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12:40 PM ET, April 4, 2013

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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
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
James Carville helping Hillary Clinton super-PAC
Discussion: Yahoo! News
Kevin Liptak / CNN:   Hillary Clinton book coming in 2014
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:   Report: Hillary Clinton inks book deal on years at State Department
Carla Marinucci / blog.sfgate.com:
Full Obama remarks at DCCC San Francisco fundraiser  —  Just released by the White House, these are the full remarks by President Barack Obama at the DCCC fundraiser in the home of Tom Steyer in San Francisco:  —  6:53 P.M. PDT  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.  (Applause.)  Thank you, everybody.
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Obama praises ‘tough as nails’ Pelosi at California fundraiser
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Obama: I need Nancy Pelosi in speaker's chair
Discussion: Associated Press and Mediaite
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Obama San Francisco Fundraiser Addresses GOP Relationship: 'We Can't Have Perpetual Campaigns'
Discussion: Hot Air and Roll Call
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’
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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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 …
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Stephen Colbert / CNN:
Stephen Colbert ready to make posters for his sister
Discussion: Associated Press
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Now Even Politicians Can Be Divorced
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
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.
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Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller:
As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union now says it's among those who have “serious concerns” about the bill.  —  Those concerns have the capacity to prove a major setback to Sen. Harry Reid's current gun bill …
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Dials Back on Korean Show of Force  —  Administration ‘Playbook’ Outlined Publicized Exercises, but Officials Change Course Over Worries of North's Response  —  WASHINGTON—After a high-visibility display of military power aimed at deterring North Korean provocations …
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Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korean Missile Moved to Coast, but Limited Threat Seen  —  SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's defense chief said on Thursday that North Korea has moved to its east coast a missile with a “considerable” range, but that it was not capable of reaching the 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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
Josh Eidelson / Salon:
Fast food workers plan surprise strike  —  Breaking: Workers in some 50 restaurants expected to walk off job, potentially shutting down several eateries today  —  A protester holds up a sign at a demonstration outside McDonald's in Times Square in support of employees on strike …
Discussion: msnbc.com and The Raw Story
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Sarah Jaffe / The Atlantic Online:
The McJobs Strike Back: Will Fast-Food Worker Ever Get a Living Wage?
Discussion: New York Times and Daily Kos
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 …
Discussion: Betsy's Page
Reuters:
BOJ to pump $1.4 trillion into economy in unprecedented stimulus  —  (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan unleashed the world's most intense burst of monetary stimulus on Thursday, promising to inject about $1.4 trillion into the economy in less than two years, a radical gamble that sent the yen reeling and bond yields to record lows.
Discussion: Via Meadia and The Gateway Pundit
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)
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 …
 
 
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Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Alabama Legislature Approves New Limits on Abortion Clinics
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Erin Cox / Baltimore Sun:
Maryland House passes gun-control bill
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David Cameron / Telegraph:
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