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1:30 PM ET, April 22, 2015

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Andrew Dugan / Gallup:
Conservative Republicans Alone on Global Warming's Timing  —  Story Highlights  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — While notable majorities of all other political party/ideology groups say the effects of global warming will happen within their lifetime, fewer than four in 10 conservative Republicans …
Discussion: US News, Politico and Balloon Juice
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Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
The Insiders: Obama's global warming distraction  —  Incredibly, in Sunday's weekly video address, President Obama said, “Today, there is no greater threat to our planet than climate change.”  I say “incredibly” because that just isn't true - and if President Obama really believes it is, then it is time to panic.
Discussion: New York Magazine
Mark Drajem / Bloomberg Business:
Happy Earth Day! Unless You're Running for President in the GOP
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Roll Call
Doug Sosnik / Politico:
Mitch McConnell Shouldn't Get Comfortable  —  Why Democrats are poised to recapture the Senate.  —  After picking up nine seats in the 2014 elections, Republicans maintain a decisive 54-seat majority in the Senate.  In 2016, they will face a much more difficult map that coincides with a presidential election year.
Discussion: The Reaction
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell builds case for 2016
Washington Post:
Trade war heating up among Democrats
Discussion: New York Times
The Hill:
Obama turns up the heat on trade
Discussion: Politico
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Progressives ready big ad buy targeting trade deal
Discussion: Fox News and Common Dreams
Jason Horowitz / New York Times:
Ted Cruz Showed Eloquence, and Limits, as Debater at Princeton  —  PRINCETON, N.J. — By the time he was a senior at Princeton University in 1992, Ted Cruz had developed an arsenal of rhetorical skills and theatrical gestures that made him one of the most polished performers on the college debate circuit.
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Hillary Clinton Can't Run for President  —  So she's pushed her whole campaign into the slow lane.  —  Thousands have run for president, but only one candidate has ever unrun for the office: Hillary Clinton.  Ever since she finally announced her entry into the contest a couple of weeks ago, she has been unrunning with ferocity.
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Michael Grunwald / Politico:
Could Obama's Everglades stop hurt the Everglades?
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Lori Hinnant / Associated Press:
Paris extremist's misfire thwarts imminent attack on church  —  PARIS (AP) — An Islamic extremist with an arsenal of loaded guns was only prevented from opening fire on churchgoers because he accidentally shot himself in the leg, French officials said Wednesday.
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Lauren French / Politico:
House Benghazi report won't come until 2016  —  A highly anticipated report from the House Select Committee on Benghazi likely won't be released until 2016 — in the throes of the presidential election season.  —  Chairman Trey Gowdy has previously said he wanted to finish his inquiry …
Discussion: Daily Kos
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Billy House / Bloomberg Business:
Release of Benghazi Report on Hillary Clinton Likely Pushed to Election Season
Discussion: Mediaite
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Morning Plum: Battle over Florida Medicaid expansion goes wild  —  Your humble blogger has been tracking the battle over the Medicaid expansion in Florida, because it's a really big deal.  If the administration can get Governor Rick Scott and state House Republicans to accept the expansion …
Gazette:
Man shoots computer in Colorado Springs alley, gets revenge he wanted - and a citation  —  Updated:  —  3 photos  —  + caption  —  When ctrl + alt + delete doesn't work, just shoot the darn thing.  —  That's what one man did on Monday night, according to Colorado Springs police.
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Wbastone / The Smoking Gun:
“Fed Up” Colorado Man, 38, Busted For Killing His Computer In Cold Blood
Discussion: The PJ Tatler and Clayton Cramer
The Daily Blog:
EXCLUSIVE: The Prime Minister and the Waitress  —  This is a guest blog from an anonymous waitress about the way John Key kept touching her when he repeatedly visited her place of work.  The waitress contacted us with her story, The Daily Blog did not seek her out or pressure her in anyway to write this blog.
The Hill:
Rand Paul yanks Ray-Bans after complaint  —  Ray-Ban has asked Sen. Rand Paul's presidential campaign to quit selling the brand's Wayfarer sunglasses, which Paul had imprinted with the “Rand” logo.  —  The Rand-Ban sunglasses were for sale for $150 on Paul's website as recently as Tuesday.
M.D. Kittle / Watchdog.org:
Who was the reporter outside Cindy Archer's house?  —  Part 194 of 193 in the series Wisconsin's Secret War  —  MADISON, Wis. - Of all of the frightening accounts of government abuses in Wisconsin's political John Doe investigation, David French's description in National Review …
Discussion: Althouse
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
WH won't call Armenian killings ‘genocide’  —  The White House again will not use the term “genocide” to describe the Ottoman Turks' massacre of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915.  —  Senior administration officials met with leaders from the Armenian-American community Tuesday to discuss …
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Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Josh Romney: I won't run against Sen. Mike Lee, but another Republican should  —  SALT LAKE CITY — Josh Romney confirmed Tuesday he won't challenge Sen. Mike Lee in next year's U.S. Senate race but said he'd like to see another Republican run against the first-term senator.
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Obama's approval numbers rise; Americans optimistic on economy  —  President Obama's approval ratings have reached their highest mark in almost two years, according to a new poll from CNN/ORC.  —  Forty-eight percent of Americans approve of how Obama is running the country, compared to 47 percent who disapprove.
Ilan Lior / Haaretz:
3 asylum seekers who left Israel executed by ISIS  —  The Eritreans were likely kidnapped together with a group of Christian Ethiopians in Libya.  —  The Hotline for Refugees and Migrants reported on Tuesday that three asylum seekers who left Israel for a third country over the past year …
Jon Clifton / Gallup:
Russia Receives Lowest Approval in World; U.S. Highest  —  Story Highlights  —  This article is based on the findings from Gallup's first-ever report — Rating World Leaders: What People Worldwide Think of the U.S., China, Russia, the EU and Germany — on the status of how the world rates …
Discussion: US News and The Diplomat
Daily Mail:
British man, 41, arrested after he ‘urinated in ice machine at Hard Rock Hotel in Florida’  — Andrew Stewart Wood, of Havant, Hampshire, was accused of urinating into the ice machine at the Hard Rock Hotel in the early hours of Tuesday  — Wood, who police said was ‘extremely intoxicated’ …
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
When battling Hillary, it's the cronyism, stupid  —  “The economy, stupid.”  Democratic operative James Carville used that simple phrase in 1992 to remind former President Bill Clinton to maintain narrow focus on that issue.  —  Republicans who want to beat Hillary Clinton in 2016 need …
Bertrand Olotara / Guardian:
I am a cook in the US Senate but I still need food stamps to feed my children  —  I work 70 hours a week doing two jobs but cannot make ends meet.  Presidential hopefuls must make profitable federal contractors pay living wages  —  very day, I serve food to some of the most powerful people on earth …
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
New Orleans Bars Issue Last Call for Smoking  —  NEW ORLEANS — No one goes to a bar here, particularly one that advertises its hours as “2 p.m. till,” and expects precision about the time of day.  But it was right on the stroke of midnight that Frankie Mazzanti, 56, one of the owners …
Discussion: The Week and Eschaton
 
 
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Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Perino: Reid ‘absolutely poisonous’
Discussion: The Reaction
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Quarterly Approval, at 46.4%, Best Since Mid-2013
Discussion: The Huffington Post and USA Today
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Coyote Roams Upper West Side, With Officers in Pursuit
Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal:
Is Government Debt Too Low?
George Sells / FOX2now.com:
Festus toddler beaten to death, mother in custody
James Hohmann / Politico:
Mike Huckabee staffing up for 2016 run
Ian Black / Guardian:
Yemen crisis: air strike hits Aden after Saudi Arabia ends bombing campaign
Discussion: Common Dreams
Nick Gass / Politico:
Paul Ryan doesn't want to talk about 2016
Discussion: Hot Air
 Earlier Items: 
Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Michele Leonhart, Head of D.E.A., to Retire Over Handling of Sex Scandal
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
McConnell introduces bill to extend NSA surveillance
Discussion: Hot Air and Political Wire
Ed Kilgore / Talking Points Memo:
Election 2016: Exploding The Governor Savior Myth
Bryan Denson / Oregonian:
Teacher terrified by surprise ‘active shooter’ drill in eastern Oregon schoolhouse files federal lawsuit
Discussion: The Week and Raw Story
Patrick Winn / Air Force Times:
Michelle Manhart talks after losing Air Force career
Discussion: Liberaland