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Reuters:
Israel strikes Syria again, rocking Damascus — (Reuters) - Israel carried out its second air strike in days on Syria early on Sunday, a Western intelligence source said, in an attack that shook Damascus with a series of powerful blasts and drove columns of fire into the night sky.
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New York Times:
Obama's Vow on Chemical Weapons Puts Him in Tough Spot — WASHINGTON — Confronted with evidence that chemical weapons have been used in Syria, President Obama now finds himself in a geopolitical box, his credibility at stake with frustratingly few good options.
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BBC:
Damascus hit ‘by Israeli strikes’ — Syria has accused Israel of launching rocket attacks on Damascus, after a night of huge explosions near the city. — Syrian state media said the rockets hit the Jamraya research centre, which Western officials have suggested is involved in chemical weapons research.
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The Moderate Voice
New York Times:
Israel Targeted Iranian Missiles in Syria Attack — BEIRUT, Lebanon — A series of powerful explosions rocked the outskirts of Damascus early Sunday morning, which Syrian state television said was the result of Israeli missile attacks on a Syrian military installation.
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Niall Ferguson:
An Unqualified Apology — During a recent question-and-answer session at a conference in California, I made comments about John Maynard Keynes that were as stupid as they were insensitive. — I had been asked to comment on Keynes's famous observation “In the long run we are all dead.”
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The Atlantic Wire:
Niall Ferguson's History with John Maynard Keynes' Gayness — Harvard professor and prominent Daily Beast columnist Niall Ferguson is now apologizing for saying economist John Maynard Keynes' theories about surplus and deficit spending were somehow shaped by that fact that he was gay and childless.
James Dao / New York Times:
N.R.A. Officials Issue Rallying Cry for Midterm Elections — HOUSTON — In speech after speech at the National Rifle Association's annual convention here this weekend, its top leaders and political allies blasted President Obama and other gun control advocates, warned against “all-out …
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The White House:
Remarks by the President to the People of Mexico
Remarks by the President to the People of Mexico
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Power Line, Hot Air, Outside the Beltway and Doug Ross
Julian Pecquet / The Hill:
NRA prez: ‘We have turned the tide’ on gun control
Sarah Elizabeth Richards / Wall Street Journal:
Why I Froze My Eggs (And You Should, Too) — Amid all the talk of ‘leaning in’ and ‘having it all,’ we've ignored the most powerful gender-equalizer. — Between the ages of 36 and 38, I spent nearly $50,000 to freeze 70 eggs in the hope that they would help me have a family in my mid-40s, when my natural fertility is gone.
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Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Democratic South Carolina chair defends Nikki Haley barb — COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Democratic Chairman Dick Harpootlian, imploring party activists Friday night to defeat this state's Indian-American governor, predicted next year's Democratic standard-bearer would “send Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from.”
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Eric Berger / SciGuy:
Tornado spike in 2011 attributed to climate change. So what to make of this year's tornado drought? — As informed citizens, we need to be careful about conflating weather, climate change and natural disasters. — Weather (i.e. the extreme cold we're having in Texas this spring) is weather.
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Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire:
China Is Censoring Jokes About Its Propaganda Machine's Penis-Shaped HQ — The People's Daily is the main state-owned newspaper of China's communist party, and everyone was pretty psyched about the paper's new Beijing headquarters. The building is massive, imposing, and, uh, currently shaped like a colossal penis.
Boston Herald:
Jihadi told Russians about Tamerlan — Links to militants explored — By: — A slain Canadian jihadi gave Russian counter-terrorism agents the tip that put alleged Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev on their radar two years ago, Bay State U.S. Rep. William R. Keating confirmed yesterday …
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The PJ Tatler, The Gateway Pundit and Jihad Watch
Zack Beauchamp / ThinkProgress:
NRA ‘Home Defense’ Course Instructs Audience To Store Guns In Kids' Room — Gun owners should store a gun in their kids' room, according to a ‘Home Defense Concepts’ seminar offered at the National Rifle Association's Annual Meeting, comments that came just days after the fatal shooting …
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The Reaction and The Raw Story