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3:15 PM ET, May 21, 2014

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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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Jay Michaelson / The Daily Beast:
Pennsylvania. Oregon. Is Gay Marriage Unstoppable?
The Hill:
Vet scandal rocks Obama  —  The White House tried Tuesday to douse flames of criticism over allegations that dozens of veterans have died because of gross mismanagement at Veterans Affairs hospitals.  —  President Obama's chief of staff, Denis McDonough, met frustrated Democrats on Capitol Hill …
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Mary Bruce / ABC News:
Obama on Allegations of VA Misconduct: ‘I Will Not Stand for It’ … President Obama today said he “will not stand” for misconduct at the Veterans Affairs Department and vowed that those responsible for allegedly covering up long delays in veteran care would be held accountable if the charges prove to be true.
Discussion: Firedoglake, Politico and CNN
New York Times:
Obama Vows a Forceful Response to Veteran Care Issues
Discussion: Hot Air
Jonathan S. Tobin / Commentary Magazine:
When a President Learns Everything on TV
Discussion: RedState and Ed Driscoll
Martin Matishak / The Hill:
Amid scandal, embattled VA chief visits Capitol
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Thunder Down Ballot  —  In one more observation about the Georgia primary, some interesting things happened in GOP U.S. House races.  One of the most common Twitter-memes early last night was that no matter who won the ultimate Senate prize, Congress would be rid of Paul Broun and Phil Gingrey …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:   Narrow Path to Senate for Michelle Nunn in Georgia
James Hohmann / Politico:
2014 primary election results: Establishment, self-funders win big in primaries
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 …
Bluegrass Politics:
Mitch McConnell challenges Alison Lundergan Grimes to three debates  —  By Sam Youngman syoungman@herald-leader.com U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, fresh off his primary win against challenger Matt Bevin, is challenging Democratic nominee Alison Lundergan Grimes to three debates.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Payback: GOP incumbents learn how to win
CNN:   Boehner: Tea party and GOP aren't that different
Marc Caputo / Naked Politics:
Joe Garcia gets in America Rising's crosshairs (again) with ‘Communism works’ line  —  Beware, Joe Garcia, America Rising PAC is watching.  —  When the Democratic Miami Congressman appeared to eat earwax during a committee hearing (he didn't, he says), the political action committee was quick to catch it and post the video.
Discussion: Hit & Run, Mediaite and The Shark Tank
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Brendan Bordelon / The Daily Caller:
Dem Congressman: 'We've Proved That Communism Works'
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Team Romney Thinks It's Winning The GOP Civil War  —  Mitt's biggest fans celebrate the triumph of Romney Republicanism in Pennsylvania, Oregon, and Idaho.  “The Romney brand has had a real resurgence,” says O'Brien.  —  Steve Marcus / Reuters / Reuters  —  For the small orbit of friends …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and The Week
Jim Finkle / Reuters:
U.S. utility's control system was hacked, says Homeland Security  —  (Reuters) - A sophisticated hacking group recently attacked a U.S. public utility and compromised its control system network, but there was no evidence that the utility's operations were affected, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Discussion: The Hill and The Verge
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Jerry Markon / Washington Post:
Planned Homeland Security headquarters, long delayed and over budget, now in doubt
Discussion: Prairie Weather and Balloon Juice
Joseph Shapiro / NPR:
Supreme Court Ruling Not Enough To Prevent Debtors' Prisons … Debtors' prisons were outlawed in the United States nearly 200 years ago.  And more than 30 years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear: Judges cannot send someone to jail just because they are too poor to pay their court fines.
ebay inc:
eBay Inc. To Ask eBay Users To Change Passwords  —  eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) said beginning later today it will be asking eBay users to change their passwords because of a cyberattack that compromised a database containing encrypted passwords and other non-financial data.
Adam Weinstein / Gawker:
AP Editor Accidentally Adds Her Buzzfeed Cover Letter to Photo Caption  —  2,884g  —  Job-hunting at work is dangerous.  Online multitasking is dangerous.  Online multitasking your work with your job hunt is deadly.  Just ask this Associated Press photo editor.
Eli Lake / The Daily Beast:
‘Over My Dead Body’: Spies Fight Obama Push to Downsize Terror War  —  The Obama administration concluded in 2012 that al Qaeda posed no direct threat to the U.S.—and has sought to scale back the fight ever since, over intel officials' rising objections.  —  In 2012, the Obama administration produced …
Discussion: NewsBusters and CANNONFIRE
Robert Mackey / New York Times:
Young Iranians Arrested for Being Too ‘Happy in Tehran’  —  Just days after Iran's president denounced Internet censorship as “cowardly,” six young Iranians were arrested and forced to repent on state television Tuesday for the grievous offense of proclaiming themselves to be “Happy in Tehran …
Kevin Poulsen / Wired:
Snowden's First Move Against the NSA Was a Party in Hawaii  —  It was December 11, 2012, and in a small art space behind a furniture store in Honolulu, NSA contractor Edward Snowden was working to subvert the machinery of global surveillance.  —  Snowden was not yet famous.
Discussion: Techdirt and Poynter
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Extraordinary Elite Delusions and the Madness of Commissions  —  Sorry about slow posting — I've been busy both giving talks at Oxford and grading final papers from Princeton.  But I did want to weigh in on this Matt O'Brien piece on the problems or lack thereof with democracy.
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:
Taxing a Professor's Privilege  —  I've been reading Thomas Piketty's “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.”  You'll have to wait on my thoughts on the book until they're a bit more fully formed.  As I've been reading, though, I keep returning to a question I heard at an economics conference …
Discussion: Althouse
Noam N. Levey / Los Angeles Times:
Federal funds earmarked to offset Affordable Care Act insurer losses  —  The Obama administration has quietly adjusted key provisions of its signature healthcare law to potentially make billions of additional taxpayer dollars available to the insurance industry if companies providing coverage through the Affordable Care Act lose money.
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Lydia DePillis / Washington Post:
How to get people saving in America again? Obamacare for retirement accounts.
Discussion: protein wisdom
 
 
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ThinkProgress:
The Untold Story Of What Happened At An Overcrowded West Virginia Jail After The Chemical Spill
Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
Get Ready for a National Debate About Slavery Reparations
Charles Levinson / Wall Street Journal:
FBI Weighs Looser Pot Rules for New Hires
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Alexander Burns / Politico:
Chamber of Commerce funnels $100K to back Thad Cochran
Discussion: The Hill and Washington Post
Josh Kraushaar / NationalJournal.com:
The Clinton Magic Fades in Philadelphia
Discussion: CNN, msnbc.com and Washington Post
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Glass Ceiling  —  With Republicans trying to shake …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice and KPTV-TV
Mitch McConnell / Salon:
GOP's quiet election scandal: What Tuesday's results really mean for workers
 Earlier Items: 
Sahil Kapur / Talking Points Memo:
Pelosi ‘Leaning Toward’ Full Participation In New Benghazi Probe
Discussion: Daily Kos
RIA Novosti / RT:
Russia and China seal historic $400bn gas deal
ThinkProgress:
How South Florida Is Ignoring The State's Leading Politicians And Taking On Climate Change
Uzi Baruch / Arutz Sheva:
The Price of Oslo - 933 Billion Shekels and Counting
Discussion: Israpundit and Israel Matzav
Dick Morris / The Hill:
Turn up the heat on Clinton
Julieta Chiquillo / Dallas Morning News:
$60M Allen football stadium deemed ‘not safe,’ will close this season
 

 
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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