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Andrew Kaczynski:
Republican Congressman: We Probably Have The Votes To Impeach Obama — “I'll give you a real frank answer about that: If we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get the votes in the House of Representatives to do it.” — youtube.com
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CNN, The Moderate Voice, Politico, Crooks and Liars, The Impolitic, Daily Kos, Hot Air, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Wake up America
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Spokeswoman Won't Say If Rep. Farenthold Is A Birther
Spokeswoman Won't Say If Rep. Farenthold Is A Birther
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ThinkProgress and The Hinterland Gazette
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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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
READ: Holder's Remarks At American Bar Association As Prepared For Delivery — Thank you, Bob Carlson, for those kind words - and for your exemplary service as Chair of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates. It's a pleasure to be with you this morning.
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The Moderate Voice, Reuters and The Hinterland Gazette
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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Jonathan Weil / Bloomberg:
Eric Holder Owes the American People an Apology
Eric Holder Owes the American People an Apology
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ThinkProgress, Hot Air, Eschaton and Patterico's Pontifications
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
Stop-and-Frisk Practice Violated Rights, Judge Rules — In a repudiation of a major element in the Bloomberg administration's crime-fighting legacy, a federal judge has found that the stop-and-frisk tactics of the New York Police Department violated the constitutional rights of tens of thousands …
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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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New York Magazine, Daily Kos, No More Mister Nice Blog, Show Me Progress, Jezebel, Taylor Marsh, Shakesville, Capitol Report and Post Politics
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Obama Rodeo Mask Is ‘Racist’ But Decapitated George Bush Head on a Pike Was Funny
Obama Rodeo Mask Is ‘Racist’ But Decapitated George Bush Head on a Pike Was Funny
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Kansas City Star, Show Me Progress, The PJ Tatler, Hypocrisy-Now!, Show Me Progress and Washington Monthly
KSDK-TV:
Obama rodeo clown: Missouri State Fair Commission bans clown who wore mask
Obama rodeo clown: Missouri State Fair Commission bans clown who wore mask
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Yahoo! News, Weasel Zippers and The Hinterland Gazette
Dana Loesch / RedState:
Clown Dresses As Obama At MO State Fair, Democrats Cry “Racism®” *UPDATED
Clown Dresses As Obama At MO State Fair, Democrats Cry “Racism®” *UPDATED
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Yahoo! News, Twitchy, Claire McCaskill, CBS St. Louis and The Gateway Pundit
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Missouri State Fair apologizes after rodeo clown mocks Obama
Missouri State Fair apologizes after rodeo clown mocks Obama
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CNN, The Hinterland Gazette, Mediaite, ThinkProgress and The Week
en.ria.ru:
Russia Confirms Anti-Gay Law Will Be Enforced at Olympics … Russia's Interior Ministry, which controls the police force, confirmed Monday that the country's controversial anti-gay law will be enforced during the Sochi 2014 Olympics. — Confusion has reigned over how the country intends …
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BuzzFeed, Towleroad News #gay, AMERICAblog, PinkNews.co.uk and The New Civil Rights Movement
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David M. Herszenhorn / New York Times:
Gays in Russia Find No Haven, Despite Support From the West
Gays in Russia Find No Haven, Despite Support From the West
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Taylor Marsh, The New Civil Rights Movement, AMERICAblog, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and msnbc.com
Tris Reid-Smith / Gay Star News:
Olympic Committee threatens to punish athletes who fight for gay Russians
Olympic Committee threatens to punish athletes who fight for gay Russians
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ThinkProgress, David E's FablogDavid … and The New Civil Rights Movement
Daily Mail:
'Oprah's a liar': Sales assistant in Swiss racist handbag row denies telling TV host that she could not view item because she couldn't afford it — The sales assistant who refused to show U.S. talkshow billionaire Oprah Winfrey a luxury handbag costing nearly £25,000 claims the superstar lied …
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Weasel Zippers, The Hinterland Gazette and Althouse
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
The Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in Barack Obama's Presidency — His tone on Friday was inappropriately dismissive, while the substance was misleading at best and mendacious at worst. — Jon Stewart once reacted to a Barack Obama speech by marveling that “at 11 o'clock on a Tuesday …
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Yahoo! News and Informed Comment
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Glenn Greenwald / Guardian:
Michael Hayden, Bob Schieffer and the media's reverence of national security officials — The former NSA director is held up by the Face the Nation host as an objective authority when he is everything but that — In 2006, the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for having revealed …
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Gawker, Hullabaloo and The Dish
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Nick Wing / The Huffington Post:
Dana Rohrabacher, GOP House Science Committee Member: ‘Global Warming Is A Total Fraud’ — Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), a longtime member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, recently brushed aside concern that the wildfires currently scorching across his state …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Little Green Footballs
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
Cruz's Dad: ‘Homosexual Marriage’ Designed To Make Government Your God (VIDEO) — The new federal health care law will “destroy the elderly” and “homosexual marriage” is designed to supplant God with government, Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) father warned conservatives in Iowa over the weekend.
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Washington Monthly, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mediaite, msnbc.com and ABC News
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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New York Times:
Republicans and Democrats Both Miscalculated — TWO years ago, Adm. Mike Mullen, at the time the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that debt was the “single biggest threat to our national security” — not some rogue nation, or terrorist group, but debt.
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Daniel W. Drezner, Paul Krugman, Campaign for America's Future and American Prospect
Rob Christensen / Raleigh News & Observer:
Gov. McCrory signs voter ID bill into law — RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory Monday signed into law a bill requiring voters to produce a photo ID when they go to the polls, a measure that was hailed by Republicans as a means for heightening ballot security but which was criticized by Democrats …
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Daily Kos
Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Expats Balk at Tax Law — American Citizen Renunciations Are Soaring — By - MARIKO SANCHANTA And - JASON CHOW — More U.S. citizens are giving up their American passports as the government cracks down on tax evaders. The WSJ's Deborah Kan speaks to lawyer Eugene Chow …
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The Hill and TaxProf Blog
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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Associated Press, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Plum Line, Booman Tribune, VodkaPundit and msnbc.com
Tal Kopan / Politico:
The coming war over voting rights — State lawmakers from around the country crowded into a packed room Monday at the meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures to learn more about the impact of the Supreme Court's recent decision striking down the Voting Rights Act as activists gear …
Talking Points Memo:
Benton: I Saw ‘Hurt’ In McConnell's Eyes Over My Comments — Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) re-election campaign manager Jesse Benton told a local Louisville, Ky. news outlet that he “could see hurt” in the Senate minority leader's eyes over the aide's recently reported remarks about reluctantly serving in that position.
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WHAS, Ballot Box and Booman Tribune
Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
Gov. McDonnell Turns On Old Pal Jonnie Williams — Looks like Jonnie Williams won't be getting a Christmas card from the McDonnells this year. — After the Virginia dietary supplements maker Star Scientific announced on Friday that it did not expect to be prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office …