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Scott Stump / TODAY.com:
Bradley Manning: I want to live as a woman  — Facebook - Twitter - Reddit - Pinterest - Email  —  Bradley Manning, the Army private sentenced to military prison for leaking classified documents, revealed he intends to live out the remainder of his life as a woman.  —  “I am Chelsea Manning.
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Chelsea E. Manning / TODAY.com:
‘I am Chelsea’: Read Manning's full statement  —  Video: “I am Chelsea Manning.  I am female,” explains the Army private via a statement read on TODAY Thursday.  Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday for leaking classified government documents.
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
After Sentencing, Manning Says, ‘I Am Female’  —  Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army private who pleaded guilty to leaking government files to WikiLeaks and was sentenced on Wednesday to 35 years in military prison, said in a statement Thursday that “I am female” and wants to begin living life that way.
Discussion: Althouse and The Daily Banter
New York Times:
Bradley Manning's Excessive Sentence  —  The 35-year sentence a military judge imposed on Pfc. Bradley Manning Wednesday morning was in some sense a vindication of his defense: following his conviction last month on charges of violating the Espionage Act, Private Manning faced up to 90 years in prison.
Michael Pearson / CNN:
Bradley Manning says he wants to live as a woman, be called Chelsea
Discussion: KTLA 5
Tal Kopan / Politico:
Bradley Manning: ‘I am a female’
The Atlantic Online:
The Movement to Defund Obamacare, Explained  —  The activists pushing the latest Tea Party cause can't explain how their effort to stop health-care reform could ever possibly succeed.  Will they shut down the government?  —  The Tea Party has a new obsession: killing Obamacare by stripping the funding needed to implement the law.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
The great Democrat hope: Government shutdown  —  They'd never say it publicly.  But catch many Democrats in an honest moment and they would admit that a Republican-led government shut down this fall might be the best thing — perhaps the only thing — that could revive their fading hopes of capturing the House next year.
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
GOP poll finds strong opposition to government shutdown  —  BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL CONGRESS OBAMACARE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE  —  A new poll done for Republican members of Congress has found huge public opposition, and solid opposition among Republicans, to the idea of shutting down the government over the issue of funding Obamacare.
Caren Bohan / Reuters:
Republicans weigh using debt limit as leverage on Obamacare  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers, who staunchly oppose President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, are considering using a fall showdown over the country's borrowing limit as leverage to try to delay the law's implementation.
Sam Baker / The Hill:
University of Virginia cuts some health benefits, citing ObamaCare costs  —  The University of Virginia said Wednesday that it will stop offering health insurance to some employees' spouses because of rising costs under ObamaCare.  —  The university said the Affordable Care Act will add $7.3 million to its healthcare costs next year.
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Jay Hancock / Kaiser Health News:
UPS Won't Insure Spouses Of Some Employees  —  This KHN story was produced in collaboration with  —  Partly blaming the health law, United Parcel Service is set to remove thousands of spouses from its medical plan because they are eligible for coverage elsewhere.
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
U.P.S. to End Health Benefits for Spouses of Some Workers
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and Via Meadia
Eli Stokols / KDVR.com:
Sparks fly after Sen. Marble's ‘chicken’ comment in poverty hearing  —  DENVER — Democratic lawmakers couldn't believe their ears as they listened to Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, deliver a long soliloquy explaining that more blacks and Hispanics live in poverty, in part, because of fried chicken.
Rich Lowry / Politico:
Ted Cruz, traitor to his class  —  Henry Adams said that politics is the systematic organization of hatreds.  For the left, over the past year it has seemed at times to be the systematic organization of hatred of Ted Cruz.  —  The freshman senator is not the first Texan to be so honored.
Discussion: National Review and CNN
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Andrew Stiles / National Review:
Liberals' Ted Cruz Obsession
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Slate
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:
Meet the privileged Obama-supporting white kids who perpetrated cruel Oberlin race hoax  —  One of the two students removed from Oberlin College earlier this year for allegedly circulating virulently racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay messages around campus is an ardent leftist and committed supporter …
Michael Hirsh / NationalJournal.com:
Why Assad Will Win  —  The U.S. is giving up on the Arab Spring, and the Syrian dictator knows it.  —  This undated photo posted on the official Instagram account of the Syrian Presidency purports to show Bashar Assad visiting with soldiers in Baba Armr, Homs province, Syria.
Discussion: Yahoo! News
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First Read:
First Thoughts: End of the Arab Spring?
Discussion: Wonkblog, Politico and NBCNews
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
Obama's Plan Aims to Lower Cost of College  —  President Obama plans to announce a set of ambitious proposals on Thursday aimed at making colleges more accountable and affordable by rating them and ultimately linking those ratings to financial aid.  —  A draft of the proposal …
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Libby A. Nelson / Politico:
Obama launches fresh push for college cost reforms
Discussion: The Progressive Pulse
Scott Gordon / nbcdfw.com:
Police: Texas Lt. Gov. Dewhurst Asked to Get Relative Out of Jail  —  In statement, Dewhurst says he acted as “concerned family member”  —  The Allen Police Department released the full audio of a call Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst made to police to find out what he had to do to get a recently arrested relative out of jail.
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Erich Schlegel / ABC News:
Texas Lt. Gov. Calls Police After Relative's Arrest
Discussion: CNN
John_Frank / Raleigh News & Observer:
Speaking in Raleigh, Colin Powell blasts North Carolina voting law  —  UPDATED: With Gov. Pat McCrory in the audience, former Secretary of State Colin Powell took aim at North Carolina's new voting law Thursday, saying it hurts the Republican Party, punishes minority voters and makes it more difficult for everyone to vote.
Steven T. Dennis / Roll Call:
Obama Hasn't Evolved on Pot — Yet  —  President Barack Obama doesn't favor changing marijuana laws “at this point” but he also believes that federal law enforcement resources should not be focused on individual users, White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday.
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
GALLUP: UNEMPLOYMENT RATE JUMPS FROM 7.7% TO 8.9% IN 30 DAYS  —  'Outside of the federal government's Bureau of Labor statistics, the Gallup polling organization also tracks the nation's unemployment rate.  While the BLS and Gallup findings might not always perfectly align …
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Gallup:
Gallup Daily: U.S. Employment
Discussion: VodkaPundit
Alex Pareene / Salon:
The rich, summed up: Nepotism, cronyism, narcissism  —  The New York Times' Andrew Ross Sorkin defends corrupt hiring practices  —  Here's what we know about the rich: They have a lot more money than everyone else, and they have more money than everyone else by a larger margin than they used to.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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John Quiggin / Crooked Timber:
Cronyism and the global city (again)
Discussion: Unfogged
Pew Social Trends / Pew Social & Demographic Trends:
King's Dream Remains an Elusive Goal; Many Americans See Racial Disparities  —  Five decades after Martin Luther King's historic “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C., a new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that fewer than half (45%) of all Americans say the country …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and New York Times
Talking Points Memo:
Liz Cheney Pays Fine For Fishy Fishing License  —  Republican Wyoming Senate candidate Liz Cheney paid a $220 bond Wednesday for making a false statement on an application for a fishing license last year, Jackson Hole News&Guide reported.  —  Records show that the daughter …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Stephen Wilson / ABC News:
Russia Defends Anti-Gay Law in Letter to IOC  —  The Russian government assured the IOC on Thursday it will not discriminate against homosexuals during the Sochi Olympics, while defending the law against gay “propaganda” that has provoked an international backlash.
 
 
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Pardon Rates Remain Low
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Hosni Mubarak released, flown to military hospital in Cairo
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Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Americans Still Wary of, Not Too Familiar With, Health Law
Robert Costa / National Review:
Bolton 2016?  —  How serious is John Bolton about potentially running for president?
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NSA scandal looms large in German election
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Accepting Scalia's Offer, Arizona Sues Obama Administration On Voting Rights
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Wentworth Miller rejects Russian film festival invitation; ‘As a gay man, I must decline’
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