Tuesday, April 8, 2014

RSN: Oil Consultant Turned Whistleblower Exposes Fracking Crimes in Alberta, A Stupid Senate Tradition Could Force Obama to Put a Tea Party Judge on the Federal Bench, et al



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Frank Rich | Obama Won the Obamacare War, But the GOP Won't Concede
New York Magazine columnist Frank Rich. (photo: NY Magazine)
Frank Rich, New York Magazine
Rich writes: "We can only hope that Karl Rove will have another breakdown on television when he faces the reality that Obamacare has won over a significant segment of the electorate just as surely as Obama took Ohio on Election Night."
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Fury at Attack on Dianne Feinstein by Ex-CIA Director Michael Hayden
Rory Carroll, Guardian UK
Carroll writes: "Ron Wyden, a member of the Senate intelligence committee, said on Monday that Michael Hayden's attack on Feinstein, the committee chairperson, was 'outrageous' and fitted a pattern of 'misleading' the American public."
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A Stupid Senate Tradition Could Force Obama to Put a Tea Party Judge on the Federal Bench
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress
Millhiser writes: "Until recently, Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate delegation seemed all but certain to recommend that President Obama nominate a conservative attorney with close ties to former senator and presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-PA) for a federal judgeship in that state."
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Ukrainian Troops Move to Reassert Control in East
David M. Herszenhorn and Andrew Roth, The New York Times
Excerpt: "Ukrainian Interior Ministry troops expelled pro-Russian demonstrators from a regional administration building in the eastern city of Kharkiv early on Tuesday, arresting about 70 protesters as the provisional government in Kiev moved to exert control over unrest."
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Senate Votes to Extend Unemployment Benefits
Wesley Lowery, The Washington Post
Lowery writes: "The deal, carried by Democratic senators but struck with the support of several prominent Republicans - including Sens. Rob Portman (Ohio), Kelly Ayotte (N.H.) and Mark Kirk (Ill.) - came on the Senate's fourth vote on a bill to renew the benefits."
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Oil Consultant Turned Whistleblower Exposes Fracking Crimes in Alberta
Anthony Hall, EcoWatch
Hall writes: "In 2007, Jessica Ernst the scientist became Jessica Ernst the whistleblower. Bringing forward evidence that her own water well and those of her neighbors had been severely contaminated, Ernst sued the EnCanada Corporation."
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