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2:40 PM ET, April 25, 2014

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ThinkProgress:
Cliven Bundy Says If People Thought His Comments Were Racist, It's MLK's Fault  —  Cliven Bundy, the embattled rancher who revealed himself this week to be not just a critic of the government, but also a blatant racist, dug himself further into a hole Friday morning by saying that Martin Luther King …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Bundy's Black Bodyguard: ‘I Would Take A Bullet For That Man’ (VIDEO)  —  One of the supporters serving as a bodyguard for Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy during his standoff with federal authorities — and who also happens to be black — said he would still “take a bullet for” Bundy after the rancher made racially inflammatory comments.
Discussion: Mediaite
Paul Begala / CNN:
Conservative hero is racist rancher? Didn't see that one coming
John Boel / WAVE-TV:
EXCLUSIVE: Politicians at cockfighting rally caught on video  —  LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - It's part of Kentucky's landscape, even when it's not readily visible.  This part is hidden in a Henry County valley behind the trees by Lake Jericho.  —  It features sprawling farms that raise chickens, but not the kind you eat.
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Mitch McConnell: Matt Bevin lied on cockfighting  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell accused his primary challenger Friday of lying about his participation at a cockfighting rally, citing a local news report that shows Bevin being asked directly about cockfighting.
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Why Elizabeth Warren should run for president  —  BARACK OBAMA JOE BIDEN HILLARY CLINTON 2016 ELECTIONS CAMPAIGNS ELIZABETH WARREN  —  Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is starting a publicity tour for her new campaign-style book, A Fighting Chance.  As she talks to the press …
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Eleanor Clift / The Daily Beast:
How a Kids Program Hillary Brought to Arkansas Could Unite Democrats
Discussion: Yahoo! News
CNN:
2016: A Bush-Clinton rematch?
Discussion: OnPolitics
Sheila McLaughlin / Cincinnati.com:
Boehner mocks colleagues on Congress over immigration reform  —  House Speaker John Boehner theatrically mocked his fellow Republican Congressmen for being afraid to reform immigration policy when he spoke Thursday before the Middletown Rotary Club.  —  CONNECT
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Ashley Parker / New York Times:
Democratic Candidates Grow More Vocal in Supporting Health Law
Bill Ruthhart / Chicago Tribune:
Emails show Emanuel aides, producers coordinated CNN ‘Chicagoland’ scenes  —  If it seemed as though some scenes of CNN's documentary series “Chicagoland” were coordinated by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's City Hall and the show's producers, that's because they were.
The Hill:
Issa questions role of Holder's DOJ in targeting of Tea Party groups  —  House Republicans on Thursday broadened their investigation into the IRS's improper targeting of conservative groups, questioning whether the Justice Department might have played a role.
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Michael Tomasky / The Daily Beast:   Republicans Are Racists? No, It's Just All a Big Coincidence
Salon:
Republican monsters duke it out: The coming “Plutocrats vs. Tea Party” cage match
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
The Piketty Panic  —  “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the new book by the French economist Thomas Piketty, is a bona fide phenomenon.  Other books on economics have been best sellers, but Mr. Piketty's contribution is serious, discourse-changing scholarship in a way most best sellers aren't.
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Eric Alterman / The Nation:   A brilliant book has named the problem of our time. But will anything change?
Darren Samuelsohn / Politico:
Al Gore is not giving up  —  A rare, frank conversation with the former vice president and climate-change activist.  —  Al Gore is richer and skinnier than ever, 14 years out of the White House, a tech titan with elder statesman clout, whose disdain for politics in the capital where he lived …
Mike Hayes / BuzzFeed:
Bloomberg Group Foots Bill To Send Hundreds Of Gun Reform Activists To NRA Convention  —  When Michael Bloomberg announced he would spend $50 million on gun control this year, he said he hoped to make the National Rifle Association “afraid.”  This weekend, the Bloomberg-backed group Everytown …
Discussion: USA Today and National Review
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
What We Talk About When We Talk About Talking About Race  —  Deep inside the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision lies a fight about how we speak about race in America.  —  Is it OK if we talk about race for a minute?  —  The U.S. Supreme Court's decision this week in Schuette v. Coalition …
Nicholas Confessore / New York Times:
Rand Paul and Wealthy Libertarians Connect as He Weighs Running  —  Frayda Levin, a New Jersey libertarian activist and former small-business owner, is a woman of many passions: promoting liberty, ending marijuana prohibition and opposing her state's recent minimum-wage increase.
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Oligarchy in the Twenty-First Century  —  “To see what is in front of one's nose,” George Orwell famously wrote, “needs a constant struggle.”  In front of my nose as I write this is a copy of last Sunday's New York Times.  I have opened it to the business section.
 
 
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Clinton calls Benghazi terror attack ‘biggest regret’ on her watch
Discussion: American Spectator
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
Wretched Reid  —  It seems to me that with Senate Majority …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Fox News
New York Times:
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Dumb bank robber leaves note with his name
Washington Post:
Low-level federal judges balking at law enforcement requests for electronic evidence
Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Attorney Issues Subpoena to Committee Probing George Washington Bridge Scandal
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Lindsey Graham foe: Children-loving women cause divorces
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Jerusalem Post:
Report: Netanyahu agreed to talk borders, settlement freeze prior to Hamas-Fatah deal
Discussion: Israel Matzav and Israpundit
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Son: George H.W. Bush wants Jeb to run
Discussion: The Right Scoop
Kelly Riddell / Washington Times:
Holder cancels appearance in OKC amid angry protests