memeorandum: Maxine Waters: ‘Over 170 Million Jobs Could Be Lost’ Due To Sequestration (Sorourke/nation.foxnews.com)

3:20 AM ET, March 1, 2013

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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:

U.S. endorses limited gay marriage right — The Obama administration on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to rule in the case of California's Proposition 8 that same-sex marriage should be required in eight more states, beyond the nine that already permit it, although it stopped short …

Discussion: Associated Press, AMERICAblog, Mediaite, Towleroad News #gay, emptywheel, Joe. My. God. and ACS Blog

New York Times:

U.S. Offers Broad Support for Gay Marriage Rights — The Obama administration threw its support behind a broad claim for marriage equality on Thursday, and urged the Supreme Court to rule that voters in California were not entitled to ban same-sex marriage there.

Discussion: The Plum Line and The Week

Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Obama Administration Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down California Anti-Gay Marriage Ban

Discussion: CNN, Washington Blade, Equality On Trial, Hot Air and Firedoglake

Miranda Leitsinger / NBCNews.com:
Clint Eastwood to Supreme Court: Drop California's ban on same-sex marriage

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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Minnesota Republican Legislator: Homosexuality Is A ‘Sexual Addiction’ And An ‘Unscientific Lie’

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Baird Helgeson / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Gay marriage fight begins in Minnesota Legislature

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Pete Williams / First Read:
Obama administration to express support for gay marriage before Supreme Court

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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Obama Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down California's Marriage Ban

Discussion: Towleroad News #gay and Weekly Standard

Wendy Kaminer / The Atlantic Online: Is Campaign Spending Regulated Too Much, or Not Enough?

Mike Flynn / BREITBART.COM:
EXCLUSIVE: CLINT EASTWOOD SIGNS BRIEF SUPPORTING SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
W.H.: Strike down Calif. gay marriage ban

Discussion: ABCNEWS and CNN

Politico:

Exclusive: The Woodward, Sperling emails revealed — POLITICO's “Behind the Curtain” column last night quoted Bob Woodward as saying that a senior White House official has told him in an email he would “regret” questioning White House statements on the origins of sequestration.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Press corps to Woodward: Really?

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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Why Bob Woodward's Fight With The White House Matters to You

John Cook / Gawker:
Goodbye, Bob — Bob Woodward is not a reliable reporter.

Discussion: Politico, Philly.com, Liberal Values, The Fix and The Dish

Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama adviser didn't threaten Woodward, says White House

Discussion: Politico, Weasel Zippers and Doug Ross

Mike Riggs / Hit & Run:
The Most Openly and Transparently Thin-Skinned Administration in History

Discussion: Twitchy, Vodkapundit, Ed Driscoll, The PJ Tatler and The Daily Caller

Matthew Yglesias / Slate:

Businessweek Warns That Minorities May Be Buying Houses Again — Bloomberg Businessweek is a genuinely great magazine that does an amazing job of making business and economics news accessible and interesting, but this way of illustrating a cover story about the return of aggressive mortgage lending products is really something else.

Discussion: Media Decoder, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite, msnbc.com and Daily Kos

Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:

A BusinessWeek cover crosses a line — Minorities as greedy grotesqueries fueling a new housing bubble — Bloomberg BusinessWeek is a lot edgier than its predecessor, at least where design is concerned. Sometimes it's too edgy, like when it takes two minutes to read some headline intentionally designed to be barely legible.

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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Bloomberg Businessweek apologizes

Discussion: The Raw Story and The Hinterland Gazette

Katrina Trinko / National Review:

In Closed-Door Meeting, Cantor Warned of ‘Civil War’ — House majority leader Eric Cantor is increasingly frustrated with a group of House Republicans who are working against the leadership, and he's not afraid of voicing his dismay. — In a closed-door conference meeting on Wednesday …

Discussion: The Maddow Blog, Talking Points Memo, Atlas Shrugs, protein wisdom, Booman Tribune, Mother Jones, The Gateway Pundit, The National Memo, American Prospect and Guardian

Kate Nocera / Politico:

House passes Violence Against Women Act — The Violence Against Women Act is finally headed to President Barack Obama's desk for his signature. — The House voted Thursday to accept the bipartisan Senate bill, 286-138. Eighty-seven Republicans joined 199 Democrats to support the bill.

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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
The Nine Republican Men Who Won't Consider Any Version Of The Violence Against Women Act

Discussion: Associated Press, Booman Tribune and Slate

Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:

Why Scalia's ‘Racial Entitlement’ Quote Is Even Scarier Than You Think — Justice Antonin Scalia quite deservedly came under fire yesterday for his claim that a key provision of the Voting Rights Act is a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.” If the justice were looking to confirm every suspicion …

Discussion: Mother Jones, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Democracy in America

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Sotomayor, Kagan ready for battles

Discussion: RH Reality Check, The Mahablog and Prairie Weather

Colin Campbell / Politicker:

Pete King Can't Believe Rubio Has the ‘Balls’ to Fundraise in New York — Congressman Pete King was not pleased with his fellow Republicans who opposed the federal Hurricane Sandy relief package. Accordingly, Mr. King told us he was shocked to learn that Florida Senator Marco Rubio …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Politico, CNN, Post Politics, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Peggy Noonan's Blog

Raphael Ahren / The Times of Israel:

Erdogan calls Zionism a ‘crime against humanity’ — Turkish PM slammed for juxtaposing Jewish self-determination with anti-Semitism, Islamophobia; UN chief called out for remaining silent — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday described Zionism as a “crime against humanity” on par with anti-Semitism and fascism.

Discussion: Israel Matzav, The Lede, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Free Beacon, National Review and Jihad Watch

View from Geneva:
Turkey's Erdogan Calls Zionism A “Crime Against Humanity” at UN Conference

Discussion: TheTower.org, Elder of Ziyon, United Nations, The Heritage Foundation, The Spectacle Blog, Atlas Shrugs, The PJ Tatler and Israel Matzav

Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS:

Has Ted Cruz Hit The Tipping Point? — Chris Maddaloni/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images — ABC's Michael Falcone reports: — The Ted Cruz headlines just won't stop. — “Sen. Ted Cruz says Obama wants immigration bill to fail to hurt GOP,” wrote the Dallas Morning News last week.

Discussion: National Review, FishbowlDC, The Reaction, The Texas Tribune and The Hill

Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:

GOP Rep Ducks Transvaginal Ultrasound Question With: 'I Haven't Had One' — Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) declined to take a position last week during a town hall meeting on whether transvaginal ultrasounds should be mandatory for women seeking abortions, saying he has never heard of the practice …

Discussion: Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Raw Story

Sam Masters / The Independent:

Green fatigue sets in: the world cools on global warming — Worldwide concerns about climate change have dropped dramatically since 2009 — Public concern about environmental issues including climate change has slumped to a 20-year low since the financial crisis, a global study reveals.

Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, Ed Driscoll and The Dish

Sorourke / nation.foxnews.com:

Maxine Waters: ‘Over 170 Million Jobs Could Be Lost’ Due To Sequestration — Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) claimed today that “over 170 million jobs” could be lost due to sequestration. Later in the presser, Rep. Waters corrected herself, saying it was only “750,000 jobs” that could be lost.

Discussion: americanthinker.com, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, Ed Driscoll, Michelle Malkin and The PJ Tatler

Jim Avila / ABCNEWS:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano Regrets Surprise Announcement of Immigrant Release — Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano had no part in a decision by underlings to release low-risk illegal immigrant detainees as a way to save money before the sequestration …

Discussion: The Daily Caller

Charlie Savage / New York Times:

Soldier Admits Providing Files to WikiLeaks — FORT MEADE, Md. — Pfc. Bradley Manning on Thursday confessed in open court to providing vast archives of military and diplomatic files to the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks, saying that he released the information to help enlighten the public about …

Discussion: The Other McCain, Outside the Beltway and Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »