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3:55 PM ET, April 3, 2013

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Laura Leslie / @NCCapitol:
Proposal would allow state religion in North Carolina  —  A bill filed by Republican lawmakers would allow the state to declare an official religion, in violation of the Establishment Clause of the US Bill of Rights, and seeks to nullify any federal ruling against Christian prayer by public bodies in North Carolina.
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John Celock / The Huffington Post:
North Carolina May Declare Official State Religion Under New Bill  —  Republican North Carolina state legislators have proposed allowing an official state religion in a measure that would declare the state exempt from the Constitution and court rulings.  —  The bill, filed Monday …
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:   Eleven North Carolina Republicans Sponsor Resolution Saying Their State Can Ignore The Constitution
Nathan Hardin / Salisbury Post:
Lawmakers file Rowan County Defense of Religion Act
Lou Chibbaro Jr / Washington Blade:
Cuccinelli challenges Va. sodomy ruling  — Stumble upon something good?  Share it on StumbleUpon  — Send via Email  — Send this page to Print Friendly  —  Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli is challenging a ruling that overturned the state's sodomy law.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Ken Cuccinelli Fights To Keep Sodomy Law On The Books  —  The conservative Virginia attorney general asked an appeals court to allow the state to use to the sodomy law to prosecute a man for soliciting a minor.  —  Image by Steve Helber, File / AP  —  WASHINGTON — Although most people …
Chairman Reince Priebus / RedState:
Media Covers up Democrat-Backed Planned Parenthood's Support for Infanticide  —  For almost as long as there have been two parties, there have been accusations of mainstream media bias.  Conservatives know it's real.  Liberals insist it's imagined.  Bias is evident not only in how events …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Chair Priebus Suggests Democrats Support Infanticide  —  In an article published Wednesday on the conservative website RedState, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus blasted Democrats for supporting Planned Parenthood, while floating the damning suggestion that the likes …
Washington Post:
Q: Do you support or oppose a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants?  —  This poll was conducted for The Washington Post and ABC News by telephone March 27 to 30, 2013 among a random national sample of 1,014 adults, including users of both conventional and cellular phones.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: Republicans increasingly isolated on many major issues
Mark Murray / First Read:
Morning Joe poll: 60 percent of Americans want stricter gun laws
Jim Avila / ABCNEWS:
Immigration Puts GOP in Tight Spot
Don Van Natta Jr / ESPN:
Video shows Mike Rice's ire  —  NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — In several dozen hours of video of Rutgers men's basketball practices obtained by “Outside the Lines,” coach Mike Rice is seen hurling basketballs from close range at his players' heads, legs and feet; shoving and grabbing his players …
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ESPN:
Rutgers fires coach Mike Rice  —  PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers fired basketball coach Mike Rice on Wednesday after a videotape aired showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players and using gay slurs during practice.  —  The videotape, broadcast Tuesday on ESPN's “Outside the Lines …
Scott Gleeson / USA Today:
Rutgers fires coach Mike Rice, more actions ahead?
New York Times:
In a Budget Gesture, Obama Will Return 5% of His Salary  —  President Obama plans to return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in solidarity with federal workers who are going to be furloughed as part of the budget cutting process known as sequester, an administration official said Wednesday.
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
Hagel: No budget cuts off-limits
Discussion: CNN
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
GOP frets Mark Sanford could blow it  —  Mark Sanford won over primary voters Tuesday night, but national Republicans aren't celebrating: Many privately concede the former governor could hand a safe Republican seat to Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch.  —  The affair that sent Sanford's …
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David Taintor / Talking Points Memo:
Mark Sanford: Stephen Colbert Isn't On The Ticket
Discussion: Politico
Zachary A. Goldfarb / Washington Post:
Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit  —  The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics …
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
NAF Proposes Big Expansion of Social Security  —  It's time for liberals to fight back on Social Security!  Today, the New America Foundation released a plan that not only declines to endorse any kind of compromise on Social Security that would cut benefits, but proposes that we add a brand new benefit:
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Brad Plumer / Wonkblog:   The case for expanding Social Security, not cutting it
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Mary Schapiro and Lanny Breuer Give Us the Ultimate Dog-Bites-Man Story  —  They failed to prosecute a single Wall Streeter over the 2008 disaster.  Now it's home to mama.  —  As head of the Securities and Exchange Commission for the past four years, Mary Schapiro failed to win …
Discussion: Hot Air
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The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Administration regulators cashing in
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Jim Carrey / The Huffington Post:
I Never Wanted to Take Your Guns Away  —  I disagree wholeheartedly with those who say that there are just too many guns out there to control and that more gun laws won't make a difference.  Change must start someplace.  I'm pretty sure that no worthwhile endeavor has ever been accomplished without …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters blogs:
Leno: AP Replaces ‘Illegal Immigrant’ With ‘Undocumented Democrat’  —  The Associated Press announced Tuesday that it will no longer use the term “illegal immigrant.”  —  On NBC's Tonight Show, host Jay Leno said, “They will now use the phrase ‘undocumented Democrat’” (video follows …
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Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy:
Embassy Cairo shuts down Twitter feed after Muslim Brotherhood spat  —  The U.S. Embassy in Cairo shut down its Twitter feed Wednesday following a public fight with the Egyptian Presidency and the Muslim Brotherhood over the arrest of an Egyptian television star.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Happily Never After?  —  I'm worried about the Supreme Court.  —  I'm worried about how the justices can properly debate same-sex marriage when some don't even seem to realize that most Americans use the word “gay” now instead of “homosexual”; when Chief Justice John Roberts thinks gays …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and msnbc.com
Joe Klein / TIME:
Obamacare Incompetence  —  Let me try to understand this: The key incentive for small businesses to support Obamacare was that they would be able to shop for the best deals in health care super-stores—called exchanges.  The Administration has had 3 years to set up these exchanges.  It has failed to do so.
BBC:
The Great British class calculator  —  Traditional British social divisions of upper, middle and working class seem out of date in the 21st Century, no longer reflecting modern occupations or lifestyles.  —  The BBC teamed up with sociologists from leading universities to analyse the modern British class system.
Mike Fleming Jr / Deadline.com:
GLAAD Media Awards To Honor Bill Clinton, Top Hollywood Attorney Steve Warren  —  EXCLUSIVE: The 24th annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles has set its honorees: former President Bill Clinton will receive GLAAD's first Advocate for Change Award; and Steve Warren, the top Hollywood attorney, will receive the Stephen F. Kolzak Award.
Discussion: GLAAD
 
 
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Hunting group wants background checks
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Damien Cave / New York Times:
New Wave of Mexican Immigrants Seems Unlikely
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Jason Schreier / Kotaku:
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RNC blasts Obama fundraising swing as ‘hypocrisy at its finest’
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Juan Gonzalez / NY Daily News:
If true, state Sen. Malcolm Smith's scheme to buy Republican mayor ticket may be one of the …
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Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Felony Charges Dropped Against Colin Small, Republican Accused Of Destroying Voter Registration Forms
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Head Of Gun Organization: ‘Time To Hunt Democrats’
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Prosecutor Cited Security As Reason For Withdrawing From Aryan Brotherhood Of Texas Case
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Pippa Middleton / Spectator:
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