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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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Rachel Weiner / Post Politics:
McCain calls Paul, Cruz, Amash ‘wacko birds’ — Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is continuing to criticize his fellow Republicans for their filibuster of incoming CIA Director John Brennan over drone policy. In an interview with the Huffington Post, McCain referred to Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) …
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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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.
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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 …
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Newt Gingrich: John McCain attacks on Rand Paul ‘sad’
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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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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.
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Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Juan Williams Blames Assistant for Plagiarism
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Juan Williams lifts work, blames assistant
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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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Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Obama on His Heels — In January, pretty much all of respectable …
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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!
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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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Justin Gillis / New York Times:
Global Temperatures Highest in 4,000 Years
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Tim McDonnell / Mother Jones:
The Scariest Climate Change Graph Just Got Scarier
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Gautam Naik / Wall Street Journal:
In Study, Past Decade Ranks Among Hottest
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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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Annalyn Kurtz / CNNMoney.com:
Unemployment rate falls to lowest level since 2008
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archinte.jamanetwork.com:
Firearm Legislation and Firearm-Related Fatalities in the United States — FREE ONLINE FIRST — Eric W. Fleegler, MD, MPH; Lois K. Lee, MD, MPH; Michael C. Monuteaux, ScD; David Hemenway, PhD; Rebekah Mannix, MD, MPH — JAMA Intern Med. 2013;():1-9. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.1286.
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Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
States With Most Gun Laws Have Fewest Gun Deaths, Study Finds
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
New Study Finds Firearms Laws Do Nothing to Prevent Homicides
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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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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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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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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 …
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