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Jeremi Suri / New York Times:
Bomb North Korea, Before It's Too Late — SINCE February, the North Korean government has followed one threatening move with another. The spiral began with an underground nuclear test. Then the North declared the armistice that ended the Korean War invalid.
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Washington Monthly
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Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
When Historians Provide Bad Policy Ideas — I'm all for historians entering public debates. I am less enthused when they advocate utterly terrible ideas in major publications, such as University of Texas historian Jeremi Suri, who calls for the United States to bomb North Korea.
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Balloon Juice
Samantha-Rae Tuthill / AccuWeather.com:
Dazzling Northern Lights Anticipated Tonight — A solar flare that occurred around 2 a.m. Thursday morning may create a spectacular display of northern lights Saturday evening. The midlevel flare had a long duration and was directed at Earth. According to AccuWeather.com Astronomer Hunter Outten …
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Gothamist
Yahoo! News:
Dad Furious After Finding This Crayon-Written Paper in Florida 4th-Grader's Backpack: ‘I Am Willing to Give Up Some of My Constitutional Rights...to Be Safer’ — The words are written in crayon, in the haphazard bumpiness of a child's scrawl. — “I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights …
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Weasel Zippers and Riehl World News
Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Democrat changes story about talks with Progress Kentucky leaders — The Democrat who said the leaders of the liberal group Progress Kentucky told him they bugged Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) campaign office is backing off a key part of his earlier account.
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The Impolitic and Reuters
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Megan McArdle / Asymmetrical Information:
Why I Didn't Write About Gosnell's Trial—And Why I Should Have — Gosnell is accused of grisly crimes that I didn't want to think about. — Kermit Gosnell, a Pennsylvania abortion doctor, is on trial for a lurid series of lurid crimes at his clinic. I can't bring myself to describe them, so I'll let Kirsten Powers do it.
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Jim Graves: Constituents Are ‘Embarrassed’ By Michele Bachmann — WASHINGTON — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) barely held onto her seat in the 2012 election, defeating Democrat Jim Graves by just over 1 percent of the vote in one of the closest House races of the cycle.
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Kermit Gosnell's Website Openly Offered “Late Terminations,” Sedation Choices — Gosnell offered his patients their own choice of medicine for first-trimester abortions a la carte style charging extra for sedation. The grand jury cited the abortion clinic doctor and alleged murderer offering …
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Weasel Zippers
Terence P. Jeffrey / CNSNews:
Abortionist Slit Born Baby's Necks in Front of Teenager; Told Assistant: 'That's What You Call a Chicken With Its Head Cut Off' — [Editor's note: This story includes a graphic photograph, taken from a grand jury report, that shows a murdered baby with its spinal chord severed.]
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Weasel Zippers, The Other McCain and Riehl World News
Wall Street Journal:
Now He's After Your 401(k) — The White House pulls a switcheroo on retirement savings accounts. — How many times have you read financial-advice stories lecturing you to max-out on your IRA, save as much as you can in your 401(k), and even pay taxes now to change your regular IRA into a Roth IRA that will be tax-free until you die?
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Los Angeles Times
Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
Albany Teacher Gives Pro-Nazi Writing Assignment — ALBANY — High school is full of hypotheticals, like “How does one solve for x?” and “What happens if I skip class?” But this week, students at Albany High School were given an alarming thought puzzle: How do I convince my teacher that I think Jews are evil?
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The Independent:
Full statement by MMR scare doctor Andrew Wakefield: 'The Government has tried to cover up putting price before children's health' — This is the full statement by Dr Andrew Wakefield from healthimpactnews.com — In the wake of further media distortion, misrepresentation …
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Guardian, blogs.telegraph.co.uk and BBC