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Annie-Rose Strasser / ThinkProgress:
Host Of TV Gun Show 'A Rifleman's Journal' Shot And Killed — The host of The Sportsman Channel's “A Rifleman's Journal” was shot and killed in Montana on Friday. The gunman, seemingly a jealous husband, then turned the weapon on himself. — It is not yet clear if the weapon used in the crime was obtained legally.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, The Impolitic, Althouse and The Raw Story
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Crimesider / CBS News:
Gregory Rodriguez, Sportsman Channel host of “A Rifleman's Journal,” killed by gunman who also killed himself, Mont. police say — (CBS/AP) WHITEFISH, Mont. - A Montana man shot and killed Gregory Rodriguez, the host of the Sportsman Channel show “A Rifleman's Journal,” …
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Scared Monkeys and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Rand Paul / Washington Post:
Sen. Rand Paul: My filibuster was just the beginning — If I had planned to speak for 13 hours when I took the Senate floor Wednesday, I would've worn more comfortable shoes. I started my filibuster with the words, “I rise today to begin to filibuster John Brennan's nomination for the CIA.
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Grace Wyler / Business Insider:
36 Hours That Changed The Republican Party — Libertarians Believe Their Moment Has Finally Arrived — Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul has emerged from his 13-hour filibuster as a national political leader, having unexpectedly unified divergent wings of the Republican Party on the issue of civil liberties.
Discussion:
The PJ Tatler, Dean's World, Roger Ailes and Hit & Run
Paul Krugman:
The English Prisoner — “If this plan is working, what would a failing one look like?” So asks Martin Wolf in response to David Cameron's speech insisting that his austerity policy was right, is right, and is succeeding. Simon Wren-Lewis goes through Cameron's assertions in some detail …
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Financial Times, Business Insider and mainly macro
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Ryan Goodman / New York Times:
The Drone Question Obama Hasn't Answered — THE Senate confirmed John O. Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency on Thursday after a nearly 13-hour filibuster by the libertarian senator Rand Paul, who before the vote received a somewhat odd letter from the attorney general.
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Outside the Beltway, Hullabaloo, p m carpenter's commentary, Business Insider and Wonkblog
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John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Rand Paul's triumph
Rand Paul's triumph
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Patterico's Pontifications, Right Turn, Hot Air, Rush Limbaugh, NO QUARTER USA NET and Washington Post
Ian Drury / Daily Mail:
What a way to treat a heroine: Royal Navy girl who fought in Afghanistan told to cover up uniform on Virgin flight in case it offended other passengers — Virgin Atlantic staff wrongly told her it was company policy not to allow military personnel to travel in uniform
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protein wisdom
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
9th Circuit Appeals Court: 4th Amendment Applies At The Border; Also: Password Protected Files Shouldn't Arouse Suspicion — Here's a surprise ruling. For many years we've written about how troubling it is that Homeland Security agents are able to search the contents of electronic devices …
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Balloon Juice and Boing Boing
Josh Barro / Bloomberg:
Don't Cut Social Security, Expand It — With everyone in Washington experiencing sea-bass-induced euphoria, we're talking again about a “grand bargain” to replace the sequestration and shrink the federal budget deficit. And that means we're talking about using the chained consumer-price index …
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Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo
Jacob Goldstein / Economy:
The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever Isn't Scary Enough — One of the defining graphs of our time (yes, there are defining graphs of our time) comes from the blog Calculated Risk. It tracks the job market in every U.S. recession and recovery since WWII — and it shows just how brutal the the past few years have been.
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Daily Kos, Hullabaloo, Business Insider, Campaign for America's Future and Calculated Risk
Air Force Times HOME:
AF removes RPA airstrike number from summary — As scrutiny and debate over the use of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) by the American military increased last month, the Air Force reversed a policy of sharing the number of airstrikes launched from RPAs in Afghanistan and quietly scrubbed …
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Weasel Zippers, FP Passport and Gawker
Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
Norah O'Donnell Debuts On ‘60 Minutes’ With Sheryl Sandberg Exclusive: ‘There Will Be A Lot Of Strong Reactions’ (VIDEO) — “I am not a fan of that phrase,” “CBS This Morning” co-host Norah O'Donnell said when she was asked the perennial question, “Can women have it all?”
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Taylor Marsh, NewsBusters and The Daily Caller