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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 …
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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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Ben Giles / Arizona Capitol Times:
Cardinals, Super Bowl Committee voice concern about SB1062 — All eyes are on Arizona, including the watchful gaze of the National Football League and officials busy organizing the state's 2015 Super Bowl hosting efforts, as Gov. Jan Brewer decides whether to sign a controversial “religious freedom” bill.
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Talking Points Memo, LGBTQ Nation and Towleroad News #gay
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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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.
Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Kentucky Senate Hopeful Flashes Bill Clinton Trump Card … In Kentucky, Democrats are brushing off the partisan criticism of former President Bill Clinton, and apparently, are opening their checkbooks. — Clinton plans to address some 1,200 people at a sold-out fundraiser in Kentucky today …
Arizona Republic:
Don't wait to veto SB 1062, Gov. Brewer — Our View: Every day that ticks by hurts Arizona more — FONT: — By Editorial board — Many voices, one message: Gov. Jan Brewer, veto this bill. — Do it immediately. Do it with compassion and dignity. Do it for Arizona.
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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
Jeremy Duda / Arizona Capitol Times:
Apple, 83 others, join anti-SB1062 chorus
Apple, 83 others, join anti-SB1062 chorus
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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
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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Los Angeles Times:
Proposed Pentagon budget cuts would shrink Army, retire aircraft
Proposed Pentagon budget cuts would shrink Army, retire aircraft
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Power Line
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Pentagon budget slashes benefits
Pentagon budget slashes benefits
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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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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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Real Clear Politics, The Daily Beast and Eduwonk
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
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Bobby Jindal, Dannel Malloy tangle outside White House — A group of governors emerged midday Monday from a meeting with President Barack Obama that stressed bipartisan cooperation — but that sentiment didn't last as far as the White House driveway, as a Republican who's …
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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Jindal Breaches White House Protocol To Take Shots At Obama
Jindal Breaches White House Protocol To Take Shots At Obama
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Douglas Martin / New York Times:
Harold Ramis, Alchemist of Comedy, Dies at 69 — Harold Ramis, a writer, director and actor whose boisterous but sly silliness helped catapult comedies like “Groundhog Day,” “Ghostbusters,” “Animal House” and “Caddyshack” to commercial and critical success, died on Monday in his Chicago-area home.
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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 …
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Fox News, The Hugh Hewitt Show, TIME, WJLA-TV, Talking Points Memo and Right Wing Watch
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin: Supreme Court Afraid of The Daily Show — Discussing his latest piece in the New Yorker magazine, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin scolded the United States Supreme Court for continuing to refuse to allow television cameras into that body during oral arguments.
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Jeffrey Toobin's bizarre attack on Justice Thomas.
Jeffrey Toobin's bizarre attack on Justice Thomas.
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Althouse, New York Times and ThinkProgress
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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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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The Verge, TechCrunch and Business Insider
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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