Gun control filibuster fails; Biden thinks AR-15s are like Ferraris; Delaware takes up marriage equality and more from the Slatest.

	Trouble viewing this email? View these recent stories in your browser.     Thursday, April 11, 2013 Stories from Slate and The Slatest, your daily news companion with @JoshVoorhees. Blog | Abby Ohlheiser Let the Gun Control Debate Begin (In The Senate) Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 11:40 AM EDT   Blog | Abby Ohlheiser Biden Simile Watch: AR-15 "Like Driving a Ferrari"  Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 11:01 AM EDT   Blog | David Weigel Delaware: The Next Blue State to Move on Marriage Equality Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 9:06 AM EDT   Blog | David Weigel The NRA Will "Score" A Cloture Vote for Gun Control After All Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at 9:25 PM EDT   War Stories | Fred Kaplan Line Item Warfare Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at 7:10 PM EDT If big military cuts are coming, they haven't arrived yet.   Blog | Abby Ohlheiser Michelle Obama: "Hadiya Pendleton Was Me" Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at 5:11 PM EDT   Bad Astronomy | Phil Plait NASA 2014 Budget: More for Asteroids, Less for Planets and Education Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 8:00 AM EDT   Politics | John Dickerson Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner? Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at 8:06 PM EDT Why the president may need to break bread with Democrats—not Republicans—if he wants to sell his budget.   Blog | Abby Ohlheiser Airbag Defect Prompts Recall of 3.4 Million Japanese Cars Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 10:09 AM EDT   Blog | Matthew Yglesias If McDonalds Wants Friendlier Service It Should Spend More On Hiring Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 10:51 AM EDT   Blog | Matthew Yglesias Does Obama's Positition on Chained CPI Make Any Sense? Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 9:16 AM EDT   View From Chicago | Eric Posner Fool's Gold Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 11:11 AM EDT Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme—the Internet's favorite currency will collapse.   Blog | David Rosenberg Slain Photojournalist Tim Hetherington's Intimate Portraits of War Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 10:58 AM EDT   Blog | Justin Peters Three Reasons Why A Guard Might Help a Prisoner Escape from Jail Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 10:53 AM EDT   Blog | Matthew Yglesias Do Labor Market Institutions Explain The Crisis? Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 10:24 AM EDT   BEST FEATURED STORIES A Theory That Explains Why Americans Parent Differently From Everyone Else Witness Rand Paul Condescending to Black College Students Rehtaeh Parsons Suicide: Using Photos to Sexually Humiliate Girls Needs to Be Illegal Yeah, I Ate the World's Hottest Pepper   Copyright 2013 The Slate Group | Privacy Policy The Slate Group | c/o E-mail Customer Care | 1350 Connecticut Avenue NW Suite 410 | Washington, D.C. 20036 Unsubscribe | Forward to a Friend