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Kyle Balluck / The Hill:
Boehner warns House GOP will be weaker without immigration reform — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) urged their House Republican colleagues to pass immigration reform legislation in a closed-door meeting Wednesday, with the Speaker arguing that the party would be …
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Conservatives Hate All Legislation Now — Kill them all, actually. — One of the novel developments in conservative thought during the Obama years is a burgeoning hatred not merely for government but for lawmaking. Before the Obama era, the ends of crafting laws divided the parties, but the means did not.
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Immigration Reform Has No Pulse — Let's kick things off on a high note today: A body doesn't become a corpse until sometime after it loses its pulse. That might not be strictly correct biologically speaking. Biologists probably don't refer to dead bodies as corpses.
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
North Carolina GOP Attaches Abortion Restrictions To Motorcycle Safety Bill With No Public Notice — WASHINGTON — North Carolina House Republicans are pushing legislation that would restrict abortion access, attaching the measure to an unrelated motorcycle safety bill on Wednesday …
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Michael O'Brien / NBC Politics:
Bush urges ‘positive resolution’ for ‘broken’ immigration system
Bush urges ‘positive resolution’ for ‘broken’ immigration system
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Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Billionaire Koch Brother Says Eliminating The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor — A conservative mogul worth $43 billion says he knows the secret to helping poor people. According to Charles Koch, the U.S. needs to get rid of the minimum wage, which he counts as a major obstacle to economic growth.
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Roy Wenzl / Wichita Eagle:
Charles Koch launching Wichita campaign about economic freedom, government overreach — Charles Koch, who runs Koch Industries and contributes to political groups and campaigns, said he will launch a new campaign on Wednesday to laud economic freedom and warn the public about government overreach.
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Judicial Watch:
Documents Obtained by Judicial Watch Detail Role of Justice Department in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests … Document: DOJ Community Relations Service was deployed to Sanford, FL, “to provide technical assistance for the preparation of possible marches and rallies related to the fatal shooting …
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Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler:
Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Docs: Justice Department facilitated anti-Zimmerman protests
Docs: Justice Department facilitated anti-Zimmerman protests
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Steve Saleeba / CBS Boston:
‘Free Jahar’ Chant As Boston Bombing Suspect Heads To Court — BOSTON (CBS/AP) - A small group of demonstrators showed up at Moakley Federal Courthouse in South Boston on Wednesday to show support for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. — Tsarnaev appeared in court for his first public hearing.
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Pat Greenhouse / Boston Globe:
Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev arrives at Boston federal court for arraignment
Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev arrives at Boston federal court for arraignment
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Trishula Patel / Washington Post:
Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms — Police searched the Northern Virginia home of activist Adam Kokesh Tuesday evening and took him into custody on a charge of being in possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms while also having a gun, authorities said.
Pete Kasperowicz / E2-Wire:
House blocks enforcement of light bulb standards — The House on Wednesday voted to block the enforcement of light bulb standards that many say would effectively force people to buy more expensive compact fluorescent bulbs. — Just like last year, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) …
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Michael Howard Saul / Wall Street Journal:
Spitzer Leads Stringer in Comptroller Race: Poll — Former Governor Who Resigned After Scandal Is Frontrunner — Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer leads Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer by nine percentage points in the race for New York City comptroller, according to a Wall Street Journal-NBC 4 New York-Marist poll.
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Craig Timberg / Washington Post:
The NSA slide you haven't seen — Recent debate over U.S. government surveillance has focused on the information that American technology companies secretly provide to the National Security Agency. But that is only one of the ways the NSA eavesdrops on international communications.
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Emad Mekay / Al Jazeera English:
Exclusive: US bankrolled anti-Morsi activists — Berkeley, United States - President Barack Obama recently stated the United States was not taking sides as Egypt's crisis came to a head with the military overthrow of the democratically elected president. — But a review of dozens …
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Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Egypt Is Arena for Influence of Arab Rivals
Egypt Is Arena for Influence of Arab Rivals
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Mike DeBonis / Washington Post:
Wal-Mart says it will pull out of D.C. plans should city mandate ‘living wage’ — The world's largest retailer delivered an ultimatum to District lawmakers Tuesday, telling them less than 24 hours before a decisive vote that at least three planned Wal-Marts will not open in the city if a super-minimum-wage proposal becomes law.
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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Walmart Threatens To Shut Down Stores If DC Passes Living Wage Bill
Walmart Threatens To Shut Down Stores If DC Passes Living Wage Bill
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
HISTORIC: Senate panel advances trans-inclusive ENDA — A Senate committee made history on Wednesday by approving for the first time a trans-inclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and picking up key Republican support from Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
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Kathleen Parker / Washington Post:
Take cameras out of the courtroom — As a courtroom junkie since my early reporting days, it is at great personal sacrifice that I suggest the following: It may be time to get television cameras out of the courtroom. — Or at least, judges might be encouraged to exclude electronic media from high-profile trials.
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Russell Simmons / The Huffington Post:
Just in Case George Zimmerman Walks Free...
Just in Case George Zimmerman Walks Free...
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Felix Salmon:
Wage deflation charts of the day — NELP, the National Employment Law Project, has taken a detailed look at what happened to wages during the recovery — specifically, between 2009 and 2012. They looked at the annual Occupational and Employment Statistics for three years — 2007 …
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Begich: Is Palin even a resident? — Sarah Palin “quit on Alaska” as governor and “ has lost touch” with her home state, Mark Begich told POLITICO. — The Democratic senator said Palin, who said Tuesday she's considering challenging him for his seat in 2014, might not even be a resident …
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Senate Dems heading back to the drawing board on student loans — Senators working on a fix for higher interest rates on student loans are headed back to the drawing board after Democrats failed Wednesday to advance their preferred plan to curb the increase.
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Patterico's Pontifications:
Lois Lerner in 2011: Receiving a Thick Questionnaire from the IRS Is a “Behavior Changer” — A reader sends a very interesting tidbit buried in a November 17, 2011 Businessweek.com article about the IRS and not-for-profit universities. The article is about the IRS making inquiries into …
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TMZ.com:
Justin Bieber Pisses Into Restaurant Mop Bucket — ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’ [VIDEO] — PISSES INTO RESTAURANT MOP BUCKET — ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’ — EXCLUSIVE — Justin Bieber is an oblivious, self-important little twit who goes out of his way to make the working man's life miserable …
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Snowden: I never gave any information to Chinese or Russian governments l Glenn Greenwald — As a new poll shows widespread American approval for him, the NSA whistleblower vehemently denies media claims — NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, in an interview on Saturday and then again Tuesday afternoon …
Corrie MacLaggan / Reuters:
Texas House approves sweeping abortion restrictions — (Reuters) - The Texas House of Representatives approved sweeping abortion restrictions on Tuesday, including a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy and tougher standards for clinics that perform the procedure.
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Branstad, Braley lead in Iowa — PPP's newest Iowa poll finds that Republican recruiting failures in the US Senate race have given Bruce Braley a substantial early advantage. He leads by margins ranging from 9 to 13 points against the potential GOP candidates.
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