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Fredric U. Dicker / New York Post:
Bill and Hillary Clinton are ‘livid’ at comparisons to Weiner's sexcapades and Huma's forgiveness — Bill and Hillary Clinton are angry with efforts by mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner and his campaign to compare his Internet sexcapades — and his wife Huma Abedin's incredible forgiveness …
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americanthinker.com and The Gateway Pundit
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Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Obama, Hillary Clinton set for Monday lunch — President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are set to meet for lunch Monday. — The private lunch between the president and the woman many Democrats hope will succeed him in office was announced Sunday by the White House press office.
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CNN and Connecting.the.Dots
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Cumulus planning to drop Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity — In a major shakeup for the radio industry, Cumulus Media, the second-biggest broadcaster in the country, is planning to drop both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its stations at the end of the year, an industry source told POLITICO on Sunday.
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Stranded by Sprawl — Detroit is a symbol of the old economy's decline. It's not just the derelict center; the metropolitan area as a whole lost population between 2000 and 2010, the worst performance among major cities. Atlanta, by contrast, epitomizes the rise of the Sun Belt …
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VodkaPundit, The Reality-Based Community and Prairie Weather
Greg B. Smith / NY Daily News:
Weiner campaign paid private eye $45,000 to investigate own 2011 Twitter ‘hacking’ lie, reports show — The ‘hacking’ never happened — Weiner later admitted to sending the racy pics himself — but his furious attempt at damage control included an expensive investigation by T&M Protection services.
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The Fix, The Other McCain, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Daily Mail
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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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Yahoo! News, New York Times, Crooks and Liars and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Matt Friedman / New Jersey Online:
Lautenberg and Booker's tortured history shows up in campaign — Days before Newark Mayor Cory Booker announced he wanted to run for the U.S. Senate seat held by Frank Lautenberg in December, the two men's top aides tried to negotiate over the phone. — Lautenberg Chief of Staff Dan Katz …
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Ballot Box and Taegan Goddard's …
New York Times:
Detroit Looks to Health Law to Ease Costs — As Detroit enters the federal bankruptcy process, the city is proposing a controversial plan for paring some of the $5.7 billion it owes in retiree health costs: pushing many of those too young to qualify for Medicare out of city-run coverage …
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Weekly Standard and VodkaPundit
David Carr / New York Times:
Bloomberg Media Recruits a New Chief From The Atlantic — Justin B. Smith, whose digital strategy swiftly transformed The Atlantic, one of the statelier media vessels around, is about to get a bigger boat. — On Monday, Bloomberg will announce that Mr. Smith, the president of Atlantic Media …
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FishbowlDC, Politico and The Huffington Post, more at Mediagazer »
Evan McMurry / Mediaite:
Rep. Peter King Blasts Rand Paul For ‘Apologizing For America’: ‘Fringes’ Will ‘Destroy’ GOP — Congressman Peter King appeared on CNN's State of the Union on Sunday morning and warned that Senator Rand Paul's “isolationist streak” will destroy the GOP in much the same way the anti-war movement crippled …
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Sam Baker / The Hill:
Rep. Peter King: Rand Paul destroying GOP reputation on national security
Rep. Peter King: Rand Paul destroying GOP reputation on national security
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CNN, Hot Air, Balloon Juice, The Hinterland Gazette and Politico
John Avlon / The Daily Beast:
Pope Francis's Lessons for the GOP — The new pope hasn't been afraid to challenge the entrenched interests that have sullied his church's perception. His style of reaching out is just what might save the Republican Party. — On the heels of Pope Francis's triumphant visit to Brazil for World Youth Day …
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Associated Press
Burgess Everett / Politico:
GOP senators to Liz Cheney: We like Mike Enzi — Republican senators are nearly united in their response to Liz Cheney's challenge to their low-key Wyoming colleague: We like Mike. — That is Mike Enzi, the three-term senator from the Cowboy State who was otherwise on a glide path …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
New York Times:
Israel and Palestinians Set to Resume Peace Talks, U.S. Announces — WASHINGTON — Israeli and Palestinian negotiators will resume peace talks here on Monday night, the State Department said in a statement on Sunday afternoon. It will be the first time that the two have held direct talks since 2010.
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Booman Tribune, Via Meadia, New Republic and The Reaction
Washington Post:
How the Obama campaign won the race for voter data — From the moment Barack Obama took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2009, and every day thereafter, his team was always preparing for the 2012 campaign. Everyone said Obama's 2008 operation had rewritten the book on organizing.
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, Little Green Footballs and The Raw Story
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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