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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton considering academic options — Hillary Clinton is fielding offers from colleges and universities — including Harvard and her law school alma mater, Yale — to give her a formal academic role, a move that would give her a platform outside her family's foundation.
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Lara Seligman / Ballot Box:
Republicans fear 2016 free-for-all will only boost Hillary Clinton — GOP strategists are starting to worry that the sheer number of potential candidates for the party's 2016 presidential nomination could give an advantage to Democrats. — More than two dozen Republicans are eyeing …
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Fox News:
Egypt awakes from curfew as official death toll rises to 421 — Cairo and 14 other provinces in Egypt awoke from a curfew Thursday following the bloodiest day since the overthrow of President Mohammed Morsi by the country's military. — Egypt's Health Ministry said Thursday morning …
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Daily Mail:
Horrifying moment Egyptian protestors pushed an armoured police van 50ft off a bridge before officers were stoned by mob — After it landed, protesters attacked it and threw stones at the wreckage while under fire from police — Not clear how many people were on board …
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
Gingrich: Republicans have ‘zero’ health care ideas — Boston (CNN) - Former House Speaker and presidential candidate Newt Gingrich reprimanded his fellow Republicans in unusually harsh terms Wednesday, blaming GOP members of Congress for developing “zero” alternatives to President Obama's health care reform law.
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Obamacare exemption — none dare call it treason
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
WikiLeaks: Manning's apology was forced — WikiLeaks late Wednesday described Bradley Manning's apology as “forced” but, nonetheless, called on a court to take “compassion” and “understanding” into account during his sentencing. — Earlier Wednesday, the former Army intelligence analyst apologized …
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Manning, Facing Prison for Leaks, Apologizes at Court-Martial Trial — FORT MEADE, Md. — Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is facing up to 90 years in prison for leaking 700,000 government files to WikiLeaks, apologized on Wednesday for the “unintended consequences of my actions.”
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Kevin Gosztola / Firedoglake:
Bradley Manning Makes Statement During Sentencing Phase of His Trial (Live Updates)
Bradley Manning Makes Statement During Sentencing Phase of His Trial (Live Updates)
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Congressman Steve Stockman:
Stockman invites Missouri rodeo clown to perform in Texas — Liberals want to bronco bust dissent, create a state of fear — WASHINGTON — Congressman Steve Stockman Wednesday invited the rodeo clowns who performed at the Missouri State Fair, and were banned or ordered into “sensitivity training” …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Love: Obama Played Cards During Osama Raid; 'I Can't Watch This Entire Thing,' Obama Said — Reggie Love says he and President Obama played cards during the Osama bin Laden raid, and that the president told him, “I can't watch this entire thing.” — “Most people were like down in the Situation Room and …
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Howard Mintz / Mercury News:
Gay marriages remain legal in California — Barring an unforeseen legal bombshell, gay marriage is here to stay in California. — In a one-line order, the California Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to halt same-sex marriages throughout the state, rejecting the latest legal bid to revive Proposition 8's ban on gay nuptials.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
California Supreme Court Denies Requests To Stop Same-Sex Couples' Marriages
California Supreme Court Denies Requests To Stop Same-Sex Couples' Marriages
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Obama's unconstitutional steps worse than Nixon's — President Obama's increasingly grandiose claims for presidential power are inversely proportional to his shriveling presidency. Desperation fuels arrogance as, barely 200 days into the 1,462 days of his second term …
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David Weigel / Slate:
Orson Scott Card Worries About Obama Turning “Urban Gangs” Into His Personal Police Force — Taking a break from plotting to recruit thugs for his private mafia, President Obama vacations in Martha's Vineyard. — The controversy over Orson Scott Card's opposition to gay marriage appears to have simmered down.
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The Moderate Voice, The New Civil Rights Movement and Balloon Juice
Fox Business:
Source: New York Times Website Hit by Cyber Attack — The corporate and media sites of The New York Times (NYT) experienced a lengthy outage on Wednesday that a source close to the matter said appeared to be caused by a cyber attack, although the newspaper cited a scheduled maintenance update.
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Betsy / Spokesman.com:
Labrador to seek third term in Congress, not run for governor — 1st District Idaho Rep. Raul Labrador announced this afternoon that he'll seek a third term in Congress, not run for governor. “I've decided to end all the speculation and announce that I have no plans at this time to run for Governor …
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Binyamin Appelbaum / New York Times:
Divining the Regulatory Goals of Fed Rivals — WASHINGTON — Lawrence H. Summers, as Treasury secretary, presided over the group of senior Clinton administration officials who reached the fateful decision in the late 1990s that there was no need to regulate a new family of financial transactions known as over-the-counter derivatives.
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Sequestration Ushers In A Dark Age For Science In America — CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — On the first floor of Jordan Hall at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is a 12-by-8 room that, at first glance, looks like a rundown storage space. The floor is a mix of white, teal and purple tiles, in a pattern reminiscent of the 1970s.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
For Olympics' Corporate Sponsors, Tough Questions That Most Are Eager To Avoid — But GE steps forward over LGBT rights in Russia: “We expect the IOC to uphold human rights in every aspect of the Games.” Other Olympics sponsors back the International Olympic Committee attempt to avoid conflict with Putin.
Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
More Fast and Furious guns surface at crimes in Mexico — Three more weapons from Fast and Furious have turned up at crime scenes in Mexico, CBS News has learned, as the toll from the controversial federal operation grows. — According to Justice Department tracing documents obtained by CBS News …
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Steven Hayward / Power Line:
A Postscript on William Clark — One of the great and sometimes overlooked resources for researchers on modern presidents is the Oral History Project of the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. The oral histories they compiled were invaluable resources for my own Reagan book research …
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Peter Orszag / Bloomberg:
With So Many Job Openings, Why So Little Hiring? — An odd puzzle is taking shape in the labor market: Over the past three years, the number of job openings has risen almost 50 percent, but actual hiring has gone up by less than 5 percent. Companies are advertising a lot more jobs, in other words, but not filling them.
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