memeorandum: Graham: Senate gun bill ‘going nowhere’ (Jonathan Easley/The Hill)

12:25 PM ET, March 31, 2013

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Benjamin Bell / ABCNEWS:

Cardinal Timothy Dolan: Catholic Church's Nature Means It Will be Out of Touch Sometimes — ABC — During an interview for “This Week,” Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that the Catholic Church's very nature means it will be …

Discussion: ABCNEWS, Firedoglake, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Joe. My. God. and GLAAD

ABCNEWS:

Coming Up on ‘This Week’: Cardinal Timothy Dolan — Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Mayor Cory Booker and Rep. Peter King of NY on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (Getty Images for Extra/Getty Images/United States House of Representatives) — Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan speaks …

Discussion: Politico

Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:

Cardinal Dolan To Gay Couples: You're Only ‘Entitled To Friendship’ — Cardinal Timothy Dolan told ABC's This Week on Sunday that gay people are entitled to “friendship” but not a long-last romantic relationship in the eyes of the Catholic Church. — Appearing on the program following oral arguments …

Misstripleem / Twitchy:

Google celebrates Easter with ... Cesar Chavez birthday tribute — Yep. While two billion Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday on this 31st day of March, Google is using its famous “Doodle” search logo art to mark the birth of left-wing labor leader Cesar Chavez. — For real:

Discussion: Ed Driscoll, The Gateway Pundit, Instapundit, The Raw Story and Michelle Malkin

Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:

Google honors Cesar Chavez on Easter — On Easter Sunday, Google is honoring the birthday of the late labor organizer Cesar Chavez by placing a Chavez portrait within the middle “o” of the Google logo on the popular search engine. — While Google frequently decorates its logo …

Discussion: Hullabaloo, Vox Popoli, TechCrunch, Twitchy and Pat Dollard

WFAA-TV:

Kaufman County DA, wife slain; link to Hasse murder probed — FORNEY — Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife Cynthia were found shot dead inside their Forney home on Saturday night, a chilling crime that put law enforcement agencies across Texas on high alert and shook prosecutors …

Discussion: ABCNEWS

Dallas Morning News:
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, wife found dead in home

Discussion: ThinkProgress, Reuters and Balloon Juice

Politico:

Labor, business reach immigration deal — Senate negotiators cleared the last major hurdle to reaching a bipartisan immigration reform deal Saturday as labor and business groups signed off on a visa program for future low-skilled workers, according to sources familiar with the talks.

Discussion: CNN, rubio.senate.gov, The Hill, Roll Call, Wonkblog, Prairie Weather and The Political Carnival

New York Times:
Deal Reached on Guest Worker Program in Immigration

Discussion: The Caucus, Business Insider and Alan Colmes' Liberaland

David A. Stockman / New York Times:

State-Wrecked: The Corruption of Capitalism in America — The Dow Jones and Standard & Poor's 500 indexes reached record highs on Thursday, having completely erased the losses since the stock market's last peak, in 2007. But instead of cheering, we should be very afraid.

Discussion: Instapundit

Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Graham: Senate gun bill ‘going nowhere’ — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday blasted Democratic efforts to pass new gun control laws, vowing that a bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to bring to the floor next month was “going nowhere.”

Discussion: CNN

HotAirPundit / The Right Pundit:

Christians In Syria Target of Muslim Extremists [Video] — 1,000 Christians have been killed in Syria, 200K more have fled the country. Christian churches were in Damascus 600 years before the Muslim religion even began but now Christians make up less than 10% of the population.

Discussion: Pat Dollard and Jihad Watch

Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:

Michigan Republican Refuses To Resign, Stands By Anti-Gay Facebook Post — The Republican official in Michigan embroiled in controversy over an anti-gay Facebook post said Friday that he won't be heeding the calls to step down and he stands by the content of the inflammatory article.

Discussion: Crooks and Liars, WWMT-TV and Mediaite

BBC:

Welfare cuts unjust, say four churches — The churches say poor people are misrepresented as being lazy — Four churches have joined forces to accuse the government of welfare payment cuts they say are unjust and target society's most vulnerable. — The Easter criticism has come …

Discussion: Spectator

John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:

NO MEDIA OUTRAGE AFTER SOTOMAYOR ‘COMPARES’ HOMOSEXUALITY TO INCEST — If you want proof of how vicious the mainstream media is when it comes to punishing black conservatives for daring to be black and conservative, look no further than the media's coordinated attack against the openly conservative …

Discussion: Instapundit and Patterico's Pontifications