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5:00 PM ET, March 8, 2013

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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 …
Washington Post:
More oversight and disclosure on drones  —  AFTER SEN. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) held the Senate hostage Wednesday in order to warn that American citizens could be targeted by drone strikes on U.S. soil, he was rightly taken to task for gross and irresponsible mischaracterizations of the Obama administration's policy.
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Rand Paul's moment and the end of Obama envy … Ever since losing the presidential election, the right has been consumed by envy of President Obama — of his mobilization of key voters, his digital strategy, his ability to successfully shift blame to Republicans and the way he is able …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Des Moines Register:
Priebus: GOP needs new strategy
Discussion: Politico and Washington Monthly
Lois Romano / Politico:
Rand Paul: ‘Seriously’ weighing 2016 bid
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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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
How Many Big-Time Pundits Are Plagiarists?  —  Not long ago I was getting a shiatsu massage in my office when my assistant came in to tell me that he'd gathered the data on government spending that I'd asked for, and written it up in text form so I could drop it into my next column.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Balloon Juice
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Juan Williams lifts work, blames assistant
Discussion: FishbowlDC and Outside the Beltway
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.
John Boehner / CNN:
GOP on jobs report: What about the debt?
Discussion: The Plum Line and Politico
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Obama on His Heels  —  In January, pretty much all of respectable …
Discussion: PJ Media and Betsy's Page
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Andrew Breitbart and James O'Keefe Ruined Him, and Now He Gets $100,000  —  Former ACORN employee Juan Carlos Vera sued after being wrongly portrayed as a willing participant in an underage sex-trafficking scheme.  Breitbart still hasn't corrected the item!
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
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Wonkette:
Wonket Sexclusive: Totally Blameless Crime-Stopper James O'Keefe To Pay $100,000 To ACORN Criminal
Tony Perry / Los Angeles Times:
Conservative activist pays $100,000 to former ACORN worker
Discussion: Wonkette, Politico and Mediaite
sciencemag.org:
A Reconstruction of Regional and Global Temperature for the Past 11,300 Years  —  1College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.  —  2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
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Tim McDonnell / Mother Jones:
The Scariest Climate Change Graph Just Got Scarier
Discussion: Taylor Marsh, jobsanger and Hullabaloo
Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years
Gautam Naik / Wall Street Journal:
In Study, Past Decade Ranks Among Hottest
Elizabeth Harrington / CNSNews:
Record 89,304,000 Americans ‘Not in Labor Force’ — 296,000 Fewer Employed Since January  —  (CNSNews.com) - The number of Americans designated as “not in the labor force” in February was 89,304,000, a record high, up from 89,008,000 in January, according to the Department of Labor.
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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.
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 …
Discussion: CNN, The Caucus and Post Politics
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.
Willie Herrmann / BuzzFeed:
The Jobs Report Is Wrong  —  What headlines say about the monthly jobs numbers is actually no more accurate than chance.  A BuzzFeed original analysis.  —  Months in red are months where initial headlines said the jobs numbers fell short of economists' expectations, but then the revised …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths, Study Finds  —  States with more gun laws have lower levels of gun fatalities, according to a new study from Boston Children's Hospital.  While the study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, does not establish cause-and-effect …
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Rachel Rose Hartman / Yahoo! News:
First Person: White House reporter balances working and breastfeeding  —  When I imagined my journalism career, I never pictured myself standing shirtless in a unisex bathroom in the White House.  —  But that is precisely where I found myself in November, as a new mother of a nursing infant returning …
Discussion: FishbowlDC and Wonkblog
 
 
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Jill Filipovic / Guardian:
Why should married women change their names? Let men change theirs
Discussion: Shakesville and Hullabaloo
Harry J Enten / Guardian:
President Obama is about to lose the PR battle on the sequester | Harry J Enten
Discussion: The Dish
Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Source: Ashley Judd moving forward with run for Mitch McConnell's Senate seat in Kentucky
Discussion: ABCNEWS, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
John Eligon / New York Times:
South Dakota Law Will Allow Guns in Classrooms
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Bruno Waterfield / Telegraph:
MEPs to vote on EU ‘ban on all forms of pornography’
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Rand Paul Praises Horrendous Supreme Court Decision, Would Let Employers Ruthlessly Exploit Workers
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Markey who? GOP: Poll ‘speaks volumes’
 

 
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Katie Robertson / New York Times:
The NYT reports adding 260K digital subscribers in Q3, for 11.9M in total, with digital ad revenue up 8.8% YoY to $81.6M, and The Athletic had its first profit

Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Around 75% of the largest US newspapers aren't endorsing anyone for president this year, as publishers try not to annoy any sliver of their remaining customers

Sean Burch / The Wrap:
Report: Garrett Ventry, who will join NBC News' Election Night coverage as a Republican pundit on election day, registered as an agent of Qatar in September

 
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