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Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Weiner's Campaign Manager Quits After Latest Revelations — In a new sign of tumult within Anthony D. Weiner's embattled political operation, his campaign manager has quit, leaving his already skeletal team without a day-to-day leader. — According to two people told of the decision …
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Jake Miller / CBS News:
Anthony Weiner's campaign manager calls it quits
Anthony Weiner's campaign manager calls it quits
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Politico and Mediaite
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: Weiner's campaign manager quits after revelations
Report: Weiner's campaign manager quits after revelations
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Politico, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, CNN and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Melissa Klein / New York Post:
Iconic Ground Zero photo was nearly excluded from museum for being too ‘rah-rah’ American — This iconic picture of firefighters raising the stars and stripes in the rubble of Ground Zero was nearly excluded from the 9/11 Memorial Museum — because it was “rah-rah” American, a new book says.
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Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Greenwald Claims Private Contractors Can Spy On Calls, Emails: ‘I Defy NSA Officials To Deny’ These Capabilities — Following up on Edward Snowden's earlier claim that he could wiretap anybody as a low-level defense contractor—a claim denied by NSA officials and House Intelligence Committee …
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ThinkProgress, Hullabaloo and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Kari Rea / ABC News:
Glenn Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have ‘Powerful and Invasive’ Search Tool — Today on “This Week,” Glenn Greenwald - the reporter who broke the story about the National Security Agency's surveillance programs - claimed that those NSA programs allowed even low-level analysts to search …
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The PJ Tatler, Crooks and Liars and Little Green Footballs
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Greenwald: Low-level NSA analysts allowed to spy on phone calls
Greenwald: Low-level NSA analysts allowed to spy on phone calls
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Politico
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
EXCLUSIVE: 4 IN 5 IN US FACE NEAR-POVERTY, NO WORK — You are here — Home » Barack Obama » Exclusive: 4 in 5 in US face near-poverty, no work — WASHINGTON (AP) — Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives …
Jim Mustian / Baton Rouge news …:
Sheriff's Office sets up park stakeouts to ensnare gay men — An undercover East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputy was staking out Manchac Park about 10 a.m. one day this month when a slow-moving sedan pulling into the parking lot caught his attention. The deputy parked alongside …
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Lew: IRS exhibited ‘equal opportunity bad judgment’ in targeting — Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Sunday the Internal Revenue Service exhibited “equal opportunity bad judgment” in the improper targeting of political groups, and there was no evidence of political pressure.
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Crooks and Liars, Hot Air and americanthinker.com
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Obama on unilateral action: Lawyers? I don't need lawyers. — In an interview after his speech Wednesday in Galesburg, Illinois, President Obama was asked if he consulted White House lawyers before unilaterally delaying the employer mandate in Obamacare. Since Congress, in the Affordable Care Act …
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Nile Gardiner / blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
President Obama calls the United States and Europe ‘developing countries’ in latest embarrassing gaffe
President Obama calls the United States and Europe ‘developing countries’ in latest embarrassing gaffe
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Scared Monkeys, Power Line, ThinkProgress, Real Time Economics, Booman Tribune and White House Dossier
Ben Geman / E2-Wire:
Obama criticizes pro-Keystone pipeline jobs, gas price claims
Obama criticizes pro-Keystone pipeline jobs, gas price claims
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JustOneMinute, The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Rep. Peter King: Rand Paul destroying GOP reputation on national security — Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Sunday that the libertarian wing of the Republican party is damaging the GOP's reputation on national security. — King criticized Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), a potential 2016 presidential candidate …
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The Hinterland Gazette, Politico and CNN
Sam Baker / The Hill:
Feinstein: Filner should resign — San Diego Mayor Bob Filner (D) should resign over sexual harassment allegations, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Sunday. — “I don't think that somebody who is lacking a moral compass really sets a role model or really will provide the kind …
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Peter Buffett / New York Times:
The Charitable-Industrial Complex — I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about the world of philanthropy as practiced by the very wealthy until what I call the big bang happened in 2006. That year, my father, Warren Buffett …
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Crooks and Liars and The Reality-Based Community
Ross Douthat / New York Times:
Going for Bolingbroke — BEFORE political movements can be understood by others, they need to understand themselves: what they want to be, what they actually are and how they might bridge the gap between aspiration and reality. — Today, the post-George W. Bush, post-Mitt Romney conservative movement is one-third of the way there.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and No More Mister Nice Blog
Alan Duke / CNN:
Police: Robbers tell man, ‘This is for Trayvon Martin’ — (CNN) — A weekend robbery in a racially diverse neighborhood of Washington may have been a hate crime, police said. — “This is for Trayvon Martin,” one of the three black men told a white man as they approached him early Saturday …
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Mediaite and NewsBusters
New York Post:
Stalker terrorizes CNN's Anderson Cooper — CNN's Anderson Cooper has a stalker — a gaunt, scraggly-haired, 40-year-old Queens man who has the steely-eyed anchor stud fearing for his life. — Since 2008, Alex Hausner — described as a gay, Jewish white supremacist …
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