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scotusblog — The Obama administration on Friday urged a federal appeals court to clear the way for what could be a lengthy new review over younger girls’ access to “Plan B” emergency birth control pills, even while keeping in place government limits on access for women of all ages to the version...

scotusblog — The Court will be closed on Monday in observance of Memorial Day. On Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. we expect orders from the May 23 Conference. Our list of “Petitions to watch” for that Conference is here. At 10 a.m. we expect opinions in argued cases. We will begin live blogging shortly...

my.firedoglake — What may be the single most influential musical composition of all time, Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s le Sacre du Printemps, premiered in Paris on May 29th, 1913.  The music, and its starkly iconoclastic ballet choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky so jarred many audience members, it produced an unprecedented demonstration, considered by...

crooksandliars — Massachusetts Republican and candidate running for John Kerry's Senate seat Gabriel Gomez is true billionaire tea party material. He's a guy who made most of his money in hedge funds, has good buddies in lofty financial circles, and hates anyone who isn't as extreme as he is. Gomez became a...

lnmc.crooksandliars — Title: Ленинград — РыбаArtist: ЛенинградSaturday! I don't know who Ленинград is, but I sure like them.

my.firedoglake — Written by Sarah Posner for RH Reality Check. A subcommittee of the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Thursday on a bill that would impose an unconstitutional nationwide ban on abortions after 20 weeks post-fertilization. Four witnesses sat at the table during that hearing, but there was really only one person...

huffingtonpost — Even before the F.B.I. conducted 550 interviews of officials and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters in a leak investigation connected to a 2012 article about a Yemen bomb plot, agents had sought the same reporters' sources for two other articles about terrorism.

wizbangblog — There has been much speculation in the media on why Obama’s current scandal of the IRS targeting conservative groups for attack didn’t come out last year when the initial flurry of reportage on the incident was seen. Well, The New York Times thinks it has the answer: it was Rush...

my.firedoglake — James RosenCrossposted at The Impolitic It seems my friend Dan at Pruning Shears and I are having a disagreement. I don’t think we’re actually as far apart on the government surveillance of the media as he does. I think I made rather clear in my earlier post on James Rosen...

hotair — Media matters. Dear colleagues, The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. We reject the government’s...

videocafe.crooksandliars — Click here to view this media It's clear that Rep. Steve King is no fan of immigration reform, or amnesty as he calls it. It's also clear that he and other wingnuts in congress should be really leery of using foreign concepts to them such as "statistical analysis" when they're...

my.firedoglake — Sometimes it seems like we aren’t accomplishing anything, progressive websites don’t have very many readers, Republicans ridicule us, Democrats ignore us, and tens of millions of Americans don’t even know we exist. The following words reflect how many of us feel . . . It’s difficult in times like...

crooksandliars — That's a video promotion for Teach for America, the reformer billionaires' favorite educational non-profit organization. The general concept is to take college graduates, no matter what their major is, give them six weeks of training and then send them out to teach kids in inner-city schools. In theory, it's a...

hotair — Coming up short That Gang of 8 thing may not have been such a shoe-in after all. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has come back to report that, despite having sailed through the Judiciary Committee and garnering the support of at least four Republicans, they may still be coming up short.. “We don’t...

my.firedoglake — I just submitted this petition to the White House niche, We the People: We petition the Obama Administration to Invite Medea Benjamin to the White House for a beer. On May 23, 2013, President Obama gave an important address at the National Defense University. Near the end, indefatigable peace activist, Medea Benjamin,...

redstate — It seemed like the one thousandth call I’d taken from a Tea Party activist attempting our well-known strategy of putting our people in voting seats in our local county and state parties.   This activist and his Tea Party cohort had actually had far more success than he fully realized....

hotair — Bootleg While we pause this weekend to recognize the Honored Dead, many of you may be considering heading out with friends to hoist a few cold ones in their memory. But if you’re heading to your favorite watering hole and plan on having some mixed drinks or a shot of hard...

huffingtonpost — ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to work hard in the coming months to ease tensions between Sudan and South Sudan. Kerry,...

hotair — Incriminating We’ve been covering the Lois Lerner saga for you wall to wall this month, up to and including the paid vacation she received in exchange for collectively flipping us all the bird, so there’s no need for much of a recap to bring you up to date. But the...

crooksandliars — Today is Towel Day! Don't forget your towels, hoopy froods! More details on how to celebrate at the Towel Day website. Open thread below...

huffingtonpost — ROSELLE, N.J. -- Newark Mayor Cory Booker is calling on Democrats in New Jersey to unite behind the party's gubernatorial candidate in an effort to stop party infighting that has become a dominate theme in the campaign. Booker told The Huffington Post Friday that with a Democratic enrollment advantage in...

huffingtonpost — Holding on to the conservative label can be tough, especially if you have your own ideas that counter the mainstream, according to Paul Krugman. The Nobel Prize-winning economist wrote in a blog post Saturday that people who identify as conservative, but take stances opposing the conservative mainstream -- acknowledging the...

huffingtonpost — WASHINGTON -- Within hours of the Boston Marathon blasts, government officials and Boston Muslims called each other to offer assistance, calls that were the fruits of years of cultivating such relationships in an effort to ultimately prevent the very type of attack Boston experienced April 15. But the calls following the...

huffingtonpost — SEATTLE — Thousands of bridges around the U.S. may be one freak accident or mistake away from collapse, even if the spans are deemed structurally sound. The crossings are kept standing by engineering design, not supported with brute strength or redundant protections like their more modern counterparts. Bridge regulators call the...

huffingtonpost — WEST POINT, N.Y. — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on Saturday that they must stamp out the scourge of sexual assault in the military. A day after President Barack Obama delivered a similar edict to U.S. Naval Academy graduates, Hagel's message comes...