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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The worst excuse ever: The Rhodes memo debacle — The White House damage control on the latest batch of Benghazi emails is not going well. The White House's belated release of the documents at the very least show it has been actively evading legitimate congressional requests for relevant information.
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Top Intel Chief Testifies: ‘We Should Have Sent Help For Americans in Benghazi’ — Testifying in front of a House Oversight Committee hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Lovell said the military should have and could have done more to help Americans …
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Hot Air, Daily Kos and The Gateway Pundit
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Email Suggests White House Strategy on Benghazi — WASHINGTON — A newly released email shows that White House officials sought to shape the way Susan E. Rice, then the ambassador to the United Nations, discussed the Middle East chaos that was the context for the attack on the American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Can Obama get his groove back? — It's been more than a year …
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Weekly Standard, Fox News and Jammie Wearing Fools
Wall Street Journal:
New evidence that Ben Rhodes told Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton to blame the video.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Jay Carney Lies About the Benghazi Email
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Scared Monkeys, Betsy's Page and Mediaite
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Tom Coburn: I Don't Believe There Should Be A National Minimum Wage — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) said Thursday that he doesn't believe there should be a national minimum wage. — Senate Republicans voted Wednesday to block debate on legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10.
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Globe and Mail:
Rob Ford takes leave as recent drug video emerges — A second video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking what has been described as crack cocaine by a self-professed drug dealer was secretly filmed in his sister's basement early Saturday morning. — The clip, which was viewed by two Globe and Mail reporters …
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Royson James Toronto / Toronto Star:
Rob Ford is out of time and must resign: James — Toronto mayor's descent so long and dark it may be too late for redemption — Jennifer Gordon, whose back is to the camera, and friends spotted Mayor Rob Ford “stumbling” down the street near the Esplanade on St. Patrick's Day 2012.
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Antonin Scalia's Blunder Is Unprecedented, Legal Experts Say — Justice Antonin Scalia's factual error in a dissenting opinion Tuesday has become the talk of the legal community as experts puzzle over the extraordinary nature of the Reagan-appointed justice's blunder, which the Supreme Court quietly corrected as of Wednesday morning.
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State-Sponsored Horror in Oklahoma
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
When the Death Penalty Turns Into Torture
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Washington Post, The Week, New York Times, The Baffler and The Dish
Snapchat:
Putting the Chat into Snapchat — Building Snapchat has taught us a lot about what makes conversation special. When we first started working on an application for sharing disappearing pictures, we had no idea how much we would learn. Our classmates were quick to point out that you could always take a screenshot.
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Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:
Real talk: the new Snapchat brilliantly mixes video and texting
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Politico:
What Is Hillary Clinton Afraid Of? — Over the 25 years Hillary Clinton has spent in the national spotlight, she's been smeared and stereotyped, the subject of dozens of over-hyped or downright fictional stories and books alleging, among other things, that she is a lesbian …
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Stephanie Condon / CBS News:
Report: 67% of Obamacare enrollees have paid so far — Shares - — As of April 15, 67 percent of Americans enrolled in the federally-run Obamacare marketplace had paid their first monthly premium, according to data collected by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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American Spectator, The Week and CBS DC
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James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
If Data Were a Journalist — He'd work for Ezra Klein. — “Vox.com joins a crowded field of data-driven news sites,” USA Today reported earlier this month on Ezra Klein's new venture. Maybe “Data” should have been capitalized. — A pair of articles the site published yesterday …
Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
Meet Mary Burke, the Woman Who Could Beat Scott Walker — She's a political novice—and that may be what it takes to knock off Wisconsin's governor, of whose jobs plan she says: 'I've seen eighth-graders' term papers that are more thoughtful.' — Republicans call her “Millionaire Mary,” …
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Althouse, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Hot Air
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Florida Set to Offer In-State Tuition to Children Brought to U.S. Illegally — MIAMI — After weeks of hand-wringing in the State Legislature and last-minute attempts by Senate leaders to scuttle the effort, Florida seems poised to make students who were brought to the United States illegally …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Fox News Brands Scientific American Editor A ‘Coward’ (VIDEO) — A Scientific American editor must have struck a nerve over at Fox News this week when he tweeted about having a “Fox & Friends” producer shoot down his idea to talk about the impacts of climate change on the show.
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The Raw Story, The Moderate Voice, Scientific American … and The Huffington Post
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Benjamin Netanyahu Has Had Enough Of Your Selfies — “You are slaves.” — View Entire List ›
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Guardian and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Detroit Free Press:
Moscow revives Red Square May Day parade — MOSCOW - Tens of thousands of Russians marched through Red Square on Thursday as part of May Day celebrations in the first such display of Soviet-era-like ceremony since 1991 - the year the Communist Soviet Union dissolved.
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