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Talking Points Memo:
Feinstein Snaps At Cruz: 'I'm Not A Sixth Grader' (VIDEO)  —  Republican Ted Cruz, the junior senator from Texas, rankled the nerves of Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Thursday during a contentious hearing on legislation, introduced by the California Democrat, that would reinstate a federal ban on assault weapons.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Panel approves assault weapons ban; Cruz, Feinstein get heated  —  The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a ban on the sale and manufacture of more than 150 types of semi-automatic weapons with military-style features Thursday in a party-line vote.  —  The 10-8 vote came after a heated exchange between …
Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Ted Cruz And Dianne Feinstein Battle In Explosive Debate Over Gun Control In Senate: ‘I Am Not A 6th Grader’  —  On Thursday, during a committee hearing in the U.S. Senate on gun control legislation, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) engaged in a heated exchange …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Explosive Exchange at Gun Hearing Between Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein  —  Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein had this explosive exchange at a Senate Judiciary Hearing on guns earlier today:  —  “The question that I would pose to the senior senator from California is,” said Cruz to Feinstein …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Fox News:
Senate committee poised to approve assault weapons ban
The United States Department of Justice:
Former Web Producer Indicted in California for Conspiring with “Anonymous” Members to Attack Internet News Site  —  A former web producer for a Tribune Company-owned television station in Sacramento, Calif., was charged today in an indictment for allegedly conspiring with members of the hacker group …
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Politico:
Reuters' Matthew Keys indicted for conspiring with hacker group ‘Anonymous’  —  An excerpt from the indictment.  Matthew Keys used the nickname AESCracked.  —  Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor at Thomson Reuters, has been charged in a federal indictment for allegedly conspiring …
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Pelosi open to looking at Obama proposal to cut Social Security  —  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she's open to revisiting Social Security cuts as part of a sweeping deficit-reduction package.  —  Ahead of a meeting between President Obama and House Democrats …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
In meeting with Senate GOP, president says he's not setting a trap on deficit  —  President Obama pledged in a private meeting with Senate Republicans on Thursday to challenge his own party on entitlement reform.  —  He also asked Republicans not to believe conspiracy theories that he is pushing …
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Obama To GOP: I'm Serious About Cutting The Social Safety Net
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Post Politics
Pema Levy / Talking Points Memo:
Dick Morris Delivers Bad News To Republicans: Give Up On Roe V. Wade  —  “Well, we lost,” said Republican strategist Dick Morris as he took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of suburban Washington, D.C., on Thursday.  And in order to win the next election …
Discussion: Hot Air and Booman Tribune
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Paul Steinhauser / CNN:
TRENDING: Big CPAC surprise: Jeb Bush not on ballot  —  (CNN) - There are 23 names on the Conservative Political Action Conference's much watched 2016 GOP presidential nomination straw poll.  —  And there's one glaring omission: Jeb Bush.  —  Follow @politicalticker
Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:
Chris Hayes to Take Over 8 P.M. Slot on MSNBC  —  Chris Hayes will take over the 8 p.m. time slot on MSNBC in the next month, the channel is expected to announce on Thursday morning, the day after the current host of that hour, Ed Schultz, said he was moving from the weekdays to the weekends.
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Politico:
President Obama: I'm no Dick Cheney on drones  —  President Barack Obama's defense to Democratic senators complaining about how little his administration has told Congress about the legal justifications for his drone policy: Dick Cheney was worse.  —  That's part of what two senators …
Larry Rohter / New York Times:
Man in the News |  Jorge Mario Bergoglio: New Pope Theologically Conservative, but With a Common Touch  —  Like most of those in Argentina, he is a soccer fan, his favorite team being the underdog San Lorenzo squad.  Known for his outreach to the country's poor, he gave up a palace for a small apartment …
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Cuts to court system ‘simply unsustainable,’ Justice Kennedy warns  —  The cuts to the court system from sequestration are “simply unsustainable,” Justice Anthony Kennedy warned Thursday.  —  The judicial branch is subject to a 5 percent cut under sequestration.
Discussion: Politico
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ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman Says Supreme Court Doesn't Actually Get To Decide Whether Laws Are Constitutional
Discussion: Prairie Weather and msnbc.com
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Paul chastises ‘stale and moss-covered’ GOP establishment  —  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Thursday told conservative activists the Republican Party had grown “stale and moss covered” and said the GOP needs a more libertarian approach that makes freedom the movement's defining principle.
Discussion: Politico
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
CPAC's absent GOP rock stars
Discussion: CNN, The Fix, The Week and msnbc.com
John Boehner / Washington Post:
Obama's outreach is nice, but where's the leadership?  —  So it was a good meeting.  House Republicans welcomed the chance for a frank exchange of ideas with President Obama on Wednesday.  Outreach is always positive, and more Republicans in this town need the opportunity to have an open dialogue with our president.
Paul M. Barrett / Businessweek:
Why Gun Makers Fear the NRA  —  In the days after the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre on Dec. 14, executives with a half-dozen major U.S. gun manufacturers contacted the National Rifle Association.  The firearm industry representatives didn't call the NRA, which they support with millions …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Guns.com
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: Court Docs Reveal Blackwater's Secret CIA Past  —  It was the U.S. military's most notorious security contractor—but it may also have been a virtual extension of the CIA.  Eli Lake reports.  —  Last month a three-year-long federal prosecution of Blackwater collapsed.
Associated Press:
Physicists say they have found long-sought Higgs boson  —  GENEVA - The search is all but over for a subatomic particle that is a crucial building block of the universe.  —  Physicists announced Thursday they believe they have discovered the subatomic particle predicted nearly a half-century ago …
Bloomberg:
U.S. Tax Cheats Nailed After Swiss Adviser Mails It In  —  Everybody knows the danger of sending things inadvertently in an e-mail.  Beda Singenberger's case shows you also have to be pretty careful when you mail things the old-fashioned way.  —  Over an 11-year period, federal prosecutors charge …
Discussion: Guardian
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Senate report rips JPMorgan for skirting rules, disguising losses  —  JPMorgan skirted regulators, ignored mounting risk and misled investors on the way to losing billions of dollars on complex derivatives trades, according to a Senate investigation.  —  The report from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee …
Discussion: Politico
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
Stimulus: The Bottom Line and the Way Forward  —  LAS VEGAS, NV - AUGUST 01: Old street lights are stacked on a truck after being removed and replaced with new LED light fixtures August 1, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  —  The “stimulus wars” have recurred lately in the blogosphere …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
 
 
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Obama administration acknowledges thousands of illegal immigrants released from jails
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