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James Kirchick / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: RT Anchor Liz Wahl Explains Why She Quit — Liz Wahl wasn't just disgusted by the Kremlin-funded TV network's handling of Ukraine, she says in an exclusive interview. RT's coverage of the entire world “made me feel sick.” — American journalist Liz Wahl just made Vladimir Putin's enemies list.
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The Daily Beast:
Video: RT Anchor Quits On Air — An American anchor working for state-owned television station Russia Today quit on air on Wednesday. Liz Wahl, in the network's D.C. bureau, announced she could no longer be “part of a network that whitewashes the actions of Putin.
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Guardian, RT, The Verge, Yahoo! News, Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, The New Civil Rights Movement, Gawker and Washington Free Beacon
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
Russia Today Anchor Resigns Live On Air — “I cannot be part of a network funded by the Russian government which whitewashes the actions of Putin.” — youtube.com — WASHINGTON — Russia Today America anchor Liz Wahl resigned Wednesday live on air, saying she could no longer work …
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The Wire, The Raw Story, Business Insider and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
ThinkProgress:
Meet The 7 Democrats Who Just Voted Down A Civil Rights Nominee For Supporting Civil Rights — Civil Rights nominee Debo Adegbile speaks before the Supreme Court — Debo Adegbile, who previously served as the acting head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, is one of the nation's top civil rights attorneys.
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Wesley Lowery / Post Politics:
Senate rejects Obama appointment of Debo Adegbile to top civil rights post
Senate rejects Obama appointment of Debo Adegbile to top civil rights post
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The Week, Townhall.com, TIME, Right Wing News, Right Wing Watch, Power Line, The Reaction, Fact-Based, In-Depth News and Washington Monthly
Ramsey Cox / The Hill:
Senate rejects Obama nominee who defended cop killer
Senate rejects Obama nominee who defended cop killer
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JustOneMinute, The Moderate Voice, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, The Lonely Conservative and Balloon Juice
Ari Berman / thenation.com/blogs/163253:
Willie Horton Politics: Senate Votes Against Civil Rights
Willie Horton Politics: Senate Votes Against Civil Rights
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The Fix, The Plum Line, Bloomberg View, PoliticusUSA and USA Today
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Hillary walks back Putin-Hitler comparison — Hillary Clinton on Wednesday pulled back from comparing Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine to those of Hitler. — She said comments made the night before at a private event were meant only to bring “a little historical perspective” …
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US Department of State:
President Putin's Fiction: 10 False Claims about Ukraine
President Putin's Fiction: 10 False Claims about Ukraine
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Capitol Report, The Times of Israel, New York Times, Guardian, Bloomberg View and Telegraph
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Hillary Clinton: I'm Not Comparing Putin To Hitler, I'm Just Saying He's Acting Like Hitler
Hillary Clinton: I'm Not Comparing Putin To Hitler, I'm Just Saying He's Acting Like Hitler
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New York Times, Taylor Marsh, Politico, PoliticusUSA and JustOneMinute
CNN:
Republican Rand Paul: There ‘should be a struggle to make the party better’ — Washington (CNN) - Sen. Rand Paul delivered a fervent plea Wednesday to expand the Republican Party and make the GOP more compassionate toward those “who aren't treated fairly by the criminal justice system,” …
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Politico and The Moderate Voice
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James Hohmann / Politico:
A viewer's guide to CPAC 2014 — As many as 11,000 conservatives will make the pilgrimage to National Harbor, Md., starting Thursday for the cattle call of likely 2016 contenders known as CPAC. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie failed to even score an invite last year …
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CNN
Ashley Parker / New York Times:
New Democratic Strategy Goes After Koch Brothers — WASHINGTON — Charles G. and David H. Koch, the billionaire brothers who are perhaps the best-known patrons of conservative Republican politics, are bespectacled and in their 70s. They look genial enough.
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The Raw Story and 24Ahead
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Politico:
Harry Reid has no apologies — Republicans think Harry Reid is running the Senate like a dictator: His no-compromise style is almost like Vladimir Putin's, and his inflammatory rhetoric is reminiscent of the Joe McCarthy era. — But Reid doesn't seem to care.
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Darrell Issa silences Democrats and hits a new low — Darrell Issa, chairman of the House committee leading numerous investigations of the Obama administration, found a new way to silence Democratic critics who question his actions: He shut off the microphones.
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Balloon Juice and The Raw Story
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Michael McAuliff / The Huffington Post:
Darrell Issa Holds Absurd IRS Hearing In Which He Is The Only One Allowed To Speak
Darrell Issa Holds Absurd IRS Hearing In Which He Is The Only One Allowed To Speak
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Mediaite and Liberaland
Mark Pratt / WBUR:
‘Upskirt’ Photos Not Illegal, Mass. High Court Rules — BOSTON — A man who took cellphone photos up the skirts of women riding the Boston subway did not violate state law because the women were not nude or partially nude, Massachusetts' highest court ruled Wednesday.
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Outside the Beltway, ThinkProgress and Althouse
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
27 Democrats support House GOP measure to delay ObamaCare penalty — Twenty-seven Democrats on Wednesday sided with House Republicans on a bill to delay tax penalties for failing to buy health insurance this year under ObamaCare. — The vote, which reflects growing Republican frustration …
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Politico, Hot Air, Washington Free Beacon, CNN, ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
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William Voegeli / National Review:
Bait-and-Switch Liberalism — Obamacare and the politics of deception — In June 2009, as health-care reform was being debated vigorously across the country, President Obama told the American Medical Association's convention that, whatever the provisions of the health-care bill he would sign …
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Power Line
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Some Policies Get More Time in Health Shift
Some Policies Get More Time in Health Shift
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cms.gov, Wall Street Journal, Corrente and Josh Blackman's Blog
CBS News:
Vladimir Putin nominated for Nobel Peace Prize — Shares - — OSLO — Russian President Vladimir Putin has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize but the conflict in Ukraine is also likely to be on the Nobel committee's agenda. — A record 278 candidates, including 47 organizations …
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The Daily Caller and Business Insider
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
Poor and Hispanic Workers Are Least Likely to Have Sick Days — New York City last week mandated that companies with five or more employees offer at least five paid sick days to their workers, becoming one of only a handful of cities to establish paid sick leave.
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Hinterland Gazette and Firedoglake
Sean Trende / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
It's Time to Increase the Size of the House — “Our founders put the first amendment first for a reason. It protects all Americans' right to free speech, regardless of political affiliation or views.” This statement was made by former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-MN) in 2007 …
Tamar Lewin / New York Times:
A New SAT Aims to Realign With Schoolwork — Saying its college admission exams do not focus enough on the important academic skills, the College Board announced on Wednesday a fundamental rethinking of the SAT, ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong, cutting obscure vocabulary words and making the essay optional.
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Bloomberg View, News Desk, The Daily Caller, CNN and The Verge