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8:50 AM ET, April 7, 2015

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Chip Somodevilla / National Review:
Rand Paul Is Running for the Republican Nomination, So Now the Party Is Ready to Attack Him  —  Welcome to the big leagues.  That's the message several top GOP operatives say Rand Paul will get from the Republican establishment, and from the media, when he announces his candidacy for the presidency on Tuesday.
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Rand Paul readies 2016 launch  —  The Kentucky senator plans to run as ‘a different kind of Republican.’ And a different kind of Paul.  —  LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After watching his father try for the presidency and fail three separate times, Rand Paul is poised Tuesday to embark on his own White House bid …
Politico:
Rand Paul's decisive moment was 4 years coming
Tim Alberta / National Journal:
Rand Paul Taps House GOP's Troublemakers to Boost 2016 Campaign
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Daily Kos
Eyder Peralta / NPR:
Obama: ‘Misjudgment’ To Make Iran Deal Contingent On Recognizing Israel  —  President Obama says it would be a “fundamental misjudgment” to condition a nuclear deal with Iran on the country's recognition of Israel.  —  Obama made the comments Monday during an interview with Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep.
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Domenico Montanaro / NPR:
Obama To Scott Walker: ‘Bone Up On Foreign Policy’  —  Anyone who thinks President Obama will shy away from presidential politics in 2016, think again.  —  Obama scoffed at Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's suggestion that he would, on Day 1, revoke any nuclear agreement with Iran if he is elected president.
Josh Rogin / Bloomberg View:
Rick Perry's Plan to Kill Obama's Iran Deal
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
What's the Alternative to Obama's Iran Deal?
Discussion: CNN
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Chuck Schumer bucks White House on Iran  —  The top Democrat throws his weight behind legislation to give Congress power to reject a deal.  —  Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer, one of Capitol Hill's most influential voices in the Iran nuclear debate, is strongly endorsing passage of a law opposed …
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Nick Gass / Politico:
‘Bees are good,’ Obama says as children scream  —  It might have been the White House Easter Egg Roll, but it was bees — not bunnies — that stole the show on Monday.  —  As President Barack Obama started reading Maurice Sendak's “Where the Wild Things Are” during the annual Easter Egg Roll event …
Erin Dooley / ABC News:
White House Easter Egg Roll's 3 Unspeakably Cute Moments
Discussion: The Hill
Dustin Volz / National Journal:
Watch John Oliver Interview Edward Snowden About the NSA Spying on Your Nude Photos  —  “When your junk was passed by Gmail, the NSA caught a copy of that,” the fugitive leaker tells the HBO host.  —  Government surveillance is a confusing, jargon-laced topic that many Americans can find difficult to care about.
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Liberaland
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Bucky Turco / ANIMAL:
There's a Massive, Illicit Bust of Edward Snowden Stuck to a War Monument in Brooklyn
Kelly O'Donnell / NBC News:
John McCain Will Run for Re-Election to the Senate in 2016  —  John McCain is ready for a new fight.  —  “I have decided to run for re-election,” the Arizona senator told NBC News in an exclusive interview revealing his plans to pursue a sixth term on Capitol Hill.  “I'm ready.  I am more than ready.
Isabella Biedenharn / EW.com:
HUGO AWARD NOMINATIONS FALL VICTIM TO MISOGYNISTIC, RACIST VOTING CAMPAIGN  —  The Hugo Awards have fallen victim to a campaign in which misogynist groups lobbied to nominate only white males for the science fiction book awards.  These groups, Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies …
Megan McArdle / Bloomberg View:
Rolling Stone Can't Even Apologize Right  —  Rolling Stone got taken by a fabulist.  —  Sunday night, the Columbia Journalism Review released its exhaustive report on what went wrong with the magazine's blockbuster story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity that turned out to be substantially false.
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Larry O'Dell / Associated Press:
FRATERNITY PURSUING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST ROLLING STONE
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Bill would pay gun owners to hand over assault weapons  —  Gun owners would receive tax breaks for voluntarily turning in high-powered assault rifles under new legislation proposed Monday.  —  The Support Assault Firearm Elimination and Education of our (SAFER) Streets Act expected …
Discussion: Instapundit
Vanity Fair:
The Inside Story of the Civil War For the Soul of NBC News  —  Brian Williams's fabrication was just the latest, and worst, of the debacles that have plagued NBC News since NBCUniversal was bought by Comcast in 2011.  Who is to blame?  —  On the afternoon of Wednesday, February 4 …
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Michael Savage: Obama Is Inciting ‘The White Man’ To Revolt  —  On the Friday edition of “Savage Nation,” right-wing talk show host Michael Savage said that President Obama is trying to destroy America by bringing “Third World haters” into the country and provoking white people to revolt against the government.
Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:
Facts matter: Left sticks to ‘narratives,’ evidence be damned  —  Ellen Pao unsuccessfully filed a discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.  —  The verdict's in on Rolling Stone.  According to no less an authority than the Columbia Journalism Review …
Discussion: Brad R. Torgersen
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Bill O'Reilly: ‘I Think I Trust Iran More Than I Trust the American Press’  —  Bill O'Reilly really doesn't trust the American mainstream media; so much so, he said tonight, that he actually might trust Iran more than he does the press.  —  O'Reilly and Brit Hume were talking …
WIS-TV:
Attorney, former SC GOP executive director due in court on CDV complaint  —  The former executive director of the South Carolina Republican Party is expected in court Tuesday morning to face a criminal domestic violence charge.  —  James John Todd Kincannon, 33, was arrested and booked …
David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
Why Can't the Left Unseat Rahm Emanuel?  —  After years of his tiresome shtick—the bullying, the profanity, the glorified tough-guy act, and most of all the centrist corporatism—Rahm Emanuel was getting his due, and the progressive wing of the Democratic Party was elated.
Discussion: New York Times
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Ron Litke / Haaretz:
Rahm Emanuel pulls out the ‘Jewish card’ in Chicago mayoral race
Discussion: VodkaPundit and naked capitalism
 
 
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Sally Kohn / Talking Points Memo:
Hey, Christian Business Owners: The Government Isn't ‘Forcing’ You To Do Anything
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Right-Wing Pundit: America Under ‘Sodomy Law’
Discussion: FOX News Radio, Joe. My. God. and WND
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Rick Santorum: ‘Rise Up’ Before Liberals Destroy Freedom
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Henry Brean / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Man who killed himself at M Resort had been kicked out for harassing employees
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Leslie Larson / Business Insider:
Ben Carson blasts hip-hop for hurting African-American communities
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Chicago Tribune:
Teen killed in police shooting in Zion had just stolen gun: police
Discussion: Daily Kos, CBS Chicago and NPR
 Earlier Items: 
Candace Taylor / Wall Street Journal:
Brooklyn's Priciest Condo Listed for $32 Million
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Michael Allen / OpposingViews.com:
Teacher Accused Of Saying Parents Aren't Christians If They Voted For Obama (Video)
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Nick Valencia / CNN:
‘Things got worse and worse’
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and NPR
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Dems: Immigration actions are legal
Discussion: National Review
James MacPherson / Associated Press:
North Dakota Governor Issues Memo Barring Gay Discrimination
Discussion: Joe. My. God.