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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, Mashable, PandoDaily, Quartz, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, The Raw Story, The Verge, Gawker and Digits
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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, Macleans.ca, The Week, Wonkblog, NYT Bits, The Verge, Business Insider, Fortune, The Switch, Mashable, GigaOM, TechCrunch and New York Times
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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his vorpal sword, Daily Kos, Politico, Hot Air, CNN, The Impolitic, Crooks and Liars, The Moderate Voice, 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
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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Lara Seligman / The Hill:
Schumer: Nations should wave rainbow flags for gay rights at Russia Olympics
Schumer: Nations should wave rainbow flags for gay rights at Russia Olympics
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Daily Caller and Weasel Zippers
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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The New Civil Rights Movement, AMERICAblog, Taylor Marsh, Mediaite, ThinkProgress and msnbc.com
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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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, Wonkblog, The Plum Line, Hit & Run, Yahoo! News, Washington Monthly, National Review, Mediaite, Colorlines, Firedoglake, Hot Air, The Week, msnbc.com, Quartz, The PJ Tatler, Wall Street Journal, Law Blog and The BLT
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Justice Dept. Seeks to Curtail Stiff Drug Sentences
Justice Dept. Seeks to Curtail Stiff Drug Sentences
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National Review, Yahoo! News, theGrio, Hit & Run, Liberal Values, BuzzFeed, ThinkProgress, Simple Justice, The Moderate Voice, Outside the Beltway, ABC News, The Hinterland Gazette, Guardian, JustOneMinute, No More Mister Nice Blog, Taylor Marsh, The Dish, Lawyers, Guns & Money, The Week and Instapundit
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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Advocate, msnbc.com, The Dish, Guardian, Hit & Run, Reuters, National Review, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, RH Reality Check, The New Civil Rights Movement, Outside the Beltway, Techdirt, The Week, emptywheel, Above the Law, The Hinterland Gazette, Hullabaloo, Human Rights Campaign Blog, Rod 2.:Beta #gay #news …, Boing Boing, Colorlines, Gawker, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and The Raw Story
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KSDK-TV:
Obama rodeo clown: Missouri State Fair Commission bans clown who wore mask — In a statement released to the media Monday afternoon, the commission apologized again for the rodeo clown's actions and said they were inappropriate and not keeping with the fair's standards.
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Yahoo! News, Weasel Zippers, The Hinterland Gazette and The Hill
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Maria Sudekum / Associated Press:
Missouri Fair clown draws criticism for Obama mask
Missouri Fair clown draws criticism for Obama mask
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Politico, KVUE-TV, CNN, No More Mister Nice Blog, Jezebel, Daily Kos, Taylor Marsh, Capitol Report, Shakesville and Post Politics
Bob Yates / Show Me Progress:
At the Missouri State Fair last night
At the Missouri State Fair last night
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New York Magazine, CBS St. Louis, Show Me Progress, Kansas City Star, ABC News, Weasel Zippers, The Impolitic, RedState, The PJ Tatler, Claire McCaskill, The Raw Story, bet.com, The Daily Caller, americanthinker.com, ThinkProgress, Washington Monthly, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, The Gateway Pundit and Little Green Footballs
Alexandra Jaffe / Ballot Box:
Hillary Clinton talks voting rights — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton laid out a series of proposals to protect voting rights on Monday, her first clear foray into political issues in advance of what many expect to be a 2016 presidential run. — Speaking to the American Bar …
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Politico and Weasel Zippers
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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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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
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, The Huffington Post and The Dish
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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, Mediaite, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, msnbc.com and ABC News
Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley:
Obama's intellectual property chief steps down — The White House's intellectual property chief, Victoria Espinel, has stepped down from her role in the administration and is rumored to be one of the top candidates to lead BSA | The Software Alliance, according to industry sources.
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Deadline.com, more at Mediagazer »
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Brian Tashman / Right Wing Watch:
Santorum: Term ‘Middle Class’ Is ‘Marxism Talk’ — Rick Santorum says the term “middle class” is “Marxism talk” since America doesn't have any classes. “Since when in America do we have classes?” Santorum asked a Republican gathering in Lyon County, Iowa, “There's no class in America.”
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Mediaite, Daily Kos, The New Civil Rights Movement, Alan Colmes' Liberaland 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
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
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