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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 …
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Associated Press, BBC, NBCNews.com, Towleroad News #gay, Mediaite, emptywheel, AMERICAblog, ACS Blog and Joe. My. God.
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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.
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The Plum Line and The Week
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Obama Administration Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down California Anti-Gay Marriage Ban
Obama Administration Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down California Anti-Gay Marriage Ban
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Washington Blade, CNN, Equality On Trial, Hot Air and Firedoglake
Miranda Leitsinger / NBCNews.com:
Clint Eastwood to Supreme Court: Drop California's ban on same-sex marriage
Clint Eastwood to Supreme Court: Drop California's ban on same-sex marriage
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First Read, L.A. NOW, Equality On Trial, The Raw Story, Advocate, PinkNews.co.uk, BREITBART.COM and Addicting Info
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Minnesota Republican Legislator: Homosexuality Is A ‘Sexual Addiction’ And An ‘Unscientific Lie’
Minnesota Republican Legislator: Homosexuality Is A ‘Sexual Addiction’ And An ‘Unscientific Lie’
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Towleroad News #gay, Bluestem Prairie and PinkNews.co.uk
Baird Helgeson / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Gay marriage fight begins in Minnesota Legislature
Gay marriage fight begins in Minnesota Legislature
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Gawker, Advocate, The Raw Story and Hot Dish Politics
Pete Williams / First Read:
Obama administration to express support for gay marriage before Supreme Court
Obama administration to express support for gay marriage before Supreme Court
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Towleroad News #gay, NBCNews.com, Washington Blade, The Huffington Post, Gawker, Good As You, AMERICAblog, Taylor Marsh and Daily Kos
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Obama Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down California's Marriage Ban
Obama Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down California's Marriage Ban
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Towleroad News #gay and Weekly Standard
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
House Republicans Cheer Boehner's Refusal to Negotiate on Cuts — WASHINGTON — Speaker John A. Boehner, the man who spent significant portions of the last Congress shuttling to and from the White House for fiscal talks with President Obama that ultimately failed twice to produce a grand bargain …
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Sequester begins, with no end in sight for across-the-board cuts — Nineteen months after it was put into place, the sequester has arrived. — Barring unexpected developments, President Obama will issue an order at some point on Friday — perhaps as late as 11:59 p.m. …
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Kate Nocera / Politico:
House passes Violence Against Women Act
House passes Violence Against Women Act
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Weasel Zippers, Mediaite, Hot Air, The Hill, The Democratic Daily, Slate, The Moderate Voice, Taylor Marsh and BuzzFeed
Brian Beutler http / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Republicans Kill Sequestration Alternative
Senate Republicans Kill Sequestration Alternative
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Politico, The Maddow Blog, Wonkblog and Washington Monthly
Washington Post:
Competing sequestration bills fail in Senate
Competing sequestration bills fail in Senate
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Prairie Weather, Weasel Zippers, The Plum Line, Reuters, Post Politics, The Agonist and Hot Air
Dave Boyer / Washington Times:
Republican leaders' sequester ‘meeting’ with Obama: Seven minutes
Republican leaders' sequester ‘meeting’ with Obama: Seven minutes
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Weasel Zippers
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.
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Media Decoder, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Mediaite, msnbc.com and Daily Kos
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Ryan Chittum / Columbia Journalism Review:
A BusinessWeek cover crosses a line
A BusinessWeek cover crosses a line
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Bloomberg Businessweek apologizes
Bloomberg Businessweek apologizes
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The Raw Story and The Hinterland Gazette
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Press corps to Woodward: Really? — Bob Woodward has suggested that the White House threatened him. Many of his colleagues in the press corps aren't buying it. — By the standards of this White House, a statement like the one senior White House official Gene Sperling wrote to Woodward last week …
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John Cook / Gawker:
Goodbye, Bob — Bob Woodward is not a reliable reporter.
Goodbye, Bob — Bob Woodward is not a reliable reporter.
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Philly.com, Politico, New York Times, Daily Kos and Liberal Values
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Obama adviser didn't threaten Woodward, says White House
Obama adviser didn't threaten Woodward, says White House
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msnbc.com, Politico, Weasel Zippers and Doug Ross
Mike Riggs / Hit & Run:
The Most Openly and Transparently Thin-Skinned Administration in History
The Most Openly and Transparently Thin-Skinned Administration in History
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Twitchy, Doug Ross, Vodkapundit, Hot Air, Ed Driscoll, The PJ Tatler and NationalJournal.com, more at Mediagazer »
Fox News:
Romney likens 2012 race to ‘roller coaster,’ in exclusive ‘Fox News Sunday’ interview — Mitt Romney, in an exclusive interview with “Fox News Sunday,” said the end of the 2012 presidential race was like getting off a roller coaster. — “We were on a roller coaster, exciting and thrilling, ups and downs.
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Politico, The Fix and NBCNews.com
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 …
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Mother Jones, Lawyers, Guns & Money and Democracy in America
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 …
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, CNN, Politico, Post Politics, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Peggy Noonan's Blog
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.
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Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit, Twitchy, Michelle Malkin, americanthinker.com, Ed Driscoll 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 …
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Politico and The Daily Caller
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.
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National Review, FishbowlDC and The Reaction
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 …
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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.
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Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, The Dish and Ed Driscoll
View from Geneva:
Turkey's Erdogan Calls Zionism A “Crime Against Humanity” at UN Conference — UN Watch expressed shock over anti-Jewish remarks delivered by Turkish prime minister Tayyip Erdogan at a UN summit for tolerance, and urged UN chief Ban Ki-moon — who was present on the stage yet stayed silent — to speak out and condemn the speech.
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Raphael Ahren / The Times of Israel:
Erdogan calls Zionism a ‘crime against humanity’
Erdogan calls Zionism a ‘crime against humanity’
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Israel Matzav, The Lede, No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Free Beacon, National Review and Jihad Watch