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‘We Will Not Obey’: Christian Leaders Threaten Civil Disobedience if Supreme Court Legalizes Gay Marriage — “We will not obey.” — That's the blunt warning a group of prominent religious leaders is sending to the Supreme Court of the United States as they consider same-sex marriage.
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Washington Monthly, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Daily Signal and Fox News
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Justice Scalia's Shameful Joke — There was a shocking, ugly moment during the argument of Obergefell v. Hodges, the same-sex marriage case, in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Right after Mary Bonauto, the lawyer challenging marriage bans in several states, completed her argument …
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Bloomberg View, The Week, Guardian and Bloomberg Business

Breaking News and Analysis: #SCOTUS Upholds Ban on Judicial Candidates Personally Soliciting Campaign Contributions — In a surprise and very important development, the Supreme Court has rejected a First Amendment challenge to Florida's ban on the personal solicitation of campaign contributions by judicial candidates.
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Vox, SCOTUSblog and Outside the Beltway


Gender Bias Issue Could Tip Chief Justice Roberts Into Ruling for Gay Marriage
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Salon, ACS Blog, The Daily Caller, Washington Post and Balkinization

Supreme Court Upholds Judicial Campaign Solicitation Ban
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Bloomberg View

Justice Anthony Kennedy seems to see a nobility of purpose in gay marriage.
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Hullabaloo, The Progressive Pulse, The Atlantic and RH Reality Check

Supreme Court: ‘Judges are not politicians’ when it comes to fundraising
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Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times


Hillary Clinton to call for end to ‘mass incarceration’ — Hillary Rodham Clinton will call Wednesday morning for far-reaching reforms in the criminal justice system that would “end the era of mass incarceration,” according to a campaign aide. — In a speech at Columbia University in New York City …
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Guardian, Politico, Bloomberg Business, Progress Pond, Washington Monthly and Taylor Marsh
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The Blue-City Model — Baltimore shows how progressivism has failed urban America.
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AMERICAN DIGEST and Instapundit

READ: Hillary Clinton's huge new speech on criminal justice reform
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USA Today, Talking Points Memo, Hit & Run, The Huffington Post, Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times and The Intercept

Hillary Clinton Addresses Race and Justice in Impassioned Speech
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Talking Points Memo, Bloomberg Business, The Atlantic, Daily Kos, The Week, OnPolitics and The Intercept

The Note: What The 2016ers Are Saying About Baltimore
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Associated Press and Yahoo Politics

Hillary Clinton calls for end to mass incarceration, reversing Bill Clinton legacy
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Guardian, BuzzFeed, ThinkProgress and Hit & Run


David Simon on Baltimore's Anguish — David Simon is Baltimore's best-known chronicler of life on the hard streets. He worked for The Baltimore Sun city desk for a dozen years, wrote “Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets” (1991) and with former homicide detective Ed Burns co-wrote …

U.S. economic growth slows to 0.2 percent, grinding nearly to a halt — The U.S. economy ground nearly to a halt in the first three months of the year, according to government data released Wednesday morning, as exports plunged and severe winter weather helped keep consumers indoors.
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U.S. Economic Growth Nearly Stalls Out
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Reuters, White House.gov Blog, New York Times, Income Investing, Washington Post, NPR and Outside the Beltway


The Church of Lyin'tology … Eventually even very high-powered, very highly-paid and very public political con men like Mr. David Brooks of the New York Times start to run out of road. After enough years have passed, a career's worth of public bulls**t and bad faith start to roll downhill faster …
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New York Times and Progress Pond


61 Times Bill Kristol Was Reminded of Hitler and Churchill — Foreign-policy analysts hate this one weird historic example that explains every foreign-policy scenario. — Shares — Weekly Standard editor William Kristol, writing in opposition to the Iran deal recently, observed …
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Washington Monthly and Lawyers, Guns & Money


OBAMA vs. REAGAN on GDP GROWTH — NOT EVEN CLOSE — Obama's just like Reagan... Except when he isn't. — Trickle Down Economics versus Trickle Down Socialism — Ronald Reagan's economic plan saw GDP surge at a 3.5% clip - 4.9% after the recession. That's a 32% bump.
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CNBC and John Hawkins' Right Wing News


IRS watchdog finds 6,400 missing Lois Lerner emails — Washington (CNN)The IRS watchdog investigating the disappearance of Lois Lerner's emails told a Senate committee it has found roughly 6,400 messages that have never before been turned over to Congress. — Lerner was the IRS official …
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Thousands of new Lerner emails found
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Fox News Insider, Fox News, Scared Monkeys, Hot Air and The Last Refuge


GOP Rep. Bill Flores Links Baltimore Riots To Gay Marriage — Yesterday on “Washington Watch,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins hosted Rep. Bill Flores, R-Texas, to discuss the anti-marriage-equality rally outside of the Supreme Court that both had attended that morning.
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FRC, Raw Story, Towleroad News #gay and Daily Kos


Mother viciously beats woman over parking space at LI mall as husband, children watch — Warning: Video contains graphic language and violence. — VALLEY STREAM, Long Island (PIX11) — Police are looking for a mother who viciously beat a woman in a Long Island mall parking lot as her husband …
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KTLA, WGN-TV and fox13now.com


Clinton Foundation Failed to Disclose 1,100 Foreign Donations — Hillary Clinton's presidential run is prompting new scrutiny of the Clintons' financial and charitable affairs—something that's already proved problematic for the Democratic frontrunner, given how closely these two worlds overlap.
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Firedoglake, Politico, The Federalist, Liberal Values, BuzzFeed, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, American Spectator, Fox News, Business Insider, Capital New York, The National Memo, Washington Post, John Hawkins' Right Wing News, Washington Free Beacon, The Week, International Business Times and Vox


Senators vote to block EPA's use of ‘secret science’ — A Senate committee voted Tuesday to prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from using ‘secret science’ to back its regulations. — The vote in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee came after the GOP-controlled House repeatedly approved the bill.
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ThinkProgress, ucsusa.org/press/all, The Daily Caller and Hit & Run

Report: Kerry Told Iran He Wishes 'U.S. Had a Leader like Iran's Supreme Leader' — Secretary of State John Kerry told his Iranian counterpart that he wished the United States had a leader more like Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, according to comments made by a senior Iranian cleric and repeated in the country's state-run media.
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The Daily Caller, BizPac Review, Hot Air, Power Line and CBS DC


State of the News Media 2015 — Call it a mobile majority. At the start of 2015, 39 of the top 50 digital news websites have more traffic to their sites and associated applications coming from mobile devices than from desktop computers, according to Pew Research Center's analysis of comScore data.
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Pew Research Center, The Atlantic, Washington Post, TVNewser, The Hill and Poynter., more at Mediagazer »


Former Christie Ally David Wildstein Set to Plead Guilty — David Wildstein, a former ally of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, is set to plead guilty on Thursday, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, suggesting he may be cooperating with prosecutors probing traffic jams he ordered near the George Washington Bridge.
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Business Insider


Give 'Em Hell, Bernie — Bernie Sanders is more serious than you think — Many years ago I pitched a magazine editor on a story about Bernie Sanders, then a congressman from Vermont, who'd agreed to something extraordinary - he agreed to let me, a reporter, stick next to him without restrictions …
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BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Daily Banter, naked capitalism, Outside the Beltway and RedState


Baltimore Is a Democrat Problem, Not America's Problem — Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are attempting to peddle, Baltimore is not America's problem or shame. That failed city is solely and completely a Democrat problem. Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to mind …
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Guardian and No More Mister Nice Blog


Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch — Mom claims school did not let child finish lunch. 9NEWS at 9 p.m. 04/27/15. — CONNECT — AURORA - A mother in Aurora claims a teacher at her child's preschool, Children's Academy, refused to let the little girl eat part of her lunch, because it wasn't nutritious.
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New York's PIX11