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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg Business:
Gay Marriage Cleared by U.S. High Court to Start in Alabama — (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for same-sex weddings to start in Alabama, letting the number of gay-marriage states climb in advance of a constitutional showdown that may mean legalization nationwide.
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Alan Blinder / New York Times:
Alabama Judge Defies Gay Marriage Law — TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — In a dramatic show of defiance toward the federal judiciary, Chief Justice Roy S. Moore of the Alabama Supreme Court on Sunday night ordered the state's probate judges not to issue marriage licenses to gay couples on Monday …
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Brian Lyman / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Roy Moore orders ban on same-sex marriage licenses — Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore Sunday evening ordered the state's probate judges to not issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. — The outspoken social conservative told judges in a six-page letter that a federal judge's decision striking …
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New York Times, Politico, Advocate, SCOTUSblog, Gawker and Washington Blade
Kelsey Stein / al.com:
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore orders judges not to issue same-sex marriage licenses
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore orders judges not to issue same-sex marriage licenses
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Talking Points Memo, Raw Story and Shakesville
David Carr / New York Times:
Brian Williams, Retreading Memories From a Perch Too Public — For some time now, there have been two versions of Brian Williams. One is an Emmy-winning, sober, talented anchor on the “NBC Nightly News” and the other is a funny, urbane celebrity who hosts “Saturday Night Live,” …
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Washington Post, Pressthink and CNN, more at Mediagazer »
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Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
NBC's Brian Williams told varying versions of rocket fire in Israel-Hezbollah war
NBC's Brian Williams told varying versions of rocket fire in Israel-Hezbollah war
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Fox News, BREITBART.COM, Hot Air, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine and FTVLive, more at Mediagazer »
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Huckabee: Muslims Are The Only Group To Have Obama's ‘Undying’ Support — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said Monday that Barack Obama's National Prayer Breakfast speech proved that Muslims are only religious group that has the President's “undying” support.
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Huckabee Tears into Obama's Prayer Speech: His High Horse Is the TelePrompTer — Former Arkansas Governor and current Marge Simpson Mike Huckabee took to Fox & Friends Monday morning to declare that this Barack Obama guy has notions. — “This president has a high horse himself — it's his teleprompter,” Huckabee said.
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Liberaland, Business Insider and Washington Times
Vox:
Obama on American politics and economy: the Vox conversation — In his 2007 book The Audacity of Hope, then-Sen. Barack Obama laid out his theory of America's political and policy problems as it stood on the eve of his first presidential campaign. He worried, he said, about …
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Talking Points Memo, Politico, CBS DC, Washington Post, Business Insider and The Right Scoop, more at Mediagazer »
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Professor Marco Rubio — Inside the classroom, the Florida Republican gives clues about his political future. — MIAMI — Without notes and seemingly without taking a breath, Marco Rubio tears through a data-heavy speech about the “fault lines” in America's politics and what he calls “the middle-class trap.”
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Axelrod: Hillary has to ‘run like an insurgent’ — USA TODAY's Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page interviews former campaign strategist for President Obama, David Axelrod. He shares that Hillary Clinton should run with the mindset of a challenger, rather than a frontrunner.
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Washington Free Beacon
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
TV host asks Holder to quack like a duck — Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday refused an unusual request during an interview, declining to quack like a duck. — At the end of an interview that touched on the Voting Rights Act and use of force by police, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry asked …
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Washington Free Beacon and Washington Times
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Michael A. Memoli / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Holder says lack of new gun laws is his ‘single failure’
Holder says lack of new gun laws is his ‘single failure’
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Hot Air and FOX News Radio
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
11 Democrats who could help themselves by challenging Hillary — As far as the Democratic primaries are concerned, Hillary Clinton is assembling a huge campaign organization to run against ... nobody. A presidential contender needs an opponent, a workout, a challenge to be in shape …
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Sanders promises ‘clash of ideas’ with Hillary Clinton if both run in 2016
Sanders promises ‘clash of ideas’ with Hillary Clinton if both run in 2016
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Washington Post and New York Times
John Fund / National Review:
Is Texas ‘Crazy’ or Is It the Real America? — Last week, everywhere I went in Washington it seemed as if the country's cultural and ideological divisions came down to a debate over the state of Texas and whether or not it was “a crazy state” or the “place that is still most like America.”
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Power Line
CNN:
ISIS recruiter, once freed from Gitmo by U.S., killed in drone strike in Afghanistan — Story highlights — (CNN)He was a Taliban commander captured by the United States and held at Guantanamo Bay. But he was let go and returned to Afghanistan. Mullah Abdul Rauf went on to become a recruiter for ISIS in Afghanistan.
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The Jawa Report, Weekly Standard, Reuters, New York Times and emptywheel
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
The Future Of Voter Suppression Is Before The Supreme Court — A petition asking the Supreme Court to consider the fate of Wisconsin's voter ID law begins with a powerful quote: “There is no right more basic in our democracy than the right to participate in electing our political leaders.”
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Booman Tribune
Benjy Sarlin / msnbc.com:
The Rand Paul Debate Society — New York Rep. Pete King knows he's a long shot for the GOP presidential nomination. He has little national following, no campaign organization, and must constantly remind people he's considering a run to keep his name in the mix at all.
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Unqualified Offerings and ABC News
Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
University of California student government passes resolution to divest - FROM AMERICA — The University of California Student Association board - which represents all 233,000 students enrolled in the UC system's 10 campuses - approved a resolution on Sunday that calls on the system's leaders …
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The Gateway Pundit and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Kristin Crowley / WREX-TV:
13 NEWS EXCLUSIVE: Daughter of suspected terrorist supporter speaks out — The daughter of a Rockford woman, suspected of helping ISIS and other terrorist organizations, spoke exclusively to WREX about her mother Jasminka Ramic's indictment. The daughter's name is Sejla Ramic.
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