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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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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 …
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Report: Progress Kentucky activists recorded Mitch McConnell meeting
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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.
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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 …
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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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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Veterans poll: 91 percent back gun checks — The vast majority of veterans support universal background checks, a new poll shows. — According to a survey commissioned by the organization Vote Vets and the liberal Center for American Progress Action Fund, 91 percent of veterans support requiring …
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The Moderate Voice
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Baby Step — So the first Senate skirmish on gun legislation is over …
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Senate Votes 68-31 to Allow Debate on Gun Legislation
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Katie Ferrell / fox4kc.com:
Man no longer allowed to visit husband at KC hospital — LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. — A Lee's Summit man is fighting a restraining order that he says was issued against him after he says he was arrested for refusing to leave the bedside of his sick partner. — Roger Gorley went to visit his partner …
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David Edwards / The Raw Story:
Missouri man arrested at hospital for refusing to leave gay partner
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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.
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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.
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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 …
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Mikael Wood / Los Angeles Times:
Justin Timberlake sings for Obamas at White House soul tribute
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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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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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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.
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Yahoo! News, TechCrunch, Right Turn, The Hill, VentureBeat, Mashable, Guardian, Taylor Marsh, ImmigrationProf Blog and AllThingsD
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 …
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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 …
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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.”
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Fox News, Althouse and The Gateway Pundit
Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
Immigration, gun deals make Tea Party lawmakers restless — House conservatives are growing restless. — With bipartisan deals emerging on guns and immigration, Tea Party lawmakers in the lower chamber are warning their leaders to slow down. — Longtime immigration reform critic Rep. Steve King …
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Washington Monthly
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” …
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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 …
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