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12:15 AM ET, April 12, 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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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Was it ‘three times’ or ‘free time’ on McConnell tape?  —  (CNN) - One of the questions to emerge from that secret recording of a Mitch McConnell campaign strategy session is whether it proves the Senate Minority Leader is caught on tape misusing his congressional staff.
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Progress Kentucky official resigns  —  Pressure is growing Thursday afternoon on a liberal super PAC in Kentucky accused of surreptitiously recording a strategy session held by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.  —  Jacob Conway, the Jefferson County Democratic Party's executive committee member …
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 …
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
The Disastrous Collapse Of Kentucky's Least Effective Liberal Group
Discussion: Fox News Insider
First Read:
Liberal Ky. group spotlighted in McConnell audio probe
New York Times:
Pentagon Says Nuclear Missile Is in Grasp for North Korea  —  WASHINGTON — A new assessment of North Korea's nuclear capability conducted by the Pentagon's intelligence arm has concluded for the first time, with “moderate confidence,” that the country has learned how to make a nuclear weapon small enough …
Discussion: WFPL and Washington Free Beacon
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Pentagon Report Says North Korea Likely Has Nuclear Warheads
Juana Summers / Politico:
Report: North Korea may have missile-capable nuclear weapons
Discussion: CNN
Associated Press:
Obama urges NKorea to end belligerence, vows to take ‘necessary steps’ to protect Americans
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
The Morning Plum: How expanded background checks could pass the House  —  The Senate will vote today on starting debate on the new bipartisan compromise proposal to expand gun background checks, and all signs are that enough Republican Senators will vote Yes to break the filibuster being mounted by a bloc of far right Senators.
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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  —  A gay man was arrested at a hospital in Missouri this week when he refused to leave the bedside of his partner, and now a restraining order is preventing him from any type of visitation.
Discussion: fox4kc.com, LGBTQ Nation and BuzzFeed
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Officials Aim For “Speedy” Response Following Missouri Hospital Arrest
Discussion: Hullabaloo and AMERICAblog
Facebook:
Congressman Jeff Duncan  · 8,245 like this  —  Let's not kid ourselves.  Expanded background checks and gun show requirements would have had NO effect on stopping Aurora, Sandy Hook or Tucson.  Nor would they have any effect on the violent gun-crime in Chicago.  —  Let's get tough on criminals.
Discussion: Politico, Daily Kos and Mother Jones
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP Rep. Duncan likens gun registration to Rwandan genocide  —  Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-S.C.) warned in a Facebook post on Thursday that a national gun registry would be similar to a database used by the ruling Hutu tribe in Rwanda in the 1990s to locate and slaughter members of an opposing tribe …
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Elizabeth Warren Tears Into Federal Regulators For Shielding Big Banks  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) embarrassed government regulators during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Thursday morning as she demanded to know why they won't reveal how frequently big banks illegally foreclosed on homeowners.
DealBook:
Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money  —  The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler — Olympic rowers, nemeses of Mark Zuckerberg — are laying claim to a new title: bitcoin moguls.  —  The Winklevii, as they are known, have amassed since last summer what appears …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Federal Appeals Court Explains Why Rubber Fetuses And High Schools Don't Mix  —  An anti-abortion student group in Roswell, New Mexico thought it would be a good idea to pass out hundreds of small rubber replicas of fetuses to students at two high schools.  As it turns out, this was not such a good idea:
Discussion: The Raw Story
Pat Toomey:
Sen. Toomey Offers Full Text Of Public Safety And Second Amendment Rights Protection Act Online  —  Public Will Have Ample Opportunity To Review & Provide Input On Important Measure  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) tonight posted the bill text of The Public Safety …
Hollie McKay / Fox News:
Jane Fonda tells veterans boycotting her movie ‘The Butler’ to ‘get a life’  —  LOS ANGELES - When Jane Fonda was cast as former First Lady Nancy Reagan in Lee Daniels' forthcoming film “The Butler,” some Reagan fans were not pleased.  Now, with the biographical due to hit theaters in October …
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.
Felix Salmon:
The promise of Ripple  —  This is a chart of the value of bitcoin yesterday, Wednesday.  It's hardly a secret that bitcoins are a highly volatile asset class, so relatively few eyebrows were raised when the price soared from an opening level of $230 all the way to a high of $266.
Sarah Frier / Businessweek:
Foursquare Gets $41 Million Investment, Time to Grow  —  When Dennis Crowley debuted Foursquare, his location-based social media app, at South by Southwest in 2009, he got rave reviews.  The tech blog Mashable called Foursquare the “breakout mobile app” of the event.  VentureBeat called it “the next Twitter.”
NOAA News Releases:
Sandy retired from list of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone names  —  Sandy has been retired from the official list of Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone names by the World Meteorological Organization's hurricane committee because of the extreme impacts it caused from Jamaica and Cuba to the Mid-Atlantic United States in October 2012.
Dominic Holden / Slog:
Gay Couple Makes Florist Choose Between Supporting Gay Rights or Getting Sued  —  After five weeks of biting their tongues, a gay couple in Richland, Washington, is making a loaded offer to a florist who refused to sell them flowers based her biblical belief that “marriage is between a man and a woman.”
 
 
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Paul A. Rahe / National Review:
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Katherine Miller / Washington Free Beacon:
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Nathaniel Popper / New York Times:
Gold, Long a Secure Investment, Loses Its Luster
Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
House Dems say hot D.C. day is sign of global warming
Discussion: Power Line
Ben White / Politico:
Obama meets with Wall Street CEOs
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Inhofe on climate ‘hoax’: Don't forget Soros, MoveOn.org
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Steve Cohen deletes flirty tweet to Cyndi Lauper
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Delaware: The Next Blue State to Move on Marriage Equality
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