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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Bloomberg Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the N.R.A. — Michael R. Bloomberg, making his first major political investment since leaving office, plans to spend $50 million this year building a nationwide grass-roots network to motivate voters who feel strongly about curbing gun violence …
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Census Survey Revisions Mask Health Law Effects — WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau, the authoritative source of health insurance data for more than three decades, is changing its annual survey so thoroughly that it will be difficult to measure the effects of President Obama's health care law …
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
The $2.8 trillion question: Are health costs growing fast again?
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Daily Kos and The Incidental Economist
Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Don't freak out about the changes to the Census yet
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Paul Lewis / Guardian:
Ukraine on the brink as troops take on rebels — Vladimir Putin denounces Kiev for mobilising forces against pro-Russian gunmen in east of country — Alec Luhn in Kramatorsk, Paul Lewis in Washington and Julian Borger — Ukrainian government forces launched their first significant military action …
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Anthony Faiola / Washington Post:
Ukraine says it is launching counteroffensive; Russia's PM says nation on brink of civil war
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Orin Kerr / Washington Post:
Chemerinsky and Menkel-Meadow on curricular reform — In the New York Times, Erwin Chemerinsky and Carrie Menkel-Meadow offer a very sunny perspective on the current state of legal education. At the end, they argue that what law schools really need these days is curricular innovation:
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Barbara Starr / CNN:
Video shows large al Qaeda meeting in Yemen — Washington (CNN) — A new video shows what looks like the largest and most dangerous gathering of al Qaeda in years. And the CIA and the Pentagon either didn't know about it or couldn't get a drone there in time to strike.
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CNN:
U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists — Deadly shootings in Kansas City suburb … (CNN) — On Sunday, a man shot and killed a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and then drove to a nearby Jewish retirement community where he shot and killed a third person.
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New York Times:
New York Drops Unit That Spied on Muslims — The New York Police Department has abandoned a secretive program that dispatched plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop on conversations and built detailed files on where people ate, prayed and shopped, the department said.
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UO Matters:
UO law school prof angry about plan to use his raise for student fellowships — 4/14/2014: Several members of the law school email lists (which included staff, secretaries etc.) have forwarded these two emails from professor Rob Illig (Law) about a plan apparently floated by Law Dean Michael Moffitt …
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Bailey Elise McBride / Associated Press:
Fallin signs minimum wage hike ban in Oklahoma — OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Cities across Oklahoma are now prohibited from establishing mandatory minimum wage or vacation and sick-day requirements under a bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Mary Fallin. — Supporters say the measure would prevent …
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Deanreddington / CBS Boston:
Source: Bag Detonated In Boston Contained Rice Cooker, Confetti — BOSTON (CBS) - On the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, Boylston Street was evacuated and two bags were detonated by the Bomb Squad near the finish line. — One of the bags was being carried by a barefoot man …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Matt Taibbi: ‘Hands Down’ Bush Was Tougher On Corporate America Than Obama (VIDEO) — Muckraking polemicist Matt Taibbi said that when it comes to the last two presidents, there's no question who did a better job of holding America's tycoons accountable. — The former Rolling Stone writer …
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ThinkProgress:
Prominent Republican: Women Need To Be Paid Less So They Can Find Husbands — On Sunday, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sought to advance the GOP's rebranding effort among female voters by suggesting that Republicans have long “led the fight for women's equality.”
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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and Shakesville
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Phyllis Schlafly / Christian News, The Christian Post:
Facts and Fallacies About Paycheck Fairness
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Rumsfeld Has ‘Absolutely No Idea’ If He Filed His Taxes Correctly — Donald Rumsfeld got his taxes filed in time. Just don't ask him if they were done correctly. — In a letter sent Tuesday to the Internal Revenue Service, Rumsfeld said he has “absolutely no idea” whether his family's tax returns …
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Outside the Beltway, Washington Post, Mediaite and OnPolitics
Adam Sneed / Politico:
Cliven Bundy and BLM: 10 things to know — Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy has reignited the debate about federal power and states' rights: When the Bureau of Land Management seized nearly 400 cattle belonging to Bundy for grazing on federal land without a permit, protesters gathered in a remote part …
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Rory Reid: Rancher Cliven Bundy “Should Be Prosecuted” — RORY REID, SON OF SEN. HARRY REID: We believe in a country in which we are subject to laws and you can't just ignore the laws we don't like. I think clearly if state and local prosecutors look at this more closely …
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Bruce Smith / Associated Press:
Sen. Ted Cruz: Too Early to Worry About 2016 — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says it's too early to be thinking about 2016 and that he's working right now to make sure his party regains control of the Senate this year. — Cruz is visiting South Carolina, which hosts the first GOP presidential primary in the South.
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Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mississippi GOP Senate Candidate Wrote Race-Baiting Blog Posts — Mississippi Sen. Chris McDaniel is challenging incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran in the GOP primary. — Jonathan Bachman / Reuters — A leading Republican candidate for Senate in Mississippi wrote blog posts criticizing poor people affected …
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