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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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msnbc.com, Off the Kuff, The Raw Story and Washington Monthly
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Argument recap: Does “may only” mean “shall only”?
Argument recap: Does “may only” mean “shall only”?
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Talking Points Memo
NBCNews.com:
No ruling yet, but justices skeptical of Arizona voter law
No ruling yet, but justices skeptical of Arizona voter law
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Talking Points Memo, The Maddow Blog and NBCNews.com
David Vitter / U.S. Senator David Vitter of Louisana:
Vitter Will Block Perez Labor Nomination
Vitter Will Block Perez Labor Nomination
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ThinkProgress, The Maddow Blog, PolicyMic, National Review, Rush Limbaugh, Hot Air, Wonkette, msnbc.com, Business Insider and NBCNews.com
Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
Hacker Begins Distributing Confidential Memos Sent To Hillary Clinton On Libya, Benghazi Attack — In e-mail blasts this weekend, “Guccifer” sent documents stolen from the e-mail account of a former White House aide to congressional aides, political figures, and journalists.
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Mediaite, Pirate's Cove, Weasel Zippers and Small Dead Animals
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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ThinkProgress, GLAAD, msnbc.com, Politico, ABCNEWS, Advocate, Reuters, Business Insider, Joe. My. God., LGBTQ Nation, The Dish, The Impolitic and The Reaction
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Jon Cohen / The Fix:
Gay marriage support hits new high in Post-ABC poll
Gay marriage support hits new high in Post-ABC poll
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Donklephant, The Week, Hot Air, Firedoglake, msnbc.com, The Political Carnival, BuzzFeed, Outside the Beltway, National Review, Daily Kos and Washington Post
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Hillary Clinton announces her support for gay marriage
Hillary Clinton announces her support for gay marriage
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hrc.org, msnbc.com, GLAAD, CNN, Business Insider, ABCNEWS, Taylor Marsh, PolicyMic, The Raw Story, Hit & Run, Feministing, Outside the Beltway and The Hinterland Gazette
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
This Is the Scariest Statistic About the Newspaper Business Today — Here it is: In 2012, newspapers lost $16 in print ads for every $1 earned in digital ads. And it's getting worse, according to a new report by Pew. In 2011, the ratio was just 10-to-1.
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Capital New York, NBC New York and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
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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 …
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, DCist, Outside the Beltway, Washington Monthly, Balloon Juice and Deadline.com, more at Mediagazer »
Associated Press:
Immigration: Rand Paul to back path to citizenship — Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky is endorsing a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants. — In a speech to be delivered Tuesday morning to the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the potential 2016 …
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msnbc.com, The Week, Taegan Goddard's … and BuzzFeed
MEOW:
Michelle Shocked Shocks in Anti-Gay Show Tirade — Michelle Shocked, known for living up to her surname, cleared out San Francisco club Yoshi's last night, and shut down the venue, after she went on an anti-gay tirade, which she summed up by saying, “You can go on Twitter and say ‘Michelle Shocked says God hates fags.’”
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E! Online, Firedoglake, Mediaite, Joe. My. God., Alan Colmes' Liberaland, American Power, Wonkette and Towleroad News #gay
New York Times:
Second Thoughts in Europe as Anxiety Rises in Cyprus — NICOSIA, Cyprus — The lights were dimmed and the doors were locked. But inside a branch of Laiki Bank, one of Cyprus's two dominant banks, a few silhouettes glided about Monday, filling cash machines to calm a wave of anxiety …
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DealBook, IHT Rendezvous and Firedoglake
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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.
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CNN, The Plum Line, National Review, Power Line, Tea Party Patriots, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and CBS Chicago
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Juliet Eilperin / Post Politics:
Could a government shutdown doom the White House Easter Egg Roll?
Could a government shutdown doom the White House Easter Egg Roll?
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Mediaite and Conservatives4Palin
Politico:
Right blasts RNC ‘autopsy’ as power grab — John Brabender, Santorum's chief adviser, said the reforms would favor the moneyed candidates. — “While I commend Chairman Priebus for taking important steps to remedy Republicans' recent election failures, I am troubled by the possibility …
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Hot Air
Lisa Miller / New York Magazine:
The Retro Wife — Feminists who say they're having it all—by choosing to stay home. — When Kelly Makino was a little girl, she loved to go orienteering—to explore the wilderness near her rural Pennsylvania home, finding her way back with a compass and a map—and the future she imagined for herself was equally adventuresome.
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David Kravets / Wired:
Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With a GPS Device — The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move. — The administration maintains that position despite …
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Gizmodo
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic Online:
Monarch in the Middle — As the Arab Spring swirls around him, can King Abdullah II, the most pro-American Arab leader in the Middle East, liberalize Jordan and modernize its economy, without losing his kingdom to Islamic fundamentalists? The stressful life of a king amidst chaos.
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Israel Matzav, The Times of Israel and New York Times
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Stephen Colbert drops the act to help his sister — Comedian Stephen Colbert is dropping his right-wing pundit act to help his sister's House campaign. — Colbert has been helping Elizabeth Colbert Busch (D) fundraise for her campaign to fill the seat formerly held by Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.).
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Bush Speechwriter: I Met Ahmed Chalabi At Christopher Hitchens's Apartment — In a piece published Monday, David Frum, former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush, recounted meeting Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi for the first time at the apartment of late polemicist Christopher Hitchens.
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David Frum / The Daily Beast:
The Speechwriter: David Frum on the Rhetoric of Iraq
The Speechwriter: David Frum on the Rhetoric of Iraq
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Washington Monthly, Guardian, Crooks and Liars, Mother Jones and Eschaton
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.
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Hot Air, Ed Driscoll, The Spectacle Blog, The PJ Tatler, Rush Limbaugh, The Gateway Pundit, Althouse, americanthinker.com and The Greenroom
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Leader in GOP's reboot calls Obama a ‘socialist’ — Leading Republicans called on their party to adopt a more inclusive tone Monday — but in doing so one used some controversial rhetoric to describe President Obama, calling him a “socialist.” — Republican National Committeeman Henry Barbour …
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AMERICAblog, The Moderate Voice and Taegan Goddard's …
Alice Chaosurawong / The Hill:
CEOs set tax reform goal: 25 percent corporate rate — A prominent lobby group for chief executives is launching a campaign to build public support for reducing the corporate rate to 25 percent and limiting the taxation of offshore income. — John Engler, the president of Business Roundtable …
University of Wisconsin System:
Blank recommended as UW-Madison chancellor — MADISON, Wis. - Dr. Rebecca M. Blank, Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, has been recommended as the next Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. — UW System President Kevin P. Reilly and a special committee of the UW System Board …
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Politico, The Hill and Inside Higher Ed