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Jacob Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: VA Scandal Hits New Hospital — Veterans with serious heart conditions, gangrene, and even brain tumors waited months for care at the Albuquerque VA hospital, a whistleblowing doctor tells The Daily Beast. — Add Albuquerque, New Mexico's to the growing list of VA hospitals accused …
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Jim McElhatton / Washington Times:
Obama warned about VA wait-time problems during 2008 transition — The Obama administration received clear notice more than five years ago that VA medical facilities were reporting inaccurate waiting times and experiencing scheduling failures that threatened to deny veterans timely health care …
John Fund / National Review:
Lessons of the VA Scandal
Lessons of the VA Scandal
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Mediaite, Betsy's Page and The Lonely Conservative
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Cochran campaign knew of wife's taping for weeks — Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-Miss.) legal team apparently held onto information concerning a man's taping of the senator's bedridden wife for as many as two weeks before turning it over to the police. — Cochran's campaign spokesman …
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BREITBART.COM, Hot Air and RedState
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Therese Apel / The Clarion-Ledger:
Police considering ‘conspiracy’ in Cochran video case
Police considering ‘conspiracy’ in Cochran video case
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Talking Points Memo and BREITBART.COM
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Miss. mailers compare Cochran opponent to Akin
Miss. mailers compare Cochran opponent to Akin
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The Daily Caller and BuzzFeed
Alexander Burns / Politico:
POLITICO poll shows mounting danger for Dems — President Barack Obama's job approval slump and voters' entrenched wariness of his health care law are dogging Democrats ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, and Republicans have captured a lead in the areas home to the year's most competitive races, according to a new POLITICO poll.
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David Weigel / Slate:
Read What Georgia's Michelle Nunn Actually Said About Obamacare — Former President George H.W. Bush walks onstage with Points of Light Institute CEO Michelle Nunn for a speech on October 16, 2009, in College Station, Texas. — Earlier today the GOP oppo group America Rising sent out a series …
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Daily Kos, Hot Air and National Review
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Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Nunn Refuses To Answer How She Would Have Voted On Obamacare
Nunn Refuses To Answer How She Would Have Voted On Obamacare
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Power Line
Caitlin Huey-Burns / Real Clear Politics:
In Georgia Senate Primary, GOP Fray Could Take a Toll
In Georgia Senate Primary, GOP Fray Could Take a Toll
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Washington Post and National Review
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Strikes Down Oregon Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Weddings Can Start Immediately — State officials have said they will not appeal the ruling. Judge's order is effective immediately. — Supporters of same-sex marriage gather for a rally in Portland, Oreg., on April 22.
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The Moderate Voice, Talking Points Memo, Hit & Run and Daily Kos
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Jeff Mapes / Oregonian:
Oregon gay marriage ban struck down by federal judge; same-sex marriages to begin
Oregon gay marriage ban struck down by federal judge; same-sex marriages to begin
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Washington Post
ThinkProgress:
Florida Lawmaker: Common Core Will Turn ‘Every One Of Your Children’ Gay — Florida Republican Rep. Charles Van Zant, left, believes that increasing educational standards cause homosexuality. — CREDIT: AP Photo/Phil Coale — Common Core may not be a well-intentioned set …
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Talking Points Memo, The Huffington Post, The Raw Story and Orcinus
Katie Van Syckle / New York Magazine:
Ira Glass Doesn't Know or Care Who Edits the New York Times — The “This American Life” host admits he's not up on the biggest media story of the moment. — This afternoon at the Peabody Awards, which celebrate TV, web, and radio storytelling, “This American Life” host Ira Glass admitted he's …
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Talking Points Memo, Mediaite, JIMROMENESKO.COM and Gawker
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David Carr / New York Times:
Abramson's Exit at The Times Puts Tensions on Display
Abramson's Exit at The Times Puts Tensions on Display
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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Why Democrats Are Aching to Run Against Jeb Bush — On Friday, Hillary Clinton spoke at the New America Foundation's “Big Ideas” conference (disclosure: I'm a New America senior fellow). Her basic theme was familiar—the American dream of upward mobility is in peril—though she did offer a couple of intriguing twists.
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Washington Monthly, American Spectator and Bloomberg View
The Intercept:
Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas — The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas.
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Little Green Footballs, The Hill, Gawker, Techdirt, Hullabaloo, Mashable, The Verge and emptywheel
Oregonian:
Monica Wehby's ex-husband accused her of ‘ongoing harassment’ during divorce: police report — The ex-husband of Republican Senate candidate Monica Wehby accused her of “ongoing harassment” as they were going through a divorce in December 2007, documents obtained by The Oregonian show.
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The Moderate Voice, Politico, Talking Points Memo and Taegan Goddard's …
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Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Is This the Democrats' War on Women?
Is This the Democrats' War on Women?
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The Daily Caller, Washington Post and The Moderate Voice
Yahoo! News:
Marco Rubio's ‘pot’ hole — Why won't Sen. Marco Rubio say whether he's ever smoked pot? — The Florida Republican, who maintains a strict stance against the legalization of marijuana, refuses to answer whether he's ever personally smoked it. Rubio told “Politics Confidential” …
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CBS DC, Hit & Run, The Daily Caller, Hot Air, Politico, Washington Post and Business Insider
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
For 2016 Hopefuls, Washington Experience Could Do More Harm than Good — Military Service Top Positive, Atheism Top Negative for Potential Candidates — As the 2016 presidential campaign begins to take shape, Washington experience has become less of a potential asset for those seeking the White House.
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Firedoglake, Washington Post, The Daily Banter, The PJ Tatler, Politico, OnPolitics, Bloomberg View and Independent Journal Review
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Exploring the Origins of the Legend of Joe Biden — I've been wondering about this for a while: I just noted this story about how a Connecticut teen invited Joe Biden to her prom and he replied by sending a corsage. But I've wondered for a while about the origins of what I'll call the still-growing Joe Biden Legend.
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Bloomberg View
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Matt K. Lewis / The Week:
The state of conservative media — We've come a long way. We have a long way to go. — Some new and familiar faces... I — n the beginning, long ago, before the rise of talk radio, cable TV, and blogs, the liberal-leaning mainstream media was the only game in town.
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Washington Monthly and The Daily Caller
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The One Percent at State U — New report finds that student debt and low-wage faculty labor are rising faster at state universities with the highest-paid presidents.
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ThinkProgress, Mediaite, Gawker and VICE
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The Diane Rehm Show / The Diane Rehm Show …:
James Webb: “I Heard My Country Calling” — Former U.S. Sen. Jim (D-VA) is a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam war. Among his awards, he received the Navy Cross and two Purple Hearts serving as a Marine. In a new memoir he writes of how growing up in a military family helped shape …
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CNN, Washington Post and The Daily Caller
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Marc Andreessen on the Future of Silicon Valley(s), and the Next Big Technology — Silicon Valley is starting to feel a little less exuberant these days. — Some big start-ups are having trouble raising money. Others are delaying plans to go public. Hot new technologies like Bitcoin …
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Scripting News and AEIdeas
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
NRA Thinks #BringBackOurGirls Hashtag Isn't 2nd Amendment-y Enough — The hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, which was launched to bring attention to the kidnapping of hundreds of girls in Nigeria by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, has inspired plenty of discussion, on Twitter and elsewhere.
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Daily Kos