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Neil Steinberg / Chicago Sun Times:
Roger Ebert dies at 70 after battle with cancer  —  Except for those he hated.  —  For a film with a daring director, a talented cast, a captivating plot or, ideally, all three, there could be no better advocate than Roger Ebert, who passionately celebrated and promoted excellence in film …
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Jim Cheng / USA Today:
Famed movie critic Roger Ebert dies
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Majority Now Supports Legalizing Marijuana  —  OVERVIEW  —  For the first time in more than four decades of polling on the issue, a majority of Americans favor legalizing the use of marijuana.  A national survey finds that 52% say that the use of marijuana should be made legal while 45% say it should not.
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Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Pew poll first: Most say legalize marijuana
Matt Higgins / CBS DC:
Obama: ‘I Am Constrained By A System That Our Founders Put In Place’  —  DENVER (CBSDC/AP) — Ratcheting up pressure for Congress to limit access to guns, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that recent steps by Colorado to tighten its gun laws show “there doesn't have to be a conflict” …
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama: Newtown Shooter Gunned Down 20 Children With ‘Fully Automatic Weapon’  —  At a fundraiser last night in San Francisco, President Barack Obama said that the Newtown killer gunned down 20 children using a “fully automatic weapon.”  From the official transcript, provided by the White House:
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
Obama: “I am constrained... by a system that our Founders put in place.”  —  Context: … As a lawprof, I read that to mean that he is not constrained.  He's juggling a few ideas, but what he's getting at is: The Founders put into place a system that would be populated by elected officials …
Alex Leary / Tampa Bay Times:
Bill Nelson reverses opposition to gay marriage  —  Sen. Bill Nelson has reversed his opposition to gay marriage, becoming the latest senator to do so.  Now, only six Democrats in the chamber are opposed to gay marriage.  —  In a statement to the Tampa Bay Times editorial board, he wrote:
Danny Shea / The Huffington Post:
Jeremy Irons On Gay Marriage: ‘Could A Father Not Marry His Son?’  (VIDEO)  —  Academy Award winning actor Jeremy Irons said Wednesday that while he doesn't have much of a strong opinion either way on same-sex marriage, he believes it poses interesting questions, including whether allowing same-sex marriage …
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Most don't want same-sex marriage decision left to states, poll finds
Discussion: CNN
Victoria Ward / Telegraph:
Jeremy Irons claims gay marriage laws could lead to a father marrying his son
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and The Daily Caller
Ta-Nehisi Coates / New York Times:
He Wears the Mask  —  The present darling of the right wing, Dr. Benjamin Carson, is a distinguished neurosurgeon who went from the depths of Detroit poverty to the heights of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.  But his current status among conservatives isn't so much rooted …
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The Atlantic Online:
The Conservative Black Hope
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Facebook Newsroom:
Introducing Home  —  Today we're introducing Home - a new way to turn your Android phone into a great, living, social phone.  —  We all want to share and connect.  That's how we discover new information and build meaningful relationships.  But today, phones are built around tasks and apps.
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Steven Levy / Wired:
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Home, Money, and the Future of Communication
Discussion: The Verge and The Daily Caller
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Apple's iMessage encryption trips up feds' surveillance  —  Internal document from the Drug Enforcement Administration complains that messages sent with Apple's encrypted chat service are “impossible to intercept,” even with a warrant.  —  Encryption used in Apple's iMessage chat service …
Discussion: The Verge and TechCrunch
Choe Sang-Hun / New York Times:
North Korean Missile Moved to Coast, but Limited Threat Seen  —  SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea's defense chief said on Thursday that North Korea has moved to its east coast a missile with a “considerable” range, but that it was not capable of reaching the United States.
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Dials Back on Korean Show of Force
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Did Obama tell a Democratic audience that a “fully automatic weapon” was used at Newtown?
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Reagan Daughter Says He'd Have Backed Gay Marriage  —  WASHINGTON — As Republican politicians wrestle with same-sex marriage, the daughter of a party icon — former President Ronald Reagan — said in an interview this week that she believes her father would have “been puzzled” …
Rosie Gray / BuzzFeed:
The 13 Hottest Attorneys General  —  Weird thing to say, President Obama .  —  Delaware AG Beau Biden  —  Image by Harry E. Walker/MCT  —  Kentucky AG Jack Conway  —  Image by The Gleaner, Darrin Phegley / AP  —  Texas AG Greg Abbott  —  Image by Ron T. Ennis/Fort Worth Star-Telegram/MCT
Discussion: Washington Wire and Post Politics
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
PAC launches to support bearded political candidates  —  A Political Action Committee (PAC) launched this week to support bearded candidates, according to paperwork filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).  —  The Bearded Entrepreneurs for the Advancement of a Responsible Democracy …
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
John Wright / Dallas Voice:
BREAKING: Texas A&M Student Senate passes anti-gay bill in 35-28 vote  —  After three hours of emotional debate, the Texas A&M Student Senate voted 35-28 Wednesday night to approve an anti-gay measure that would allow students to opt out of funding the campus GLBT Resource Center if they have religious objections.
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
$423,500 Stimulus Program on ‘Correct Condom Use’ Yields Zero Jobs  —  The details of a stimulus grant awarded to Indiana University to study condom use have now been released on a government website.  The study, titled “Barriers to Correct Condom Use,” is now completed, according to the website …
Jason Beattie / Mirror.co.uk:
George Osborne parks in disabled bay: Tory Chancellor causes outrage by ignoring restrictions  —  He was branded selfish and arrogant after allowing his chauffeur to park his £50,000 Land Rover in a space reserved for the disabled  —  Dozy parker: Mr Osborne returns to his car
Discussion: BBC
Brian Fung / NationalJournal.com:
The New House Republican Web Strategy: Just Add BuzzFeed  —  What do cat pictures and GIFs have to do with Republican politics?  Not a whole lot, at least right now.  But beginning next week, that'll change.  —  Staffers at the National Republican Congressional Committee are finishing …
John McCormack / Weekly Standard:
McAuliffe Tight-Lipped on Child Sodomy Case  —  Liberal blogs have been ridiculing Virginia attorney general and gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli for prosecuting a 47-year-old man named William Scott MacDonald under Virginia's anti-sodomy law.  While the prosecution is an obvious sign …
Cindy Adams / New York Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Cutest boy leaving ‘Girls’  —  Christopher Abbott — who plays Allison Williams' boyfriend Charlie on Lena Dunham's HBO series “Girls” — has abruptly left the show, we've exclusively learned.  The move comes just as his character seemed to be gaining prominence, with Charlie …
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Siren: Eric Cantor Will Consider Higher Taxes  —  I don't even know what I'm saying!  —  Republicans have insisted so often and so convincingly that they absolutely will not agree to higher taxes that all of us have assumed that a deal on the budget can't happen, that sequestration is simply the new normal.
Colin Campbell / Politicker:
Assemblyman Eric Stevenson Arrested for Alleged Corruption  —  Moments ago, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office announced yet another New York State elected official, Bronx Assemblyman Eric Stevenson, has been arrested and accused of taking bribes.  Earlier this week, New York's political world …
Discussion: Joe. My. God.
WSAV-TV:
Wilcox County Students Fight Segregated Prom  —  ROCHELLE, GA -  —  They share the classroom, the football field, and the baseball diamond, but the school is still holding on to a vestige of this country's darkest days of segregation.  —  “We're embarrassed, it's embarrassing,” …
Discussion: The Week and ThinkProgress
Josh Eidelson / Salon:
Fast food workers plan surprise strike  —  Breaking: Workers in some 50 restaurants expected to walk off job, potentially shutting down several eateries today  —  A protester holds up a sign at a demonstration outside McDonald's in Times Square in support of employees on strike …
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Tens of thousands Obamacare ‘navigators’ to be hired … Tens of thousands of health care professionals, union workers and community activists hired as “navigators” to help Americans choose Obamacare options starting Oct. 1 could earn $20 an hour or more, according to new regulations issued Wednesday.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Schools push a curriculum of propaganda  —  The real vocation of some people entrusted with delivering primary and secondary education is to validate this proposition: The three R's — formerly reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic — now are racism, reproduction and recycling.  Especially racism.
Josh Voorhees / Slate:
Did the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas Just Scare a U.S. Attorney Into Quitting a Major Case?  —  The U.S. Attorney's Office says that it will press on with its case against the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.  —  The Dallas Morning News reports that a federal prosecutor who had been handling …
Discussion: Gawker
 
 
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Obama Administration Seeks to Change International Food Aid
Arlette Saenz / ABCNEWS:
Obama Calls Californian Kamala Harris ‘Best Looking’ Attorney General
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Thomas Erdbrink / New York Times:
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Matt Blank, Dennis Basso and the Story Behind Meghan McCain's Latest TV Project
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Caitlin McDevitt / Associated Press:
Washington: Bill Clinton watches ‘Scandal’
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The NBC News-Ronna McDaniel saga highlights the perks and perils of partisan talk TV; a source says McDaniel is now seeking $600K+ for her two year deal

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