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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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Belmont Club, Taylor Marsh 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
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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BREITBART.COM:
FORMER OBAMA STUDENT: OBAMA'S IGNORANCE OF CONSTITUTION EMBARRASSING
FORMER OBAMA STUDENT: OBAMA'S IGNORANCE OF CONSTITUTION EMBARRASSING
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ABCNEWS, The Lonely Conservative, Daily Pundit, Betsy's Page, Power Line and The Apothecary
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Why is Obama so rattled? Another speaking gaffe sets off a federal appeals court judge
Why is Obama so rattled? Another speaking gaffe sets off a federal appeals court judge
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Ed Driscoll
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Romney Accuses Obama of Masking Agenda — GOP Candidate Says President Shifts Positions to Win New Term; Attack Offers Possible Flavor of General-Election Fight — WASHINGTON—Mitt Romney broadened his election-year critique of President Barack Obama on Wednesday, saying he misleads Americans …
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ABCNEWS, Ballot Box, Washington Post, Rush Limbaugh, USA Today, Truthdig and The Lonely Conservative
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Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
The rubber-glue phenomenon — Just a couple of weeks ago …
The rubber-glue phenomenon — Just a couple of weeks ago …
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2012.talkingpointsmemo.com, Bark Bark Woof Woof, Indecision Forever and Los Angeles Times
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama doing better in Nevada
Obama doing better in Nevada
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American Prospect and GOP 12
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, CBS News, msnbc.com and Ezra Klein
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Scarborough: ‘No One’ In GOP Establishment Thinks Romney Will Beat Obama
Scarborough: ‘No One’ In GOP Establishment Thinks Romney Will Beat Obama
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American Prospect, Taylor Marsh, Liberal Values, Ed Driscoll, Hot Air, RedState, Mediaite and Daily Pundit
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, RedState, The Other McCain and Wizbang
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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L.A. NOW, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, LGBTQ Nation and Towleroad News #gay
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney takes the lead in Pennsylvania — Mitt Romney's taken the lead in PPP's newest poll of Rick Santorum's home state of Pennsylvania. Romney has 42% to 37% for Santorum with Ron Paul at 9% and Newt Gingrich at 6%. The numbers represent a dramatic turnaround from when PPP polled the state a month ago.
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ABCNEWS, The Daily Caller, Yahoo! News and HotAirPundit
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David R. Dow / The Daily Beast:
Impeach the Supreme Court Justices If They Overturn Health-Care Law — The Roberts Court's rulings appear to be a concerted effort to send us back to the Gilded Age. If they dump the Affordable Care Act, writes David Dow, we should dump them. — You think the idea is laughable?
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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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Mother Jones, Althouse, The Volokh Conspiracy, American Prospect and Balkinization
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 and ThinkProgress
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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Michelle Malkin, TalkLeft, ACLU and Truthdig
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, Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos, The Raw Story, The Daily Dish and ThinkProgress
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
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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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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Global Spin, Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
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, Nice Deb, Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Dan Gilgoff / CNN:
Chuck Colson in critical condition after brain surgery — Washington (CNN) - Chuck Colson, the convicted Watergate figure turned evangelist, is in critical condition after undergoing surgery over the weekend following a brain hemorrhage, according to his publicist.
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The PJ Tatler, Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay
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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Guardian, BuzzFeed, Gawker, BBC, AllThingsD, Mashable, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, msnbc.com, Boing Boing, Stuff.co.nz and Towleroad News #gay
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Jon Bruning Attacks GOP Senate Primary Opponent For Following His 14-Year-Old Daughter On Twitter … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Elections 2012, Elections 2012, Twitter, Video, Bob Kerrey, Don Stenberg, Election 2012, Jon Bruning, Nebraska Senate Race, Nebraska Senate 2012, Politics News