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8:05 AM ET, August 14, 2013

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Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
Booker Coasts in Primary; ‘Make Me Your Senator,’ He Tells New Jersey  —  Cory A. Booker, the mayor of Newark, who rose to prominence with his efforts to remake a notoriously troubled city and then used that perch to build a national reputation as a charismatic and media-savvy star in the Democratic Party …
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Jessica Taylor / NBC Politics:
Cory Booker wins Democratic primary in New Jersey  —  While accepting the Democratic primary nomination to the US Senate for New Jersey, Newark Mayor Cory Booker lays out his vision for the state and country as senator.  He also takes aim at his Republican opponent Steve Lonegan.
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
New Jersey Republicans Nominate Koch Brothers Operative For Senate
Katie Glueck / Politico:
Cory Booker wins N.J. Senate primary
Discussion: New Jersey Online, Twitchy and WJLA-TV
Kasie Hunt / NBC Politics:
Booker aims to shake up Washington
Discussion: The Fix, Esquire and msnbc.com
New Jersey Online:
Booker wins Democratic U.S. Senate primary election
TIME:
Does Cory Booker Really Want to Come to Washington?
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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Breanna Edwards / Politico:
Hooters sign: Bob Filner won't be served
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Andrew Kaczynski:
San Diego Hooters Won't Serve Bob Filner
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Jamelle Bouie / The Daily Beast:
North Carolina's Attack on Voting Rights  —  A new law rushed through by North Carolina Republicans contains a laundry list of measures brazenly designed to target Democratic voters.  Jamelle Bouie on the bill so extreme Hillary Clinton is getting involved.
Campbell Robertson / New York Times:   North Carolinians Fear the End of a Middle Way
Maggie Haberman / Politico:
Clintonworld vs. Weiner  —  A Hillary Clinton spokesman took a shot at Anthony Weiner on Tuesday for claiming he knew what role his wife Huma Abedin would play in a 2016 Clinton presidential run, denying he had any inside knowledge.  —  “We have absolutely no clue what he was talking about,” spokesman Nick Merrill said.
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
GOP uses Virginia governor's race as test ground for Hillary Clinton attacks  —  Republicans are using Virginia's gubernatorial race as a dry run to test attacks on Hillary Clinton for cronyism if she runs for the White House in 2016.  —  The GOP feels it has the perfect stand-in for Clinton …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
Jessica Chasmar / Washington Times:
That's a clown question, bro: Rodeo clowns asked to take ‘sensitivity training’  —  The fallout from a Missouri rodeo clown's mockery of President Obama continued as the Missouri State Fair said it will force all clowns to undergo sensitivity training and the head of the state rodeo-clown organization resigned.
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Erica Werner / Associated Press:
Rubio Warns Obama Could Act to Legalize Immigrants  —  Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio warned Tuesday that if Congress doesn't pass immigration overhaul legislation, President Barack Obama may act on his own to legalize the 11 million immigrants already in the U.S. illegally.
Discussion: Politico
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Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House: Pathway to citizenship would boost GDP by $1.4T over decade
Thomas L. Friedman / New York Times:
Obama, Snowden and Putin  —  You only get one chance to make a second impression.  It seems to me that Edward Snowden should use his and that Russian President Vladimir Putin has blown his.  —  Considering the breadth of reforms that President Obama is now proposing to prevent privacy abuses …
Discussion: msnbc.com
Miketoole / CBS Boston:
Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect's Friends Face Obstruction Charges  —  BOSTON (CBS/AP) — Two college friends of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect were arraigned Tuesday on charges of disposing evidence from the suspect's dorm room.  —  Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov …
Discussion: RIA Novosti and TalkLeft
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Harlan Protass / Slate:
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's Friends Should Not Spend 25 Years in Prison
Discussion: Jihad Watch
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 …
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 …
Jeffrey Rosen / The New Republic:
The Lies Aren't What Makes Obama's NSA Stance So Awful  —  President Obama's repeated comments that “there is no spying on Americans” and that “we don't have a domestic spying program,” as he told Jay Leno, were contradicted by two revelations at the end of last week.
Discussion: Yahoo! News and emptywheel
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller:
Poll: Less than 3 percent of federal workers want to join Obamacare  —  Less than 3 percent of U.S. federal workers want to give up their current health plans and join Obamacare, according to a new poll.  —  92.3 percent of federal workers think that they should continue …
Discussion: Right Wing News and Weasel Zippers
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 …
Mark Bisson / World Football Insider:
Exclusive - Russia World Cup Chief Defends Anti-Gay Law  —  (WFI) Russia World Cup chief Alexey Sorokin defends his country's anti-gay law in an exclusive interview with World Football INSIDER.  —  Introduced by President Vladimir Putin in June, the law which bans “pro gay” propaganda …
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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Andrew Johnson / National Review:
Filmmaker Blamed for Benghazi Attacks Speaks in First TV Interview
Discussion: Power Line and iOwnTheWorld.com
Felix Salmon:
Obama's dangerously heroic view of the Fed
Globe and Mail:
Canada to favour refugee claims by gay Russians
Discussion: Advocate and Joe. My. God.
Alexis C. Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
Elon Musk's Futuristical Napkin Drawing of a Mass Transit System
Peter Cooper / USA Today:
Tompall Glaser, outlaw country artist, dies at 79
Michael Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
Frisks save lives
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Entrepreneurs Turn Oligarchs
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Scott Jaschik / Inside Higher Ed:
Meritocracy or Bias?  —  NEW YORK — Critics of affirmative …
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David J. Bobb / Wall Street Journal:
Howard Zinn and the Art of Anti-Americanism
Emma Green / The Atlantic Online:
Jean Bethke Elshtain, a Political Scientist Unafraid to Talk God, Has Died
Discussion: Power Line
Rebecca Leber / ThinkProgress:
Until Last Week, The Official Policy Of One Virginia City Was To Assume All Rape Victims Were Lying
Discussion: The Raw Story
Frank Bruni / New York Times:
Tackling the Roots of Rape
Discussion: NewsBusters, The Dish and Shakesville
 

 
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
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Kent Walker / The Keyword:
Google says the DOJ's “wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision”, would hurt US consumers, and jeopardize the US' global tech leadership

 
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