unfettered. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed anyway, but now the GOP has announced that it plans to kill the reform, and Medicaid and Medicare too. In one fell swoop, Republicans would foreclose on Americas' long-held and cherished expectation that they'll receive health coverage from their government in their old age, impoverishment or infirmity. For the elderly, poor, unemployed, disabled and juvenile who can't afford insurance, the GOP offers no death panels, just death from lack of care.

Scans Show Conservative Brains Larger in Area Connected With Processing Fear (huliq)
A new study issued Thursday in the journal Current Biology, using a series of brain scans, found that liberals have more gray matter in the part of the brain associated with understanding complexity, while conservatives have a increased greay matter in the section of the related to processing fear.

Clinton, Gore remember McWherter at Tenn. service
Clinton, Gore remember McWherter at Tenn. service (KSRO-AM Santa Rosa)
Former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore on Saturday remembered Ned McWherter, Tennessee's governor from 1987 to 1995, as a politician with a special way of connecting with everyday people.

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