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Manu Raju / Politico:
Saxby Chambliss: 'I'm not gay. So I'm not going to marry one' — Support for gay marriage is picking up steam all over the country — except on Capitol Hill. — Take Sen. Saxby Chambliss. When asked if his views had changed on gay marriage, the Georgia Republican quipped: “I'm not gay.
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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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Gabriel Spitzer / KPLU News for Seattle …:
Schultz defends Starbucks' support of same-sex marriage
Schultz defends Starbucks' support of same-sex marriage
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Young Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage Undaunted
Young Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage Undaunted
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Good As You, The Heritage Foundation, NOM Blog, Opinionator and Business Insider
Catherine Saint Louis / New York Times:
Pediatrics Group Backs Gay Marriage, Saying It Helps Children
Pediatrics Group Backs Gay Marriage, Saying It Helps Children
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John M. Becker, The Raw Story and ThinkProgress
Mark Landler / New York Times:
Obama Appears to Move Closer to Israeli Position on Peace Talks — RAMALLAH, West Bank — President Obama, visiting the Israeli-occupied West Bank, appeared to move closer to the Israeli position on Thursday regarding resumption of long-stalled peace talks with the Palestinians …
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Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:
Analysis: Obama, he had us at ‘Shalom’ — We so want to be accepted, so want to be understood. — He had us at the word “Shalom,” did President Barack Obama, on the tarmac at Ben-Gurion Airport. — Or if not at “Shalom,” then 33 words later when he said in Hebrew, “Tov lihiyot shuv ba'aretz” (It's good to be back in Israel).
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Rick Gladstone / New York Times:
Obama Lays Out Case for Israel to Revive Peace Talks
Obama Lays Out Case for Israel to Revive Peace Talks
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Reuters, The Week, Post Politics, Towleroad News #gay and Capital New York
James S. Robbins / Associated Press:
Obama's Middle East policy in tatters: Column
Obama's Middle East policy in tatters: Column
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Questions and Observations, Pew Global Attitudes Project, Instapundit and This Just In
Thomas B. Edsall / Opinionator:
The Republican Autopsy Report — On Monday a Republican task force released a remarkably hard-headed diagnosis of the party's many liabilities: its ideological rigidity, its preference for the rich over workers, its alienation of minorities, its reactionary social policies and its institutionalized repression of dissent and innovation.
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Nancy Cook / NationalJournal.com:
The GOP Disconnect on Economic Policy
The GOP Disconnect on Economic Policy
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Stuart Rothenberg / Roll Call:
The GOP: A Party Increasingly at Odds With Itself
The GOP: A Party Increasingly at Odds With Itself
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American Prospect and Booman Tribune
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
What Needless, Xenophobic Panic Looks Like — While researching another item, I came across a Townhall column written by Michelle Malkin in 2002, a couple years before she published her book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Iraq War made Obamacare possible
Iraq War made Obamacare possible
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NPR:
Interview With Vice President Joe Biden … The Obama administration is still fighting for a ban on assault weapons to be included in a larger bill in Congress, Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview with NPR. — After the school shootings in Newtown, Conn., last December …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Vulnerable senators face lose-lose scenario on assault weapon vote
Vulnerable senators face lose-lose scenario on assault weapon vote
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Daily Kos and The Plum Line
Alan Silverleib / CNN:
House passes Ryan budget — (CNN) - The Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed GOP Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed Fiscal Year 2014 budget Thursday. Ryan's budget would cut $4.6 trillion in spending and eliminate the deficit over 10 years, while also repealing President Barack …
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Weasel Zippers, Crooks and Liars, neo-neocon and The Hill
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
House approves resolution to keep government running; bill heads to White House
House approves resolution to keep government running; bill heads to White House
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Firedoglake, NationalJournal.com and Post Politics
Jesse Helfrich / The Hill:
Unified House Republicans poised to pass Ryan budget blueprint
Unified House Republicans poised to pass Ryan budget blueprint
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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, BuzzFeed and Post Politics
Public Religion Research Institute:
Survey | Citizenship, Values, and Cultural Concerns: What Americans Want from Immigration Reform — ▶ Read the full report here. — ▶ Read the news release here. — ▶ Read a Spanish translation of the news release here. — ▶ Read the topline questionnaire, including the survey methodology, here.
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Julia Preston / New York Times:
Poll Finds Broad Support for Path to Citizenship for Immigrants
Poll Finds Broad Support for Path to Citizenship for Immigrants
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National Review
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Native American Lawmaker To Anti-Immigrant Kansas Official: ‘When You Mention Illegal Immigrant, I Think Of All Of You’ — Left: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R). Right: State Rep. Ponka-We Victors (D). — A Native American state representative in Kansas rebuked Secretary of State Kris Kobach …
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Andy Marso / Topeka Capital-Journal:
Emotions flow during immigrant tuition hearing
Emotions flow during immigrant tuition hearing
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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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Weekly Standard and The Daily Caller
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Michele Bachmann: Obamacare Will ‘Literally’ Kill People — As the country prepares to celebrate the third anniversary of health care reform, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) insisted on Thursday that the Affordable Care Act will “kill” vulnerable women and children during a speech on the floor of the House.
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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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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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Why I was hoping for a government shutdown — I'll be honest. I was sort of hoping for a government shutdown. — Congress, you're terrible at your job. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomber) — It's not that I like government shutdowns. I'm as big a fan of national parks as the next guy.
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — March 21, 2013 - Clinton Tops Florida Favorite Sons In 2016 Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; 91% Back Universal Gun Background Checks — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has double-digit leads over either of Florida's favorite sons, former Gov. Jeb Bush …
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Politico, Naked Politics, Ballot Box, CNN, msnbc.com and First Read
Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Cuomo Seeks to Ease a Newly Passed Gun Restriction — ALBANY — In the wake of the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York pushed through the State Legislature gun control measures that included not only a tougher assault weapons ban but also a tighter restriction …
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Secret report raises alarms on intelligence blind spots because of AQ focus — A panel of White House advisers warned President Obama in a secret report that U.S. spy agencies were paying inadequate attention to China, the Middle East and other national security flash points because they had become …
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David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Heckler Interrupts Obama Speech In Jerusalem (VIDEO) — A heckler briefly interrupted President Barack Obama's speech to the Israeli people Thursday at a university in Jerusalem, which drew boos from the crowd. — “This is part of the lively debate that we talked about.
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The Week and The Raw Story