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ThinkProgress:
Justice Kennedy Thinks Hobby Lobby Is An Abortion Case — That's Bad News For Birth Control — WASHINGTON, DC — Justice Anthony Kennedy thinks gay people are fabulous. All three of the Supreme Court's most important gay rights decisions were written by Justice Kennedy.
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Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
Peace in the culture wars — if the Left wants it — GAY MARRIAGE OBAMACARE RELIGION CONTRACEPTION HOBBY LOBBY SANDRA FLUKE — Sometimes it's hard to believe the other side is being honest. — Democratic politicians and liberal writers accuse Christian employers of “tell[ing] …
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Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
What's Religious About Corporate America Cheating Workers?
What's Religious About Corporate America Cheating Workers?
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Penny Starr / CNSNews:
Sotomayor, Kagan: Hobby Lobby Should Drop Insurance, Pay Penalty and Let Employees Use Exchange
Sotomayor, Kagan: Hobby Lobby Should Drop Insurance, Pay Penalty and Let Employees Use Exchange
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BizPac Review, The Other McCain and The Gateway Pundit
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
Slippery slopes before the court
Slippery slopes before the court
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New York Times, Daily Kos, SCOTUSblog and Independent Journal Review
Ryan J. Reilly / The Huffington Post:
Supreme Court Struggles In Hobby Lobby Case With Question Of Companies' Religious Rights
Supreme Court Struggles In Hobby Lobby Case With Question Of Companies' Religious Rights
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SCOTUSblog, Washington Post and Autostraddle
Amy Goldstein / Washington Post:
Obama administration will allow more time to enroll in health care on federal marketplace — The Obama administration has decided to give extra time to Americans who say that they are unable to enroll in health-care plans through the federal insurance marketplace by the March 31 deadline.
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Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: March 2014 — Liz Hamel, Jamie Firth and Mollyann Brodie … Most uninsured unaware of March 31 deadline, half plan to remain uninsured — In the final days of open enrollment for new health insurance options under the ACA, substantial shares …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
U.S. to Extend Sign-Up Period For Insurance — WASHINGTON — With less than a week left for people to sign up for health insurance, the Obama administration said Tuesday that it would allow more time for those who had tried to apply but were blocked by technical problems with the federal exchange.
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Washington Post:
Secret Service agents on Obama detail sent home from Netherlands after night of drinking — Three Secret Service agents responsible for protecting President Obama in Amsterdam this week were sent home and put on administrative leave Sunday after going out for a night of drinking, according to three people familiar with the incident.
John Dickerson / Slate:
The Iowa Democrat who belittled Iowa farmers while praising lawyers. — Those looking for greater efficiency in Washington should look to Rep. Bruce Braley. In the space of just a few seconds, the four-term Iowa Democrat delivered a campaign gaffe of such power that the Environmental Protection Agency may seek to regulate it.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Video captures Braley criticizing Grassley as ‘a farmer from Iowa’
Video captures Braley criticizing Grassley as ‘a farmer from Iowa’
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CBS News:
Americans disapprove of Obama's handling of Ukraine crisis — Shares - — President Obama: Ukraine and Foreign Policy — While a majority of Americans (56 percent) support U.S. sanctions against Russia, they are less pleased with President Obama's handling of the situation between Russia and Ukraine overall.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
GOP again accuses Sebelius of misleading ObamaCare testimony — House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Tuesday saying she had been “evasive and perhaps misleading” in her testimony before the committee earlier this month.
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
It's time for the White House to start sweating over legal challenge to Obamacare subsidies — BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL OBAMACARE APPEALS COURTS KATHLEEN SEBELIUS SUBSIDIES HEALTH CARE EXCHANGES HHS — As the U.S. Supreme Court weighed the constitutionality of a contraception coverage mandate Tuesday morning …
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Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Qaeda Militants Seek Syria Base, U.S. Officials Say — WASHINGTON — Dozens of seasoned militant fighters, including some midlevel planners, have traveled to Syria from Pakistan in recent months in what American intelligence and counterterrorism officials fear is an effort to lay the foundation …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
O'Reilly Goes Off On ‘Race Hustlers’ Who Slammed Paul Ryan (VIDEO) — Fox News host Bill O'Reilly backed Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) disputed comments on a culture of “inner city” men not working on Tuesday night, arguing “race hustlers” would have branded the congressman a racist no matter what he said about poverty.
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Split Appeals Court Rules No More Michigan Same-Sex Marriages During Appeal — “We GRANT Michigan's motion to stay the district court's order pending final disposition of Michigan's appeal by this court.” — Mary Black, left, and her wife Sarah Weinstein hug after being married …
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Robert M. Gates / Wall Street Journal:
Putin's Challenge to the West — Russia has thrown down a gauntlet that is not limited to Crimea or even Ukraine. — Russian President Vladimir Putin has a long-festering grudge: He deeply resents the West for winning the Cold War. He blames the United States in particular for the collapse …
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Weekly Standard and Balloon Juice
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Is Nate Silver Biting the Hoof That Feeds? — After a rocky rollout of the new FiveThirtyEight site, producing considerable criticism of specific posts and of the general claims being made for “data journalism,” Nate Silver's getting a new round of criticism, this time specifically from Democrats …
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Booman Tribune and Slate
Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Deep thoughts by Barack Obama — ABC's Jonathan Karl touched a nerve when he asked President Obama whether Mitt Romney might have been on to something with his observation that Russia is our number one geopolitical foe. The question came in Obama's press conference at the Hague yesterday.
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Weekly Standard and American Spectator
J. David Goodman / New York Times:
2 CNN Producers Are Held in Trespass at World Trade Center — Two CNN producers seeking to report on recent breaches of security at the World Trade Center site were arrested on Tuesday as they tried to break into the area, the authorities said. — The two men, Yonatan Pomrenze, 35 …
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