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CNN:
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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Power Line, Mediaite, Jammie Wearing Fools and Associated Press
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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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Gawker, The Week, The BRAD BLOG, Booman Tribune 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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New York Times, Weekly Standard, NewsBusters, Michelle Malkin 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, Wake up America, The Immoral Minority and The Reaction
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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Minnesotans United and Liberal Values
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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, Outside the Beltway and Reuters
Jack Markell / CNN:
Delaware becomes eleventh state to approve same-sex marriage
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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Hullabaloo
David Brooks / New York Times:
Beyond the Fence — The opponents of immigration reform have many small complaints, but they really have one core concern. It's about control. America doesn't control its borders. Past reform efforts have not established control. Current proposals wouldn't establish effective control.
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The Monkey Cage and msnbc.com
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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.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, ThinkProgress, AllThingsD, Gawker, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Guardian, Yahoo! News, Mashable and TechCrunch
Ashley Killough / CNN:
Biden on Susan Rice: She speaks for the president — (CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden praised U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice on the eve of congressional hearings over last year's deadly terror attack against a U.S. diplomatic compound in Libya - a controversy in which Rice found herself buried deep only days later.
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Politico
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Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
A Benghazi bombshell — The Obama administration wants …
A Benghazi bombshell — The Obama administration wants …
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Weasel Zippers, Politico, Right Wing News and The PJ Tatler
CBO's Publications:
Monthly Budget Review — The federal government ran a budget deficit of $489 billion in the first seven months of fiscal year 2013 (that is, from October 2012 through April 2013), according to CBO's estimates. That amount is $231 billion less than the shortfall recorded during the same period last year …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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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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KVUE-TV, The Volokh Conspiracy and Mother Jones
USA Today:
Hagel orders changes to confront military sexual abuse — Report comes on the heels of Air Force chief sexual assault prevention officer's arrest for allegedly groping a woman. — WASHINGTON — A report showing that sexual assaults in the military jumped by more than one-third since 2010 …
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defense.gov, Weasel Zippers, The Raw Story, The Week, The Reaction and Associated Press
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Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
Air Force Brochure Tells Sexual Assault Victims to ‘Submit’
Air Force Brochure Tells Sexual Assault Victims to ‘Submit’
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ThinkProgress, Hit & Run, U.S. News, Taylor Marsh, The Immoral Minority, Mediaite, The Raw Story and Crooks and Liars
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
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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Mediaite, Deadline.com and TheBlaze.com
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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Daily Mail, The Jawa Report, dallasmorningviewsblog …, The Other McCain and Gawker
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
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
After Boston, Little Change in Views of Islam and Violence — 45% say Muslim Americans Face ‘A Lot’ of Discrimination — OVERVIEW — The public's views of whether Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence have changed little in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Yahoo! News and Jihad Watch
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 »
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.”
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, Los Angeles Times, Wonkblog and Wake up America
cms.gov:
Medicare Provider Charge Data — As part of the Obama administration's work to make our health care system more affordable and accountable, data are being released that show significant variation across the country and within communities in what hospitals charge for common inpatient services.
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New York Times and Wonkblog
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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msnbc.com and Joanne Jacobs