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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Rush Limbaugh: Jan Brewer being ‘bullied’ to veto — Right talk radio is turning its focus this week to Arizona's controversial bill that would allow business owners to deny service to gay and lesbian customers, and Rush Limbaugh is leading with the charge that Gov. Jan Brewer is being …
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The Daily Beast, The Week, CNN, Hinterland Gazette and ABC News
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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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ThinkProgress
Ben Giles / Arizona Capitol Times:
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
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ThinkProgress, NBC News, Advocate, TechCrunch, CNN, Re/code, Joe. My. God. and Towleroad News #gay
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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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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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Daily Caller, The Plum Line, The Dish, Daily Kos, TIME and The Raw Story
Reuters:
Obama prepared to leave no troops in Afghanistan after 2014 — (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama has told the Pentagon to prepare for the possibility that the United States will not leave behind any troops in Afghanistan after its troop drawdown at the end of this year, the White House said on Tuesday.
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Liberaland, Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
Fox News:
Obama asks Pentagon for complete Afghanistan withdrawal plan, speaks with Karzai
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The Gateway Pundit and Fox News Insider
Jaime Fuller / Post Politics:
Cheney says Obama would rather have food stamps than a strong military
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Guardian, The Huffington Post, Associated Press and Washington Wire
Jose Pagliery / CNNMoney.com:
Mt.Gox site disappears, Bitcoin future in doubt — What was once the world's largest trading platform for bitcoins is now a blank page. — The Bitcoin-trading website Mt.Gox was taken offline late Monday, putting at risk millions of dollars put there by investors who gambled on the digital currency.
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Re/code and The Switch
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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, Re/code, The Switch, Forbes, DealBook, The Monkey Cage, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget and Capital New York
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
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Booman Tribune and BillMoyers.com
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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Taylor Marsh, Hit & Run, Real Clear Politics, Eduwonk, The Daily Beast and Questions and Observations
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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Advocate, Extra Mustard, Slate, Mediaite, AMERICAblog News, Talking Points Memo, CBS New York, The Raw Story, Outside the Beltway and The Hill
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Ben Giles / Arizona Capitol Times:
Cardinals, Super Bowl Committee voice concern about SB1062
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Talking Points Memo, LGBTQ Nation and Towleroad News #gay
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, rubber hose and Althouse
The Hill:
ObamaCare stars fade — The Obama administration is short of star power as it begins its last public relations blitz for ObamaCare. — President Obama's celebrity supporters are not in the forefront as they were during the star-studded campaign-style videos that hogged the airwaves in 2008.
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Weekly Standard, The PJ Tatler and Hot Air
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, Informed Comment, CANNONFIRE, RT, Daily Kos and The Agonist
Dan Merica / CNN:
Atheists plan conservative outreach with booth at CPAC — Washington (CNN) - American Atheists, an outspoken organization that advocates for atheists nationwide, will have a booth at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference. — The atheist institution, which is well known …
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Talking Points Memo, Joe. My. God. and Hot Air
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
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, Hot Air, The Gateway Pundit and Scared Monkeys
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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Wonkblog, Washington Monthly, Politico, AEIdeas and Washington Wire
Dave Helling / Kansas City Star:
Radiologist's lawsuit becomes an issue in campaign for Senate in Kansas — A lawsuit involving dozens of Kansas City-area doctors has spilled into the Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat in Kansas. — Mark Idstrom — a physician and a former employee of Kansas City-area company Alliance Radiology — is suing the firm.
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Talking Points Memo and National Review
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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Los Angeles Times, Gawker, Mediaite, The Verge and Balloon Juice, more at Mediagazer »
Matt K. Lewis / The Daily Caller:
When ‘leave us alone’ became ‘bake us a cake!’ — Would Jesus bake a cake for a gay wedding? — It's a weird question, but we do live in interesting times. And believe it or not, this has become one of the most heated debates of the week. This week, liberal Christians began arguing …
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Hot Air and Ed Driscoll
Molly Redden / Mother Jones:
GOP Lawmaker: We Need to Ban Sex-Based Abortions Because of Asian Immigrants — Supporters of a South Dakota bill to ban “sex-selective abortions” say Asian Americans don't value girls as much as boys. — South Dakota already has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation.
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and The Raw Story
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Josh Barro to join The New York Times — Josh Barro, the outgoing Business Insider political editor, is joining The New York Times to take part in David Leonhardt's new policy venture, sources familiar with his plans told POLITICO on Monday. — Barro, a former Bloomberg View blogger …
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