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Jon Ward / The Huffington Post:
John McCain: Getting Back To Maverick, With An Eye On Retirement — WASHINGTON — Last August, a few minutes before GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., I was hurrying down a flight of stairs to get to the floor to watch.
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NationalJournal.com:
Inside the Rand Paul Filibuster — Eleven days before he spent nearly 13 hours filibustering on the Senate floor, Sen. Rand Paul floated his idea to block the president's pick for CIA director to one of Sen. Mitch McConnell's top political strategists over a Saturday night dinner of lasagna …
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Newt Gingrich: John McCain attacks on Rand Paul ‘sad’ — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is slamming Sen. John McCain for criticizing Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, saying it's “sad” for someone who was once known as a maverick in Congress. — “What I find sad about Sen. McCain's recent comments …
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Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Source: Ashley Judd moving forward with run for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat in Kentucky
Source: Ashley Judd moving forward with run for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat in Kentucky
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Rand Paul's moment and the end of Obama envy
Rand Paul's moment and the end of Obama envy
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Senator Rand Paul Calls the Show
Senator Rand Paul Calls the Show
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Politico:
How the GOP forced President Obama's hand — President Barack Obama used to want a grand deficit deal because he philosophically believed it was best for the country, and politically believed it was best for him. — Now he needs it because he has no choice.
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Obama's budget delayed until April — The Obama administration will release its 2014 budget more than two months late on April 8, according to congressional sources. — Pentagon officials have informed the House Armed Services Committee that the budget is coming on April 8, said Claude Chafin, a committee spokesman.
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Talking Points Memo:
Fox News Host Offer To Pay For One Week Of White House Tours
Fox News Host Offer To Pay For One Week Of White House Tours
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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Obama on His Heels — In January, pretty much all of respectable …
Obama on His Heels — In January, pretty much all of respectable …
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Annalyn Kurtz / CNNMoney.com:
Unemployment rate falls to lowest level since 2008 — Hiring picked up in February, helping to bring the unemployment rate down to its lowest level since December 2008. — The U.S. economy added 236,000 jobs in February, according to a Labor Department report released Friday.
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Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
Record 89,304,000 Americans ‘Not in Labor Force’ — 296,000 Fewer Employed Since January
Record 89,304,000 Americans ‘Not in Labor Force’ — 296,000 Fewer Employed Since January
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Bill McBride / Calculated Risk:
February Employment Report: 236,000 Jobs, 7.7% Unemployment Rate
February Employment Report: 236,000 Jobs, 7.7% Unemployment Rate
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Juan Williams' plagiarism problem — EXCLUSIVE: Fox News pundit blames researcher for word-for-word similarities. “Unacceptable,” says Hill editor — In a case of apparent plagiarism, Fox News pundit Juan Williams lifted — sometimes word for word — from a Center for American Progress report …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Juan Williams lifts work, blames assistant — Juan Williams, the Fox News pundit and former NPR news analyst, has admitted that a column he wrote for The Hill lifted passages from a Center for American Progress report, without attribution. — But when asked about the column by Salon's Alex Seitz-Wald …
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
How Many Big-Time Pundits Are Plagiarists?
How Many Big-Time Pundits Are Plagiarists?
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Bill Clinton / Washington Post:
It's time to overturn DOMA — In 1996, I signed the Defense of Marriage Act. Although that was only 17 years ago, it was a very different time. In no state in the union was same-sex marriage recognized, much less available as a legal right, but some were moving in that direction.
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Tim McDonnell / Mother Jones:
The Scariest Climate Change Graph Just Got Scarier … Back in 1999, Penn State University climate scientist Michael Mann released the climate change movement's most potent symbol: The “hockey stick,” a line graph of global temperature over the last 1,500 years that shows an unmistakable …
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Gautam Naik / Wall Street Journal:
In Study, Past Decade Ranks Among Hottest
In Study, Past Decade Ranks Among Hottest
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Wonkette:
Wonket Sexclusive: Totally Blameless Crime-Stopper James O'Keefe To Pay $100,000 To ACORN Criminal — James O'Keefe—the blonde bombshell who set the conservative world of hidden-camera YouTube movies ablaze—has just agreed to a $100,000 settlement to calm down the unjustly fired …
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: The Anti-Confidence Man — Just when America needs a boost, we're stuck with Dr. Doom in the White House. — It's not a debt and deficit crisis, it's a jobs crisis. The debt and the deficit are part of it, part of the general fear that we're on a long slide and can't turn it around.
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Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Secret supper — President Barack Obama has been hosting a lot of high-profile dinner companions lately, but here's one guest list that didn't leak for a week: — On March 1st, the president, First Lady Michelle, former President Bill Clinton and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton enjoyed …
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David Montgomery / Argus Leader:
Daugaard signs ‘school sentinels’ bill — Gov. Dennis Daugaard has signed the “school sentinels” bill letting schools arm volunteer defenders. — Hotly debated this legislative session, it was pitched as a way for small schools without nearby law enforcement to protect themselves against shooters or other dangers.
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John Eligon / New York Times:
South Dakota Law Will Allow Guns in Classrooms
South Dakota Law Will Allow Guns in Classrooms
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
New Study Finds Firearms Laws Do Nothing to Prevent Homicides — That's the headline you should be seeing, but won't. Instead, you will see headlines like this one, on CNN: “Study links gun laws and lower gun mortality.” Or this one, from the Chicago Tribune: “States with strict gun laws found to have fewer shooting deaths.”
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Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths, Study Finds
States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths, Study Finds
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul Praises Horrendous Supreme Court Decision, Would Let Employers Ruthlessly Exploit Workers — Lochner v. New York is widely viewed as one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in American history. It is taught in law schools, alongside decisions upholding segregation …
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