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Alan Rusbridger / Guardian:
David Miranda, schedule 7 and the dangers 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 with a four-letter expletive …
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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.
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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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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Patricia Murphy / The Daily Beast:
Ted Cruz at Princeton: Creepy, Sometimes Well Liked, and Exactly the Same — Can a master debater who wore a paisley bathrobe to creepily stroll by the women's wing of the dorm be the next president? Patricia Murphy talks to Ted Cruz's college roommates about his stint at Princeton.
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Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Senator: Obama Administration Secretly Suspended Military Aid to Egypt
Senator: Obama Administration Secretly Suspended Military Aid to Egypt
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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Public Backs Cutoff of Military Aid to Egypt
Public Backs Cutoff of Military Aid to Egypt
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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 — (CNN) - There's a new Obama in town. — Sunny - a female Portuguese Water Dog - is joining Bo as “first pet,” the White House announced Monday. — Photos showed the all-black animal roaming the White House North Lawn with what appeared to be a pink flamingo dog toy.
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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
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
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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Reid Wilson / GovBeat:
Democrats push back on voting rights — After crying foul over Republican efforts to modify election laws in key states, Democrats are launching their own wide-ranging push to change the way Americans vote, kicking off the latest battles in a fight over voting rights that's as old as the republic itself.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
MSNBC's Ed Schultz returns to weekdays, Chris Matthews's ‘Hardball’ to 7 p.m. — MSNBC's Ed Schultz will return to weekdays later this month after a brief hiatus as weekend host, signalling a reversal of fortunes for the bombastic television personality who has become a champion to union workers and blue-collar liberals.
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Greg Sargent / The Plum Line:
Dems have an ace in the hole in coming battle — Most observers expect Congress will somehow pass a measure this fall funding the government temporarily at current levels, pushing the real fights over the sequester, spending and the size of government into the new year.
Joe Biden / CNN:
Biden's son evaluated at Houston hospital — (CNN) - Beau Biden, the attorney general of Delaware and the son of Vice President Joe Biden, was evaluated on Monday at a Houston hospital after an “episode of disorientation and weakness,” the vice president's office said.
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
RNC: CNN Films hiring Courtney Sexton ‘puts the p in puff piece’ — CNN Films' decision to hire senior director Courtney Sexton — whose previous films include Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth” and “Jimmy Carter Man from Plains” — is further evidence that the production company's forthcoming …
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R. Stickney / KNSD-TV:
Filner Is More Than Sloppy Kisses: Supporters — Mayor Filner expected to return to work but meeting instead with key stakeholders Gloria, Faulconer and Allred — Mayor Filner was expected to return to work Monday after several weeks away for what his staff described as therapy and personal time.
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Mitch Blacher / KGTV-TV:
Sources: Mayor Bob Filner's attorneys in mediation that includes possible resignation
Sources: Mayor Bob Filner's attorneys in mediation that includes possible resignation
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Hot Air, National Review, The Hill and cbs8.com