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Elias Isquith / Salon:
The media s**t-show is back: Why coverage of Hillary Clinton has been an embarrassment — A bit less than a year ago, Politico Magazine released an in-depth piece by Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman about Hillary Rodham Clinton's long and incredibly fraught relationship with the national, mainstream media.
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CNN, Slate, Daily Kos, Fox News, Washington Post, Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality and Hot Air
New York Times:
Democrats See No Choice but Hillary Clinton in 2016 — They shrug off questions about Hillary Rodham Clinton's email habits. They roll with the attacks on her family's foundation, the big checks from foreign governments, the torpid response of her not-yet-campaign.
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Fox News Insider, Business Insider, Washington Post, Hot Air, The Fiscal Times, ABC News, Taylor Marsh, OnPolitics, Weekly Standard and NBC News
Jonathan Bernstein / Bloomberg View:
Democrats Have No Bench? Be Serious. — Dan Balz of the Washington Post says Democrats have a problem for 2016: “The absence of a strong Democratic bench.” National Journal's Josh Kraushaar replies, “Spot-on.” The New York Times repeats the “weak bench” line and quotes Democrats who agree …
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Washington Post and The PJ Tatler
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Taxpayer tab for Clinton Inc.: $16 million
Taxpayer tab for Clinton Inc.: $16 million
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Business Insider, New York Magazine, Hot Air, The Federalist, Daily Kos, America Rising, The Hill, Bloomberg Business and Fox News
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Hillary Clinton has little to fear from Martin O'Malley
Hillary Clinton has little to fear from Martin O'Malley
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Bloomberg Business and The Hill
William Saletan / Slate:
An Open Letter to 47 Republican Senators of the United States of America from Iran's Hard-Liners — You have opened our eyes. We are brothers. — Dear senators: — Thank you for your letter of March 9 explaining your system of government. We were unfamiliar with the complexity of your laws.
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Washington Monthly and Bloomberg View
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New York Times:
Republican Idiocy on Iran — After helping to ignite a firestorm over a possible nuclear agreement with Iran, Senator John McCain, a former Republican presidential candidate, is now sort of acknowledging his error. “Maybe that wasn't exactly the best way to do that,” he said on Fox News on Tuesday.
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CNN, Concord Monitor, Prairie Weather, Baltimore Sun, The Week and BostonGlobe.com
Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
GOP, Bibi hurt Israel, USA — While the recalcitrant rightist government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has left Israel more isolated in the world than at any time since 1948, Bibi's ill-advised recent speech to a joint session of Congress could reduce a historically nonpartisan …
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Politico and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Susan Weich / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Two police officers are shot in Ferguson — FERGUSON • Two police officers were hit by gunfire early Thursday outside the Ferguson police department. — The shots were fired as police were confronting protesters who had gathered outside the police station.
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BBC:
Sir Terry Pratchett, renowned fantasy author, dies aged 66 — Fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett has died aged 66, having had Alzheimer's disease for eight years. — “The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest minds,” said Larry Finlay of his publishing company, Transworld.
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The Week, The Atlantic Online, Obsidian Wings, Bleeding Cool Comic Book …, Poynter and Alas, a Blog
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Guardian:
Terry Pratchett, Discworld series author, dies aged 66 — Author of more than 70 novels, who ‘fired the imagination of millions’, dies at his home eight years after Alzheimer's diagnosis — The writer Terry Pratchett, who took millions of readers on a madcap journey to the universe of Discworld, has died aged 66.
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Wall Street Journal, Hit & Run, Telegraph, Mashable and Samizdata
Timothy Cama / The Hill:
Kerry mocks Florida's reported ban on ‘climate change’ — Secretary of State John Kerry mocked Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) and his deputies Thursday amid reports that the state's environmental agency banned employees from mentioning climate change. — Though he did not mention Florida by name …
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Talking Points Memo and Politico
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Alex Guillén / Politico:
John Kerry slams ‘outdated’ fossil fuels — with no mention of Keystone
John Kerry slams ‘outdated’ fossil fuels — with no mention of Keystone
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American Spectator
Steve Benen / msnbc.com:
Kerry teaches Rubio the basics about the Middle East
Kerry teaches Rubio the basics about the Middle East
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First Draft, ThinkProgress and Hullabaloo
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Iran letter blowback startles GOP — John McCain: “It was kind of a very rapid process. Everybody was looking forward to getting out of town because of the snowstorm.” — Some Republican senators admitted Wednesday they were caught off guard by the backlash to a letter warning Iranian leaders …
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The Hill, Daily Kos, Christian Science Monitor, Hinterland Gazette, PoliticusUSA, Newsmax and Washington Free Beacon
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Kristina Wong / The Hill:
Kerry: ‘Utter disbelief’ at Iran letter
Kerry: ‘Utter disbelief’ at Iran letter
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American Spectator and Instapundit
David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
How a Lindsey Graham Joke Turned into a Coup Plot Against the Government — Does Lindsey Graham want to overthrow Congress? Not quite. — Well, you can't catch everything. This past Sunday, I was one of a handful of reporters listening to South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham …
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Amanda Taub / Vox:
Lindsey Graham: as president I would deploy the military against Congress
Lindsey Graham: as president I would deploy the military against Congress
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, FreakOutNation, Daily Kos, Hullabaloo, Raw Story, Hit & Run and Ben Swann Truth In Media
Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:
For 20 years I fought the law. Today the law won — The police have been trying to nail an editor for years. This morning, on Hampstead Heath, they finally got one — ell, I nearly made it. More than 20 years of editing, with all kinds of people wanting to sue me and do me for sedition …
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Spectator and Guido Fawkes
Sarah Mimms / National Journal:
Conservatives Keep Losing to Leadership. Can They Change the Game? — Stymied again and again on the House and Senate floor, tea party members need to take the fight outside. — Conservatives came to Washington labeling President Obama as enemy number one.
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Horizons, Washington Monthly, RedState, Bloomberg View and McClatchy Washington Bureau
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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Ted Cruz Without Applause is the Most Gripping Video You'll See All Day — The Texas senator tanks at a presidential forum. — If, like many Americans, your job involves watching a lot of speeches by Ted Cruz, you have grown familiar with the Texas senator's applause lines.
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Politico, Chicago, Booman Tribune and susiemadrak.com
Gallup:
Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans continue to name the government (18%) as the most important U.S. problem, a distinction it has had for the past four months. Americans' mentions of the economy as the top problem (11%) dropped this month, leaving it tied with jobs (10%) for second place.
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Washington Times, Associated Press, Washington Post and The Week
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Fox Host: Eric Holder Is ‘An Attorney General For The Criminal’ (VIDEO) — Fox News' “Outnumbered” co-host Andrea Tantaros said on Thursday that Eric Holder is “an attorney general for the criminal” while arguing that the Obama administration is at least partially to blame for the shooting …
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Mediaite and No More Mister Nice Blog
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
When Liberals Blew It — Fifty years ago this month, Democrats made a historic mistake. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan, at the time a federal official, wrote a famous report in March 1965 on family breakdown among African-Americans. He argued presciently and powerfully that the rise …