Still no deal . . . Negotiators scrambling to chart Iran’s nuclear future said Wednesday that several “key issues” remain unresolved, casting doubt on earlier, more optimistic predictions that an agreement was ready to be drafted. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said progress has been made but characterized it as “slow going.” “I’m optimistic that we will make further progress this morning, but it does mean the Iranians being willing to meet us where there are still issues to deal with,” he told reporters. Washington Post​

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Late again . . . Everything in the Obama White House starts late, including Obama. Tardiness actually has the unfortunate effect of revealing underlying unseriousness, inattentiveness, a lack of discipline, and a penchant for screwing things up. Iran has surely noticed it is dealing with amateurs. It knows it can get away with a lot, both before and after a deal is finally signed. And it will. White House Dossier

Obama commutes sentences of 22 drug dealers . . . And he sprung them, I’m sure, because they promised promised to never never never never do it again! White House Dossier

Federal website blots out transparency . . . A redesign of a transparency website that provides information on federal spending by the Obama administration now makes it much more difficult to see how taxpayer dollars are spent. Washington Free Beacon

Kerry's Brian Williams problem . . . Kerry's pattern of exaggeration about the congressional hearings is disturbing. On repeated occasions, he has said or suggested that he and Gore were responsible for the first congressional hearing on climate change–and that he was one of the Senators who participated in the pivotal 1988 Hansen hearing organized by Wirth. Kerry was not even a participant in the most important hearing of that time; he simply spoke at a hearing that took place the following year. Washington Post

Quote of the Day || April 1, 2015

Obama Schedule || Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Top Clinton aide at State was Foundation director . . . Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff at the State Department was listed as a director at the Clinton Foundation in its corporate records for more than three years after joining the administration, highlighting concerns that Clinton’s aides were too close to the foundation during her tenure. Washington Free Beacon

Clinton ordered to testify by May 1 . . . Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, made the request after Clinton rejected his earlier demand that she turn over her private computer server, on which her emails were stored, to officials for a third-party review. Reuters

Clinton email mixed personal, business . . . Emails obtained by the AP show that Clinton occasionally mixed up personal correspondence with work-related matters. For example, Clinton once responded to an email about drone strikes in Pakistan from senior aide Huma Abedin with a series of questions about interior decorating. Washington Free Beacon

IRS chief learned not to use personal email in a minute . . . IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Tuesday that his agency’s policy is not to allow any use of personal email for work, and said he learned about that policy almost instantly when he sent a few work emails to his personal account in order to work from home. He said IT workers at the IRS talked to him about those emails “within a couple of days.” The Blaze

Republicans gaining on Clinton . . . A new poll released Tuesday by Quinnipiac University found Clinton trailing former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in the Sunshine State and enjoying only a 2 percentage point lead over Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). In February, she led both — with a 10-point lead on Rubio. The same poll found Clinton ahead of the GOP field in the must-win state of Pennsylvania but with only a 1-point lead over Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). The Hill

Donors not yet sold on Jeb . . . His fundraising trip to the left coast shows he’s a long way from being the clear choice for conservative establishment money. Politico​

Why some Dems are moving right . . . For Democrats looking to retake the Senate the formula is clear-cut: Win back white working-class voters, or be consigned to a longer-term minority. Most of the Senate battlegrounds run through the Midwest—Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio—along with New Hampshire, which carries demographic similarities with those older, whiter Great Lakes states. National Journal

Walker's unique constitutional problem . . . One thing about a President Scott Walker would perhaps be unprecedented: He's allergic to dogs. New York Times

Hezbollah could kill hundreds of Israeli civilians . . . According to the military assessments, between 1,000 and 1,500 rockets could hit Israel daily in the next full-blown conflict, killing hundreds of people and potentially paralyzing key installations like airports, sea ports and power stations. Reuters

Iraqis take Tikrit, but don't celebrate yet . . . Iraqi forces celebrated progress in Tikrit on Tuesday, but analysts cautioned that securing the city that Islamic State fighters have controlled since June is not complete and warned that the next step, to retake Mosul, would be even more difficult than the weekslong battle in Tikrit, which required U.S. aid. Washington Times

Religious freedom laws haven't been used to discriminate . . . Critics of Indiana’s newly signed RFRA — joined Tuesday by the Arkansas legislature’s passage of a similar bill — have warned that the law provides a “license to discriminate” against gay and transgender people, although that hasn’t been the case in the 22 years since President Bill Clinton signed the federal RFRA in 1993 or in 19 states that passed similar laws before Indiana. Instead, the federal law allowed Abdul Muhammad, a Muslim prisoner in Arkansas, to grow a half-inch beard. Washington Times

Reporters side openly against Indiana law . . . News organizations, including NPR, Gawker, Bloomberg News, the Huffington Post, the Week, CNN, Fusion, the Washington Post, Raw Story, Mashable, MSNBC, TechCrunch and News.mic, all published stories labeling the law — without using quotation marks — anti-gay. Washington Examiner

"There’s nothing more tiresome in modern American life than the indignation sweepstakes we get in all the time to see who can be most angry about this and that. Tim Cook as was mentioned, the CEO of Apple… thinks Indiana is a horrible place. He opened marketing and retailing operations in Saudi Arabia two months before a man was sentenced to 450 lashes for being gay. The selective indignation is itself wonderful, says George Will.

Global warming not all that? . . . A new study out of Germany casts further doubt on the so-called global warming “consensus” by suggesting the atmosphere may be less sensitive to increases in carbon dioxide emissions than most scientists think. Daily Caller

It hasn't warmed in nearly 20 years. I'm just saying . . . 

MSNBC sinks even further . . . Just when you thought things couldn't get any worse for MSNBC, along came the quarterly ratings reports. Politico

Laura Ingraham said ready to start news website . . . Laura Ingraham, the conservative radio host and Fox News contributor, is planning to launch a new conservative news and opinion website, according to sources. One source said that Neil Munro, the political reporter who resigned from the Daily Caller this week, will serve as the site's editor, though that could not immediately be confirmed. Politico

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