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Cover Story: John Cuneo's “Carlos Danger” — “With a topic like Anthony Weiner, how can you find anything broad or funny that he hasn't already personally breached?” says John Cuneo, the artist who painted next week's cover. He continues: “Free association made me think of the Empire State Building …
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New York Magazine, Post Politics, Poynter, BuzzFeed, Business Insider and The Dirty
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Inside Edition:
EXCLUSIVE: Sydney Leathers Details Being At Center Of Anthony Weiner Sexting Scandal — We're hearing for the first time from the young woman at the center of the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal. — Twenty-three-year-old Sydney Leathers spoke exclusively to INSIDE EDITION about the raunchy text messages …
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New York Post, ABC News, Runnin' Scared, Taylor Marsh, The Daily Caller, American Spectator, Politico, Althouse, Jezebel and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Senator Calls For Further Investigation Into Huma's Money — Huma Abedin, the wife of New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, AKA Carlos Danger, is facing an ongoing Senate investigation into the consulting fees she earned while also working as a State Department employee for then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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Post Politics, Weasel Zippers, The Hinterland Gazette, Simply Left BehindThe …, Jammie Wearing Fools and The Hill
Hadas Gold / Politico:
Chris Christie: Rand Paul ‘dangerous’ — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is ripping libertarians - including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). - for challenging government surveillance programs and failing to understand the dangers of terrorism. — “This strain of libertarianism that's …
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Christie Cites 9/11 in Assailing Libertarian Trend in G.O.P. — ASPEN, Colo. — Invoking the families of 9/11 victims, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey on Thursday heatedly denounced the growing libertarian drift on national security in the Republican Party that is favored by Senator Rand Paul …
Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
Drop the Disastrous Plan to Defund Obamacare — Conservatives on Capitol Hill think they have a chance to strike a mortal blow against President Barack Obama's health-care overhaul this fall. If their plan goes forward, however, it will backfire. — The plan is to oppose any bill to fund …
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Washington Monthly, A plain blog about politics, National Review and Politico
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Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Burr: Shutdown over defunding ObamaCare ‘dumbest idea’ ever
Burr: Shutdown over defunding ObamaCare ‘dumbest idea’ ever
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Politico, First Read, SoundCloud, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Raw Story, Taegan Goddard's … and The World's Greatest …
KPBS San Diego:
Four More Women Accuse Filner … Four prominent San Diego women came forth today accusing Mayor Bob Filner of unwanted sexual advances. They related specific incidents in an exclusive interview with KPBS News. — The latest accusers —a retired Navy rear-admiral, a dean at San Diego State University …
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msnbc.com, KNSD-TV, Business Insider, The Lede, Most Recent, Taylor Marsh, She The People, Politico, Jezebel, Voice of San Diego, CNN, Shakesville and Jammie Wearing Fools
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Cindy Adams / New York Post:
EXCLUSIVE: Fed-up Silda Spitzer plans to divorce Eliot after election — Silda Spitzer is privately telling friends she plans to divorce her hooker-loving husband, Eliot Spitzer, Page Six can exclusively reveal. — Multiple sources tell us long-suffering Silda — who, he last night admitted …
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Yahoo! News, Politicker, Jezebel, ABC News and New York Magazine
John Bresnahan / Politico:
Taiwan trip center of Peter Roskam investigation — The Office of Congressional Ethics is calling for a full investigation into a Oct. 2011 trip by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) and his wife to Taiwan, claiming the trip was improperly funded by the Taiwanese government.
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Illinois Review
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Pete Kasperowicz / The Hill:
Ethics Committee extends reviews of Bachmann, three other lawmakers
New York Times:
U.S. Assures Russia Snowden Will Not Face Death Penalty — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said in a letter sent to the Russian minister of justice this week that the United States would not seek the death penalty against Edward J. Snowden, and would issue him a passport immediately …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Hot Air, TechCrunch, The Hinterland Gazette and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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Devlin Barrett / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Says Snowden Wouldn't Face Death Penalty
U.S. Says Snowden Wouldn't Face Death Penalty
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The Hill, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Verge
Associated Press:
Cop Who Pepper-Sprayed Students At Occupy Protest Wants Worker's Compensation For ‘Psychiatric Injury’ — DAVIS, Calif. (AP) — The former police officer who pepper-sprayed students during an Occupy protest at the University of California, Davis is appealing for worker's compensation …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Raw Story
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Fiscal Armageddon could remake Hill in 2014 elections — Not again. — That's the message several national GOP strategists and some lawmakers have for Republicans hell bent on waging another fiscal fight this fall. — The 2014 midterm season is about to heat up - and President Barack Obama …
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American Prospect and Campaign for America's Future
Washington Post:
Lincoln Memorial vandalized with splashes of green paint — The Lincoln Memorial was shut down Friday morning after vandals splashed the statue of the nation's 16th president and the marble floor around it with green paint, U.S. Park Police said. — Police are reviewing surveillance footage …
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Associated Press, Outside the Beltway and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Student Drought Hits Smaller Universities — By - CAMERON MCWHIRTER and - DOUGLAS BELKIN - — Loyola University New Orleans faces a $9.5 million budget gap caused by 25% fewer freshmen this fall than it had expected. — As Loyola University New Orleans gears up for fall classes next month …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers
College Enrollment Falls as Economy Recovers
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Gawker
Chris Stirewalt / Fox News:
Uh Ho: Obama Says Vietnamese Dictator Inspired by Founding Fathers — “...we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson.” — It may come as some unwelcome news to the families …
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No More Mister Nice Blog, TheBlaze.com, The Gateway Pundit and The PJ Tatler
Charlie LeDuff / New York Times:
Come See Detroit, America's Future — DETROIT — I KNOW an old woman who hasn't opened her windows in a decade, afraid that what's outside will climb inside. Inside, there is the stale odor of dead air. — I know another woman who called me about a corpse lying outside her window for six and a half hours.
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Crooks and Liars
Robert Costa / National Review:
Trump Heads to Iowa, Plots a 2016 Run — Donald Trump has long resisted calls for him to run for president. But now, at age 67, he tells me he's considering a bid. — “I'm looking,” Trump says. “I have a large following of people who are tired of seeing this country ripped off …
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Post Politics
Joel Gehrke / Washington Examiner:
IRS employee union: We don't want Obamacare — IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law. — National Taxpayer Employee Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President Obama's health care law.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Roberts's Picks Reshaping Secret Surveillance Court — WASHINGTON — The recent leaks about government spying programs have focused attention on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and its role in deciding how intrusive the government can be in the name of national security.
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The Moderate Voice, Hit & Run, Weekly Standard, Yahoo! News, The Week, Hullabaloo, Informed Comment, Prairie Weather and ProPublica
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Steve King Says He Has Personally Caught Undocumented Drug Mules With Cantaloupe Calves — Rep. Steve King (R-IA) defended his claim that undocumented youths are drug mules with cantaloupe-sized calves on Friday, telling The Laura Ingraham Show that he would not apologize for the remarks.
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Yahoo! News, National Review, The Raw Story and Right Wing Watch
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Republican Health Care Panic — Leading Republicans appear to be nerving themselves up for another round of attempted fiscal blackmail. With the end of the fiscal year looming, they aren't offering the kinds of compromises that might produce a deal and avoid a government shutdown; instead …
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Prairie Weather, The Huffington Post and Washington Post
Declan McCullagh / CNET:
Feds tell Web firms to turn over user account passwords — Secret demands mark escalation in Internet surveillance by the federal government through gaining access to user passwords, which are typically stored in encrypted form. — The U.S. government has demanded that major Internet …
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The Volokh Conspiracy, Examiner, americanthinker.com, Weasel Zippers, The Daily Caller, Conservatives4Palin, Hit & Run, CBS Boston and Techdirt
Glenn Thrush / Politico:
GOP's state victories haunt Obama — Barack Obama has spent well over $1 billion on his political campaigns, but it's the $20 million to $30 million Democrats didn't shell out three years ago that is costing the White House as he slogs through the first six months of his second term.
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Taegan Goddard's … and First Read
Megan R. Wilson / The Hill:
Unions ask Obama for Detroit bailout — Union leaders are calling on Congress and President Obama to provide a federal bailout to the city of Detroit. — The executive council of the AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor federation, called for an “immediate infusion of federal assistance for Detroit” …
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller:
Mother of slain Benghazi victim Sean Smith: ‘My son is dead. How could that be phony?’ — The mother of a Benghazi victim is furious about the new White House strategy of calling the terrorist attack and many other scandals plaguing the Obama administration “fake” or “phony.”
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neo-neocon, Hot Air, Right Wing News, americanthinker.com and Weasel Zippers