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Rand Paul / Washington Post:
Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning — If I had planned to speak for 13 hours when I took the Senate floor Wednesday, I would've worn more comfortable shoes. I started my filibuster with the words, “I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan's nomination for the CIA.
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Grace Wyler / Business Insider:
36 Hours That Changed The Republican Party — Libertarians Believe Their Moment Has Finally Arrived — Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul has emerged from his 13-hour filibuster as a national political leader, having unexpectedly unified divergent wings of the Republican Party on the issue of civil liberties.
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The PJ Tatler, Dean's World, Roger Ailes and Hit & Run
Washington Post:
Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning — Then something unexpected happened. House conservatives started appearing in the back of the chamber to show their support. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.), who stayed for five hours, offered me his boots when I complained that I had not worn my most comfortable shoes.
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David Corn / Mother Jones:
Rand Paul Exploits Drones Grandstanding With False Fundraising Letter
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The Moderate Voice, Connecting.the.Dots, Lawfare, Daily Kos and The Atlantic Online
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Rand Paul's triumph
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Paul Krugman:
The English Prisoner — “If this plan is working, what would a failing one look like?” So asks Martin Wolf in response to David Cameron's speech insisting that his austerity policy was right, is right, and is succeeding. Simon Wren-Lewis goes through Cameron's assertions in some detail …
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Business Insider, Financial Times and mainly macro
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Guardian:
Cable exposes coalition divisions over austerity — Business secretary warns of damage as Office for Budget Responsibility rebukes David Cameron over impact of cuts — Political divisions over continuing austerity widened as the business secretary, Vince Cable, warned David Cameron …
Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Host Of TV Gun Show 'A Rifleman's Journal' Shot And Killed — The host of The Sportsman Channel's “A Rifleman's Journal” was shot and killed in Montana on Friday. The gunman, seemingly a jealous husband, then turned the weapon on himself. — It is not yet clear if the weapon used in the crime was obtained legally.
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CBS News, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Raw Story
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
9th Circuit Appeals Court: 4th Amendment Applies At The Border; Also: Password Protected Files Shouldn't Arouse Suspicion — Here's a surprise ruling. For many years we've written about how troubling it is that Homeland Security agents are able to search the contents of electronic devices …
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Alissa J. Rubin / New York Times:
Blast Hits Afghan Capital Shortly After Hagel Arrives — KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber wearing a vest bomb struck outside the Afghan defense ministry on Saturday, killing at least 10 people in a blast just hours after Chuck Hagel, the new United States defense secretary, arrived here in Kabul.
Josh Barro / Bloomberg:
Don't Cut Social Security, Expand It — With everyone in Washington experiencing sea-bass-induced euphoria, we're talking again about a “grand bargain” to replace the sequestration and shrink the federal budget deficit. And that means we're talking about using the chained consumer-price index …
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Olivier Knox / Yahoo! News:
Brennan takes oath on draft Constitution—without Bill of Rights — (David Lienemann/Official ... Oh, dear. This is probably not the symbolism the White House wanted. — Hours after CIA Director John Brennan took the oath of office—behind closed doors, far away from the press …
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Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Norah O'Donnell Debuts On ‘60 Minutes’ With Sheryl Sandberg Exclusive: ‘There Will Be A Lot Of Strong Reactions’ (VIDEO) — “I am not a fan of that phrase,” “CBS This Morning” co-host Norah O'Donnell said when she was asked the perennial question, “Can women have it all?”
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Taylor Marsh, NewsBusters and The Daily Caller
Jacob Goldstein / Economy:
The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever Isn't Scary Enough — One of the defining graphs of our time (yes, there are defining graphs of our time) comes from the blog Calculated Risk. It tracks the job market in every U.S. recession and recovery since WWII — and it shows just how brutal the the past few years have been.
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