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NikRichie / The Dirty:
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Weiner Is A Sexual Predator Luring His Victims — My source is solid. She really thought Anthony Weiner and her were in love, they spoke on the phone daily multiple times a day for 6 months. Anthony Weiner played with her emotions and mind. Most calls were phone sex.
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Ben Smith / BuzzFeed:
Anthony Weiner Faces New Sex Chat Allegations — The Dirty posts explicit Facebook and Formspring exchanges. “I'm deeply flawed.” UPDATE: Weiner has released a statement acknowledging that at least some of the messages are authentic. — Source: thedirty.com
The Dirty:
EXCLUSIVE: Anthony Weiner Hasn't Changed Poor Huma Abedin, New Image Of His Penis — Anthony Weiner is up to his old tricks again. I've been in contact with a young female girl who wishes to remain Anonymous. She was lured by Anthony Weiner post scandal via Facebook.
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Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider:
Anthony Weiner Confirms Authenticity Of New Sex Chats — New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner confirmed the authenticity of new lewd, sexually charged online chats and photos that were posted by a nightlife website over the past day. — Nightlife site “The Dirty” …
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Power Line, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, msnbc.com and National Review
NikRichie / The Dirty:
EXCLUSIVE IMAGE: Anthony Weiner Penis Picture And Timeline — Here is another exclusive image that Anthony Weiner sent to my source. Letting it all hang out. Huma Abedin don't tell me you don't recognize those feet and mushroom head. Time to leave this Weiner already.
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Guardian, The Gateway Pundit and Gawker
Jill Colvin / Politicker:
Anthony Weiner Responds Vaguely to New Illicit Message Revelations — Anthony Weiner. (Photo: Getty) — Anthony Weiner today responded to new explicit messages and images the gossip website The Dirty alleges were sent to an anonymous tipster by the former congressman after he was forced …
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“The Lid”, National Review and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Government shutdown looms over ObamaCare — ObamaCare is at the center of a rapidly escalating fight that threatens to shut the government down this fall. [WATCH VIDEO] — Senate Republicans, including two members of the leadership, are coalescing around a proposal to block …
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Are Republicans fooling themselves about Obamacare? — When Washington conservatives gather to talk among themselves, and the discussion turns to Obamacare — it happens pretty frequently — it's not unusual to hear predictions that the president's health care law will “collapse of its own weight.”
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Washington Monthly, The Plum Line, New Republic, The Maddow Blog, Betsy's Page, Ed Driscoll and Conservatives4Palin
Aaron Blake / The Fix:
The House will not pass the Senate immigration bill. Here's why.
The House will not pass the Senate immigration bill. Here's why.
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Yahoo! News, Washington Post and Power Line
Scott Clement / The Fix:
Moderate Democrats are quitting on Obamacare — The landmark health-reform law passed in 2010 has never been very popular and always highly partisan, but a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds that a group of once loyal Democrats has been steadily turning against Obamacare: Democrats who are ideologically moderate or conservative.
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Washington Post:
July 2013 Washington Post-ABC News poll: Obama, GOP, immigration and health care
July 2013 Washington Post-ABC News poll: Obama, GOP, immigration and health care
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Boehner comments on immigration are ‘laughable’
White House: Boehner comments on immigration are ‘laughable’
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Washington Post:
Zimmerman verdict poll: Stark reaction by race
Zimmerman verdict poll: Stark reaction by race
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Gary Langer / ABC News:
Policy Divisions Challenge Obama, But GOP Battles Its Own Discontent
Policy Divisions Challenge Obama, But GOP Battles Its Own Discontent
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Scott Keyes / ThinkProgress:
North Carolina On Cusp Of Passing Worst Voter Suppression Bill In The Nation — Voting in North Carolina may soon change, much in the same way a wrecking ball changes a building. — The highly-conservative North Carolina legislature just released a new voter suppression bill that would enact …
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David Lightman / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Poll: Obama's job approval plunges; Congress, especially GOP, still unpopular — WASHINGTON — Stung by Americans' persistent worries about the economy and a capital gripped by controversy and gridlock, President Barack Obama is suffering his lowest job approval numbers in nearly two years, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.
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Alex Roarty / NationalJournal.com:
Poll: Most Americans Don't Want Congress to Repeal Obamacare
Poll: Most Americans Don't Want Congress to Repeal Obamacare
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National Review, ThinkProgress, PoliticusUSA, Yahoo! News, Daily Kos, First Read and New York Times
Ray Kelly / Wall Street Journal:
The NYPD: Guilty of Saving 7,383 Lives — Accusations of racial profiling ignore the fact that violent crime overwhelmingly occurs in minority neighborhoods. — Since 2002, the New York Police Department has taken tens of thousands of weapons off the street through proactive policing strategies.
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AHA / American Historical Association:
American Historical Association Statement on Policies Regarding the Embargoing of Completed History PhD Dissertations — In their June 2013 meeting, the AHA Council drafted a statement on policies regarding best practices for embargoing completed history PhD dissertations.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, Crooked Timber and Outside the Beltway
Doug Denison / delawareonline:
Republicans wait as O'Donnell weighs another campaign — In the three years since her unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign nearly caused a schism in the state Republican Party, little has changed for Christine O'Donnell as she considers another race. — O'Donnell continues to be regarded …
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TBogg, Outside the Beltway, addictinginfo.org and Ballot Box
Sandra Lilley / NBC Latino:
Iowa's Rep. King: For every valedictorian Dreamer, 100 are “hauling marijuana” — Iowa conservative Republican Congressman Steve King said in an interview with Newsmax that for every valedictorian DREAMer who has been brought to this country by his or her family, “...there's another 100 out there who …
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Taegan Goddard's … and Daily Kos
Philip Caulfield / NY Daily News:
Pro-Zimmerman, Pro-Trayvon Martin groups meet in tense standoff in Houston — ‘Justice for Trayvon’ marchers came face-to-face with a group supporting George Zimmerman and Florida's Stand Your Ground law in an upscale neighborhood in Houston on Sunday. — The dueling groups converged …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Cheney Senate bid looks like an uphill battle — PPP's new Wyoming poll finds that most voters in the state see Liz Cheney as an outsider...and as a result she starts out at a significant deficit in a primary contest with Mike Enzi. — Overall only 31% of Wyoming voters consider Cheney to be a ‘Wyomingite’ to 50% who do not.
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Hot Air, Conservative Intelligence …, AMERICAblog, Outside the Beltway, Taegan Goddard's …, Daily Kos and Rush Limbaugh
John Byrne / Chicago Tribune:
Ald. Moore gets White House award same day he admits talking to FBI agents — Council watchdog outlines alleged aldermanic wrongdoing … In a case of only-in-Chicago political timing, the White House announced Monday it would honor Ald. Joe Moore as a “pioneer for political reform,” …
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Politico, Hot Air and Illinois Review
New Republic:
How to Fix Law School — Six experts tell us what they'd change … ALAN DERSHOWITZ: MAKE LAW SCHOOL “TWO YEARS-PLUS” — I have long proposed a change in the structure of law school education whereby the academic portion would be completed in two years, and the third year …
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Brian Leiter's Law …, Above the Law, TaxProf Blog, National Review and Business Insider
The Atlantic Online:
It's the Racism, Stupid — National Review's Victor Davis Hanson takes on the president's comments with predictable results. Here Hansen counters The Talk that African-American parents give their children about the police with his own version of The Talk: … I really, really hope not.
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ThinkProgress and National Review
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Both Parties Need to Keep an Eye on Older Voters for 2014 Elections — The electorate has changed since the 2010 midterms, and this segment - which voted Republican in the last two elections - appears to be shifting in recent surveys. — This week, I had the opportunity to listen …
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Washington Monthly, Mediaite, “The Lid” and VodkaPundit