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Politico:
Obama, the puppet master — President Barack Obama is a master at limiting, shaping and manipulating media coverage of himself and his White House. — Not for the reason that conservatives suspect: namely, that a liberal press willingly and eagerly allows itself to get manipulated.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Ed Henry: 'This isn't about a golf game'
Ed Henry: 'This isn't about a golf game'
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
White House Reporters versus the Obama Administration
White House Reporters versus the Obama Administration
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CNN, Politico and The Daily Caller
Charles P. Pierce / Esquire:
THINGS IN POLITICO THAT MAKE ME WANT TO GUZZLE ANTIFREEZE, PART THE INFINITY
THINGS IN POLITICO THAT MAKE ME WANT TO GUZZLE ANTIFREEZE, PART THE INFINITY
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CNN, Politico, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Pressing Issues
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Marco Rubio: The Electable Conservative? — Some commentators have expressed surprise upon learning about the very conservative voting record of Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, who delivered the Republican response to the State of the Union address last week.
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Joe Scarborough / Politico:
Tearing down the conservative echo chamber — A “Morning Joe” discussion from Tuesday is sure to set off extremists within the Republican Party who remain more interested in defending the GOP's losing ways than charting a new course to victory. After Chuck Todd concluded that Republicans …
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NY Daily News, TVNewser and TheBlaze.com
momentoftruthproject.org:
A BIPARTISAN PATH FORWARD TO SECURING AMERICA'S FUTURE — Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson are co-chairs of the Moment of Truth project and formerly co-chaired the President's bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. — The United States faces two big risks …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
Why Does the New Simpson-Bowles Deficit Plan Look So ... Republican? — Please see update at bottom. — The new deficit reduction plan from Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles calls for $5 trillion in savings this decade — $6 trillion including interest — roughly the same as their outline in December 2010.
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Wonkblog, CRFB.org and Hullabaloo
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Report: New Simpson-Bowles plan
Report: New Simpson-Bowles plan
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Slate, Washington Monthly and alan.com
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Missouri Bill Makes It A Felony For Lawmakers To Propose Gun Safety Legislation — Yesterday, Missouri state Rep. Mike Leara (R) proposed legislation making it a felony for lawmakers to so much as propose many bills regulating guns. Leara's bill provides that “[a]ny member of the general assembly …
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Truthdig
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Missouri Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Make It A Felony To Propose Gun Control Legislation
Missouri Lawmaker Introduces Bill To Make It A Felony To Propose Gun Control Legislation
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The Maddow Blog and Business Insider
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
Missouri Republican Wants To Make It A Felony For His Fellow Lawmakers To Propose Gun Laws
Missouri Republican Wants To Make It A Felony For His Fellow Lawmakers To Propose Gun Laws
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Springfield News-Leader and The Raw Story
Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:
More Republican Denial — Conservatives keep reminding everyone that the sequester was Obama's idea. But, says Michael Tomasky, that doesn't mean he's to blame for the current crisis. — Whose “idea” was the sequester, and why should it matter? My Twitter feed these last couple of weeks …
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Washington Monthly, The Dish, Outside the Beltway, The Raw Story, The Week and msnbc.com
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Who's afraid of the sequester's ax? Not us, say Republican lawmakers
Who's afraid of the sequester's ax? Not us, say Republican lawmakers
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New York Times, Washington Post, Taylor Marsh, Right Turn, The Maddow Blog and The Plum Line
Jared A. Favole / Washington Wire:
Biden: 'You Don't Need 30 Rounds. Buy a Shotgun' — Vice President Joe Biden said people don't need high-capacity weapons to protect themselves and that the Obama administration's efforts to reduce gun violence amount to gun safety, not gun control. — “If you want to protect yourself …
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Freedom's Lighthouse
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Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post:
Weapons made with 3-D printers could test gun-control efforts
Weapons made with 3-D printers could test gun-control efforts
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Hot Air and AMERICAblog
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Tea party group pictures Rove in Nazi uniform — A top tea party group is taking its clash with Karl Rove to a new level, sending out a fundraising email Tuesday featuring a photoshopped image of the GOP operative in an SS uniform. — “Wipe the Smirk Off Karl Rove's Face,” …
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Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Tea Party challenger to McConnell emerging
Tea Party challenger to McConnell emerging
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CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Booman Tribune, Politico, WHAS, Prairie Weather, First Read and Firedoglake
Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court sides with drug-sniffing dog; supports soldier's child custody case — The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a drug-sniffing German shepherd named Aldo in ruling that police do not have to extensively document a dog's expertise to justify relying on the animal to search someone's vehicle.
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TalkLeft, The Volokh Conspiracy, Hit & Run, SCOTUSblog and Watchdog.org
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Hear Campaign Finance Case
Alana Goodman / Washington Free Beacon:
Report: Hagel Said Israel Headed Toward Apartheid, Netanyahu a ‘Radical’ — Secretary of defense nominee Chuck Hagel said Israel is on its way to becoming an apartheid state during an April 9, 2010, appearance at Rutgers University, according to a contemporaneous account by an attendee.
NBC Southern California:
Police ID Gunman in OC Shooting Deaths — Four people are dead after a series of shootings and carjackings near freeways in Orange County that began after the slaying of a woman at a home in Ladera Ranch. — Map: Shooting Investigation Locations — The gunman was identified as Ali Syed …
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Katie J.M. Baker / Jezebel:
Genius Alabama Rep. Says a Baby is the ‘Largest Organ in a Body’ — The Alabama House of Representatives is set to vote on abortion legislation Tuesday that would impose a variety of uneccesary restrictions on abortion clinics: providers would need to have admitting privileges at local hospitals …
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Crooks and Liars, Daily Kos, Sky Dancing, Mediaite, The Raw Story, Truthdig and alan.com
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Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed:
Alabama Politician Thinks A Fetus Is The Largest Organ In A Woman's Body
Alabama Politician Thinks A Fetus Is The Largest Organ In A Woman's Body
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Montgomery Advertiser
Reuters:
Exclusive: Apple, Macs hit by hackers who targeted Facebook — (Reuters) - Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected the Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said on Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure that described the widest known cyber attacks against Apple-made computers to date.
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AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Mashable!, The Raw Story and Engadget
New York Times:
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S. — On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People's Liberation Army base for China's growing corps of cyberwarriors. — The building off Datong Road …
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Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
Prof Strips, Shows 9/11 Footage, Impales Stuffed Animal (VIDEO) — A science professor at Columbia University on Monday began a quantum mechanics lecture by stripping into his boxers and eating a banana while rap music played in the background. — Then it got weird.
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Columbia Daily Spectator, The Raw Story, The Other McCain, The Daily Caller, Mediaite and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Paul Krugman:
Data, Stimulus, and Human Nature — David Brooks writes about the limitations of Big Data, and makes some good points. But he goes astray, I think, when he touches on a subject near and dear to my own data-driven heart: … Actually, he's not quite right there, as I'll explain in a minute.
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Economist's View and Booman Tribune
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David Brooks / New York Times:
What Data Can't Do — Not long ago, I was at a dinner …
New York Times:
Oscar Pistorius Denies Murdering Girlfriend — PRETORIA, South Africa — Facing a charge of premeditated murder in the death of his girlfriend, Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee track star and one of the world's best-known athletes, denied on Tuesday that he had intended to take her life …
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Wall Street Journal:
Christensen, Flier and Vijayaraghavan: The Coming Failure of ‘Accountable Care’ — The Affordable Care Act's updated versions of HMOs are based on flawed assumptions about doctor and patient behavior. — Spurred by the Affordable Care Act, hundreds of pilot programs called Accountable Care Organizations …
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AEIdeas, Wonkblog and Marginal Revolution
Mary Ann Ahern / nbcchicago.com:
Where Rahm Emanuel Stands On 2nd District Race — A short five years ago Rahm Emanuel recruited Debbie Halvorson to run for Congress. Back then he lobbied moderate Democrats, even pro-gun Democrats like Halvorson. — Halvorson recalls Emanuel trying to entice her by boasting …
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Ballot Box and Taegan Goddard's …