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Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Health Law Tied to G.O.P. Victory in Florida Race — CLEARWATER, Fla. — For Democrats hoping to claim a prized House seat in a swing district, Alex Sink seemed a shining candidate: a moderate, business-minded banker and former candidate for governor with ample experience in running a big race and raising money for it.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Midterms an Obamacare referendum? Not so fast. — At 10 a.m. Tuesday, Rep. Greg Walden of Oregon, the man in charge of House Republicans' 2014 campaign, told a roomful of reporters at the National Press Club that they shouldn't read much into that day's special election in Florida to fill …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
GOP to Dems: Don't spin Fla. loss
GOP to Dems: Don't spin Fla. loss
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Brian Beutler / Salon:
GOP peddles snake oil about Florida election: Lessons from last night's race
GOP peddles snake oil about Florida election: Lessons from last night's race
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Andy Pasztor / Wall Street Journal:
Missing Airplane Flew On for Hours — Engine Data Suggest Malaysia Flight Was Airborne Long After Radar Disappearance, U.S. Investigators Say — U.S. investigators suspect that Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 stayed in the air for about four hours past the time it reached its last confirmed location …
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CNN:
Satellite looking into missing Malaysia flight detects ‘suspected crash area’ — (CNN) — A Chinese satellite looking into the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 “observed a suspected crash area at sea,” a Chinese government agency said — a potentially pivotal lead …
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Noemie Emery / Washington Examiner:
Dreaming of ‘President Ted Cruz’ will turn into a nightmare for the GOP — REPUBLICAN PARTY 2016 ELECTIONS TED CRUZ CAMPAIGNS RONALD REAGAN CONSERVATISM — As with most things, there are good and bad aspects of the Tea Party movement. And all the bad ones were on display March 6 in a speech …
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Matt Berman / NationalJournal.com:
Bill Clinton Is the Best Friend Democrats Have for 2014
Bill Clinton Is the Best Friend Democrats Have for 2014
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — March 13, 2014 - Clinton Up As Obama, Christie Crash In Iowa, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Democrat Braley Leads In U.S. Senate Race — In an early look at the 2016 presidential race in Iowa, Secretary Clinton leads Gov. Christie 48 - 35 percent, reversing a 45 …
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Tim Stanley / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Piers Morgan's guest explains to him why he lost his CNN show: because he was rude — There's been a lot of debate about why Piers Morgan lost his CNN talk show. A couple of days ago the comedian Chelsea Handler gave him a definitive explanation. Piers was “interviewing” her …
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McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Despite vows of help, White House withholds thousands of documents from Senate CIA probe — WASHINGTON — The White House has been withholding for five years more than 9,000 top-secret documents sought by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for its investigation into the now-defunct CIA detention …
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Paige Winfield Cunningham / Politico:
Mike Huckabee: Saving unborn like saving elderly — If Americans don't protect the unborn, they won't protect people at the end of life either, Mike Huckabee said Wednesday night at a Washington gala sponsored by the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List.
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Is Huckabee serious about a 2016 bid?
Is Huckabee serious about a 2016 bid?
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Mike Allen / Politico:
DEMS' DOWNER DAY: Discouraging loss in swing House seat to flawed R who ran hard against Obamacare — WSJ/NBC: 48% less likely to vote for solid Obama backer — B'DAYS: Jake Tapper, Mitt Romney, Marcy — VANITY FAIR's April cover, “GAME ON! ‘Game of Thrones’ Season Four: The making of the biggest …
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Sharks Are Circling Around Hillary — Dems are on the defensive again in response to allegations that a Clinton comrade was involved in questionable campaign funding. Oh yes, it's feeding time, aka ‘silly’ season, again. — The political world is on tenterhooks waiting for Hillary Clinton …
Peter Wehner / Commentary Magazine:
Perry's Deconstructive Governing Agenda — In his speech at CPAC, Texas Governor Rick Perry brought the crowd to its feet by saying this: — Nowhere does the Constitution say we should federalize classrooms. Nowhere does it give federal officials primary responsibility over the air we breathe, the land we farm, the water we drink.
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Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Knesset passes first Basic Law in 22 years: Referendum on land concessions — Law requires a referendum on any treaty that entails giving up land to which Israeli law applies. — The referendum law requiring a referendum on concessions of any sovereign land became a Basic Law …
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Emily Bell / Guardian:
Journalism startups aren't a revolution if they're filled with all these white men — Nate Silver has a chart to hire for ‘clubhouse chemistry’. Ever heard of something called ‘workplace diversity’? — When the predictive superstar Nate Silver announced last summer that he would defect …
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
Obama threatens vetoes of bills requiring him to follow the law — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL BARACK OBAMA CONSTITUTIONALITY LAW — President Obama is threatening to veto a law that would allow Congress to sue him in federal courts for arbitrarily changing or refusing to enforce federal laws because it …
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The LIBRE Initiative:
President: Choose Between Cable, Phone or Health Care — (Washington, D.C.) - The President recently participated in a health care town hall with Spanish-language media. He responded to a question received via email, from a consumer who makes $36,000 per year and cannot find insurance …
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The Switch:
Google is encrypting search globally. That's bad for the NSA and China's censors. — Google has begun routinely encrypting Web searches conducted in China, posing a bold new challenge to that nation's powerful system for censoring the Internet and tracking what individual users are viewing online.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Anita Hill Is Celebrated in the Documentary ‘Anita’ — WALTHAM, Mass. — On the day in 1991 that the Senate confirmed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, Anita Hill — the little-known law professor who riveted the nation by accusing him of sexual harassment — faced news cameras outside …
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Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
Feminist Studies Professor Accused of Assaulting Teenage Prolife Demonstrator — SANTA BARBARA - A department of feminist studies professor has been accused of going berserk after coming across a campus prolife demonstration that used extremely graphic displays, leading a small mob of students to chant …