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6:50 PM ET, April 7, 2015

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McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Black Pastor Who Spoke At Rand Paul's Rally: Obama Will “Evolve” From Christianity  —  “In five years we'll find out what [Obama's] real religion is.”  —  MICHAEL B. THOMAS / Getty  —  LOUISVILLE, Kentucky — One of the high points from Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign kickoff Tuesday came …
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Rand Paul: ‘I am running for president’  —  Louisville, Kentucky (CNN)For Rand Paul, it's all led to this moment.  —  Since riding the tea party wave into the Senate in 2010, Paul has carefully built a brand of mainstream libertarianism — dogged advocacy of civil liberties combined …
Emily Atkin / ThinkProgress:
Don't Let Rand Paul Fool You On Climate Change  —  At first glance, newly-declared Presidential candidate Rand Paul might seem like a breath of fresh air on climate change — at least compared to most other Republicans.  —  The junior Senator from Kentucky was, after all …
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
Rand Paul has a daddy issue
ABC News:
Transcript for Rand Paul Says He Will Do Anything to Defend America From ‘Haters of Mankind’
Discussion: The Hill
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.
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NPR:
Transcript: President Obama's Full NPR Interview On Iran Nuclear Deal  —  NPR's Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviews President Obama at the White House on Monday.  —  NPR's interview with President Obama focuses on the pact the U.S. and allied nations recently negotiated with Iran.
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 …
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
Fighting Against ‘Rape Culture’ Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry  —  Rolling Stone's journalistic malpractice is not merely a cautionary tale about “confirmation bias.”  —  The extensive post mortem that Rolling Stone commissioned in the wake of Sabrina Rubin Erdely's now infamous …
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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Rolling Stone and the media's glass house
Kate Andersen Brower / Politico:
The Secret Lives of Hillary and Bill in the White House  —  Broken lamps, shouting matches, sneaking away to the pool—and other scenes from the Clinton residence during the Lewinsky scandal.  —  Lead image by AP Photo.  —  White House Florist Ronn Payne remembers one day in 1998 …
David Armstrong / Bloomberg Business:
How an Insurer Is Taking Money From the Fan Beaten at Dodger Stadium  —  First he was assaulted for wearing the wrong team's clothes.  Then he was sucker-punched by the insurance system. … Dave Stow, 71, strains to push the wheelchair carrying his 250-pound son, Bryan …
Discussion: HardballTalk
Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Check Before You Hit Send  —  Drexel University is investigating a law professor who thought she was sending her class a link to an article on writing legal briefs, but who actually sent a link to a pornography site's video of a woman using anal beads.  —  “Drexel has been made aware …
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Abortion Opponents Are Quietly Going After One Of The Top Medical Schools In The Country  —  One of the most well-respected OB-GYN programs in the country could be forced to stop teaching its students how to perform abortions, if the North Carolina legislature ends up approving a piece of legislation that was introduced this month.
Discussion: Raw Story and RH Reality Check
Senate Conservatives Fund:
Replace John McCain  —  Senator John McCain (R-AZ) officially announced today that he will seek a sixth term in the U.S. Senate.  Thirty years of cutting deals with the Democrats is not enough for Senator McCain; he wants six more.  —  There are few Republicans who have betrayed our conservative principles more than John McCain.
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Associated Press:
NEW BOOK BY DICK CHENEY TAKES ON BARACK OBAMA  —  NEW YORK (AP) — The next book by former Vice President Dick Cheney is aimed directly at President Barack Obama.  —  Cheney's “Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America” will be published on Sept. 1 by Threshold Editions, the publisher announced Tuesday.
John Hawkins / John Hawkins' Right Wing News:
Leading Conservatives Call on Apple to Pull Out of Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Iran Until They Stop Torturing Their Gay Citizens  —  Last week, I got together with Bruce Carroll from Gay Patriot to write a letter calling on Apple to live up to their publicly stated principles by pulling …
Discussion: National Review and Power Line
Klara Glowczewska / Town & Country Magazine:
T&C Philanthropy 2015, with Activist-in-Chief Bill Clinton  —  Supporting 3,100 projects in 180 countries, the Clinton Foundation is the most powerful reimagining ever of what post-presidency can be.  But can the fixer-in-chief work his magic on Haiti?  —  I am standing under …
ABC News:
Widespread Power Outage Hits Washington, DC, Area  —  A power outage knocked out power across Washington, D.C., with reports of outages at the White House, State Department, several museums and the University of Maryland campus.  —  An official with the Department of Homeland Security official told ABC News …
Discussion: CNN, Politico and Washington Post
Paul Bowers / News+Opinion, Charleston City Paper:
Ex-SCGOP official arrested on domestic violence charge  —  Todd Kincannon also has history of alleged threats in his hometown  —  Todd Kincannon, a former executive director of the S.C. Republican Party, was arrested Monday night on a charge of criminal domestic violence, according to the Lexington County Sheriff's Department.
 
 
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
Road to 2016: Rand Paul's Challenge: Libertarians Are Still a Small Minority
Discussion: Washington Post and ThinkProgress
New York Times:
A New Challenge for Mayor Bill de Blasio: Paying for 2 Children in College
Discussion: Hullabaloo and New York Magazine
Amanda Andrade-Rhoades / OpposingViews.com:
Doorman Says He Was Fired For Being Too Nice
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Liberaland
Dana Loesch Radio:
New Poll Shows Plurality Of Americans Support Religious Freedom
Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
A Reminder About Netanyahu, Iraq, and Iran
Dylan Byers / Politico:
How Hillary Clinton kept them guessing
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Sally Kohn / Washington Post:
I'm gay.  And I want my kid to be gay, too.  —  Sally Kohn …
Discussion: RedState
Tara Culp-Ressler / ThinkProgress:
Anti-Abortion Group's Effort To Defund Family Planning Clinics Backfires Spectacularly
Discussion: Raw Story and Mike Tipping
Associated Press:
Don McLean's ‘American Pie’ could bring $1.5M at auction
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Bill Schneider / The Great Debate:
Party politics: Two small tents, with most Americans on the outside
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Sally Kohn / Talking Points Memo:
Hey, Christian Business Owners: The Government Isn't ‘Forcing’ You To Do Anything
Naomi Schaefer Riley / New York Post:
Facts matter: Left sticks to ‘narratives,’ evidence be damned
Discussion: Brad R. Torgersen
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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