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Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Conservative Republicans Alone on Global Warming's Timing — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — While notable majorities of all other political party/ideology groups say the effects of global warming will happen within their lifetime, fewer than four in 10 conservative Republicans …
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Politico and Balloon Juice
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Mark Drajem / Bloomberg Business:
Happy Earth Day! Unless You're Running for President in the GOP
Happy Earth Day! Unless You're Running for President in the GOP
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Washington Monthly and Roll Call
Doug Sosnik / Politico:
Mitch McConnell Shouldn't Get Comfortable — Why Democrats are poised to recapture the Senate. — After picking up nine seats in the 2014 elections, Republicans maintain a decisive 54-seat majority in the Senate. In 2016, they will face a much more difficult map that coincides with a presidential election year.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell builds case for 2016 — Mitch McConnell is building the case that this Senate is much more productive than the last one. — The Kentucky Republican, who ascended to majority leader after repeatedly ripping the Democratic-led Senate as “dysfunctional,” has to show that the GOP can govern.
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Political Wire, Bloomberg Business, Washington Post and US News
Gazette:
Man shoots computer in Colorado Springs alley, gets revenge he wanted - and a citation — Updated: — 3 photos — + caption — When ctrl + alt + delete doesn't work, just shoot the darn thing. — That's what one man did on Monday night, according to Colorado Springs police.
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Associated Press and Outside the Beltway
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Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
“Fed Up” Colorado Man, 38, Busted For Killing His Computer In Cold Blood — Buster — A Colorado man who has been “fighting with his computer for the last several months” unloaded a volley of shots into his Dell tormentor, resulting in the death of the computer and his arrest for discharging a firearm, cops report.
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The PJ Tatler and Clayton Cramer
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
When battling Hillary, it's the cronyism, stupid — “The economy, stupid.” Democratic operative James Carville used that simple phrase in 1992 to remind former President Bill Clinton to maintain narrow focus on that issue. — Republicans who want to beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 need …
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New York Post, Washington Post, Betsy's Page and Hot Air
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M.D. Kittle / Watchdog.org:
Who was the reporter outside Cindy Archer's house? — Part 194 of 193 in the series Wisconsin's Secret War — MADISON, Wis. - Of all of the frightening accounts of government abuses in Wisconsin's political John Doe investigation, David French's description in National Review …
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Althouse
Michael Crowley / Politico:
President Obama to shun saying ‘genocide’ on 100th anniversary of Armenian massacres — President Barack Obama will not use the word “genocide” to describe the massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians in his annual statement commemorating the historic atrocity later this month.
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The Last Refuge, Hit & Run, The Daily Caller, Gordon Campbell and Hot Air
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
WH won't call Armenian killings ‘genocide’
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Hillary Clinton Can't Run for President — So she's pushed her whole campaign into the slow lane. — Thousands have run for president, but only one candidate has ever unrun for the office: Hillary Clinton. Ever since she finally announced her entry into the contest a couple of weeks ago, she has been unrunning with ferocity.
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Moe Lane, Outside the Beltway, Political Wire, BuzzFeed and Commentary Magazine
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Could Obama's Everglades Stop Hurt the Everglades?
Could Obama's Everglades Stop Hurt the Everglades?
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Taylor Marsh
The Daily Blog:
EXCLUSIVE: The Prime Minister and the Waitress — This is a guest blog from an anonymous waitress about the way John Key kept touching her when he repeatedly visited her place of work. The waitress contacted us with her story, The Daily Blog did not seek her out or pressure her in anyway to write this blog.
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Guardian, Mediaite, New York Times and BuzzFeed
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Progressives ready big ad buy targeting trade deal — A coalition of labor, environmental and progressive interests is launching a seven-figure ad campaign aimed at pressuring congressional Democrats to block legislation that would expedite an Obama administration-backed trade deal with the United States' Pacific allies.
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Common Dreams
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Reid: I'm a ‘hell no’ on trade bill
Reid: I'm a ‘hell no’ on trade bill
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Washington Free Beacon, Mediaite and Hot Air
Mike Devlin / SantaClarita.com:
Congressman Tells Protester: 'Touch me again, and I'll drop your ass' — Anti-immigration protesters were on hand to greet Congressman Steve Knight at the open house for his Simi Valley office last week. And when one got a little too close, the former LAPD cop was having none of it.
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Talking Points Memo, Mashable and Raw Story
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Tim Devaney / The Hill:
'I'll drop your a—,' Republican tells immigration protester
'I'll drop your a—,' Republican tells immigration protester
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Liberaland
Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Congressman to protester: 'If you touch me again, I'll drop your a—'
Congressman to protester: 'If you touch me again, I'll drop your a—'
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Infowars and Washington Post
Andrew Desiderio / Mediaite:
GOP Rep. Knight to Anti-Immigration Protester: 'I'll Drop Your Ass'
GOP Rep. Knight to Anti-Immigration Protester: 'I'll Drop Your Ass'
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Moe Lane, Americans Against the … and Hullabaloo
Eliott C. McLaughlin / CNN:
Protesters rally in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray — Story highlights — (CNN)Chanting “No justice! No peace!” protesters rallied in Baltimore late Tuesday, the same day police released the names of the officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray.
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Guardian, UPI, The Atlantic Online, BuzzFeed, New York Magazine and Common Dreams
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Baltimore Officers Suspended Over Death of Freddie Gray Are Identified
Baltimore Officers Suspended Over Death of Freddie Gray Are Identified
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The Atlantic Online, BizPac Review, Mediaite, Baltimore Sun and NBC News
Nick Gass / Politico:
Paul Ryan doesn't want to talk about 2016 — Paul Ryan has a message for the media: It's too early to start talking about the presidential election next year. — “I don't want to get into any of this 2016 stuff. I know you guys are already kind of tired of talking about this stuff so early out …
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Hot Air
Ed Kilgore / Talking Points Memo:
Election 2016: Exploding The Governor Savior Myth — During every election cycle, there are storylines or interpretive memes that are widely repeated but turn out to be completely irrelevant or plain wrong. Early in this presidential cycle, yesterday's cliches about the presidential race seem to be exploding all around us.
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Washington Monthly and susiemadrak.com
Patrick Winn / Air Force Times:
Michelle Manhart talks after losing Air Force career — Editor's note: This story appeared on the cover of Air Force Times on April 16, 2007. — SAN ANTONIO — Something about that swish of dirty blond makes the airman's eyes flicker. Is it her? — She's cruising slow, windows down …
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FOX News Radio
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Showed Eloquence, and Limits, as Debater at Princeton — PRINCETON, N.J. — By the time he was a senior at Princeton University in 1992, Ted Cruz had developed an arsenal of rhetorical skills and theatrical gestures that made him one of the most polished performers on the college debate circuit.
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Talking Points Memo and New York Magazine
Ian Black / Guardian:
Yemen crisis: air strike hits Aden after Saudi Arabia ends bombing campaign — Air strike targets tanks in southern port city on Wednesday, just hours after Riyadh had announced the end of nearly a month of attacks on Houthi rebels — The US and Iran have both welcomed Saudi Arabia's decision …
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Common Dreams
Bryan Denson / Oregonian:
Teacher terrified by surprise ‘active shooter’ drill in eastern Oregon schoolhouse files federal lawsuit — The town of Halfway sits a few miles west of the Snake River, in eastern Oregon. (Richard Cockle/The Oregonian) — Elementary school teacher Linda McLean sat at her desk …