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3:15 PM ET, April 11, 2013

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WFPL:
Source: Progress Kentucky Behind Mitch McConnell Campaign Recording  —  A secret recording of a campaign strategy session between U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell and his advisors was taped by leaders of the Progress Kentucky super PAC, says a longtime local Democratic operative.
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Report: Progress Kentucky activists recorded Mitch McConnell meeting  —  A Democratic official in Kentucky told a local radio station on Thursday that two men affiliated with the controversial Progress Kentucky super PAC told him they were responsible for the secretly recording …
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Local Dem Says He Outed Progress Kentucky To Protect The Party (VIDEO)  —  The Democratic official who's claiming that two members of the group Progress Kentucky were behind the recordings of a secret meeting between Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and campaign aides said Thursday …
Discussion: Hot Air
David Rogers / Politico:
Where's Mitch McConnell?
Discussion: CNN and Mother Jones
Tom Cohen / CNN:
Senate overcomes filibuster, votes to open debate on gun bill  —  Washington (CNN) - The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to overcome a Republican-led filibuster against tougher gun laws, clearing the way for a major congressional debate on a package of proposals sought by President Barack Obama …
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
Senate heads off filibuster on gun bill … Vote to break a threatened filibuster on gun control doesn't end the debate — it only begins it.  —  WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 68 to 31 Thursday morning to move forward on a gun safety bill, breaking a threatened filibuster from conservative Republicans …
David Weigel / Slate:
The NRA Will “Score” A Cloture Vote for Gun Control After All  —  Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the National Rifle Association, leaves after he delivered remarks during the Conservative Political Action Conference on March 15, 2013 in National Harbor, Maryland.  —  The day ends with the NRA issuing a “key vote” threat on Manchin-Toomey.
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Veterans poll: 91 percent back gun checks
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Senate Votes, 68 to 31, to Allow Debate on Gun Legislation
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David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Missouri man arrested at hospital for refusing to leave gay partner
Discussion: BuzzFeed
Life+Times:
JAY Z “Open Letter”  —  I got an onion from Universal and didn't even weep...  I got an onion from Universal and didn't even weep...  I got an onion from Universal and didn't even weep...  N!  CE  —  N!  CE  —  N!  CE  —  Does Kevin Hart get a check for the hook?
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Kevin Cirilli / Politico:
Jay-Z brags about Cuba trip in rap  —  Rapper Jay-Z released a new track Thursday in which he boasts about his recent trip to Cuba with superstar Beyoncé and says that President Barack Obama told him he'd get him “impeached.”  —  “I done turned Havana into Atlanta,” Jay-Z raps in “Open Letter,” which he released Thursday.
Kirsten Powers / USA Today:
Philadelphia abortion clinic horror: Column  —  We've forgotten what belongs on Page One.  —  Infant beheadings.  Severed baby feet in jars.  A child screaming after it was delivered alive during an abortion procedure.  Haven't heard about these sickening accusations?  —  It's not your fault.
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Steve Cohen deletes flirty tweet to Cyndi Lauper  —  Rep. Steve Cohen appears to have sent and then deleted an eyebrow-raising tweet to performer Cyndi Lauper.  —  “@cyndilauper great night,couldn't believe how hot u were.see you again next Tuesday.try a little tenderness. http://t.co/zz4Orccryf …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Associated Press
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Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post:
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg: Immigration and the knowledge economy  —  Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook and co-founder of Fwd.us.  —  Earlier this year I started teaching a class on entrepreneurship at an after-school program in my community.
Associated Press:
Gun Shop Where Lanza's Mother Bought Bushmaster Shut Down For Selling To A Felon, Background Check Violations  —  EAST WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) — Federal authorities say a Connecticut gun shop that legally sold weapons used in the Newtown school shootings lost its federal firearms license …
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Len Besthoff / WFSB-TV:
Documents detail why gun shop lost license
Discussion: The Raw Story
Politico:
Senators who split with their party on guns  —  Sixteen Republicans split with their party leaders and voted Thursday to end the GOP filibuster of gun control legislation and begin what will be a contentious Senate debate on the issue.  —  The final vote was 68-31.
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:   Mark Pryor rakes in cash in first quarter
Joseph Ryan / Chicago Tribune:
Daughter of former Obama pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright indicted … The daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright — the controversial former pastor to President Barack Obama — was indicted today in an expanding federal probe of a state grant tied to a former suburban police chief.
David Weigel / Slate:
Delaware: The Next Blue State to Move on Marriage Equality  —  A same-sex marriage supporter has her forehead painted with a rainbow as she joins a demonstration in front of the Supreme Court on March 27, 2013 in Washington, DC.  —  Last year, as more states legalized gay marriage legislatively …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Aron Heller / Associated Press:
Israel Detains Five Women For Wearing Prayer Shawls At Western Wall  —  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police on Thursday detained five women at a Jerusalem holy site for performing religious rituals there that ultra-Orthodox Jews say are reserved for men.  —  The detentions come …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Campus Reform the #1 Source for College News:
‘Stupid and Racist’: Video captures professor ranting against Republican Party  —  A professor at the University of Southern California (USC) appears to have used a fall semester 2012 political science class to deliver sustained and angered attacks on Republicans, who he characterized as old, white, racist, and “losers.”
Mickey Kaus / The Daily Caller:
90% Bull  —  Fig leaves wilting!  It looks like the requirement that the Border Patrol catch 90% of illegal crossers-reported by the WSJ and touted by both Marco Rubio's chief of staff and my colleague Matt Lewis as an example of the “ tough border enforcement measures” …
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Closing the Gun Show Loophole: Better Than Nothing?  —  Ah, bipartisan compromise, just what the country is yearning for.  We saw some yesterday, as NRA favorite Pat Toomey and NRA favorite Joe Manchin got together to see if they could come up with a plan for universal background checks …
Discussion: Hit & Run, The Week and Daily Kos
Talking Points Memo:
Club For Growth Questions GOP Rep. For Attacking Obama On Social Security Cuts  —  The conservative advocacy group Club for Growth is calling on Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) to answer for his comments Wednesday, in which he attacked President Barack Obama for proposing cuts to entitlements …
Ben Geman / E2-Wire:
Inhofe on climate ‘hoax’: Don't forget Soros, MoveOn.org  —  Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Thursday that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) accurately summed up his views on global warming, but left a few things out.  —  The liberal Sanders, at a hearing to vet the White House nominee to head …
Discussion: The Raw Story
 
 
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