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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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BuzzFeed, American Prospect, Michelle Malkin, FishbowlDC, Conservative Intelligence …, Twitchy, National Review and Ed Driscoll
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
McConnell: Obama administration marked by ‘culture of intimidation’
McConnell: Obama administration marked by ‘culture of intimidation’
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Politico, The Raw Story and Washington Free Beacon
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
White House Offers Stealth Campaign to Support Immigration Bill
White House Offers Stealth Campaign to Support Immigration Bill
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msnbc.com
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, Guardian, The Verge, 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 and The Hill
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BREITBART.COM:
AFTER PHONE CALL WITH RUBIO, O'REILLY OFFERS FULL-SCALE SUPPORT OF IMMIGRATION BILL
AFTER PHONE CALL WITH RUBIO, O'REILLY OFFERS FULL-SCALE SUPPORT OF IMMIGRATION BILL
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Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and Joe. My. God.
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
70 votes now possible for immigration deal
70 votes now possible for immigration deal
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The Hill, The Fix, AL.com, Right Wing News and msnbc.com
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 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, The Week and ViralRead
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
Jake Sherman / Politico:
The dysfunctional House — Someone in House leadership screwed up again. — The defeat of the farm bill — after both parties were privately bullish it would pass with large margins — shows, once again, how massively dysfunctional the House and its leadership has become.
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The Hill, The Mahablog, NewsBusters, Hullabaloo, The Week, The Plum Line and Goppers
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Jed Lewison / Daily Kos:
Another Boehner Fail: House rejects Boehner-backed farm bill
Another Boehner Fail: House rejects Boehner-backed farm bill
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The Plum Line, A plain blog about politics, Taylor Marsh and Prairie Weather
Christopher Doering / Associated Press:
U.S. House rejects $500 billion farm bill
U.S. House rejects $500 billion farm bill
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Crooks and Liars, Eric Cantor … and Ricochet Conversations Feed
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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Mediaite, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Hinterland Gazette and The Agonist
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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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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Firedoglake, Mediaite and AL.com
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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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Yahoo! News, TechCrunch, The Verge, Outside the Beltway and Mashable
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
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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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RH Reality Check, Associated Press, Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice, The Raw Story and Dependable Renegade
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 and Paul Krugman
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
Mark Hosenball / Reuters:
Exclusive: NSA contractor hired Snowden despite concerns about resume discrepancies — (Reuters) - Hiring screeners at Booz Allen Hamilton, a contractor for the National Security Agency, found possible discrepancies in a resume submitted by Edward Snowden, but the company still employed him …
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Mediaite, The Week, CNN and Wall Street Journal
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uml.edu:
Democrats Advantage Over Republican Rival Gomez is Even Greater Among Women Voters — Detailed poll results and analysis are available at www.bostonherald.com and www.uml.edu/polls. — UMass Lowell representatives are available for interviews about today's poll.
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The Moderate Voice, The Fix, Post Politics, Yahoo! News and Outside the Beltway
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
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Obama hits a wall in Berlin — The question of whether Barack Obama's second term will be a failure was answered in the affirmative before his Berlin debacle, which has recast the question, which now is: Will this term be silly, even scary in its detachment from reality?
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Power Line