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12:55 PM ET, April 12, 2013

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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, Daily Kos and CNN
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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 …
Tony Perkins / CNN:
Prominent social conservative urges activists to withhold GOP donations
National Review:   Against the RNC's Gay-Marriage Resolution
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Peter King: House gun bill ready Monday  —  Reps. Peter King and Mike Thompson are planning to introduce a House version of the compromise on background checks for gun buyers on Monday or Tuesday, King told POLITICO exclusively on Friday.  —  “I will be introducing, along with Mike Thompson …
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Hot Air
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
House GOP shows little appetite for Senate gun control measure
Janet Hook / Wall Street Journal:
Bipartisan Breezes Waft Through Congress
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Senate moves forward on gun control
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 Finds Nuclear Strides by North Korea
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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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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Mollie / GetReligion:
WPost reporter explains her personal Gosnell blackout  —  I've been writing about media coverage of abortion for many years.  And so have many others.  If you haven't read David Shaw's “Abortion Bias Seeps Into The News,” published in the Los Angeles Times back in 1990, you should.
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John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
PHOTO: EMPTY ‘RESERVED MEDIA SEATING’ AT ABORTION DOC GOSNELL'S MURDER TRIAL  —  Via the Get Religion blog at Patheos:  —  The picture above, for what it's worth, is of the reserved media seats at the Gosnell trial.  It was taken by JD Mullane, a news writer and columnist …
Andreas Tuerk / Google Public Policy Blog:
Plan your digital afterlife with Inactive Account Manager  —  Not many of us like thinking about death — especially our own.  But making plans for what happens after you're gone is really important for the people you leave behind.  So today, we're launching a new feature that makes it easy …
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 …
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.
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.
CNN:
Mood of the nation: Six-year high in optimism, CNN poll shows  —  (CNN) - As the stock market continues to show record highs, the number of Americans who say things are going well in the country has reached 50% for the first time in more than six years, according to a new national survey.
Discussion: Politico
Colleen McCain Nelson / Wall Street Journal:
Poll: Most Women See Bias in the Workplace  —  Survey Finds Wage Discrimination a Sticking Point; American Attitudes on Gay Marriage, Immigration Show Big Changes  —  Women in large numbers believe they face disadvantages in the workplace, including lower pay than men and other forms of discrimination …
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Kasie Hunt / NBC Politics:
Giffords to launch in-person push for gun law compromise  —  For former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, gun violence is personal — so she's going to begin her own in-person push for a new compromise to expand background checks for gun sales when she returns to Capitol Hill next week, NBC News has learned.
Discussion: Politico, First Read and msnbc.com
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
Manu Raju / Politico:
Marco Rubio goes all-in on immigration bill  —  Marco Rubio is preparing to go all in to support sweeping immigration legislation, offering himself up as the public face of a bill that will split the Republican Party — but that his allies hope will propel him to the front of the GOP presidential sweepstakes.
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
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
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 …
 
 
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Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press:
Rick Warren: Son Used Unregistered Gun in Suicide
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Rush through Senate will kill trust in immigration reform
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Jim Brunner / STBlogs Alpha:
State GOP to auction AR-15 style rifle at dinner
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and The Raw Story
Justin Sink / Ballot Box:
Organizing for Action banks $4.9 million in first quarter donations
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Paul Ryan: Republicans must stay strong on abortion to win elections
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Terrorist video used in ad against McConnell
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