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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:
David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face — As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing — In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly …
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Jonathan Watts / Guardian:
David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate' — Partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald gives his first interview on nine-hour interrogation at Heathrow airport — David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance …
Pedro Fonseca / Reuters:
Glenn Greenwald To Publish UK Secrets After Britain Detains Partner — The journalist who first published secrets leaked by fugitive former U.S. intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden vowed on Monday to publish more documents and said Britain will be “sorry” for detaining his partner for nine hours.
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
White House: U.S. had no role in detention of Greenwald's partner
White House: U.S. had no role in detention of Greenwald's partner
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Guardian, Daily Mail, Taylor Marsh, Washington Wire, Reporters Without Borders, CNN, Towleroad News #gay, ABC News, Techdirt, USA Today, Mediaite, Liberal Values, BuzzFeed, Yahoo! News and NPR
Carol E. Lee / Washington Wire:
White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention
White House Had Advance Notice on Heathrow Detention
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The Hill, CNN, Telegraph, The Gateway Pundit, Guardian, Yahoo! News and Hit & Run
Nick Cohen / Spectator:
David Miranda's arrest proves how sinister the state has become
David Miranda's arrest proves how sinister the state has become
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Reuters, Taking Note, Guardian, Associated Press and Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Cruz will renounce Canadian citizenship — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship. — “Now the Dallas Morning News …
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Todd J. Gillman / Dallas Morning News:
Dual citizenship may pose problem if Ted Cruz seeks presidency
Dual citizenship may pose problem if Ted Cruz seeks presidency
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Mediaite, Trail Blazers Blog, The Reaction, The Political Carnival, NPR, Brains and Eggs, The Week, The Fix, Balloon Juice, National Review, Daily Kos, Wonkette, CNN and Scared Monkeys
Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Ted Cruz at Princeton: Creepy, Sometimes Well Liked, and Exactly the Same
Ted Cruz at Princeton: Creepy, Sometimes Well Liked, and Exactly the Same
Abby D. Phillip / ABC News:
Ted Cruz: ‘I Will Renounce Any Canadian Citizenship’
Ted Cruz: ‘I Will Renounce Any Canadian Citizenship’
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White House.gov Blog:
Meet Sunny: The Obamas' New Puppy — Today the Obamas welcomed the newest member of their family - a little girl (puppy) named Sunny! — Pin — Sunny was born in Michigan in June 2012, and arrived at the White House today. Just like Bo, she's a Portuguese Water Dog …
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Kevin Liptak / CNN:
New member of the Obama family introduced
New member of the Obama family introduced
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Politico and Weasel Zippers
Bill Keller / New York Times:
War on the Core — I respect, really I do, the efforts by political scientists and pundits to make sense of the current Republican Party. There is intellectual virtue in the search for historical antecedents and philosophical underpinnings. — I understand the urge to take what looks …
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Business groups aren't too happy about Tea Party mania they helped unleash
Business groups aren't too happy about Tea Party mania they helped unleash
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Slate, The Huffington Post, Washington Monthly, Daily Kos, Booman Tribune and OpenSecrets.org
Jill Lawrence / NationalJournal.com:
Business Tries to Tame Tea-Party Conservatives It Helped Elect
Business Tries to Tame Tea-Party Conservatives It Helped Elect
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OpenSecrets.org and The Week
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Senator: Obama Administration Secretly Suspended Military Aid to Egypt — The White House has quietly placed military aid to Egypt on hold, despite not saying publicly whether the Egyptian military takeover was a coup, Josh Rogin reports exclusively. — The U.S. government has decided privately …
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The Hill, New York Times, Business Insider, WFPL, Israel Matzav, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, NPR, Guardian, National Review and ThinkProgress
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Numbers / Pew Research Center for the People …:
Public Backs Cutoff of Military Aid to Egypt
Public Backs Cutoff of Military Aid to Egypt
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CBS News, Hot Air, CNN, Politico, Yahoo! News, The Hill, Post Politics, New York Times and Firedoglake
Eric Russell / Portland Press-Herald:
LePage is heard to say Obama ‘hates white people’ — Two Republican lawmakers confirm that the governor made the remark at a fundraiser last week. — Gov. Paul LePage last week told a group of Republicans that President Barack Obama “hates white people,” according to two state lawmakers who heard the remark directly.
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Gawker, The Fix, PoliticusUSA and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Kerry Reinstates Benghazi Officials Clinton Punished — Secretary of State John Kerry has determined that the four State Department officials placed on administrative leave by Hillary Clinton after the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi do not deserve any formal disciplinary action …
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The Hill, Weasel Zippers and Michelle Malkin
TIME:
School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys — And efforts to re-engineer the young-male imagination are doomed to fail — As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome? A flurry of incidents last spring suggests that the answer is no. In May …
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Weasel Zippers, protein wisdom and disinformation
Groklaw:
Forced Exposure ~pj — The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too. — There is no way to do Groklaw without email. Therein lies the conundrum. — What to do? — What to do? I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to figure it out.
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Guardian, Business Insider and Techdirt, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches — If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cellphone? Courts have been split on the question. Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue …
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Betsy's Page, Jammie Wearing Fools, Weasel Zippers and The Volokh Conspiracy
Matt Wilstein / Mediaite:
Lee Daniels to Piers Morgan: Americans Are ‘Angry’ That Obama's President, Showing ‘True Colors’ — Oprah Winfrey has been facing sharp criticism for her comments on race in recent weeks, but tonight on CNN, the director of her new film The Butler sat down with Piers Morgan and was faced …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland
The Atlantic Online:
Are the Rich Getting Too Much of the Economic Pie? — Inequality explained in pie charts (made of actual pie) — When one of you asked, “Are the rich getting too much of the economic pie?” the team behind Economics in Plain English got pretty excited. Because you said “pie.”
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The Moderate Voice
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Modern Vote Suppression Better Than Jim Crow, Still Pretty Bad — A pervasive sense of racial victimization has afflicted conservatives during the Obama years — the feeling that they are beset by a combination of false accusations of racism and actual anti-white racial animus that they dare …
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The Huffington Post and Crooks and Liars
Toddstarnes / Fox News:
Public School Promotes 5 Pillars of Islam — Parents at a Wichita, Kan. elementary school were shocked to discover a giant wall display inside the building promoting the five pillars of Islam. — FOLLOW TODD ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSERVATIVE CONVERSATION! CLICK HERE!
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Hunter Schwarz / BuzzFeed:
Map: What Religion Does Your Member Of Congress Identify With? — A breakdown of Congress' religious makeup. One nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all. — BuzzFeed has mapped out the religions of the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives by their districts …
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Washington Monthly and Post Politics
Megan Ruyle / The Hill:
Issa tops The Hill's 50 Wealthiest — The chief inquisitor of President Obama's White House is now Congress's richest man. — House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) saw his fortune rise to at least $355 million in 2012, enough to take the crown on The Hill's 50 Wealthiest list.