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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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Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
TIME Magazine Sexualizing Same-Sex Marriage With New Cover Photo — One of Time's two new cover photos declaring “gay marriage already won” looks like a wedding kiss. The other looks more like a makeout session.
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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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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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
The Slow Death of the Anti-Gay-Marriage Movement
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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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Manu Raju / Politico:
Mitch McConnell's scorched-earth strategy
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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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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
A Very White Republican Leadership Plans Minority Outreach — Criticism from inside the ranks. “Any kind of racially specific campaign activity was often treated with skepticism by white staffers,” says one former RNC staffer. — Priebus speaks to reporters after holding private talks …
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Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
Report: Right-Wing Extremists Are ‘Highly Engaged’ With GOP On Twitter
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Jordan Weissmann / The Atlantic Online:
The Most Important Thing to Remember About America's Food Stamp Boom — The Wall Street Journal is out with a long article today exploring why the number of Americans on food stamps isn't falling along with the unemployment rate. As of December there were 47.8 million people enrolled …
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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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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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Martin Crutsinger / Associated Press:
US ECONOMY EXPANDS AT 0.4 PERCENT RATE — WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a slightly faster but still anemic rate at the end of last year. However, there is hope that growth accelerated in early 2013 despite higher taxes and cuts in government spending.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Political Success Can Be a Setback in Gay Rights — WASHINGTON — As the justices of the Supreme Court struggled with the question of same-sex marriage this week, politicians in Congress kept handing down their own verdict. One after another, a series of lawmakers in recent days endorsed allowing gay men and lesbians to wed.
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Conservatives wary of Chief Justice Roberts in same-sex marriage cases
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Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles Times:
‘Stupid’: Alan Simpson gores GOP on immigration, Obama on budget — CODY, Wyo.—Alan Simpson has spent the better part of two years flying around the country ticking people off, though that's putting it more politely than the former Wyoming senator does. — Simpson is the Republican half …
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Most Say Illegal Immigrants Should Be Allowed to Stay, But Citizenship Is More Divisive — OVERVIEW — A new survey finds that seven-in-ten Americans (71%) say there should be a way for people in the United States illegally to remain in this country if they meet certain requirements …
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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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Katie Packer Gage / State Journal Register:
Illinois law must outlaw stalking, not encourage it — I was very troubled to learn recently that despite having made stalking illegal in Illinois, elected officials in the state have afforded union bosses an exemption. — Yes, that's correct; during labor disputes, Illinois's law against …
David M. Drucker / GOPpers:
Boehner Memo: ‘We Forged a New Tactical Plan’ — Spring has arrived in Washington, D.C., even though the weather might not yet reflect the season, and that means it's time for spring messaging from Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio. — In a memorandum sent to House Republicans on Thursday morning …
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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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David Weigel / Slate:
A Michigan RNC Committeeman Wants You to Know the Truth About “Filthy” Homosexuality — Parade goers dance prior to the start of the annual Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade on March 2, 2013 in Sydney, Australia. — Dave Agema is a Republican National Commiteeman from Michigan …
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Barbara Walters To Retire In 2014 — ABC News anchor and “The View” co-host Barbara Walters will retire in May, 2014, someone familiar with the matter tells TVNewser. — ABC is expected to air a number of specials, tributes and events over the course of the next year, leading up to Walters' formal departure.
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Matthew Schmitz / First Things:
Ayn Rand Really, Really Hated C.S. Lewis — Ayn Rand was no fan of C.S. Lewis. She called the famous apologist an “abysmal bastard,” a “monstrosity,” a “cheap, awful, miserable, touchy, social-metaphysical mediocrity,” a “pickpocket of concepts,” and a “God-damn, beaten mystic.”
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Paul Bond / Hollywood Reporter:
Jim Carrey Backlash on eBay for His Anti-Gun Video Mysteriously Disappears — UPDATED: An eBay user who was selling an autographed photo of the actor and promising to buy a gun with the money sparked a mini-trend, though the auction site appears to have put an end to the movement.
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Cooling on Warming — Is spring actually here? We are definitely getting tired of snow stories. It's time for some sun. And then the drought stories! — At which point we will ask ourselves: What ever happened to worrying about global warming? You may remember what a big deal President Obama …
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