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11:20 PM ET, March 18, 2014

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Chris Goodfellow / Wired:
A Startlingly Simple Theory About the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet  —  There has been a lot of speculation about Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.  Terrorism, hijacking, meteors.  I cannot believe the analysis on CNN; it's almost disturbing.  I tend to look for a simpler explanation …
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Washington Post:
NSA surveillance program reaches ‘into the past’ to retrieve, replay phone calls  —  The National Security Agency has built a surveillance system capable of recording “100 percent” of a foreign country's telephone calls, enabling the agency to rewind and review conversations as long as a month …
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:   Feds confirm Bush-era e-mail surveillance
Marian Burros / New York Times:
White House's Top Pastry Chef to Leave Post  —  WASHINGTON — The first lady, Michelle Obama, is soon to lose her executive pastry chef, Bill Yosses.  And she is partly to blame.  —  She has piqued his interest in the relationship between food and health, he said in a recent telephone interview …
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CNN:
Obama selects replacement for departing top aide
Discussion: Politico
Politico:
The rich strike back  —  NEW YORK — Just a few months ago, it looked like 2014 would be the year of the populist, with Democrats running on economic inequality, tea party Republicans bashing banks and newly minted New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio pledging to soak the rich with higher taxes.
Erin O'Neill / New Jersey Online:
Chris Christie town hall disrupted by protesters again  —  SOUTH RIVER — A group of Rutgers University students, as well as union representatives, were kicked out of a town hall meeting with Gov. Chris Christie today.  —  The group rose up in unison after Christie finished answering …
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CNN:
Christie faces pushback; defends conservative credentials
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and OnPolitics
James Hamblin / The Atlantic Online:
The Toxins That Threaten Our Brains  —  Leading scientists recently identified a dozen chemicals as being responsible for widespread behavioral and cognitive problems.  But the scope of the chemical dangers in our environment is likely even greater.  Why children and the poor are most susceptible …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Garrett Epps / The Atlantic Online:
Don't Tell Ruth Ginsburg to Retire  —  If Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had followed advice from male law professors like me, she would probably not be where she is today.  —  Her entire career has involved defying expectations and forcing her way into places where she did not “belong” …
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Adam Winkler / Slate:
And that's why Hobby Lobby should lose at the Supreme Court.
Mitt Romney / Wall Street Journal:
Romney: The Price of Failed Leadership  —  The President's failure to act when action was possible has diminished respect for the U.S. and made troubles worse.
KOMO News:
2 killed as KOMO News helicopter crashes near Space Needle  —  SEATTLE - Two people were killed and one was critically injured when the KOMO News helicopter crashed and burst into flames Tuesday morning on Broad Street only yards away from the Space Needle.  —  Emergency personnel immediately rushed …
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Daniel Strauss / Talking Points Memo:
RNC Chair: ‘Tsunami’ Election Coming, Especially In The Senate  —  The way Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus sees it, 2014 won't be an average election for the party out of power.  It'll be a “tsunami” wave election.  —  At a Christian Science Monitor Breakfast …
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
Reince Priebus predicts 2014 GOP ‘tsunami’
Discussion: Mediaite, CNN and Hot Air
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
Texas GOP Chief Tells Women To Become ‘Better Negotiators’ Instead Of Suing Over Pay  —  Texas Gop Equal Pay Greg Abbott Fair Pay Video Texas Gop Fair Pay Beth Cubriel Equal Pay Greb Abbott Equal Pay Politics News  —  The day after the head of a Texas GOP women's PAC flubbed her answer on equal pay …
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Raw Story
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Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
Wendy Davis Is One Step Closer To Turning Texas Purple
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
GOP Lawmaker Says Sick Leave, Equal Pay Bills Make Women ‘Look Like Whiners’  —  Minnesota Women Whiners Minnesota Whiners Andrea Keiffer Whiners Minnesota Womens Economic Security Act Politics News  —  A package of bills in Minnesota that would enhance women's economic security by raising the minimum wage …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Liberaland
Ron Paul / USA Today:
Crimea secedes.  So what?  —  Residents of Crimea voted over the weekend on whether they would remain an autonomous region of Ukraine or join the Russian Federation.  In so doing, they joined a number of countries and regions — including recently Scotland, Catalonia and Venice …
William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
U.S. Prosecutors in New Jersey Sought Port Authority Records on Bridge Contracts  —  Federal prosecutors in New Jersey subpoenaed records last week relating to potential conflicts of interest involving the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey chairman, David Samson …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Obama to Hispanics: We won't deport relatives because you enroll in ObamaCare  —  President Obama on Tuesday sought to assure legal immigrants that they can sign up for ObamaCare without worrying that “the immigration people” will come for family members who are in the country illegally.
Discussion: Mediaite
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Nancy Pelosi Admits That Congress Is Scared Of The CIA  —  Over the past few months, one thing we keep hearing over and over again from defenders of the intelligence community is that everything is under control and “legal” because Congress has powerful oversight.  We've shown, repeatedly, how that's something of a joke.
Katie Fretland / The Colorado Independent:
Oklahoma scramble to find lethal injections prompts delay in two executions  —  Oklahoma's inability to find regulated forms of lethal injection drugs has prompted postponements of two executions that had been planned for this week and next.  —  The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals decided today …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Mediaite
Olga Khazan / The Atlantic Online:
Do Moms Who Work Less Have Healthier Babies?  —  Pregnant women and their newborns tend to be healthier when the economy is worse, a new study shows.  Why?  —  Imagine you lived in Barcelona and lost your job, like thousands of Spaniards did each year of the most recent recession.
Discussion: Clayton Cramer
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:
Young Invincibles Are Killing Obamacare  —  As the clock ticks down to the end of open enrollment for health coverage, one thing is becoming clearer: what the final demographics will look like.  Demographics matter a lot because they will help determine whether the health insurance market goes …
Discussion: AEIdeas and kff.org
Political Insider blog:
Paul Broun spends $33k in office cash on rhetoric coach  —  U.S. Rep. Paul Broun has spent $33,000 of his congressional office budget over the last two years on a specialist in rhetorical skills, according to the above clip from Justin Gray of Channel 2 Action News.  —  The video focuses on the expenditure of taxpayer dollars.
 
 
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Philip Ewing / Politico:
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