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Andrew Sullivan / The Dish:
The Hounding Of A Heretic … The guy who had the gall to express his First Amendment rights and favor Prop 8 in California by donating $1,000 has just been scalped by some gay activists. After an OKCupid decision to boycott Mozilla, the recently appointed Brendan Eich just resigned under pressure:
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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Mozilla's Gay-Marriage Litmus Test Violates Liberal Values — A half-dozen years ago, Brendan Eich donated $1,000 to the campaign for Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative that set out to ban same-sex marriage. It passed with 52 percent of the vote, but was later overturned by the courts.
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National Review:
Corrosive Conformity — In 2008, Barack Obama and Brendan Eich both were against gay marriage. Senator Obama averred his support for the one-man/one-woman view of marriage, while Mr. Eich, a cofounder of the Mozilla web-browser company, donated $1,000 to support Proposition 8 …
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Michelangelo Signorile / The Huffington Post:
Dear Andrew Sullivan, ‘Left-Liberal Intolerance’ Did Not Bring Down Mozilla's CEO
Dear Andrew Sullivan, ‘Left-Liberal Intolerance’ Did Not Bring Down Mozilla's CEO
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Joe. My. God., AMERICAblog News, Towleroad News #gay and The Lonely Conservative
Scott Whitlock / NewsBusters:
ABC Uses Footage of Hateful Westboro Baptist to Slime CEO Who Opposed Gay Marriage
ABC Uses Footage of Hateful Westboro Baptist to Slime CEO Who Opposed Gay Marriage
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The PJ Tatler
Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal:
Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich Steps Down
Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich Steps Down
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Brendan Eich:
The Next Mission — Slides for the brief talk that I gave …
The Next Mission — Slides for the brief talk that I gave …
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Slate and New York Times
Will Oremus / Slate:
If You're Against Gay Marriage, You're a Bad CEO
If You're Against Gay Marriage, You're a Bad CEO
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Scott Stump / Today:
Bush: Putin ‘dissed’ our pet, said his dog was ‘bigger, stronger, faster’ — When former president George W. Bush unveiled his paintings of world leaders during an interview with daughter Jenna Bush Hager on TODAY Friday, it brought back memories of an encounter with Vladimir Putin that revealed …
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Plans To Strike Down Ohio Marriage Recognition Ban — A prior decision by the judge was limited to recognizing same-sex couples' marriages on death certificates. — WASHINGTON — Following a hearing Friday, a federal judge in Ohio announced he plans to rule that Ohio …
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Ann Thompson / WVXU:
Federal Judge says he will declare Ohio's gay marriage ban unconstitutional — Update: Federal Judge Timothy Black says he will issue a ruling April 14 striking down Ohio's gay marriage ban passed by voters in 2004. Attorney Al Gerhardstein, representing plaintiffs in a lawsuit about birth certificates …
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James Taranto / Washington Post:
Justice Breyer turns the First Amendment on its head. — In his plurality opinion in yesterday's free-speech case, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, Chief Justice John Roberts notes an anomaly in contemporary “liberal” First Amendment jurisprudence: “If the First Amendment protects flag burning …
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Ben Goad / The Hill:
Is it Clarence Thomas's court? — Justice Clarence Thomas's influence was on full display in the Supreme Court's landmark decision to strike down a crucial campaign finance restriction. — And it's just one in a string of cases in which Thomas could be dragging the court toward his way of thinking.
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Joe Schoffstall / Capitol City Project:
Hillary struggles to list accomplishments during tenure as Secretary of State — On April 3, 2014, Hillary Clinton spoke at the Women of the World Summit in New York City and was asked what she was most proud of during her tenure as Secretary of State. Clinton could not provide …
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Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Hillary Clinton: Media ‘double standard’ on women
Hillary Clinton: Media ‘double standard’ on women
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Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Hillary Clinton: For women, ‘Double standard is alive and well’
Hillary Clinton: For women, ‘Double standard is alive and well’
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ABC News, OnPolitics and Althouse
George Bennett / Palm Beach Post:
Allen West's new book dotted with familiar, but fake, quotes from great Americans — Former Rep. Allen West outlines his political philosophy, warrior code and experiences as a black conservative in a new book that's peppered with quotations attributed to Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and other famous figures.
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Tom Boggioni / The Raw Story:
Founding Father enthusiast Allen West's book filled with fake Founding Father quotes
Founding Father enthusiast Allen West's book filled with fake Founding Father quotes
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Hinterland Gazette and Liberaland
Kyle Whitmire / al.com:
Alabama House resolution calls for US Constitution same-sex marriage ban, but did anyone read it? — MONTGOMERY, Alabama — One Alabama lawmaker is crying foul after the Alabama House today approved a resolution calling for the United States Congress to convene an Article V constitutional convention to ban same-sex marriage.
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Peggy Noonan / Wall Street Journal:
Noonan: A Catastrophe Like No Other — The president tries to put a good face on ObamaCare. — Put aside the numbers for a moment, and the daily argument. — “Seven point one million people have signed up!” — “But six million people lost their coverage and were forced onto the exchanges!
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Hot Air and Washington Post
David Dayen / American Prospect:
Wall Street's Subsidy Safety Net — Financial reformers in both parties have insisted for years that the largest banks remain too big to fail, and that Dodd-Frank did not cleanse the system of this reality. You can mark down this week as the moment that this morphed into conventional wisdom.
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Ronan Farrow Demonstrates That MSNBC Can't Stop Talking About The Koch Bros (VIDEO) — Viewers of MSNBC's Ronan Farrow have spoken, and they want more Koch. — Farrow asked his audience to choose the most underreported story of the week and the results will probably vindicate Democrats …
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Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
AP PHOTOGRAPHER KILLED, REPORTER WOUNDED — You are here — Home » Afghanistan » AP photographer killed, reporter wounded — KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A veteran Associated Press photographer was killed and an AP reporter was wounded on Friday when an Afghan policeman opened fire …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Party All the Time — Over the last several decades, the United States has adopted a series of campaign finance reform laws. If these laws were designed to reduce the power of money in politics, they have failed. Spending on political campaigns has exploded. Washington booms with masses of lobbyists and consultants.
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Right Turn and The Fix
hrms.urban.org:
QuickTake: Number of Uninsured Adults Falls by 5.4 Million since 2013 — Sharon K. Long, Genevieve M. Kenney, Stephen Zuckerman, Douglas Wissoker, Dana Goin, Michael Karpman, and Nathaniel Anderson — The Urban Institute's Health Reform Monitoring Survey (HRMS) has been tracking insurance coverage since the first quarter of 2013.
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