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• Short Takes

  
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  Guatemala’s former dictator Efrian Rios Montt convicted of genocide. E-mails about Benghazi put the White House on the defensive. Pakistan votes amid campaign violence. Woman rescued from collapsed building in Bangladesh 17 days later. Fertilizer blast volunteer rescuer arrested with bomb-making ...
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• Caught In the Crossfire

  
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  I awoke to see Cokie Roberts and Al Hunt running through their Very Serious People talking points about Benghazi! on Morning Joe. What a way to get me to watch The Weather Channel. If you want to know what the real lesson of Benghazi is, check out Jonathan Bernstein’s piece .  He nails it.
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• Call for Signers for Academic Letter in Support of Confirmation of Bipartisan NLRB Nominee Package

  
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  There has been much conversation of late about the Noel Canning NLRB recess appointment decision and whether it is likely to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. In the meantime, many are urging the Senate to confirm a full...
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• Explosive testimony undermines administration’s Benghazi spin

  
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  This morning, I wrote that Wednesday’s hearing on Benghazi will be explosive . This article assures us that President Obama, Secretary Clinton and Ambassador Rice will be feeling the heat. Here’s some information that’s certain to increase the heat on the administration: The account from ...
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• Former Rep. Heather Wilson Named President of South Dakota College

  
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  Former Rep. Heather Wilson, a New Mexico Republican, has been namedpresident of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology , according to the schools website. Heather Wilson, a former member of Congress, Rhodes Scholar and small business owner who has worked with large defense and scientific companies, will ...
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• Gunpowder Plot

  
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  I guess Harry Reid has a sense of humor after all. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Tuesday introduced a bill that would require background checks to be run on anyone buying explosive powder, a reaction to last week’s Boston Marathon bombing. Reid introduced the bill, S. 792, for Sen. Frank ...
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• Here’s Your Chance to Win a Celeb Workout With David Petraeus

  
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  Journalists and junior officers and even, um, biographers used to trip over themselves to work out with David Petraeus, the former four-star general and fitness freak. Now, a chance to get sweaty with the worlds most famous ex-general will cost ...
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• Maxed Out

  
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  It wasn’t a typo when I noted in Short Takes this morning that Sen. Max Baucus of Montana is retiring and inserted a “?” after the “D” in his party designation.  To say that his Democratic credentials are slightly lacking is an insult to the term “slightly.” Brian Beutler at TPM sums up the recent ...
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• Will Grassroots Democrats Rise Up And Throw The Bums Out? Progressives In Alabama!

  
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  Russ Feingolds PAC, Progressives United, fired a shot across the bow of corrupt Beltway ConservaDems, directly putting Steve Israel and the DCCC on notice that out in America, grassroots Democrats are fed up with supporting fake Dems who vote with the GOP... and even more fed up with Machiavellian characters-- or, as ...
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• Top 10 Manhunts in History

  
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  A manhunt is over. The last remaining suspect of the Boston Marathon bombings has been taken into custody. Much of the city of Boston was on lockdown hours after the FBI released photos of the two suspects, now identified as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev and 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two suspected of the ...
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• Gun Grip

  
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  Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has an editorial in the New York Times on the Senate’s failure to enact gun legislation. They looked at these most benign and practical of solutions, offered by moderates from each party, and then they looked over their shoulder at the powerful, shadowy gun lobby — and brought ...
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• Food and drink, restaurants and bars: Meeting on Monday, May 6.

  
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  A few independent downtown food and drink purveyors got together last week to discuss steps toward a more formal arrangement -- perhaps an organized association. Restaurants and bars have been driving downtown revitalization, and the next logical step is to work together more closely to help ourselves in a ...
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• So what is the New Fair Deal?

  
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  If you are one of those who follows conservative grassroots activism, it’s likely you may have heard about the New Fair Deal rally being held in Washington tomorrow afternoon to coincide with tax day. While it will certainly be a modest event by the standards of other TEA Party rallies such as the 9/12 rally ...
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