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Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Close — President Barack Obama on Friday issued a blunt and direct warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin: stay out of Ukraine. — If not, he said, there will be consequences — though he didn't say what those might be. — “We are now deeply concerned by reports of military movements taken …
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Daily Kos
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CNN:
Palin on Ukraine: I told you so — (CNN) - Sarah Palin may be having a bragging rights moment. — In 2008, when she was the GOP vice presidential nominee, Palin questioned in a speech whether then-Sen. Barack Obama would have the foreign policy credentials to handle a scenario …
Associated Press:
OBAMA COULD PULL RUSSIA TRIP AMID UKRAINE TUMULT — WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Friday that President Barack Obama may scrap plans to attend an international summit in Russia this summer and could also halt discussions on deepening trade ties with Moscow, raising specific possible consequences …
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AMERICAN DIGEST and The Gateway Pundit
Michael Martinez / CNN:
Political tension grows in Ukraine's Crimea region
Political tension grows in Ukraine's Crimea region
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kyivpost.com, Post Politics, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Mashable and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Jay Newton-Small / TIME:
Senator John McCain: “We Are All Ukrainians”
Senator John McCain: “We Are All Ukrainians”
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Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Talking Points Memo and Balloon Juice
Alan Yuhas / Guardian:
Obama: violation of Ukraine ‘would be deeply destabilizing’ - live updates
Obama: violation of Ukraine ‘would be deeply destabilizing’ - live updates
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AEIdeas, Mashable, The Dish, White House.gov Blog and The Agonist
New York Times:
Top Ukrainians Accusing Russia OF AN INVASION
Top Ukrainians Accusing Russia OF AN INVASION
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The White House, kyivpost.com, Business Insider, Gawker, Hit & Run, Hullabaloo, WJLA-TV and Washington Post
Charles Krauthammer / National Review:
Putin's Ukraine Gambit
Putin's Ukraine Gambit
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Mediaite, Washington Post, Associated Press, Ed Driscoll, Taylor Marsh, American Power, The Daily Beast and VodkaPundit
David Nather / Politico:
How the Clinton White House bungled health care reform — Bill and Hillary Clinton understood individual members of Congress just fine. They just didn't get Congress. — That's the picture that emerges from the documents released by the Clinton presidential library Friday on their efforts to pass health care reform in the 1990s.
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Business Insider
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Hillary Clinton / CNN:
What we found in the Clinton documents — CNN is combing through 3,546 pages of documents released Friday by the William J. Clinton Presidential Library. — They open a window into inner Clinton White House operations, and cover topics including the office of former first lady Hillary Clinton …
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Politico, ABC News and The Lonely Conservative
William J Clinton Presidential Library:
Formerly Withheld Documents — Please find below documents that were previously withheld under the Presidential Records Act for restrictions P2 (appointment to federal office) and/or P5 (confidential advice between the President and/or his advisors and between those advisors).
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Politico, Yahoo! News, Washington Post, Post Politics, Business Insider, Fox News, Guardian, Firedoglake, Associated Press and Daily Kos
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Paralyzed GOP Lawmaker On Medicaid Opposes Medicaid Expansion — More than a decade ago, Arkansas Rep. Josh Miller (R) was in a catastrophic car accident that broke his neck and left him paralyzed. Medicare and Medicaid paid the $1 million bill for his hospitalization and rehabilitation.
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Balloon Juice, Firedoglake, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and The Week
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Max Brantley / ArkansasTimes:
Rep. Josh Miller, recipient of significant government assistance, opposes Medicaid expansion in Arkansas — The enlistment of roughly half the Republican legislative delegation in implementation of Obamacare's Medicaid expansion is remarkable. Republicans tend to fall by faith in opposition …
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The Raw Story, Americans Against the …, Daily Kos, Washington Monthly, The Plum Line and The New Republic
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Hidden camera footage surfaces of Supreme Court debate — Hidden camera footage of what appeared to be Supreme Court proceedings from earlier this week surfaced on Thursday, offering one the of the first public recordings of the High Court's proceedings. — A video posted on YouTube …
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New York Times, NewsBusters, Althouse, Bangor Daily News and The Verge
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Paul Mirengoff / Power Line:
Election law experts join in the denuniciation of IRS's attempt to curb free speech
Election law experts join in the denuniciation of IRS's attempt to curb free speech
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Beltway Insiders, Center for Competitive … and The Heritage Foundation
Greg Hampikian / New York Times:
When May I Shoot a Student? — BOISE, Idaho — TO the chief counsel of the Idaho State Legislature: — In light of the bill permitting guns on our state's college and university campuses, which is likely to be approved by the state House of Representatives in the coming days …
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BobCesca.com and Balloon Juice
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Professor Asks Idaho Lawmakers For The Green Light To Shoot A Student
Professor Asks Idaho Lawmakers For The Green Light To Shoot A Student
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Idaho Statesman and The Raw Story
Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Cruz: ‘I Am Absolutely Convinced We Are Going To Repeal Every Single Word Of Obamacare’ — WASHINGTON (CBS DC/AP) — Tea Party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz is still holding out hope that President Barack Obama's health care law will be repealed. — The Republican senator from Texas …
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Liberal Values, Daily Kos and Liberaland
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John Stanton / BuzzFeed:
Rudderless Tea Party Searches For Meaning Five Years On
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog News:
NPR whitewashes past of anti-gay Holocaust-revisionist hate group leader — National Public Radio's Michel Martin did a segment on — That's it. — No mention of the fact that Lively was labeled a Holocaust revisionist by HateWatch for his “thoroughly-discredited” 1995 tome …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Arizona Bill Allowing Refusal of Service to Gays Stirred Alarm in the G.O.P. — When Gov. Rick Scott of Florida was asked early Wednesday whether he supported Arizona legislation that would make it easier for business owners to refuse service to gay people on religious grounds, he demurred, saying he was unfamiliar with the bill.
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The Plum Line, DownWithTyranny! and PoliticusUSA
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Fernanda Santos / New York Times:
Day After Governor's Veto, Arizona Takes Up Abortion Clinics
Day After Governor's Veto, Arizona Takes Up Abortion Clinics
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Hit & Run, Associated Press, Daily Oklahoman, ThinkProgress, ABC News and NewsBusters
Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
After veto in Arizona, conservatives vow to fight for religious liberties
After veto in Arizona, conservatives vow to fight for religious liberties
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Hot Air, The Dish, Daily Kos, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Fix, The Federalist and The Reaction
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
Homeowner Who Shot Unarmed Elderly Man With Alzheimer's Wandering His Property Won't Be Charged — The Walker County, Ga., District Attorney said Friday he will not press charges against the homeowner who shot and killed an elderly man wandering on his property. 72-year-old Ronald Westbrook …
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The Raw Story
Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: America and the Aggressive Left — Half the country feels—and is—beset by government. That's not progress. — The constant mischief of the progressive left is hurting the nation's morale. There are few areas of national life left in which they are not busy, and few in which they're not making it worse.
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Ed Driscoll, Taylor Marsh, Rumproast, Gawker, The Dish, Fox News, TheBlaze.com and Betsy's Page
Jonah Goldberg / National Review:
Celebrate Gay Marriage—or Else — Future historians will likely be flummoxed by the moment we're living in. In what amounts to less than a blink of an eye in the history of Western civilization, homosexuality has gone from a diagnosed mental disorder to something to be celebrated — or else.
Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
Dumb, Uneducated, And Eager To Deceive: Media Coverage Of Religious Liberty In A Nutshell — In the aftermath of the abominable media coverage of Arizona's religious liberty bill, an editor shared his hypothesis that journalists care about freedom of speech and of the press because they practice them.
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Religion Dispatches, Washington Monthly, Jon Swerens, his vorpal sword and National Review
WorldViews:
Syrian extremists amputated a man's hand and live-tweeted it — The extremist Syrian group deemed too radical even for al-Qaeda performed what may have been a Twitter first Friday: live-tweeting the amputation of a hand. — The amputation took place in the remote rural town of Maskaneh …
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FishbowlDC and Jihad Watch