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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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Good As You, Politico, The Week, Real Clear Politics and Associated Press
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Gallup: Support For Same-Sex Marriage At All-Time High — Americans' support for same-sex marriage is at a new high of 55 percent, according to a new Gallup poll. — The poll released Wednesday found support for recognizing same-sex marriage as legal has edged up two points since 2012 …
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Towleroad News #gay and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times
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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Talking Points Memo and The Mahablog
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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New York Times, SCOTUSblog, Outside the Beltway and Hot Air
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Strikes Down Pennsylvania Same-Sex Marriage Ban
Federal Judge Strikes Down Pennsylvania Same-Sex Marriage Ban
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Hot Air, Freedom to Marry Blog, NBC News, Hit & Run, Washington Post and Patterico's Pontifications
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Amid scandal, embattled VA chief visits Capitol — Embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday visited the leaders of the House Appropriations Committee. — The meeting with House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) …
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
President Obama, Eric Shinseki to meet on VA — President Barack Obama will meet with Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and deputy chief of staff Rob Nabors on Wednesday at 10 a.m., according to the White House. — A White House news release said the president will meet …
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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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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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CNN:
Boehner: Tea party and GOP aren't that different — (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday the tea party and conservative Republicans are basically one in the same. — As establishment Republican candidates try to fend off a series of tea party challengers in Tuesday's midterm primaries …
Peter Hamby / CNN:
How Mitch McConnell crushed the tea party
How Mitch McConnell crushed the tea party
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Wall Street Journal, RedState, Washington Post and New Day
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
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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Biggest Loser: Thawing Greenland Competes With Collapsing Antarctic For Fastest Ice Loss — Several new studies underscore scientists' concerns we're headed toward a coastline at least this flooded (20 meters or 69 feet) over many hundreds of years: — The worst-case scenario for sea level rise …
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Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Harry Reid optimistic on David Barron — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) signaled Tuesday that a controversial judicial nominee from the Obama administration is likely to win eventual confirmation from the Senate. — The nominee, David Barron, has drawn some criticism and scrutiny …
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
The Sequel To Rand Paul's Epic Filibuster Is Happening Tomorrow
The Sequel To Rand Paul's Epic Filibuster Is Happening Tomorrow
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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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Israpundit and Israel Matzav
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
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Ga., Ky. Primaries: Lots of Attention, Few Votes — A relatively small slice of the electorate will participate in Republican primaries in Georgia and Kentucky, despite international attention and eye-popping sums of money heaped on races that will help determine which party controls …
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RIA Novosti / RT:
Russia and China seal historic $400bn gas deal — After 10 years of negotiations, Russia's Gazprom and China's CNPC have finally signed a historic gas deal which will provide the world's fastest growing economy with the natural gas it needs to keep pace for the next 30 years.
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Firedoglake, The Diplomat and Business Insider
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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Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Jennifer Robison / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada will dump Xerox as health insurance exchange contractor — The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board voted unanimously Tuesday to end its relationship with Xerox, the vendor contracted in 2012 to build the exchange's Nevada Health Link website.
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ACASignups.net, Hot Air and Twitchy