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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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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 …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Heckler: Obama wants ‘nuclear war with Russia’ — President Obama was interrupted during a speech to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Friday by a protester who accused him having a plan for a “nuclear war with Russia.” — The president's remarks came less than an hour …
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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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The Gateway Pundit and AMERICAN DIGEST
Tony Lee / BREITBART.COM:
PALIN MOCKED IN 2008 FOR WARNING PUTIN MAY INVADE UKRAINE IF OBAMA ELECTED — During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his “indecision” and “moral equivalence” may encourage Russia's Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Russia Invades Ukraine, Obama Declares Happy Hour — Russian troops are on the move in Crimea. Ukraine's Acting Ukrainian President Oleksandr Turchynov said that Russia is trying to seize the territory: … According to one report, the invading Russian troops are from the crack 76th Chernihov (Pskov) Storm Troops Division.
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Los Angeles Times and Zero Hedge
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Russian ‘Blackwater’ Takes Over Ukraine Airport
Exclusive: Russian ‘Blackwater’ Takes Over Ukraine Airport
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Yahoo! News, Gizmodo, Guardian, Hot Air, Gawker, The Dish and kyivpost.com
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, White House.gov Blog and The Agonist
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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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
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, Daily Kos, Americans Against the …, Washington Monthly, The New Republic and The Plum Line
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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, ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Firedoglake and The Week
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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NewsBusters, New York Times, 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
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
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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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
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.
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Hot Air and The Federalist
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, Jon Swerens, National Review, Washington Monthly and his vorpal sword
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
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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Rumproast, Ed Driscoll, Taylor Marsh, Gawker, The Dish, Fox News, TheBlaze.com and Betsy's Page
Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
Democrats Land Top-Tier Senate Recruit In Mississippi — Former Rep. Travis Childers will be announcing campaign, hoping to exploit GOP divisions in the state. — Former Rep. Travis Childers will be announcing he's running for the Senate seat in Mississippi, according to two sources familiar …