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David von Drehle / Swampland:
How Gay Marriage Won — Eager to be eyewitnesses to history, people camped for days in the dismal cold, shivering in the slanting shadow of the Capitol dome, to claim tickets for the Supreme Court's historic oral arguments on same-sex marriage. Some hoped that the Justices would extend marriage rights …
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Taylor Marsh, Business Insider, Towleroad News #gay, TheBlaze.com, Good As You and Poynter
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David Weigel / Slate:
Flashback: When Democrats Swore They Would Never Back Gay Marriage — Jon Allen follows HuffPost's intriguing advocacy journalism by quoting the few Democrats who haven't endorsed gay marriage yet. (HuffPost's been straight-up shaming them, naming the senators who have yet to flip and explaining that …
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Hot Air
Luke Johnson / The Huffington Post:
Lisa Murkowski Says Gay Marriage Views Are ‘Evolving’ — WASHINGTON — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said Wednesday that her views on gay marriage are “evolving,” but stopped short of endorsing it. — “The term ‘evolving view’ has been perhaps overused, but I think it is an appropriate term for me to use …
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The Alaska Star, Weasel Zippers, Taegan Goddard's …, Towleroad News #gay and Salon
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Conservatives wary of Chief Justice Roberts in same-sex marriage cases — Some social conservatives are ready to disown Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts if he votes in favor of same-sex marriage. — The conservatives were angered by Roberts's surprise backing of President Obama's healthcare law …
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Boston Herald and Reuters
Ellen Lockyer / Alaska Public Media:
Senator Murkowski Speaks On DOMA — Senator Lisa Murkowski. Photo by Ellen Lockyer, KSKA - Anchorage — Senator Lisa Murkowski says her opinion on gay marriage is still evolving. Murkowski addressed the topic today at a chamber of commerce luncheon in the Anchorage suburb of Eagle River.
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
The SCOTUS ruling the GOP really wants — Conservatives watching this week's gay marriage arguments at the Supreme Court are wondering if it will happen again: Unelected justices ignoring the will of legislatures and high-handedly imposing their own wishes on one of society's most divisive moral issues.
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Booman Tribune, Hot Air, Weekly Standard, Reuters and CNN
Erick Erickson / RedState:
‘Gay Marriage’ and Religious Freedom Are Not Compatible
‘Gay Marriage’ and Religious Freedom Are Not Compatible
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The Maddow Blog, Shakesville, American Prospect, The Brody File and Advocate
The Week:
Why the GOP should want to lose the Supreme Court's gay-marriage case
Why the GOP should want to lose the Supreme Court's gay-marriage case
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New York Magazine, Jay Bookman, The Hinterland Gazette and Politico
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Democrats Have Most Successful Online Campaign Ever Thanks To Marriage Equality
Democrats Have Most Successful Online Campaign Ever Thanks To Marriage Equality
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The Fix
Chris Frates / NationalJournal.com:
The Secret Republican Plan to Repeal ‘Obamacare’ — And why the fight is far from over. — A few minutes after the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision upholding President Obama's health care law last summer, a senior adviser to Mitch McConnell walked into the Senate Republican leader's office to gauge his reaction.
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Washington Monthly, Washington Wire, The Maddow Blog, Balloon Juice, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Right Turn, First Read and ABCNEWS
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Mitch McConnell's scorched-earth strategy — FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky is the Bluegrass State, but by the time Mitch McConnell is done with his reelection campaign, it may be better known for scorched earth. — The top Senate Republican is preparing to wage a ruthless campaign to hang on to his job.
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The Caucus, The Week, Reuters, msnbc.com, Los Angeles Times and Mother Jones
Chris Cillizza / Post Politics:
Ashley Judd is not running for Senate
Ashley Judd is not running for Senate
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Washington Monthly, The Fix, The Week, CBS News, The Reaction, Daily Kos, Weasel Zippers, Roll Call, The Other McCain, Gawker, Mediaite and The PJ Tatler
Joe Arnold / WHAS:
Ashley Judd will not run for Senate, Grimes to explore race
Ashley Judd will not run for Senate, Grimes to explore race
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Rand Paul endorses Mitch McConnell in 2014 Senate race, won't back tea party challenge
EXCLUSIVE: Rand Paul endorses Mitch McConnell in 2014 Senate race, won't back tea party challenge
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Jenn Taylor / Twitchy:
‘Born to campaign’: Ashley Judd equates running against Mitch McConnell with rape
‘Born to campaign’: Ashley Judd equates running against Mitch McConnell with rape
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Hot Air, Michelle Malkin and The Daily Caller
Open Channel:
Newtown gunman Adam Lanza fired 155 bullets in less than five minutes, prosecutor says — Adam Lanza fired 155 bullets in less than five minutes on the day he killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, investigators said Thursday in the first detailed account …
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Jethro Mullen / CNN:
U.S. says it sent B-2 stealth bombers over South Korea — The United States said Thursday, March 28, that it flew stealth bombers over South Korea to participate in annual military exercises amid spiking tensions with North Korea. Pictured, a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flies over South Korea's western port city of Pyeongtaek.
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Edward Jay Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
How Iran Could Get the Bomb Overnight
How Iran Could Get the Bomb Overnight
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Reuters:
Exclusive: Wal-Mart may get customers to deliver packages to online buyers — (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is considering a radical plan to have store customers deliver packages to online buyers, a new twist on speedier delivery services that the company hopes will enable it to better compete with Amazon.com Inc.
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Crooks and Liars and The Verge
Stuart Stevens / The Daily Beast:
What the GOP Autopsy Proves — The RNC's report on the state of the Republican Party was resoundingly on point. Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney's chief 2012 strategist, on how to fix the phony debates and the troubling influence of corporate money. — The Republican National Committee's …
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The Hill and Post Politics
Michael A. Walsh / New York Post:
A nation suckered — Bilking billions from the government — No doubt you were shocked, shocked to learn that Jeffrey Hillman, the “barefoot beggar” who famously received a free pair of boots from a kindly NYPD cop, turned out to be a scam artist who preys on the kindness of strangers …
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Power Line and No More Mister Nice Blog
TODAY.com Blogs:
John Edwards' eldest daughter: I was mad, ‘devastated’ about affair — Cate Edwards, the eldest daughter of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards and author and health-care activist Elizabeth Edwards, speaks to Savannah Guthrie in an exclusive interview that will air Friday on TODAY and …
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Taegan Goddard's … and Taylor Marsh
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cate Edwards ‘devastated’ by father's affair
Cate Edwards ‘devastated’ by father's affair
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The Daily Caller and CNN
David Martosko / Daily Mail:
Alabama lawmaker sends shocking RACIST rant to gun-rights constituent, and copies every member of the state legislature — A black member of the Alabama legislature uncorked a racist tirade in an email this week to a constituent who urged him not to embrace new gun control laws …
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Matt Cover / CNSNews:
Feds Spending $880,000 to Study Benefits of Snail Sex — (CNSNews.com) - The National Science Foundation awarded a grant for $876,752 to the University of Iowa to study whether there is any benefit to sex among New Zealand mud snails and whether that explains why any organism has sex.
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The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Associated Press:
Woman Allegedly Purchased, Passed Gun To Colorado Prisons Chief Killer — DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation agents on Wednesday arrested a woman accused of illegally transferring the gun authorities say was used to kill Colorado's prisons chief.
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The Raw Story
Ben Goad / The Hill:
Obama finding ways to wield power without executive orders — President Obama could wind up issuing fewer executive orders than any two-term president in a century, records show. — Obama has often exerted the power of his office in pursuit of his agenda, drawing charges from Republicans …