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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
Mayor Bob Filner Returns from Therapy to Find His Office Locks Changed
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Weasel Zippers, cbs8.com and CNN
Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Hooters sign: Bob Filner won't be served
Hooters sign: Bob Filner won't be served
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Outside the Beltway
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cory Booker wins N.J. Senate primary — Newark Mayor Cory Booker, already considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, took a major step toward becoming New Jersey's next senator as he cruised to victory in the Garden State's primary Tuesday. — About 45 minutes after polls closed at 8 p.m. …
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
New Jersey Republicans Nominate Koch Brothers Operative For Senate — The New Jersey Republicans voted Tuesday — in a low-turnout primary — to nominate Steve Lonegan for the remainder of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg's (D) term. Lonegan, the former New Jersey head for the Koch Brothers' Americans …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Steve Lonegan for U.S. Senate
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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NBC Politics, Esquire, Outside the Beltway and ABC News
TIME:
Does Cory Booker Really Want to Come to Washington?
Does Cory Booker Really Want to Come to Washington?
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ABC News, The Reaction and The Fix
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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ThinkProgress, The Raw Story and The Hill
Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Rubio Warns Obama Could Act to Legalize Immigrants
Rubio Warns Obama Could Act to Legalize Immigrants
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Politico and Associated Press
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Steve King hits the road on immigration
Steve King hits the road on immigration
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Right Turn, National Review, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Mediaite, Immigration Reform, The Plum Line and ThinkProgress
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
Snowden: NSA targeted journalists critical of government after 9/11
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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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Talking Points Memo and FishbowlDC, more at Mediagazer »
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
The Gray Lady Has a Crush on ‘Gangly Liberal’ Bill de Blasio
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News Desk, Politicker, Guardian, The Huffington Post and New York Times
Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
92-Year-Old Who Once Faced Literacy Tests Sues North Carolina Over New Wave Of Voter Suppression — When Rosanell Eaton was 21 years old and living in segregated North Carolina, she became one of the first African Americans in her county registered to vote, after successfully completing …
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Rick Hasen / Election Law Blog:
Thoughts on the Road Ahead in North Carolina
Thoughts on the Road Ahead in North Carolina
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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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Politico, Taylor Marsh, Hit & Run, Techdirt, The Verge, TechCrunch and The White House
Dave Helling / Kansas City Star:
Missouri rodeo cowboy official resigns amid Obama-masked clown furor — Outrage over a rodeo clown's masked performance as President Barack Obama at the Missouri State Fair spilled into Tuesday as the president of the Missouri Rodeo Cowboy Association announced his resignation.
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Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner:
In 1994, there was a ‘George Bush’ rodeo clown dummy
In 1994, there was a ‘George Bush’ rodeo clown dummy
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Washington Times, protein wisdom, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Harlan Protass / Slate:
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Friends Should Not Spend 25 Years in Prison — They're collateral damage in the Boston Marathon bombing. — Last week, Carmen Ortiz, Boston's top federal prosecutor, indicted Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, two college buddies of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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Miketoole / CBS Boston:
Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Friends Face Obstruction Charges
Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Friends Face Obstruction Charges
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Kerry M. Flynn / The Day newspaper:
Returning submariner celebrates with marriage proposal — USS New Mexico crew member surprises partner at dock — Groton — After six months aboard the USS New Mexico (SSN 779), MM2 2nd class Jerrel Revels stepped onto Pier 31 at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton Monday afternoon …
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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The Raw Story
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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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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The Raw Story, Mediaite and Hullabaloo
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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Power Line
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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NewsBusters, The Dish and Shakesville
Joel Kotkin / Newgeography.com:
Entrepreneurs Turn Oligarchs — For a generation, most Americans, whatever their politics, have largely admired Silicon Valley as an exemplar of enlightened free-market capitalism. Yet, increasingly, the one-time folk heroes are beginning to appear more like a digital version of President George W. Bush's “axis of evil.”
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Instapundit
Matt Higgins / CBS Las Vegas:
New Mexico Court Rules Non-English Speaking Citizens Can Serve On Juries — SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Supreme Court is cautioning trial courts and lawyers that citizens who don't speak English have the right to serve on juries. — The court issued the admonition in a ruling …
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Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
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.