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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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ThinkProgress:
Apple Warns Arizona Governor Anti-Gay Bill Will Hurt Highly Anticipated Sapphire Glass Factory — Apple called up Arizona's governor, Jan Brewer (R) Tuesday to urge her to veto the state's anti-gay bill. — The state's controversial SB 1062 bill allows individuals to discriminate …
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Gizmodo, NBC News, Daily Kos 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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New York Times, Daily Kos, Yahoo! News and The Daily Beast
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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Dan Merica / CNN:
CPAC reverses decision, will not allow atheist group at conservative conference
CPAC reverses decision, will not allow atheist group at conservative conference
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Conservatives Boot American Atheists From Booth At Conference
Conservatives Boot American Atheists From Booth At Conference
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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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Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World
Apparent Theft at Mt. Gox Shakes Bitcoin World
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Fortune, The Monkey Cage, Reuters, Forbes, The Switch, Re/code, DealBook, Capital New York and The Two-Bit Idiot
Jason Del Rey / Re/code:
The Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchange Has Disappeared — Is Bankruptcy Next?
The Mt. Gox Bitcoin Exchange Has Disappeared — Is Bankruptcy Next?
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Guardian, The Two-Bit Idiot, TechCrunch, The Switch, Gawker, The Week, Gizmodo, The Verge, Engadget and National Review
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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Reuters:
Obama prepared to leave no troops in Afghanistan after 2014
Obama prepared to leave no troops in Afghanistan after 2014
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Fox News, Liberaland, Hot Air and Outside the Beltway
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Dick Cheney: President Obama favors food stamps
Dick Cheney: President Obama favors food stamps
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Oops: GOP Bill Would Strip 1 Million Workers Of Health Coverage — A Republican-led bill designed to “save American workers” would cause 1 million workers to lose their health care coverage and increase the deficit by $74 billion, according to Congress' official scorekeeper.
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ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Debbie Dingell will run for husband's seat — Democratic power player Debbie Dingell will run for her husband's congressional seat and announce her campaign on Friday, a source close to the Dingells tells The Hill. — “She is going to announce her candidacy on Friday.
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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, Taylor Marsh, Hit & Run, Eduwonk, The Daily Beast and Questions and Observations
Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:
Georgia Wants to Allow Businesses to Kick Gay People Out of Diners — Welcome center: DanTD/Wikimedia Commons; Plank: Nuttapong/Shutterstock. Photoillustration by Matt Connolly. — A bill moving swiftly through the Georgia House of Representatives would allow business owners …
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Anielle / Americans Against the Tea Party:
Michigan Man Shoots Himself Dead While Showing Girlfriend That Guns Are Safe — A 36-year-old Michigan man was exercising his Second Amendment right when he shot and killed himself on Sunday. The fatal shooting occurred accidentally while the man attempted to demonstrate gun safety to his girlfriend while intoxicated.
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Joe. My. God.
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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CNN, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler and Weekly Standard
Ailsa Chang / NPR:
Democratic Sen. Landrieu Walks A Fine Line In Red Louisiana … If Democrats are going to keep their majority in the Senate, they'll need to hang on to a few critical seats they hold in conservative states. — Mary Landrieu of Louisiana has one of those, and like some of her colleagues up for re-election …
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Liberaland and The Raw Story
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
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Opponents of Pentagon-Budget Cuts Just Played the Entire Media — On Monday, large swaths of the news media reported on the Obama Administration's proposed military budget using the same misleading frame. As the New York Times stated in its headline, “Pentagon Plans to Shrink Army to Pre-World War II Level.”
Jason Hancock / Kansas City Star:
Missouri senator introduces ‘religious freedom’ bill — A Republican state lawmaker filed legislation Monday that would allow Missouri business owners to cite religious beliefs as a legal justification for refusing to provide service. — Although it doesn't mention sexual orientation …
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Talking Points Memo and LGBTQ Nation
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, CBS San Francisco, TechCrunch and Business Insider
Washington Free Beacon:
Florida Democrat: Without Immigration Reform, Where Will We Get Our Landscapers and Maids? — Florida Democratic congressional candidate Alex Sink said immigration reform was important at a Tuesday debate because, without it, it would be difficult for employers to find people to clean hotel rooms and do landscaping.
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Hot Air, Mediaite, Independent Journal Review and RedState
sos.state.oh.us:
Secretary of State Jon Husted Sets Fair and Uniform Voting Hours for 2014 General Election — Adopts bipartisan proposal with support of the Democratic and Republican leadership of the Ohio Association of Elections Officials — COLUMBUS - In adopting a proposal put forth by Democratic …
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Talking Points Memo, Plain Dealer, ThinkProgress and msnbc.com
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
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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Richard Balmforth / Reuters:
In Ukraine turbulence, a lad from Lviv becomes the toast of Kiev — (Reuters) - When the history of the bloody turbulence in Ukraine is written, a 26-year-old who learned combat skills in the army cadets may be recorded as the man who made up Viktor Yanukovich's mind to cut and run.
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