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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Gay marriage: Iowans weigh pros and cons of altering Iowa Constitution — If Iowans choose to open the hood on the Iowa Constitution, it could invite all sorts of tinkering, law professors and state lawmakers said today. — Voters soon have a once-a-decade chance to step around lawmakers and update the Constitution on their own.
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Vermont gets gay marriage the right way
Vermont gets gay marriage the right way
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Media Matters / Media Matters for America:
Caller criticizes Limbaugh, Hannity, etal, on torture: “It's like you're all brainwashed” — LIMBAUGH: We're going to go to Chicago. This is Charles. Charles, thank you for waiting and for calling. Great to have you here. Hello. — CALLER: Thanks, Rush.
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Dr. Slammy / Scholars and Rogues:
Caller clowns Rush, Rush clowns Republicans
Caller clowns Rush, Rush clowns Republicans
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Siobhan Gorman / Associated Press:
Electricity Grid in U.S. Penetrated By Spies — Robert Moran monitors an electric grid in Dallas. Such infrastructure grids across the country are vulnerable to cyberattacks. — WASHINGTON — Cyberspies have penetrated the U.S. electrical grid and left behind software programs …
Little Green Footballs:
About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric — Michael A. Cohen has a piece in Politico today about the over-the-top irresponsible extremism and conspiracy theories promulgated by weeping Glenn Beck: Extremist rhetoric won't rebuild GOP. … He's right. This turn toward the extreme right …
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Scott / Power Line:
What happened in Minnesota — Minnesota's excruciatingly close Senate election between incumbent Republican Norm Coleman and former unfunny humorist Al Franken is in the final innings of the post-election proceedings. Franken is of course a left-liberal Democrat about whom I have nothing good to say.
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Harvard Student Takes On Barney Frank Over Economy — WFXT-TV: It all started with a question: “How much responsibility, if any, do you have for the financial crisis?” Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and a conservative Harvard law student debated over how Frank should have handled his role …
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Noah Shachtman / Danger Room:
Pentagon Chief: Why I Tore Up the Army's ‘Future’ — Of all the hard choices Defense Secretary Robert Gates had to make in his radical overhaul of the Pentagon's arsenal, the toughest, he tells Danger Room, was the decision to gut Future Combat Systems, the Army's $200 billion effort to design …
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John McCormick / Clout St:
Quigley claims victory in race to replace Rahm Emanuel — Democratic Cook County Commissioner Mike Quigley claimed victory tonight in the 5th District race to replace Rahm Emanuel in Congress. — With 94 percent of the Chicago and suburban Cook precincts reporting totals …
Alex Isenstadt / The Politico:
CBC members praise Castro — Key members of the Congressional Black Caucus are calling for an end to U.S. prohibition on travel to Cuba, just hours after a meeting with former Cuban president Fidel Castro in Havana. — “The fifty-year embargo just hasn't worked,” CBC Chairwoman Barbara Lee …
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Chad Pergram / Fox News:
U.S. Lawmakers Meet With Castros, Push for New Policy on Cuba
U.S. Lawmakers Meet With Castros, Push for New Policy on Cuba
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Camille Paglia / Salon:
Bow-ow-ow: Obama's painful missteps — Let the new president grow into the job — but he'd better do it fast! Plus: Readers ask about everything from talk radio, morality and Mary McCarthy, to that big movie about a sinking ship. — Dear Camille, — In your column, you say …
The White House:
The President Speaks to the Troops — Viewing this video requires Adobe Flash Player 8 or higher. Download the free player. — On February 27th, President Obama announced his plan to bring the War in Iraq to a responsible end. Today he addressed the troops in Iraq in a surprise visit before coming home from Europe.
Amie Parnes / The Politico:
Obama's TV: sports and a few surprises — President Barack Obama can't stand to be without his “Entourage.” — Call it a guilty pleasure, or maybe it just rings familiar to him. The HBO series about an aspiring actor features a fast-talking agent named Ari, based on the real-life brother of Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
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Aluf Benn / Haaretz:
Obama team readying for confrontation with Netanyahu — In an unprecedented move, the Obama administration is readying for a possible confrontation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by briefing Democratic congressmen on the peace process and the positions of the new government in Israel regarding a two-state solution.
Reuters:
Source: Bank ‘stress test’ results delayed — Treasury will wait until after first-quarter earnings season to release results in order to soften impact on stocks. — WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The U.S. Treasury Department is planning to delay the release of any completed bank “stress test” …
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Natasha Korecki / Chicago Sun Times:
Ethics board launches probe into Rep Jesse Jackson Jr. — A congressional ethics board has launched a preliminary inquiry into U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill), related to President Obama's vacant Senate seat and the corruption investigation of ousted Gov. Rod Blagojevich, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
Hugh Son / Bloomberg:
AIG's Bank Payments Probed by TARP Inspector General — The Treasury's chief watchdog for the U.S. financial rescue program is probing whether American International Group Inc. paid more than necessary to banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. after the insurer's bailout.
Greg Hengler / Townhall.com:
VP Biden: 'There Is A 'War On Terror" — Maybe Biden just forgot the phrase “Overseas Contingency Operation.”
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