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6:40 PM ET, March 18, 2013

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Gary Langer / ABCNEWS:
Poll Tracks Dramatic Rise In Support for Gay Marriage  —  Support for gay marriage reached a new high in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, marking a dramatic change in public attitudes on the subject across the past decade.  Fifty-eight percent of Americans now say it should be legal for gay and lesbian couples to wed.
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Hillary Clinton announces her support for gay marriage  —  In a move that could have implications for a 2016 White House campaign, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton endorsed gay marriage on Monday, saying she supports it “personally, and as a matter of policy and law.”
Jon Cohen / The Fix:
Gay marriage support hits new high in Post-ABC poll  —  Public support for gay marriage has hit a new high as Americans increasingly see homosexuality not as a choice but as a way some people are, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.  —  The poll shows that 58 percent of Americans …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
History Channel's Satan Looks A Lot Like Barack Obama  —  The character is part of The Bible a ten-hour television series airing on the History Channel.  —  Via: @adamsbaldwin
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James Nye / Daily Mail:
Why does the devil in ‘The Bible’ look exactly like President Obama?  —  Sunday evening's episode of the History Channel's hit series ‘The Bible’ threw up an awkward coincidence when viewers noticed that Satan bore a remarkable resemblance to President Obama.
Justin Sink / The Hill:
History channel: Resemblance of Obama, satanic character not intentional
Discussion: Politico
Politico:
Right blasts RNC ‘autopsy’ as power grab  —  For all the talk before Monday's unveiling of the much-anticipated RNC autopsy report about more robust GOP efforts to appeal to minorities and narrow the deficit with Democrats on technology and data, it's the party's move to take control …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
RNC: Voters see GOP as ‘scary’ and ‘out of touch’  —  The Republican National Committee concedes in a sprawling report Monday that the GOP is seen as the party of “stuffy old men” and needs to change its ways.  —  Among the RNC's proposed fixes: enacting comprehensive immigration reform …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
RNC: ‘Drastic changes’ needed if party hopes to remain competitive
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Scalia And Sotomayor Clash In Proof-Of-Citizenship Voting Case  —  Justices Antonin Scalia and Sonia Sotomayor clashed Monday during Supreme Court oral arguments about whether states may require residents to submit proof of citizenship in order to register to vote.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: Does “may only” mean “shall only”?
Discussion: Election Law Blog
David Frum / The Daily Beast:
The Speechwriter: David Frum on the Rhetoric of Iraq  —  When Bush decided to go to war in 2003, you'd think he would have been gripped by self-questioning and hot debate.  That never really happened.  Bush's speechwriter David Frum looks back at the daunting messaging effort …
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
David Frum, the Iraq war and oil
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
How Three Top Republicans Are Already Blowing Up The RNC's Minority Outreach Strategy  —  Well, that didn't take long.  —  This morning, the biggest political story in Washington was a Republican National Committee “autopsy” of the GOP's 2012 election loss.
Discussion: Reuters
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Steven Mufson / Washington Post:
The Washington Post to charge frequent users of its Web site  —  Jonathan Ernst / Reuters - This summer, The Washington Post will start charging frequent users of its Web site  —  This summer, The Washington Post will start charging frequent users of its Web site, asking those who look …
New Jersey Online:
3 women were paid to falsely claim they had sex with Menendez, Dominican police say  —  U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez in his office on Capitol Hill earlier this month.  (Photo by Barbara L. Salisbury/For the Star-Ledge)  —  SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Police in the Dominican Republic …
David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Fox News airs name of 16-year-old Steubenville rape victim  —  Fox News on Monday aired the name of a underage victim of a disturbing rape in Steubenville, Ohio.  —  During correspondent Mike Tobin's report about the guilty verdicts in the Steubenville rape case on Fox News' America's Newsroom …
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Fox News:
Ohio high school football players found guilty of raping 16-year-old girl
Discussion: Mediaite
Jonathan Allen / Politico:
Another sequestration casualty?  —  The next casualty of sequestration could be the Easter Bunny - at least according to a White House e-mail that recently landed in Capitol Hill inboxes.  —  The White House warned Congress that budget uncertainties could nix the annual Easter Egg Roll for kids, which is planned for April 1.
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
MI6 and CIA heard Iraq had no active WMD capability ahead of invasion  —  BBC's Panorama reveals fresh evidence that agencies dismissed intelligence from Iraqi foreign minister and spy chief  —  Fresh evidence is revealed today about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels …
Discussion: Hullabaloo, emptywheel and The Agonist
Dylan Matthews / Wonkblog:
Everything you need to know about the Cyprus bailout, in one FAQ  —  This weekend, a group including the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Commission, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the government of Cyprus announced that the small island nation was on the brink of crisis, and needed to be bailed out.
Discussion: Reuters and FP Passport
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Acting commerce secretary to leave  —  Acting Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank plans to depart the Obama administration to become chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she told the department's staff Monday after being tapped for the new job.  —  President Obama expressed …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Marches of Folly  —  Ten years ago, America invaded Iraq; somehow, our political class decided that we should respond to a terrorist attack by making war on a regime that, however vile, had nothing to do with that attack.  —  Some voices warned that we were making a terrible mistake …
 
 
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
At CPAC, The Marriage Fight Is Over
Anemona Hartocollis / New York Times:
Bloomberg Proposes Anti-Cigarette Legislation
Gil Aegerter / Open Channel:
Cyberattack on Florida election is first known case in US, experts say
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Pema Levy / Talking Points Memo:
Conservative Website Aims To Combat The Influence Of Liberal Colleges
Discussion: Wired Campus
ThinkProgress:
Why Single Mothers Are In Economic Crisis And What Can Be Done About It
 Earlier Items: 
Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
House GOP Budget Would Give Millionaires A $200,000 Tax Cut
USA Today:
Lawmakers add relatives to campaign payrolls
Discussion: The Impolitic
Mary Anastasia O'Grady / Wall Street Journal:
Behind the Campaign to Smear the Pope
Discussion: Betsy's Page and National Review
Robert Stacy McCain / American Spectator:
The Liberal Media Lie About CPAC
Michael Luo / New York Times:
Ruled a Threat to Family, but Allowed to Keep Guns
Discussion: Daily Kos, Wonkette and American Power
 

 
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Guthrie Scrimgeour / Wired:
Hawaii's The Garden Island stops using AI-generated newscasters on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram after two months, likely due to the negative public response

Bloomberg:
The DOJ's proposal would require Google to divest from AI partnerships, like with Anthropic, and ban Google from offering exclusive deals to content providers

 
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