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8:15 PM ET, April 10, 2015

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Brian Beutler / The New Republic:
Why Hillary Clinton's Campaign Frightens Democrats  —  Hillary Clinton, who reportedly will announce her candidacy this weekend, is such a prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination that she more or less cleared the field simply by behaving like someone who was going to run.
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Emily Greenhouse / Bloomberg Business:
RETRACTED: Nancy Reagan Gives Her Endorsement to ... Hillary Clinton?  —  Nancy Reagan is the subject of the second part of an upcoming History Channel series called “First Ladies In Their Own Words.”  Ron Reagan, the former first lady's son, is the host of the show, created in conjunction …
John McCormick / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Politics Poll: Democrats and Independents Don't Want a Hillary Coronation  —  If Hillary Clinton is to become her party's 2016 presidential nominee, independents and even Democrats overwhelmingly want to see her earn the title, according to a Bloomberg Politics national poll …
Discussion: Moe Lane
Washington Post:
How Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign machine will kick into gear
Sasha Issenberg / Bloomberg Business:
Hillary Clinton, First Lady, on Gay Marriage: A Case Study In Opacity
Discussion: Politico and Hot Air
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
How Do You Hire an Understudy for a Presidential Campaign?
Discussion: Democratic Strategist
Lauren Gambino / Guardian:
Exclusive: Hillary Clinton to launch presidential campaign on Sunday en route to Iowa - source
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Hillary Clinton team woos reporters
CNN:
Hillary Clinton to announce 2016 bid Sunday with video
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
GOP: Stop Hillary
David Freedlander / The Daily Beast:
Hillary to Launch Campaign This Weekend With ‘Insane’ Fundraising Push
Discussion: The Reaction
Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Video Shows Rand Paul Walking Out Of Interview With Newspaper  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) had yet another contentious interaction with the media on Friday when he reportedly walked out of an interview with The Guardian.  —  Staffers of The Guardian newspaper tweeted that Paul refused to answer …
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Hadas Gold / Politico:
Rand Paul walks out of Guardian interview  —  Sen. Rand Paul walked out of a Guardian U.S. interview being conducted via the live streaming app Periscope on Friday.  —  Guardian reporter Paul Lewis was asking the Kentucky Republican and 2016 Republican presidential candidate about criminal justice reform.
Discussion: Salon and Hot Air
Rand Paul / Guardian:
Rand Paul walks out on Guardian interview and lights go off - video
Discussion: New York Times
Eric Garland / The Hill:
WATCH: Rand Paul's short temper
Discussion: Daily Kos
JR Ross / Politico:
Scott Walker's Steep Learning Curve
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
New York Times Kicks off NRA Convention Coverage with Massive Lie  —  The NRA Convention starts today, in Nashville, Tennessee.  And so, rather predictably, the New York Times has started its day by lying about it.  Per the Times's editorial board: … This is completely and utterly wrong.
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New York Times:
No Firing Pins, Please, as the N.R.A. Gathers
Sean Davis / The Federalist:
The New York Times Is Blatantly Lying About Guns At The NRA Annual Convention
Discussion: WKRN-TV and The PJ Tatler
Alan Keyes / WND:
IS IRAN DEAL PART OF OBAMA-3RD-TERM SCHEME?  —  Exclusive: Alan Keyes looks at impact of BHO's ‘rapprochement with deadly evil’  —  Once a high-level Reagan-era diplomat, Alan Keyes is a long-time leader in the conservative movement.  He is well-known as a staunch pro-life champion …
Discussion: Progress Pond and BarbWire.com
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Alan Keyes: Obama Wants Nuclear War To Obtain A Third Term  —  In a WorldNetDaily column titled “Is Iran Deal Part Of Obama-3rd-Term Scheme?,” conservative activist Alan Keyes writes today that President Obama has made a secret deal with Iran that allows the country to “unleash nuclear destruction” …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Bachmann: Obama's foreign policy ‘virtually guarantees’ World War III
Hillary Clinton / The Huffington Post:
A New Chapter  —  “Epilogue” from the paperback edition of HARD CHOICES by Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Copyright © 2014 by Hillary Rodham Clinton.  Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc.  —  “Where did Hillary go?” the President asked, looking around.
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Selim Algar / New York Post:
Boss in text: You're fired because you refused sex  —  Geralyn Ganci (left) and Raymond Towns­end (right).  —  He's not only an incredible cad — he's incredibly stupid, too.  —  A married Long Island ­limo-company manager told a female dispatcher he was firing her because she rejected …
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Liberaland
BuzzFeed:
Dove Has Women Walk Through Doors Labeled “Beautiful” Or “Average” In Latest Campaign  —  Once again, soap is acting condescending.  This post has been updated.  —  This post was inappropriately deleted amid an ongoing conversation about how and when to publish personal opinion pieces on BuzzFeed.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Where Government Excels  —  As Republican presidential hopefuls trot out their policy agendas — which always involve cutting taxes on the rich while slashing benefits for the poor and middle class — some real new thinking is happening on the other side of the aisle.
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Washington Post:
What the Vatican's stalled response to France's openly gay ambassador might mean  —  It's been a few months since France appointed Laurent Stéfanini, a practicing Catholic who is also openly gay, to be the country's next ambassador to the Holy See.  This week, the European press noticed …
Pete Peterson / Wall Street Journal:
The Alinsky Way of Governing  —  What happens when those in power adopt ‘rules for radicals’ to attack their less powerful opponents.  —  Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, recently caused a stir by sending letters …
Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
Ted Cruz: ‘Jihad’ Was Waged Against Religious Freedom Bills  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) argued that opponents of a pair of controversial religious freedom laws had been waging a jihad against those proposals.  —  “We look at the jihad that is being waged right now in Indiana and Arkansas …
Discussion: Right Wing Watch and Daily Kos
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Ilan Ben-Meir / BuzzFeed:
Ben Carson Asks For Tolerance From The LGBT Community
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Bill Maher: Hillary Clinton Has My Vote But She's Not Getting A Million-Dollar Check  —  The HBO host talked to BuzzFeed News about a Democratic presidency he's not excited about, a Republican field he says is too weak to win a general election, and the “teenage girls” who attacked him this week.
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
 
 
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