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Jacob Siegel / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: VA Scandal Hits New Hospital  —  Veterans with serious heart conditions, gangrene, and even brain tumors waited months for care at the Albuquerque VA hospital, a whistleblowing doctor tells The Daily Beast.  —  Add Albuquerque, New Mexico's to the growing list of VA hospitals accused …
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Jim McElhatton / Washington Times:
Obama warned about VA wait-time problems during 2008 transition  —  The Obama administration received clear notice more than five years ago that VA medical facilities were reporting inaccurate waiting times and experiencing scheduling failures that threatened to deny veterans timely health care …
John Fund / National Review:
Lessons of the VA Scandal
Alexander Burns / Politico:
POLITICO poll shows mounting danger for Dems  —  President Barack Obama's job approval slump and voters' entrenched wariness of his health care law are dogging Democrats ahead of the 2014 midterm elections, and Republicans have captured a lead in the areas home to the year's most competitive races, according to a new POLITICO poll.
ThinkProgress:
Florida Lawmaker: Common Core Will Turn ‘Every One Of Your Children’ Gay  —  Florida Republican Rep. Charles Van Zant, left, believes that increasing educational standards cause homosexuality.  —  CREDIT: AP Photo/Phil Coale  —  Common Core may not be a well-intentioned set …
Discussion: The Raw Story and Orcinus
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Federal Judge Strikes Down Oregon Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Weddings Can Start Immediately  —  State officials have said they will not appeal the ruling.  Judge's order is effective immediately.  —  Supporters of same-sex marriage gather for a rally in Portland, Oreg., on April 22.
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Jonathan J. Cooper / Associated Press:
Ruling Expected Monday on Oregon Gay-Marriage Ban
Discussion: Mashable and blog.pfaw.org
Yahoo! News:
Marco Rubio's ‘pot’ hole  —  Why won't Sen. Marco Rubio say whether he's ever smoked pot?  —  The Florida Republican, who maintains a strict stance against the legalization of marijuana, refuses to answer whether he's ever personally smoked it.  Rubio told “Politics Confidential” …
David Carr / New York Times:
Abramson's Exit at The Times Puts Tensions on Display  —  Back in 2010, before she became executive editor of The New York Times, Jill Abramson sent me a handwritten attaboy note about a big story.  It still hangs in my cubicle: “You wrote a story about the trashing of a once great American institution and people never tire of that.”
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Katie Van Syckle / New York Magazine:
Ira Glass Doesn't Know or Care Who Edits the New York Times
Matt K. Lewis / The Week:
The state of conservative media  —  We've come a long way.  We have a long way to go.  —  Some new and familiar faces...  I  —  n the beginning, long ago, before the rise of talk radio, cable TV, and blogs, the liberal-leaning mainstream media was the only game in town.
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The One Percent at State U  —  New report finds that student debt and low-wage faculty labor are rising faster at state universities with the highest-paid presidents.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, Mediaite, Gawker and VICE
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The Intercept:
Data Pirates of the Caribbean: The NSA Is Recording Every Cell Phone Call in the Bahamas  —  The National Security Agency is secretly intercepting, recording, and archiving the audio of virtually every cell phone conversation on the island nation of the Bahamas.
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press:
For 2016 Hopefuls, Washington Experience Could Do More Harm than Good  —  Military Service Top Positive, Atheism Top Negative for Potential Candidates  —  As the 2016 presidential campaign begins to take shape, Washington experience has become less of a potential asset for those seeking the White House.
David Weigel / Slate:
Watch the Homophobic Ad That a Losing Candidate is Running in Georgia  —  The Georgia airwaves are largely full of TV ads for Republican Senate candidates (and a few for Michelle Nunn, who's sailing to a Democratic primary win), and I saw maybe eight of them while in the state last week.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
The Diane Rehm Show / The Diane Rehm Show …:
James Webb: “I Heard My Country Calling”  —  Former U.S. Sen. Jim (D-VA) is a decorated combat veteran of the Vietnam war.  Among his awards, he received the Navy Cross and two Purple Hearts serving as a Marine.  In a new memoir he writes of how growing up in a military family helped shape …
Sam Youngman / Lexington Herald-Leader:
As primary nears, McConnell talks like the winner he expects to be  —  BOWLING GREEN — Although a closely watched primary election awaits him Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell never mentioned challenger Matt Bevin as he campaigned across south-central Kentucky on Saturday.
Discussion: Daily Kos and ABC News
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Nate Cohn / New York Times:
What to Watch For in Three Primaries
Discussion: PBS and Political Insider blog
Nick Bilton / New York Times:
Marc Andreessen on the Future of Silicon Valley(s), and the Next Big Technology  —  Silicon Valley is starting to feel a little less exuberant these days.  —  Some big start-ups are having trouble raising money.  Others are delaying plans to go public.  Hot new technologies like Bitcoin …
Discussion: AEIdeas and Scripting News
Peter Beinart / The Atlantic Online:
Why Democrats Are Aching to Run Against Jeb Bush  —  On Friday, Hillary Clinton spoke at the New America Foundation's “Big Ideas” conference (disclosure: I'm a New America senior fellow).  Her basic theme was familiar—the American dream of upward mobility is in peril—though she did offer a couple of intriguing twists.
The United States Department of Justice:
U.S. Charges Five Chinese Military Hackers for Cyber Espionage Against U.S. Corporations and a Labor Organization for Commercial Advantage … A grand jury in the Western District of Pennsylvania (WDPA) indicted five Chinese military hackers for computer hacking, economic espionage …
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
In Arkansas, Obama is a Four-letter Word Hampering Democrats  —  What Bill Clinton's home state says about racial politics, control of the Senate, and Hillary Clinton in 2016.  —  Jerry Hood gives Richard Wyatt a trim while talking politics at his Little Rock barbershop.  (Ron Fournier)
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Springtime for Bankers  —  By any normal standard, economic policy since the onset of the financial crisis has been a dismal failure.  It's true that we avoided a full replay of the Great Depression.  But employment has taken more than six years to claw its way back to pre-crisis levels …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Higher ed becoming a joke: Column  —  American colleges are fraught with petty politics and bad economics.  —  As college graduates around the country fling their caps into the air, college and university administrators are ending the year in a less positive state.
Discussion: Hit & Run and Power Line
Byron Tau / Politico:
President Obama golfs with Bain Capital lobbyist  —  One of President Barack Obama's golf partners this weekend was a lobbyist for the financial firm Bain Capital.  —  According to a White House pool report, Obama hit the links on Saturday at the exclusive Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville …
Kelly Riddell / Washington Times:
Targeted?  Gun sellers say ‘high risk’ label from feds cuts off banking options, restricts business  —  Obama plan pressures financial institutions  —  Gun retailers say the Obama administration is trying to put them out of business with regulations and investigations that bypass Congress …
E.J. Dionne Jr. / Washington Post:
No more liberal apologies as Elizabeth Warren takes the offensive  —  BOSTON  —  Elizabeth Warren is cast as many things: a populist, a left-winger, the paladin against the bankers and the rich, the Democrats' alternative to Hillary Clinton, the policy wonk with a heart.
Discussion: Shakesville and Daily Kos
Lachlan Markay / Washington Free Beacon:
EXCLUSIVE: Democracy Alliance Network Revealed  —  A secretive dark money group backed by George Soros and other liberal mega-donors is looking to steer nearly $40 million to left-wing groups in 2014 to support high-profile political and policy efforts, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Discussion: Weekly Standard
 
 
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Jonathan Topaz / Politico:
Joe Biden says ‘no’ to prom invite
Michael Warren / Weekly Standard:
Nunn Refuses To Answer How She Would Have Voted On Obamacare
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Jennifer Newton / Daily Mail:
Hitler's face to appear on side of 20 buses for a month in Washington D.C. as part of controversial …
Yahoo! News:
After bin Laden backlash, CIA promises: No more fake vaccination campaigns
Discussion: ThinkProgress
Adam Kredo / Washington Free Beacon:
U.S.-Armed Syrian Rebel Group Seeks ‘All Syrian Land Occupied by Israel’
Discussion: AEIdeas
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Here's How Republicans Are Trying To Solve Their Problem With Black Voters
Discussion: Daily Kos and Booman Tribune
Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Miss. mailers compare Cochran opponent to Akin
Discussion: BuzzFeed and The Daily Caller
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Associated Press:
Mitt Romney calls on N.H. police commissioner to resign
John Tierney / The Atlantic Online:
How to Win Millennials: Equality, Climate Change, and Gay Marriage
Discussion: The PJ Tatler
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Republican Georgia Congressional Candidate Has Many Thoughts On Gays Marrying
Discussion: Washington Monthly and Mediaite
Christina Wilkie / The Huffington Post:
Koch Brothers' Secrets Revealed In New Book
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
The Great Society at 50  —  LBJ's unprecedented and ambitious …
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Poverty Is Not a State of Mind
Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Is This the Democrats' War on Women?