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2:25 PM ET, March 27, 2014

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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEightDataLab:
For Columnist, a Change of Tone  —  A New York Times columnist has expressed substantially more negative sentiments about FiveThirtyEight since it left The New York Times, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis.  —  The columnist, Paul Krugman, who writes about economics and politics for The Times …
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
The Nate Silver-Paul Krugman Feud Just Won't End  —  Nate Silver and his newfound rival Paul Krugman traded shots again on Wednesday in what looks increasingly like a battle for the last word.  —  Each barb had echoes of what the two wonks told TPM in recent emails.
Discussion: Noahpinion
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Krugman-Silver Sparring Match  —  Since I admire both New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and FiveThirtyEight proprietor Nate Silver (with whom I worked at the pre-Times version of the site), I'm not real jazzed about the sniping that's going on between them.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Eschaton
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Data as Slogan, Data as Substance
San Francisco magazine:
The Indictment Against Leland Yee Puts “The Wire's” Clay Davis to Shame  —  Sheeeeeeeeeit, partner.  —  If you thought the charges against Leland Yee would be bad, you had no idea.  As in, he offered to set up an arms deal with Islamic rebels for $2 million in cash.  As in, he has ties to a gangster named Shrimp Boy.
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Doug Powers / Twitchy:
Hypocrisy overload: Tweets from gun control advocate Leland Yee, charged with arms trafficking
Discussion: Liberty Unyielding
Daniel Rothberg / Los Angeles Times:
Reid will refund campaign for purchases from granddaughter's business  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to reimburse his campaign more than $16,000 for purchasing holiday gifts from his granddaughter's jewelry business.  —  The Federal Election Commission …
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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Official Said He Told Christie of Lane Closings, Bridge Scandal Report Says  —  The Port Authority official who oversaw the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge said that he had informed Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey about it at a Sept. 11 memorial while the closings were occurring …
Griff Witte / Washington Post:
Despite ‘wake-up call’ in Ukraine, Europe reluctant to bolster its militaries  —  LONDON — After years of watching as defense cuts sliced away at the army he once led, Richard Dannatt decided Russia's thrust into Ukraine marked the right moment to start rebuilding the British military.
Discussion: Hot Air
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Igor Bobic / Talking Points Memo:
Oversight Dems To Issa: Drop The Charade And Let's Do Some Real Work  —  All 17 Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee are calling on Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) to cease his “partisan investigation” into the deadly September 2012 attack in Benghazi …
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Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
IRS commissioner: 'It's going to take years' to produce documents about Tea Party targeting
Discussion: Power Line
Erick Erickson / RedState:
Matthew Yglesias is Juice Vox Media's Village Idiot and Liar-in-Chief  —  Well, now we know why the Washington Post did not want to invest in Ezra Klein's “explanatory journalism” nonsense.  Turns out it is just a left-wing propaganda tool trying to spin instead of explain.
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Federal Judge Tells Women Lawyers Not To Dress Like ‘An Ignorant Slut’  —  Judge Richard Kopf, a George H.W. Bush appointee to a federal court in Nebraska, offered some strange advice to women litigators in a piece posted to his personal blog on Tuesday: don't wear clothing that would cause …
Wall Street Journal:
The Individual Mandate Goes Poof  —  The latest delays show that the supposed centerpiece of ObamaCare won't cause the uninsured to buy coverage.  —  One by one, the myths of the Affordable Care Act have been revealed.  When the curtain on open enrollment falls on March 31 …
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James Oliphant / The Atlantic Online:
Conservatives Are Taking the Gun Fight to Knives  —  This week, the Tennessee General Assembly repealed the state's long-standing ban on switchblades, or, as their purveyors like to call them “automatic knives.”  It was one more victory for the nascent knife-rights movement …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Mario Trujillo / The Hill:
Disapproval of Obama climbs to new high  —  Nearly six in 10 people disapprove of President Obama's job performance in a new poll by the Associated Press, the highest rating recorded by the newswire.  —  According to the AP-GFK survey released Wednesday, 59 percent disapprove of Obama's job performance while 41 percent approve.
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Hit & Run:
Economist Tyler Cowen Pepper Sprayed While Teaching Class at George Mason University  —  Economist, author, and George Mason University (GMU) professor Tyler Cowen was pepper sprayed in his classroom today by a man trying to place him under citizen's arrest.
Discussion: The Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Rand Paul builds 50-state network, courts mainstream support for presidential bid  —  Sen. Rand Paul has become the first Republican to assemble a network in all 50 states as a precursor to a 2016 presidential run, the latest sign that he is looking to build a more mainstream coalition …
Geoffrey Skelley / Sabato's Crystal Ball:
Putting Their Eggs in the Wrong Midterm Basket  —  Why Democrats' increased reliance on young voters may lead them to struggle in midterm elections in the near future  —  Barring significant changes in group voting habits, many commentators have argued that “The Coalition of the Ascendant” …
New York Times:
Giving Up on 4-Year-Olds  —  A new report released by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, examining the disciplinary practices of the country's 97,000 public schools, shows that excessively punitive policies are being used at every level of the public school system — even against 4-year-olds in preschool.
ThinkProgress:
Homeless Mother Gets Job Interview But Doesn't Have Childcare, Ends Up In Jail  —  CREDIT: Maricopa County Sheriff's Office  —  Shanesha Taylor, a woman from Scottsdale, Arizona, is homeless.  So when she got asked to come in for a job interview last Thursday, she must have been excited by the prospect.
Discussion: The Raw Story
PLOS ONE:
The Effect of Medical Marijuana Laws on Crime: Evidence from State Panel Data, 1990-2006  —  Abstract  —  Background  —  Debate has surrounded the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes for decades.  Some have argued medical marijuana legalization (MML) poses a threat to public health and safety …
Discussion: Firedoglake and Hit & Run
 
 
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Jonathan Zimmerman / Los Angeles Times:
Good for the Bushes and the Clintons, but not good for America
The Nation:
Remembering Jonathan Schell: 1943-2014
Discussion: The Agonist
Hartford Courant:
Minimum Wage Boost Wins Senate And House Approval
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Gothamist
Greg Botelho / CNN:
Charlotte mayor accused of bribery, extortion
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Secret Service incident in Netherlands was on heels of car wreck during Obama's Miami trip
Discussion: Riptide 2.0
epa.gov:
Waters of the United States
Discussion: ThinkProgress
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Gail Collins / New York Times:
The Season of the Twitch
Discussion: Althouse
Rich Lowry / Politico:
The Baghdad Bob of health insurance
David Ferguson / The Raw Story:
TN Tea Partiers freak out on TV reporter for covering their effort to block Muslim cemetery
Discussion: Murfreesboro Post and Unfogged
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Bombshell In WaPo/Keystone Scandal: Did the Post Coordinate With Congressional Democrats?
 

 
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