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Nation

Ryan: Repealing Obamacare Key to Balanced Budget: Tatler
John McCain, American 'Hero': PJM
McCain, Schumer, other Senators hush-hush as they craft immigration bill: Fox

Sheriff: CO Dems Used Threats, Extortion, Blackmail on Gun Ban: Nice Deb
Grandpa, Tell Me Again About Freedom: RWN
Beware the Droids of March: NoisyRm

Feinstein: It’s legal to hunt humans with high-capacity magazines: Owens
Incoherent rhetoric from the Left weakens anti-gunners' arguments: TPNN
Nearly 1 in 3 state sheriff groups now oppose Obama gun controls: Exam

Economy

Ryan: GOP Budget Blueprint Includes Repeal of Obamacare Nightmare: GWP
Obama's Spendthrift Nature: Patterico
Obama not quitting golf, despite sequester: RedAlert

Scandal Central

Oops! WH: Killing 16 Year-Old Denver Boy in Drone Strike a Mistake: GWP
Ex-TSA screener says the job does little to keep fliers safe: Post
Conservative Iowa law prof denied new trial in political discrimination case: LI

Climate & Energy

We're all going to die!: Thurber's Thoughts
The Greening of Portland: 54°40’ Or Fight!
Alternate New York Times Headline: ‘Global Warming Saves Civilization’: RS

Media

The So Called Adults Within the GOP Are Stupid: RS
Intellectual Lightweight Paul Krugman: Choosing Waterboarding over Drone-Killings ‘a Very Odd Notion’: NRO
Bloomberg, America's Littlest Dictator: We're Not Banning Anything: WZ

Matt Yglesias Retweets New York Times Op-Ed Challenging Israel's Right to Exist: AmPower
No Cameras Allowed While Obama Wooed The Press At Gridiron Dinner: LoneCon
Still Got It: Ace

World

UN report: Hamas killed BBC reporter's baby in Gaza -- not the Israelis as was reported worldwide: JihadWatch
Kerry’s failed mission in Cairo: JPost
Meet Malik: 12 Wives, Accused Of Seducing A Teenager and Beating His Wife, Politician And Obama’s Brother: WZ

Susan Rice to NSA?: Hot Air
One of Pope Benedict XVI's last acts: canonizing 800 Christian martyrs murdered by Muslims: JihadWatch
Why is Iran still holding Robert Levinson and what is the US doing about it?: Scoop

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Special Report: Apps that keep parents in the dark: WBRC-6
Asteroid 2013 ET passes close to Earth: Telegraph
Mini desktop air-conditioner: Philippine Stuffs

Cornucopia

Needed This St. Patrick’s Day: Ronald Reagan: RWN
Bernard Hopkins at 48 beats his own record: oldest man ever to win a major world title: NYDN
Study: Even Ancient Mummies had Clogged Arteries: Cheng

Image: AP, Indy Star
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QOTD: "As Republican senators Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, and James Inhofe prepare to introduce a measure to defund Obamacare — and threaten to hold up a continuing resolution to fund the U.S. government if the measure is not given a vote — some conservatives are unhappy that the House, controlled by Republicans, did not do the same thing.

It wasn’t for lack of effort, at least on the part of some conservative Republicans. As the House prepared to consider its own version of the continuing resolution last week — it ultimately passed 267 to 151 — more than two dozen conservative GOP lawmakers signed on to an amendment that would have defunded Obamacare. They submitted the amendment and hoped it would receive a vote but were stymied when the House leadership declared that no amendments would be allowed.

“If that amendment had gone to the floor, far and above a majority of the conference would have voted for it,” said Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon, one of the supporters, in an interview Saturday. “I think everyone in the conference would have voted for it,” added Florida Rep. Ron DeSantis, another supporter.

Nevertheless, the Republican leadership did not allow the amendment to be considered. And that, Salmon, DeSantis, and other conservative Republicans believe, is a measure of the leadership’s uneasiness with continuing the legislative fight against Obamacare. Some Republicans — lawmakers who might have felt pressure to vote to defund Obamacare — believe privately that the fight is essentially over, and that the GOP should come to terms with the reality of national health care" --Byron York