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Michael Dobbs / Washington Post:
Chuck Colson dies at 80: Watergate scandal figure became an evangelist — View Photo Gallery — Charles W. Colson, political operative and prison ministry founder, dies at 80: The Republican political operative who boasted he would “walk over my own grandmother” to ensure the reelection …
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Tim Weiner / New York Times:
Charles W. Colson, Watergate Felon Who Became Evangelical Leader, Dies at 80 — Charles W. Colson, who served as a political saboteur for President Richard M. Nixon, masterminded some of the dirty tricks that led to the president's downfall, then emerged from prison to become an important evangelical leader …
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Prison Fellowship and National Review
David Barstow / New York Times:
At Wal-Mart in Mexico, a Bribe Inquiry Silenced — Confronted with evidence of widespread corruption in Mexico, top Wal-Mart executives focused more on damage control than on rooting out wrongdoing, an examination by The New York Times found. — In Mexico, Wal-Mart advertises its stores on green signs …
Lauren Slater / New York Times:
How Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Patients Face Death — Pam Sakuda was 55 when she found out she was dying. Shortly after having a tumor removed from her colon, she heard the doctor's dreaded words: Stage 4; metastatic. Sakuda was given 6 to 14 months to live.
Karl / Hot Air:
PolitiFact goes to the dogs — PolitiFact, supposedly devoted to helping you find the truth in politics, addressed the story about Barack Obama eating a dog, quoting from his book, Dreams from My Father: … Although the heart of PolitiFact is the Truth-O-Meter, which they use …
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Louis Jacobson / PolitiFact:
In context: Obama's comments on eating dog in Indonesia
In context: Obama's comments on eating dog in Indonesia
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The PJ Tatler
Chicago News and Weather:
Suspect: I Beat Up White Man Because I Am Mad About Trayvon Martin Case — Maywood, Ill. - Alton L. Hayes III, a west suburban man charged with a hate crime, told police he was so upset about the Trayvon Martin case in Florida that he beat up a white man early Tuesday.
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Mark Strassmann / CBS News:
George Zimmerman's release could be imminent
George Zimmerman's release could be imminent
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The Radio Equalizer, Scared Monkeys, The Gateway Pundit, Conservatives4Palin and Associated Press
Chris Cillizza / Washington Post:
Orrin Hatch pushed into primary in Utah Senate race — Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch will face off against conservative former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist in a June primary after the six-term incumbent failed to win 60 percent of the vote at the state Republican convention on Saturday.
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Hatch falls just short at Utah GOP convention, will face primary
Hatch falls just short at Utah GOP convention, will face primary
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Politico
Matt Canham / Salt Lake Tribune:
Hatch will go to first primary in decades, faces Liljenquist
Hatch will go to first primary in decades, faces Liljenquist
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Hot Air and The Daily Caller
James Hohmann / Politico:
GOP elite holds off the tea partiers — SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Republican Party establishment has withstood the tea-party revolution. — The tricorne-hat wearing, Gadsden-flag waving insurgents were nowhere near the Republican National Committee's annual meeting of state chairman …
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Rick Pearson / Chicago Tribune:
Wisconsin Gov. Walker says he'll prevail in recall — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said Friday he believes he won't be recalled from office in June, and that result will send a message to all politicians that “you can make the tough choices and there will be voters helping you along the way.”
Lee Stranahan / BREITBART.COM:
VAST LEFT WING CONSPIRACY: DOJ REFERS REPORTER TO MEDIA MATTERS, SOURCE CLAIMS — Katie Dixon, a ‘confidential assistant’ in the Office of Public Affairs at the Department of Justice, reportedly sent an email to Washington Free Beacon writer C.J. Ciaramella saying that she had been directed …
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Washington Free Beacon, RedState, The Jawa Report and The Right Sphere
Mark Steyn / National Review:
Grope and Change — Unlike the government of the United States, I can't claim any hands-on experience with Colombian hookers. But I was impressed by the rates charged by Miss Dania Suarez, and even more impressed by the U.S. Secret Service's response to them. — Cartagena's most famous “escort” costs $800.
Marc Santora / New York Times:
The City of Sky-High Rent — GARY L. MALIN, the president of Citi Habitats, the city's largest rental brokerage firm, has seen the real estate market at its giddiest heights and its deepest despair. There should be little that surprises him. — But when Mr. Malin's company was preparing …
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
Poly Wanna Cracker? — Another attack on Romney predictably backfires. — (Best of the tube tonight: Watch us on “Hannity,” Fox News Channel, 9 p.m. ET, with a repeat showing at midnight ET. The “Great American Panel” starts around the half-hour mark.)
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Campaign 2012, NewsBusters.org, The Huffington Post, The Volokh Conspiracy and The Daily Caller