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Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Same-Sex Marriage Support Reaches New High at 55%  —  Nearly eight in 10 young adults favor gay marriage  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans' support for the law recognizing same-sex marriages as legally valid has increased yet again, now at 55%.  Marriage equality advocates have had a string …
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
Gallup: Support For Same-Sex Marriage At All-Time High  —  Americans' support for same-sex marriage is at a new high of 55 percent, according to a new Gallup poll.  —  The poll released Wednesday found support for recognizing same-sex marriage as legal has edged up two points since 2012 …
Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:   Pennsylvania. Oregon. Is Gay Marriage Unstoppable?
Otto Kitsinger / Associated Press:
Federal Appeals Court Puts Same-Sex Marriage On Hold In Idaho
David Weigel / Slate:
Rick Santorum Endorsed the Judge Who Just Legalized Gay Marriage in Pennsylvania
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Amid scandal, embattled VA chief visits Capitol  —  Embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday visited the leaders of the House Appropriations Committee.  —  The meeting with House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) …
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
President Obama, Eric Shinseki to meet on VA  —  President Barack Obama will meet with Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki and deputy chief of staff Rob Nabors on Wednesday at 10 a.m., according to the White House.  —  A White House news release said the president will meet …
Discussion: CNN
The Hill:
Vet scandal rocks Obama
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
When a President Learns Everything on TV
Discussion: Ed Driscoll and Mediaite
New York Times:
V.A. Accusations Aggravate Woes of White House
James Hohmann / Politico:
2014 primary election results: Establishment, self-funders win big in primaries  —  Tuesday night was great for incumbents, the GOP establishment and self-funders.  —  It was not so great a night to be a Clinton in-law.  —  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell defeated his GOP challenger …
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Payback time: GOP incumbents learn how to win  —  In 2014, the tea party insurrection is starting to look more like the Boston massacre.  —  In state after state this primary season, entrenched politicians are proving that incumbency counts for something after all, leveraging the stature …
Discussion: The Huffington Post
CNN:
Boehner: Tea party and GOP aren't that different  —  (CNN) - House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday the tea party and conservative Republicans are basically one in the same.  —  As establishment Republican candidates try to fend off a series of tea party challengers in Tuesday's midterm primaries …
Carl Willis / WSB-TV:
School district apologizes over yearbook quote incident  —  Sponsored Links  —  CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. —  UPDATE: Paris Gray and her family met with the school's principal and the area superintendent on Tuesday.  They apologized for the miscommunication and said they would not deny her giving a speech at graduation.
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James Hamblin / The Atlantic Online:
The Chemistry Joke That Got a Student Suspended  —  Paris Gray, upstanding vice president of her about-to-graduate high-school class in Jonesboro, Georgia, was suspended last Friday when administrators figured out what her yearbook quote meant.  It read:
Discussion: The Other McCain
ThinkProgress:
How South Florida Is Ignoring The State's Leading Politicians And Taking On Climate Change  —  Susanne Torriente remembers waking up on Thanksgiving morning in 2012 and discovering that four blocks of Florida's main coastal highway had washed away overnight.
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ThinkProgress:
Biggest Loser: Thawing Greenland Competes With Collapsing Antarctic For Fastest Ice Loss  —  Several new studies underscore scientists' concerns we're headed toward a coastline at least this flooded (20 meters or 69 feet) over many hundreds of years:  —  The worst-case scenario for sea level rise …
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Harry Reid optimistic on David Barron  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) signaled Tuesday that a controversial judicial nominee from the Obama administration is likely to win eventual confirmation from the Senate.  —  The nominee, David Barron, has drawn some criticism and scrutiny …
Discussion: The Hill and CNN
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
The Sequel To Rand Paul's Epic Filibuster Is Happening Tomorrow
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Turn up the heat on Clinton  —  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has characterized her place in history as akin to a runner in a relay race: taking the baton, running her laps as best she can, and then handing it off to John Kerry, her successor.  —  But the actual record indicates that …
Uzi Baruch / Arutz Sheva:
The Price of Oslo - 933 Billion Shekels and Counting  —  Victim of bus bomb, Jerusalem, 2003.  —  Flash 90  —  The failed attempt at regional peacemaking known as the Oslo Process has cost the state of Israel over 900 billion shekels - more than $250 billion - since 1993, and the costs keeps rising …
Discussion: Israpundit and Israel Matzav
Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Planned Homeland Security headquarters, long delayed and over budget, now in doubt  —  The construction of a massive new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security, billed as critical for national security and the revitalization of Southeast Washington, is running more than $1.5 billion over budget …
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice
Bill Barrow / Associated Press:
Ga., Ky. Primaries: Lots of Attention, Few Votes  —  A relatively small slice of the electorate will participate in Republican primaries in Georgia and Kentucky, despite international attention and eye-popping sums of money heaped on races that will help determine which party controls …
Discussion: CNN
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Bloomberg:
Businesses Turn Out Workers' Votes to Stomp Tea Party
Discussion: Washington Post
RIA Novosti / RT:
Russia and China seal historic $400bn gas deal  —  After 10 years of negotiations, Russia's Gazprom and China's CNPC have finally signed a historic gas deal which will provide the world's fastest growing economy with the natural gas it needs to keep pace for the next 30 years.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
WTF?  —  I'm not sure why this isn't a bigger deal.  I hadn't heard about it other than in this brief passage tucked away in a Politico article about the House GOP agriculture bill.  But it takes a small program intended provide meals to children in the school lunch program during …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Balloon Juice
Jennifer Robison / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Nevada will dump Xerox as health insurance exchange contractor  —  The Silver State Health Insurance Exchange board voted unanimously Tuesday to end its relationship with Xerox, the vendor contracted in 2012 to build the exchange's Nevada Health Link website.
Discussion: ACASignups.net, Hot Air and Twitchy
 
 
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William A. Jacobson / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
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Ladar Levison / Guardian:
Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
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Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Does Hillary Owe It to Democrats to Run?
Julieta Chiquillo / Dallas Morning News:
$60M Allen football stadium deemed ‘not safe,’ will close this season
David Undercoffler / Los Angeles Times:
GM issues more recalls, this time for 2.42 million vehicles
David Zurawik / Baltimore Sun:
‘House of Cards’ looking for NSA director, senators, reporters
Discussion: Politico and The Hill
Kate Tummarello / The Hill:
NSA reform legislation ‘watered down’?
Discussion: Hullabaloo
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Brian Stelter / CNN:
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Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
CNN President: We Won't Be ‘Shamed’ Into Covering Benghazi
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The next big fight over the safety net
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