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Bob Woodward / Washington Post:
Obama's sequester deal-changer — Bob Woodward (woodwardb@washpost.com) is an associate editor of The Post. His latest book is “The Price of Politics.” Evelyn M. Duffy contributed to this column. — Misunderstanding, misstatements and all the classic contortions of partisan message management surround …
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Bill Wilson / Forbes:
The Non-Existent Spending Cuts Wrought By The ‘Devastating’ Sequester — In a city known for its perpetual evasion of responsibility and chronic shifting of blame, Washington D.C.'s sequester debate is more of the same - albeit with an interesting twist. — Ordinarily spending debates …
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Mary Katharine Ham / Hot Air:
ABC: Devastating sequester cuts? Give me a break!
ABC: Devastating sequester cuts? Give me a break!
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Steven T. Dennis / Roll Call:
White House Open to Two-Month Sequester Deal
White House Open to Two-Month Sequester Deal
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
13 GOP Pennsylvania Senators Introduce New Plan To Rig The Electoral College For Republicans … Earlier this year, Republican National Committee Chair urged Republican lawmakers in states “that have been consistently blue that are fully controlled red” — i.e. blue states with Republican legislatures …
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
House Republicans Strip Protections From LGBT Victims In New Violence Against Women Act — The Violence Against Women Act expired at the end of 2012 after House Republicans refused to accept the Senate bill's protections for LGBT, Native American, and undocumented victims.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Top Dems Reject House GOP's Violence Against Women Act: ‘Simply Unacceptable’
Top Dems Reject House GOP's Violence Against Women Act: ‘Simply Unacceptable’
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
VAWA 2013: House GOP Unveils Bill With No LGBT Protections, Modified Tribal Provision
VAWA 2013: House GOP Unveils Bill With No LGBT Protections, Modified Tribal Provision
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Indiana Bill Would Force Women To Undergo Two Transvaginal Probes To Take A Pill (UPDATED)
Indiana Bill Would Force Women To Undergo Two Transvaginal Probes To Take A Pill (UPDATED)
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Chris Hayes / msnbc.com:
My ultimatum on accepting CPAC's invitation — So last week, I was surprised and oddly delighted by something that my friend Rachel Maddow also picked up on: … Yes, the legendary Conservative Political Action Conference had invited yours truly to participate at its 40th annual conference this March.
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Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Claims He Has A List Of Communists Who Have Infiltrated Harvard Law — During the confirmation hearing for Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Sen. Ted Cruz engaged in guilt-by-association tactics that reminded several observers (including this author) of former Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Montana Bill Would Give Corporations The Right To Vote … A bill introduced by Montana state Rep. Steve Lavin would give corporations the right to vote in municipal elections: … The idea that “corporations are people, my friend” as Mitt Romney put it, is sadly common among conservative lawmakers.
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D.B. Grady / The Atlantic Online:
Today Is Bradley Manning's 1,000th Day Without a Trial — What the treatment of the WikiLeaks detainee says about our government's most damning secret — Saturday, February 23, marks Bradley Manning's 1,000th day in prison without a trial. In 2010, he was arrested for allegedly passing …
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
DOMA: U.S. takes tough line on marriage denial — The Obama administration, in a sweeping defense of marriage rights for same-sex couples, argued on Friday that the denial by states of those rights over the last decade is proof that discrimination against gays and lesbians still continues.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Obama Administration Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down DOMA
Obama Administration Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down DOMA
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Kurt Badenhausen / Forbes:
Detroit Tops 2013 List Of America's Most Miserable Cities — Forbes put Detroit Mayor Dave Bing on its cover in 2011 for a story with the optimistic headline: “City of Hope.” The premise was that the city had hit rock bottom and was poised for a turnaround. — “Right now, it's all about survival,” Bing told Forbes.
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Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Obama's Backers Seek Big Donors to Press Agenda — President Obama's political team is fanning out across the country in pursuit of an ambitious goal: raising $50 million to convert his re-election campaign into a powerhouse national advocacy network, a sum that would rank the new group …
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