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Washington Examiner:
Coke caves in face of Democratic boycott threat — Brian Smalls casts his vote at a polling station Tuesday in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) — Democratic officials Wednesday launched a two-pronged attack on states with new laws requiring identification before voting …
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Taylor Marsh, Belmont Club and ThinkProgress
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Faiz Shakir / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Progressive Movement Compels Coca-Cola To Pull Support From ALEC Over Voter Suppression Efforts — Prompted by a petition campaign by the progressive advocacy group Color of Change, Coca-Cola has pulled its support from ALEC, a right-wing corporate-funded front group …
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ColorOfChange
ColorOfChange:
APRIL 04, 2012 / BY GABRIEL REY-GOODLATTE Tell Coca-Cola to stop funding ALEC — UPDATE 4/4: Coke tells the Washington Examiner it's chosen to end its membership in ALEC. — Here's the email we started sending to ColorOfChange members this morning: — Dear ColorOfChange.org member,
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The Huffington Post, Mediaite and Clayton Cramer's Blog
Mj Lee / Politico:
James Carville: Rick Santorum is headless chicken — James Carville chose these colorful words to describe Rick Santorum after Mitt Romney swept three Republican primaries Tuesday: “He was like a chicken with his head chopped off. The chicken is dead. The only person that don't know it is the chicken.”
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney takes the lead in Pennsylvania
Romney takes the lead in Pennsylvania
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Ballot Box, The Daily Caller, PoliticsPA and HotAirPundit
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama doing better in Nevada
Obama doing better in Nevada
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American Prospect and GOP 12
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
For Santorum, Battle for Relevance Moves to Pennsylvania
For Santorum, Battle for Relevance Moves to Pennsylvania
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The Agonist, Newshoggers.com, The New Republic, Washington Wire, City Room, The Caucus and FiveThirtyEight
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Romney's National Lead in GOP Contest Continues to Grow
Romney's National Lead in GOP Contest Continues to Grow
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CBS News, Firedoglake and FiveThirtyEight
Eugene W. Fields / Orange County Register:
Student removed from contest for pro-gay remark — Fullerton Union High School student says he hopes gay marriage will be legal and is removed from Mr. Fullerton competition. — Text: Next Article » — / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER — FULLERTON - Students …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, L.A. NOW, LGBTQ Nation and Towleroad News #gay
Jared A. Favole / Washington Wire:
Laurence Tribe: Obama Misspoke on Supreme Court … Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School professor and former mentor to President Barack Obama, said the president “obviously misspoke” earlier this week when he made comments about the Supreme Court possibly overturning the health-care law.
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ABCNEWS, Hot Air, The Last Tradition, Law Blog, Althouse and The Huffington Post
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Andrew Koppelman / The New Republic:
The 1918 Case That May Have Foreshadowed Obamacare's Demise
The 1918 Case That May Have Foreshadowed Obamacare's Demise
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Althouse, Mother Jones, The Volokh Conspiracy, Instapundit, American Prospect, The Agonist and Balkinization
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Lawrence O'Donnell, Bigot — I am announcing the creation of a new award, which I will call the Golden Ass, to be presented to those who resort to anti-Mormon bigotry in their campaign against Mitt Romney. Today's Golden Ass is Lawrence O'Donnell, an asinus aureus if ever there was one, an ass of exceptional asininity.
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RealClearPolitics Video Log, The Other McCain, The Moderate Voice, RedState and Wizbang
CNN:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 4 others charged in 9/11 attack — (CNN) — The United States on Wednesday announced charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of orchestrating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and four others accused of involvement in the plot.
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Firedoglake and ACLU
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defense.gov:
IMMEDIATE RELEASE — DOD Announces Charges Referred Against 9-11 Co-Conspirators
IMMEDIATE RELEASE — DOD Announces Charges Referred Against 9-11 Co-Conspirators
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Hot Air, ThinkProgress and CNN
Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, alleged 9/11 mastermind, to get new trial
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, alleged 9/11 mastermind, to get new trial
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Rush Limbaugh, TalkLeft, Michelle Malkin, ACLU and Truthdig
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Scarborough: ‘No One’ In GOP Establishment Thinks Romney Will Beat Obama — Unemployment stubbornly over 8%. His landmark piece of legislation in dire peril of being dumped by the Supreme Court. The “flexibility” moment with Putin's pawn. Does that sound like an invincible incumbent to you?
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American Prospect, Liberal Values, Ed Driscoll, Mediaite, The Mental Recession and Daily Pundit
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Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan's rapidly-improving vice presidential prospects
Paul Ryan's rapidly-improving vice presidential prospects
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Campaign 2012, BillMoyers.com, Hot Air, The Week, msnbc.com and Ezra Klein, more at Mediagazer »
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
Is it Over? — It's over: CNN estimates that Barack Obama …
Is it Over? — It's over: CNN estimates that Barack Obama …
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ThinkProgress, Hot Air and Campaign 2012
Associated Press:
Obama: Easter story helps him in troubled times — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the Easter story of Christ's agony and resurrection has helped him get through the tough moments of an embattled presidency. — The president got “Amens” from religious leaders …
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White House Dossier, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and Nice Deb
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Obama gets laughs and ‘amens’ at prayer breakfast
Obama gets laughs and ‘amens’ at prayer breakfast
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Politico, Washington Free Beacon and The PJ Tatler
Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
CIA Committed ‘War Crimes,’ Bush Official Says — A top adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned the Bush administration that its use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading” interrogation techniques like waterboarding were “a felony war crime.”
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emptywheel, The Raw Story, Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh, The Daily Dish and ThinkProgress
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Top Romney Surrogate Donald Trump Offers To Expose His ‘Very Very’ Impressive Genitals — Politico's Mike Allen reported last month that reality star/businessman/attention seeker Donald Trump is building his political stature as a top surrogate for Mitt Romney.
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The Moderate Voice
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Jennifer Steck / WUPW-TV:
Hate fueled weekend beating says elderly man — Police don't see it a hate crime after interviews — TOLEDO, Ohio (WUPW) - Saturday afternoon around 4:45 p.m., 78-year-old Dallas Watts was walking home from the gas station at the corner of Starr and White in East Toledo.
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The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers, Fire Andrea Mitchell! and Daily Pundit
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Anti-Evolution ‘Monkey Bill’ Poised To Become Law In Tennessee — Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) announced yesterday that he will “probably” sign a bill that attacks the teaching of “biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning” …
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Indecision Forever, Booman Tribune, Little Green Footballs, Taylor Marsh and The Huffington Post
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses — If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don't worry. It's probably just a Google employee testing the company's new augmented-reality glasses.
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Wired, BuzzFeed, Gawker, Guardian, BBC, AllThingsD, Mashable, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, msnbc.com, TPM IdeaLab and Towleroad News #gay
Benny Johnson / TheBlaze.com:
ACTUAL BILL AYERS RANT: WHY DO ‘UNIFORMED MILITARY’ GET TO BOARD PLANES FIRST? — Bill Ayers and his wife Bernadine Dohrn paid an impromptu visit to Occupy Wall Street in New York City Friday, bestowing their advice to a gaggle of elated protesters. Ayers and Dohrn, former leaders …
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The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, protein wisdom and The Jawa Report
Capitol Fax.com:
This just in... Tim Johnson to drop out — * 4:35 pm - In a move that will surely stun the political establishment, sources say that Congressman Tim Johnson (R-Urbana) intends to drop out of his reelection race. I'm told by sources that the timing is “imminent” and there will likely be an announcement on Thursday.
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Daily Kos and Ballot Box
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Rep. Steve King Proposes A Don't Ask, Don't Tell Approach To Gays In The Workplace — LE MARS, Iowa — To Rep. Steve King (R-IA), the problem is not that it's legal for employers to fire an employee for being gay. It's that the employee made his sexual orientation publicly known in the first place.
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Dependable Renegade, Holy Bullies … and The Raw Story
Alberta Election / Agence France Presse:
Officials from Egypt's Brotherhood at White House — White House officials held talks with representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Washington this week, as the Islamist group threw itself into the fray in Egypt's presidential election. — The meeting on Tuesday with low-level National …
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The Gateway Pundit, Global Spin and Hot Air
New York Post:
Keith needed ‘Diva’ limos e-mails reveal — Liberal bloviator Keith Olbermann spent his last days at Current TV driving colleagues nuts with rants about “smelly” drivers who had the audacity to talk to him, according to startling e-mails obtained by The Post.
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Weasel Zippers, Capital New York and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »