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Zeke J Miller / TIME:
Axelrod: Obama Misled Nation When He Opposed Gay Marriage In 2008 — A striking admission of political dishonesty from the keeper of the Obama flame — Barack Obama misled Americans for his own political benefit when he claimed in the 2008 election to oppose same sex marriage for religious reasons …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
David Axelrod: Obama Was ‘Bullshitting’ Opposition To Gay Marriage In 2008 — Barack Obama was “bullshitting” his opposition to gay marriage and support for civil unions during his 2008 presidential campaign, according to a new book authored by former senior White House adviser David Axelrod.
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Shakesville and alicublog
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire:
Axelrod Says Obama Misled on Gay Marriage
Axelrod Says Obama Misled on Gay Marriage
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New York Magazine, Washington Post, Hot Air, The Daily Caller and FOX News Radio
Richard Wolf / Associated Press:
First Take: Handwriting on the wall for gay marriage
First Take: Handwriting on the wall for gay marriage
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Christian Science Monitor, al.com, National Review, Hit & Run, Hot Air, Office of the Governor …, Washington Post and New York Times
Sandhya Somashekhar / Washington Post:
Judicial defiance in Alabama: Same-sex marriages begin, but most counties refuse
Judicial defiance in Alabama: Same-sex marriages begin, but most counties refuse
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Washington Monthly, The American Conservative, The Daily Beast, Vox, New York Times, Althouse and Hullabaloo
NBC News:
American ISIS Hostage Is Dead, Family Says — American ISIS hostage Kayla Mueller has been confirmed dead, the 26-year-old's family confirmed in a statement.
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The Moderate Voice, The White House, CNN, Gawker, Business Insider, Guardian, Hot Air, CBS DC, Washington Post, American Spectator and New York Magazine
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Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
Death of Kayla Mueller, ISIS Hostage, Confirmed by Family and White House — The parents of Kayla Mueller, the American aid worker abducted in 2013 by the Islamic State, issued a statement Tuesday confirming her death, four days after the militant group claimed she had been killed in a Jordanian airstrike.
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TalkLeft and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Aides: War powers request this week
Aides: War powers request this week
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BillMoyers.com and FOX News Radio
The Hill:
Dem boycott of Netanyahu address to Congress grows — More than a dozen congressional Democrats say they plan to skip Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to a joint session of Congress amid conflicting signals over whether he will pull out from the March 3 address.
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Hot Air
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Patrick Leahy to skip Benjamin Netanyahu's speech — The partisan divide over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's March address to Congress deepened further on Tuesday, with the Senate's most-senior lawmaker announcing that he will not attend the speech.
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Daily Kos, National Review, The Last Refuge, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, TPNN and Yahoo! News
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Leahy Will Not Attend ‘Politicized’ Netanyahu Speech To Congress
Leahy Will Not Attend ‘Politicized’ Netanyahu Speech To Congress
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News + Opinion, Seven Days
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Jindal on gay marriage: 'We're a nation of laws' — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) says he wants Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution if the Supreme Court decides to overrule state gay marriage bans. — “We're a nation of laws, that's why I said I want the Supreme Court …
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Daily Kos, ABC News and Washington Blade
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Richard Kirsch / The Hill:
Under GOP plan, pay more for junk insurance, leave more uninsured
Under GOP plan, pay more for junk insurance, leave more uninsured
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Mother Jones, Daily Kos, American Spectator and Election Law Blog
Justin Sink / The Hill:
Axelrod: Obama knew Prayer Breakfast remarks would provoke — President Obama's comments referencing the Crusades and Jim Crow during the National Prayer Breakfast appeared intentionally “provocative,” former adviser David Axelrod said Monday. — Obama has faced heated criticism for the comments …
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Politico
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Miranda Blue / Right Wing Watch:
Star Parker: Obama's Prayer Breakfast Speech Was ‘Verbal Rape’
Star Parker: Obama's Prayer Breakfast Speech Was ‘Verbal Rape’
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Talking Points Memo and Raw Story
Danika Fears / Page Six:
Brian Williams' account of Israel trip in question — Another of Brian Williams' wild reporting tales is being called into question - this time it's an account of his trip to Israel in 2006. — In a 2007 interview, Williams recalled riding on an Israeli military helicopter that was flying …
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Israel Matzav, Jammie Wearing Fools, FishbowlNY, FOX News Radio, New York Magazine, The Huffington Post and Fox News
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Tara Parker-Pope / New York Times:
Was Brian Williams a Victim of False Memory?
Was Brian Williams a Victim of False Memory?
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The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Democrats suffering from Clinton fatigue say they're ready for Warren — AMES, Iowa — Thirteen Iowa Democrats wearily took their seats here this weekend and discussed among themselves the source of their angst: Hillary Rodham Clinton. — “I'm utterly tired, tired of the Clintons …
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Salon, Shakesville, Bloomberg Business, Jammie Wearing Fools and Washington Examiner
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Gabriel Debenedetti / Politico:
RNC launching 'Hillary's hiding' campaign
RNC launching 'Hillary's hiding' campaign
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Daily Kos, US News, New York Magazine, New York Times, Washington Post, Talking Points Memo and Fox News
Daily Mail:
Two couples who discovered they had been given the wrong babies TEN YEARS after their daughters were born are awarded 2million euros by French court — Two French couples who discovered they had been given the wrong babies ten years after their daughters were born due to a hospital mix …
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FOX News Radio
Fox News:
School worksheet tells kids GOP thinks helping poor ‘waste of money,’ parent claims — A Wisconsin mother claims this quiz was administered to her 16-year-old son and his classmates in their 11th-grade U.S. government and politics class at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis, Wisc.
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BarbWire.com, Clash Daily and National Review
Bob Cusack / The Hill:
Feds won't release IRS targeting documents — The Obama administration is refusing to publicly release more than 500 documents on the IRS's targeting of Tea Party groups. — Twenty months after the IRS scandal broke, there are still many unanswered questions about who was spearheading …
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Hot Air, The Right Scoop and Washington Free Beacon
James Hohmann / Politico:
Bobby Jindal vs. the world — He says elites can't stand the idea of an Ivy-League-educated pure conservative. — AP Photo — In the past few weeks, Bobby Jindal has been attacked for insisting that Europe allows Muslims to control special “no-go zones,” belittled by the Weekly Standard for offering a …
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Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
How Long Will Jeb Bush Hold His Fire on His Republican Rivals?
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Stripping a Professor of Tenure Over a Blog Post — Professor John McAdams is being stripped of tenure by Marquette University for writing a blog post that administrators characterize as inaccurate and irresponsible. — Academics all over the United States ought to denounce the firing of the 69-year-old …
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The American Conservative and Unfogged
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Targeted GOP senator: ‘I will never vote with my reelection mind’ — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) is up for reelection this cycle, but he says he's not changing. Not one bit. — “I'll always tell Wisconsinites the truth, to the best of my ability, and I will never vote with my reelection mind.
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Political Wire
Roger Cohen / New York Times:
Western Illusions Over Ukraine — MUNICH — The most difficult thing for a communist, it has been observed, is to predict the past. I was reminded of this as I listened to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in full Soviet mode at the Munich Security Conference, suggesting …
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Foreign Policy, CANNONFIRE and The American Conservative