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Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Limits on Federal Campaign Contributions — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued a major campaign finance decision, striking down limits on federal campaign contributions for the first time. The ruling, issued near the start of a campaign season …
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Supreme Court lifts ban on aggregate campaign donations — The decision represents another step toward easing decades-old restrictions on political contributions that were designed to combat corruption — WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court took another step Wednesday toward giving wealthy donors …
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PoliticusUSA, Liberaland, The Daily Caller and Joe. My. God.
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Democrats bash SCOTUS ruling — Democratic lawmakers and campaign finance reform advocates quickly bashed Wednesday's Supreme Court decision to strike down total limits on individual campaign contributions, warning of future corruption in elections. — Meanwhile, Republicans largely cheered …
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Weasel Zippers, Twitchy, The PJ Tatler and Hot Air
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Opinion analysis: Freeing more political money
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Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Supreme Court Deals Another Blow To Campaign Finance Limits
Supreme Court Deals Another Blow To Campaign Finance Limits
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Little Green Footballs, GovBeat and The Daily Banter
CBS News:
Supreme Court strikes down overall campaign contribution cap
Supreme Court strikes down overall campaign contribution cap
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Sean Sullivan / The Fix:
Everything you need to know about McCutcheon v. FEC
Everything you need to know about McCutcheon v. FEC
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thenation.com/blogs/163253, American Prospect, Washington Post, The Plum Line, Guardian, Post Politics, Hot Air and Mediaite
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Obamacare critics: Homina, homina, homina — Back in the fall, conservatives seized on the flubbed Obamacare rollout as proof that President Barack Obama's brand of liberalism doesn't work. — Now, the law's opponents aren't about to say that critique was wrong — but they've lost the best evidence they had.
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No More Mister Nice Blog and alicublog
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Jason Millman / Wonkblog:
Here's why it doesn't matter that 7M signed up for Obamacare
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Conservatives Discover That Obamacare Will Help A Lot Of People
Conservatives Discover That Obamacare Will Help A Lot Of People
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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
My Own Final Four Bracket For America's Future — Holy Moly! Are you kidding? You'd think one who is representing the mighty Badgers, who made it to the Final Four based on sacrificial work ethic and discipline that obviously pays off in the end, he who represents the great state …
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Michael Patrick Leahy / BREITBART.COM:
TEA PARTY: PAUL RYAN'S NEW BUDGET A WORK OF APRIL FOOL'S DAY FICTION
TEA PARTY: PAUL RYAN'S NEW BUDGET A WORK OF APRIL FOOL'S DAY FICTION
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The Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
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GOP gets O-Care angst — Anxious Senate Republicans are worried party leaders are focusing too much this election year on ObamaCare and not enough on jobs and the economy. — The concern among GOP centrists comes as President Obama and congressional Democrats are crowing about a surge …
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Penn investigates wild women's lacrosse party at Fado — The University of Pennsylvania has launched an investigation after members of the women's lacrosse team allegedly damaged Fado Irish Pub in Center City during a wild party Saturday night. — “We have been made aware of the allegations by Fado …
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David Remnick / News Desk:
Putin's Nightingales — When she was very young, the Moscow-based journalist Ulyana Skoibeda read a biography of Margaret Mitchell. “Gone with the Wind” has always been popular in Russia. The detail that stuck in her memory was that Mitchell, a native of Atlanta, Georgia …
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Jeffrey Tayler / The Atlantic Online:
10 Tough Questions Obama Needs to Answer on Ukraine
10 Tough Questions Obama Needs to Answer on Ukraine
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Release Detail — April 2, 2014 - Obama Approval Inches Up, Tied With Putin As Leader, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Voters Say Putin Is Not Hitler, But Fear Military Action — Watch Video: Assistant Director Tim Malloy discusses poll results
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UPS Fires 250 Drivers After They Protested A Coworker's Firing — Two hundred fifty employees of the United Parcel Service (UPS) walked off the job for 90 minutes in February to protest the firing of one of their coworkers, Jairo Reyes. Reyes had driven for the company for over 20 years …
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Ortiz selfie with Obama a home run for Samsung — Staged selfies might be the name of the game. — It started at the Oscars with Ellen DeGeneres's epic picture of celebrities and now it appears David Ortiz himself may be in on the action. — Samsung confirmed that it had helped Ortiz take Tuesday's selfie with President Obama.
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Politico, The Daily Caller, Business Insider and The Week
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Exclusive: Watch Donald Rumsfeld Lie About Saddam Hussein, al-Qaeda, and 9/11 — In a new doc, the former Defense Secretary says he never meant to imply that Saddam was behind 9/11—despite the implications that the Iraqi dictator and al-Qaeda were in cahoots.
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The Moderate Voice, Liberaland, The Raw Story and Business Insider
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Dear Mr. Colbert: Me so stupid. You so funny! — Dear Mr. Colbert: Me so stupid. You so funny! — by Michelle Malkin — Creators Syndicate — Question: Who are the most prominent, public purveyors of Asian stereotypes and ethnic language-mocking in America?
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The Other McCain, American Spectator, Mediaite and American Power
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America's New Drug Policy Landscape — Two-Thirds Favor Treatment, Not Jail, for Use of Heroin, Cocaine — The public appears ready for a truce in the long-running war on drugs. A national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that 67% of Americans say that the government should focus …
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ThinkProgress, Firedoglake, Wonkblog and Hit & Run
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Newly Enrolled, but Not Counted by Insurance Exchanges — Millions of newly insured people are hiding in plain sight. — They are the people who have bought new health insurance since the start of this year but have chosen for one reason or another to bypass the state and federal exchanges …
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Politico, Daily Kos, News Desk, Mediaite and ACASignups.net
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Amazon announces $99 Fire TV set-top box, available now — Apple and Roku have a new competitor in the living room. Amazon just announced its own video streaming device: the $99 Amazon Fire TV. It starts shipping today. “We need to invent and simplify on behalf of customers,” said Amazon's Peter Larsen.
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