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Megyn Kelly / Fox News:
Tamerlan Tsarnaev vowed to die for Islam; judge may have prematurely stopped brother's interrogation, sources say — EXCLUSIVE: Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev sent text messages to his mother as early as 2011 suggesting he was willing to die for Islam, the FBI told lawmakers …
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The PJ Tatler, Jihad Watch, The Daily Caller, NO QUARTER USA NET, Weasel Zippers, “The Lid”, Mediaite and Atlas Shrugs
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
CIA pushed to add Boston bomber to terror watch list — The CIA pushed to have one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers placed on a U.S. counterterrorism watch list more than a year before the attacks, U.S. officials said Wednesday. — Russian authorities contacted the CIA in the fall …
Boston Herald:
Patrick administration refuses to release Tsarnaev brothers' records — By: — The Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's government benefits, citing the dead terror mastermind's right to privacy.
Associated Press:
Barbara Bush on Jeb run: 'We've had enough Bushes' — WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid the celebration surrounding the opening of son George W. Bush's presidential library Thursday, former first lady Barbara Bush brushed aside talk of a Jeb Bush run for the White House in 2016.
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Washington Monthly and Wonkette
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Obama's Delicate Task at Bush Library Event
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Associated Press, FP Passport, The Caucus and First Read
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
History Usually Kinder to Ex-Presidents
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FiveThirtyEight, PostPartisan, New York Times, Hit & Run and Guardian
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Barbara Bush on Jeb in 2016: 'We've had enough Bushes'
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Taegan Goddard's …
James Hohmann / Politico:
George W. Bush library: More 9/11, less Cheney and Rove
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CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Sky Dancing, msnbc.com, Booman Tribune and Washington Post
Politico:
Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption — Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.
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Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
No, Congress isn't trying to exempt itself from Obamacare
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Via Meadia
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Congress: ObamaCare for thee, but not for we; Update: Boehner: Only solution is “full repeal”
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Politico, Patterico's Pontifications and The Week
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
House Republican Rebranding Effort Suffers Major Setback
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New York Times, Wonkette, Daily Kos, The Plum Line and The Moderate Voice
Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Hagel: Syria likely used chemical weapons — ABU DHABI — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the intelligence community believes the Syrian government has used chemical weapons against its people. — The intelligence community, Hagel said, has determined with “varying degrees of confidence” …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, AEIdeas, The PJ Tatler and The Hinterland Gazette
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Craig Whitlock / Washington Post:
U.S. intelligence: Syria's Assad used chemical weapons ‘on a small scale’ — ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - U.S. intelligence agencies have preliminarily concluded that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons “on a small scale,” Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday.
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Hit & Run and Outside the Beltway
Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
US believes Syria used chemical weapons, crossing ‘red line’
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Politico
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Sees No Conclusive Evidence of Chemical Arms Use by Syria
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ThinkProgress, Foreign Policy, The Political Carnival, Via Meadia, Associated Press and FP Passport
David Corn / Mother Jones:
Secret Tape: Top GOP Consultant Luntz Calls Limbaugh “Problematic” — At a talk to college students, Republican pollster Frank Luntz would only chastise Rush Limbaugh and right-wing radio off the record. — Frank Luntz, the media-friendly Republican consultant and word wiz …
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NewsBusters, Mediaite, Riehl World News, The Hinterland Gazette, The Daily Caller and The Dish
Maria Armental / The Providence Journal:
Body pulled from water in Providence ID'd as missing Brown student — PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A body pulled from the water Tuesday at India Point Park has been identified as that of Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University student last seen March 15. — A forensic dental examination confirmed the identification …
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Poynter, The Raw Story, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
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Brittny Mejia / Arizona Daily Wildcat:
‘You Deserve Rape’ sign causes controversy on UA campus — A student holding a sign that read “You deserve rape” ignited outrage across campus Tuesday, on the same day of a sexual assault awareness event, but administrators declined requests to remove him or his sign.
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ThinkProgress, Wonkette and The Raw Story
Daniel Bates / Daily Mail:
Mom wore a burka to go undercover in Egypt and take back her son, 12, who was kidnapped by his father and forced to live as a Muslim — A mother dressed up in a burka and flew to Egypt to take back her son who had been kidnapped by his father and forced to live as a Muslim.
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The Jawa Report, EBL and Riehl World News
Meredith Bennett-Smith / The Huffington Post:
Mars Rover ‘Draws’ Penis On Red Planet & NASA Picture Goes Viral (PHOTO, VIDEO) — NASA's high-tech Curiosity rover may be getting a little cheeky over there on Mars. — In a photo of Curiosity's track patterns, published on the robotics section of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory site …
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ANIMAL, Taylor Marsh, Outside the Beltway and The Raw Story
Politico:
What we've learned about Bush since he left town — DALLAS — The one duty we owe to history, said Oscar Wilde, is to rewrite it. — Four years after leaving office, the history of George W. Bush's presidency is being rewritten — ever-so-slowly, and not yet in ways that fundamentally …
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First Read, msnbc.com and CNN
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The FAA fiasco — The air traffic controller furloughs are the White House tours of the sky. — From time immemorial, a government that doesn't want to tighten its fiscal belt finds high-profile ways to inconvenience the public in the hopes of turning it against spending cuts.
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