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5:30 PM ET, March 31, 2013

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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:
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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 …
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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 …
ABCNEWS:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Discussion: CNN
ABCNEWS:
Coming Up on ‘This Week’: Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Discussion: Politico
Mike Ramsey / CBS Chicago:
Teen Mob Action Takes Over Chicago's Gold Coast  —  (CBS) — The warmest day of the year so far brings hundreds of mischievous teens to Michigan Avenue.  Police are calling it ‘mob action’.  —  CBS 2 is learning about multiple incidents in at least four different locations along …
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.
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 and Firedoglake
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Flake: ‘Inevitable’ a GOP presidential candidate will back same-sex marriage  —  Republican Sen. Jeff Flake (Ariz.) said Sunday it was “inevitable” a GOP presidential candidate will one day support same-sex marriage, and that he would have no problem backing that candidate.
Discussion: CNN and Politico
WWMT-TV:
Agema refusing to resign amid Facebook controversy
John Pudner / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA BOOED AT ELITE 8 GAME... AFTER GOLF OUTING  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Nearly half of the crowd at Saturday's Elite 8 game between Syracuse and Marquette at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. booed President Barack Obama when he was shown on the big screen with just over ten minutes to play in the first half.
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Politico:
Sequestration: Cuts' slow rollout yields no-quester for travelers
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Yahoo! News:
Obama Golfs For First Time Since Sequester Cuts
Discussion: Scared Monkeys
Celia Bigelow / BREITBART.COM:
STUDY: WASTE COULD FUND UP TO 45,000 YEARS OF WHITE HOUSE TOURS
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Marriage Looks Different Now  —  IN 1997, two prominent conservative writers, David Frum and Andrew Sullivan, debated same-sex marriage for the online magazine Slate.  —  Frum defended what was then the consensus conservative (and consensus national) position.
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Mark Kelly on whether call to action on gun control is fading; Cardinal Donald Wuerl on new pope  —  Special Guests: Capt. Mark Kelly, Cardinal Donald Wuerl  —  The following is a rush transcript of the March 31, 2013, edition of “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace.”
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Vicki Needham / The Hill:   Mark Kelly warns GOP against filibustering Senate gun legislation
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Graham: Senate gun bill ‘going nowhere’
Discussion: CNN
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: The Hinterland Gazette and ABCNEWS
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Dallas Morning News:
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, wife found dead in home
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Balloon Juice
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Notes from Obama's Easter Service  —  President Obama and his family this morning went to Easter Sunday services at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. Here are notes on the Easter service from the pool reporter, which included this part, “It drives me crazy when the captains …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
First family attends Easter church service
Discussion: CNN
Associated Press:
Kansas couple: Indoor gardening prompted pot raid  —  LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) — Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 
 
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Rep. Peter King: North Korean leader trying to prove he's a ‘tough guy’
Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
How big is this Easter Bunny fellow anyway?
Discussion: Hot Air
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
A Clinton in ‘Transition’ Keeps Opponents and Donors Frozen
Discussion: Althouse
BBC:
Welfare cuts unjust, say four churches
Discussion: Guardian and Spectator
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HotAirPundit / The Right Pundit:
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Discussion: Jihad Watch and Pat Dollard
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NO MEDIA OUTRAGE AFTER SOTOMAYOR ‘COMPARES’ HOMOSEXUALITY TO INCEST
 

 
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
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Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
Sources: MSNBC renewed Rachel Maddow's contract early this fall, but with a pay cut; MSNBC bosses' plan to shake up daytime and weekend programming

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

 
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