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2:00 PM ET, April 12, 2013

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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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Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story  —  The dead babies.  The exploited women.  The racism.  The numerous governmental failures.  It just is insanely newsworthy.  —  A procedure room at the Women's Medical Society.  / Philadelphia District Attorney's Office
Joseph A. Slobodzian / Philly.com:
Gosnell Witness: I assisted in abortions while in high school  —  Like a lot of high school sophomores, 15-year-old Ashley Baldwin found a job.  —  Baldwin, however, wasn't working retail or fast-food.  She was doing ultrasounds, administering intravenous medicine and, ultimately …
John Nolte / BREITBART.COM:
PHOTO: EMPTY ‘RESERVED MEDIA SEATING’ AT ABORTION DOC GOSNELL'S MURDER TRIAL
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 …
National Review:   Against the RNC's Gay-Marriage Resolution
Tony Perkins / CNN:
Prominent social conservative urges activists to withhold GOP donations
frc.org:
The Obama Budget: Better Never Than Late
Discussion: ThinkProgress and Advocate
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.
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Justin Sink / The Hill:   McCain: Kim Jong Un is ‘a clown’
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 …
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David Brooks / New York Times:
Bold on Both Ends  —  It's time to entertain the possibility …
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 …
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
House GOP shows little appetite for Senate gun control measure
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: Riehl World News
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Senator Christopher Murphy:
Press Release of Senator Murphy
Discussion: msnbc.com and The Hill
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Don't air NRA race, senator asks Rupert Murdoch
Discussion: Mediaite
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Jenny Sanford Not Endorsing Anyone In South Carolina Special Election  —  Jenny Sanford has no intention to endorse anyone in the special election scheduled to be held next month in South Carolina's First Congressional District.  —  Sanford's ex-husband, former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Abby Livingston / Roll Call:
South Carolina: Jenny Sanford Has No Plans to Endorse in Special Election  —  Former South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford has no plans to endorse in the 1st District special election that includes her ex-husband, former Gov. Mark Sanford.  —  Democrats plugged into Palmetto State politics …
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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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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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.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Rush through Senate will kill trust in immigration reform
Discussion: Hot Air
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 …
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.
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
Zack Ford / ThinkProgress:
What Actually Happened To That Same-Sex Couple In The Missouri Hospital  —  There has been a lot of speculation as to what actually transpired when Roger Gorley was arrested away from his husband Allen's bedside in a Missouri hospital earlier this week.  Despite the fact Roger and Allen …
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Ex-lawmaker accuses aides of sabotage  —  Former Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) is suing a former aide and intern who served on his House reelection campaign, claiming they deliberately submitted forged nominating petitions in an attempt to sabotage his campaign.
 
 
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The Commentator:
Thatcher fans in push for “I'm in Love With Margaret Thatcher” to Number One in the UK Charts
Lisa Rosenberg / Sunlight Foundation Blog:
Epic Failure by the Senate on Transparency Provisions in STOCK Act
Discussion: Roll Call and thomas.loc.gov
Kasie Hunt / NBC Politics:
Giffords to launch in-person push for gun law compromise
Discussion: Politico, First Read and msnbc.com
Colleen McCain Nelson / Wall Street Journal:
Poll: Most Women See Bias in the Workplace
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Gillian Flaccus / Associated Press:
Rick Warren: Son Used Unregistered Gun in Suicide
Larry O'Dell / nbcchicago.com:
Man Gets 7 Years for Stealing Obama's Teleprompter
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Alex Kowalski / Bloomberg:
Retail Sales in U.S. Dropped in March by Most in Nine Months
Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Paul Ryan: Republicans must stay strong on abortion to win elections
Discussion: Washington Monthly and msnbc.com
Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Terrorist video used in ad against McConnell
David Kravets / Wired:
Apple Agrees to Pay $53M to Settle iPhone Warranty Lawsuit
Discussion: VentureBeat and The Verge
Brett Norman / Politico:
Cost of exchanges shoots up
Discussion: americanthinker.com
Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
Strassel: Terry McAuliffe's Solyndra
Discussion: americanthinker.com
David Andolfatto / MacroMania:
Monetary policy in a liquidity trap