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2:54 AM ET, April 16, 2014

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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Census Survey Revisions Mask Health Law Effects  —  WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau, the authoritative source of health insurance data for more than three decades, is changing its annual survey so thoroughly that it will be difficult to measure the effects of President Obama's health care law …
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Sarah Kliff / Vox:
Don't freak out about the changes to the Census yet  —  The Census is overhauling the way it measures who has health insurance coverage.  The new measures show more people with coverage than the old measures.  The move, reported Tuesday by the New York Times, led to quick outcry …
Barbara Starr / CNN:
Video shows large al Qaeda meeting in Yemen  —  Washington (CNN) — A new video shows what looks like the largest and most dangerous gathering of al Qaeda in years.  And the CIA and the Pentagon either didn't know about it or couldn't get a drone there in time to strike.
Discussion: Politico and Ed Driscoll
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CNN:
U.S. right wing extremists more deadly than jihadists  —  Deadly shootings in Kansas City suburb … (CNN) — On Sunday, a man shot and killed a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and then drove to a nearby Jewish retirement community where he shot and killed a third person.
Orin Kerr / Washington Post:
Chemerinsky and Menkel-Meadow on curricular reform  —  In the New York Times, Erwin Chemerinsky and Carrie Menkel-Meadow offer a very sunny perspective on the current state of legal education.  At the end, they argue that what law schools really need these days is curricular innovation:
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Paul Campos / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
They wouldn't print it if it wasn't true
Discussion: Eschaton
New York Times:
Don't Skimp on Legal Training
Paul Lewis / Guardian:
Ukraine on the brink as troops take on rebels  —  Vladimir Putin denounces Kiev for mobilising forces against pro-Russian gunmen in east of country  —  Alec Luhn in Kramatorsk, Paul Lewis in Washington and Julian Borger  —  Ukrainian government forces launched their first significant military action …
Discussion: Infowars, Liberaland and kyivpost.com
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ThinkProgress:
Prominent Republican: Women Need To Be Paid Less So They Can Find Husbands  —  On Sunday, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sought to advance the GOP's rebranding effort among female voters by suggesting that Republicans have long “led the fight for women's equality.”
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Phyllis Schlafly / Christian News, The Christian Post:
Facts and Fallacies About Paycheck Fairness
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Schlafly: Increase The Pay Gap So Women Will Have Better Opportunities To Find A Husband
Discussion: Liberaland and The Raw Story
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Matt Taibbi: ‘Hands Down’ Bush Was Tougher On Corporate America Than Obama (VIDEO)  —  Muckraking polemicist Matt Taibbi said that when it comes to the last two presidents, there's no question who did a better job of holding America's tycoons accountable.  —  The former Rolling Stone writer …
Discussion: The Daily Banter
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Democracy Now:
Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on American Injustice Gap from Wall Street to Main Street
Discussion: The Week
New York Times:
New York Drops Unit That Spied on Muslims  —  The New York Police Department has abandoned a secretive program that dispatched plainclothes detectives into Muslim neighborhoods to eavesdrop on conversations and built detailed files on where people ate, prayed and shopped, the department said.
RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Rory Reid: Rancher Cliven Bundy “Should Be Prosecuted”  —  RORY REID, SON OF SEN. HARRY REID: We believe in a country in which we are subject to laws and you can't just ignore the laws we don't like.  I think clearly if state and local prosecutors look at this more closely …
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My News 4:
Sen. Reid on Cattle Battle: “It's not over”
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Bloomberg Plans a $50 Million Challenge to the N.R.A.  —  Michael R. Bloomberg, making his first major political investment since leaving office, plans to spend $50 million this year building a nationwide grass-roots network to motivate voters who feel strongly about curbing gun violence …
Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Rumsfeld Has ‘Absolutely No Idea’ If He Filed His Taxes Correctly  —  Donald Rumsfeld got his taxes filed in time.  Just don't ask him if they were done correctly.  —  In a letter sent Tuesday to the Internal Revenue Service, Rumsfeld said he has “absolutely no idea” whether his family's tax returns …
UO Matters:
UO law school prof angry about plan to use his raise for student fellowships  —  4/14/2014: Several members of the law school email lists (which included staff, secretaries etc.) have forwarded these two emails from professor Rob Illig (Law) about a plan apparently floated by Law Dean Michael Moffitt …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Mississippi GOP Senate Candidate Wrote Race-Baiting Blog Posts  —  Mississippi Sen. Chris McDaniel is challenging incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran in the GOP primary.  —  Jonathan Bachman / Reuters  —  A leading Republican candidate for Senate in Mississippi wrote blog posts criticizing poor people affected …
Philip Elliott / Associated Press:
Democrats Have Outside Money Advantage - for Now  —  Deep-pocketed donors are turning over multimillion-dollar checks to influence November's elections, and the sums raised by the national parties and their super PAC allies are already approaching the $1 billion mark, according to financial reports still being filed Tuesday evening.
Discussion: Power Line and Politico
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Hillary Clinton, Youth Candidate  —  Our old colleague Patrick Caldwell has an interesting article up at Mother Jones about the way the Hillary Clinton campaign—or whatever we can call it at this point, since it isn't actually a campaign but it isn't exactly just a bunch of independent people doing …
Discussion: Mother Jones
CNN:
Major Dem group spending to help candidates in midterms  —  (CNN) - Priorities USA Action announced Tuesday it had contributed more than $500,000 in the first quarter of 2014 to help Democrats gear-up for November's midterm elections.  —  The news came as the top Democratic group announced its first quarter fundraising numbers.
Discussion: Politico
Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg View:
Hallelujah!  It's Tax Day.  —  Happy Tax Day, when just getting the forms filled out and mailed is cause for celebration.  —  One person not celebrating is former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner.  She was a regular green eyeshade employee carrying out thankless tasks until …
Discussion: National Review
Sarah Desprat / Twitchy:
‘Damned lunatic’: Brainless Joe Biden tells survivors that Boston bombing ‘was worth it’ [video]  —  No. No no no. He wouldn't've.  He couldn't've!  —  Except he totally did: … How do you solve a problem like Joe Biden?  Start by taking away his microphone (see 0:40 mark):  —  What.  The.
Discussion: Ed Driscoll
Bruce Smith / Associated Press:
Sen. Ted Cruz: Too Early to Worry About 2016  —  Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says it's too early to be thinking about 2016 and that he's working right now to make sure his party regains control of the Senate this year.  —  Cruz is visiting South Carolina, which hosts the first GOP presidential primary in the South.
Discussion: Politico
Bob Nightengale / USA Today:
As MLB honors Jackie Robinson, can it reverse a trend?  —  Just when we want to believe that times are changing, and prejudice is waning, along comes a ferocious reminder like a Manny Pacquiao punch to the jaw.  —  Sheer racism, exposed in vile letters directed to Hall of Fame great Hank Aaron …
 
 
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Liam Fox / Wall Street Journal:
Snowden and His Accomplices  —  The former NSA contractor …
Brendan Sasso / NationalJournal.com:
Google Knew About Heartbleed and Didn't Tell the Government
Discussion: RT, ProPublica and Techdirt
Caroline Davies / Guardian:
North Koreans complain to London hairdresser about Kim Jong-un poster
Discussion: Mediaite and The Week
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
RNC Sues IRS Over Information Stonewalling on Targeting Scandal
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama chops 3 1/2 years off pot sentence
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Kate Kaye / AdAge:
Why Obama's Data Could Be Too Much for Many Dem Candidates
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RT:
Oligarchy, not democracy: Americans have ‘near-zero’ input on policy - report
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