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White guy wins after leading voters to believe he's black — HOUSTON — Dave Wilson chuckles as he talks about his unorthodox political campaign. — “I'd always said it was a long shot,” Wilson says. “No, I didn't expect to win.” — Still, he figured he'd have fun running …
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The Raw Story, Outside the Beltway and The PJ Tatler
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White Anti-Gay Activist Wins Election After Pretending To Be Black — An electrician best known for mailing homophobic fliers to thousands of Houston voters attacking the city's lesbian mayor narrowly won an election to the Houston Community College Board of Trustees after he misled voters into believing that he is African American.
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A Prosecutor Is Punished — For what may be the first time on record, a former prosecutor in Texas is going to jail for failing to turn over exculpatory evidence in a murder trial. The 10-day jail sentence for the prosecutor, Ken Anderson, is insultingly short — the victim of his misconduct …
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Scared Monkeys and The Volokh Conspiracy
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Anderson gets jail for wrongful conviction of Michael Morton — GEORGETOWN, Texas — Former Williamson County District Attorney Ken Anderson sat in the defendant's chair Friday, awaiting punishment for his role in prosecuting an innocent man and keeping him behind bars for nearly 25 years.
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Colorado Woman Who Championed Obamacare Loses Insurance Plan — DENVER (CBS4) - President Barack Obama is apologizing to Americans who are losing their current health insurance plans. Millions of people are getting cancellation notices, including about 250,000 Coloradans.
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The Moderate Voice, Riehl World News, Michelle Malkin and Vox Popoli
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Police probe website targeting crime witnesses — Philadelphia police and prosecutors are investigating an anonymous Instagram account with thousands of followers that for months has been identifying witnesses in violent crimes across the city - aiming, in its creator's words, to “expose rats.”
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ABC News, The Verge, Guardian, The Daily Caller and Mashable
Paul Farhi / Washington Post:
‘60 Minutes’ retracts, apologizes for Benghazi report; CBS says it was misled by a source — CBS News's chairman expressed disappointment and contrition Friday for a mistaken “60 Minutes” report about the Benghazi, Libya, terrorist attacks, but he suggested the program and his network intended to move past the flawed story.
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NBCNews, AMERICAblog News and Gawker
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Simon & Schuster pulling Benghazi book
Simon & Schuster pulling Benghazi book
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Crooks and Liars, Variety, The BRAD BLOG, AMERICAblog News, The Heritage Foundation and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »
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Gay Marriage Battle Nears End in Hawaii, the First Front Line — HONOLULU — When, as most everyone expects, Gov. Neil Abercrombie signs into law same-sex marriage here in the coming days, it may almost seem like a routine event. Hawaii is poised to be among 16 states to approve gay marriage …
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Talking Points Memo, U.S. News, Outside the Beltway and WGBH News
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John Kerry doesn't believe that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone when he shot President Kennedy as he says the government investigation didn't ‘get to the bottom’ of the assassination — Suggests it has something to do with the time Oswald spent in the Soviet Union and his connections to communist sympathizers
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Liberaland, The Daily Caller and Trail Blazers Blog
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After Reporting Countless Cases From The Cafeteria, SCOTUSblog Wants A Supreme Court Press Pass — WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the most influential news outlets covering the Supreme Court sets up shop on big decision days not in the pressroom with other reporters, but in the court's cafeteria.
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Outside the Beltway
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When Trans Fats Were Healthy — With a new FDA proposal to outlaw trans fats, this may be the end of what was once considered “a great boon to Americans' arteries.” — On Thursday the FDA proposed changing its classification of trans fats to no longer “generally recognized as safe,” …
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The Star-Ledger Editorial Page
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Bloomberg News Is Said to Curb Articles That Might Anger China — BEIJING — The decision came in an early evening call to four journalists huddled in a Hong Kong conference room. On the line 12 time zones away in New York was their boss, Matthew Winkler, the longtime editor in chief of Bloomberg News.
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