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Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Family Research Council says 'don't send a dime' to GOP  —  Tony Perkins says religious conservatives should stop donating to the Republican Party until it clarifies its position on social issues.  —  The president of the Family Research Council, a top religious political group …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and CNN
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Tony Perkins / CNN:
Prominent social conservative urges activists to withhold GOP donations  —  Los Angeles (CNN) - Prominent social conservative Tony Perkins called on political activists Thursday evening to withhold contributions to Republican campaign committees, as the GOP is embroiled in a debate over social issues.
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
FRC's Tony Perkins: Stop giving to GOP  —  Family Research Council President Tony Perkins is calling on social conservatives to stop donating to national Republicans until the GOP stops going wobbly on gay marriage.  —  “Until the RNC and the other national Republican organizations grow …
Reuters:
U.S. will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea: Kerry  —  (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry dismissed as “unacceptable by any standard” weeks of bellicose warnings of impending nuclear war by North Korea and said Washington would never accept the reclusive state becoming a nuclear power.
Discussion: The Hill, New York Times and The Week
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New York Times:
Pentagon Says Nuclear Missile Is in Grasp for North Korea  —  WASHINGTON — A new assessment of North Korea's nuclear capability conducted by the Pentagon's intelligence arm has concluded for the first time, with “moderate confidence,” that the country has learned how to make a nuclear weapon small enough …
USA Today:
Reports conflict on North Korea's nuclear capabilities
Juana Summers / Politico:
Report: North Korea may have missile-capable nuclear weapons
Discussion: CNN
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
The Disastrous Collapse Of Kentucky's Least Effective Liberal Group  —  Whatever Progress Kentucky is trying to do, it should probably stop right now.  —  Via: Win McNamee / Getty Images  —  WASHINGTON — It's probably possible for a political group to be worse at accomplishing its core mission …
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Alex Seitz-Wald / Salon:
Progress Kentucky: Worst super PAC ever?  —  Even before the last two scandals, Kentucky liberals called the group an “embarrassment”  —  Liberal super PAC Progress Kentucky is at the center of controversy after a Democratic strategist in the state said activists affiliated with the group bragged …
Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
GOP Congressman Warns Background Checks Will Lead To A Genocide Like In Rwanda  —  Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) took the fearmongering over gun reform to new levels in a Facebook post on Thursday that compared expanding background checks to the Rwandan genocide.  —  Gun advocates and Republican lawmakers …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Pat Toomey:
Sen. Toomey Offers Full Text Of Public Safety And Second Amendment Rights Protection Act Online  —  Public Will Have Ample Opportunity To Review & Provide Input On Important Measure  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) tonight posted the bill text of The Public Safety …
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Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Bipartisan Breezes Waft Through Congress
Politico:
Newtown families: Victims turn lobbyists  —  When a lobbyist for families of Newtown shooting victims called the office of Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to set up a meeting, the first response was a standard D.C. offer.  They could get a meeting with her staff, and a quick and simple “hello” from Collins herself, they were told.
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Terry McAuliffe's Solyndra  —  Running for governor of Virginia, the Democrat's main business credential is fast turning into a crony-capitalist embarrassment.  —  Turn over any green-energy rock, and wiggling underneath will be the usual creepy mix of political favoritism and taxpayer-funded handouts.
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Alex Kowalski / Bloomberg:
Retail Sales in U.S. Dropped in March by Most in Nine Months  —  Retail sales in the U.S. unexpectedly fell in March by the most in nine months as employment slowed, showing households ended the first quarter on softer footing.  —  The 0.4 percent decrease, the biggest since June …
Discussion: Hot Air
Larry O'Dell / nbcchicago.com:
Man Gets 7 Years for Stealing Obama's Teleprompter  —  Eric Brown of Richmond, Va., agreed to longer sentence to avoid prosecution in similar crimes, officials said  —  A career criminal who stole a truck containing President Obama's audio equipment was sentenced Thursday to seven years in federal prison.
Chris Good / ABCNEWS:
President Obama's Weirdest New Taxes  —  President Obama has plenty of big taxes in his budget proposal.  —  To achieve $1.8 trillion in new revenue, the president suggested a few of the policies he's raised while battling Republicans over the past four years: taxing higher incomes …
DealBook:
Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money  —  The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler — Olympic rowers, nemeses of Mark Zuckerberg — are laying claim to a new title: bitcoin moguls.  —  The Winklevii, as they are known, have amassed since last summer what appears …
Brett Norman / Politico:
Cost of exchanges shoots up  —  The Obama administration's best guess of how much it will spend to subsidize insurance on Obamacare exchanges shot up substantially this year thanks in large part to the U.S. Supreme Court.  —  But while the exchange costs rise, the Medicaid spending will probably …
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Connecticut Sen. pleads with Murdoch: Don't air ‘NRA 500’ race  —  Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy is pleading with Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of News Corporation, which owns the Fox Sports channel, not to air a National Rifle Association-sponsored NASCAR race scheduled for this weekend.
Discussion: CNN and Riehl World News
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Terrorist video used in ad against McConnell  —  (CNN) - A liberal nonprofit group said Thursday it would begin airing an ad hitting Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell that uses a video produced in 2011 showing an American al Qaeda spokesperson showing how to obtain guns in the U.S.
Discussion: BuzzFeed and Weasel Zippers
Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Organizing for Action banks $4.9 million in first quarter donations  —  The nonprofit group born from President Obama's reelection campaign had 109,582 donors in the first quarter.  —  The nonprofit group born from President Obama's reelection campaign said Friday it had raised …
Discussion: CNN
David Kravets / Wired:
Apple Agrees to Pay $53M to Settle iPhone Warranty Lawsuit  —  Apple is agreeing to pay $53 million to settle a class action accusing the company of failing to honor warranties on iPhones and iPod Touches, according to an agreement obtained today by Wired.  —  The settlement, (.pdf) …
Discussion: VentureBeat and The Verge
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Elizabeth Warren Tears Into Federal Regulators For Shielding Big Banks  —  Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) embarrassed government regulators during a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Thursday morning as she demanded to know why they won't reveal how frequently big banks illegally foreclosed on homeowners.
David Andolfatto / MacroMania:
Monetary policy in a liquidity trap  —  Krugman has an interesting article today, Monetary Policy in a Liquidity Trap.  I (sort of) agree with much of it.  But I believe that a few comments are in order.  —  Consider this statement: … This statement is, in varying degrees: [1] …
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Paul Ryan: Republicans must stay strong on abortion to win elections  —  Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) argued in a speech to activists Thursday night that robust opposition to abortion rights is crucial to the GOP's political chances.  —  Ryan's remarks to the Susan B. Anthony (SBA) …
 
 
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Nicholas Watt / Guardian:
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Discussion: Telegraph and BBC
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
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Wall Street Journal:
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