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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
GOP Lobbyist Behind Anti-Gay NFL Bill Has A Gay Brother — Anti Gay NFL Bill Nfl Gay Ban Michael Sam Gop Bill Nfl Jack Burkman Gay Bill Michael Sam NFL Republicans Anti Gay Jack Burkman Michael Sam Gay Video Gop Anti Gay Bill Republican Bill Nfl Gop Lobbyist Ban Gays NFL Nfl Gay Players Politics News Politics News
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Rebecca Shabad / The Hill:
Lobbyist drafts bill to ban gays from NFL — Washington lobbyist Jack Burkman on Monday said he is preparing legislation that would ban gay athletes from joining the National Football League. — Burkman in a statement said he has garnered political support for the bill …
Ben Giles / Arizona Capitol Times:
Cardinals, Super Bowl Committee voice concern about SB1062
Cardinals, Super Bowl Committee voice concern about SB1062
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Talking Points Memo, LGBTQ Nation and Towleroad News #gay
Arizona Republic:
SB 1062 opponents are putting Arizona at risk — Advocates: Bill offers necessary protections, clarification — FONT: — Our Turn — Opponents of the proposed amendment to Arizona's Religious Freedom Restoration Act are putting the people of Arizona in a high-risk disaster zone when it comes to their First Amendment freedoms.
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Ben Giles / Arizona Capitol Times:
Senators on SB1062: “We made a mistake”
Senators on SB1062: “We made a mistake”
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Daily Kos and The Daily Beast
Jeremy Duda / Arizona Capitol Times:
Apple, 83 others, join anti-SB1062 chorus
Apple, 83 others, join anti-SB1062 chorus
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TechCrunch, Re/code, Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay
Dana Bash / CNN:
Gov. Jan Brewer to CNN: ‘I will do the right thing for the state of Arizona’
Gov. Jan Brewer to CNN: ‘I will do the right thing for the state of Arizona’
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Talking Points Memo, Politico and The Huffington Post
Bill / The Hill:
Bill Press: Democrats' Enemy No. 1 — Democrats have a big job in 2014: they need to hold onto control of the Senate, win back leadership of the House, and elect Democratic governors and state legislators in key states. But to get there, they face one big obstacle.
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Curtis Gans / Washington Monthly:
Midterm Signals and Noise — Why Democrats Could Do Better in November Than Everyone Thinks — It may be that the greatest contribution in Nate Silver's young life is not the PECOTA system he developed for evaluating baseball players and projecting their future contributions …
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BillMoyers.com and Booman Tribune
Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Kentucky Senate Hopeful Flashes Bill Clinton Trump Card
Kentucky Senate Hopeful Flashes Bill Clinton Trump Card
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CNN, ABC News and The Plum Line
ThinkProgress:
Oops: Dick Cheney Unintentionally Trashes Troops In Attempt To Hit Obama — Former Vice President Dick Cheney took to Fox News on Monday night to lambaste the Obama administration's proposed cuts to the military budget, lamenting the president's desire to ensure that Americans have access …
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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, Duck of Minerva and Hot Air
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Dick Cheney: President Obama favors food stamps — Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday night called the Pentagon budget proposed “absolutely dangerous.” — Appearing on Fox News's “Hannity,” he said President Barack Obama “would rather spend the money on food stamps …
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The Huffington Post, The Dish, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, The Plum Line and The Raw Story
Emmeline Zhao / RealClearEducation:
Blue Devil: The Duke Porn Star and College Costs — Stories about soaring college costs are perennial media favorites, at once playing to parental anxiety while highlighting a genuine education problem. But this one was different: A Duke University freshman confirmed to her college paper …
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Hit & Run, The Daily Beast, Real Clear Politics, Eduwonk and Questions and Observations
J.D. Harrison / Washington Post:
Obama administration: Health law's new rules will increase costs for most small businesses — Nearly two-thirds of small businesses that currently offer health insurance to their workers will pay more for coverage as a result of new rules in the health care law, as will millions …
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WDJT-TV, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air and The Gateway Pundit
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Jennifer Corbett Dooren / Wall Street Journal:
Rising health premiums may hit small firms, report says
Rising health premiums may hit small firms, report says
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Fox News, The Heritage Foundation, NewsBusters, National Republican … and Independent Journal Review
Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations — One of the many pressing stories that remains to be told from the Snowden archive is how western intelligence agencies are attempting to manipulate and control online discourse with extreme tactics of deception and reputation-destruction.
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Taylor Marsh, Boing Boing, Techdirt, Althouse, CANNONFIRE, Informed Comment, RT, Daily Kos and The Agonist
New York Times:
Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World — The most prominent Bitcoin exchange appeared to be on the verge of collapse late Monday, raising questions about the future of a volatile marketplace. — On Monday night, a number of leading Bitcoin companies jointly announced that Mt. Gox …
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Fortune, DealBook, The Verge, The Monkey Cage, The Switch, Engadget and Gizmodo
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Bibi, Merkel Photo Makes Waves — German chancellor Angela Merkel is in Israel visiting Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. This photo, apparently taken by photographer Marc Israel Sellem of the Jerusalem Post is making waves: — As Jerusalem Post report Ben Hartman notes on Twitter:
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Jerusalem Post, Israel Matzav and Althouse
Fox News:
Obama asks Pentagon for complete Afghanistan withdrawal plan, speaks with Karzai — President Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are shown during their joint news conference at the White House in Washington May 12. (AP Photo) — WASHINGTON - President Obama has asked the Pentagon …
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The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and Fox News Insider
Lori Montgomery / Washington Post:
House GOP tax plan would cut top rates but also hit high earners with a surtax — The long-awaited simplification of the tax code being drafted by House Republicans would slash the top income tax rate to 25 percent from 39.6 percent and impose a surtax on some of the nation's wealthiest households.
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Washington Monthly, AEIdeas, Politico and Washington Wire
Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Netflix mocks Amazon Prime Air with hilarious ‘Drone 2 Home’ video — BY RICHARD LAWLER @RJCC FEB 25TH 2014 6:56AM — Netflix's not-Qwikster DVD-by-mail business doesn't get the same amount of attention as the company's streaming arm, but as this video (embedded after the break) shows, it still has some imagination.
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Taylor Marsh, The Verge, TechCrunch and Business Insider
Matt Apuzzo / New York Times:
Holder Sees Way to Curb Bans on Gay Marriage — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday injected the Obama administration into the emotional and politicized debate over the future of state same-sex marriage bans, declaring in an interview that state attorneys general …
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Nugent Takes Credit For Getting Piers Morgan's ‘Ass Thrown Out’ At CNN — Thank Ted Nugent for the gift of Piers Morgan's primetime show coming to an end. — The gun rights activist took credit for CNN's decision to eventually pull the plug on “Piers Morgan Live” in a Monday interview with host Erin Burnett.
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / DealBook:
@GSElevator Tattletale Exposed (He Was Not in the Goldman Elevator) — A three-year parlor game has been taking place on Wall Street to identify the Goldman Sachs employee behind a Twitter account that purports to reveal the uncensored comments overheard in the firm's elevators.
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Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Department of Veterans Affairs employees destroyed veterans' medical records to cancel backlogged exam requests [AUDIO] — Employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) destroyed veterans' medical files in a systematic attempt to eliminate backlogged veteran medical exam requests, a former VA employee told The Daily Caller.
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