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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 …
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Neil King Jr / Washington Wire:
Gov. Rick Perry: Texas Will Never Go Blue — For many, it's the country's ultimate over-the-horizon electoral question: Could Texas become a blue state? — To which Texas Republican Gov. Rick Perry emits a hearty guffaw. Texas going blue, he says, “is the biggest pipedream I have ever heard.”
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The Rightnewz
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Woodward Misses The Mark — For the past 18 hours Republicans have been giddily waving around a new article by Bob Woodward as a smoking gun that proves sequestration should be replaced with spending cuts and spending cuts only — and that President Obama once conceded the point.
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New York Times, Liberal Values, The Impolitic, Wonkblog, PERRspectives and No More Mister Nice Blog
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Little Green Footballs:
Dumbest Man on Internet's New Paranoid Fantasy: VA Prohibits Veterans From Owning Guns! — Yes, another stupid lie from Jim Hoft — Charles Johnson — Insane paranoid fantasies gush out of the right wing like water from a firehose, and today Jim Hoft, the legendary dumbest man on the Internet …
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Hullabaloo and Whiskey Fire
Madeleine Morgenstern / TheBlaze.com:
TED CRUZ RESPONDS TO ‘NEW MCCARTHY’ NEW YORKER ARTICLE: ‘CURIOUS’ THEY WOULD ‘DREDGE UP A 3-YEAR-OLD SPEECH & CALL IT NEWS’ … Sen. Ted Cruz's office told TheBlaze it was “curious” that the New Yorker would dig up a years-old speech for the purpose of dubbing him “our new McCarthy.”
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Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
Ted Cruz Claims He Has A List Of Communists Who Have Infiltrated Harvard Law
Ted Cruz Claims He Has A List Of Communists Who Have Infiltrated Harvard Law
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News Desk, alan.com and Weasel Zippers
Associated Press:
Court Finds No Right to Conceal a Firearm — DENVER (AP) — A federal appeals court has ruled that permits allowing people to carry concealed weapons are not protected by the Second Amendment. — The ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit was issued Friday …
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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BuzzFeed, The Daily Caller, Washington Examiner and Twitchy
Robert Pear / New York Times:
As Cuts Loom, Governors Seek More Control of Federal Funds to Lessen the Pain — WASHINGTON — Governors of both parties said on Saturday that they knew federal budget cuts were coming, and they pleaded with President Obama and Congress to give them more discretion over the use of federal money …
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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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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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msnbc.com, Back2Stonewall, ThinkProgress, Taylor Marsh and Daily Kos
Associated Press:
Michelle Obama jokes with Jimmy Fallon about a future as host of Jay Leno's ‘Tonight Show’ — (NBC, Lloyd Bishop/ Associated Press ) - This image released by NBC shows host Jimmy Fallon dressed as a mom, left, dancing with first lady Michelle Obama during an appearance of “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon …
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New York Magazine
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.
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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Bradley Manning Support …, Prairie Weather, Guardian and Firedoglake
Sean Wilentz / New York Review of Books:
Cherry-Picking Our History — The Untold History of the United States — a book and television series by Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick — Gallery Books, 750 pp., $30.00; Showtime, ten episodes — President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace during …
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