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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Same-Sex Marriage Support Reaches New High at 55% — Nearly eight in 10 young adults favor gay marriage — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' support for the law recognizing same-sex marriages as legally valid has increased yet again, now at 55%. Marriage equality advocates have had a string …
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Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Pennsylvania. Oregon. Is Gay Marriage Unstoppable? — Same-sex marriage seems to be on a roll in the state courts, with a judge throwing out Pennsylvania's ban Tuesday. But what about when one of these cases ends up in the Supreme Court? — The cascade of same-sex marriage rulings is now a torrent …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Gallup: Support For Same-Sex Marriage At All-Time High
Gallup: Support For Same-Sex Marriage At All-Time High
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Towleroad News #gay and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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Federal judge rules same-sex marriage ban in Pennsylvania is unconstitutional
Federal judge rules same-sex marriage ban in Pennsylvania is unconstitutional
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Wall Street Journal and Feministing
David Weigel / Slate:
Rick Santorum Endorsed the Judge Who Just Legalized Gay Marriage in Pennsylvania
Rick Santorum Endorsed the Judge Who Just Legalized Gay Marriage in Pennsylvania
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Otto Kitsinger / Associated Press:
Federal Appeals Court Puts Same-Sex Marriage On Hold In Idaho
Federal Appeals Court Puts Same-Sex Marriage On Hold In Idaho
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The Hill:
Vet scandal rocks Obama — The White House tried Tuesday to douse flames of criticism over allegations that dozens of veterans have died because of gross mismanagement at Veterans Affairs hospitals. — President Obama's chief of staff, Denis McDonough, met frustrated Democrats on Capitol Hill …
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Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
When a President Learns Everything on TV
When a President Learns Everything on TV
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Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Amid scandal, embattled VA chief visits Capitol
Amid scandal, embattled VA chief visits Capitol
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Politico, Fox News, Weekly Standard and Hot Air
James Hohmann / Politico:
2014 primary election results: Establishment, self-funders win big in primaries — Tuesday night was great for incumbents, the GOP establishment and self-funders. — It was not so great a night to be a Clinton in-law. — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defeated his GOP challenger …
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Payback time: GOP incumbents learn how to win — In 2014, the tea party insurrection is starting to look more like the Boston massacre. — In state after state this primary season, entrenched politicians are proving that incumbency counts for something after all, leveraging the stature …
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Peter Hamby / CNN:
How Mitch McConnell crushed the tea party
How Mitch McConnell crushed the tea party
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Washington Post, RedState, Wall Street Journal and New Day
ThinkProgress:
How South Florida Is Ignoring The State's Leading Politicians And Taking On Climate Change — Susanne Torriente remembers waking up on Thanksgiving morning in 2012 and discovering that four blocks of Florida's main coastal highway had washed away overnight.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
WTF? — I'm not sure why this isn't a bigger deal. I hadn't heard about it other than in this brief passage tucked away in a Politico article about the House GOP agriculture bill. But it takes a small program intended provide meals to children in the school lunch program during …
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Carl Willis / WSB-TV:
School district apologizes over yearbook quote incident — Sponsored Links — CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — UPDATE: Paris Gray and her family met with the school's principal and the area superintendent on Tuesday. They apologized for the miscommunication and said they would not deny her giving a speech at graduation.
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James Hamblin / The Atlantic Online:
The Chemistry Joke That Got a Student Suspended — Paris Gray, upstanding vice president of her about-to-graduate high-school class in Jonesboro, Georgia, was suspended last Friday when administrators figured out what her yearbook quote meant. It read:
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The Other McCain
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
AP Editor Accidentally Adds Her Buzzfeed Cover Letter to Photo Caption — 2,884g — Job-hunting at work is dangerous. Online multitasking is dangerous. Online multitasking your work with your job hunt is deadly. Just ask this Associated Press photo editor.
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ebay inc:
eBay Inc. To Ask eBay Users To Change Passwords — eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) said beginning later today it will be asking eBay users to change their passwords because of a cyberattack that compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data.
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Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
‘Over My Dead Body’: Spies Fight Obama Push to Downsize Terror War — The Obama administration concluded in 2012 that al Qaeda posed no direct threat to the U.S.—and has sought to scale back the fight ever since, over intel officials' rising objections. — In 2012, the Obama administration produced …
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Robert Mackey / New York Times:
Young Iranians Arrested for Being Too ‘Happy in Tehran’ — Just days after Iran's president denounced Internet censorship as “cowardly,” six young Iranians were arrested and forced to repent on state television Tuesday for the grievous offense of proclaiming themselves to be “Happy in Tehran …
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Planned Homeland Security headquarters, long delayed and over budget, now in doubt — The construction of a massive new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security, billed as critical for national security and the revitalization of Southeast Washington, is running more than $1.5 billion over budget …
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Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Turn up the heat on Clinton — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has characterized her place in history as akin to a runner in a relay race: taking the baton, running her laps as best she can, and then handing it off to John Kerry, her successor. — But the actual record indicates that …
Uzi Baruch / Arutz Sheva:
The Price of Oslo - 933 Billion Shekels and Counting — Victim of bus bomb, Jerusalem, 2003. — Flash 90 — The failed attempt at regional peacemaking known as the Oslo Process has cost the state of Israel over 900 billion shekels - more than $250 billion - since 1993, and the costs keeps rising …
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
The Sequel To Rand Paul's Epic Filibuster Is Happening Tomorrow — On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, will filibuster President Barack Obama's nomination of David Barron to fill a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Paul first threatened to filibuster Barron last week.
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