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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
In Israel, Obama draws race parallel — JERUSALEM—On his stops in the Holy Land Thursday, President Barack Obama turned again and again to a subject not obviously connected to the current troubles in the mideast: the struggles of African Americans in the United States.
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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Obama Lays Out Case for Israel to Revive Peace Talks — Laying out his case for a future Israel at peace with the Palestinians, President Obama delivered an enthusiastically welcomed speech on Thursday before an audience of youthful Israelis in Jerusalem, assuring them of America's strong support …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama awarded Israel's Presidential Medal of Distinction
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Banks Are Too Big to Fail Say ... Conservatives? — Members of the Federal Reserve don't usually make the rounds at partisan gatherings. But amid the tri-cornered hats and “#StandWithRand” buttons of last week's Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—the largest annual gathering …
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Mark Gongloff / The Huffington Post:
Ben Bernanke: ‘I Agree With Elizabeth Warren 100 Percent’ On Too Big To Fail
Ben Bernanke: ‘I Agree With Elizabeth Warren 100 Percent’ On Too Big To Fail
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Reid to bring gun bill to floor with expanded background checks — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will bring gun control legislation to the floor that includes a controversial expansion of background checks for private firearm sales. — Reid said he would on Thursday evening begin …
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Harry Reid To Introduce Gun Control Bill With Universal Background Checks — WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will introduce gun control legislation Thursday night that includes a proposal for universal background checks. — “Later tonight, I will start the process …
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The Daily Banter, The Week, Twitchy and Weasel Zippers
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Behold the Hatred, Resentment, and Mockery Aimed at Anti-Iraq War Protesters — Reflecting on the apologetic Iraq War retrospectives many writers have published in recent days, Freddie deBoer observes that “one of the most obvious and salient aspects of the run up to the war” is being ignored …
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
What Needless, Xenophobic Panic Looks Like
What Needless, Xenophobic Panic Looks Like
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Eschaton
Rich Lowry / Reuters:
Where is today's Jack Kemp? — The important question isn't so much establishment or grass roots as who and where? Mike Lee isn't Christine O'Donnell and Utah isn't Delaware, and that makes all the difference. — Consider Ted Cruz, whose smarts and fearlessness are quickly making him the most dangerous man in the U.S. Senate.
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Simple Plan — Of all the vast literature on the current plight of the Republican Party, this fairly simple statement from Rich Lowry makes the most sense to me: … Now to be sure, Jack Kemp's reputation as an idea man is being considerably inflated by Lowry. But it's the right idea.
Paul Krugman:
Cyprus: The Sum of All FUBAR — At this point the Cyprus situation is pretty clear — and clarity does not bring reassurance. In fact, it looks as if Cyprus has managed to combine in one place everything that has gone wrong elsewhere. — 1. Runaway banking.
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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Ohio's Republican Governor Endorses Civil Unions, Then Takes It Back — John Kasich's office says he was using the term “loosely” when he said he supported civil unions. — Image by Rick Osentoski / AP — Ohio Republican Gov. John Kasich said he favored civil unions …
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Brandon Blackwell / Plain Dealer:
Kasich recants his support of civil unions
Kasich recants his support of civil unions
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David Edwards / The Raw Story:
West Virginia paper's anti-LGBT column wants death for ‘n*ggers, spics, kikes and wops’ — A newspaper in West Virginia is defending its decision to publish a reader's racist and homophobic comments, which called for “queers” to be put to death along with “n*ggers, spics, kikes and wops.”
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
Starbucks CEO: If You Don't Like Marriage Equality, Feel Free To Sell Your Starbucks Stock — Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz continued to defend his company's support for marriage equality at a shareholders meeting Wednesday, pointing out that “not every decision is an economic decision.”
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
House approves resolution to keep government running; bill heads to White House — Congress has approved a short-term funding measure, averting the chance of a federal government shutdown next week. But a broader battle over taxes and spending for the year is only just beginning.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
House Passes Plan to Avert Federal Shutdown
John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Battle Brews Over Labor Demands As Immigration Talks Enter Home Stretch — “Every time you make progress... the unions come in the next day and throw something else on the table. They keep moving the goal posts,” says a lobbyist. — WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 21: Members of the group Casa …
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Hot Air and The Daily Caller
The Atlantic Online:
How the Secret Service Almost Shot Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — The intelligence brief on the apparent accident was three sentences long, and it scared the hell out of White House officials. — One morning in September 2006, during the United Nations General Assembly, President George W. Bush's …
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Telegraph, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Gawker and The Week
Alisa Wiersema / ABCNEWS:
Yoko Ono Tweets John Lennon's Bloody Glasses — Yoko Ono joined the U.S. gun debate when she tweeted a picture of the blood-stained glasses her husband, John Lennon, was wearing when he died. Lennon, one of the Beatles, died in 1980 after being shot in the back four times at the couple's New York City apartment by a crazed stalker.
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Rachel Simmons / CNN:
Girls complicit in Steubenville — Editor's note: Rachel Simmons is the co-founder of Girls Leadership Institute and the author of “Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls.” Follow her on Twitter @racheljsimmons — (CNN) — Is anyone else wondering why the Steubenville …
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Shakesville and The Other McCain
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Romney campaign chief to lead new GOP research group — (CNN) - Post-mortems written after the 2012 campaign focused on a variety of Republican shortcomings: underwhelming television ads, an outdated voter contact model, and a message that was out-of-step with the changing face of America.
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Politico, Post Politics, BuzzFeed and The Reaction
Sapna Maheshwari / Bloomberg:
Lululemon Sheer Yoga Pants Undetected Until Bend-Over Test — Wall Street analysts from Robert W. Baird & Co. to Sterne Agee & Leach Inc. peppered Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU) executives today with questions about how the yoga-wear retailer is handling a recall of women's pants for being too transparent.
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Obama Job Approval Slips as Economic Pessimism Rises — Positive Signs on Stocks, Housing Have Little Impact — OVERVIEW — Barack Obama's job approval rating has tumbled since shortly after his re-election, as the public's economic expectations for the coming year have soured.
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Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller and Weekly Standard
Elvina Nawaguna / Reuters:
Congress to force Postal Service to keep Saturday delivery — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congress foiled the financially beleaguered U.S. Postal Service's plan to end Saturday delivery of first-class mail on Thursday when it passed legislation requiring six-day delivery.
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The Moderate Voice and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Tom Whitehead / Telegraph:
Major terror attack on scale of 7/7 foiled every year in UK, police reveal — Police and MI5 are foiling a plot as big as the July 7 attacks every year, the country's second most senior terror officer has revealed. — Officers also fear a hybrid of terrorist and criminal gangs could bring a new threat on the UK.
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Dan Murphy / Christian Science Monitor:
The real warning in Syrian chemical weapons claims — The speed with which some US politicians and reporters are buying in to claims of chemical weapons attacks in Syria is a reminder to take a hard look at intelligence claims before rushing into another war.
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