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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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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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New York Times:
Obama Meeting Veterans' Affairs Head Over Hospital Problems — WASHINGTON — President Obama will meet in the Oval Office on Wednesday morning with Eric Shinseki, the secretary of veterans' affairs, to receive an update on allegations of misconduct at the agency's hospitals, White House officials said.
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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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The Huffington Post
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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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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