memeorandum: FBI DOCUMENTS CONNECT ARYAN BROTHERHOOD WITH MEXICAN CARTELS (Brandon Darby/BREITBART.COM)

9:35 AM ET, April 4, 2013

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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 …

Discussion: Politico and Weasel Zippers

Kevin Robillard / Politico:

Obama: I need Nancy Pelosi in speaker's chair — President Barack Obama said Wednesday at a DCCC fundraiser it would be difficult for him to pass a slew of second-term agenda items without Nancy Pelosi regaining her speakership. — “I would be dishonest if I didn't say that it would be a whole lot easier …

Discussion: Mediaite

Ben Geman / E2-Wire: Obama on climate change: ‘The politics of this are tough’

Peter Baker / New York Times: Obama in California for Congressional Fund-Raisers

Politico:
Anti-Keystone billionaire rattles Democrats

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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Obama presses donors to help return Pelosi to Speakership

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Alexandra Jaffe / E2-Wire:
Greens get billionaire ally, money

Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Booman Tribune

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 …

Discussion: The Moderate Voice and Roll Call

Alex Pareene / Salon:

One thing we don't know about Hillary — Did she learn any lessons from 2008? — Hillary Clinton made her first public speech since leaving the State Department last night, addressing the Vital Global Leadership Awards at the Kennedy Center. She did not say she is running for president in 2016.

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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:

Report: Hillary Clinton inks book deal on years at State Department — Hillary Clinton has signed a book deal with Simon & Schuster to chronicle her years as secretary of State, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. — The as-of-yet untitled book is scheduled for a June 2014 release and will cover …

Discussion: CNN

Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Paul on the rise, Hillary at new high

Discussion: Hot Air and 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.

Discussion: Politico

Vince Coglianese / The Daily Caller:
As Senate Democrats struggle to build support for new gun control …

Discussion: Hot Air

Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Obama: ‘No conflict’ between gun control and gun rights

Discussion: Reuters and CNN

Allison Sherry / The Spot:

As lead sponsor in House on gun legislation, Rep. Diana DeGette appears to not understand how they work — Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette didn't appear to understand how guns work Tuesday at a forum on gun control. In two different Congresses, she has been the lead sponsor on legislation to ban high-capacity ammunition magazines.

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Greg Campbell / The Daily Caller:
Gun bill sponsor apparently doesn't understand how guns work

Discussion: americanthinker.com

Hartford Courant:

State Legislature Approves Historic Gun Bill; Governor To Sign It Thursday At Noon — After more than 13 hours of debate that was at moments impassioned and agonized, the General Assembly early Thursday approved an historic and far-reaching gun-control bill that proponents said was their toughest …

Discussion: Wall Street Journal, The Plum Line, KUOW and Hit & Run

New York Times:
Lawmakers in Connecticut Approve Gun Limits Bill

Discussion: BuzzFeed and Daily Kos

CNN:

Sanford says fiancée surprised him at victory event — (CNN) - Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who resigned because of an extramarital affair with Maria Belen Chapur, told CNN in an interview Wednesday he was “completely” surprised when Chapur - now his fiancée …

Discussion: The Lead with Jake Tapper and Ballot Box

Gail Collins / New York Times: Remembering the Affair to Remember

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 …

Discussion: Weekly Standard, KUOW and americanthinker.com

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 …

Discussion: Slate, The Week, his vorpal sword, LifeNews.com, Daily Kos, Rumproast, Esquire, Washington Monthly, The Raw Story, msnbc.com, Mediaite, Hullabaloo and Ballot Box

Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Chair Priebus Suggests Democrats Support Infanticide

Discussion: LifeNews.com and Little Green Footballs

Jung Ha-Won / Agence France Presse:

N. Korea approves nuclear strike on United States — SEOUL — North Korea dramatically escalated its warlike rhetoric on Thursday, warning that it had authorised plans for nuclear strikes on targets in the United States. — “The moment of explosion is approaching fast,” the North Korean military said …

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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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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.

Discussion: Prairie Weather and American Power

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

Brandon Darby / BREITBART.COM:

FBI DOCUMENTS CONNECT ARYAN BROTHERHOOD WITH MEXICAN CARTELS — News coverage of the assassinations of Kaufman County, TX Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, District Attorney Mike McLelland, and McLelland's wife Cynthia has turned to the alleged involvement of a group named the Aryan Brotherhood (AB).