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Sharyl Attkisson / CBS News:
Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told “you can't go” to Benghazi during attacks — The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden …
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Fox News:
Clinton sought end-run around counterterrorism bureau on night of Benghazi attack, witness will say
Clinton sought end-run around counterterrorism bureau on night of Benghazi attack, witness will say
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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
They've Lost Fox And Friends: GOP Claims Of Benghazi ‘Cover Up’ Collapses
They've Lost Fox And Friends: GOP Claims Of Benghazi ‘Cover Up’ Collapses
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Crooks and Liars and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
The Lead with Jake Tapper:
Former deputy chief of mission in Libya: U.S. military assets told to stand down
Former deputy chief of mission in Libya: U.S. military assets told to stand down
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The Daily Caller
Jamie Dettmer / The Daily Beast:
Al Qaeda Headquarters in Libya
Al Qaeda Headquarters in Libya
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Via Meadia and Weasel Zippers
Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Reid calls Sen. Cruz a ‘schoolyard bully’ — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) called freshman GOP Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) a “schoolyard bully” during a contentious exchange Monday on the Senate floor. — The two senators bickered as Cruz rose to object to Reid's motion …
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Mediaite, Hot Air and Weasel Zippers
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Background Checks Bill Would Get A ‘Couple More Votes’ Now: Harry Reid
Background Checks Bill Would Get A ‘Couple More Votes’ Now: Harry Reid
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The Plum Line, msnbc.com, Post Politics, Weasel Zippers and PoliticusUSA
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Huckabee: Benghazi will drive Obama from office — Mike Huckabee on Monday predicted that President Barack Obama won't finish out his second term in light of the “cover-up” of the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the former Arkansas governor called the affair “more serious than Watergate.”
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The Lonely Conservative and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Arlington, Va.:
Air Force Officer Accused of Sexual Battery — The Chief of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response branch of the U.S. Air Force was arrested and charged with sexual battery in Arlington over the weekend. — Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski is accused of fondling a woman in a Crystal City parking lot early Sunday morning.
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Arlington County Newsroom:
Crime Report: May 6, 2013 — SEXUAL BATTERY, 05/05/13, 500 block of S. 23rd Street. On May 5 at 12:35 am, a drunken male subject approached a female victim in a parking lot and grabbed her breasts and buttocks. The victim fought the suspect off as he attempted to touch her again and alerted police.
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The Hill, Los Angeles Times and Wired
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
None Dare Call It Treason — As Brother Benen notes this morning, the National Rifle Association's new president, James Porter of Birmingham, Alabama, likes to talk about the importance of the Second Amendment as a way to ensure the American people will be able to “resist tyranny”—i.e. …
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The Huffington Post, The Impolitic, msnbc.com, Mother Jones, Harry's Place and BuzzFeed
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Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Mediaite Learns: 'Vast Majority Of National Advertisers Now Refuse To Air Ads During Limbaugh's Show' — As we reported earlier this morning, Rush Limbaugh is allegedly in the midst of a battle with Cumulus Media, the distributor of his radio show. The company's CEO has blamed ad revenue losses …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Liberal Values, AMERICAblog and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Heritage Foundation:
The Fiscal Cost of Unlawful Immigrants and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer — By Robert Rector and Jason Richwine, Ph.D. — Executive Summary — Unlawful immigration and amnesty for current unlawful immigrants can pose large fiscal costs for U.S. taxpayers.
Bill Keller / New York Times:
Syria Is Not Iraq — IN the search for an American response to the civil war in Syria, the favorite guidebook seems to be our ill-fated adventure in Iraq. We have another brutal Middle East autocrat holding power on behalf of a sectarian minority. We have another dubious cast of opposition factions competing for foreign patronage.
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Israeli bombing of Syria and moral relativism
Israeli bombing of Syria and moral relativism
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Jerusalem Post, Elder of Ziyon, Israel Matzav and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
The Non-Violent March To Threaten Violence — As readers have probably noticed, I'm on something of a campaign the last few days to train a spotlight on the revolutionary rhetoric and gun-brandishing of many Second Amendment activists and “constitutional conservatives,” …
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Business Insider and Hullabaloo
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Karoli / Crooks and Liars:
Marching On DC With Loaded Rifles: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Marching On DC With Loaded Rifles: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
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Mediaite and Mock, Paper, Scissors
Stephen C. Webster / The Raw Story:
Rick Perry compares rejecting LGBT people to fighting slavery — Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) said Sunday that he believes rejecting LGBT people is similar to fighting slavery during the pre-Civil War era. — Appearing on the Family Research Council's program “Stand With Scouts Sunday,” …
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Bloomberg:
Gore Is Romney-Rich With $200 Million After Bush Defeat — In 1999, Al Gore, then U.S. vice president and a Democratic candidate for president, sold $6,000 worth of cows. — The former senator, who spent most of his working life in Congress, had a net worth of about $1.7 million and assets …
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CNN, Wizbang, Weasel Zippers, New York Magazine, TVNewser, DealBook, The Daily Caller and Business Insider
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Chambliss sinks hole-in-one during golf round with Obama — Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) hit a rare hole-in-one while golfing with President Obama and two other senators on Monday. — Chambliss's office said the shot happened on the 11th hole at the Joint Base Andrews course in Maryland.
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Politico and Weasel Zippers
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Behind the Scenes at Fox — A few days before the presidential election last November, Roger Ailes, the chief executive of Fox News, ordered that Geraldo Rivera's microphone be cut off after Mr. Rivera angrily defended the Obama administration against charges levied by others on Fox.
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Mediaite, Gawker, TVNewser, The Raw Story, TheBlaze.com and Inside Cable News, more at Mediagazer »
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Rep. Mike Rogers pushed for FBI chief — The FBI's union is urging President Obama to nominate Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) to be the bureau's next director. — The FBI Agents Association said Rogers — a former FBI agent and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee …
Mary Elizabeth Williams / Salon:
Why did Komen for the Cure give Nancy Brinker a 64 percent raise? — Komen, already under fire for shrinking contributions for breast cancer research, paid its CEO $684,000 last year — Last year may have been a very bad year for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, but it still was a very good year for its CEO, Nancy Brinker.
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Firedoglake and Daily Kos
Kirsten Powers / The Daily Beast:
Abortion Rights Community Has Become the NRA of the Left — The abortion clinic of alleged killer Kermit Gosnell was not illegal. But any talk of more government regulation unleashes an NRA-style assault from the abortion rights contingent, says Kirsten Powers. — What should we learn from the Kermit Gosnell trial?
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The PJ Tatler, Hullabaloo, Shakesville, LifeNews.com, Politico, Weekly Standard and Betsy's Page
Richard A. Epstein / Wall Street Journal:
The Rule of Lawyers — Law-school applications today have dropped to 54,000 annually, from 100,000 in 2004. But the profession will continue to thrive — Law schools are under siege. Applications have dropped to around 54,000 annually, from around 100,000 in 2004.
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Law Blog, Via Meadia and TaxProf Blog
Michael Wolff / Guardian:
Twitter is ready to be a true news operation — Twitter is hiring a ‘head of news’ in its bid to be even more indispensable to global media, but will it work? — There are fewer and fewer jobs in journalism, but last week an ultimate job was posted. Twitter, fast becoming the basic source …
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Business Insider, Mock, Paper, Scissors, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Dave Winer
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Meet The ‘Liberator’: Test-Firing The World's First Fully 3D-Printed Gun — “Alright. One...two...” — Before “three” arrives, a shot reverberates across the overcast central Texas landscape. A tall, sandy blond engineer named John has just pulled a twenty-foot length of yellow string tied …