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2:30 PM ET, March 28, 2013

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Matt Tunseth / The Alaska Star:
Murkowski's gay marriage views ‘evolving’  —  U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowsk (R-Alaska) talks to a constituent before entering the Bear Mountain Grill in Eagle River on Wednesday, March 27 in Eagle River, where she addressed the Chugiak-Eagle River Chamber of Commerce.
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Conservatives wary of Chief Justice Roberts in same-sex marriage cases  —  Some social conservatives are ready to disown Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts if he votes in favor of same-sex marriage.  —  The conservatives were angered by Roberts's surprise backing of President Obama's healthcare law …
Discussion: Boston Herald and Reuters
Ezra Klein / Wonkblog:
Sorry, Justice Scalia: There's no evidence that gay parents aren't great parents
Discussion: Shakesville and Joe. My. God.
Peter Baker / New York Times:
Political Success Can Be a Setback in Gay Rights
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Democrats Have Most Successful Online Campaign Ever Thanks To Marriage Equality
Discussion: The Fix
Ellen Lockyer / Alaska Public Media:
Senator Murkowski Speaks On DOMA
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Joseph Patrick McCormick / PinkNews.co.uk:
President Obama: There is a ‘strong basis’ for allowing equal marriage
David von Drehle / Swampland:
How Gay Marriage Won  —  Eager to be eyewitnesses to history, people camped for days in the dismal cold, shivering in the slanting shadow of the Capitol dome, to claim tickets for the Supreme Court's historic oral arguments on same-sex marriage.  Some hoped that the Justices would extend marriage rights …
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Dorsey Shaw / BuzzFeed:
TIME Magazine Sexualizing Same-Sex Marriage With New Cover Photo  —  One of Time's two new cover photos declaring “gay marriage already won” looks like a wedding kiss.  The other looks more like a makeout session.
Discussion: Althouse
David Weigel / Slate:
Flashback: When Democrats Swore They Would Never Back Gay Marriage  —  Jon Allen follows HuffPost's intriguing advocacy journalism by quoting the few Democrats who haven't endorsed gay marriage yet.  (HuffPost's been straight-up shaming them, naming the senators who have yet to flip and explaining that …
Discussion: The Dish, Hot Air and Betsy's Page
Chris Frates / NationalJournal.com:
The Secret Republican Plan to Repeal ‘Obamacare’  —  And why the fight is far from over.  —  A few minutes after the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision upholding President Obama's health care law last summer, a senior adviser to Mitch McConnell walked into the Senate Republican leader's office to gauge his reaction.
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Mitch McConnell's scorched-earth strategy  —  FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky is the Bluegrass State, but by the time Mitch McConnell is done with his reelection campaign, it may be better known for scorched earth.  —  The top Senate Republican is preparing to wage a ruthless campaign to hang on to his job.
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
EXCLUSIVE: Rand Paul endorses Mitch McConnell in 2014 Senate race, won't back tea party challenge
Open Channel:
Newtown gunman Adam Lanza fired 155 bullets in less than five minutes, prosecutor says  —  Adam Lanza fired 155 bullets in less than five minutes on the day he killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School, investigators said Thursday in the first detailed account …
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Politico:
Charles Grassley writing alternative Senate gun bill
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Newtown parents press for gun control in Bloomberg group's ad
Discussion: Politico
Stuart Stevens / The Daily Beast:
What the GOP Autopsy Proves  —  The RNC's report on the state of the Republican Party was resoundingly on point.  Stuart Stevens, Mitt Romney's chief 2012 strategist, on how to fix the phony debates and the troubling influence of corporate money.  —  The Republican National Committee's …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Wal-Mart may get customers to deliver packages to online buyers  —  (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is considering a radical plan to have store customers deliver packages to online buyers, a new twist on speedier delivery services that the company hopes will enable it to better compete with Amazon.com Inc.
Jethro Mullen / CNN:
U.S. says it sent B-2 stealth bombers over South Korea  —  The United States said Thursday, March 28, that it flew stealth bombers over South Korea to participate in annual military exercises amid spiking tensions with North Korea.  Pictured, a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber flies over South Korea's western port city of Pyeongtaek.
Discussion: CBS News and Hot Air
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Edward Jay Epstein / Wall Street Journal:   How Iran Could Get the Bomb Overnight
Associated Press:   US sends nuclear-capable B-2 bombers to SKorea
Charles Poladian / International Business Times:
Steubenville's Former NAACP President Says Rape Victim Was Drunk And Willing [EXCLUSIVE]  —  This story has been corrected.  Royal Mayo is no longer the president of the Steubenville chapter of the NAACP, a post he left in late 2010.  He is currently a member of the group's Ohio executive committee …
Michael A. Walsh / New York Post:
A nation suckered  —  Bilking billions from the government  —  No doubt you were shocked, shocked to learn that Jeffrey Hillman, the “barefoot beggar” who famously received a free pair of boots from a kindly NYPD cop, turned out to be a scam artist who preys on the kindness of strangers …
Thomas B. Edsall / Opinionator:
A Republican Left Turn?  —  If the Republican Party concedes defeat in the culture war, as a number of commentators on the right and the left argue it should, what what will happen to the conservative coalition?  Can hard-line stands on social issues be set aside?
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
A Very White Republican Leadership Plans Minority Outreach  —  Criticism from inside the ranks.  “Any kind of racially specific campaign activity was often treated with skepticism by white staffers,” says one former RNC staffer.  —  Priebus speaks to reporters after holding private talks …
Discussion: ThinkProgress and The Maddow Blog
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Most Say Illegal Immigrants Should Be Allowed to Stay, But Citizenship Is More Divisive  —  OVERVIEW  —  A new survey finds that seven-in-ten Americans (71%) say there should be a way for people in the United States illegally to remain in this country if they meet certain requirements …
Carol Robinson / Real-Time News from Birmingham:
Gone nuts: Dale Peterson, gun-toting ag commission candidate, stole cashews in Hoover, cops say (video)  —  HOOVER, Alabama - The tough-on-crime former Republican candidate for Alabama Agriculture Commissioner is in trouble with the law - for the second time in less than six months.
Matt Cover / CNSNews:
Feds Spending $880,000 to Study Benefits of Snail Sex  —  (CNSNews.com) - The National Science Foundation awarded a grant for $876,752 to the University of Iowa to study whether there is any benefit to sex among New Zealand mud snails and whether that explains why any organism has sex.
 
 
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Cantor: Comprehensive bill on immigration reform will be ‘tall order’
Discussion: Politico
Associated Press:
Woman Allegedly Purchased, Passed Gun To Colorado Prisons Chief Killer
Discussion: The Raw Story
Ben Goad / The Hill:
Obama finding ways to wield power without executive orders
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Discussion: ThinkProgress and E2-Wire
Pvictorwins / CBS New York:
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Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Laurel Ramseyer / pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com:
Rhode Island's Catholic Bishop Attempts Another Delay Tactic
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Joe. My. God.
TODAY.com Blogs:
John Edwards' eldest daughter: I was mad, ‘devastated’ about affair
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Rachael Bade / Politico:
Buzzkill? Cash-strapped states eye pot tax
Zane McMillin / MLive.com:
Hillary Clinton coming to Grand Rapids this summer for Economic Club event
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Lee Enterprises / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
McClellan: One last call to service - end military funeral honors