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By Brian O'Connell on 3.9.10 @ 10:40AM

Dan Rather says critics of Obama will say “he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic” (Newsbusters)
Britain sends 42 million condoms to South Africa to prevent the spread of HIV during the World Cup (Guardian)
Mayor Bloomberg supports a soda tax of one cent per ounce, or twelve cents per can. Depending on what city one lives in, that could be up to a 40 percent tax when buying a 24-pack (Telegraph)
Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick proposes a 5 percent paycut for the House (Fox News)

Brian O’Connell is the Collegiate Network fellow at The American Spectator and former editor-in-chief of the Stanford Review.

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