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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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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 …
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
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Siren: Eric Cantor Will Consider Higher Taxes — I don't even know what I'm saying! — Republicans have insisted so often and so convincingly that they absolutely will not agree to higher taxes that all of us have assumed that a deal on the budget can't happen, that sequestration is simply the new normal.
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Politico:
Anti-Keystone billionaire rattles Democrats
Anti-Keystone billionaire rattles Democrats
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Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo, Macleans.ca and Reuters
John Harwood / New York Times:
Midterm Elections Unlikely to Alter Party Balance
Midterm Elections Unlikely to Alter Party Balance
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The Plum Line and Campaign for America's Future
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, National Review, Taylor Marsh and Weasel Zippers
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, Taylor Marsh, Shakesville, TheBlaze.com, The Reaction, msnbc.com 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, Roll Call, The Moderate Voice, Salon and CNN
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.
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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 …
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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Firedoglake, ABCNEWS, The Dish, Washington Wire and Hit & Run
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, Politico, Reuters, 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
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Gun Owners of America, a Lobbying Group, Grows in Influence
Gun Owners of America, a Lobbying Group, Grows in Influence
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NY Daily News, OpenSecrets.org, The Hill, Prairie Weather and Yahoo! News
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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No More Mister Nice Blog and 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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The Jawa Report, The Gateway Pundit, LifeNews.com and TheBlaze.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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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.
Josh Voorhees / Slate:
Did the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas Just Scare a U.S. Attorney Into Quitting a Major Case? — The U.S. Attorney's Office says that it will press on with its case against the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas. — The Dallas Morning News reports that a federal prosecutor who had been handling …
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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.
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Prairie Weather, American Power, The Jawa Report and UrbanGrounds
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 PJ Tatler, The Raw Story, NewsBusters blogs, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Washington Free Beacon and msnbc.com
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
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance — Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are “impossible to intercept,” even with a warrant. — Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service …
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The Verge and TechCrunch
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Reagan Daughter Says He'd Have Backed Gay Marriage — WASHINGTON — As Republican politicians wrestle with same-sex marriage, the daughter of a party icon — former President Ronald Reagan — said in an interview this week that she believes her father would have “been puzzled” …
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CNN, Politico, Post Politics, NewsBusters blogs, Taegan Goddard's …, Piers Morgan and Towleroad News #gay
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, KUOW and americanthinker.com