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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Fox Anchor Calls Out Paul Ryan's Budget Plan: Repealing Obamacare Is ‘Not Going To Happen’ — On Sunday morning, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) stopped by Fox News Sunday to preview his new budget, which will be released in full on Tuesday. As it had the past two years, this year's version will call …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Ryan: 2016 White House bid now ‘more realistic,’ rules out running for Speaker — Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says the prospect of running for president has become “more realistic” to him but he will not think about a 2016 bid before completing deficit-reduction talks.
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Gregory Wallace / CNN:
Obama meetings couldn't have prevented gridlock, Pelosi says
Obama meetings couldn't have prevented gridlock, Pelosi says
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Politico and The Democratic Daily
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
TIMELINE: How Jeb Bush Pulled A 360 On Immigration Reform — Jeb Bush completed a whirlwind one-week journey on immigration on Sunday, praising a Senate proposal to grant eventual citizenship for undocumented immigrants after attacking the idea in a newly released book he co-authored that was itself a reversal of his past position.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Monstrous — This is a kind of blood-curdling story I just learned about this afternoon. Zerlina Maxwell is an acquaintance who I've watched from a distance as she builds a media career as a progressive pundit and activist — succeeding to an amazing degree while also getting a law degree.
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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Disruptions: Digital Era Redefining Etiquette — Some people are so rude. Really, who sends an e-mail or text message that just says “Thank you”? Who leaves a voice mail message when you don't answer, rather than texting you? Who asks for a fact easily found on Google?
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
New problem for House GOP leaders: Rank-and-file may vote against rules — House Republican leaders have a new problem. They can't count on their members to support them on procedural votes. — Sixteen Republicans defected Wednesday in a vote on the rule governing consideration …
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Eric Owens / The Daily Caller:
‘Toaster Pastry Gun Freedom Act’ proposed in Maryland — A Maryland state senator has crafted a bill to curb the zeal of public school officials who are tempted to suspend students as young as kindergarten for having things — or talking about things, or eating things — that represent guns, but aren't actually anything like real guns.
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New York Post:
Former Newark Airport TSA screener says the job does little to keep fliers safe — It is perhaps America's most unsafe airport. Despite being the launching point for one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 — Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania — Newark Airport has had numerous security violations since.
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Colum Lynch / Washington Post:
Susan Rice as national security adviser? U.N. ambassador said to be front-runner. — UNITED NATIONS — Susan E. Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who lost out in a bruising bid for the job of secretary of state, may have the last laugh. — Rice has emerged as far and away …
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Peggy Noonan's Blog:
Two Senators — This is from not-for-attribution interviews with two Republican senators who attended the dinner with the president on Wednesday night at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington. — One was heartened and impressed by the meeting while retaining his skepticism as to whether …
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The Moderate Voice
New York Times:
Rate of Gun Ownership Is Down, Survey Shows — The share of American households with guns has declined over the past four decades, a national survey shows, with some of the most surprising drops in the South and the Western mountain states, where guns are deeply embedded in the culture.
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The Truth About Guns and Hullabaloo
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
The five biggest lies about entitlement programs — Social Security and Medicare are big issues, and not everyone is telling the truth about them. — Social Security foes are lying when they say a significant portion of benefits goes to multimillionaires. In fact, their share of benefits is minuscule.
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