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1:30 PM ET, April 29, 2013

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Sports Illustrated:
“I'm a 34-year-old NBA center.  I'm black.  And I'm gay,” says Jason Collins.  —  I'm a 34-year-old NBA center.  I'm black.  And I'm gay.  —  I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport.  But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation.
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
More backlash against Senators on gun vote  —  New PPP polls in Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, and Ohio find serious backlash against the 5 Senators who voted against background checks in those states.  Each of them has seen their approval numbers decline, and voters say they're less likely …
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
After Her Poll Numbers Plummet, NRA Runs Ads Thanking Senator For Killing Background Checks Bill  —  Earlier this month, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) voted against a bipartisan measure to expand background checks for gun purchases conducted at gun shows and online and saw her approval ratings plummet by 15 points.
Discussion: Daily Kos
Frank Newport / Gallup:
Americans Wanted Gun Background Checks to Pass Senate  —  Support varies from 85% among Democrats to 45% among Republicans  —  PRINCETON, NJ — Sixty-five percent of Americans say the U.S. Senate should have passed the measure that would have expanded background checks for gun purchases …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Dems push gun control agenda in DC, but not in battleground states
Discussion: Jammie Wearing Fools
Christian Caryl / The New York Review of Books:
‘Misha’ Speaks: An Interview with the Alleged Boston Bomber's ‘Svengali’  —  As the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings continues, one of the more clouded aspects is the tale of “Misha,” a mysterious US-based Islamist who has been accused by members of the Tsarnaev family …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
O'Connor worries Supreme Court was wrong to rule in Bush v. Gore  —  Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said in an interview published this weekend that she is no longer certain that the Supreme Court should have taken Bush v. Gore, the controversial case that ended …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
After Casting Key Fifth Vote For Bush, Justice O'Connor Now Regrets Bush v. Gore  —  Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the conservative retired justice who provided the fifth vote to install George W. Bush as president, is now having second thoughts about that decision:
Discussion: Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
If Hillary is running for prez, I'm out  —  Cuomo quietly ‘concedes’ 2016 race  —  Gov. Cuomo has quietly told associates that he is resigned to the fact that he can't run for president in 2016 if Hillary Rodham Clinton enters the race, as is widely expected, sources told The Post.
Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
C.I.A. Delivers Cash to Afghan Leader's Office  —  KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan's president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Black pols stymied in Obama era  —  More than five years after Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses and demolished the notion that white voters wouldn't support a black presidential candidate, progress for other African-American politicians remains elusive.  Even as the country elected and reelected Obama …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Story of Our Time  —  Those of us who have spent years arguing against premature fiscal austerity have just had a good two weeks.  Academic studies that supposedly justified austerity have lost credibility; hard-liners in the European Commission and elsewhere have softened their rhetoric.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Christie: No regrets for clashing with GOP over Sandy relief efforts  —  Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he didn't regret his actions in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, even though they caused intra-party strife at a critical juncture in the 2012 presidential election.
Discussion: Politico
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ABC 7 Eyewitness News:
Monday marks 6 months since Hurricane Sandy ravaged New York area
Discussion: The Reaction
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
House Republicans Eyeing New Hostage Opportunity  —  If you don't submit, I will destroy your puny world with this HAMMER OF THOR.  —  The House Republicans are contemplating a new budget-hostage strategy, the the Washington Post reports in a story that is both highly useful and inadvertently Onion-esque.
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Simon Johnson / Bloomberg:
How Obama and Republicans Squandered First 100 Days
Discussion: National Review
Michael Laris / Washington Post:
Hoax emergency message sends police to Wolf Blitzer's house in Bethesda  —  Montgomery County police received an urgent message at about 6:25 p.m. Saturday saying someone had been shot at Wolf Blitzer's home in Bethesda.  Officers streamed toward the CNN host's residence near Congressional Country Club.
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Ron Paul slams Boston ‘occupation’  —  Former Rep. Ron Paul said the police response to the Boston Marathon bombings was scarier than the bombing itself, which killed three and wounded more than 250.  —  “The Boston bombing provided the opportunity for the government to turn …
Discussion: Hit & Run
Washington Post:
Antiabortion group releases videos of clinic workers discussing live births  —  An antiabortion group that mounted a six-month undercover investigation has released videos this week that raise questions about what might happen to a baby as a result of an unsuccessful abortion.
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Optimist's Case For Obamacare Implementation  —  Are you worried by all the baleful predictions being made by critics of the Affordable Care Act about how its implementation will proceed?  It's hard not to worry.  Sure, you can dismiss a lot of the conservative talk of a “disaster” or …
Discussion: New Republic, Corrente and Eschaton
Jacob Darwin Hamblin / Salon:
We tried to weaponize the weather  —  Cold War secrets: Melting polar ice cap with nukes, changing the sea level, even LSD weapons were all on the table  —  Excerpted from “Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism”  —  The years between the rst hydrogen bomb tests …
Discussion: Hit & Run and Daily Kos
 
 
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Travis Waldron / ThinkProgress:
How Austerity Is Literally Killing People
Annie Lowrey / New York Times:
Wealth Gap Among Races Widened Since Recession
Javier C. Hernández / New York Times:
Mary Thom, a Chronicler of the Feminist Movement, Dies at 68
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
Rep. McCaul, Sen. Manchin talk possible foreign ties in Boston bombing; Amb.  Oren on latest in Syria
Kevin Cirilli / Reuters:
Mike Tyson: Hope I save with Obamacare
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Iraq Revokes Licenses of Al Jazeera and 9 Other TV Channels
Discussion: NewsBusters and Weasel Zippers
 Earlier Items: 
Melinda Henneberger / She The People:
Are there more abortion doctors like Kermit Gosnell? Do we want to know?
Washington Post:
After string of setbacks, more charm may be the last, best option for Obama
Discussion: Daily Kos and Right Wing News
Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Bill on Sales Tax for Internet Purchases Divides Republicans
Discussion: The Plum Line and The Reaction
Jon Hilsenrath / Wall Street Journal:
Tame Inflation to Keep Fed on Course
Maayana Miskin / Arutz Sheva:
‘Equal Burden for Hareidi Men - What About Arabs?’
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Israpundit
New York Times:
Congress Rushes to Aid the Powerful
Discussion: Mediaite
Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
General David Petraeus' New Campaign
Discussion: Gawker and Crooked Timber