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• Apr 17, 2014 Open thread for night owls: Goodnight, moon No, you don't have to be afraid of a lunar eclipse, even one that falls on a Jewish holy day. No matter what crackpot televangelists might try to sell you. This time, Hagee suggests that a Rapture will occur where Christians will be taken to heaven, Israel will go to war in a great battle called...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Apr 16, 2014 Economics Daily Digest: The ideas generation By Tim Price, originally published on Next New Deal Click here to receive the Daily Digest via email. That '70s Show, Starring Ted Cruz (New Republic) Despite conservatives' tendency to compare Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter, today's economic challenges are the opposite of those the U.S....     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Apr 16, 2014 Here comes the next effort to get more money into politics If you were wondering what limits on money in politics would be challenged in court next, here's one place to look. The lawyer who brought you the McCutcheon case is going after political action committee donation limits, because "These discriminatory restrictions impermissibly allow entrenched...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Apr 15, 2014 Chart of the Day: Aircraft carriers. U.S. has more than everybody else combined, and then some The aircraft carriers depicted here in a GlobalSecurity.org graphic are drawn to scale. GlobalSecurity.org says there are currently 31 aircraft carriers in the world's navies and the folks at Wikipedia say 37. That's partly a consequence of definitions, with Wikipedia including one South Korean...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Apr 15, 2014 Atlanta Braves get hate mail after Hank Aaron says reaction to Obama shows we have 'long ways to go' Baseball legend Hank Aaron was asked last month why he still keeps the old hate mail that resulted when he broke Babe Ruth's home run record: "To remind myself," he said, "that we are not that far removed from when I was chasing the record. If you think that, you are fooling yourself. A lot of...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
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• Apr 17, 2014 Wild Horse Crisis MCCULLOUGH PEAKS, Wyo.—The view from the wind-blown hillside 20 miles east of Cody, Wyo., looks like something from a Hollywood Western. Sixteen wild horses graze among the sagebrush, framed by a backdrop of parched buttes painted ochre and tan. Nearby, two figures in brown work pants and...     Slate        more   
• Apr 17, 2014 How to Fix Baseball’s Replay Mess Major League Baseball’s replay review era has arrived, and I already wish it would it would end. That’s because the system is a mess, robbing the sport of clarity and—just as significantly—drama. It’s too much to hope that, in this age of increasing dependence on technology in sports,...     Slate        more   
• Apr 16, 2014 Paul Krugman Isn’t a Hypocrite Paul Krugman may be America’s foremost public intellectual. He’s certainly a contender for the title. He has done more than any other thinker to sound the alarm about rising income inequality in the United States, and in doing so he has shaped the worldview of a generation of liberals....     Slate        more   
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• Apr 17, 2014 Op-Ed Columnist: In Ukraine, Seeking U.S. Aid Ukrainians have been bullied relentlessly by Russia. Why aren’t we doing more to stand up for them?     New York Times Op-Ed        more   
• Apr 17, 2014 Editorial: Reining In Predatory Schools The Obama administration should strengthen its new rules against for-profit colleges that saddle poor students with crippling debts.     New York Times Op-Ed        more   
• Apr 17, 2014 Taking Note: The Birth of a Conspiracy Theory Some on the right speculate that the Obama administration is trying to politicize the census.     New York Times Op-Ed        more   
• Apr 17, 2014 Editorial: Criminalizing Expectant Mothers A bill awaiting the governor’s signature in Tennessee could make pregnant women who use illegal drugs too scared to seek medical care.     New York Times Op-Ed        more   
• Apr 17, 2014 Editorial: Spying at the N.Y.P.D. The commissioner of the New York Police Department did the right thing when he disbanded the unit that spied on law-abiding Muslim citizens.     New York Times Op-Ed        more   
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• Apr 17, 2014 Herb Kohl Set to Sell Bucks to Marc Lasry and Wesley Edens Herb Kohl, left, with one of the Milwaukee Bucks’ two new owners, Marc Lasry.     New York Times        more   
• Apr 17, 2014 Fault Lines Appear at Northwestern Over Union Vote Players at a Northwestern spring practice. Scholarship players will vote on forming a union on April 25.     New York Times        more   
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