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2:45 PM ET, April 12, 2015

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New York Times:
A New Phase in Anti-Obama Attacks  —  It is a peculiar, but unmistakable, phenomenon: As Barack Obama's presidency heads into its twilight, the rage of the Republican establishment toward him is growing louder, angrier and more destructive.  —  Republican lawmakers in Washington and around …
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Nancy LeTourneau / Washington Monthly:
What Divides Us  —  By now you might have read what Dick Cheney said to Hugh Hewitt this week about President Obama.  When I heard about it I struggled with whether to react or simply dismiss it as just more nonsense coming from the lunatics in the Republican Party.
Discussion: Progress Pond
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Grandmama Mia!  —  WASHINGTON — WHEN my brother Michael was a Senate page, he delivered mail to John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, who had offices across the hall from each other.  —  He recalled that Kennedy never looked up or acknowledged his presence, but Nixon would greet him with a huge smile.
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
For Republicans, ‘Stop Hillary’ campaign begins in earnest
Discussion: The Agonist, CNN and Hullabaloo
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Why does Hillary Rodham Clinton want to be president?
Washington Post:
Thousands dead, few prosecuted … On a rainy night five years ago, Officer Coleman “Duke” Brackney set off in pursuit of a suspected drunk driver, chasing his black Mazda Miata down rural Arkansas roads at speeds of nearly 100 miles per hour.  When the sports car finally came to rest in a ditch …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Brooklyn Hit With Anti-Hillary Street Art  —  A source sends along these photos from Brooklyn today of anti-Hillary Clinton signs everywhere.  Clinton is expected to announce her presidential campaign later today.  The campaign's headquarters are located in Brooklyn.
Discussion: Moe Lane
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Oh Hill no!  Clinton's stale presidential plan wrong for nation  —  America's moved on, but Hillary hasn't.  —  More than five years ago, a Clinton confidant matter-of-factly described for me Hillary's Plan.  She would ­resign as secretary of state after President Obama's first term …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Michael C Bender / Bloomberg Business:
Bloomberg Politics National Poll: Rand Paul, Jeb Bush Face Primary Obstacles  —  Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul may have a problem with women, and Jeb Bush already has been written off by a large share of potential primary voters, according to a new Bloomberg Politics national poll …
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Melissa Chan / NY Daily News:
SEE IT: Video shows Tulsa man's last moments alive after accidental police shooting (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)  —  It was a mistake.  —  That's the blasé explanation Oklahoma officials gave after the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a white deputy who accidentally pulled his gun when he meant to use his Taser.
John F. Burns / New York Times:
The Things I Carried Back  —  CAMBRIDGE, England — THE light was fading on the hills above the Arno, and my closest friend in the careworn ranks of foreign correspondents was sitting cross-legged on a canopied Chinese daybed, in a lovely old tree-shaded house in his native village, a brisk walk from the heart of Florence.
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Nancy Dillon / NY Daily News:
California cop accused of tickling, tampering with corpse of man killed by police  —  A California cop is on paid leave for allegedly tickling and tampering with the corpse of a man shot and killed by police - and the dead man's outraged family wants answers, their lawyer said.
Discussion: Mediaite
Business Standard:
Overtures to Cuba change dynamic for Obama at summit meeting  —  Ever since his first foray to the Summit of the Americas three months after taking office, President Barack Obama has seen one bone of contention frustrate his efforts to reach out to America's hemispheric neighbours: the fact that Cuba was blackballed from the gathering.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Luis Martinez / ABC News:
John Kerry Praises Hillary Clinton, Plans to Avoid ‘Hurly Burly’ of 2016 Race … Secretary of State John Kerry is happy to avoid what he calls the “hurly burly” of the 2016 presidential race, especially on the day when his predecessor Hillary Clinton is expected to announce the start of her presidential campaign.
Jesse Byrnes / The Hill:
Obama says Clinton would be an ‘excellent president’  —  President Obama said Saturday he thinks Hillary Clinton would make “an excellent president.”  —  Clinton is expected to unveil her much-anticipated 2016 presidential campaign Sunday.  It will be her second campaign for president …
 
 
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Jim Walsh / USA Today:
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Reuters:
Reuters Iraq bureau chief threatened, denounced over story
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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Biden: Make community college ‘free’ like high school
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