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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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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Jindal won't ‘evolve’ on same-sex marriage
Jindal won't ‘evolve’ on same-sex marriage
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Louisiana Politics and Towleroad News #gay
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Jindal on gay marriage: 'We're a nation of laws'
Jindal on gay marriage: 'We're a nation of laws'
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NYU Local, ABC News, Daily Kos and Washington Blade
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
David Axelrod: Obama Was ‘Bullshitting’ Opposition To Gay Marriage In 2008
David Axelrod: Obama Was ‘Bullshitting’ Opposition To Gay Marriage In 2008
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Washington Post, Hot Air, alicublog, Mediaite, The Daily Caller and Shakesville
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 White House:
Statement by the President on the Death of Kayla Jean Mueller
Statement by the President on the Death of Kayla Jean Mueller
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The Moderate Voice, US News and The Daily Caller
Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
Death of Kayla Mueller, ISIS Hostage, Confirmed by Family and White House
Death of Kayla Mueller, ISIS Hostage, Confirmed by Family and White House
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Towleroad News #gay and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
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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The Last Refuge, TPNN, Hot Air, The Right Scoop and Washington Free Beacon
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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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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Clash Daily, BarbWire.com and National Review
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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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Patrick Leahy to skip Benjamin Netanyahu's speech
Patrick Leahy to skip Benjamin Netanyahu's speech
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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
Marty Roney / The Montgomery Advertiser:
Woman held after trying to perform same-sex marriage — (Marty Roney, Montgomery Advertiser) — PRATTVILLE - — An Autauga County woman was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct Tuesday morning after offering to perform a same sex marriage inside the probate judge's office.
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T.C. Sottek / The Verge:
Jeb Bush dumps emails, home addresses, and social security numbers of Florida residents online — Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida.
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New York Times:
Brian Williams Loses Lofty Spot on a Trustworthiness Scale — If Brian Williams's future as the anchor of “NBC Nightly News” rests on his trustworthiness and ratings, new research delivered some sobering news on Monday. — Before Mr. Williams apologized for exaggerating an account …
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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
Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
First 2016 presidential hopeful to open an Iowa office: Scott Walker — Scott Walker, the Republican who leads the presidential pack in Iowa polling, is the first of the 2016 White House aspirants to open an office here. — A political organization created by Walker, the governor of Wisconsin …
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The Moderate Voice, Hinterland Gazette, JSOnline, CBS DC and Bloomberg View
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Jennifer Jacobs / Des Moines Register:
Christie: Liberal New Jersey prepared me for presidency
Christie: Liberal New Jersey prepared me for presidency
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ThinkProgress, Washington Post and Bloomberg Business
John Marzulli / NY Daily News:
Cop involved in fatal shooting of Akai Gurley has been indicted on manslaughter charges: source — Rookie cop Peter Liang was indicted Tuesday by a Brooklyn grand jury for the deadly shooting last November in an unlit stairwell in the Pink Houses, the Daily News has learned.
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ny1.com, ThinkProgress, Hit & Run, Raw Story, Gothamist and Hinterland Gazette
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
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
Rebecca Frech / Shoved to Them:
The Media May Ignore Them, But They're Fighting ISIS and WINNING — The news broke last week that the monsters of ISIS had burned a Jordanian pilot to death, and the King of Jordan responded with airstrikes and a public vow to wipe ISIS from the face of the Earth.
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National Review
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
Rand Paul misses vaccines hearing — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was absent from a Senate hearing on vaccines Tuesday — one week after he came under criticism for suggesting a link between vaccines and mental disorders in children. — Paul was one of eight senators who missed the hearing of the Senate Health …
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ABC News
Lloyd Grove / The Daily Beast:
Axelrod: ‘Patronizing and Disrespectful’ Obama Chewed Out Maureen Dowd — When David Axelrod published his memoir he hoped it would be seen as a respectable political memoir. Naturally, everyone just wants the bitchiest dish. — President Obama despises Maureen Dowd …
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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