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4:30 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 …
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Mark Drajem / Bloomberg Business:
Happy Earth Day! Unless You're Running for President in the GOP
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Roll Call
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.
George Packer / New Yorker:
American Politics: Why the Thrill Is Gone  —  Earlier this month, the Upshot—the Times's “politics and policy vertical,” as it's known in the business—ran a lengthy analysis of the Presidential campaign on the Republican side.  The piece came up with three categories of candidates …
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Lisa Riley Roche / Deseret News:
Josh Romney: I won't run against Sen. Mike Lee, but another Republican should
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.
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Marco Rubio's Biggest Problem Isn't Jeb Bush  —  The friends-turned-rivals narrative is salacious, but the numbers show that Rubio should be worried about a different candidate.  —  At first glance, Jeb Bush looks like the biggest obstacle to Marco Rubio's presidential aspirations.
Discussion: Washington Monthly
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Jeb Bush / Medium:
Hillary Clinton's Politically Motivated Flip Flop on TPP is Wrong  —  It Should Move Forward  —  Back in 2012, while she was serving as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton called an emerging economic partnership with 11 Pacific Nations the “Gold Standard in trade agreements.”
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David Koon / Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times:
Eureka Springs pastor in Repeal 2223 video is a convicted serial rapist  —  The Arkansas Times has confirmed that a Baptist preacher in Eureka Springs who features prominently in a new video urging repeal of the city's Ordinance 2223, which protects LGBT people from discrimination …
Michael E. Miller / Washington Post:
‘Killing Jews is Worship’ posters will soon appear on NYC subways and buses  —  New Yorkers are used to aggressive advertising.  Banners for breast implants.  Billboards for condoms.  But a federal judge's ruling has opened the door for far more controversial posters on buses and subways across the city.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Shot in the Dark
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 …
Billy House / Bloomberg Business:
Release of Benghazi Report on Hillary Clinton Likely Pushed to Election Season  —  The findings of a Republican-led committee investigating Hillary Clinton's response to the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, likely will not be released until next year, just months before the 2016 presidential election.
Discussion: Addicting Info and Mediaite
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Lauren French / Politico:
House Benghazi report won't come until 2016
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Daily Kos
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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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Secret Koch memo outlines plans for 2016  —  Documents detail plans to beef up the network's state-of-the-art data system, and pay hundreds of staff embedded in local communities across the country.
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: Addicting Info and The Reaction
Steve Holland / Reuters:
On the hunt for the presidency, Jeb Bush adopts a ‘caveman’ diet  —  (Reuters) - Jeb Bush is eating like a caveman, and he has literally shrunk in size.  —  The former Florida governor, expected to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, is on the popular Paleo diet …
Discussion: The Daily Caller
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
U-Va. Associate Dean Nicole Eramo blasts Rolling Stone in open letter  —  This month, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism issued a widely read report citing a number of lapses in Rolling Stone's execution of “A Rape on Campus,” the deeply flawed and ultimately retracted story …
Jillian Kay Melchior / National Review:
MSNBC's Touré Has the Taxman on His Case  —  The Taxman Cometh for Touré (Michael Loccisano/Getty)
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Perino: Reid ‘absolutely poisonous’  —  Dana Perino, the White House press secretary under President George W. Bush, on Tuesday excoriated Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), calling him “poisonous.”  —  “He's an absolutely poisonous figure in Washington, D.C., he's been a disaster for the country …
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Reaction
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.
Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
White House takes issue with Clinton remarks on economic growth  —  The White House on Wednesday said it does not share Hillary Clinton's view that the economy has “stalled out.”  —  “I wouldn't put it in those terms at all,” White House Communications Director Jen Psaki said on MSNBC's “Morning Joe.”
Discussion: Weekly Standard
miamiherald:
Obama arrives at Everglades National Park, plans to highlight climate change threat  —  President Barack Obama arrived at Everglades National Park on an overcast and muggy Wednesday to deliver an Earth Day speech intended to connect climate change impacts already unfolding in the imperiled wetlands …
Discussion: Shakesville, PoliticusUSA and Politico
Lee Bergquist / JSOnline:
Fifty-seven DNR staff receive layoff notices amid talk of budget cuts  —  Fifty-seven employees of the state Department of Natural Resources began receiving formal notices this week that they might face layoff as part of Gov. Scott Walker's budget for the next two fiscal years.
Henry / Crooked Timber:
Krautmas came two weeks early this year … We've had five months and five months and five months and five months and five months and five months and five months and five months and five months and five months and five months and five months and five months and five months and five months …
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.
Tim Devaney / The Hill:
Capitol Police: Lawmaker's AR-15 allowed  —  A Republican lawmaker is allowed to have an AR-15 in his office as long as it isn't loaded, the U.S. Capitol Police said Tuesday after a photo of the rifle caught the attention of law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C.
Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal:
Hillary Clinton Flies First Class Back to Washington  —  With her first campaign trip drawing to a close, Hillary Clinton traded the Scooby road-trip van for a first-class airplane seat to make the trip back to Washington.  —  The Democratic presidential candidate flew from Boston's Logan Airport …
Tiffany Craig / KHOU-TV:
Pregnant restaurant worker fired after armed robbery  —  CHANNELVIEW, Texas - A fast food restaurant is robbed and the shift manager says she got fired for refusing to pay the money back.  —  “I told them I'm not paying nothing,” said Marissa Holcomb.  “I just had a gun to me.  I'm not paying the money.”
Discussion: Addicting Info and Raw Story
 
 
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Stephanie Kirchgaessner / Guardian:
Paper claims pope rejected gay French diplomat as ambassador to Holy See
Discussion: Advocate and LGBTQ Nation
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
Obama Quarterly Approval, at 46.4%, Best Since Mid-2013
Benjamin Mueller / New York Times:
Coyote Roams Upper West Side, With Officers in Pursuit
Daily Mail:
British man, 41, arrested after he ‘urinated in ice machine at Hard Rock Hotel in Florida’
Discussion: FOX News Radio
Ilan Lior / Haaretz:
3 asylum seekers who left Israel executed by ISIS
Ed Rogers / Washington Post:
The Insiders: Obama's global warming distraction
Discussion: New York Magazine
 Earlier Items: 
Nick Gass / Politico:
Paul Ryan doesn't want to talk about 2016
Discussion: Hot Air
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:
New Orleans Bars Issue Last Call for Smoking
Discussion: The Week and Eschaton
Jon Clifton / Gallup:
Russia Receives Lowest Approval in World; U.S. Highest
Discussion: US News and The Diplomat
Gazette:
Man shoots computer in Colorado Springs alley, gets revenge he wanted - and a citation
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
McConnell introduces bill to extend NSA surveillance
M.D. Kittle / Watchdog.org:
Who was the reporter outside Cindy Archer's house?
Discussion: Althouse
Timothy P. Carney / Washington Examiner:
When battling Hillary, it's the cronyism, stupid
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Obama's approval numbers rise; Americans optimistic on economy