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10:05 AM ET, April 12, 2015

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Annie Karni / Politico:
Clinton campaign memo: No drama this time  —  Hillary Clinton's campaign-in-waiting held its final pre-game briefing Saturday at its Brooklyn Heights headquarters, just ahead of her expected official entry into the race on Sunday.  —  During an hour-long meeting where bagels were served …
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Why does Hillary Rodham Clinton want to be president?  —  When Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives in Iowa next week as a candidate for president in 2016, every statement, gesture, laugh, outfit, facial expression and interaction with voters will be put under a microscope the likes of which few, if any, previous candidates have experienced.
Discussion: New York Times
Garry Trudeau / The Atlantic Online:
The Abuse of Satire  —  The following is the text of remarks Garry Trudeau delivered on April 10 at the Long Island University's George Polk Awards ceremony, where he received the George Polk Career Award.  —  My career—I guess I can officially call it that now—was not my idea.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Washington Post
New York Times:
Obama Meets Raúl Castro, Making History  —  PANAMA — President Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba met here Saturday in the first face-to-face discussion between the leaders of the two countries in a half-century.  —  Seated beside Mr. Castro in a small room …
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Raymond Colitt / Bloomberg Business:
Castro Calls Obama Honest Man as Latin American Leaders Criticize Venezuela Sanctions
Discussion: Business Insider
CNN:
Story highlights  —  Panama City, Panama (CNN)Ending …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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 …
Discussion: Political Wire
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 …
Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Biden: Make community college ‘free’ like high school  —  Vice President Biden on Saturday said free community college was vital for a healthy American economy.  —  “It's simple, folks — two years of community college should become as free and universal as high school is today if we're …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
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 …
Discussion: Washington Monthly and RedState
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 …
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Crusades Haven't Been In the News Lately  —  It has been a couple of months since Barack Obama suggested that the Crusades were somehow on a par with, or even a justification for, 21st-century Islamic terrorism.  I objected to Obama's casual slur at the link, saying, among other things:
Jim Walsh / USA Today:
Video captures deadly brawl in Walmart parking lot … The Cottonwood, Arizona police department released a video that appears to show an officer shooting a man.  Police say a chaotic brawl broke out between police and members of the Gaver family that soon turned deadly.  VPC
Discussion: FOX News Radio and Liberaland
Reuters:
Reuters Iraq bureau chief threatened, denounced over story  —  (Reuters) - The Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters has left Iraq after he was threatened on Facebook and denounced by a Shi'ite paramilitary group's satellite news channel in reaction to a Reuters report last week that detailed lynching and looting in the city of Tikrit.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
 
 
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Jim Romenesko:
Newsroom caller: It's T-H-I-E-R, not T-H-E-I-R
Discussion: Raw Story
Paola Kudacki / ELLE:
EXCLUSIVE: CHELSEA CLINTON OPENS UP ABOUT MOTHERHOOD AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS
Discussion: FOX News Radio, OnPolitics and The Week
Politico:
Capitol shooting a suicide, officials say
Marc Caputo / Politico:
Florida surprise: Jeff Atwater won't run for Marco Rubio seat
Discussion: ABC News and SaintPetersBlog
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Kathryn Schroeder / opposingviews.com/homepage.xml:
Father Charged With Kidnapping After Leaving 3-Year-Old In Trash Can
Discussion: Scared Monkeys and FOX News Radio
NBC News:
Egypt Sentences American Citizen, 27, to Life in Prison
Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
The Insiders: The Democratic Whackjob Survey
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Timothy Egan / New York Times:
Remains from Lincoln's Last Day  —  Imagine him in the last week …
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and The Mahablog
 

 
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