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Editor's note: Each week in "Apparently This Matters," CNN's applies his warped sensibilities to trending topics in social media and random items of interest on the Web.

(CNN) -- One day, a rather inconsiderate caveman turned to his cavewoman and said, "You know, Diane, you should really think about shaving your legs."

To which she replied, "Shut up, Kevin. Get a job."

Having yet to successfully create fire or invent the wheel, caveman Kevin was, all in all, sort of a lousy cave-husband. And, quite frankly, Diane was tired of being told what to do by a naked man who spent most of his time playing Golden Tee in a cave with his friends.

So she kept her legs just as they were. And nothing changed until around the 1940s. Which was a considerably long time.

Caveman Kevin never got to see his dream come true. Though he did finally ace the at Coconut Beach.

Obviously, there's no singular moment in history when Western women decided to start shaving their legs, but it was around the time of World War II when it sort of became a popular practice in America. And, consequently, it was about that same time when many Western men collectively decided that the presence of female leg hair was pretty much the worst thing in the entire world. Save for Nazis.

But it was a close second.

Of course, not every woman does it, not every woman should, and some women simply don't even need to. Nevertheless, the desire for smooth feminine Oakley Sunglass Outlet legs spread throughout many places in the world.

Which is why one particular hairy legged image went insanely viral this week after it was posted on the Chinese microblogging site Sina Weibo.

It wasn't just that these legs were cartoonishly covered in such a forest of grizzly scruff that sent them a formal letter of surrender.

It was the suggestion that these may have actually been hairy stockings for women, designed with the purpose of scaring away drooly men with lurking eyes.

The Chinese trend-watching site translated the picture's caption as: Super sexy, summertime anti-pervert full-leg-of-hair stockings, essential for all young girls going out.

Just like the other millions of people who saw this, I immediately searched all over the Web for any site where the stockings might be sold, and came up with nothing. Which was unfortunate, because, to the right buyer, they could make for a really funny bank robbery.

"Give me all the money!"

"Tee hee. OK."

Of course, the real question is: Are they real?

My gut (and all seven of my functioning brain cells) tells me no, but my heart wants to say yes. I simply need to believe that something this ridiculous might actually exist, for it confirms my longstanding suspicion that when it comes to good ideas, the world sort of oakley sunglasses topped out at .

However, if you look closely at the image, the leg hair just seems far too natural to be synthetic. Wholesale Oakley Sunglasses But, then again, there IS a fairly defined cutoff at the ankle, which suggests that maybe -- just maybe -- these are truly some form of leggings.

I still don't think that's what they are, but, for the sake of argument, let's just assume we're dealing with an actual product. Thus, we have to ask: Who would buy them?

Well, as the ChinaSMACK caption translation suggests, the supposed stockings are for any girl who wants to go out and not be bothered by ogling men. Or, perhaps, they're just for any girl who hopes to be courted by a gorilla.

"Hi, I'm Gary. Can I buy you a banana?"

Still, for those really wanting to avoid the low wandering eyes of dudes on the street, one has to wonder whether this is really a better solution than, say, pants. Or a dress. Or a one-piece black leather Catwoman suit.

OK, maybe not that last one.

Of course, many women simply don't want to fully cover up during the summer heat. Nevertheless, hairy leg stockings are still sort of an extreme measure. And, on top of that, you also dangerously risk attracting that super-creeper one who's very particular and absolutely lives for this sort of thing.

That's probably the guy you want to avoid in the first place -- the hairy-leg-loving mouth breather who rides the bus all day.

"Mother said I'd meet a girl like you."

So, the online debate continues. Real or fake? Useful or not?

Either way, the ghost of caveman Kevin is not impressed.

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Prosecutor Art dealer Bergantios Diaz was master of forgery - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Spanish art dealer Jose Carlos Berganti?os Diaz helped persuade wealthy buyers to shell out millions of dollars for works he claimed famous masters of modern art had painted.

But in reality, U.S. authorities allege, the works he sold as Rothkos and Pollocks were fakes painted by an artist he met on a Manhattan street corner.

The alleged scheme stretched for nearly two decades, involved several New York art galleries and earned the conspirators more than $30 million, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court on Monday.

Last week, authorities closed in on Berganti?os and his brother, arresting them in Spain, federal prosecutors said. The brothers, according to the indictment, face conspiracy and money laundering charges.

The painter, Pei Shen Qian, was also indicted. He's accused of making false statements to FBI agents, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud. Investigators believe he fled to China as the alleged scheme started to unravel.

The indictment is the latest chapter in a case that's rattled the modern art world, involving several galleries and wealthy buyers. Galleries made more than $80 million off of dozens of fake works, the indictment alleges. And Berganti?os and his associates made more than $33 million.

"Today's cheap oakley charges paint a picture of perpetual lies and greed. As alleged, the defendants tricked victims into paying more than $33 million for worthless paintings which they fabricated in the names of world-famous artists," U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement Monday. "The Berganti?os Diaz brothers then laundered and hid their illegal proceeds overseas. With today's Indictment, the defendants must now answer for their alleged roles as modern masters of forgery and deceit."

What started with a meeting between Berganti?os and Qian on a New York street corner evolved into an elaborate plot, the indictment alleges.

Qian would paint works in his home in Queens, New York. Then Berganti?os and his associates would peddle them through galleries to unsuspecting buyers who paid millions, the indictment says.

The alleged forged works purported to be paintings by famous artists, including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell Discount Oakley Sunglasses Cheap and Clyfford Still, the indictment says.

But long before the works of art were sold, according to the indictment, Berganti?os played a role in the forgeries.

To make the paintings more convincing, Berganti?os bought old canvases at flea markets, stained newer canvases with tea bags to make them look older and gave Qian old paint to use.

Then, after the works were completed, according to the indictment, Berganti?os "subjected many fake works to various processes, such as heating them, cooling them, and exposing them to the elements outdoors, in an attempt to make the fake works seem older than they actually were."

In at least one instance, the indictment says, Berganti?os used a blow dryer to heat up a forged painting.

Authorities have said his girlfriend, Glafira Rosales, was a key player in the alleged conspiracy. After pleading guilty last year to charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering and filing false federal income tax returns, she's awaiting sentencing in federal court.

In an in Shanghai last year, Qian admitted imitating modern masters' works, but said he never intended to pass them off for profit. In court documents, prosecutors allege he received between several hundred and several thousand dollars for paintings the art dealers and galleries sold for millions.

"I made a knife to cut fruit," he said, according to Bloomberg. "But if others use it to kill, blaming me is unfair."

If the lawsuits filed against Berganti?os and his associates are any indication, there's already plenty of finger-pointing over the alleged forgeries.

A number of civil cases against him are still pending, according to federal court records.

It was not immediately clear whether Berganti?os had legal representation or whether Spanish authorities plan Discount cheap oakley to extradite him to the United States.

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U.N. committee on sexual abuse grills Vatican officials - CNN.com

(CNN) -- A senior Vatican official acknowledged Thursday there is "no excuse" for child sex abuse, as he and others were grilled by a U.N. committee about the Catholic Church's handling of pedophile priests.

It's the first time the Vatican has been forced to answer allegations so publicly that it enabled the sexual abuse of children by protecting such priests.

The committee questioned a handful of Vatican officials -- including Monsignor Silvano Tomasi, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva, and Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican's former chief sex-crimes prosecutor -- for several hours Thursday in Switzerland.

In his opening remarks, Tomasi said, "There is no excuse for any form of sexual violence or exploitation of children. Such crimes can never be justified, whether committed in the home, in schools, in community and sports programs, in religious organizations and structures. This is the longstanding policy of the Holy See."

He said the body would welcome any suggestions on promoting and respecting children's rights from the panel, the U.N. Committee on the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

In a series of hard-hitting questions, committee member Sara Oviedo pressed Tomasi over what kind of sanctions are imposed on abusive priests and whether they are handed over to the justice systems of the countries where crimes are committed.

The Vatican officials were also questioned on what is being done to prevent bishops transferring problem priests to different parishes in order to cover up their abuses.

Since taking the helm of the Roman Catholic Church in March, Pope Francis has told a senior Vatican official to carry out "due proceedings against the guilty" in sexual abuse cases.

Scicluna: No 'coverups'

Scicluna said he was there to say that "the Holy See 'gets it' " with regard to the issue and that no one should stand in the way of the prosecution of abusive priests.

"Let's not say too late or not," he said. "But there are certain things that need to be done differently. I would talk about cover-up, for example, because this is a very important concern."

States "need to take action against citizens of the country who obstruct justice in such an egregious crime as sexual abuse of minors, whoever these people are," Scicluna said.

"It is not a policy of the Holy See to encourage cover-ups," he said. "This goes against the truth. Only the truth will help us move on to a situation when we can start being ... an example of best practice."

This comes down to the Roman Catholic Church's work on the ground, Scicluna said, not just words.

He said that education of clergy and laypeople connected to the church is key, as is the enforcement of guidelines on child protection.

As for priests who have committed sexual abuse of minors, the Holy See has made clear in a letter to bishops that it is "a no-go simply to move people from one place to another, from one diocese to another" without being open about their backgrounds, Scicluna said.

The Vatican officials were also quizzed on transparency. "The best way to prevent new offenses is to reveal old ones and to remove the offender from positions where he or she will have the opportunity to reoffend -- so openness instead of sweeping the offenses under the carpet," a panel member said.

The panel also urged the Vatican officials to do "very concrete things" to help those who have suffered abuse by clergy, and to give them "closure" so they can move forward.

"It's a first step," Joelle Casteix, a regional director for SNAP -- the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests -- said ahead of Thursday's hearing. "Five years ago, we never thought that something like this would even be possible."

But the Center for Constitutional Rights, a nonprofit legal group which has worked alongside SNAP, said the Vatican had "consistently refused to accept responsibility" for sexual abuse of children and that its response was still "unsatisfactory."

"The Vatican attempted to relegate the issue to the past and claim it is a new era, that they now 'get it,' but they continue to refuse to turn over records for prosecution, punish higher-ups that Oakley Closeouts covered up the crimes, or provide any real evidence that they are now putting the safety of children above the reputation of the Church," said an attorney for the center, Pam Spees.

"Nonetheless, today's Discounted Oakley Sunglasses For Men hearing is a milestone in calling for an end to these days of impunity. The international community is demanding answers, and that is the first step toward true accountability and, we hope, an end to the widespread violence against children."

'A wound that hurts the church'

Panel members said that what the Vatican officials expressed Thursday was a welcome change in attitudes and that they wanted to see the measures promised become a reality.

Tomasi assured them that action on the issue of sex abuse was a priority.

"For the Holy See, the whole problem of the abuse of children is a wound that hurts 2013 Oakley Sunglassess the church as a community of faith, and it's a suffering first of all within the community of faith," he said.

"And therefore it becomes not just a legal but moral and human commitment to continue to support and defend the principles of the convention that are protecting the children in a very specific way."

CNN's senior Vatican analyst, John Allen, said observers are looking to see whether the Vatican under Francis' leadership will crack down on bishops accused of covering up abuse by their priests.

It's rare to see senior Vatican officials grilled in public in the way they were Thursday, Allen said.

While the details that have emerged are not new, he said, the hearing signals that the world is watching to see whether the expectations of reform raised by Francis' steps so far will be matched by action on the ground.

One matter of contention is that the Holy See argues that its direct jurisdiction extends only to the tiny Vatican City state and not to the Roman Catholic Church as a whole, although it provides guidelines to it.

Other questions asked Thursday dealt with the church's approach to forced adoptions of children, including historical cases where religious bodies in Ireland and Spain are accused of removing children born to unmarried mothers, who were then given to "more suitable" adoptive parents.

The panel asked the Vatican officials what action was being taken to reunite those children with their families and to punish those responsible for their removal.

It also urged them to encourage care of orphaned or abandoned children in homes rather than in church-run institutions, where they may be vulnerable to abuse.

The Holy See ratified the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990, but critics say it is failing to abide by its provisions.

Pope: 'Act decisively'

In April, Francis recommended that the church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ", first of all by promoting measures for the protection of minors, as well as in offering assistance to those who have suffered abuse, carrying out due proceedings against the guilty," the Vatican said at the time.

The statement does not specify who "the guilty" are.

But in recent years, priests, nuns and other people connected to the Catholic Church have been accused of sexually abusing children.

Francis called for the church hierarchy to "formulate and implement" directives to address an area he described as "so important" to the church's credibility and worship.

'Most vulnerable' victims

Even with the inroads made, SNAP would like to see more action from the Vatican.

"Pope Francis has been a very popular pope, but when it comes to child sexual abuse, he has followed the same strategies as his predecessors," Casteix said.

His predecessor, Benedict XVI, said many times that abusers should be prosecuted, but SNAP and other victims' groups said he did too little.

Benedict spoke with some victims of sexual abuse by priests on papal visits to countries including the United States and the United Kingdom, where he expressed his "deep sorrow" about the scandal. The Vatican selected those he met.

The challenge for Francis is to do more, Casteix said.

"This is a man who has a rock star-like popularity. He has reached out to the poor; he has reached out to the desperate and the vulnerable. But he has continually ignored the sex abuse victims, those who are the most vulnerable and who were hurt by his clerics," Casteix said.

"It is time, it is a simply easy thing for him to do, and I believe that this hearing will really prove to him and the world how important it is that he take decisive action to stop abuse and coverup."

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Should Obama use the power of his pen to push immigration reform - CNN.com

Washington (CNN) -- Immigration champion Rep. Luis Gutierrez feels confident that President Barack Obama will use his executive powers to push through reform. House Speaker John Boehner feels confident that doing so will tank what little support the President has among Republicans on immigration reform.

They're both right, immigration law experts say.

After pushback from immigration activists and some members of his party, the President has directed his administration to reexamine its deportation policy.

The administration could shift noncriminals and minor offenders to the lowest deportation priorities.

"I think the President has a difficult decision to make here," said Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor at Cornell University Law School. "The courts have upheld wide discretion on immigration matters. He could make noncriminals the lowest deportation priorities. ... But there is a penalty he could pay through using executive action rather than waiting for Congress to act on immigration reform."

That political price, Boehner told Fox News last week, is "that will make it almost impossible to ever do immigration reform, because he will spoil the well to the point where no one will trust him by giving him a new law that he will implement the way the Congress intended."

"The American people want us to deal with immigration reform," Boehner said on Fox News' "Kelly File" during the same interview. "But every time the President ignores the law, like the 38 times he has on Obamacare, our members look up and go, 'Wait a minute: You can't have immigration reform without strong border security and internal enforcement. How can we trust the President to actually obey the law and enforce the law that we would write?'"

Legislation stuck in the House

Last year, the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform package -- which includes a citizenship path for an estimated 8 million of the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the country, according to the Congressional Budget Office.

Roughly one-third of that chamber's Republicans supported the measure, but the legislation has been stymied in the Republican-controlled House as lawmakers there hammer out more incremental approaches to such things as a path to legalization.

In the meantime, Obama has faced increasing pressure from immigration activists and members of his own party to use the power of his pen to help stem the high number of deportations that have occurred during his administration.

Under this President, there have been roughly 2 million deportations, a number that far exceeds that of previous administrations and led the head of the National Council of La Raza to dub him ""

There are things Obama could do right away, experts say.

Currently, law enforcement agents along the border and those investigating national security matters can engage in ethnic or racial profiling. Federal agents elsewhere in the country can profile based on a person's religion, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identification if they suspect immigration or national security laws have been broken.

Obama could, through executive action, expand a ban on any kind of profiling, according to a released Tuesday by the Brennan Center at New York University's School of Law, which would reduce the amount of people taken into custody and reduce deportations.

"This is something the President has known he could do since the beginning of his administration," said Faiza Patel, co-director of the Brennan Center's Liberty and National Security Program. "And I do think the renewed commitment to doing executive action should help push things forward."

The Justice Department is reviewing racial profiling in federal law enforcement, and the White House recently directed the Justice Department to include Homeland Security in its review.

Why hasn't Obama acted on immigration?

The President's apparent reluctance to use the power of his office to more heavily push immigration reform is a bit baffling, immigration and political analysts say.

"It's a mystery," said CNN senior political analyst David Gergen. "He clearly cares, but he hasn't fought the issue. Public opinion is still malleable on this. ...This is an opportunity for the President to get back into this fight and embrace the Jeb Bush spirit," Gergen said of the former Florida governor's "compassionate conservative" approach to immigration, which includes understanding the impact of deportation on families.

Obama said in November that he does not have the power to halt the record number of deportations that have occurred under his watch. But he does have some latitude in implementing such laws, immigration law experts say.

Using prosecutorial discretion, the executive branch has the "inherent power to choose which cases to act on," Richard A. Boswell, an immigration law professor at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, told CNN.

Some prominent Democrats agree and point to his executive action in 2012 in halting the deportations of "Dreamers," the children of undocumented immigrants dubbed for the DREAM Act, which would have provided amnesty for them.

"Mr. President, you do have the power to stop what's going on," Rep. Charles Rangel, D-New York, said at a news conference in December calling for an end to the deportations.

Rangel and Gutierrez were among the 30 Democratic lawmakers who signed a letter telling the President that not only did he have the authority to halt the high number of deportations, but "our efforts in Congress will only be helped by the sensible and moral step of stopping deportations."

Obama netted 71% of the Latino vote in the last election, while Republican nominee Mitt Romney garnered 27%. Hispanics are the fastest-growing minority group.

GOP wants to expand appeal beyond its base

After the GOP's losses among African-Americans, women and Latinos, the party performed an autopsy of sorts and has since redoubled efforts to make better inroads with those groups.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi last week said race was part of the reason Republicans in that chamber are blocking immigration reform efforts.

"I think race has something to do with the fact that they're not bringing up an immigration bill," she said.

However, despite the popularity the President enjoyed among Hispanics, a minority group that has been vocal about the record-high deportations, using executive action to do more on immigration reform could have negative political consequences, said Yale-Loehr, the Cornell University Law School professor.

"In the short term for Obama himself, it might not matter, but what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," Yale-Loehr said. "If a Republican president made an executive action and used Obama as an example to say 'I could do what I want,' it could hurt Democrats."

Still, strong signals from the White House recently in directing Homeland Security to look into how it can apply immigration laws "more humanely" give members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and their constituents hope.

Gutierrez took to the House floor recently to warn Republicans that when it comes to immigration, a day of reckoning is coming.

"If you refuse to give the President a bill he can sign because you do not trust him to enforce immigration laws ... he will act without you," Gutierrez, a Democrat who hails from the President's home state of Illinois, said on the House floor this month.

"He has alternatives under existing law. There are concrete ways within existing law to help keep families together and spare U.S. citizens from losing their wives, their husbands and their children to deportation. In spite of your lack of action," Gutierrez said. "And I believe the President is going to use those tools. I saw it in his eyes when I met with him."

CNN's Leigh Ann Caldwell contributed to this report.

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18 – April – 2014 – CNN Political Ticker - CNN.com Blogs

CNN's GUT CHECK for April 18, 2014 5 p.m.
- n. a pause to assess the state, progress or condition of the political news cycle

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION PUNTS KEYSTONE DECISION … The Obama administration on the Keystone XL pipeline Friday, telling multiple leaders in Congress it is extending the comment period on the matter until the conclusion of a Nebraska lawsuit on the issue… An earlier State Department report on the pipeline found that it would have no significant environmental impact. That report was initially due to be finalized after a public comment period ended in early May, but the Obama administration is now holding that period open.– Lisa Desjardins

Keystone advocates immediately blasted the decision. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, called the extension, “shameful” and “egregious.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, joked: “I guess (the president) wasn’t serious about having a pen and a phone.” Sens. Heidi Heitkamp, D-North Dakota, and Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, called the delay “ridiculous” and “unacceptable.”

Environmental groups were pleased. “The State Department is taking the most prudent course of action possible,” the National Resources Defense Council said in a statement. “The newly extended comment period will show what we already know: the more Americans learn about this project, the more they see that the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is not in the national interest.’’

UKRAINE SEPARATIST LEADER REJECTS DEAL … The self-declared leader of pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukraine city of Donetsk on Friday for protesters to vacate seized buildings and lay down their arms. The deal was agreed to by Russia, Ukraine and the West. – Laura Smith-Spark and Phil Black

AS HILL LAWMAKERS ARGUE FOR MORE UKRAINE AID … The White House is not going far enough in sending aid to Ukraine, top House Armed Services Committee Republicans and Democrats said in a letter to President Obama that was obtained by CNN. Committee Chairman Buck McKeon, ranking Democrat Adam Smith and ten other panel members wrote the president late Thursday night after the White House announced another round of non-lethal aid to Ukraine. – Lisa Desjardins

… AND CORKER PUSHES FOR LETHAL ASSISTANCE: The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tennessee’s Bob Corker, tells that Russia is “playing” the U.S. “I think it's time for us to consider anti-tank weaponry, anti-aircraft weaponry” for Ukraine’s military, Corker tells Tapper. “Obviously, Russia is going to far outman them.”

FIRST ON CNN: MEMO SAYS GOP COMPETITIVE IN FIVE MORE SENATE RACES … The National Republican Senatorial Committee argues Republicans have expanded the 2014 playing field with as the GOP seeks to retake control of the upper chamber. In a memo released to consultants Friday morning, NRSC political director Ward Baker writes that Republicans have become competitive in Colorado, New Hampshire, Virginia, Oregon and Minnesota since the start of the year.

MORE CLINTON-ERA DOCUMENTS RELEASED … The Clinton Presidential Library released a fourth batch of confidential memos, notes and other papers on Friday … The release spans a range of issues from the 1990s, including Clear Oakley Sunglasses Rwanda, the Oklahoma City bombing, the former Yugoslavia, affirmative action and immigrant detention.

Highlights include concerns about a summit with Bush 41 and Colin Powell, a memo written to the Clintons and Gores about the Jetsons and other educational cable programing for children, governance in the District of Columbia and the politics of funerals.
See what we’ve found so far in .

THE BUZZ: HUFFINGTON TELLS TAPPER: ‘WE ARE LIVING UNDER A COLLECTIVE DELUSION’ … Arianna Huffington frequently tweets about the power of yoga and the need to take time to relax, meditate and exercise. But how does one of the most successful media moguls in the world make time for all those things? In an interview on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Huffington explains that a case of extreme exhaustion in 2007 caused her to reassess her personal priorities and reexamine the culture we live in. “Our culture has glamorized sleep deprivation as a kind of virility symbol and assumes that is the only way to succeed,” Huffington says. She argues that we are living in “a collective delusion” where burnout equates with success, and argues that that mentality is actually counterproductive.

MARKET WATCH: U.S. markets were closed for Good Friday.

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Amy Kremer, the Tea Party Express chairwoman who has played a major role Oakley Sunglasses in elections for the past five years, is resigning. "This has been a really difficult decision for me, but the time has come for me to leave Tea Party Express," Kremer said Friday. – Ashley Killough and Steve Brusk and Paul Steinhauser

Leading Monroe News Star:
Leah Gordon, the staff member of U.S. Rep. Vance McAllister who is accused of leaking the video of the congressman’s scandalous kiss, has resigned as his Monroe District Office manager. Adam Terry, McAllister’s chief of staff, confirmed her resignation late Wednesday. He said Gordon wasn’t fired. – Greg Hilborn

Leading Drudge:
To "honor the dignity and work of immigrants," Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi helps Bishop Marc Andrus wash the feet of two children Thursday at Saint John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in San Francisco.

Leading HuffPo:
"It's hard to get accurate numbers on anything," Huelskamp told his constituents at a town hall in Salina, Kansas, according to video posted by Eagle Community Television. "But the numbers we see today is that - as I understand them - we believe there are more people uninsured today in Kansas than there were before the president's health care plan went into effect. And I thought the goal was to bring more people into insurance." – Andrew Perez

Leading Politico:
Elizabeth Warren’s upcoming book chronicles many private meetings with powerful politicians such as President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Tim Geithner. The Massachusetts Democrat also describes conversations with plenty of other Washington bold-faced names, including Larry Summers; Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas); and Guy Cecil, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Not surprisingly, not all of the officials are given flattering portrayals in the book.- M.J. Lee

Leading New York Times:
Hand over your email address to a political campaign, and typically all you can expect in return is an endless stream of solicitations for money. But one supporter of Greg Brophy, a state senator who ran for governor in Colorado, got something else: a Smith & Wesson M&P15 rifle. – Jeremy Peters

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– Harry Reid calls Nevada cattle rancher’s backers 'domestic terrorists' –
REID AT A Q&A THURSDAY EVENING: "Those people who hold themselves out to be patriots are not. They’re nothing more than domestic terrorists … I repeat: What went on up there was domestic terrorism.”

– Rand Paul to Harry Reid: ‘Calm the rhetoric’ –
SEN. RAND PAUL, R-KENTUCKY, ON FOX NEWS THURSDAY: “I don't think calling people names is going to calm this down. I think it's liable to stir it up. So I think all parties, including Senator Reid, should calm the rhetoric a little bit. Let's try to have a peaceful resolution to this.”

– Snowden reveals why he divulged classified NSA information –
EDWARD SNOWDEN IN AN IN THE GUARDIAN: “Clapper's lie – to the Senate and to the public – was a major motivating force behind my decision to go public, and a historic example of the importance of official accountability.”

– Brendan Buck to media: “Chill” –
BOEHNER SPOKESMAN BRENDAN BUCK ON REPORTS THE SPEAKER IS ‘HELLBENT’ ON IMMIGRATION REFORM: “Because many of you are asking, here is a comment from me on the status of immigration, which as you will see is the same as it has been. Everyone can tell their editors to chill. The House’s focus remains on jobs and the economy. Nothing has changed. As he's said many times, the Speaker believes step-by-step reform is important, but it won't happen until the president builds trust and demonstrates a commitment to the rule of law."

– Daily Caller News Foundation editor: ‘Voting against Bushes is an act of love’ –
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION’S JIM ANTLE IN AN : “Neither President Bush left the Republican Party in better shape than he found it … Thank the GOP’s first family for their service. Viewed under a thousand points of light, they’ve done a heckuva job. But somewhere in this kinder, gentler nation there must be an alternative. Sometimes voting against Bushes is an act of love.”

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Nick Confessore (?@nickconfessore)
Release from @TomSteyer on Keystone: "This is rotten eggs for TransCanada and good news on Good Friday"

Reince Priebus (@Reince)
Voters will remember #KeystoneXL delays next time @BarackObama says he's serious about income inequality. Tom Steyer: 1; American jobs: 0.

Chad Pergram (?@ChadPergram)
Sens Begich & Landrieu, both facing tough re-elections, blast Obama Admin for latest Keystone delay.

Brad Dayspring ?(@BDayspring)
Mary Landrieu yesterday: "My Energy Chairmanship is good for #Louisiana!" Mary Landrieu today: "I am powerless on #Keystone" #LAsen

Robert Costa ?(@costareports)
scoop: Romney has donated to and privately endorsed Elise Stefanik, Steve Daines, Tony Strickland... rollouts soon

Steve Scully (?@SteveScully)
No Senate run for K Sebelius – Kansas Dems look for alternatives @CSPANPolitics

Alan He ?(@alanhe)
#clintondocs In jan 13, 1999 meeting on SOTU, Clinton worries about appearing obsessed with Saddam Hussein. pic.twitter.com/wymPxq7BjD

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Advice to Bill b4 a presser: "3 touchstones you can keep coming back to...you're calm, you're just out here doing your job" #ClintonDocs

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Rob Ford launches re-election campaign by thanking those who stood by him in “rocky" times. pic.twitter.com/0NzYSD8h9d

Al Garcia ?(@AlGarciaUSA)
Nebraska Senate: Shane Osborn has Grover Norquist on his side...Ben Sasse has Mike Lee and Sarah Palin on his side …

Andrew Malcolm ?(@AHMalcolm)
Illinois makes an offer it hopes Obama can't refuse: $100 million in taxpayer funds to lure his library site …

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. @WolfBlitzer Reports: Popes & Presidents airs on Easter Sunday at 2 p.m. ET. pic.twitter.com/9VeMNq96Et

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Obama: "Democrats should forcefully defend & be proud” of ACA. @MoElleithee @seanspicer @StuPolitics & the #Obamacare effect Sun 9a @CNNsotu

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