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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.
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, Washington Wire, Taylor Marsh, 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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CNN, Telegraph, Guardian, The Gateway Pundit, 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 »
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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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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CNN, Weasel Zippers, NewsHounds blog, The Fix, Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Post Politics
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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, Brains and Eggs, NPR, The Week, Balloon Juice, The Fix, 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
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Hot Air, National Review, No More Mister Nice Blog, Crooks and Liars, The Daily Caller, First Read, Booman Tribune, Yahoo! News, Mediaite and The Hill
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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Business Insider, PostPartisan, Mediaite, Wonkblog, Hot Air, The Daily Caller, Washington Wire, msnbc.com, Washington Monthly and Taegan Goddard's …
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, WFPL, Israel Matzav, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, 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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Hot Air, CNN, Politico, Yahoo! News, The Hill, New York Times, Post Politics 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
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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protein wisdom, Weasel Zippers and disinformation
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
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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Weasel Zippers and Michelle Malkin
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
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
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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Weasel Zippers
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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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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Liz Sly / Washington Post:
Backing Egypt's generals, Saudi Arabia promises financial support — CAIRO — Saudi Arabia is emerging at the forefront of a forceful effort by Persian Gulf monarchies to back Egypt's new military leaders, exacerbating a fierce struggle for influence in the chaotic and increasingly leaderless Arab world …