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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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American Prospect, Post Politics, Hot Air, Hit & Run, Power Line, The Week, AMERICAblog News, ABC News, Marginal REVOLUTION, The Dish, LGBTQ Nation and Re/code
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Dear Andrew Sullivan, ‘Left-Liberal Intolerance’ Did Not Bring Down Mozilla's CEO — Andrew Sullivan has come to the defense of the Mozilla CEO, Brendan Eich, writing that Eich is being treated as a “heretic,” a victim of “left-liberal intolerance” and the “ugly intolerance of parts of the gay movement …
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New York Times, The Federalist, protein wisdom, Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.


Dissents Of The Day — Among the scores of upset readers rattling the in-tray:
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National Review, American Spectator, Valleywag, Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Daily Kos, The Anchoress and alicublog

ABC Uses Footage of Hateful Westboro Baptist to Slime CEO Who Opposed Gay Marriage
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The PJ Tatler

Brendan Eich is just the beginning. Let's oust everyone who donated to the campaign against gay marriage.
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Firedoglake, USA Today, NY Daily News, New York Times, Weasel Zippers, The PJ Tatler, Fox News, Mediaite, Hot Air and Guardian


ABC News Exclusive: Grand Jury Convened in Christie Bridge Scandal Probe … The U.S. Attorney in New Jersey has convened a grand jury to investigate the involvement of Governor Chris Christie's office in the George Washington Bridge scandal, ABC News has learned.
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Talking Points Memo, Taylor Marsh, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune and The Raw Story
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Spokesman Bails On Christie To Become Scott Brown's Campaign Manager
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Washington Monthly


Paul Ryan Accidentally Reveals The Truth About The GOP's Obamacare Replacement — House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) admitted on Friday that Republicans would not be able to preserve the most popular elements of Obamacare if they repeal the law as a whole.
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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Paul Ryan: Popular parts of Obamacare too costly to reinstate after repeal, alternatives needed — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) says in a new interview that it would be too costly for Republicans to reinstate some of the more popular provisions of Obamacare if and when the law …
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ThinkProgress and Daily Kos


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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CNN, News Desk, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Mashable
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Stephen Colbert Is CBS' Top Choice to Succeed Letterman, and He's Into It — Stephen Colbert is CBS' top choice to replace the retiring David Letterman, and has indicated that he's willing to take over the Late Show when the time comes, people familiar with both sides of the discussions tell Mashable.
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, Liberaland, Gawker and The Week, more at Mediagazer »


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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The Moderate Voice and Betsy's Page
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Justice Breyer turns the First Amendment on its head.
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RedState


Illinois Residents Least Trusting of Their State Government — North Dakota, Wyoming, and Utah rank at the top — PRINCETON, NJ — Illinois residents trust their state government to handle their state's problems far less than residents in any other state.
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Business Insider and GovBeat


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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Hit & Run, The Week and Joe. My. God.
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Federal Judge says he will declare Ohio's gay marriage ban unconstitutional
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Associated Press, GovBeat, Daily Kos, Towleroad News #gay, Washington Post and ThinkProgress


‘Be Quiet!’ Medal Of Honor Vet Shuts Down Advocate For More Guns On Military Bases (VIDEO) — An MSNBC military analyst repeatedly told an advocate for arming military personnel on bases to be quiet at the end of an on-air debate Friday. — Retired Col. Jack Jacobs, a Medal of Honor recipient …
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Mediaite and Americans Against the …


Pro-Pot, Pro-Gay, Anti-NSA... and Running for Senate — Meet Shenna Bellows, Maine's former ACLU chief who's looking to unseat Susan Collins with a mix of left and right issues that might appeal to millennials. — The baby boomers had John F. Kennedy—young, charismatic, and TV ready.
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Hit & Run

Shock peer-reviewed paper provides ‘rationale’ for ‘information manipulation’ & ‘exaggeration’ in global warming debate to ‘enhance global welfare’ — New Paper: It's OK to lie about climate?! - Published in American Journal of Agricultural Economics — A new peer-reviewed paper published …
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National Review, Rush Limbaugh, The Daily Caller and Watts Up With That?

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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Mediaite and Power Line
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Hillary Clinton: For women, ‘Double standard is alive and well’
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ABC News, OnPolitics and Althouse


Washington Post: No Correction, But You Can Have a Reprint of the Article! — After I demolished a Washington Post article that tried to link Koch Industries to the Keystone Pipeline, the Post promised Koch a correction. That correction has yet to appear, but in the meantime, the Post's …

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

Mark Cuban and Thomas Melsheimer: How the Feds Rig Their Prosecutions — In the Mark Cuban case, the SEC refused to turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense for three years. — On March 21, 2014, Securities and Exchange Commission Chairwoman Mary Jo White was once again quoted praising her agency as …
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PointOfLaw Forum and ProfessorBainbridge.com


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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Mediaite


Millions by millions, CEO pay goes up — When it comes to executive pay, 2013 could be one for the record books, with 15 CEOs and other key members of publicly held companies gaining membership into the $100 million-plus compensation club, likely the most since before the 2008 financial crisis.
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ThinkProgress and NewsBusters