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Sanford wins South Carolina House vote — (CNN) - Former Gov. Mark Sanford will win the race for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, CNN projects. With 70% of the vote in, Republican Sanford leads Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, 54%-45%. — Once considered a possible presidential …
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Sanford Leads / The Huffington Post:
COUNTY-BY-COUNTY … THE CANDIDATES — held this seat from 1995 to 2001 before serving as the governor of South Carolina from 2003 to 2011. In 2009 he admitted to lying about having an affair with an Argentinian woman, to whom he is now engaged. — Elizabeth Colbert Busch (D) …
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Booman Tribune, The BRAD BLOG, Gawker, The Week and Daily Kos
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Mark Sanford defeats Elizabeth Colbert Busch — Republican Mark Sanford has defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in South Carolina's 1st Congressional District special election. The victory caps a dramatic comeback by the scandal-tinged former governor, whose political career was left …
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Ballot Box, Outside the Beltway, Scared Monkeys, CNN and The Maddow Blog
Bruce Smith / Associated Press:
DESPITE SCANDAL, EX-SC GOV. SANFORD BACK IN OFFICE
DESPITE SCANDAL, EX-SC GOV. SANFORD BACK IN OFFICE
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Weekly Standard, New York Times, NewsBusters, Michelle Malkin, The Lonely Conservative and The PJ Tatler
Rachel Weiner / Post Politics:
Mark Sanford wins South Carolina special election
Mark Sanford wins South Carolina special election
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The Fix, Crooks and Liars, Wake up America and The Immoral Minority
Erik Eckholm / New York Times:
Delaware, Continuing a Trend, Becomes the 11th State to Allow Same-Sex Unions — Delaware on Tuesday became the 11th state to permit same-sex marriage, the latest in a string of victories for those working to extend marital rights to gay and lesbian couples.
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Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Delaware Becomes 11th State With Marriage Equality [UPDATED] — Just now, the Delaware Senate voted 12-9, to approve marriage equality legislation (HB 75), guaranteeing that Delaware will become the 11th state that recognizes same-sex couples' marriages. The law will take effect July 1.
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Taylor Marsh, Towleroad News #gay and Daily Kos
Laurel Ramseyer / Firedoglake:
Delaware Becomes Eleventh State to Legalize Marriage Equality [Updated]
Delaware Becomes Eleventh State to Legalize Marriage Equality [Updated]
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Advocate and Freedom to Marry Blog
Baird Helgeson / Hot Dish Politics:
Minnesota House to vote on same-sex marriage proposal Thursday
Minnesota House to vote on same-sex marriage proposal Thursday
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The Week, Reuters and Outside the Beltway
Jack Markell / CNN:
Delaware becomes eleventh state to approve same-sex marriage
Delaware becomes eleventh state to approve same-sex marriage
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Irin Carmon / Salon:
Judge rips Obama's right-wing Plan B stance — “You're disadvantaging young people, African-Americans, the poor... that's the policy of the Obama administration?” — “It turns out that the same policies that President Bush followed were followed by President Obama,” said District Court Judge Edward Korman …
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Umbrella Security Labs:
Breaking news: Traffic from Syria Disappears from Internet — At around 18:45 UTC the OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection, it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet. — The graph below shows DNS traffic from and to Syria.
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
A Benghazi bombshell — The Obama administration wants to consign the Benghazi terrorist attack to the history books, but this week three State Department officials will tell Congress that the Obama administration's version of history is false — and that the falsehoods it told the American people were willful and deliberate.
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Kevin Glass / Townhall.com:
Report: Budget Deficit Shrinks Due To More Tax Revenue — The Congressional Budget Office released updated projections today to find that the federal budged deficit is smaller than at this point last year, and smaller than at any time since the 2008 financial crisis.
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Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
Air Force Brochure Tells Sexual Assault Victims to ‘Submit’ — An Air Force brochure on sexual assault advises potential victims not to fight off their attackers. — “It may be advisable to submit [rather] than resist,” reads the brochure (.pdf), issued to airmen at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
The Fox News Anchor Megyn Kelly Renews Contract — Two of the best-known anchors on the Fox News Channel, Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly, have renewed their contracts, possibly foreshadowing the first change to the channel's prime time schedule in over a decade.
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Deadline.com, Mediaite, TVNewser and TheBlaze.com
Steve Benen / The Maddow Blog:
'That's absurd beyond the word absurd' — You know Republican state lawmakers in Texas are pursuing a troubling agenda when “birther” legislation starts to move, and it's not the most ridiculous proposal worth watching. — Rather, this is (thanks to Anneli Kunze on our Facebook page for the tip).
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Mother Jones and The Volokh Conspiracy
WBFF-TV:
USAF Vet Willing to Offer National Cemetery Burial Plot to Bombing Suspect — US Air Force (USAF) veteran Julie Frein said she is willing to give up her burial plot at Arlington National Cemetery to Tamerlan Tsarnaev - the deceased Boston bombing suspect. — The Anne Arundel County woman told Fox45 …
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No More Mister Nice Blog and TheBlaze.com
Politico:
Immigration's new ally: Tea partiers — Immigration reform supporters are about to get some new conservative bonafides — prominent tea party backers. — Several conservative activists and tea party group leaders are meeting with Sen. Marco Rubio Tuesday afternoon to discuss immigration reform …
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Salon, Reuters, CNN, Rush Limbaugh and 24Ahead
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New York Post:
Christie reveals secret stomach surgery to lose weight — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie secretly underwent lap-band stomach surgery to aggressively slim down for the sake of his wife and kids, he revealed to The Post last night. — The Garden State governor agreed to the operation …
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Niall Ferguson / Harvard News:
An Open Letter to the Harvard Community — Last week I said something stupid about John Maynard Keynes. Asked to comment on Keynes' famous observation “In the long run we are all dead,” I suggested that Keynes was perhaps indifferent to the long run because he had no children, and that he had no children because he was gay.
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Brad DeLong and Lawyers, Guns & Money
USA Today:
Reports of sex abuse, beatings inside Cleveland house — THREE MISSING CLEVELAND WOMEN FREED — Three women who had been held captive for 10 years were found Monday in a Cleveland neighborhood, barely a mile from where they had been abducted. Amanda Berry was able to escape and alert authorities …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Cumulus CEO dings Limbaugh — Cumulus Media today reported a $2.4 million first-quarter decline in revenue related to talk programming, a loss that CEO Lew Dickey attributed, indirectly, to Limbaugh's controversial remarks about Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke.
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Radio Ink Magazine and The Week, more at Mediagazer »
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Obama May Back F.B.I. Plan to Wiretap Web Users — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, resolving years of internal debate, is on the verge of backing a Federal Bureau of Investigation plan for a sweeping overhaul of surveillance laws that would make it easier to wiretap people …
Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware — Pace of Decline Slows in Past Decade — CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW — National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime …
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Washington Post, Hot Air, Wake up America, Wonkblog and Los Angeles Times
Danielle Dreilinger / New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Louisiana Supreme Court rules voucher funding violates the state Constitution — The state Supreme Court has declared the funding mechanism for Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program unconstitutional. … The Louisiana Supreme Court has ruled that the current method of funding the statewide school voucher program is unconstitutional.
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Colorlines, msnbc.com and Joanne Jacobs
Brent Budowsky / Pundits Blog:
GOP Benghazi hearings a partisan disgrace — Then House Republicans can testify en masse and offer a group apology for mocking and ignoring Clinton's warning. — The latest Issa public relations event, under the guise of a congressional hearing about the assault on the U.S Consulate in Benghazi …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Joe Biden Tells Supporter He Opposes Keystone Pipeline, But Is “In The Minority,” She Says — The activist recalls a conversation on the controversial pipeline project. “He grabbed my Sierra Club hat on my head and said, 'Yes, I do — I share your views.”
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Kathy Carvajal / myfoxny.com:
Gay couple attacked in Manhattan — By LUKE FUNK, Senior Web Producer - — NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) - — The NYPD is investigating a vicious attack on two men at the hands of a group who directed anti-gay remarks at them before the assault. — The attackers could be a crowd of New York Knicks fans …
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International Business Times:
Lauryn Hill Blames Slavery as She's Jailed for $500,000 Unpaid Tax Bill — By Dominic Gover: Subscribe to Dominic's RSS feed — Lauryn Hill outside Newark court in New Jersey — Reclusive soul superstar Lauryn Hill has been jailed over an enormous unpaid tax bill.
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Althouse and The Hinterland Gazette
John Sides / The Monkey Cage:
Obama's Voter Mobilization Was Barely More Effective than Romney's — As part of our mini-symposium on campaign effects in 2012, we welcome this guest post by Ryan Enos and Anthony Fowler. The first post in this sequence, by Michael Franz, is here. — Does the 2012 Obama campaign deserve the hype?
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