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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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Matt Tunseth / The Alaska Star:
Murkowski's gay marriage views ‘evolving’ — U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowsk (R-Alaska) talks to a constituent before entering the Bear Mountain Grill in Eagle River on Wednesday, March 27 in Eagle River, where she addressed the Chugiak-Eagle River Chamber of Commerce.
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ABCNEWS, Post Politics, Advocate and Taegan Goddard's …
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 …
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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Weasel Zippers, 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
Alexander Burns / Politico:
The SCOTUS ruling the GOP really wants
The SCOTUS ruling the GOP really wants
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Booman Tribune, Hot Air, Weekly Standard, CNN and Reuters
Joseph Patrick McCormick / PinkNews.co.uk:
President Obama: There is a ‘strong basis’ for allowing equal marriage
President Obama: There is a ‘strong basis’ for allowing equal marriage
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Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Sorry, Justice Scalia: There's no evidence that gay parents aren't great parents
Sorry, Justice Scalia: There's no evidence that gay parents aren't great parents
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Shakesville and Joe. My. God.
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, American Prospect, Shakesville, Eschaton, Advocate and The Brody File
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, The Maddow Blog, Hot Air, Washington Wire, 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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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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Hot Air
Chris Cillizza / Post Politics:
Ashley Judd is not running for Senate
Ashley Judd is not running for Senate
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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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Politico:
Charles Grassley writing alternative Senate gun bill
Charles Grassley writing alternative Senate gun bill
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Washington Wire and Extrano's Alley, a gun blog
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Newtown parents press for gun control in Bloomberg group's ad
Newtown parents press for gun control in Bloomberg group's ad
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Politico
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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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, The Fix and Post Politics
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, Hit & Run and The Verge
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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Taylor Marsh and Taegan Goddard's …
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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
Charles Poladian / International Business Times:
Steubenville's Former NAACP President Says Rape Victim Was Drunk And Willing [EXCLUSIVE] — This story has been corrected. Royal Mayo is no longer the president of the Steubenville chapter of the NAACP, a post he left in late 2010. He is currently a member of the group's Ohio executive committee …
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Shot in the Dark, The Raw Story, Weasel Zippers and The National Memo
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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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
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 Daily Caller, The Lonely Conservative, Weasel Zippers and The PJ Tatler
Thomas B. Edsall / Opinionator:
A Republican Left Turn? — If the Republican Party concedes defeat in the culture war, as a number of commentators on the right and the left argue it should, what what will happen to the conservative coalition? Can hard-line stands on social issues be set aside?
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Washington Monthly, msnbc.com, Prairie Weather, The Week and The Rothenberg Political …