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NCAA source: “Unprecedented” penalties against Penn State — (CBS News) CBS News has learned that the NCAA will announce what a high-ranking association source called “unprecedented” penalties against both the Penn State University football team and the school.
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Statue of Hall of Fame Penn State coach Joe Paterno taken down from outside football stadium — STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — The famed statue of Joe Paterno was taken down from outside the Penn State football stadium Sunday, eliminating a key piece of the iconography surrounding …
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KDVR.com:
Police interview associate of movie theater suspect — AURORA, Colo. — Aurora Police said they interviewed an associate of the suspect in the shooting spree Friday at the Century 16 Movie Theaters. — Sources tell FOX31 Denver reporter Justin Joseph that a second man is now a person …
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Twitchy, CANNONFIRE, Mediaite, The PJ Tatler and The Hinterland Gazette
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Rep. McCarthy says colleagues lack spine to take on the NRA — Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.), one of Congress's most outspoken advocates for gun control, criticized her colleagues Sunday for not standing up to the National Rifle Association to “save lives.”
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Hickenlooper: Stricter gun laws would likely not have stopped killer — Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) said Sunday he doubted tougher gun control laws would have averted the movie-house killings in Aurora, Colo., speculating the attacker could have found various ways to perpetrate a massacre.
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Christina Ng / ABCNEWS:
ABC News Exclusive: First Video of Colorado Shooting Suspect James Holmes Emerges — ABC News has obtained exclusive video and photos of Colorado shooting suspect James Holmes. The video was recorded six years ago when Holmes was 18. — Federal authorities and local police today …
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NY Daily News:
Aurora shooting suspect James Holmes jailed in solitary: ‘All the inmates were talking about killing him’ — ‘He was spitting at the door and spitting at the guards,’ a just-released inmate told the Daily News. 'He's spitting at everything. Dude was acting crazy.'
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Aviva Shen / ThinkProgress:
Tea Party Senator: Keeping Guns From ‘Demented Individuals’ Will ‘Restrict Our Freedoms’ — Responding to the tragic shooting in Colorado during an appearance on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said he would oppose gun control efforts that could be used to “restrict our freedoms” …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Feinstein urges assault weapons ban renewal after Colo. shootings
Feinstein urges assault weapons ban renewal after Colo. shootings
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iowahawk:
You Didn't Build That — 1 In the beginning Govt created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the economy was formless and void, darkness was over the surface of the ATMs, and the Spirit of Govt was hovering over the land. — 3 And Govt said, “Let there be spending,” and there was spending.
Los Angeles Times:
Obama's campaign attack on Romney was costly — President Obama's campaign spent $58 million in June, chiefly in TV advertising assailing his GOP rival's business record and personal finances. Romney spent less, but raised more than Obama. — Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson and his wife …
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Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Democratic billionaires boost pro-Obama super PAC
Democratic billionaires boost pro-Obama super PAC
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obama Campaign Spends More than $2.6 Million for Polling—in June
Obama Campaign Spends More than $2.6 Million for Polling—in June
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Althouse, Conservatives4Palin, The Gateway Pundit, Scared Monkeys and UrbanGrounds
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Rupert Murdoch Tweets Support for Gun Control — Conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch has Tweeted his support for gun control: … I guess this makes him a short-sighted, liberal, tree hugger. — Or are some things too important to remain in the septic tank of American political polemics?
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Bloomberg, The Daily Beast, Mashable! and The Agonist, more at Mediagazer »
James Asher / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
McClatchy's Washington Bureau establishes no-alter quote policy — To our staff and to our readers: — As you are aware, reporters from The New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg and others are agreeing to give government sources the right to clear and alter quotes as a prerequisite to granting an interview.
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Taylor Marsh, The Moderate Voice and Wake up America, more at Mediagazer »
Associated Press:
Poverty levels on rise — The ranks of America's poor are on track to climb to levels unseen in nearly half a century, erasing gains from the war on poverty in the 1960s amid a weak economy and fraying government safety net. — Census figures for 2011 will be released this fall in the weeks ahead of the November elections.
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Michelle Malkin, NewsBusters.org blogs and Weasel Zippers