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6:45 AM ET, April 16, 2014

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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, kyivpost.com and Liberaland
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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
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.
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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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.
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 …
Discussion: Fox News, Business Insider and RedState
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
Bailey Elise McBride / Associated Press:
Fallin signs minimum wage hike ban in Oklahoma  —  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Cities across Oklahoma are now prohibited from establishing mandatory minimum wage or vacation and sick-day requirements under a bill signed into law Monday by Gov. Mary Fallin.  —  Supporters say the measure would prevent …
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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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 …
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 …
Deanreddington / CBS Boston:
Source: Bag Detonated In Boston Contained Rice Cooker, Confetti  —  BOSTON (CBS) - On the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing, Boylston Street was evacuated and two bags were detonated by the Bomb Squad near the finish line.  —  One of the bags was being carried by a barefoot man …
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 …
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
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
 
 
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Liam Neeson / New York Times:
Carriages Belong in Central Park
Discussion: Yahoo! News, Gothamist and Althouse
Michael Daly / The Daily Beast:
The Killer Klansman's Missing Years as a Federal Informant
Discussion: RT and Yahoo! News
Liam Fox / Wall Street Journal:
Snowden and His Accomplices  —  The former NSA contractor …
Margaret Carlson / Bloomberg View:
Hallelujah! It's Tax Day.
Discussion: National Review
CNN:
Major Dem group spending to help candidates in midterms
Discussion: Politico
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Hillary Clinton, Youth Candidate
Discussion: Mother Jones
Caroline Davies / Guardian:
North Koreans complain to London hairdresser about Kim Jong-un poster
Discussion: Mediaite and The Week
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Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
RNC Sues IRS Over Information Stonewalling on Targeting Scandal
Discussion: protein wisdom
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Obama chops 3 1/2 years off pot sentence
Discussion: CNN
Kate Kaye / AdAge:
Why Obama's Data Could Be Too Much for Many Dem Candidates
Discussion: The Reaction
RT:
Oligarchy, not democracy: Americans have ‘near-zero’ input on policy - report
Discussion: protein wisdom
Beth Reinhard / Wall Street Journal:
Mitt Romney Stars in Ad in Heated Idaho Primary
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Politico
 

 
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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia announces Blackwell, a new generation of AI chips available later in 2024, starting with the GB200 superchip, which pairs two B200 GPUs with a Grace CPU

Samuel Tolbert / Windows Central:
Valve debuts Steam Families in beta, allowing a group of up to six Steam users to share their games, manage parental controls, and more

Clare Duffy / CNN:
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