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Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
WATCH: The Most Compelling Case For Marriage Equality In Under A Minute — California Attorney General Kemala Harris gave an impassioned, pithy defense of marriage equality during an appearance on CNN's State of the Union Sunday morning in anticipation of the Supreme Court's hearing …
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Evangelical Leader And GOP Strategist Battle Over Same-Sex Marriage's ‘Radical Agenda’ On Fox News Sunday — On Fox News Sunday this morning, evangelical leader Gary Bauer and Republican strategist Nicole Wallace went head-to-head over the upcoming Supreme Court hearings on overturning Proposition 8 …
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Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Sen. Rand Paul on top congressional issues; pivotal moment in the battle over gay marriage — Special Guests: Sen. Rand Paul, Nicolle Wallace, Gary Bauer — The following is a rush transcript of the March 24, 2013, edition of “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace.” This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
NRA gains upper hand on Obama — After a series of missteps that gave President Obama the early advantage in this year's gun-violence debate, the National Rifle Association (NRA) has struck back. — The powerful gun lobbying group had stumbled in the immediate wake of December's Newtown …
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Bloomberg's TV Blitz on Guns Puts Swing Senators on the Spot
Bloomberg's TV Blitz on Guns Puts Swing Senators on the Spot
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Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
Mayor Mike Bloomberg Will Spend $12 Million to Push Gun Control Through Congress
Mayor Mike Bloomberg Will Spend $12 Million to Push Gun Control Through Congress
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Ross Douthat / New York Times:
The Obama Era, Brought to You by the Iraq War — WHEN prominent people in Washington spend an anniversary apologizing for being catastrophically, unforgivably wrong about a decade-old decision, you might expect that the decision in question had delivered their party to disaster or defeat.
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire:
Paul Says Obama, Bush Could Have Been Jailed for Drug Use — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told Fox News that President Obama and former President George W. Bush could have “conceivably been put in jail” for using drugs. — Said Paul: “Look, the last two presidents could have conceivably been put …
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Lindsey Boerma / CBS News:
“Red line has been crossed” in Syria, Rogers says — (CBS News) There's mounting evidence that over the last two years the Assad regime has used “at least a small quantity” of chemical weapons against rebel forces in Syria's raging civil war, House Intelligence Committee chair Mike Rogers …
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
BREAKING: Assad Shot By Bodyguard - Hospitalized in Damascus — Report: Syrian Tyrant Bashar Al-Assad Shot - Clings to Life — Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad with top generals — Translated from JSS News: … Last year one of Assad's bodyguards blew himself up in a suicide blast in Damascus.
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Reuters:
Israel fires into Syria after Golan attack on troops — (Reuters) - Israel said it fired into Syria on Sunday and destroyed a machinegun position in the Golan Heights from where shots had been fired at Israeli soldiers in a further spillover of the Syrian civil war along a tense front.
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Nick Bilton / NYT Bits:
Disruptions: F.A.A. May Loosen Curbs on Fliers' Use of Electronics — If you're sitting on a plane at the gate and reading this column on an electronic gadget, you're about to hear eight dreaded words: “Please power down your electronic devices for takeoff.”
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David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Why Tea Partiers Are Boycotting Fox News — First it was the ‘left’ turn after the election, then Benghazi coverup accusations. Activists have a list of demands for the conservative network, which some say is ‘not as fair and balanced as I thought.’ — Is Fox News going soft?
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Juana Summers / Politico:
Navarro: Genie out of bottle — Ana Navarro, a former adviser to past Republican presidential hopefuls John McCain and Jon Huntsman, said Sunday the Republican Party is shifting on gay marriage. — “There's no putting this genie back in the bottle. This is now undeniable. The shift is here.
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