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Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
McCain Praises Obama's Race Speech: 'We've Still Got A Long Way To Go' On Race Relations — Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called on lawmakers across the country, including in his home state of Arizona, to review the Stand Your Ground law that allowed George Zimmerman to walk free in the days …
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Garance Franke-Ruta / The Atlantic Online:
The Time Obama Was Mistaken for a Waiter at a Tina Brown Book Party — He was a state senator then, and one of the few African Americans at the elite New York media event. — Obama's frank remarks on race and how he also has been seen as someone less than who he is led journalist Katie Rosman …
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Dem Rep. Rush, Gingrich spar over Trayvon Martin hoodie, urban violence — Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) sparred Sunday over their commitment to ending gang violence and Rush's choice to wear a hooded sweatshirt on the House floor in honor of Trayvon Martin.
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
Leading Black Caucus member not ready to call for Florida boycott
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Javier Manjarres / The Shark Tank:
Trayvon Martin Alleged to Have Assaulted His Teacher, Dad Denies It
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New York Post:
Jay-Z and Beyonce join Trayvon Martin's mother in NYC to kick off nationwide day of protests
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Ravi Somaiya / New York Times:
Demonstrations Across the Country Commemorate Trayvon Martin
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Bob Ward / Aspen Times:
In Snowmass, Scalia says judges should not be policy makers — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia used the twin terrors of Nazi Germany and radical Islam to warn a Snowmass Village audience Saturday about the dangers of judicial activism. — Speaking to a gathering …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Peak Scalia — With his own claims to originalism fading fast, Scalia suggests liberal judicial activism, practiced by some of colleagues on the Court, is part of what brought about the Holocaust in Nazi Germany. The speech was an address to the Utah State Bar Association. — From the Aspen Times ...
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
Bill requiring warrants for email searches nears Senate vote — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee is pushing to fast-track legislation that would require police to obtain a warrant before accessing emails and other private online messages. — Sen. Patrick Leahy's (D-Vt.) …
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The Moderate Voice, Booman Tribune and Prairie Weather
Paul Krugman:
The Great Pension Scare — OK, this is quite amazing: Dean Baker catches the WaPo editorial page claiming that we have $3.8 trillion in unfunded state and local pension liabilities. Say it in your best Dr. Evil voice: THREE POINT EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS. Except the study the WaPo cites …
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Unfunded Pension Liabilities Are $1 Trillion, Not $3.8 Trillion: Never Take Anything In a Washington Post Editorial At Face Value — Sorry folks, I committed the cardinal sin of accepting an assertion from a Washington Post editorial without carefully checking it myself.
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Washington Monthly, Hullabaloo, Prairie Weather and Washington Post
Jordan Fabian / ABC News:
Steve King: No Legal Status for DREAMers — Rep. Steve King, arguably the foremost immigration hawk in the House, isn't open to the idea of providing a pathway to citizenship to the undocumented children of immigrants. — Next week, the House will consider a GOP bill that offers relief …
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Violence continues in France over Islamic veil ban — Some 20 cars have been torched and four people detained in a second night of violence in suburbs west of Paris. — France's interior minister said Sunday that the incidents overnight targeted the town of Elancourt.
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
Boehner promises more House votes against ObamaCare — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) vowed Sunday to hold more House votes to thwart ObamaCare, a major priority for the GOP as the law is implemented. — “You're going to see a lot more,” Boehner told CBS's “Face the Nation.”
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Kevin Drum / Mother Jones:
Republican War on Obamacare Reaching Absurd New Heights — We all know that Republicans are hellbent on sabotaging Obamacare any way they can. But the lengths they're going to are pretty astonishing. A few weeks ago The Hill reported that some Republican congressional offices …
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