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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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Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and The PJ Tatler
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Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Obama: “I am constrained... by a system that our Founders put in place.” — Context: … As a lawprof, I read that to mean that he is not constrained. He's juggling a few ideas, but what he's getting at is: The Founders put into place a system that would be populated by elected officials …
USA Today:
Connecticut governor to sign USA's toughest gun law
Connecticut governor to sign USA's toughest gun law
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ThinkProgress and Associated Press
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite:
Why Hasn't The Media Been Reporting On Or Booking Pro-Gun Newtown Parent Mark Mattioli?
Why Hasn't The Media Been Reporting On Or Booking Pro-Gun Newtown Parent Mark Mattioli?
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I Hate the Media
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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The Daily Beast, Shakesville, Taylor Marsh, TheBlaze.com, msnbc.com, The Reaction and Public Policy Polling
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Aaron Blake / Post Politics:
James Carville supporting pro-Hillary super PAC
James Carville supporting pro-Hillary super PAC
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Politico, Yahoo! News, The National Memo, The Moderate Voice, Roll Call, Salon and CNN
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
James Carville helping Hillary Clinton super-PAC
James Carville helping Hillary Clinton super-PAC
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Yahoo! News
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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ThinkProgress, Washington Examiner, Weasel Zippers and Hullabaloo
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Obama praises ‘tough as nails’ Pelosi at California fundraiser
Obama praises ‘tough as nails’ Pelosi at California fundraiser
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Politico, Taylor Marsh and Weasel Zippers
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Obama: I need Nancy Pelosi in speaker's chair
Obama: I need Nancy Pelosi in speaker's chair
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E2-Wire, Associated Press and Mediaite
Jeff Mason / Reuters:
Obama San Francisco Fundraiser Addresses GOP Relationship: 'We Can't Have Perpetual Campaigns'
Obama San Francisco Fundraiser Addresses GOP Relationship: 'We Can't Have Perpetual Campaigns'
Politico:
Anti-Keystone billionaire rattles Democrats
Anti-Keystone billionaire rattles Democrats
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Macleans.ca, Hullabaloo and Reuters
Stephen Colbert / CNN:
Stephen Colbert ready to make posters for his sister — (CNN) - It may have been a foregone conclusion, but Stephen Colbert formally endorsed his sister in her bid for Congress Wednesday. — The comedian - who appears on his nightly show as a conservative pundit - joked he was ready to join the …
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
Remembering the Affair to Remember
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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CNN, Reuters, Politico, Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway and Balloon Juice
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Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller:
As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control …
As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control …
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Weasel Zippers, Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
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
North Korean Missile Moved to Coast, but Limited Threat Seen
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WorldViews, The Agonist, The Hugh Hewitt Show and msnbc.com
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.
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The Jawa Report, Prairie Weather, American Power and UrbanGrounds
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 …
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msnbc.com, BuzzFeed 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?
The McJobs Strike Back: Will Fast-Food Worker Ever Get a Living Wage?
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New York Times and Daily Kos
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 …
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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 …
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TheBlaze.com, The Gateway Pundit and LifeNews.com
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 …
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The Daily Caller, The Raw Story, NewsBusters blogs, Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite and msnbc.com
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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Questions and Observations, The Week, National Review, Weekly Standard, KUOW and americanthinker.com
John Wright / Dallas Voice:
BREAKING: Texas A&M Student Senate passes anti-gay bill in 35-28 vote — After three hours of emotional debate, the Texas A&M Student Senate voted 35-28 Wednesday night to approve an anti-gay measure that would allow students to opt out of funding the campus GLBT Resource Center if they have religious objections.
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ThinkProgress, Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Majority Now Supports Legalizing Marijuana — OVERVIEW — For the first time in more than four decades of polling on the issue, a majority of Americans favor legalizing the use of marijuana. A national survey finds that 52% say that the use of marijuana should be made legal while 45% say it should not.
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Hit & Run
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 …
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Betsy's Page
Brian Bennett / Los Angeles Times:
Radar shows U.S. border security gaps — Vader, a system originally used to track the Taliban, finds that more immigrants elude capture at the U.S.-Mexico border than previously estimated. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection flies unmanned drones with the Vader radar system over southern Arizona …
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TheBlaze.com and Washington Free Beacon