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Q: OK. Thank you. I appreciate it. — PRESIDENT OBAMA: You may be mad at me. (Laughter.) — Q: I'm not. (Laughter.) — A couple questions on national security. On Syria, you said that the red line was not just about chemical weapons being used but being spread, and it was a game changer, seemed cut and dry (sic).
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President Obama's April 30, 2013, news conference (TRANSCRIPT)
President Obama's April 30, 2013, news conference (TRANSCRIPT)
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Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
Obama Channels Clinton's Worst Day in Office, Raises Doubts About Relevancy
Obama Channels Clinton's Worst Day in Office, Raises Doubts About Relevancy
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Kathleen Miles / The Huffington Post:
If Koch Brothers Buy LA Times, Half of Staff May Quit — At a Los Angeles Times in-house awards ceremony last week, columnist Steve Lopez addressed the elephant in the room. — Speaking to the entire staff, he said, “Raise your hand if you would quit if the paper was bought by Austin Beutner's group.”
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Jeff Flake · 19,977 like this — Nothing like waking up to a poll saying you're the nation's least popular senator. Given the public's dim view of Congress in general, that probably puts me somewhere just below pond scum. — Now, notwithstanding the polling firm's leftist bent …
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Joanna Allhands / Arizona Republic:
Defending Jeff Flake
Defending Jeff Flake
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Alex Weprin / TVNewser:
Chris Matthews Inks Long-Term Deal With MSNBC, But Ends ‘The Chris Matthews Show’ — MSNBC has signed Chris Matthews to a new, long-term contract with the channel, TVNewser has learned. — As part of the new deal, however, he will be ending “The Chris Matthews Show,” …
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April 2013 Tracking Poll — The April poll finds much of the public remains confused about the status of the law. The April poll provides a rough baseline of public awareness of the ACA before more intensive consumer information and consumer assistance efforts begin.
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Daniel P. Kessler / Wall Street Journal:
Daniel Kessler: The Coming ObamaCare Shock
Daniel Kessler: The Coming ObamaCare Shock
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Sarah Kliff / Wonkblog:
Poll: 42 percent of Americans unsure if Obamacare is still law
Poll: 42 percent of Americans unsure if Obamacare is still law
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Associated Press:
Former ricin suspect's home is unlivable: lawyer — Christi McCoy, an attorney for Kevin Curtis said she had spoken with authorities about getting her client's property repaired or replaced. — Kevin Curtis speaks to reporters as his brother Jack Curtis looks on in Oxford …
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Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg:
How Sarah Palin Is Right About Washington — We call it the “nerd prom,” hoping that a dose of irony will inoculate us. But there's no use denying it: The White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner is a deeply narcissistic event. — I realize I'm jumping on the bandwagon late here …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Ted Cruz to speak at New York GOP dinner — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who has made a national splash since getting elected late last year and is widely seen as harboring national ambitions, will be the headliner at the New York State GOP annual dinner next month, according to an invitation the group is circulating.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Don't be a jerk, Sen. Cruz. — It is a shopworn technique of hard-line conservatives to declare themselves men and women of principle in contrast to those other Republicans — the ones, you know, who pass legislation and try to represent their constituents.
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Online dating, affairs service picks Sanford as poster boy — A website connecting users looking for casual, and often extramarital, affairs is making Mark Sanford the face of their new marketing campaign, and it could not come at a worse time for the former governor.
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Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo:
Elizabeth Colbert Busch Goes There On Argentine Affair In Debate With Mark Sanford
Elizabeth Colbert Busch Goes There On Argentine Affair In Debate With Mark Sanford
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Congressman: Attorney General Holder Is On The Side Of The Boston Bombers — A Republican Congressman suggested on Tuesday that Attorney General Eric Holder permitted a federal judge to read Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights because the Obama cabinet official is biased towards terrorism.
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Bill Mears / CNN:
Early discussion under way on Boston bombing suspect avoiding death penalty
Early discussion under way on Boston bombing suspect avoiding death penalty
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Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Paul Ryan Regrets Voting Against Same-Sex Adoption — WISCONSIN — Former GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan told a Wisconsin town hall audience on Monday that he now supports the right of same-sex couples to adopt children, even though he still opposes marriage equality.
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Fred Backus / CBS News:
Poll: Americans against U.S. intervention in Syria, N. Korea — PLAY CBS NEWS VIDEO — Most Americans continue to say that the U.S. does not have a responsibility to intervene in Syria and think that North Korea is a threat that can be contained for now, according to a new CBS News/New York Times poll.
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Megan Thee-Brenan / New York Times:
In Poll, Public Opposes U.S. Action in Syria and North Korea
In Poll, Public Opposes U.S. Action in Syria and North Korea
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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Republican Immigration Nightmare Could Recur — In 2007, Republicans waged culture war on undocumented immigrants — and they've been paying for it at the ballot box ever since. Back in the bunker. — Minutemen demonstrate in Los Angeles in May 2007. — For the Republicans in Washington …
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Larry Siems / Slate:
How the United States kept him silent for 12 years. — Mohamedou Ould Slahi began to tell his story in 2005. Over the course of several months, the Guantánamo prisoner handwrote his memoir, recounting what he calls his “endless world tour” of detention and interrogation.
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Washington Post:
FBI looking into relationship between McDonnells, donor — FBI agents are conducting interviews about the relationship between Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, his wife, Maureen, and a major campaign donor who paid for the food at the wedding of the governor's daughter, according to four people familiar with the questioning.
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Kasie Hunt / First Read:
Gun vote stirs passion at Ayotte town hall meeting — WARREN, N.H. — The daughter of a Newtown victim confronted Sen. Kelly Ayotte during her first town hall meeting since voting against expanding background checks on all commercial gun sales. — Nearly two weeks ago …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Obama's budget puts House Democrats in bind — Democrats have used a clear and potent attack against Republicans in recent elections: Don't vote for them because they'll cut your Social Security and Medicare. — But using that playbook next year, as Democrats had planned, just got a lot more complicated.
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Susan Davis / USA Today:
GOP presses its agenda on ‘mommy blog’ sites
GOP presses its agenda on ‘mommy blog’ sites
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