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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Untamed Cruz refuses to play nice with GOP campaign arm — GOP hopes of corralling Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) during the 2014 primary season are officially dead. — The defiant Republican's brutal criticism of Sen. Thad Cochran's (R-Miss.) reelection campaign on Tuesday …
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Washington Post:
The tea party's embrace of martyrdom — Hiroo Onoda, the last imperial Japanese soldier to surrender after World War II, hid out in a jungle in the Philippines for 29 years, refusing to believe that the war was over. He finally turned himself in, wearing his sword, cap and patched uniform, in 1974.
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Cochran gets lost on way to Senate lunch — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is back with his colleagues in Washington, D.C., after winning his hard-fought primary runoff — but he had a bit of trouble finding Senate Republicans' weekly luncheon on Tuesday. — Cochran, while talking with The Hill …
Geoff Pender / The Clarion-Ledger:
Cochran camp says it ‘screwed up’ cash accounting
Cochran camp says it ‘screwed up’ cash accounting
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Gay rights groups withdraw support of ENDA after Hobby Lobby decision — Several major gay rights groups withdrew support Tuesday for the Employment Non-Discrimination Act that would bolster gay and transgender rights in the workplace, saying they fear that broad religious exemptions included …
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New York Times:
Faith Groups Seek Exclusion From Bias Rule — WASHINGTON — After a setback in the Supreme Court in the Hobby Lobby case, President Obama is facing mounting pressure from religious groups demanding to be excluded from his long-promised executive order that would bar discrimination against gay men …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Senate Dems Ready To Unveil Bill Reversing Hobby Lobby Ruling
Senate Dems Ready To Unveil Bill Reversing Hobby Lobby Ruling
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National Review
Rea Carey / Advocate:
Op-ed: Why One of the Biggest LGBT Orgs Has Stopped Supporting ENDA
Op-ed: Why One of the Biggest LGBT Orgs Has Stopped Supporting ENDA
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Metro Weekly, Daily Kos and ThinkProgress
Mark Daley / National Gay and Lesbian Task Force:
Task Force Action Fund Says No to ENDA
Task Force Action Fund Says No to ENDA
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Washington Blade, BuzzFeed, PinkNews.co.uk and SCOTUSblog
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Democrats Push Bill to Reverse Supreme Court Ruling on Contraceptives
Democrats Push Bill to Reverse Supreme Court Ruling on Contraceptives
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USA Today:
Exclusive: Clooney responds to ‘Daily Mail’ report — I want to speak to the irresponsibility of Monday's Daily Mail report. I seldom respond to tabloids, unless it involves someone else and their safety or well being. The Daily Mail has printed a completely fabricated story …
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Daily Mail:
EXCLUSIVE - ‘She can do better’: Amal Alamuddin's mother ‘is unimpressed with George Clooney and wants daughter to marry within their strict Lebanese religious sect’ — Baria Alamuddin has been ‘telling half of Beirut’ that she wanted daughter to marry within the Druze sect
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Guardian, USA Today, Poynter and The Huffington Post
The Intercept:
Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On — The National Security Agency and FBI have covertly monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-Americans—including a political candidate and several civil rights activists, academics, and lawyers—under secretive procedures intended …
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
GOP Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Floated Obama Impeachment — WASHINGTON — Iowa GOP Senate candidate Joni Ernst floated the idea of impeaching President Barack Obama in January, calling him a “dictator” and arguing he was “overstepping his bounds” by using executive authority to enact parts of his agenda without Congress' cooperation.
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Byron Tau / Politico:
Why the GOP is holding its convention early — Republicans will hold their 2016 national convention more than a month earlier than their 2012 event for one simple reason: money. — Two years ago, Mitt Romney raised $1 billion but found himself out of cash that August due to campaign finance laws …
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Cleveland's winning bid to host GOP convention highlights Portman's influence
Cleveland's winning bid to host GOP convention highlights Portman's influence
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Metro Weekly, Trail Blazers Blog, CNN, The Huffington Post and Spiegel Online
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Rick Perry Admirably Refuses To Shake Obama's Hand At Airport
Rick Perry Admirably Refuses To Shake Obama's Hand At Airport
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Politico and Power Line
New York Times:
Spying Case Left Obama in Dark, U.S. Officials Say — WASHINGTON — When President Obama placed a call to Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany last Thursday, he had a busy agenda: to consult with a close ally and to mobilize wavering Europeans to put more pressure on Russia to end its covert incursions in Ukraine.
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Window Opens Onto the Left-Wing Conspiracy — The Democracy Alliance is not a famous organization, but it deserves to be. The Alliance consists of approximately 100 rich liberals who have taken upon themselves the task of coordinating America's many left-wing organizations to promote a single radical agenda.
James Carville / The Hill:
Four good reasons to watch Louisiana race this season — Lately it seems like every time I look around, the political news I am seeing is five myths about blank, five reasons for this and five things we learned about that. God knows why there are never four or six — five seems to be the preferred number.
Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
The Bear meets a horse — The bear was on the loose on Tuesday evening — this time in Colorado. — President Barack Obama greeted supporters on a walk following dinner in downtown Denver, a night that resulted in shaking hands with a man in a horse mask, and shooting pool and drinking beers during …
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Outside the Beltway
Roland S. Martin / The Daily Beast:
Send the National Guard to ‘Chiraq’ — To save the Windy City, we have to use everything at our disposal. — A major American city is quickly being lost to guns, gangs, drugs and hopelessness, and political and business leaders are giving lip service to the problem.
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Hot Air
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
Violent MS-13 Gang Members Leave Graffiti on Bathroom Walls of Nogales Border Patrol Processing Center — 4.6K — SHARES — An internal Border Patrol executive summary obtained by Townhall confirms that at least 16 unaccompanied illegal minors (those under the age of 18 …
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