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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Breaking Report: 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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The Other McCain, The Agonist, Israel Matzav and ViralRead
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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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ViralRead, LewRockwell.com Blog, Weasel Zippers, Weekly Standard, The Gateway Pundit and Telegraph
Erik Ortiz / NY Daily News:
Unconfirmed reports of Syrian President Bashar Assad's shooting highlight chaos in country — Assad was supposedly shot by his Iranian bodyguard Saturday night, with at least one website saying he had been ‘assassinated.’ But other online updates by Arab and Israeli media say the report was untrue.
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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Gay Star News and Towleroad News #gay
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Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Sen. Rand Paul on top congressional issues; pivotal moment in the battle over gay marriage
Sen. Rand Paul on top congressional issues; pivotal moment in the battle over gay marriage
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Outside the Beltway
Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
WATCH: The Most Compelling Case For Marriage Equality In Under A Minute
WATCH: The Most Compelling Case For Marriage Equality In Under A Minute
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Towleroad News #gay
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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Denver Post, The Lonely Conservative, Hot Air, Scared Monkeys, Politico, The Moderate Voice and New York Times
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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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The Moderate Voice
George Stephanopoulos / ABCNEWS:
Karl Rove: ‘I Could’ Imagine A GOP Presidential Candidate Supporting Gay Marriage — Fox News contributor and former Bush deputy chief of staff Karl Rove said this morning on “This Week” that he can imagine a future Republican presidential candidate supporting gay marriage.
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Yahoo! News
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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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No More Mister Nice Blog and Weekly Standard
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Rep. Rogers: Syria ‘red line has been crossed’
Rep. Rogers: Syria ‘red line has been crossed’
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Washington Monthly and Politico
Senator Claire McCaskill:
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. I Corinthians 13 — The question of marriage equality is a great American debate. Many people, some with strong religious faith, believe that marriage can only exist between a man and a woman.
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BuzzFeed, Gawker and Good As You
Freeman Klopott / Bloomberg:
Cuomo's 7-Bullet Limit to Be Suspended Indefinitely, Skelos Says — Governor Andrew Cuomo's seven-round limit on magazines sold in New York will be suspended “indefinitely” by a measure in his $136.5 billion budget set to be passed this week, Dean Skelos, a Senate majority leader said.
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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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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VentureBeat and Mashable
Judd Legum / ThinkProgress:
NBC To Air ‘Interview’ Of Sandusky By Man Who Called The Case Against The Convicted Child Rapist ‘Remarkably Weak’ — NBC is hyping an “interview,” to be aired Monday, with convicted child rapist Jerry Sandusky. But what they don't tell you is the interview wasn't conducted by NBC.
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Gawker, The Framing of Joe Paterno, TVNewser and PennLive.com