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5:00 AM ET, April 5, 2012

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Washington Examiner:
Coke caves in face of Democratic boycott threat  —  Brian Smalls casts his vote at a polling station Tuesday in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)  —  Democratic officials Wednesday launched a two-pronged attack on states with new laws requiring identification before voting …
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Faiz Shakir / ThinkProgress:
BREAKING: Progressive Movement Compels Coca-Cola To Pull Support From ALEC Over Voter Suppression Efforts  —  Prompted by a petition campaign by the progressive advocacy group Color of Change, Coca-Cola has pulled its support from ALEC, a right-wing corporate-funded front group …
Discussion: ColorOfChange
Center for American Progress:
Voter Suppression 101  —  How Conservatives Are Conspiring …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Jared A. Favole / Washington Wire:
Laurence Tribe: Obama Misspoke on Supreme Court … Constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, a Harvard Law School professor and former mentor to President Barack Obama, said the president “obviously misspoke” earlier this week when he made comments about the Supreme Court possibly overturning the health-care law.
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Patrick O'Connor / Wall Street Journal:
Romney Accuses Obama of Masking Agenda  —  GOP Candidate Says President Shifts Positions to Win New Term; Attack Offers Possible Flavor of General-Election Fight  —  WASHINGTON—Mitt Romney broadened his election-year critique of President Barack Obama on Wednesday, saying he misleads Americans …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Obama doing better in Nevada
Discussion: American Prospect and GOP 12
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Paul Ryan's rapidly-improving vice presidential prospects
Kevin D. Williamson / National Review:
Lawrence O'Donnell, Bigot  —  I am announcing the creation of a new award, which I will call the Golden Ass, to be presented to those who resort to anti-Mormon bigotry in their campaign against Mitt Romney.  Today's Golden Ass is Lawrence O'Donnell, an asinus aureus if ever there was one, an ass of exceptional asininity.
Eugene W. Fields / Orange County Register:
Student removed from contest for pro-gay remark  —  Fullerton Union High School student says he hopes gay marriage will be legal and is removed from Mr. Fullerton competition.  —  Text: Next Article »  —  / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER  —  FULLERTON - Students …
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Romney takes the lead in Pennsylvania  —  Mitt Romney's taken the lead in PPP's newest poll of Rick Santorum's home state of Pennsylvania.  Romney has 42% to 37% for Santorum with Ron Paul at 9% and Newt Gingrich at 6%.  The numbers represent a dramatic turnaround from when PPP polled the state a month ago.
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Santorum may drop out rather than lose home state of Pennsylvania
Discussion: The Hill and Daily Kos
Mj Lee / Politico:
James Carville: Rick Santorum is headless chicken
Discussion: CNN and The Hill
David R. Dow / The Daily Beast:
Impeach the Supreme Court Justices If They Overturn Health-Care Law  —  The Roberts Court's rulings appear to be a concerted effort to send us back to the Gilded Age.  If they dump the Affordable Care Act, writes David Dow, we should dump them.  —  You think the idea is laughable?
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CNN:
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, 4 others charged in 9/11 attack  —  (CNN) — The United States on Wednesday announced charges against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused of orchestrating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and four others accused of involvement in the plot.
Discussion: Firedoglake and ACLU
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Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Khalid Sheik Mohammed, alleged 9/11 mastermind, to get new trial
Discussion: Michelle Malkin, TalkLeft, ACLU and Truthdig
Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
CIA Committed ‘War Crimes,’ Bush Official Says  —  A top adviser to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned the Bush administration that its use of “cruel, inhuman or degrading” interrogation techniques like waterboarding were “a felony war crime.”
Jennifer Steck / WUPW-TV:
Hate fueled weekend beating says elderly man  —  Police don't see it a hate crime after interviews  —  TOLEDO, Ohio (WUPW) - Saturday afternoon around 4:45 p.m., 78-year-old Dallas Watts was walking home from the gas station at the corner of Starr and White in East Toledo.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Top Romney Surrogate Donald Trump Offers To Expose His ‘Very Very’ Impressive Genitals  —  Politico's Mike Allen reported last month that reality star/businessman/attention seeker Donald Trump is building his political stature as a top surrogate for Mitt Romney.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Jennifer Wlach / ABCNEWS:
Ann Romney's Birthday Bash at Trump Tower Sells Out
Discussion: USA Today
Alberta Election / Agence France Presse:
Officials from Egypt's Brotherhood at White House  —  White House officials held talks with representatives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Washington this week, as the Islamist group threw itself into the fray in Egypt's presidential election.  —  The meeting on Tuesday with low-level National …
Associated Press:
Obama: Easter story helps him in troubled times  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the Easter story of Christ's agony and resurrection has helped him get through the tough moments of an embattled presidency.  —  The president got “Amens” from religious leaders …
Dan Gilgoff / CNN:
Chuck Colson in critical condition after brain surgery  —  Washington (CNN) - Chuck Colson, the convicted Watergate figure turned evangelist, is in critical condition after undergoing surgery over the weekend following a brain hemorrhage, according to his publicist.
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses  —  If you venture into a coffee shop in the coming months and see someone with a pair of futuristic glasses that look like a prop from “Star Trek,” don't worry.  It's probably just a Google employee testing the company's new augmented-reality glasses.
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Jon Bruning Attacks GOP Senate Primary Opponent For Following His 14-Year-Old Daughter On Twitter … REACT:  —  FOLLOW:  —  Elections 2012, Elections 2012, Twitter, Video, Bob Kerrey, Don Stenberg, Election 2012, Jon Bruning, Nebraska Senate Race, Nebraska Senate 2012, Politics News
Discussion: RedState, ABCNEWS and Eschaton
 
 
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ABCNEWS:
Courting Nerd Vote, Obama Flashes Star-Trek Salute With Nichelle Nichols
Discussion: HotAirPundit
Mike Pflanz / Telegraph:
Teenage girl suicide bomber blows up Somalia theatre
Hilary Leila Krieger / Reuters:
62% of US Jewish voters want Obama reelected
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Walter Shapiro / Yahoo! News:
What Romney can learn from Obama's Mount Rushmore dreams: Character Sketch
Discussion: Yahoo! Politics!, CNN and Ballot Box
Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
Rep. Steve King Proposes A Don't Ask, Don't Tell Approach To Gays In The Workplace
Capitol Fax.com:
This just in... Tim Johnson to drop out
Discussion: Daily Kos and Ballot Box
Stephanie Simon / Reuters:
Catholic university in Ohio ends birth-control coverage
 Earlier Items: 
Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Four Former DNC Chairs Endorse Marriage Equality In Democratic Platform
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Daily Kos
Lucia Graves / The Huffington Post:
Republican Environmental Group Drops ‘Republican’ From Its Name
Discussion: The Impolitic
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Trayvon Martin resolution introduced
Sam Anderson / New York Times:
Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’
 

 
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