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9:40 AM ET, April 7, 2015

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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.
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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 …
Bill Schneider / The Great Debate:
Party politics: Two small tents, with most Americans on the outside  —  Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) (R) stands with Senator Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) after a White House meeting in Washington, October 10, 2013.  REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst  —  The big tents are shrinking.
Nick Gass / Politico:
‘Bees are good,’ Obama says as children scream
Josh Rogin / Bloomberg View:
Rick Perry's Plan to Kill Obama's Iran Deal
Erin Dooley / ABC News:
White House Easter Egg Roll's 3 Unspeakably Cute Moments
Discussion: The Hill
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
What's the Alternative to Obama's Iran Deal?
Discussion: CNN
Sean Kelly / OpposingViews.com:
‘Once In A Lifetime Opportunity’: Obama Defends Iran Nuclear Deal
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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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Josh Rogin / Bloomberg View:
GOP Hawks Set to Ruin Rand Paul's Big Day  —  In the first salvo of the 2016 Republican ad wars, a conservative group is about to unleash a seven-figure ad campaign targeting Senator Rand Paul for being out of step with the party on Iran, just as he launches his presidential campaign.
Politico:
Rand Paul's decisive moment was 4 years coming
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Rand Paul readies 2016 launch
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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Jack Shafer / Politico:
Rolling Stone and the media's glass house
Discussion: FishbowlDC
Larry O'Dell / Associated Press:
FRATERNITY PURSUING LEGAL ACTION AGAINST ROLLING STONE
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
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: Scared Monkeys and Instapundit
Sally Kohn / Talking Points Memo:
Hey, Christian Business Owners: The Government Isn't ‘Forcing’ You To Do Anything  —  You may have heard that the government is forcing businesses not to discriminate.  It isn't.  If you chose to run a business, you have to follow the laws.  If you don't, that's a choice—and you choose to suffer the consequences.
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 …
Peter Sullivan / The Hill:
ACLU sues over abortion access for immigrants  —  The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the Obama administration for documents it says will show religious organizations are restricting access to abortions for unaccompanied immigrant children.  —  The civil rights groups …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
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 …
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.
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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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
Why Can't the Left Unseat Rahm Emanuel?
Discussion: New York Times
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Right-Wing Pundit: America Under ‘Sodomy Law’
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Joe. My. God.
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
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Chicago Tribune:
Teen killed in police shooting in Zion had just stolen gun: police
Discussion: Daily Kos, CBS Chicago and NPR
Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Michael Savage: Obama Is Inciting ‘The White Man’ To Revolt
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
James MacPherson / Associated Press:
North Dakota Governor Issues Memo Barring Gay Discrimination
Discussion: Joe. My. God.