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Iowahawk / BREITBART.COM:
Same Sex Marriage and Gilligan's Island Game Theory — After 28 years of wedded bliss and 2 kids, I'm guessing I'm probably the Conversation's resident marriage champ. (It was an arranged Hindu ceremony, I was 3 and she was 2.) And there's nobody who can better attest to the joys and benefits of a traditional monogamous union.
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Hit & Run
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Courting Cowardice — As the arguments unfurled in Tuesday's case on same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court justices sounded more and more cranky. — Things were moving too fast for them. — How could the nine, cloistered behind velvety rose curtains, marble pillars and archaic customs …
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Brilliant at Breakfast, Balloon Juice, Capital New York and FiveThirtyEight
Washington Wire:
Live Blog: Supreme Court Weighs Gay Marriage, Day 2 — The Supreme Court Wednesday is hearing arguments on the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, completing a two-day exploration of gay marriage after arguments Tuesday that showed the justices divided over how far the rights of gays and lesbians should extend.
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Reuters, Politico, National Review, Business Insider, Guardian and Towleroad News #gay
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Justices Hears Arguments on Defense of Marriage Act — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court returned to the subject of same-sex marriage for a second day on Wednesday, when the justices heard arguments about the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act of 1996.
Nelson Lund / Wall Street Journal:
A Social Experiment Without Science Behind It — Advocates of same-sex marriages can't back up claims about positive long-term effects. — The Supreme Court is hearing two cases this week that represent a challenge to one of the oldest and most fundamental institutions of our civilization.
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Weekly Standard, www.frcblog.com, Betsy's Page and Instapundit
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
Alito's provocative question — I'm still working my way through the transcript (pdf) of today's Supreme Court oral argument on California's Prop 8, but there's one quote that already seems to be generating quite a bit of attention. It comes by way of Justice Samuel Alito:
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Right Wing News and The Daily Beast
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Justices cast wary eye on DOMA challenge — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments in a case that challenges the federal law that defines marriage as between one man and one woman and early reports from the proceedings suggest some justices are uncertain about whether the case should be before the high court.
Greg Botelho / CNN:
Meet the woman at center of DOMA
Meet the woman at center of DOMA
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emptywheel, Business Insider and Campaign for America's Future
NOM Blog:
National Organization for Marriage Leads Massive March and Rally in Support of Marriage
National Organization for Marriage Leads Massive March and Rally in Support of Marriage
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ThinkProgress, NewsBusters blogs, Alternet, Right Wing Watch, Washington Blade and Joe. My. God.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Same-sex marriage can't be stopped by courts
Same-sex marriage can't be stopped by courts
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The Plum Line, Poynter, The Other McCain, She The People, Off the Kuff, Prairie Weather, News Desk and Slate
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
As The Supreme Court Considers DOMA, Boehner Goes Mum
As The Supreme Court Considers DOMA, Boehner Goes Mum
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Law, First Read and Daily Kos
David Martosko / Daily Mail:
PUNCHES fly as gay marriage advocates and opponents clash outside Supreme Court while landmark case is heard inside
PUNCHES fly as gay marriage advocates and opponents clash outside Supreme Court while landmark case is heard inside
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Joe. My. God., Weasel Zippers and Jammie Wearing Fools
Pete Williams / NBC Politics:
Supreme Court tackles federal Defense of Marriage Act
Supreme Court tackles federal Defense of Marriage Act
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Crooks and Liars, SCOTUSblog, susiemadrak.com, Yahoo! News and First Read
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Parties scramble to come to terms with opinion shift on same-sex marriage
Parties scramble to come to terms with opinion shift on same-sex marriage
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Roll Call and Prairie Weather
Adam Serwer / Mother Jones:
Here Are the 7 Worst Things Antonin Scalia Has Said or Written About Homosexuality
Here Are the 7 Worst Things Antonin Scalia Has Said or Written About Homosexuality
Josh Barro / Bloomberg:
What Is the Fiscal Impact of Gay Marriage?
What Is the Fiscal Impact of Gay Marriage?
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ThinkProgress, The Dish and Daily Kos
Rob Christensen / Raleigh News & Observer:
U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan declares her support for gay marriage — Sen. Kay Hagan said Wednesday that she supported the right of gay people to marry, saying “we should not tell people who they can love or who they can marry.” — Hagan, one of the few Democratic senators who had not previously come …
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Politico, ThinkProgress, The Hill, The Huffington Post, Roll Call and Swampland
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
Reid faces dilemma over Dem defections after close budget vote — The razor-thin margin of passage for the Senate Democratic budget highlights the challenge Majority Leader Harry Reid will have in steering President Obama's legislative agenda through the Senate.
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Politico and Prairie Weather
John Gramlich / Roll Call:
Senate Support for Gun Rights Shown in Budget Vote
Senate Support for Gun Rights Shown in Budget Vote
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The Maddow Blog and First Read
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Local Airport Closures Cause GOPers Sequestration Anxiety — We've noted previously that outside Washington D.C. — where politicians and reporters obsess endlessly over inconsequential but high-valence things like White House tours and Easter egg hunts — sequestration is beginning to cause real harm, and political pain.
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Daily Kos, St. Augustine Record and DownWithTyranny!
Reuters:
‘Rude’ lawmaker Louie Gohmert pulls rank on cops over parking ticket — A Texas Republican congressman got into a late-night verbal altercation with U.S. Park Police officers earlier this month, pulling rank in an attempt to get out of a parking ticket near the Lincoln Memorial.
The Atlantic Online:
Is This North Korean Hovercraft-Landing Photo Faked? — While researching a photo entry about North Korea's recent threats of war, I discovered an image released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) that appears to have been digitally manipulated — at least two …
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Guardian
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korea Shuts Last Remaining Hot Line to South
North Korea Shuts Last Remaining Hot Line to South
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Outside the Beltway
CBS News:
Poll: 80% of Americans unhappy with Washington — The Sequester — Americans continue to believe the sequester cuts will be bad for the country (41 percent) in the long run, and just 28 percent expect their effect to be good for the country. However, the view that sequester will have no impact …
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The National Memo, Politico, The Hill, National Review and First Read
Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — March 27, 2013 - Virginia Voters Know Little About Gov Candidates, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Cuccinelli More Experienced, McAuliffe Less Ideological — Virginia State Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is viewed as having better experience while voters see Terry McAuliffe …
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NationalJournal.com, Outside the Beltway and Taegan Goddard's …
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Washington Post:
CIA director faces a quandary over clandestine service appointment — As John Brennan moved into the CIA director's office this month, another high-level transition was taking place down the hall. — A week earlier, a woman had been placed in charge of the CIA's clandestine service for the first time in the agency's history.
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Business Insider and Boing Boing
Megha Rajagopalan / Reuters:
China jails 20 on jihad, separatism charges in restive Xinjiang — (Reuters) - Chinese courts have sentenced 20 people to up to life in jail on charges of separatism and plotting to carry out jihad in the restive far western region of Xinjiang, the government said on Wednesday.
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New York Times
CNN:
Who really killed bin Laden? — Osama bin Laden was killed by a team of U.S. SEALS on May 2, 2011, at a compound near Abbottabad, Pakistan. Click through to see images of the compound where he spent the last days of his life. — HIDE CAPTION — Bin Laden's compound
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The Week, Gawker, Boing Boing, Poynter, BuzzFeed and TheBlaze.com
Fox News:
Egyptian mosque turned into house of torture for Christians after Muslim Brotherhood protest — Islamic hard-liners stormed a mosque in suburban Cairo, turning it into torture chamber for Christians who had been demonstrating against the ruling Muslim Brotherhood in the latest case …
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The PJ Tatler, Infowars, The Gateway Pundit and Weasel Zippers
Greg Lukianoff / Forbes:
FAU College Student Who Didn't Want To Stomp On ‘Jesus’ Runs Afoul of Speech Code — Would you stomp on a piece of paper with the name Jesus written on it as part of a classroom assignment? Ryan Rotela, a devout Mormon student at Florida Atlantic University, had to make this bizarre decision in his Intercultural Communications class.
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Power Line, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Fox News