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<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:50:29 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>You Don&apos;t Need a Weatherman - What the seasonal and cyclical forces ... (Charlie Cook/NationalJournal.com)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140315/p4#a140315p4</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140315/p4#a140315p4" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Charlie Cook / <A HREF="http://www.nationaljournal.com/">NationalJournal.com</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.nationaljournal.com/the-cook-report/you-don-t-need-a-weatherman-20140313">You Don't Need a Weatherman</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; What the seasonal and cyclical forces in American politics suggest about the coming elections.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The political chatter these days is about the special election in Florida's 13th Congressional District, which was held to fill the vacancy left by the late GOP Rep. Bill Young.</P>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2014 07:50:05 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Is Russia Pulling Money Out of U.S. for Safekeeping? (Peter Coy/Businessweek)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140315/p3#a140315p3</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-14/is-russia-pulling-money-out-of-u-dot-s-dot-for-safekeeping"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/140315/i3.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140315/p3#a140315p3" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Peter Coy / <A HREF="http://www.businessweek.com/">Businessweek</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-14/is-russia-pulling-money-out-of-u-dot-s-dot-for-safekeeping">Is Russia Pulling Money Out of U.S. for Safekeeping?</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; There's circumstantial evidence that Russia may have yanked tens of billions of dollars in assets out of a custodial account at the U.S. Federal Reserve, possibly to keep it from being frozen by U.S. authorities in case of heightened conflict in Ukraine.</P>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2014 06:25:03 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>50,000 Activists Demand Sexual Assault Reform At Dartmouth After Student Publishes A &apos;Rape Guide&apos; (ThinkProgress)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140315/p2#a140315p2</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/03/14/3404111/dartmouth-rape-culture-petition/"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/140315/i2.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140315/p2#a140315p2" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://thinkprogress.org/">ThinkProgress</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/03/14/3404111/dartmouth-rape-culture-petition/">50,000 Activists Demand Sexual Assault Reform At Dartmouth After Student Publishes A &lsquo;Rape Guide&rsquo;</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; CREDIT: Chase Carter via Flickr Creative Commons&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Tens of thousands of Americans are pressuring Dartmouth College to strengthen its sexual assault policies, citing the fact that a student &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2014 03:30:02 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Obama: &apos;My jeans fit very well&apos; (Tal Kopan/Politico)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140315/p1#a140315p1</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140315/p1#a140315p1" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Tal Kopan / <A HREF="http://www.politico.com/">Politico</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/barack-obama-jeans-104678.html">Obama: &lsquo;My jeans fit very well&rsquo;</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; President Barack Obama on Friday said critics of his &ldquo;mom jeans&rdquo; should zip it.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; &ldquo;I've been unfairly maligned about my jeans,&rdquo; Obama told radio host Ryan Seacrest in an interview.&nbsp; &ldquo;The truth is, generally I look very sharp in jeans.</P>
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  <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2014 00:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers. You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC. (Russell Saunders/The Daily Beast)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p71#a140314p71</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/13/thanks-anti-vaxxers-you-just-brought-back-measles-in-nyc.html"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/i71.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p71#a140314p71" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Russell Saunders / <A HREF="http://www.thedailybeast.com/">The Daily Beast</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/13/thanks-anti-vaxxers-you-just-brought-back-measles-in-nyc.html">Thanks, Anti-Vaxxers.&nbsp; You Just Brought Back Measles in NYC.</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Measles was considered eliminated at the turn of the millennium.&nbsp; Now it's back, thanks to the loons who refuse to vaccinate their children.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Of all the things to be nostalgic for, infectious diseases probably don't make it onto many lists.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 23:05:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Missing Malaysian plane: Could it have landed? (CNN)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p70#a140314p70</link>
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<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p70#a140314p70" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/">CNN</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/14/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/">Missing Malaysian plane: Could it have landed?</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; From Jethro Mullen, Barbara Starr and Jim Sciutto, CNN&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; (CNN) &mdash; Yet another theory is taking shape about what might have happened to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Maybe it landed in a remote Indian Ocean island chain.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Sharp Changes in Altitude and Course After Jet Lost Contact (New York Times)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p68#a140314p68</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/malaysia-military-radar.html?pagewanted=all"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/i68.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p68#a140314p68" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/15/world/asia/malaysia-military-radar.html?pagewanted=all">Sharp Changes in Altitude and Course After Jet Lost Contact</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; SEPANG, Malaysia &mdash; Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 experienced significant changes in altitude after it lost contact with ground control, and altered its course more than once as if still under the command of a pilot &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:45:04 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Ukraine: A matter of attention (Kathy Frankovic/YouGov US Opinion ...)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p67#a140314p67</link>
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<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p67#a140314p67" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Kathy Frankovic / <A HREF="http://today.yougov.com/news/">YouGov US Opinion Center News</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://today.yougov.com/news/2014/03/12/ukraine-matter-attention/">Ukraine: A matter of attention</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Americans are divided on whether or not the US should get involved in the Ukraine crisis.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Americans have never been good at following events overseas, except when they directly affect American lives and American interests.&nbsp; Often, the public sees more pressing problems at home.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Clinton only Dem with edge on GOP (Tom Jensen/Public Policy Polling)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p66#a140314p66</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p66#a140314p66" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Tom Jensen / <A HREF="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/">Public Policy Polling</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2014/03/clinton-only-dem-with-edge-on-gop.html">Clinton only Dem with edge on GOP</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; PPP's regular look at the 2016 Presidential race really shows how important it is for the party that Hillary Clinton run in 2016.&nbsp; She leads Mike Huckabee 49/42 in a hypothetical contest.&nbsp; By contrast Joe Biden would trail Huckabee 46/41 in a hypothetical match &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:20:01 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Pastor James Manning Strikes Again: &quot;Jesus Would Stone Homos&quot; Billboard Appears In Harlem (Joe Jervis/Joe. My. God.)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p65#a140314p65</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2014/03/manning-strikes-again-jesus-would-stone.html"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/i65.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p65#a140314p65" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Joe Jervis / <A HREF="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/">Joe. My. God.</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2014/03/manning-strikes-again-jesus-would-stone.html">Pastor James Manning Strikes Again: &ldquo;Jesus Would Stone Homos&rdquo; Billboard Appears In Harlem</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Last month Harlem Pastor James Manning earned national headlines when he posted a billboard declaring that President Obama has &ldquo;released homo demons on the black man.&rdquo;&nbsp; Today Manning upped the Christian Love&trade; with the above sign.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 18:05:03 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Federal Judge Issues Temporary Order That Tennessee Recognize Several Same-Sex Couples&apos; Marriages (Chris Geidner/BuzzFeed)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p64#a140314p64</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/federal-judge-issues-temporary-order-that-tennessee-recogniz"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/i64.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p64#a140314p64" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Chris Geidner / <A HREF="http://www.buzzfeed.com/">BuzzFeed</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/federal-judge-issues-temporary-order-that-tennessee-recogniz">Federal Judge Issues Temporary Order That Tennessee Recognize Several Same-Sex Couples' Marriages</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Judge issues preliminary injunction in case over state's recognition of same-sex couples' marriages performed out of state.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; WASHINGTON &mdash; A federal judge in Tennessee Friday ordered state officials &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:40:00 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Obama calls for review of deportations (Politico)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p63#a140314p63</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p63#a140314p63" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> <A HREF="http://www.politico.com/">Politico</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=0A20F8BF-C2D8-4E79-95CB-EFE728E2D979">Obama calls for review of deportations</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; President Barack Obama finally bowed to pressure from immigration rights activists and signaled on Thursday that he may change his deportation policy.&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; The president changed course after months of claiming there was nothing his White House &hellip; </P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:30:04 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Obama Confidante&apos;s &apos;Screaming Siren&apos;: Dems Could Face Another 2010 (Sahil Kapur/Talking Points Memo)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p62#a140314p62</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-plouffe-screaming-siren-democrats-2014"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/i62.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p62#a140314p62" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Sahil Kapur / <A HREF="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/">Talking Points Memo</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/david-plouffe-screaming-siren-democrats-2014">Obama Confidante's &lsquo;Screaming Siren&rsquo;: Dems Could Face Another 2010</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Democrats face strong headwinds in the 2014 mid-term elections and could suffer a similar fate as their crushing defeat in 2010 if their voters don't turn out, according to a longtime confidant of President Barack Obama.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:55:02 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>McCain: &apos;Don&apos;t call yourself Reagan Republicans&apos; if you oppose Senate Ukraine aid deal (Ed O&apos;Keefe/Post Politics)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p61#a140314p61</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/13/mccain-dont-call-yourself-reagan-republicans-if-you-oppose-senate-ukraine-aid-deal/"><IMG VSPACE="4" HSPACE="4" BORDER="0" ALIGN="RIGHT" SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/i61.jpg"></A>
<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p61#a140314p61" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> Ed O'Keefe / <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics">Post Politics</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/13/mccain-dont-call-yourself-reagan-republicans-if-you-oppose-senate-ukraine-aid-deal/">McCain: 'Don't call yourself Reagan Republicans' if you oppose Senate Ukraine aid deal</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) blasted fellow Republican senators Thursday for seeking to block an aid package to the new Ukrainian government, and he went so far as to question their allegiance to the GOP.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:50:03 -0400</pubDate>
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  <title>Mitch McConnell&apos;s Modest Contract with America (John McCormack/Weekly Standard)</title>
  <link>http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p59#a140314p59</link>
  <description><![CDATA[<P><A HREF="http://www.memeorandum.com/140314/p59#a140314p59" TITLE="memeorandum permalink"><IMG WIDTH=11 HEIGHT=12 SRC="http://www.memeorandum.com/img/pml.png" STYLE="border:none;padding:0;margin:0;"></A> John McCormack / <A HREF="http://www.weeklystandard.com/">Weekly Standard</A>:<BR>
<SPAN STYLE="font-size:1.3em;"><B><A HREF="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mitch-mcconnell-s-modest-contract-america_784999.html?nopager=1">Mitch McConnell's Modest Contract with America</A></B></SPAN>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Politicians out of power like to promise the moon and the stars to voters.&nbsp; They make contracts and pledges to America.&nbsp; Some vow to make the oceans recede and usher in a new era of hope and change.&nbsp; Others merely claim they have the power to make D.C. listen.</P>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 16:30:05 -0400</pubDate>
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