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11:40 AM ET, April 4, 2013

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Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Obama: ‘I Am Constrained By A System That Our Founders Put In Place’  —  DENVER (CBSDC/AP) — Ratcheting up pressure for Congress to limit access to guns, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that recent steps by Colorado to tighten its gun laws show “there doesn't have to be a conflict” …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Gun poll: Most say background checks may bring confiscation  —  A plurality of Americans believe the federal government could use information gleaned from expanded background checks to confiscate legally-owned firearms, according to a Quinnipiac survey released Thursday.
Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller:
As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control …
Discussion: Hot Air
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Obama praises ‘tough as nails’ Pelosi at California fundraiser  —  (CNN) - Rep. Nancy Pelosi is a “visionary” leader who “never lets ideology cloud her judgment,” President Barack Obama told a crowd of donors in San Francisco Wednesday evening.  —  Obama is in the Golden State …
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Obama: I need Nancy Pelosi in speaker's chair
Discussion: Mediaite
Jeff Mason / Reuters:   Obama San Francisco Fundraiser Addresses GOP Relationship: 'We Can't Have Perpetual Campaigns'
Politico:
Anti-Keystone billionaire rattles Democrats
Discussion: Macleans.ca, Hullabaloo and Reuters
Ben Geman / E2-Wire:   Obama on climate change: ‘The politics of this are tough’
Jim Kuhnhenn / Associated Press:   Obama raises California money for Democrats
Peter Baker / New York Times:   Obama in California for Congressional Fund-Raisers
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
A viewer's guide to Clinton Fever  —  Will she run or won't she?  —  The obsessive speculation about Hillary Clinton's plans for 2016 promises to be the longest and most intense parlor game in the history of American politics.  It is a consuming fixation already, not just among the operatives …
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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
James Carville supporting pro-Hillary super PAC  —  Democratic strategist James Carville, a longtime confidant of the Clinton family, is supporting the super PAC devoted to luring Hillary Clinton into the 2016 presidential race.  —  A person familiar with Ready for Hillary PAC's outreach …
Kevin Liptak / CNN:   Hillary Clinton book coming in 2014
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:   Report: Hillary Clinton inks book deal on years at State Department
Alex Pareene / Salon:
One thing we don't know about Hillary
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korean Missile Moved to Coast, but Limited Threat Seen
Jung Ha-Won / Agence France Presse:
N. Korea approves nuclear strike on United States
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Schools push a curriculum of propaganda  —  The real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education is to validate this proposition: The three R's — formerly reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic — now are racism, reproduction and recycling.  Especially racism.
Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
Maryland House passes gun-control bill  —  Handgun licensing, assault weapons ban and magazine limit approved  —  One of the toughest gun control plans in the country may soon be reality in Maryland.  (WJZ video)  —  The House of Delegates voted Wednesday to give Maryland …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and No Lawyers
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Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
STUDY: States With Loose Gun Laws Have Higher Rates Of Gun Violence
Campbell Brown / Wall Street Journal:
The President Gives Hollywood a Pass on Violence  —  Movies and videogames aren't high among White House concerns.  —  There was something missing from President Obama's Wednesday speech in Denver about gun violence.  He focused almost exclusively on passing gun-control laws …
Ta-Nehisi Coates / New York Times:
He Wears the Mask  —  The present darling of the right wing, Dr. Benjamin Carson, is a distinguished neurosurgeon who went from the depths of Detroit poverty to the heights of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.  But his current status among conservatives isn't so much rooted …
Lucia Mutikani / Reuters:
Jobless claims at four-month high, cast shadow over labor market  —  (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits hit a four-month high last week, suggesting the labor market recovery lost some steam in March.  —  Initial claims for state unemployment …
Brian Fung / NationalJournal.com:
The New House Republican Web Strategy: Just Add BuzzFeed  —  What do cat pictures and GIFs have to do with Republican politics?  Not a whole lot, at least right now.  But beginning next week, that'll change.  —  Staffers at the National Republican Congressional Committee are finishing …
Gail Collins / New York Times:
Remembering the Affair to Remember  —  It's kind of nice to have Mark Sanford back.  —  Perhaps not if you're from South Carolina.  It is my strong impression that many South Carolinians are tired of their former governor, who so famously snuck off to Argentina for some extramarital recreation …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
$423,500 Stimulus Program on ‘Correct Condom Use’ Yields Zero Jobs  —  The details of a stimulus grant awarded to Indiana University to study condom use have now been released on a government website.  The study, titled “Barriers to Correct Condom Use,” is now completed, according to the website …
Discussion: TheBlaze.com
Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients.  Blame the sequester.  —  Ralph V. Boccia of the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders runs a cancer clinic that is in danger of losing funding due to the sequester cuts.  (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)
Discussion: ThinkProgress and AMERICAblog
Irene / Judicial Watch:
City Recruits Minority Lifeguards Even if They Can't Swim  —  In a staggering case of affirmative action gone wild, officials in a major U.S. city are actually recruiting minorities to be lifeguards at public pools even if they're not good swimmers.  It's all in the name of diversity.
 
 
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