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Liz Fields / ABC News:
Nevada Cattle Rancher Wins ‘Range War’ With Feds … A Nevada cattle rancher appears to have won his week-long battle with the federal government over a controversial cattle roundup that had led to the arrest of several protesters. — Cliven Bundy went head to head with the Bureau …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Standoff at Bundy Ranch Ends, With Photo of the Year So Far — Before I had quite figured out what to make of the Bundy Ranch standoff, it appears to have been resolved. The Bureau of Land Management has announced that in view of the risk of violence, it is withdrawing its forces, which include snipers, from the area.
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Right Wing News, Ed Driscoll, Taylor Marsh and Crime and Consequences Blog
Fox News:
Federal agency pulls back in Nevada ranch standoff, but legal fight remains — APRIL 7: Embattled Bunkerville rancher Cliven Bundy, left, and his son Dave Bundy talk to a reporter on the corner of North Las Vegas Boulevard and East Stewart Avenue in downtown Las Vegas.AP/Las Vegas Review-Journal
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The Gateway Pundit, The Other McCain and Twitchy
John Paul Stevens / Washington Post:
Justice Stevens: The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment — John Paul Stevens served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010. This essay is excerpted from his new book, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution.”
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PJ Media, Hot Air, Washington Monthly, Althouse, Josh Blackman's Blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money and American Prospect
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Bush draws boos from conservatives — A mention of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), a potential 2016 presidential contender, brought boos from a conservative crowd in New Hampshire on Saturday. — Speaking at the New Hampshire Freedom Summit, a gathering of conservative activists …
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Liberaland, CNN and The Moderate Voice
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Mike Huckabee Says Obama May Be Lying About His Support For Gay Marriage — “Mike Huckabee Says Obama May Be Lying About His Support For Gay Marriage” Share: — Mike Huckabee questioned President Obama's support for marriage equality during an appearance on Fox News on Friday …
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Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Huckabee Slams Obama on Gay Marriage: Where Are His ‘Christian Convictions’?
Huckabee Slams Obama on Gay Marriage: Where Are His ‘Christian Convictions’?
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Talking Points Memo, Outside the Beltway and The Raw Story
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Diversity and Dishonesty — EARLIER this year, a column by a Harvard undergraduate named Sandra Y. L. Korn briefly achieved escape velocity from the Ivy League bubble, thanks to its daring view of how universities should approach academic freedom. — Korn proposed that such freedom was dated …
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Vox Popoli and The Heritage Foundation
Daily Mail:
Investigators reveal MH370 co-pilot tried to make a call from his mobile phone after the aircraft ‘vanished’ but ‘was abruptly cut off’ as U.S. deny reports the plane landed at their remote military base — The co-pilot of missing flight MH370 made a call from his mobile phone …
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The Gateway Pundit, Hollywood Life and Liberaland
Christopher Cousins / Bangor Daily News:
LePage vetoes solar energy bill, two others — AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage vetoed three more bills Friday evening, including a solar energy concept he has been railing against for weeks. — LePage said he vetoed LD 1252, An Act to Improve Maine's Economy and Energy Security with Solar …
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ThinkProgress and The Raw Story
Alan Schwarz / New York Times:
Idea of New Attention Disorder Spurs Research, and Debate — With more than six million American children having received a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, concern has been rising that the condition is being significantly misdiagnosed and overtreated with prescription medications.
Sen. Orrin Hatch / The Hill:
Protect the Senate's important ‘advice and consent’ role — The Senate's constitutional role of “advice and consent” is an essential check on the president's constitutional power to appoint executive and judicial branch officials. The Senate is charged with advising the president …
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ThinkProgress
Laura Barron-Lopez / The Hill:
Union threatens retribution for House Dems opposing Keystone — A top building trades union is launching a midterm-election assault on House Democrats who oppose construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. — A letter distributed Friday by the Laborers' International Union of North America …
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American Thinker, Fox News and The Reaction