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Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
CPAC Panelist: It Is ‘A Liberal Lie’ That States Ban Gay Marriage — Conservative radio host Michael Medved said Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference that no state has ever banned gay marriage and any claim to the contrary is “a liberal lie.”
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Laura Vozzella / Washington Post:
Gay rights activists oppose Va. Democrats' party leadership pick
Gay rights activists oppose Va. Democrats' party leadership pick
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ThinkProgress, LGBT Democrats of Virginia and NewsBusters
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Rand Paul: A president should love liberty — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Sen. Rand Paul urged the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday to “imagine a time when the White House is once again occupied by a friend of liberty” — and signaled that he might fit that bill — in an unabashedly libertarian speech.
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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Paul electrifies conservative base — A presidential-sounding Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wowed the the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday afternoon, proving he still captures the imagination of the party's libertarian-leaning wing. — Speaking to a standing room-only crowd …
Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Trying to Revive His Prospects, Rubio Pushes Strength Abroad
Trying to Revive His Prospects, Rubio Pushes Strength Abroad
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Real Clear Politics, The Reaction and Public Policy Polling
Glenn Kessler / The Fact Checker:
A story too good to check: Paul Ryan and the tale of the brown paper bag — “The left is making a big mistake here. What they're offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul. The American people want more than that. This reminds me of a story I heard from Eloise Anderson.
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Ralph Reed Compares Barack Obama to George Wallace — US News & World ReportLibrary of Congress — Top social-conservative strategist Ralph Reed compared President Barack Obama to segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace on Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
The Republican Party's Pot Dilemma — NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.—Christopher Beach was trying to defend keeping marijuana illegal to a roomful of conservatives, and it was not going well. — When Beach insisted the drug war has not been a complete failure, laughter rippled through the crowd.
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Salon:
The religious right's 5 most demented persecution fantasies — Anti-Christian oppression takes many forms, apparently: Hipsters. Paperwork. Johnny Weir's wardrobe. — AMANDA MARCOTTE, ALTERNET — You could call it chutzpah, except they'd probably claim that word oppresses them …
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Washington Monthly, Talking Points Memo and Balloon Juice
Susie Madrak / Latest from Crooks and Liars:
Last Word From Bartcop — Bartcop, who was one of the original (and best) liberal bloggers, died today. — This is the end of an era. Bartcop, one of the original liberal bloggers, died this morning of flu, pneumonia and leukemia. He inspired many of us, and left a legacy of hard hitting yet …
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The BRAD BLOG, Liberaland and Balloon Juice
NBC News:
Tea Party Still Winning GOP Debate - NBC News — Why the Tea Party is still winning... And why GOP incumbents are going to have to fight tooth and nail to hold on to their jobs... Attitudes about the health-car...
Erica Martinson / Politico:
EPA debunks one Bridgegate conspiracy — The Environmental Protection Agency has cleared New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's administration of allegations that it suspiciously shut off an air pollution monitor during last fall's lane closings on the George Washington Bridge.
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Pew Research Center's Social & …:
Millennials in Adulthood — Detached from Institutions, Networked with Friends — Overview — The Millennial generation is forging a distinctive path into adulthood. Now ranging in age from 18 to 331, they are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media …
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Mother Jones, Hit & Run, Poynter, Firedoglake, Liberaland, Washington Monthly, Outside the Beltway, Wonkblog, Politico and Wall Street Journal
Idaho Statesman:
Otter's career in film, as it were, is a cautionary tale — A Western shot in Idaho in 1993 was rereleased with many sex scenes. — Did you hear the one about the guy who went to see a man about a horse and ended up in a soft-core porn movie? — It is not a joke.
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Talking Points Memo and The Daily Caller
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:
Activists to Kerry: Keystone a ‘bigger mistake’ than Vietnam — Academy Award-winning actor Jared Leto and 13 other young activists, including the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy, are calling on Secretary of State John Kerry to reject the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
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The PJ Tatler, National Review, Hot Air and Washington Post
John Boehner / Wall Street Journal:
Counter Putin by Liberating U.S. Natural Gas — The de facto ban on exports should have been stopped long ago. Now world events demand it.
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Wonkblog, Guardian, The World's Greatest … and Fox News
Dan Merica / CNN:
Clinton ties ‘broader human development’ with women's reproductive rights — (CNN) - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton used a Friday speech at the United Nations to tie women's reproductive rights with the broader goal of human development. — “There is one lesson from the past …
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CNN:
Woman's auto-payments hid her death for six years — (CNN) — For years, the payments went out of the woman's bank account. — Nobody batted an eyelid. Bills were paid. And life went on as normal in the quiet neighborhood of Pontiac, Michigan. — Neighbors didn't notice anything unusual.
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The Raw Story and HyperVocal
Leon Wieseltier / The New Republic:
Ukrainian Lessons for an American President — There is the question of how to respond practically to Putin's aggression and there is the question of how to respond intellectually. The latter is no less important than the former, because the Ukrainian crisis is not a transient event …
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Washington Post, The Dish and Hot Air
McClatchy Washington Bureau:
FBI probing alleged removal of documents from CIA by Senate staffers — WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating the alleged unauthorized removal of classified documents from a secret CIA facility by Senate Intelligence Committee staff who prepared a study of the agency's use …
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The Raw Story, Techdirt, RT and emptywheel
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Massimo Calabresi / TIME:
Justice Considers Probe of Senate Staffers in Dispute Over Torture Report
Justice Considers Probe of Senate Staffers in Dispute Over Torture Report
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Firedoglake and The Dish
McKinsey on Healthcare:
Individual market enrollment: Updated view — The latest round of our national survey of QHP-eligible consumers tells a story of deeper engagement than previous surveys. — Amit Bhardwaj, Erica Coe, Jenny Cordina, and Mahi Rayasam — Center for U.S. Health System Reform
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The PJ Tatler, Bloomberg View and Democracy in America
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Study: ObamaCare not reaching uninsured
Study: ObamaCare not reaching uninsured
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Adam Serwer / msnbc.com:
The Republican war on civil rights laws — Before Senate Republicans frightened a handful of Democrats into helping them shoot down Debo Adegbile's nomination to head the Justice Department's civil rights division, the chamber ran so loudly with the words “cop-killer” that you might have thought Ice-T was addressing the Senate.
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Hullabaloo, American Prospect and National Review
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Democrats filibuster an Obama nominee.
Democrats filibuster an Obama nominee.
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GOP.com and National Review