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Jonathan Weil / Bloomberg:
Eric Holder Owes the American People an Apology — The Justice Department made a long-overdue disclosure late Friday: Last year when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder boasted about the successes that a high-profile task force racked up pursuing mortgage fraud, the numbers he trumpeted were grossly overstated.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Seeks to Curtail Stiff Drug Sentences — WASHINGTON — In a major shift in criminal justice policy, the Obama administration will move on Monday to ease overcrowding in federal prisons by ordering prosecutors to omit listing quantities of illegal substances in indictments …
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Sari Horwitz / Washington Post:
Holder seeks to avert mandatory minimum sentences for some low-level drug offenders — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is set to announce Monday that low-level, nonviolent drug offenders with no ties to gangs or large-scale drug organizations will no longer be charged with offenses that impose severe mandatory sentences.
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Holder moves to rein in jail sentences — Attorney General Eric Holder is calling on the federal government to rein its use of one of the most ubiquitous tools in the war on crime—minimum mandatory sentences—and he's making a unilateral move to cut down on such sentences in drug cases …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Holder to scale back tough sentences for low-level drug crimes
Holder to scale back tough sentences for low-level drug crimes
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Maria Sudekum / Associated Press:
Missouri Fair clown draws criticism for Obama mask — You are here — Home » Barack Obama » Missouri Fair clown draws criticism for Obama mask — KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A clown wearing a President Barack Obama mask appeared at a Missouri State Fair rodeo this weekend …
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Dana Loesch / RedState:
Clown Dresses As Obama At MO State Fair, Democrats Cry “Racism®” *UPDATED — A rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair over the weekend donned an Obama mask instead of typical clown fare. The clown, a participant in the fair and not officially representative of the fair …
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Mark Morris / Kansas City Star:
Clown's Obama stunt at Missouri State Fair draws rebuke
Clown's Obama stunt at Missouri State Fair draws rebuke
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ThinkProgress, Show Me Progress, Show Me Progress, The Gateway Pundit, Weasel Zippers and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Justin Wingerter / CBS St. Louis:
Rodeo Clown Dresses As President Obama at Mo. State Fair
Rodeo Clown Dresses As President Obama at Mo. State Fair
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Yael T. Abouhalkah / Kansas City Star:
Shameful Missouri State Fair stunt smears Obama
Shameful Missouri State Fair stunt smears Obama
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americanthinker.com, Crooked Timber and Little Green Footballs
Kyle Smith / New York Post:
Nudge off! — Why czars of suggestion — Eat better! Exercise more! Save don't spend! — are doomed to inevitable failure — Unemployed? Underemployed? Working the register at Denny's when you used to be on the management track? Just been informed you'll be one of the ObamaCare …
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Benjamin Bell / ABC News:
Donald Trump: Sen. Ted Cruz ‘Perhaps Not’ Eligible for White House ‘If’ Born in Canada
Donald Trump: Sen. Ted Cruz ‘Perhaps Not’ Eligible for White House ‘If’ Born in Canada
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Keith Laing / The Hill:
Rep. McCaul says Obama now trying to ‘salvage’ NSA program — The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said on Sunday that President Obama has inadequately explained the National Security Agency's (NSA) controversial telephone surveillance program.
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Susan Crabtree / Washington Examiner:
Former Ron Wyden aide challenges Obama's surveillance claims
Former Ron Wyden aide challenges Obama's surveillance claims
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Nick Allen / Telegraph:
First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home — When President Barack Obama goes on holiday to the seaside things can get complicated. — Bo, the US First Family's waterdog, gets off the Marine helicopter at Martha's Vineyard — Rooms have to be found for dozens of Secret Service agents …
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Milton Friedman, Unperson — Recently Senator Rand Paul, potential presidential candidate and self-proclaimed expert on monetary issues, sat down for an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek. It didn't go too well. For example, Mr. Paul talked about America running “a trillion-dollar deficit every year” …
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Stephen Moore / Wall Street Journal:
The Budget Sequester Is a Success — The Obama spending blitz is over and the deficit is heading below 4% of GDP. — The biggest underreported story out of Washington this year is that the federal budget is shrinking and much more than anyone in either party expected.
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Weiner's first TV ad: ‘Powerful voices’ against him — (CNN) - Anthony Weiner's campaign for New York City mayor released its first television commercial Monday, though the spot didn't allude to the lewd messaging scandal that rocked his campaign and preceded a drop in the polls.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Weiner unveils first TV ad, vowing to fight ‘powerful voices’
Weiner unveils first TV ad, vowing to fight ‘powerful voices’
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Politico, Politicker and The Gateway Pundit
WBIR-TV:
Tennessee Judge orders baby's name be changed from ‘Messiah’ — Jaleesa Martin and the father of Messiah could not agree on a last name, which is how they ended up at a child support hearing in Cocke County Chancery Court on Thursday. — That is when the first name came into question.
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Colleen Long / Associated Press:
US Judge Orders NYPD Stop-Frisk Monitor — A federal judge appointed an independent monitor Monday to oversee changes to the New York Police Department's contentious policy known as stop and frisk after finding it intentionally discriminates based on race, a significant judicial rebuke …
Scott Neuman / U.S.:
Family Rescued In Pacific After Sailing ‘Where God Led Us’ … A leap of faith that sent an Arizona family bound for the South Pacific in a sailboat has returned them in an airplane after a harrowing ordeal at sea that saw them adrift and nearly out of food in one of the remotest stretches of ocean on the planet.
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Politico:
Next fiscal fight: Why Wall Street should worry — NEW YORK — Talk to anyone on Wall Street and they will tell you they really don't care about the brewing fiscal storm in Washington. Possible government shutdown? Whatever. Debt ceiling crisis? Meh.
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