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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, his vorpal sword, Crooks and Liars, The Impolitic, The Moderate Voice, Daily Kos, Politico, Hot Air, Mediaite and Wake up America
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Tom Kludt / Talking Points Memo:
GOP Rep: We Have The Votes In The House To Impeach Obama (VIDEO) — Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX) told constituents at an event Saturday in his district that, although it would amount to a fruitless effort that could potentially damage the country, Republicans have the votes in the House to impeach President Barack Obama.
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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The Hinterland Gazette and ThinkProgress
Elon Musk / Tesla Motors:
Hyperloop — When the California “high speed” rail was approved, I was quite disappointed, as I know many others were too. How could it be that the home of Silicon Valley and JPL - doing incredible things like indexing all the world's knowledge and putting rovers on Mars …
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Business Insider, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Digits, The Raw Story, Mashable, Gawker and The Verge
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Ashlee Vance / Businessweek:
Revealed: Elon Musk Explains the Hyperloop, the Solar-Powered High-Speed Future of Inter-City Transportation — Almost a year after Elon Musk, chief executive of Tesla Motors (TSLA) and SpaceX, first floated the idea of a superfast mode of transportation, he has finally revealed the details …
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BBC, Wonkblog, NYT Bits, The Verge, Business Insider, Fortune, The Switch, GigaOM, New York Times, TechCrunch and Mashable
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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The Fix, Yahoo! News, Wonkblog, The Plum Line, National Review, Hit & Run, Washington Monthly, Firedoglake, The Week, Hot Air, Mediaite, Colorlines, Quartz, Wall Street Journal, msnbc.com, The PJ Tatler, Law Blog and The BLT
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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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Yahoo! News, National Review, The Moderate Voice, Hit & Run, theGrio, ABC News, BuzzFeed, ThinkProgress, Simple Justice, No More Mister Nice Blog, Outside the Beltway, Guardian, Taylor Marsh, The Hinterland Gazette, JustOneMinute, ABC News, The Dish, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week and Instapundit
The United States Department of Justice:
Attorney General Eric Holder Delivers Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association's House of Delegates — 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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Firedoglake, The Volokh Conspiracy, Daily Kos, Hit & Run, Reuters, The Informer, bet.com and Washington Wire
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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Daily Kos, No More Mister Nice Blog, Jezebel, Taylor Marsh, Shakesville, Capitol Report and Post Politics
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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
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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Hypocrisy-Now! and Show Me Progress
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, CBS St. Louis and Little Green Footballs
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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CNN, The Hill, Twitchy, Mediaite, Claire McCaskill and The Gateway Pundit
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, AMERICAblog, Queerty, PinkNews.co.uk, Towleroad News #gay and The New Civil Rights Movement
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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
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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AMERICAblog, The New Civil Rights Movement, Taylor Marsh, ThinkProgress, Mediaite and msnbc.com
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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NY Daily News, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Reuters, Hit & Run, Associated Press, Boing Boing, RH Reality Check, The New Civil Rights Movement, Outside the Beltway, Techdirt, The Week, emptywheel, Above the Law, The Hinterland Gazette, Gawker, National Review, Hullabaloo, msnbc.com, Human Rights Campaign Blog, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Rod 2.:Beta #gay #news …, Colorlines and The Raw Story
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
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
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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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David Dayen / Salon:
Your mortgage documents are fake! — Newly obtained filings from this Florida woman's lawsuit uncover horrifying scheme (Update) — If you know about foreclosure fraud, the mass fabrication of mortgage documents in state courts by banks attempting to foreclose on homeowners …
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Crooks and Liars, Boing Boing and The Raw Story
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, Bloomberg and The Dish
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
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
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
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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Susie Madrak / Crooks and Liars:
Anybody But Cory Booker — Many of the NJ voters I know tell me they'll vote for Cory Booker in the Democratic senatorial primary “because he can win.” But Jersey is a blue state; whoever gets the nomination is likely to win. So why Booker? They like him.
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Hullabaloo, talk2action.org, Firedoglake and New York Post
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, American Prospect, Paul Krugman and Campaign for America's Future