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David Weigel / Slate:
Photo: Hooters Restaurants in San Diego Won't Serve Bob Filner — Earlier today, the executive director of the San Diego Republican Party tweeted this image from in front of the Hooters in Rancho Bernardo. — According to the manager of that restaurant, all of the Hooters locations in the city …
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Cord Jefferson / Gawker:
Mayor Bob Filner Returns from Therapy to Find His Office Locks Changed — Things are getting downright silly in the fight to depose San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, who currently stands accused of sexual harassment by more than a dozen women. In order to try and sate his critics …
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Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Hooters sign: Bob Filner won't be served
Hooters sign: Bob Filner won't be served
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Peter Maass / New York Times:
How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets — This past January, Laura Poitras received a curious e-mail from an anonymous stranger requesting her public encryption key. For almost two years, Poitras had been working on a documentary about surveillance, and she occasionally received queries from strangers.
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Snowden: NSA targeted journalists critical of government after 9/11 — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden accused the NSA of targeting reporters who wrote critically about the government after 9/11 and warned it was “unforgivably reckless” for journalists to use unencrypted email messages when discussing sensitive matters.
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Peter Maass / New York Times:
Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass
Q. & A.: Edward Snowden Speaks to Peter Maass
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Quinnipiac News + Events:
Release Detail — August 13, 2013 - De Blasio Leads See-Saw New York City Mayoral Race, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Stop-And-Frisk Could Be Helping New Front-Runner — With strong support from white Democratic likely primary voters and voters critical of the so- called stop-and-frisk police tactic …
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New York Magazine:
The Gray Lady Has a Crush on ‘Gangly Liberal’ Bill de Blasio — Bill de Blasio. — July, in the chronology of the New York City mayor's race, was the month of Anthony Weiner's crotch shots, dim photographic encounters that achieved the peculiar cultural flattening that politics sometimes can …
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Pathway to citizenship would boost GDP by $1.4T over decade — The White House on Tuesday released a new report arguing a pathway to citizenship for the nation's 11 million illegal immigrants would add 2 million jobs to the economy and boost gross domestic product by $1.4. trillion over the next decade.
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Esther Yu-Hsi Lee / ThinkProgress:
Rep. Steve King Says Latino Immigrants Are From A ‘Violent Civilization,’ Will Bring ‘More Violence’ To America
Rep. Steve King Says Latino Immigrants Are From A ‘Violent Civilization,’ Will Bring ‘More Violence’ To America
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Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Rubio Warns Obama Could Act to Legalize Immigrants
Rubio Warns Obama Could Act to Legalize Immigrants
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care Law — WASHINGTON — In another setback for President Obama's health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to spend on their own health care.
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Alex Pareene / Salon:
Don't vote for Cory Booker today — Today New Jersey Democrats will decide who will be their nominee for the United States Senate. The winner of today's primary election will be the heavy favorite in the general election. If any New Jersey voters are reading, and they have not yet voted …
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TIME:
Does Cory Booker Really Want to Come to Washington?
Does Cory Booker Really Want to Come to Washington?
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Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:
White House denies intel chief will lead NSA surveillance review — The Obama administration is denying that James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, will control a review of the government's surveillance programs. — Privacy advocates expressed dismay on Monday …
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Andrew Malcolm / Investor's Business Daily:
Classic Obama charade: Appoint a crony to investigate himself
Classic Obama charade: Appoint a crony to investigate himself
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
50 Years Later, Fighting the Same Civil Rights Battle — WASHINGTON — John Lewis was the 23-year-old son of Alabama sharecroppers and already a veteran of the civil rights movement when he came to the capital 50 years ago this month to deliver a fiery call for justice on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / The Caucus:
Lewis Says He Will Back Hillary Clinton for President if She Runs
Lewis Says He Will Back Hillary Clinton for President if She Runs
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Clinton defends Voting Rights Act, says states revive ‘old demons of discrimination’
Clinton defends Voting Rights Act, says states revive ‘old demons of discrimination’
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
A Former Engine of the G.O.P., the Town Hall Meeting, Cools Down — WASHINGTON — Representative Pete Sessions, a Texas Republican, is no stranger to town hall meetings and their political possibilities. Four summers ago, he helped his party use them to stoke opposition to President Obama's health care bill.
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Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Until Last Week, The Official Policy Of One Virginia City Was To Assume All Rape Victims Were Lying — Until last week, Norfolk, Virginia police classified sexual assault claims to be “unfounded” — or not valid — by default. According to the Virginian-Pilot, a 22-year-old woman's case …
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John Hudson / Foreign Policy:
Exclusive: After Multiple Denials, CIA Admits to Snooping on Noam Chomsky — For years, the Central Intelligence Agency denied it had a secret file on MIT professor and famed dissident Noam Chomsky. But a new government disclosure obtained by The Cable reveals for the first time that the agency …
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Daily Mail:
400 US surface-to-air missiles were ‘STOLEN’ from Libya during the Benghazi attack and are ‘now in the hands of Al Qaeda’, claims whistleblower — Four hundred American surface-to-air missiles were ‘taken from Libya’ during the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi …
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Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Tackling the Roots of Rape — Steubenville. The Naval Academy. Vanderbilt University. The stories of young men sexually assaulting young women seem never to stop, despite all the education we've had and all the progress we've supposedly made, and there are times when I find myself darkly wondering …
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Richard Abowitz / The Daily Beast:
Porn Professor Hugo Schwyzer Comes Clean About His Twitter Meltdown and Life as a Fraud — He built a successful, if divisive, career as a ‘male feminist’ and porn advocate. Then his life fell apart—on Twitter. He talks to Richard Abowitz about what fueled his epic meltdown.
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David J. Bobb / Wall Street Journal:
Howard Zinn and the Art of Anti-Americanism — Hollywood and the academic left have made the late Marxist historian more influential than ever. — Upon the death of the Marxist-inspired historian Howard Zinn in 2010, eulogies rang out from coast to coast calling him a heroic champion of the unsung masses.
Emma Green / The Atlantic Online:
Jean Bethke Elshtain, a Political Scientist Unafraid to Talk God, Has Died — “We're in real danger of reducing the person to his or her genotype,” she warned in 2001. — “Public intellectuals, much of the time at least, should be party poopers,” Jean Bethke Elshtain declared in 2001.
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Heather Mac Donald / New York Post:
Ignoring the realities of NYC crime — New York's 20-year reprieve from debilitating violence may well be over. Yesterday, US District Judge Shira Scheindlin ruled that the New York Police Department has been willfully targeting blacks and Hispanics for unlawful stop …
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Pat Buchanan / Townhall.com:
Post v. Putin — Whose Side Are You On? — The culture war has gone global. — And the divisions are not only between, but within nations. — “Suddenly, homosexuality is against the law,” wailed Jay Leno. “I mean, this seems like Germany. Let's round up the Jews. Let's round up the gays. ...
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
Obama grabs fried seafood takeout for lunch with Jarrett — President Obama's fourth day on a dreary Martha's Vineyard saw the president stop by a snack bar on the waterfront for fried seafood and then swing by the vacation home of senior adviser Valerie Jarrett for lunch.
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