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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Daily Beast drops Howard Kurtz — The Daily Beast is dropping Howard Kurtz, the veteran media critic who made headlines this week for his erroneous report about NBA star Jason Collins. — “The Daily Beast and Howard Kurtz have parted company,” Tina Brown, the site's editor in chief, said in a statement sent to POLITICO.
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The Daily Beast Retracts Jason Collins Blog Post — The Daily Beast has retracted a May 2, 2013, blog post by Howard Kurtz titled “Jason Collins' Other Secret.” The piece contained several errors, resulting in a misleading characterization of NBA player Collins and the story he co-wrote …
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Where Are Syria's Chemical Weapons? — Multiple U.S. officials tell Eli Lake the scary truth: in many cases, we simply don't know. Plus: irregular militias loyal to Assad have reportedly been training in how to use them. — As the White House mulls whether Syria has crossed President Obama's red line …
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BuzzFeed:
Howard Kurtz Responds To Criticism Of His Disastrous Jason Collins Column [Updated] — And now he is no longer with The Daily Beast. — New York magazine's headline was “Howard Kurtz Wrote the World's Worst Column on Jason Collins.” The Huffington Post's was “Howard Kurtz Indignantly …
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Jonathan Cohn / New Republic:
The New Study that Republicans Who Reject Medicaid Must Read — A major new study on Medicaid just became public. I know—nothing excites readers more than the phrase “major new study on Medicaid.” Bear with me. This study is already getting a lot of attention: Conservatives and libertarians …
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Crooks and Liars, Washington Post, Paul Krugman, The Mahablog, The Plum Line, Hullabaloo, Bloomberg, Hit & Run, AEIdeas, The Incidental Economist and Economix
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Michael F. Cannon / Cato Institute:
Oregon Study Throws a Stop Sign in Front of ObamaCare's Medicaid Expansion
Oregon Study Throws a Stop Sign in Front of ObamaCare's Medicaid Expansion
Megan McArdle / Asymmetrical Information:
Study: Giving People Government Health Insurance May Not Make them Any Healthier
Study: Giving People Government Health Insurance May Not Make them Any Healthier
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Investor's Business Daily:
Just How Ignorant Is Obama About ObamaCare?
Just How Ignorant Is Obama About ObamaCare?
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NationalJournal.com, Hot Air and The Hill
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
So Is Healthcare Worthwhile or Not? — Avik Roy tweets:
So Is Healthcare Worthwhile or Not? — Avik Roy tweets:
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Washington Monthly, The Incidental Economist, Business Insider, Brad DeLong and Balloon Juice
Lincoln Chafee / New York Times:
Why I Am Signing Marriage Equality Into Law — PROVIDENCE, R.I. — ON Thursday, the Rhode Island House of Representatives is expected to approve legislation to extend the right to marry to all Rhode Islanders, regardless of sexual orientation. I plan to sign the Marriage Equality Act …
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David Klepper / ABCNEWS:
RI to Become 10th State Allowing Gay Marriage
Adam Housley / Fox News:
Special ops called for military backup during Libya attack, sources say — On the night of the Benghazi terror attack, special operations put out multiple calls for all available military and other assets to be moved into position to help — but the State Department and White House never gave …
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James Rosen / Fox News:
State Department's Benghazi review panel under investigation, Fox News confirms
State Department's Benghazi review panel under investigation, Fox News confirms
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The Jawa Report, Hot Air and Ricochet Conversations Feed
Gavin Aronsen / Mother Jones:
Friend Who Had “Fling” With Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on the 3 Additional Suspects: “They All Idolized Jahar” — In an interview with Mother Jones, a woman who says she hooked up with Tsarnaev sheds light on him and his friends now in custody. — Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias Kadyrbayev, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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Michelle Homer / KHOU-TV:
HPD: Bush IAH gunman left suicide note saying he had ‘monster within’ — HOUSTON — A gunman walked into Bush Intercontinental Airport with an AR-15 and a handgun Thursday and fired at least two shots before shooting himself. It happened in the ticket area inside Terminal B around 1:35 p.m.
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National Review:
The Rand Machine Ramps Up — Rand Paul's chief strategist is leaving his Senate post to run the Kentucky Republican's political shop. — Doug Stafford, who is widely seen as Paul's closest adviser, will soon resign as chief of staff to manage Paul's national political operation.
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Ballot Box, Little Green Footballs, Post Politics and Hit & Run
Dylan Byers / Politico:
C-SPAN's ‘Road to the White House 2016’ starts tomorrow — For those who still think it's too soon to be talking about 2016 ... tough luck. — On Friday, C-SPAN will start branding events with likely presidential hopefuls as “Road to the White House 2016.”
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
What Ted Cruz knows
What Ted Cruz knows
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Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
Even With U.S. Guns, Syria's Rebels Still Might Lose — As the Obama administration debates belatedly arming the Syrian opposition, military analysts are arriving at an uncomfortable conclusion: the U.S. can't hand the rebels guns or rockets and expect them to topple dictator Bashar Assad.
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Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, CNN, The Dish and The Week
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Ebindelglass / CBS New York:
FBI Adds Cop Killer Joanne Chesimard To Most Wanted Terrorist List — NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) - The decades-old international case of a convicted cop killer is getting new attention in New Jersey. — It was 40 years ago today that New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster was shot …
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The Hinterland Gazette, She The People and The PJ Tatler
Dr. Boyce Watkins / Your Black World:
Mountain Dew Releases Arguably the Most Racist Commercial in History Tweet — If you've never heard of Felicia the Goat, you'll know about her soon. Felicia the Goat is the main character in a recent Mountain Dew commercial, created in part by Tyler the Creator.
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CNN:
Attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya — (CNN) — Several Yemeni men belonging to al Qaeda took part in the terrorist attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi last September, according to several sources who have spoken with CNN. — One senior U.S. law enforcement official told CNN that …
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Weasel Zippers and Mediaite
Chad Terhune / Los Angeles Times:
Part-timers to lose pay amid health act's new math — Some workers are having their hours cut so employers won't have to cover them under Obamacare. But many will benefit from the healthcare law's premium subsidies and Medicaid expansion. — “I understand there are costs to healthcare reform …
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Power Line, Right Turn, Wake up America and Althouse
Vicki Needham / The Hill:
CBO report: Principal reductions could save billions — A new report out Wednesday could give Democrats more muscle in their push for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to reduce principal mortgage balances. — The Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) analysis shows …
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Shannon Travis / CNN:
Anti-abortion group releases new secretly recorded video — Washington (CNN) — The anti-abortion group that recently revealed two videos from a secret investigation into abortion clinics released a third on Thursday. — The group, Live Action, previewed it first to CNN …
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The Daily Caller and The PJ Tatler
The Atlantic Online:
Terry McAuliffe Got Into an Argument About Socialized Medicine During His Son's Birth — When his daughter was being born, the Virginia Democrat's wife told him to attend a reporter's party. Maybe this is why. — Despite the best efforts of Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert Busch …
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Yahoo! News, She The People, Weasel Zippers, TheBlaze.com and BuzzFeed
Juliet Albin / Wall Street Journal:
Emerson College Poll: Markey Starts with 6 Point Advantage Over Gomez in U.S. Senate Race — A new survey of registered voters finds Congressman Ed Markey (D) with a 6 point lead over Republican candidate Gabriel Gomez 42 percent to 36 percent with 797 respondents.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Biden: ‘There Should Be Two Senators from the State of D.C.’ — Last night in Washington, Joe Biden stated that abused women fear getting “raped again by the system.” He also made the push that Washington, D.C. should be its own state, with two U.S. senators. — Via the pool report:
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Julia Marsh / New York Post:
‘Smoking’ gun nets 60G fine — 60G fine for cig lighter — The owner of a Midtown tourist shop is firing back at Mayor Bloomberg's crusade against toy guns, filing papers to block a $60,000 fine from the city for selling lighters shaped like small pistols.
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National Review and Weasel Zippers
unionleader.com:
Ayotte's gun vote: ‘Disgusting’ political bullying — A senator's job is to study the issues that come before the Senate, to engage thoughtfully in debate and to cast a considered vote. On the Senate's voluminous gun control legislation, Sen. Kelly Ayotte did that job incredibly well.
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Riehl World News, Mediaite and Politico
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Obama group misleadingly cites a vote on a climate change bill — “Number of House members who voted in 2011 that climate change was a ‘hoax’: 240” — President Obama's new political group, Organizing for Action, last week released a new video that mocks Republican lawmakers for appearing …
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Hot Air and Washington Free Beacon
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
GOP Senator: I Voted Against Equal Pay For Women Because We Have Enough Laws — WARREN, NH — Women in full-time year-round jobs earned 77 cents for every dollar earned by a man. Yet, at a town hall earlier this week, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) claimed that Congress has done enough to ensure that women receive equal pay for equal work.
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Rolling Stone:
Too-Big-to-Fail Takes Another Body Blow — Minds are changing on Too Big to Fail. A month ago, it was just something in the air. Now, it looks like we're headed for a real legislative confrontation. And man, is the finance sector freaking. — Last week, on April 24th …
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The Impolitic, The Confluence and DealBook