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The top 9,486 ways Jay Carney won't answer your questions (interactive) — Jay Carney doesn't have an answer for that. He hasn't discussed that subject with the president. He will refer you to the Department of [insert agency here]. He refuses to speculate on that. He'll have to get back to you.
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
McConnell: Obama administration marked by ‘culture of intimidation’ — (CNN) - The Obama administration is eager to defend progressive efforts to dismantle conservative causes, and it stands ready to “shut up anybody who challenges it,” Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday in a hard-hitting speech.
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Politico, Washington Free Beacon and The Raw Story
Susan Ferrechio / Washington Examiner:
Top Shulman aide frequent White House visitor — While congressional lawmakers are questioning why former Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman paid dozens of visits to the White House during his tenure, Shulman's top political aide seems to have spent even more time working side …
Jose DelReal / Politico:
McConnell: W.H. creates ‘intimidation’
McConnell: W.H. creates ‘intimidation’
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Post Politics and Daily Kos
The Kickstarter Blog:
We were wrong — On Wednesday morning Kickstarter was sent a blog post quoting disturbing material found on Reddit. The offensive material was part of a draft for a “seduction guide” that someone was using Kickstarter to publish. The posts offended a lot of people — us included — and many asked us to cancel the creator's project.
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ThinkProgress, The Raw Story, The Huffington Post, Guardian, The Verge, Consumerist, Feministing, TechCrunch, Casey Malone …, Mashable, AllThingsD and Mediaite
Politico:
Inside the border deal that almost failed — Sen. Chuck Schumer spent Tuesday privately urging President Barack Obama and the entire Democratic caucus to just be patient — a border security deal they could accept was still within reach. — But after a testy, 45-minute call that night …
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Business Insider, ABCNEWS, Weasel Zippers, Right Wing News, AL.com, msnbc.com and The Hill
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Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Reid schedules vote on border security amendment for Monday
Reid schedules vote on border security amendment for Monday
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Reuters and Red Alert Politics
Deanreddington / CBS Boston:
Source: Arrest Warrant Issued For Aaron Hernandez — BOSTON (CBS) - Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez will be charged in connection with the shooting death of a 27-year-old Dorchester man, a law enforcement source told WBZ NewsRadio 1030 on Friday. — According to that source …
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Deadspin, Scared Monkeys, The Hinterland Gazette and CBS New York
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Michele McPhee / ABCNEWS:
Aaron Hernandez Destroyed Home Security System and Phone, Sources Tell ABC News
Aaron Hernandez Destroyed Home Security System and Phone, Sources Tell ABC News
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AL.com, Sports Illustrated and Deadspin
Michele McPhee / ABCNEWS:
Aaron Hernandez Arrest Warrant Prepared on Obstruction of Justice Charge, Sources Say
Aaron Hernandez Arrest Warrant Prepared on Obstruction of Justice Charge, Sources Say
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Above the Law, ViralRead and The Week
Guardian:
GCHQ taps fibre-optic cables for secret access to world's communications — Exclusive: British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal
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Gawker, BBC, Boing Boing, Techdirt, Mediaite, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Hinterland Gazette and The Agonist
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Hundreds Of Texans Stand Up Against Sweeping Anti-Abortion Bill, Block It From Coming To A Vote — Protesters projected “End the War on Women” onto the building where the hearing on SB 5 was held. (Credit: @TaneneAllison) — Texas lawmakers are currently rushing an omnibus anti-abortion bill through …
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Associated Press, RH Reality Check, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, Featured stories and Dependable Renegade
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Nick Wing / The Huffington Post:
Russ Tice, Bush-Era Whistleblower, Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004 — Russ Tice, a former intelligence analyst who in 2005 blew the whistle on what he alleged was massive unconstitutional domestic spying across multiple agencies, claimed Wednesday that the NSA had ordered wiretaps …
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Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs, Mediaite, Firedoglake, AL.com and The Daily Caller
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Profits Without Production — One lesson from recent economic troubles has been the usefulness of history. Just as the crisis was unfolding, the Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff — who unfortunately became famous for their worst work — published a brilliant book with the sarcastic title “This Time Is Different.”
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Firedoglake, Brad DeLong and Paul Krugman
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Preemptive Strike: Conservatives Vow To Defy Supreme Court If It Rules For Marriage Equality — George Wallace defied a federal court order to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963 — Drawing what they called a line “we cannot and will not cross,” more than 200 conservative activists released …
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The Raw Story and Christian Newswire
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Hamilton Nolan / Gawker:
Here Is the Archive of the Famous Liberal Media ‘Journolist’ — Way back in 2009, the hottest media story was the exposure of the existence of “Journolist,” a private listserv of several hundred mostly liberal journalists, talking to each other about crap. This was perceived as a big scandal!
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Washington Monthly and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
Andy Pasztor / Wall Street Journal:
FAA to Relax Rules for Gadgets in Flight — Airline passengers irritated at having to turn off their devices could soon see some reprieve, with regulators set to allow wider use of gadgets in flight. — The Federal Aviation Administration is expected to relax the ban on using some types …
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The Week, GigaOM, Yahoo! News, TechCrunch, Mashable, The Verge and Outside the Beltway
Washington Post:
New documents reveal parameters of NSA's secret surveillance programs — Congress authorized the collection program amid a great debate about the degree to which the government was expanding its surveillance authority without sufficient protection for Americans' privacy.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
New documents reveal parameters of NSA's secret surveillance programs
New documents reveal parameters of NSA's secret surveillance programs
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The Week, The Hill, Post Politics, Prairie Weather, Poynter and New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Los Angeles Times:
Exclusive: U.S. secretly providing training for Syrian rebels — Since late last year, CIA and U.S. military operatives have been teaching Syrian rebels how to use anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns at bases in Jordan and Turkey, according to U.S. and rebel sources.
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Hot Air, Weekly Standard and AL.com
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Matt Berman / NationalJournal.com:
Rep. Louie Gohmert Has Some Feelings About the Farm Bill, America — On Thursday afternoon, Rep. Louie Gohmert gave a long, rambling floor speech. This isn't the most unusual thing to see happen on the House floor on a Thursday afternoon, but Gohmert really made this 30-minutes count:
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Daily Kos and Yahoo! News
David A. Lieb / Associated Press:
FEDERAL NULLIFICATION EFFORTS MOUNTING IN STATES … JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Imagine the scenario: A federal agent attempts to arrest someone for illegally selling a machine gun. Instead, the federal agent is arrested - charged in a state court with the crime of enforcing federal gun laws.
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Washington Monthly and LewRockwell.com Blog
Yahoo! News:
Rubio weighs in on Kim Kardashian-Kanye West baby name — You probably didn't wake up this morning wondering what Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio thought about Kim Kardashian and Kanye West naming their new baby “North.” (Congratulations—you're normal! Unlike us.)
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Politico
Michael Hastings / Rolling Stone:
The Last Mystery of the Financial Crisis — It's long been suspected that ratings agencies like Moody's and Standard & Poor's helped trigger the meltdown. A new trove of embarrassing documents shows how they did it — By — W — hat about the ratings agencies?
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Crooks and Liars and Gawker
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Obama's crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S. — WASHINGTON — Even before a former U.S. intelligence contractor exposed the secret collection of Americans' phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a government-wide crackdown on security threats that requires federal employees …
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Salon, msnbc.com, Government Accountability …, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Techdirt and Hot Air