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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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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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Hot Air, Patterico's Pontifications and Eschaton
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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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‘Mandatory minimum’ sentences to end for many drug offenders
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Crooks and Liars and TalkLeft
Gabriel Debenedetti / Reuters:
Holder to outline new drug offender sentencing proposal
Holder to outline new drug offender sentencing proposal
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Hit & Run
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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Politico, Yahoo! News and americanthinker.com
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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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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit:
Obama Rodeo Mask Is ‘Racist’ But Decapitated George Bush Head on a Pike Was Funny — Liberals were outraged this weekend after a rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair wore an Obama mask as he taunted the Bulls. — Obama clown at Missouri State Fair rodeo (Show Me Progress)
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Hypocrisy-Now!
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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The PJ Tatler, ThinkProgress, americanthinker.com, Weasel Zippers and The Daily Caller
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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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Hot Air, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Raw Story and Mediaite
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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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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Michael Hayden, Former NSA Chief: After A Major Attack, U.S. Likely To Seize More Surveillance Powers
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Crooks and Liars
Keith Laing / The Hill:
Rep. McCaul says Obama now trying to ‘salvage’ NSA program
Rep. McCaul says Obama now trying to ‘salvage’ NSA program
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Hot Air
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Anthony Weiner Releases First TV Ad — A scene from Anthony Weiner's first ad. — Mayoral contender Anthony Weiner is set to hit the airwaves Monday with his first televised ad, which he sent out to his supporters early this morning. — “Our campaign has had policy speeches, idea books and lots of community meetings.
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
Weiner's first TV ad: ‘Powerful voices’ against him
Weiner's first TV ad: ‘Powerful voices’ against him
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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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The Moderate Voice, Politico, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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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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The Plum Line, Booman Tribune, VodkaPundit and msnbc.com
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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Paul Krugman, msnbc.com, Brad DeLong, Daily Kos, Prairie Weather and Zandar Versus The Stupid
Bloomberg:
Obama's Opaque Commitment to Transparency — At President Barack Obama's news conference today, he pledged to strengthen oversight, transparency and constraints on the use of U.S. surveillance authority in the future. Too bad he coupled this pledge to a disingenuous attempt to rewrite the past.
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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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Hillicon Valley and The Raw Story
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‘The Day the Clown Cried’: New video surfaces from famed (and shamed) Jerry Lewis Holocaust film — This is making-of footage from a film that will never-be. — The Day the Clown Cried was a 1972 Holocaust drama directed and starring Jerry Lewis that was famously decried for its bad taste before ever being released.
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Wisconsin senator who hates Obamacare plans visit to D.M. to talk about it — A Wisconsin senator who is an ardent foe of Obamacare plans to meet with Iowa business leaders Tuesday to discuss the impact of the law. — Ron Johnson, a Republican elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010 …
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Ballot Box and The Daily Caller
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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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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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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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Business Insider
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Next iPad Takes After Thin, Light Mini — The same touch-panel technology that made the iPad mini thin and light will likely feature in the next iPad, which is currently being produced by Apple Inc.'s Asian suppliers, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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GigaOM, TechCrunch and Business Insider