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3:00 PM ET, April 2, 2013

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Mark Kirk:
Statement from Senator Kirk on Same-Sex Marriage  —  When I climbed the Capitol steps in January, I promised myself that I would return to the Senate with an open mind and greater respect for others.  —  Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage.  Our time on this Earth is limited, I know that better than most.
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Senator Tom Carper  · 2,803 like this  —  As our society has changed and evolved, so too has the public's opinion on gay marriage - and so has mine.  I pray every day for God to grant me the wisdom to do what is right.  Through my prayers and conversations with my family …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Republican Sen. Mark Kirk Endorses Marriage Equality  —  “Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage.”  —  Image by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images  —  Illinois Republican Senator Mark Kirk came out in support of marriage equality Tuesday shortly after the Supreme Court heard …
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Working Majority Of United States Senate Now Supports Marriage Equality
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Kirk becomes second Republican senator to support gay marriage
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Delaware Sen. Tom Carper Endorses Marriage Equality
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Lawmakers Charged in Plot to Buy Spot on Mayoral Ballot  —  State Senator Malcolm A. Smith, a contractor and real estate developer who rose to become the first black president of the State Senate, and City Councilman Daniel J. Halloran III were arrested early Tuesday on charges of trying …
New York Times:
Obama to Unveil Initiative to Map the Human Brain  —  President Obama on Tuesday will announce a broad new research initiative, starting with $100 million in 2014, to invent and refine new technologies to understand the human brain, senior administration officials said Monday.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Michelle Obama: ‘This Is Your House, Too’
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Names Himself ‘Scientist-in-Chief’
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama to visit Connecticut in gun push
Discussion: Politico
New York Post:
Outrage 101: Radical jailed in slay now Columbia prof  —  Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin — who spent 22 years in prison for an armored-car robbery that killed two cops and a Brinks guard — now holds a prestigious adjunct professorship at Columbia University's School of Social Work, The Post has learned.
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
NRA plan: Let teachers carry guns  —  An NRA-backed task force on Tuesday recommended allowing teachers to carry weapons in school, while avoiding any discussion of Congress' most-talked about gun control proposals.  —  “Teachers should teach,” said former Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.), the chair of the task force.
Discussion: The Raw Story
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:   NRA-backed group wants gun training for school staff
Kate Brumback / Talking Points Memo:
Guns Are Now Required For Citizens Of Nelson, Georgia  —  NELSON, Ga. (AP) — Backers of a newly adopted ordinance requiring gun ownership in a small north Georgia town acknowledge they were largely seeking to make a point about gun rights.  —  The ordinance in the city of Nelson …
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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Georgia Town Passes Mandatory Gun Bill
Nina Karnikowski / Sydney Morning Herald:
Airline to charge overweight passengers more  —  Samoa Air has become the world's first airline to implement “pay as you weigh” flights, meaning overweight passengers pay more for their seats.  —  “This is the fairest way of travelling,” chief executive of Samoa Air, Chris Langton, told ABC Radio.
Peter Hamby / CNN:
Cruz to test 2016 waters with South Carolina trip  —  Cambridge, Massachusetts (CNN) - He's been in Washington only three months, but U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is already planning a pilgrimage to a critical presidential primary state.  —  The outspoken Cruz, a conservative attorney …
David Jolly / New York Times:
Unemployment in Euro Zone Reaches a Record High  —  PARIS — Unemployment in the euro zone rose to yet another record high in the first two months of the year, official data showed Tuesday, providing confirmation that the economy remains in a deep freeze.  —  The jobless rate reached 12 percent …
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
Austerity Pushes European Unemployment To New Record High
Discussion: Bloomberg and Hullabaloo
Zoe Schlanger / Talking Points Memo:
Pat Robertson Blames Ivy League Schools For Lack Of Miracles In America  —  It may have been April 1st yesterday, but televangelist Pat Robertson wasn't kidding when he told a viewer that Americans aren't experiencing God's miracles because they are too “sophisticated.”
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Tennessee's Colossally Bad Plan to Change Its Primary System  —  You can hear bad ideas almost every day.  But only occasionally do you hear a colossally bad, ill-conceived idea, one that leaves you wondering who dreamed it up.  —  Tennessee state Sen. Frank Nicely, a Republican from Strawberry Plains …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Yahoo! News
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Sequestration Effects: Cuts Sting Communities Nationwide  —  WASHINGTON — It's now an article of faith that dire sequestration warnings were overblown.  —  New studies downsize potential job losses because of the federal budget cuts.  Agencies have figured ways to ensure that the more alarming effects …
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Keystone XL Pipeline Draws Broad Support  —  Continuing Partisan Divide in Views of Global Warming  —  OVERVIEW  —  As the Obama administration approaches a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline, a national survey finds broad public support for the project.
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Keyes: Marriage Equality is the ‘Archetype of all Crimes Against Humanity’  —  Alan Keyes once again appeared on Stan Solomon's talk show, this time to discuss their stringent opposition to marriage equality.  —  After host, Steve Davis, claimed that just because they “oppose homosexual marriage …
David Voreacos / Bloomberg:
Donor Says He Sought Menendez on Medicare Without Breaking Law  —  Salomon Melgen, the Florida political donor at the center of a criminal probe, said he and Senator Robert Menendez are “like brothers” who spoke weekly, yet his companies never benefited and he broke no laws.
Jean Eaglesham / Wall Street Journal:
SEC Ex-Chief Lands at Consultant  —  Schapiro Is Latest Former U.S. Regulator to Join Promontory Financial; ‘No Revolving Door’  —  Less than four months after stepping down as the top U.S. securities regulator, Mary Schapiro is joining a consulting firm that has built a reputation …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Latest N. Korean threats ‘not the path’ to resolving conflicts  —  White House press secretary Jay Carney warned Tuesday that North Korean threats to restart a nuclear reactor it mothballed five years ago would only further isolate the country from the international community.
Discussion: Politico and Hit & Run
 
 
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Ben Carson blasts ‘vicious,’ white liberal critics as ‘the most racist out there’
Lauren McGaughy / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Nearly half of Louisianians give Jindal a failing grade in new poll
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Arms Trade Treaty Approved at U.N.
Discussion: KUOW and The Truth About Guns
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama's continued use of the claim that 40 percent of gun sales lack background checks
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Rep. Don Young faces backlash for ‘wetback’ slur
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Fannie Mae posts record profit, repays taxpayers $11.6 billion
Discussion: Associated Press
Robin Harding / Financial Times:
US has lost 2m clerical jobs since 2007
Discussion: Marginal Revolution
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Democratic Senator Touts Bill To Allow Patients Involuntarily Committed For Mental Illness To Purchase Guns
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Arianna Huffington trashes fancy Chelsea loft: lawsuit
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Martin Fackler / New York Times:
Japan Shifting Further Away From Pacifism
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Stephen Colbert to host more fundraisers for sister
Discussion: Ballot Box
Kevin Diaz / StarTribune.com:
‘Man of mystery’ is behind Michele Bachmann campaign cases
Discussion: First Read
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Hillary Clinton's first test
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Schumer proposes federal grants to tap maple syrup on private land
Discussion: Weekly Standard
David Rogers / Politico:
Big Agriculture flexes its muscle
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

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

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

 
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