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2:55 AM ET, April 1, 2013

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Louis Peitzman / BuzzFeed:
15 People Who Think Google Is Honoring Hugo Chávez  —  Hugo Chávez was the socialist president of Venezuela; Cesar Chavez was a labor leader and civil rights activist.  See the difference?  —  Some conservatives outraged over Google's choice to feature a Cesar Chavez doodle instead …
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Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story:
Conservatives freak out after Google honors Cesar Chavez on Easter  —  Conservatives reacted with outrage on Easter Sunday after seeing that the search engine Google had honored labor activist and civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, who died 20 years ago.  —  “I thought the Chavez-google thing …
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Google honors Cesar Chavez on Easter [VIDEO]  —  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 that appears on the homepage of the popular search engine.
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.
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Jillian Berman / The Huffington Post:
David Stockman, Ex-Reagan Budget Director: George W. Bush's Policies Bankrupt The Country  —  A former adviser of Ronald Reagan has some choice words for George W. Bush.  —  David Stockman, Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985, slammed Bush and his former boss in an op-ed in The New York Times Sunday.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Washington Post:
Va. Gov. McDonnell on two-way street with chief executive of struggling company  —  Gov. Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, had about 200 guests to Virginia's historic Executive Mansion for their daughter Cailin's wedding in 2011.  The menu included fresh poached jumbo shrimp …
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Washington Post:
Va. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli's disclosure of stock holdings was delayed  —  Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II failed to disclose for nearly a year that he had substantial stock holdings in a company, even though disclosure is required by law and his office was defending the state in a tax lawsuit filed by the company.
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
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
Benjamin Bell / ABCNEWS:
Cardinal Timothy Dolan: Catholic Church's Nature Means It Will be Out of Touch Sometimes  —  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 — from time to time …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:   Cardinal Dolan To Gay Couples: You're Only ‘Entitled To Friendship’
ABCNEWS:
‘This Week’ Transcript: Cardinal Timothy Dolan
Discussion: CNN
BuzzFeed:
NYT Leads Obit For Brilliant Rocket Scientist With A Nod To Her Cooking And Parenting  —  I find it kind of hard to believe that the Times would start an obituary for a man this way.  —  This is Yvonne Brill.  She died Wednesday at the age of 88.  —  Source: Walter P. Reuther Library / via: reuther.wayne.edu
New York Post:
FDNY EMS workers post gory, private photos of patients online  —  The Bad Lieutenant is part of a sick clique.  —  In addition to uploading racist rants and Nazi nonsense, EMS Lt. Timothy Dluhos also posted pictures of patients, including one of a heavy-set woman with a snarky caption Photoshopped over her wheelchair: “Wide Load.”
Discussion: The Raw Story and Gothamist
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
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 and The Hinterland Gazette
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Dallas Morning News:
Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, wife found dead in home
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Balloon Juice
 
 
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Short of Money, Egypt Sees Crisis on Fuel and Food
Discussion: Power Line and Chicago Boyz
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
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
 Earlier Items: 
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Flake: ‘Inevitable’ a GOP presidential candidate will back same-sex marriage
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BBC:
Welfare cuts unjust, say four churches
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