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Washington Examiner:
NFL could pull Super Bowl if Arizona religious rights bill passes — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL NFL ARIZONA SUPER BOWL — Call it what you want — anti-gay or religious rights — but if Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signs a controversial bill, you might not be calling Arizona the home of the 2015 Super Bowl.
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USA Today, Christian News …, The Daily Beast, Hot Air, OnPolitics, The Gateway Pundit, Vox Popoli, National Review and Arizona Republic
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The Hill:
Firm disowns lobbyist selling anti-gay bill — A K Street lobbying giant joined a brewing battle over gay and lesbian rights Tuesday when it disowned a former employee who is hawking legislation to bar gays from the National Football League (NFL). — In an unusual public rebuke …
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Talking Points Memo and The Huffington Post
Dana Liebelson / Mother Jones:
Georgia Wants to Allow Businesses to Kick Gay People Out of Diners
Georgia Wants to Allow Businesses to Kick Gay People Out of Diners
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Advocate, The Raw Story, Liberaland, Daily Kos, Lawyers, Guns & Money and PoliticusUSA
Ed Rogers / PostPartisan:
The Insiders: Another day, another Obamacare disaster — In a colossal “oh by the way” revelation, last Friday afternoon the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency under the United States Department of Health and Human Services (that would be the executive branch run …
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VodkaPundit, The Week, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and Speaker.gov
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Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Obama: OFA volunteers doing 'God's work' — Touting the latest White House Obamacare benchmark, President Barack Obama told his political base not to be discouraged by partisan attacks and stressed that their cause is divine. — About 4 million people have signed up for private health care plans under …
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Obesity Rate for Young Children Plummets 43% in a Decade — Federal health authorities on Tuesday reported a stunning 43 percent drop in the obesity rate among 2- to 5-year-old children over the past decade, the first broad decline in an epidemic that often leads to lifelong struggles …
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jama.jamanetwork.com:
Prevalence of Childhood and Adult Obesity in the United States, 2011-2012 — Cynthia L. Ogden, PhD1; Margaret D. Carroll, MSPH1; Brian K. Kit, MD, MPH1,2; Katherine M. Flegal, PhD1 — JAMA. 2014;311(8):806-814. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.732. — Tables — References — ABSTRACT
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Issa, House GOP to recall Lois Lerner — House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is hauling Lois Lerner back to Congress. — Issa told Lerner's attorney in a Tuesday letter that he expected the retired IRS official to appear before his committee on March 5.
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Politico and Patterico's Pontifications
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Democrats' immigration gambit
Betsy Rothstein / The Daily Caller:
Tommy Christopher out at Mediaite — Mediaite and its illustrious White House Correspondent Tommy Christopher have parted ways, The Mirror has learned. And it wasn't voluntary. We're told Christopher was fired. Details are still forthcoming. — In the past year there were murmurings …
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Patterico's Pontifications and Politico
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Tony Merevick / BuzzFeed:
Intel, Yelp Join Companies Urging Arizona Governor To Veto Anti-LGBT Bill — “I believe that every consumer has a right to be served by a business without fear of discrimination,” Yelp's CEO wrote in an open letter to Gov. Jan Brewer. Updates: Delta and PetSmart speak out against the bill.
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AMERICAblog News, ThinkProgress, Valley Fever, Politico, TechCrunch, Joe. My. God., Advocate and Re/code
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Steve Stout / KPHO-TV:
NFL, Cardinals, Super Bowl committee sound off on SB 1062
NFL, Cardinals, Super Bowl committee sound off on SB 1062
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ThinkProgress, BobCesca.com, Politico, The Huffington Post, Outsports and Daily Kos
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Biden: ‘I May Be a White Boy, But I Can Jump’ — During a celebration of African-American History Month, Vice President Joe Biden said, “I may be a white boy, but I can jump.” The comments were made at Biden's home, the Naval Observatory. — Via the pool report:
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Post Politics, Mediaite, Scared Monkeys and The Gateway Pundit
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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Boehner's Favorability Returns to Pre-Shutdown Levels — Thirty-two percent view speaker favorably, 50% unfavorably — WASHINGTON, D.C. — After suffering record-low favorability for his tenure as House speaker in October, John Boehner's image among Americans has rebounded to pre-shutdown levels.
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Real Clear Politics and Politico
Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats Try to Build on Technology Lead — Washington Wire is one of the oldest standing features in American journalism. Since the Wire launched on Sept. 20, 1940, the Journal has offered readers an informal look at the capital's comings and goings in a series of newsy, and sometimes even gossipy, items.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Lacking votes, Reid stalling action on minimum wage hike legislation — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Tuesday delayed action on legislation raising the minimum wage, the centerpiece of the Democrats' 2014 agenda. — The Nevada Democrat made the surprising move amid escalating Democratic resistance …
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Hot Air
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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The Raw Story, Daily Kos, Liberal Values and ThinkProgress
Dalia Sussman / New York Times:
Most Democrats Want Clinton to Run in 2016 — More than 8 in 10 Democrats say they want Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president in 2016, showing a level of interest in her that no other potential candidates - Democrat or Republican - come close to matching among their party's voters, according to a New York Times/CBS News Poll.
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OnPolitics and Taegan Goddard's …
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
The Clinton library's secret files — A trove of Clinton White House records long processed for release remains hidden from public view at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock — even though the legal basis initially used to withhold them expired more than a year ago.
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Washington Free Beacon, Betsy's Page and CNN
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Businessmen a boon or bust for Senate Republicans' chances? — Republicans are banking on businessmen to help them retake the Senate in 2014. — A half-dozen top GOP candidates boast records as wealthy businessmen and entrepreneurs. If voters decide they're successful job creators on Election Day …
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Why Lawmaking on a Grand Scale Is a Dying Art — When Rep. Dave Camp (R., Mich.) laid plans to unveil a big tax reform bill this week, it was as if he was operating in some kind of time warp. No one seemed to have told the Ways and Means Committee chairman that Congress isn't doing much legislating any more.
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Taegan Goddard's …, Los Angeles Times, AEIdeas and Washington Wire
Brooks Hays / UPI:
Radioactive water from Japan's Fukushima power plant reaches Canada — Fukushima water has arrived off Canada, but scientists say there's no reason to panic. — Researchers say radioactive cesium isotopes from Japan's severely damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant have made their way to the waters just off the coast of Canada.
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Bloomberg and Firedoglake
Dave Camp / Wall Street Journal:
Dave Camp: How to Fix Our Appalling Tax Code — Every year Americans spend more than six billion hours and $168 billion to file their returns. — There have been so many changes to the tax code over the past decade that it is now 10 times the size of the Bible, but with none of the Good News.
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TIME and Washington Post