memeorandum: Rand Paul readies 2016 launch (Alex Isenstadt/Politico)

7:35 AM ET, April 7, 2015

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Rand Paul's decisive moment was 4 years coming — Rand Paul and Nate Morris were thousands of miles from their home state of Kentucky — and the United States — when Morris realized just how fixated Paul was on a certain address back in Washington. — It was January 2013, and Morris …

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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:

Rand Paul readies 2016 launch — The Kentucky senator plans to run as ‘a different kind of Republican.’ And a different kind of Paul. — LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After watching his father try for the presidency and fail three separate times, Rand Paul is poised Tuesday to embark on his own White House bid …

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Josh Rogin / Bloomberg View:

GOP Hawks Set to Ruin Rand Paul's Big Day — In the first salvo of the 2016 Republican ad wars, a conservative group is about to unleash a seven-figure ad campaign targeting Senator Rand Paul for being out of step with the party on Iran, just as he launches his presidential campaign.

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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Ron Paul Is Expected to Play Little Role in Rand Paul's Campaign

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David Weigel / Bloomberg Business:
Rand Paul Finally, Sort of, Responds to the Iran Negotiations

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Tim Alberta / National Journal:
Rand Paul Taps House GOP's Troublemakers to Boost 2016 Campaign

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Eyder Peralta / NPR:

Obama: ‘Misjudgment’ To Make Iran Deal Contingent On Recognizing Israel — President Obama says it would be a “fundamental misjudgment” to condition a nuclear deal with Iran on the country's recognition of Israel. — Obama made the comments Monday during an interview with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep.

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Josh Rogin / Bloomberg View:
Rick Perry's Plan to Kill Obama's Iran Deal

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Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
What's the Alternative to Obama's Iran Deal?

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Sean Kelly / OpposingViews.com:
‘Once In A Lifetime Opportunity’: Obama Defends Iran Nuclear Deal

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Nick Gass / Politico:

‘Bees are good,’ Obama says as children scream — It might have been the White House Easter Egg Roll, but it was bees — not bunnies — that stole the show on Monday. — As President Barack Obama started reading Maurice Sendak's “Where the Wild Things Are” during the annual Easter Egg Roll event …

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Burgess Everett / Politico:

Chuck Schumer bucks White House on Iran — The top Democrat throws his weight behind legislation to give Congress power to reject a deal. — Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, one of Capitol Hill's most influential voices in the Iran nuclear debate, is strongly endorsing passage of a law opposed …

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Erin Dooley / ABC News:
White House Easter Egg Roll's 3 Unspeakably Cute Moments

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Glenn Greenwald / The Intercept:

Why John Oliver Can't Find Americans Who Know Edward Snowden's Name (It's Not About Snowden) — On his HBO program last night, John Oliver devoted 30 minutes to a discussion of U.S. surveillance programs, advocating a much more substantive debate as the June 1 deadline for renewing the Patriot Act approaches …

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Dustin Volz / National Journal:
Watch John Oliver Interview Edward Snowden About the NSA Spying on Your Nude Photos

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Bucky Turco / ANIMAL:
There's a Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn

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Isabella Biedenharn / EW.com:

HUGO AWARD NOMINATIONS FALL VICTIM TO MISOGYNISTIC, RACIST VOTING CAMPAIGN — The Hugo Awards have fallen victim to a campaign in which misogynist groups lobbied to nominate only white males for the science fiction book awards. These groups, Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies …

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Kelly O'Donnell / NBC News:

John McCain Will Run for Re-Election to the Senate in 2016 — John McCain is ready for a new fight. — “I have decided to run for re-election,” the Arizona senator told NBC News in an exclusive interview revealing his plans to pursue a sixth term on Capitol Hill. “I'm ready. I am more than ready.

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:

No one fired at Rolling Stone. Really? — No one at Rolling Stone magazine is going to be fired: How can that be? — Rolling Stone wants the damning report by Columbia Journalism School to be a moment when the magazine begins to restore its battered reputation.

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Larry O'Dell / Associated Press:
FRATERNITY PURSUING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST ROLLING STONE

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Brian Stelter / CNNMoney:
Phi Kappa Psi to ‘pursue all available legal action’ against Rolling Stone

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Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:

Facts matter: Left sticks to ‘narratives,’ evidence be damned — Ellen Pao unsuccessfully filed a discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. — The verdict's in on Rolling Stone. According to no less an authority than the Columbia Journalism Review …

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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:

Michael Savage: Obama Is Inciting ‘The White Man’ To Revolt — On the Friday edition of “Savage Nation,” right-wing talk show host Michael Savage said that President Obama is trying to destroy America by bringing “Third World haters” into the country and provoking white people to revolt against the government.

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WIS-TV:

Attorney, former SC GOP executive director due in court on CDV complaint — The former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party is expected in court Tuesday morning to face a criminal domestic violence charge. — James John Todd Kincannon, 33, was arrested and booked …

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Candace Taylor / Wall Street Journal:

Brooklyn's Priciest Condo Listed for $32 Million — The 11,000-square-foot condo spans the 10th, 11th and 12th floors of One Brooklyn Bridge. — A few months ago, Stuart Leaf was sitting in his Brooklyn Heights apartment when he got a call from his wife asking when he'd be home.

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Michael Allen / OpposingViews.com:

Teacher Accused Of Saying Parents Aren't Christians If They Voted For Obama (Video) — Some parents claim that a teacher at Dublin Middle School in Georgia told students that if their parents voted for President Obama then they couldn't be Christians. — Dublin City Schools Superintendent …

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Henry Brean / Las Vegas Review-Journal:

Man who killed himself at M Resort had been kicked out for harassing employees — John Noble, who committed suicide at an M Resort buffet on Easter Sunday, is shown in a snapshot delivered to the Las Vegas Review-Journal Monday, April 6, 2015. Noble sent the snapshot of him posed …

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